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Current Titles

as of May 11, 2008
Recently released titles from Columbia University Press. For forthcoming titles from our Spring 2008 catalog:

Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth
Elizabeth Grosz

Cloth, $22.50 / £13.00 136 pages


The Life Model of Social Work Practice: Advances in Theory and Practice
Alex Gitterman and Carel B. Germain

Cloth, $70.00 / £41.00 632 pages


There a Petal Silently Falls: Three Stories by Ch'oe Yun
Ch'oe Yun; Translated by Bruce Fulton and Ju-Chan Fulton

Cloth, $24.50 / £14.50 200 pages


Crown and Veil: Female Monasticism from the Fifth to the Fifteenth Centuries
Edited by Jeffrey F. Hamburger and Susan Marti

Cloth, $40.00 344 pages


The Journey Abandoned: The Unfinished Novel
Lionel Trilling and Edited by Geraldine Murphy

Cloth, $26.95 / £15.95 224 pages


Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan
Donald Keene

Cloth, $27.95 / £16.95 208 pages


The Lives of Sri Aurobindo
Peter Heehs

Cloth, $45.00 / £26.50 528 pages


Eye of the Century: Film, Experience, Modernity
Francesco Casetti

Paper, $27.50 / £16.00 288 pages


Cloth, $79.50 / £47.00 288 pages


The Hermeneutic Nature of Analytic Philosophy: A Study of Ernst Tugendhat
Santiago Zabala

Cloth, $37.50 / £22.00 224 pages


The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize: A Life in Science
Peter Doherty

Now available in paper!

Paper, $18.95 / £10.95 320 pages


Cloth, $26.00 320 pages


Media in the Digital Age
John V. Pavlik

Paper, $24.50 / £14.50 360 pages


Cloth, $74.50 / £44.00 360 pages


The Politics of Postsecular Religion: Mourning Secular Futures
Ananda Abeysekara

Cloth, $50.00 / £29.50 344 pages


Sustaining India's Growth Miracle
Edited by Jagdish N. Bhagwati and Charles W Calomiris

Cloth, $27.95 / £16.95 288 pages


Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language
John T. Hamilton

Cloth, $40.00 / £23.50 272 pages


The Columbia Literary History of Eastern Europe Since 1945
Harold B. Segel

Cloth, $75.00 / £44.00 424 pages


The British Consul: Heir to a Great Tradition
John Dickie

Cloth, $45.00 288 pages


A Postcolonial People: South Asians In Britain
Edited by N. Ali, V. S. Kalra, and S. Sayyid

Paper, $32.50 448 pages


Cloth, $84.50 448 pages


Yasukuni, the War Dead and the Struggle for Japan’s Past
Edited by John Breen

Cloth, $45.00 240 pages


Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900 (Abridged Edition)
Edited by Haruo Shirane

Paper, $32.50 / £19.00 552 pages


Cloth, $84.50 / £49.50 552 pages


The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East
Olivier Roy

Cloth, $24.95 160 pages


Art’s Claim to Truth
Gianni Vattimo; Edited by Santiago Zabala and Translated by Luca D’Isanto

Cloth, $29.50 / £17.50 216 pages


Beyond Gnosticism: Myth, Lifestyle, and Society in the School of Valentinus
Ismo O. Dunderberg

Cloth, $50.00 / £29.50 336 pages


Dangerous Strait: The U.S.-Taiwan-China Crisis
Edited by Nancy Bernkopf Tucker

Now available in paper.

Paper, $24.50 / £14.50 288 pages


Cloth, $41.50 / £24.50 288 pages


Enchantment: The Seductress in Opera
Jean Starobinski

Cloth, $29.50 / £17.50 288 pages


The Fire: The Bombing of Germany, 1940-1945
Jorg Friedrich

Now available in paper!

Paper, $24.95 / £14.95 552 pages


Cloth, $34.95 / £21.95 552 pages


War and the Liberal Conscience (Second Edition)
Michael Howard

Paper, $22.50 160 pages


Zeami: Performance Notes
Translated by Tom Hare

Cloth, $45.00 / £26.50 528 pages


The Hudson: America's River
Frances F. Dunwell

Paper, $29.95 / £17.95 400 pages


Cloth, $74.50 / £44.00 400 pages


Modern Arabic Fiction: An Anthology
Edited by Salma Khadra Jayyusi

Now available in paper.

Paper, $34.50 / £20.50 1088 pages


Cloth, $65.00 / £38.00 1088 pages


Hamas in Politics: Democracy, Religion, Violence
Jeroen Gunning

Cloth, $34.50 320 pages


To the End of the Earth: A History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico
Stanley M. Hordes

Now available in paper.

Paper, $24.50 / £14.50 376 pages


Cloth, $41.50 / £24.50 376 pages


Democracy and the Political Unconscious
Noelle McAfee

Cloth, $45.00 / £26.50 256 pages


Iran in World Politics: The Question of the Islamic Republic
Arshin Adib-Moghaddam

Cloth, $32.50 228 pages


Tormented by History: Nationalism in Greece and Turkey
Umut Ozkirimli and Spyros A. Sofos

Cloth, $45.00 320 pages


Murder in Byzantium: A Novel
Julia Kristeva

Now available in paper.

Paper, $19.95 / £11.95 264 pages


Cloth, $31.00 / £18.00 264 pages


Clash of Identities: Explorations in Israeli and Palestinian Societies
Baruch Kimmerling

Cloth, $55.00 / £32.50 464 pages


When Principles Pay: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Bottom Line
Geoffrey Heal

Cloth, $29.95 / £17.95 288 pages


Things Beyond Resemblance: Collected Essays on Theodor W. Adorno
Robert Hullot-Kentor

Now available in paper.

Paper, $24.50 / £14.50 344 pages


Cloth, $36.00 / £21.00 344 pages


The Liberal Conscience: Politics and Principle in a World of Religious Pluralism
Lucas Swaine

Now available in paper.

Paper, $24.50 / £14.50 240 pages


Cloth, $36.50 / £21.50 240 pages


Fear of Freedom: With the Essay “Fear of Painting”
Carlo Levi and Edited by Stanislao G. Pugliese

Paper, $18.95 176 pages


Cloth, $69.50 176 pages


Keeping Out the Other: A Critical Introduction to Immigration Enforcement Today
Edited by David C. Brotherton and Philip Kretsedemas

Paper, $24.50 / £14.50 432 pages


Cloth, $74.50 / £44.00 432 pages


Rural Social Work Practice
Edited by Nancy Lohmann and Roger A. Lohmann

Now available in paper.

Paper, $29.50 / £17.50 376 pages


Cloth, $68.00 / £40.00 376 pages


The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship In Early Modern China
Madeleine Zelin

Now available in paper.

Paper, $24.50 / £14.50 432 pages


Cloth, $47.00 / £27.50 432 pages


Gerontological Practice for the Twenty-first Century: A Social Work Perspective
Virginia E. Richardson and Amanda S. Barusch

Now available in paper.

Paper, $34.50 / £17.50 512 pages


Cloth, $78.00 / £46.00 512 pages


Killing Civilians: Method, Madness and Morality in War
Hugo Slim

"This is an essential text on the hideous but important topic of why and how soldiers kill noncombatants." — Alex de Waal

Cloth, $29.95 300 pages


The Tales of the Heike
Translated by Burton Watson; Edited by Haruo Shirane

Now available in paper!

Paper, $19.50 / £11.50 232 pages


Cloth, $25.50 / £15.00 232 pages


Sexual Orientation and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Sexual Science and Clinical Practice
Richard C. Friedman and Jennifer I. Downey

Now available in paper.

Paper, $24.50 / £14.50 363 pages


Cloth, $45.00 / £26.50 363 pages


Living Through Loss: Interventions Across the Life Span
Nancy R. Hooyman and Betty J. Kramer

Now available in paper!

Paper, $29.50 / £17.50 480 pages


Cloth, $68.00 / £40.00 480 pages


Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era
Houston A. Baker Jr.

Cloth, $24.95 / £14.95 272 pages


Tattooing the World: Pacific Designs in Print and Skin
Juniper Ellis

Paper, $27.50 / £16.00 304 pages


Cloth, $79.50 / £47.00 304 pages


The Jean Baudrillard Reader
Edited by Steve Redhead

Paper, $24.50 192 pages


Cloth, $79.50 192 pages
Edinburgh University Press


Loud Sparrows: Contemporary Chinese Short-Shorts
Selected and translated by Aili Mu, Julie Chiu, and Howard Goldblatt

Now available in paper!

Paper, $18.95 / £10.95 272 pages


Cloth, $25.50 / £15.00 272 pages


Insurmountable Simplicities: Thirty-nine Philosophical Conundrums
Roberto Casati and Achille Varzi

Now available in paper!

Paper, $17.95 / £9.95 144 pages


Cloth, $26.00 / £17.95 144 pages


The Rise and Fall of Soul and Self: An Intellectual History of Personal Identity
Raymond Martin and John Barresi

Now available in paper!

Paper, $22.95 / £13.95 400 pages


Cloth, $31.00 / £18.00 400 pages


Globalization Challenged: Conviction, Conflict, Community
George Rupp

Now available in paper!

Paper, $18.50 / £10.50 128 pages


Cloth, $25.50 / £15.00 128 pages


The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai
Wang Anyi; Translated by Michael Berry and Susan Chan Egan

Cloth, $29.95 / £17.50 456 pages


W.G. Sebald: Image, Archive, Modernity
J.J. Long

Cloth, $35.00 224 pages


Orphan of Asia
Zhuoliu Wu; Translated by Ioannis Mentzas

Now available in paper!

Paper, $19.95 / £11.95 256 pages


Cloth, $29.00 / £17.00 256 pages


Love and Revolution: A Novel About Song Qingling and Sun Yat-sen
Ping Lu; Translated by Nancy Du

Now available in paper!

Paper, $18.95 / £10.95 192 pages


Cloth, $25.50 / £15.00 192 pages


Kicking the Carbon Habit: Global Warming and the Case for Renewable and Nuclear Energy
William Sweet

Now available in paper!

Paper, $19.95 / £11.95 272 pages


Cloth, $28.95 / £18.95 272 pages


An End to Poverty?: A Historical Debate
Gareth Stedman Jones

Now available in paper!

Paper, $19.50 288 pages


Cloth, $32.50 288 pages