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Columbia University Press Forthcoming Spring 2008 Titles

African Studies | American History | Animal Studies | Art | Current Affairs | East Asian Studies | Economics | Environmental Studies | Film & Media Studies HistoryLiterary Studies | Middle Eastern Studies | Music | PhilosophyPolitics & Political Theory | Reference | Religion | Science | Social Work | South Asian Studies | Women's Studies

African Studies

Gukurahundi in Zimbabwe: A Report on the Disturbances in Matabeleland and the Midlands, 1980-1988 (Revised Edition)
Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace and the Legal Resources Foundation in Harare

Africa's "Agitators": Militant Anticolonialism in Africa and the West, 1918-1939
Jonathan Derrick

The Darfur Sultanate: A History
R. S. O'Fahey

Zulu Identities: Being Zulu, Past and Present
Edited by Benedict Carton, John Laband, and Jabulani Sithole


American History

American Pests: The Losing War on Insects from Colonial Times to DDT
James McWilliams

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

Presidential Debates: Fifty Years of High Risk TV (Second Edition)
Alan Schroeder

The Hudson: America's River
Frances F. Dunwell

Technology and the American Way of War Since 1945
Thomas G. Mahnken

Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, and the Politics of Progressive Era Reform
Kevin P. Murphy

The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture, 1778-1876
John Rogers Haddad

Advocating the Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Market Revolution in New York, 1800-1840
Joshua R. Greenberg

Miss Yourlovin: Women in the Culture of American World War II Soldiers
Ann Elizabeth Pfau


Animal Studies

Philosophy and Animal Life
Stanley Cavell, Cora Diamond, John McDowell, Ian Hacking, and Cary Wolfe

Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploration
Gary L. Fancione

Zoographies: The Question of the Animal from Heidegger to Derrida
Matthew Calarco

Anthropology

Intimacies: Love and Sex Across Cultures
Edited by William R. Jankowiak

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


Art

Art's Claim to Truth
Gianni Vattimo

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

A Brief History of the Masses: Three Revolutions
Stefan Jonsson

Different Views in Hudson River School Painting (Forthcoming in Paper)
Judith Hansen O'Toole

Current Affairs

The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East
Olivier Roy

When Principles Pay: How Helping Society Can Be Profitable
Geoffrey Heal

The Shape of the World to Come: Charting the Geopolitics of a New Century
Laurent Cohen-Tangui

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

Transnationalism Shia Politicis: Religious and Political Networks in the Gulf
Laurence Louër

Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success
Christopher Davidson

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

Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology
Geoffrey C. Kabat

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

Hamas in Politics: Democracy, Religion, Violence
Jeroen Gunning

Health at Risk: America's Ailing Health System—and How to Heal It
Edited by Jacob S. Hacker

Biosecurity Interventions: Global Health and Security in Question
Edited by Andrew Lakoff and Stephen J. Collier

Kicking the Carbon Habit: Global Warming and the Case for Renewable and Nuclear Energy (Forthcoming in Paper)
William Sweet

Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons (Forthcoming in Paper)
Joseph Cirincione

Dangerous Strait: The U.S.-Taiwan-China Crisis (Forthcoming in Paper)
Edited by Nancy Bernkopf Tucker

Shi'ite Lebanon: Transnational Religion and the Making of National Identities
Roschanack Shaery-Eisenlohn

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


East Asian Studies

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

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

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

Loud Sparrows: Contemporary Chinese Short-Shorts (Forthcoming in Paper)
Selected and Translated by Aili Mu, Julie Chiu, and Howard Goldblatt

Written on Water (Now Available in Paper)
Eileen Chang; Translated by Andrew F. Jones

The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai (Forthcoming in Paper)
Han Bangqing; First Translated by Eileen Chang; Revised and Edited by Eva Hung

City of the Queen: A Novel of Colonial Hong Kong (Forthcoming in Paper)
Shih Shu-Ching

The Tales of the Heike (Forthcoming in Paper)
Translated by Burton Watson; Edited by Haruo Shirane

Orphan of Asia: A Novel (Forthcoming in Paper)
Zhuoliu Wu; Translated by Ioannis Mentzas

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

Dangerous Strait: The U.S.-Taiwan-China Crisis (Forthcoming in Paper)
Edited by Nancy Bernkopf Tucker

The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China (Forthcoming in Paper)
Madeleine Zelin

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

Envisioning the Tale of the Genji: Media, Gender, and Cultural Production
Edited by Haruo Shirane

One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Translation of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu
Peter McMillan; with a foreword by Donald Keene

Overcoming Modernity: Cultural Identity in Wartime Japan
Edited and Translated by Richard F. Calichman

Zeami: Performance Notes
Translated by Tom Hare

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

Troubled Apologies Among Japan, Korea, and the United States
Alexis Dudden



Economics

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

Privatization
Edited by Gérard Roland; Foreword by Jospeh Stiglitz

Risky Business: Political and Economic Consequences of Employment Insecurity
Edited by Katherine S. Newman

An End to Poverty: A Historical Debate (Forthcoming in Paper)
Gareth Stedman Jones


Environmental Studies

American Pests: The Losing War on Insects from Colonial Times to DDT
James McWilliams

Kicking the Carbon Habit: Global Warming and the Case for Renewable and Nuclear Energy (Forthcoming in Paper)
William Sweet

Nature, Aesthetics, and Environmentalism: From Beauty to Duty
Edited by Allen Carlson and Sheila Lintott


Film & Media Studies

Media in the Digital Age
John V. Pavlik

Presidential Debates: Fifty Years of High Risk TV (Second Edition)
Alan Schroeder

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

Shivers Down Your Spine: Cinema and the History of the Immersive View
Alison Griffiths

A Theory of Narrative
Rick Altman

Intelligence Work: The Politics of American Documentary
Jonathan Kahana

History

American Pests: The Losing War on Insects from Colonial Times to DDT
James McWilliams

Presidential Debates: Fifty Years of High Risk TV (Second Edition)
Alan Schroeder

Fear of Freedom: With the Essay "Fear of Painting"
Carlo Levi

The Hudson: America's River
Frances F. Dunwell

Jewish Property Claims Against Arab Countries
Michael R. Fischbach

The Truth of Power: Intellectual Affairs in the Clinton White House
Benjamin R. Barber

Hitler's New Disorder: The Second World War in Yugoslavia
Stevan K. Pavlowitch

Technology and the American Way of War Since 1945
Thomas G. Mahnken

The Fire: The Bombing of Germany, 1940-1945 (Forthcoming in Paper)
Jörg Friedrich

Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons (Forthcoming in Paper)
Joseph Cirincione

The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China (Forthcoming in Paper)
Madeleine Zelin

Overcoming Modernity: Cultural Identity in Wartime Japan
Edited and Translated by Richard F. Calichman

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

Troubled Apologies Among Japan, Korea, and the United States
Alexis Dudden

Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, and the Politics of Progressive Era Reform
Kevin P. Murphy

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

The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture, 1778-1876
John Rogers Haddad

Advocating the Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Market Revolution in New York, 1800-1840
Joshua R. Greenberg

Miss Yourlovin: Women in the Culture of American World War II Soldiers
Ann Elizabeth Pfau

The Slender Thread: Irish Women on the Southern Avalon, 1750-1860
Willeen Keough



Literature & Literary Studies

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

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

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

A Theory of Narrative
Rick Altman

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

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

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

Loud Sparrows: Contemporary Chinese Short-Shorts (Forthcoming in Paper)
Selected and Translated by Aili Mu, Julie Chiu, and Howard Goldblatt

Murder in Byzantium: A Novel (Forthcoming in Paper)
Julia Kristeva; Translated by C. Jon Delogu

Modern Arabic Fiction: An Anthology (Forthcoming in Paper)
Edited by Salma Khadra Jayyusi

Written on Water (Now Available in Paper)
Eileen Chang; Translated by Andrew F. Jones

The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai (Forthcoming in Paper)
Han Bangqing; First Translated by Eileen Chang; Revised and Edited by Eva Hung

City of the Queen: A Novel of Colonial Hong Kong (Forthcoming in Paper)
Shih Shu-Ching

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

Orphan of Asia: A Novel (Forthcoming in Paper)
Zhuoliu Wu; Translated by Ioannis Mentzas

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

Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life (Forthcoming in Paper)
Victoria Rosner

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

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

Envisioning the Tale of the Genji: Media, Gender, and Cultural Production
Edited by Haruo Shirane

One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Translation of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu
Peter McMillan; with a foreword by Donald Keene

Zeami: Performance Notes
Translated by Tom Hare

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



Middle Eastern Studies

The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East
Olivier Roy

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

Transnationalism Shia Politicis: Religious and Political Networks in the Gulf
Laurence Louër

Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success
Christopher Davidson

Jewish Property Claims Against Arab Countries
Michael R. Fischbach

Hamas in Politics: Democracy, Religion, Violence
Jeroen Gunning

Modern Arabic Fiction: An Anthology (Forthcoming in Paper)
Edited by Salma Khadra Jayyusi

Shi'ite Lebanon: Transnational Religion and the Making of National Identities
Roschanack Shaery-Eisenlohr

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


Music

Enchantment: The Seductress in Opera
Jean Starobinski

The Don Giovanni Moment: Essays on the Legacy of an Opera (Forthcoming in Paper)
Edited by Lydia Goehr and Daniel Herwitz

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


Philosophy

Fear of Freedom: With the Essay "Fear of Painting"
Carlo Levi

Art's Claim to Truth
Gianni Vattimo

The Jean Baudrillard Reader
Edited by Steve Redhead

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


The Fabulous Imagination: On Montaigne's Essays
Lawrence D. Kritzman

Philosophy and Animal Life
Stanley Cavell, Cora Diamond, John McDowell, Ian Hacking, and Cary Wolfe

The Rise and Fall of Soul and Self: An Intellectual History of Personal Identity (Forthcoming in Paper)
Raymond Martin and John Barresi

Things Beyond Resemblance: Collected Essays on Theodor W. Adorno (Forthcoming in Paper)
Robert Hullot-Kentor

Insurmountable Simplicities: Thirty-nine Philosophical Conundrums (Forthcoming in Paper)
Roberto Casati and Achille Varzi

Buddhists, Brahmins, and Belief: Epistemology in South Asian Philosophy of Religion (Forthcoming in Paper)
Dan Arnold

Democracy and the Political Unconscious
Noelle McAfee

The Force of the Example: Explorations in the Paradigm of Judgment
Alessandro Ferrara

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

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

Nature, Aesthetics, and Environmentalism: From Beauty to Duty
Edited by Allen Carlson and Sheila Lintott

Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploration
Gary L. Fancione

Zoographies: The Question of the Animal from Heidegger to Derrida
Matthew Calarco


Politics and Political Theory

The Shape of the World to Come: Charting the Geopolitics of a New Century
Laurent Cohen-Tangui

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

A Brief History of the Masses: Three Revolutions
Stefan Jonsson

The Truth of Power: Intellectual Affairs in the Clinton White House
Benjamin R. Barber

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

War and the Liberal Conscience (Second Edition)
Michael Howard

Health at Risk: America's Ailing Health System—and How to Heal It
Edited by Jacob S. Hacker

Risky Business: Political and Economic Consequences of Employment Insecurity
Edited by Katherine S. Newman

Biosecurity Interventions: Global Health and Security in Question
Edited by Andrew Lakoff and Stephen J. Collier

Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons (Forthcoming in Paper)
Joseph Cirincione

An End to Poverty: A Historical Debate (Forthcoming in Paper)
Gareth Stedman Jones

Globalization Challenged: Conviction, Conflict, Community (Forthcoming in Paper)
George Rupp

The Liberal Conscience: Politics and Principle in a World of Religious Pluralism (Forthcoming in Paper)
Lucas Swaine

Dangerous Strait: The U.S.-Taiwan-China Crisis (Forthcoming in Paper)
Edited by Nancy Bernkopf Tucker

Democracy and the Political Unconscious
Noelle McAfee

For Kin or Country: Xenophobia, Nationalism, and War
Stephen M. Saideman and R. William Ayers

The Politics of Postsecular Religion: Mourning Secular Failures
Ananda Abeysekara



Reference

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

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

Columbia Gazetteer of the World (Revised and Expanded Edition)
Edited by Saul B. Cohen

Religion

Fear of Freedom: With the Essay "Fear of Painting"
Carlo Levi

The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity (Twentieth-Anniversary Edition with a New Introduction)
Peter Brown

The Liberal Conscience: Politics and Principle in a World of Religious Pluralism (Forthcoming in Paper)
Lucas Swaine

Buddhists, Brahmins, and Belief: Epistemology in South Asian Philosophy of Religion (Forthcoming in Paper)
Dan Arnold

To the End of the Earth: A History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico (Forthcoming in Paper)
Stanley M. Hordes

The Lives of Sri Aurobindo
Peter Heehs

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

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

The Politics of Postsecular Religion: Mourning Secular Failures
Ananda Abeysekara

Religion and Public Memory: A Cultural History of Saint Namdev in India
Christian Lee Novetzke



Science

American Pests: The Losing War on Insects from Colonial Times to DDT
James McWilliams

Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology
Geoffrey C. Kabat

Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History
Text by Xiaoming Wang and Richard H. Tedford; Illustrations by Mauricio Anton

Molecular Gastronomy: Exploring the Science of Flavor (Forthcoming in Paper)
Hervé This

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

Kicking the Carbon Habit: Global Warming and the Case for Renewable and Nuclear Energy (Forthcoming in Paper)
William Sweet

Agents of Bioterrorism: Pathogens and Their Weaponization (Forthcoming in Paper)
Edited by Geoffrey Zubay

Gender, Politics, and Radioactivity, Research in Vienna, 1910-1938
Maria Rentetzi

Discontinuities in Ecosystems and Other Complex Systems
Edited by Craig R. Allen and C.S. Holling

Complexity Theory for a Sustainable Future
Jon Norberg and Graeme Cumming

Social Work

Rural Social Work Practice (Forthcoming in Paper)
Edited by Nancy Lohmann and Roger A. Lohmann

Living Through Loss: Interventions Across the Life Span (Forthcoming in Paper)
Nancy D. Hooyman and Betty J. Kramer

Sexual Orientation and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Sexual Science and Clinical Practice (Forthcoming in Paper)
Richard C. Friedman and Jennifer I. Downey

Gerontological Practice for the Twenty-First Century: A Social Work Perspective (Forthcoming in Paper)
Virginia E. Richardson and Amanda S. Barusch

Research Methods in Child Welfare
Amy J. L. Baker and Benjamin J. Charvat

Globalizing the Streets: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Youth, Social Control and Empowerment
David C. Brotherton and Michael Flynn

Lifting Our Voices: The Journeys Into Family Caregiving of Professional Social Workers
Edited by Joyce O. Beckett

Endnotes: An Intimate Look at the End of Life
Ruth Ray

Developmental Theories Through the Life Cycle (Second Edition)
Edited by Sonia G. Austrian

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

Gerontological Home Health Care: A Guide for the Social Work Practice
Goldie Kadushin and Marcia Egan

Dying, Death, and Bereavement in Social Work Practice: Decision Cases for Advanced Practice
Terry Wolfer and Vicki Runnion

South Asian Studies

Joothan: A Dalit's Life (Forthcoming in Paper)
Omprakash Valmiki; Translated from the Hindi by Arun Prabha Mukherjee

Buddhists, Brahmins, and Belief: Epistemology in South Asian Philosophy of Religion (Forthcoming in Paper)
Dan Arnold

Religion and Public Memory: A Cultural History of Saint Namdev in India
Christian Lee Novetzke




Women's Studies

In Love and Struggle: Letters in Contemporary Feminism
Margaretta Jolly

Miss Yourlovin: Women in the Culture of American World War II Soldiers
Ann Elizabeth Pfau

The Slender Thread: Irish Women on the Southern Avalon, 1750-1860
Willeen Keough

Gender, Politics, and Radioactivity, Research in Vienna, 1910-1938
Maria Rentetzi