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Plato's Republic

Alain Badiou

• Hardcover | Engels
• Plato's Republic is one of the best-known and most widely-discussed texts in the history of philosophy. But how might we get to the heart of this work... Lees meer

Learning to Labor

Paul Willis

• Paperback | Engels | Legacy Editions
• A landmark work in sociology, cultural studies, and ethnography since its publication in 1977, Paul Willis's Learning to Labor is a provocative and tr... Lees meer

Indie 2.0

Geoff King

• Hardcover | Engels
• Following the American indie cinema boom of the 1990s and the creation of "specialty" divisions by several Hollywood studios, many predicted an end to... Lees meer

Dream I Tell You

Hélène Cixous

• Paperback | Engels | European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
• "I used to feel guilty at night. I live in, I always used to live in two countries, the diurnal one and the continuous very tempestuous nocturnal one.... Lees meer

Madame de Sevigne

Frances Mossiker

• Paperback | Engels
• This biography of Mme de Sevigne brings to life the world of seventeenth-century France, a mother and her daughter, a writer and her brilliant letters... Lees meer

Kristeva Reader

Julia Kristeva

• Hardcover | Engels
• Since the late 1980s, Brazilians of Japanese descent have been return migrating to Japan as unskilled foreign workers. With an immigrant population cu... Lees meer

Religion, Culture, and Politics in the Twentieth-Century United States

Mark Hulsether

• Paperback | Engels | Columbia Religion and Politics
• Anyone who seeks to understand the dynamics of culture and politics in the United States must grapple with the importance of religion in its many dive... Lees meer

Colors Demonic and Divine

Herman Pleij

• Hardcover | Engels
• Color has been a subject of heated debate for as long as anyone can remember. Is it an innate part of material objects or a trick of perception and li... Lees meer

The Triangle of Representation

Christopher Prendergast

• Hardcover
• One of our best-known cultural critics examines the concept of representation and its many and varied forms in literature and art. Lees meer

Satyajit Ray on Cinema

Satyajit Ray

• Paperback | Engels
• Satyajit Ray, one of the greatest auteurs of twentieth century cinema, was a Bengali motion-picture director, writer, and illustrator who set a new st... Lees meer

Palestinians in Syria

Anaheed Al-Hardan

• Hardcover | Engels
• One hundred thousand Palestinians fled to Syria after being expelled from Palestine upon the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. Integrating... Lees meer

Suncranes and Other Stories

• Hardcover | Engels
• Over the course of the twentieth century, Mongolian life was transformed, as a land of nomadic communities encountered first socialism and then capita... Lees meer

Women in Tibet

• Hardcover | Engels
• Filling a gap in the literature, this volume explores the struggles and accomplishments of women from both past and present-day Tibet. Here are queens... Lees meer

The Politics of Perception and the Aesthetics of Social Change

Jason Miller

• Hardcover | Engels | Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Art
• In both politics and art in recent decades, there has been a dramatic shift in emphasis on representation of identity. Liberal ideals of universality ... Lees meer

Dialogues II

Gilles Deleuze, Claire Parnet

• Hardcover | Engels | European Perspectives
• French journalist Claire Parnet's famous dialogues with Gilles Deleuze offer an intimate portrait of the philosopher's life and thought. Conversationa... Lees meer

Columbia Guide to Social Work Writing

• Paperback | Engels
• Social work practitioners write for a variety of publications, and they are expected to show fluency in a number of related fields. Whether the target... Lees meer

Notes from the Minefield

Irene Gendzier

• Hardcover | History & Society of the Modern Middle East
• By evaluating US-Lebanese relations within the context of America's collaborative intervention with the Lebanese ruling elite, this title demonstrates... Lees meer

Empire Made Me

Robert Bickers

• Hardcover | Engels
• Richard Maurice Tinkler was an ordinary man in an extraordinary time and place. This riveting "biography of a nobody" offers a rare glimpse of imperia... Lees meer

Revolutions, Nations, Empires

Alexander Motyl

• Hardcover
• An examination of the conceptual underpinnings of revolutions, nations and empires and the conditions that make them possible. The text argues that ho... Lees meer

American Culture Between the Wars

Walter Kalaidjian

• Hardcover
• Examines the feminist, African-American and avant-garde counter-cultures that flourished in the USA between the two World Wars. It discusses such topi... Lees meer

The Weimar Etudes

Henry Pachter

• Hardcover | Engels
• Examines the politics and government of Germany between the two World Wars and offers profiles of prominent intellectual and political leaders of the ... Lees meer

Psychological Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Male Experiences

• Paperback | Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies
• A collection of primary source articles representing the best current research and theory in lesbian and gay studies, paying particular attention to i... Lees meer

Melodrama Unbound

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and Culture
• For too long melodrama has been associated with outdated and morally simplistic stereotypes of the Victorian stage; for too long film studies has cons... Lees meer

The Faith of Biology and the Biology of Faith

Robert Pollack

• Hardcover | Engels | Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
• Are there parallels between the "moment of insight" in science and the emergence of the "unknowable" in religious faith? Where does scientific insight... Lees meer