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Our weekly listing of new titles:

The Best Business Writing 2013
Edited by Dean Starkman, Martha M. Hamilton, Ryan Chittum, and Felix Salmon

The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan: More Stories of China
Zhu Wen; translated by Julia Lovell

If A, Then B: How the World Discovered Logic
Michael Shenefelt and Heidi White

The Virilio Dictionary
Edited by John Armitage

Great Treatise on the Stages of Mantra: Chapters XI–XII (The Creation Stage)
Tsong Khapa Losang Drakpa; Translated and Introduced by Thomas F. Yarnall

Ecologies of Urbanism in India: Metropolitan Civility and Sustainability
Edited by Anne M. Rademacher and K. Sivaramakrishnan

Between Desire and Pleasure: A Deleuzian Theory of Sexuality
Frida Beckman

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Our weekly list of new titles:

Social Acceleration: A New Theory of Modernity
Hartmut Rosa

Beyond the Cyborg: Adventures with Donna Haraway
Margret Grebowicz and Helen Merrick

Shivers Down Your Spine: Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive View (Now available in paper)
Alison Griffiths

Katherine Mansfield: The Story-Teller
Kathleen Jones

Security Arabic
Mark Evans

Our weekly list of new titles:

Philosophical Temperaments: From Plato to Foucault
Peter Sloterdijk

The Metamorphoses of Fat: A History of Obesity
Georges Vigarello

Human Trafficking Around the World: Hidden in Plain Sight
Stephanie Hepburn and Rita J. Simon

The Cinema of Richard Linklater: Walk, Don’t Run
Rob Stone

The Therapist in Mourning: From the Faraway Nearby
Edited by Anne J. Adelman and Kerry L. Malawista

Art on Trial: Art Therapy in Capital Murder Cases
David E. Gussak

The Social Work Interview, Fifth Edition
Alfred Kadushin and Goldie Kadushin

Comedy and Cultural Critique in American Film
Ryan Bishop

Healing the Nation: Prisoners of War, Medicine, and Nationalism in Turkey, 1914–1939
Yucel Yanikdağ

European Court of Human Rights: Domestic Implementation, Legal Mobilization, and Policy Change
Edited by Dia Anagnostou

The following books are now available:

The Robin Hood Rules for Smart Giving
Michael M. Weinstein and Ralph M. Bradburd

Mothers in Academia
Edited by Mari Castañeda and Kirsten Isgro

Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience
Adrian Johnston and Catherine Malabou

Being Animal: Beasts and Boundaries in Nature Ethics
Anna Peterson

Qualitative Research in Social Work
Edited by Anne E. Fortune, William J. Reid, and Robert L. Miller

The Cinema of Béla Tarr: The Circle Closes
András Bálint Kovács

Understanding Pragmatic Markers: A Variational Pragmatic Approach
Karin Aijmer

The Long Road to Victory: A History of Czechoslovak Exile Organizations after 1968
Francis D. Raška

From the Silver Czech Tolar to a Worldwide Dollar: The Birth of the Dollar and its Journey of Monetary Circulation in Europe and the World from the 16th to the 20th Century
Petr Vorel

Our weekly listing of new titles now available:

In Translation: Translators on Their Work and What It Means
Edited by Esther Allen and Susan Bernofsky

Animal Oppression and Human Violence: Domesecration, Capitalism, and Global Conflict
David A. Nibert

The Cinema of Steven Soderbergh: Indie Sex, Corporate Lies, and Digital Videotape
Andrew deWaard and R. Colin Tait; Preface by Thomas Schatz

Fossil Mammals of Asia: Neogene Biostratigraphy and Chronology
Edited by Xiaoming Wang, Lawrence J. Flynn, and Mikael Fortelius

Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy Dilemma (Now available in paper)
Barbara Will

Food: A Culinary History (Now available in paper)
Edited by Jean-Louis Flandrin and Massimo Montanari

Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language (Now available in paper)
John T. Hamilton

Deleuze and Education
Edited by Inna Semetsky and Diana Masny

To Carl Schmitt: Letters and Reflections
Jacob Taubes; Translated by Keith Tribe and with an introduction by Mike Grimshaw

What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars
Jim Paul and Brendan Moynihan

Social Justice and the Urban Obesity Crisis: Implications for Social Work
Melvin Delgado

The Cinema of Terry Gilliam: It’s a Mad World
Edited by Jeff Birkenstein, Anna Froula, and Karen Randell

The First Chinese American: The Remarkable Life of Wong Chin Foo
Scott D. Seligman

Studying French Cinema
Isabelle Vanderschelden

Scotland’s Choices: How Independence and Devolution Max Would Work
Iain McLean, Guy Lodge, and Jim Gallagher

From Szlachta Culture to the XXI Century, Between East and West. New Essays on Joseph Conrad’s Polishness: Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives, Vol. XXII
Wiesław Krajka

Carpatho-Rusyn Studies: An Annotated Bibliography: Vol. V: 2005-2009
Compiled by Paul Robert Magocsi

Our weekly list of new titles now available:

Double Agents: Espionage, Literature, and Liminal Citizens
Erin Carlston

Picturing Power: Portraiture and Its Uses in the New York Chamber of Commerce
Karl Kusserow

The Quest for Security: Protection Without Protectionism and the Challenge of Global Governance
Edited by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Mary Kaldor

The Truth About Girls and Boys: Challenging Toxic Stereotypes About Our Children (Now available in paper)
Caryl Rivers and Rosalind C. Barnett

Korean Horror Cinema
Edited by Alison Peirse and Daniel Martin

Gothic Literature, Second Edition
Andrew Smith

Samuel Beckett: Laughing Matters, Comic Timing
Laura Salisbury

Intelligence Studies in Britain and the US: Historiography Since 1945
Edited by Christopher R. Moran and Christopher J. Murphy

Arab Christians in British Mandate Palestine: Communalism and Nationalism, 1917–1948
Noah Haiduc-Dale

Our weekly listing of new titles. Remember these and all our titles are 50% off when you add SALE to your shopping cart during our Spring Sale:

Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism
Gary Steiner

Muslim Identities: An Introduction to Islam
Aaron W. Hughes

Protest with Chinese Characteristics: Demonstrations, Riots, and Petitions in the Mid-Qing Dynasty (Now available in paper)
Ho-fung Hung

Al-Shabaab in Somalia: The History and Ideology of a Militant Islamist Group, 2005-2012
Stig Jarle Hansen

War and War Crimes: Military, Legitimacy, and Success in Armed Conflict
James Gow

Beyond Swat: History, Society, and Economy Along the Afghanistan-Pakistan Frontier
Edited by Benjamin D. Hopkins and Magnus Marsden

Local Politics in Afghanistan: A Century of Intervention in the Social Order
Edited by Conrad Schetter

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Our weekly list of new titles. Remember you can save 50% on these and all titles on our website during our Spring Sale. Add the coupon code “SALE” to your shopping cart to save.

Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939
Thomas Doherty

Polishing Your Prose: How to Turn First Drafts Into Finished Work
Steven M. Cahn and Victor L. Cahn

The Tibetan History Reader
Edited by Gray Tuttle and Kurtis R. Schaeffer

Wondrous Brutal Fictions: Eight Buddhist Tales from the Early Japanese Puppet Theater
Translated with an Introduction by R. Keller Kimbrough

American Stories (Now available in paper)
Nagai Kafū

Warrior Geeks: How 21st Century Technology is Changing the Way We Fight and Think About War
Christopher Coker

Afghanistan in Ink: Literature Between Diaspora and Nation
Edited by Nile Green and Nushin Arbabzadah

Franco’s International Brigades: Adventurers, Fascists, and Christian Crusaders in the Spanish Civil War
Christopher Othen

Diplomatic Sites: A Critical Enquiry
Iver B. Neumann

Policing Afghanistan
Antonio Giustozzi and Mohammed Isaqzadeh

Aiding Afghanistan: A History of Soviet Assistance to a Developing Country
Paul Robinson and Jay Dixon

Central Asia in International Relations: The Legacies of Halford Mackinder
Edited by Nick Megoran and Sevara Sharapova

Buying Beauty: Cosmetic Surgery in China
Wen Hua

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Our weekly listing of new titles:

Fountainhead of Jihad: The Haqqani Nexus, 1973-2012
Vahid Brown and Don Rassler

The European Union and South Korea: The Legal Framework for Strengthening Trade, Economic, and Political Relations
James Harrison

Catapulted: Youth Migration and the Making of a Skilled Albanian Diaspora
Burcu Akan Ellis

Satyajit Ray on Cinema
Satyajit Ray; Edited by Sandip Ray; Foreword by Shyam Benegal

The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory
Edited by Lydia H. Liu, Rebecca E. Karl, and Dorothy Ko

Sources of Tibetan Tradition
Edited by Kurtis R. Schaeffer, Matthew T. Kapstein, and Gray Tuttle

The Bhāgavata Purāna: Sacred Text and Living Tradition
Edited by Ravi M. Gupta and Kenneth R. Valpey

Beyond Bruce Lee: Chasing the Dragon Through Film, Philosophy, and Popular Culture
Paul Bowman

The Cinema of the Dardenne Brothers: Responsible Realism
Philip Mosley

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Our weekly list of new titles:

Rising Seas: Past, Present, Future
Vivian Gornitz

The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood
Sean Redmond

Eastern Sentiments (Now available in paper)
Yi T’aejun; Translated by Janet Poole

Countering Al-Qaeda in London: Police and Muslims in Partnerships
Roger Lambert

Afromodernisms: Paris, Harlem, Haiti and the Avant-garde
Edited by Fionnghuala Sweeney and Kate Marsh

Reading Literature Historically: Drama and Poetry from Chaucer to the Reformation
Greg Walker

Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts (Now available in paper)
Haruo Shirane

Songs and Secrets: South Africa from Liberation to Governance
Barry Gilder

Growing Your Own Food in Hong Kong
Arthur van Langenberg

The Ivory Tower and the Marble Citadel: Essays on Political Philosophy in Our Modern Era of Interacting Cultures
Thomas A. Metzger

Our weekly list of new titles now available:

Hospice Social Work
Dona J. Reese

British Film Culture in the 1970s: The Boundaries of Pleasure (Now available in paper)
Edited by Sue Harper and Justin Smith

The Incident at Antioch/L’Incident d’Antioche: A Tragedy in Three Acts / Tragédie en trois actes
Alain Badiou

Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life
Michael Marder; Foreword by Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala

Gender and Parenthood: Biological and Social Scientific Perspectives
Edited by W. Bradford Wilcox and Kathleen Kovner Kline

The Faith of Biology and the Biology of Faith: Order, Meaning, and Free Will in Modern Medical Science (Now available in paperback)
Robert E. Pollack

Social Welfare in East Asia and the Pacific
Edited by Sharlene Furuto

Demystifying the Caliphate
Madawi Al-Rasheed, Carool Kersten, and Marat Shterin

The Rumor of Globalization: Desecrating the Global from Vernacular Margins
Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay

Visions of the Ottoman World in Renaissance Europe
Andrei Pippidi

The Cakrasamvara Tantra (The Discourse of Sri Heruka): Editions of the Sanskrit and Tibetan Texts
David B. Gray

Reading for Our Time: Adam Bede and Middlemarch Revisited (Now available in paper)
J. Hillis Miller

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The following titles are now available:

The Gypsy “Menace”: Populism and the New Anti-Gypsy Politics
Edited by Michael Stewart

Virilio and Visual Culture
Edited by John Armitage and Ryan Bishop

The Poetry of Jack Spicer
Daniel Katz

Global Solidarity
Lawrence Wilde

From Rome to Byzantium, AD 363 to 565: The Transformation of Ancient Rome

American Smart Cinema (Now available in paper)
Claire Perkins

The International Film Musical (Now available in paper)
Edited by Corey Creekmur and Linda Mokdad

The New Extremism in Cinema: From France to Europe (Now available in paper)
Edited by Tanya Horeck and Tina Kendall

The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Mark Currie

Creating Worldviews: Metaphor, Ideology, and Language (Now available in paper)
James W. Underhill

The Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Sisters: Gender, Transgression, Adolescence
Jennifer Higginbotham

King and Court in Ancient Persia, 559 to 331 B.C.E.
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

The following titles are now available:

The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love’s Prophet
Lawrence J. Friedman

Where Film Meets Philosophy: Godard, Resnais, and Experiments in Cinematic Thinking
Hunter Vaughn

Muriel Rukeyser and Documentary: The Poetics of Connection
Catherine Gander

Digital Imaging in Popular Cinema
Lisa Purse

Spanish Queer Cinema
Chris Perriam

We play catch-up this week as we include a couple of week’s worth of new titles:

Plato’s Republic: A Dialogue in 16 Chapters
Alain Badiou

Rewiring the Real: In Conversation with William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo
Mark C. Taylor

Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader
Edited by Shu-mei Shih, Chien-hsin Tsai, and Brian Bernards

Deleuze Beyond Badiou: Ontology, Multiplicity, and Event
Clayton Crockett

Gang Life in Two Cities: An Insider’s Journey
Robert J. Durán

Paleopoetics: The Evolution of the Preliterate Imagination
Christopher Collins

Evolutionary Perspectives on Pregnancy
John Avise

Bollywood: Gods, Glamour, and Gossip
Kush Varia

The Cinema of France
Edited by Phil Powrie

Storytelling in World Cinemas: Contexts
Edited by Lina Khatib

Orientalism and War
Edited by Tarak Barkawi and Keith Stanski

The Muslim Brotherhood in Europe
Edited by Roel Meijer and Edwin Bakker

From Stagnation to Forced Adjustment: Reforms in Greece, 1974-2010
Edited by Stathis Kalyvas, George Pagoulatos, and Haridimos Tsoukas

Unmaking North and South: Cartographies of the Yemeni Past
John M. Willis

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Our weekly list of new titles from Columbia University Press and Columbia Business School Publishing:

The Most Important Thing Illuminated: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor
Howard Marks

Investing: The Last Liberal Art, Second Edition
Robert Hagstrom

Reforming Democracies: Six Facts About Politics That Demand a New Agenda
Douglas Chalmers

The Utopia of Film: Cinema and Its Futures in Godard, Kluge, and Tahimik
Christopher Pavsek

Killer Images: Documentary Film, Memory and the Performance of Violence
Edited by Joram Ten Brink and Joshua Oppenheimer

Tolerance, Democracy, and Sufis in Senegal
Edited by Mamadou Diouf

Our weekly list of new titles:

Mankind Beyond Earth: The History, Science, and Future of Human Space Exploration
Claude A. Piantadosi

Prose of the World: Modernism and the Banality of Empire
Saikat Majumdar

Animalia Americana: Animal Representations and Biopolitical Subjectivity
Colleen Glenney Boggs

Media of Reason: A Theory of Rationality
Matthias Vogel

Why Jane Austen? (Now available in paper)
Rachel M. Brownstein

The Quest for the Cure: The Science and Stories Behind the Next Generation of Medicines (Now available in paper)
Brent R. Stockwell

Young American Muslims
Nahid Afrose Kabir