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as of February 9, 2010
Recently released titles from Columbia University Press.

The Mozi: A Complete Translation
Translated and Annotated by Ian Johnston

Cloth, $85.00 / £58.50 1032 pages


Hollywood Science: Movies, Science, and the End of the World
Sidney Perkowitz

Now available in paper.

Paper, $18.95 / £12.95 272 pages


Cloth, $27.95 / £18.95 272 pages


The Matthew Effect: How Advantage Begets Further Advantage
Daniel Rigney

Cloth, $24.50 / £17.00 176 pages


Christianity, Truth, and Weakening Faith: A Dialogue
Gianni Vattimo, Rene Girard, and Edited by Pierpaolo Antonello

Cloth, $18.50 / £13.00 136 pages


Chaoyue Workbook: Advancing in Chinese: Practice for Intermediate and Preadvanced Students
Meng Yeh, Frances Yufen Lee Mehta, Mei-Ju Hwang, Yuanchao Meng, and Natasha Pierce

Paper, $24.50 / £17.00 216 pages


How East Asians View Democracy
Edited by Yun-han Chu, Larry Diamond, Andrew J. Nathan, and Doh Chull Shin

Now available in paper.

Paper, $26.50 / £18.50 328 pages


Cloth, $55.00 / £38.00 328 pages


The Rationale Divinorum Officiorum of William Durand of Mende: A New Translation of the Prologue and Book One
Timothy M. Thibodeau

Now available in paper.

Paper, $18.50 / £13.00 168 pages


Cloth, $40.00 / £27.50 168 pages


My Life with the Taliban
Abdul Salam Zaeef; Translated from the Pashto and Edited and Introduced by Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn; Foreword by Barnett R. Rubin

Cloth, $29.95 360 pages


Bailouts: Public Money, Private Profit
Edited by Robert E. Wright

Paper, $17.95 / £12.50 160 pages


Cloth, $60.00 / £41.50 160 pages


Domestic Violence: Intersectionality and Culturally Competent Practice
Edited by Lettie L. Lockhart and Fran S. Danis

Paper, $35.00 / £24.00 456 pages


Cloth, $105.00 / £72.50 456 pages


Sirens of the Western Shore: Westernesque Women and Translation in Modern Japanese Literature
Indra Levy

Now available in paper.

Paper, $26.50 / £18.50 344 pages


Cloth, $50.00 / £34.50 344 pages


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

Now available in paper.

Paper, $19.95 / £13.95 456 pages


Cloth, $29.95 / £19.95 456 pages


Women as Weapons of War: Iraq, Sex, and the Media
Kelly Oliver

Now available in paper.

Paper, $19.50 / £13.50 224 pages


Cloth, $29.50 / £20.50 224 pages


Chaoyue: Advancing in Chinese: A Textbook for Intermediate and Preadvanced Students
Yea-Fen Chen, Meng Yeh, Frances Yufen Lee Mehta, Mei-Ju Hwang, Yuanchao Meng, and Natasha Pierce

Paper, $40.00 / £27.50 464 pages


Cloth, $105.00 / £72.50 464 pages


Hidden Dimensions: The Unification of Physics and Consciousness
B. Alan Wallace

Now available in paper.

Paper, $19.50 / £13.50 176 pages


Cloth, $24.50 / £17.00 176 pages


Hamas in Politics: Democracy, Religion, Violence
Jeroen Gunning

Now available in paper.

Paper, $26.50 320 pages


Cloth, $36.50 320 pages


The Insurgent Archipelago
John Mackinlay

Cloth, $35.00 256 pages


The Portable Cixous
Edited by Marta Segarra

Paper, $26.50 / £18.50 328 pages


Cloth, $79.50 / £55.00 328 pages


The Poetics of the Everyday: Creative Repetition in Modern American Verse
Siobhan Phillips

Cloth, $45.00 / £31.00 336 pages


Soul and Form
György Lukács, Edited by John T. Sanders, and Katie Terezakis; Introduction by Judith Butler and Translated by Anna Bostock

Paper, $27.50 / £19.00 264 pages


Cloth, $84.50 / £58.50 264 pages


Fiction Across Borders: Imagining the Lives of Others in Late-Twentieth-Century Novels
Shameem Black

Paper, $26.50 / £18.50 352 pages


Cloth, $84.50 / £58.50 352 pages


Chomsky Notebook
Edited by Jean Bricmont and Julie Franck

Paper, $29.50 / £20.50 360 pages


Cloth, $89.50 / £62.00 360 pages


Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness
Rashid Khalidi; With a New Introduction by the Author

With a new introduction by the author.

Paper, $22.95 / £15.95 352 pages


Cloth, $74.50 / £51.50 352 pages


Doubting the Devout: The Ultra-Orthodox in the Jewish American Imagination
Nora Rubel

Paper, $24.50 / £17.00 224 pages


Cloth, $79.50 / £55.00 224 pages


China Rising: Peace, Power, and Order in East Asia
David C. Kang

Now available in paperback.

Paper, $19.50 / £13.50 296 pages


Cloth, $26.95 / £18.95 296 pages


The Myth of the Missing Black Father
Edited by Roberta L. Coles and Charles Green

Paper, $29.50 / £20.50 400 pages


Cloth, $89.50 / £62.00 400 pages


China and India: Prospects for Peace
Jonathan Holslag

Cloth, $37.50 / £26.00 248 pages


Armed Militias of South Asia: Fundamentalists, Maoists, and Separatists
Edited by Laurent Gayer and Christophe Jaffrelot

Cloth, $45.00 356 pages


China, Cambodia, and the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence
Sophie Richardson

Cloth, $50.00 / £34.50 344 pages


Global Salafism: Islam’s New Religious Movement
Edited by Roel Meijer

Cloth, $35.00 400 pages


The Borders of Islam: Exploring Samuel Huntington’s Faultlines from Al-Andalus to the Virtual Ummah
Edited by Stig Jarle Hansen, Atle Mesoy, and Tuncay Kardas

Cloth, $30.00 352 pages


Hollywood Lighting from the Silent Era to Film Noir
Patrick Keating

Paper, $27.50 / £19.00 312 pages


Cloth, $84.50 / £58.50 312 pages


The Struggle for Sustainability in Rural China: Environmental Values and Civil Society
Bryan Tilt

Paper, $29.50 / £20.50 216 pages


Cloth, $89.50 / £62.00 216 pages


The Greater New York Sports Chronology
Jeffrey A. Kroessler

Paper, $24.95 / £16.95 336 pages


Cloth, $74.50 / £51.50 336 pages


The Best American Magazine Writing 2009
Edited by The American Society of Magazine Editors; Introduction by Chris Anderson

Paper, $16.95 / £11.95 472 pages


Film Studies: An Introduction
Ed Sikov

Paper, $29.50 / £20.50 232 pages


Cloth, $99.50 / £68.50 232 pages


Seeking Justice in Child Sexual Abuse: Shifting Burdens and Sharing Responsibilities
Edited by Karen M. Staller and Kathleen Coulborn Faller

Cloth, $50.00 / £34.50 288 pages


Dissenting Bodies: Corporealities in Early New England
Martha L. Finch

Cloth, $45.00 / £31.00 296 pages


Contemporary Arab Thought: Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective
Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab

Paper, $32.50 / £22.50 512 pages


Cloth, $99.50 / £68.50 512 pages


Islam in America, Second Edition
Jane I. Smith

Paper, $24.50 / £17.00 256 pages


Cloth, $79.50 / £55.00 256 pages


Anatheism: Returning to God After God
Richard Kearney

Cloth, $29.50 / £20.50 272 pages


Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation
Gary L. Francione

Now available in paper.

Paper, $24.50 / £17.00 256 pages


Cloth, $40.00 / £27.50 256 pages


Lost Souls: Stories
Hwang Sunwon; Translated by Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton

Cloth, $27.50 / £19.00 360 pages


The International Politics of Intelligence Sharing
James Igoe Walsh

Cloth, $40.00 / £27.50 208 pages


States Without Nations: Citizenship for Mortals
Jacqueline Stevens

Cloth, $35.00 / £24.00 384 pages


The Columbia World Dictionary of Islamism
Antoine Sfeir

Now available in paper.

Paper, $30.00 / £20.50 400 pages


Cloth, $90.00 / £62.00 400 pages


Community Practice Skills: Local to Global Perspectives
Dorothy N. Gamble and Marie Weil

Paper, $45.00 / £31.00 496 pages


Cloth, $125.00 / £86.50 496 pages


Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing: Dialectic, Destruction, Deconstruction
Catherine Malabou; Translated by Carolyn Shread, Foreword by Clayton Crockett, and Introduction by Carolyn Shread

Cloth, $40.00 / £27.50 136 pages


On Civic Friendship: Including Women in the State
Sibyl A. Schwarzenbach

Paper, $29.50 / £20.50 360 pages


Cloth, $89.50 / £62.00 360 pages


Pragmatism as Transition: Historicity and Hope in James, Dewey, and Rorty
Colin Koopman

Cloth, $45.00 / £31.00 288 pages


Women of Color on the Rise: Leadership and Administration in Social Work Education and the Academy
Edited by Halaevalu F. Ofahengaue Vakalahi and Wilma Peebles-Wilkins

Cloth, $40.00 / £27.50 248 pages


Paleoclimates: Understanding Climate Change Past and Present
Thomas M. Cronin

Cloth, $95.00 / £65.50 448 pages


The Analects of Confucius
Translated by Burton Watson

Now available in paper.

Paper, $15.95 / £10.95 176 pages


Cloth, $21.95 / £14.95 176 pages


The Kingdom: Saudi Arabia and the Challenge of the Twenty-first Century
Edited by Joshua Craze and Mark Huband

Cloth, $50.00 256 pages


Empires of Mud: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan 2002-2007
Antonio Giustozzi

Cloth, $35.00 320 pages


Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds
Edited by Billy Collins; Paintings by David Allen Sibley

Cloth, $22.95 / £15.95 288 pages


Jewish Terrorism in Israel
Ami Pedahzur and Arie Perliger

Cloth, $29.50 / £20.50 264 pages


The Scandal of Susan Sontag
Edited by Barbara Ching and Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor

Paper, $24.50 / £17.00 280 pages


Cloth, $79.50 / £55.00 280 pages


Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory
Lynne Huffer

Paper, $27.50 / £19.00 376 pages


Cloth, $84.50 / £58.50 376 pages


Reshaping Theory in Contemporary Social Work: Toward a Critical Pluralism in Clinical Practice
Edited by William Borden

Paper, $45.00 / £31.00 304 pages


Cloth, $89.50 / £62.00 304 pages


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

Now available in paper.

Paper, $19.95 / £13.95 208 pages


Cloth, $27.95 / £18.95 208 pages


Insurgents, Terrorists, and Militias: The Warriors of Contemporary Combat
Richard H. Shultz Jr. and Andrea Dew

Now available in paper.

Paper, $24.50 / £17.00 328 pages


Cloth, $35.00 / £24.00 328 pages


Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity
Jonathan Freedman

Now available in paper.

Paper, $22.50 / £15.50 408 pages


Cloth, $34.50 / £24.00 408 pages


Wrinkled Deep in Time: Aging in Shakespeare
Maurice Charney

Cloth, $29.50 / £20.50 192 pages


This Incredible Need to Believe
Julia Kristeva

Cloth, $19.95 / £13.95 136 pages


The New Yorker Theater and Other Scenes from a Life at the Movies
Toby Talbot; Foreword by Martin Scorsese

Cloth, $24.95 / £16.95 400 pages


Decoding the New Taliban: Insights from the Afghan Field
Edited by Antonio Giustozzi

Cloth, $40.00 420 pages


Christianity, Politics, and Public Life in Kenya
Paul Gifford

Cloth, $90.00 276 pages


Inside New York 2010

Paper, $15.95 / £10.95 376 pages
Inside New York


An Outline of a Theory of Civilization
Yukichi Fukuzawa

Paper, $27.50 312 pages


Cloth, $84.50 312 pages


Animal Lessons: How They Teach Us to Be Human
Kelly Oliver

Paper, $29.50 / £20.50 376 pages


Cloth, $89.50 / £62.00 376 pages