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The Song of Everlasting Sorrow, Translated by Michael Berry and Susan Chan Egan: A Novel of Shanghai ...
Wang Anyi
Columbia University Press, 2008
Met my expectations!
The novel arrived quickly and was at a fair price and met my expectations. -- norman Michaud
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Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success
Christopher M. Davidson
Columbia University Press, 2008
Fact packed, neutral, and colorful
Although written by an academic authority on the subject this book was very readable, and in places I had to remind myself this was non-fiction, such is the scale and pace of Dubai's development. I ordered this quite some time ago, as a pre-release, and only received ...
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Inside Terrorism
Bruce Hoffman
Columbia University Press, 2006
analyzes the political tactics of terrorism
I found this book to be quite enlightening as well as facinating to read. Refusing to engage in the political rhetoric surrounding terrorism, the author, Bruce Hoffman, (an expert in counterterrorism at West Point as well as a professor at Georgetown)follows the ...
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Kitchen Mysteries: Revealing the Science of Cooking (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on ...
Hervé This
Columbia University Press, 2007
A witty guide to cooking through chemistry
The first things French chemist and gastronomist This clarifies are the terms gourmand and gourmet. A gourmand is not a glutton. A gourmand is a gourmet. A gourmet is actually a connoisseur of wine. Got that? Good. Cause it doesn't get any easier.
This' eye-opening ...
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Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History
Xiaoming Wang, Richard H. Tedford
Columbia University Press, 2008
A long-awaited work; a great read for both research and leisure
This book encompasses everything that inspired me to pursue paleontological research...the meticulous manner in which the authors document the evolutionary history of dogs, and the unparalleled illustrations that bring those concepts and species to life. The ...
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Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters
Donald R. Prothero
Columbia University Press, 2007
One of the best!
There are a few recent books on religion, science, skepticism, and evolution that will probably go down in history as the "great ones". In that mix I include Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World and Sam Harris's The End of Faith. Donald Prothero's book should certainly ...
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Molecular Gastronomy: Exploring the Science of Flavor (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on ...
Hervé This
Columbia University Press, 2005
For the scientist-cook
After reading the Italian translation a coupe of years ago, I was so much hoping for an English translation, and here it is; and it's brilliant! It's quite one thing to follow recipes and follow instructions, and quite another to understand at a physico-chemical level ...
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More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places (Updated and Expanded)
Michael J. Mauboussin
Columbia University Press, 2007
Practical Financial Wisdom.
Practical information any ivestor should keep in mind. Potentially very helpful if one heeds to the ideas in this book. The first 75% of the book is very tight, but towards the end there is some repetition. Overall, nice read.
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The Measure of America: American Human Development Report, 2008-2009 (A Columbia / SSRC Book)
Sarah Burd-Sharps, Kristen Lewis, ...
Columbia University Press, 2008
Truly Eye-Opening
The American Human Development Project is far more than just a report of data and conclusions. On the contrary, it not only provides interesting insight on the state of our nation, but it gives its readers a completely fresh perspective on how to examine our collective ...
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Darsan: Seeing the Divine Image in India
Diana L. Eck
Columbia University Press, 1998
Solid introduction to the concept of Hindu iconography and related ritual experience
Diana Eck is a wonderful scholar who has written several great books on Hinduism. Darsan (or "darshan," if you're transliterating it simply for an English-speaking audience) is a wonderfully simple introduction to Hindu iconography and the related ritual experience, a ...
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Koran, Kalashnikov, and Laptop: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan (Columbia/Hurst)
Antonio Giustozzi
Columbia University Press, 2007
Very Timely Publication - Giustozzi tells it like it is
Dr. Giustozzi brings a refreshing and honest take on the situation in Afghanistan. He dispels the Western propaganda of success and reconstruction and instead offers the reader an insight into the resurgence of the Taliban and the threats that it poses.
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Difference and Repetition
Gilles Deleuze
Columbia University Press, 1995
Deleuze wasn't messing around here, seriously.
Many people consider this to be the cornerstone of Deleuze's body of work, and in many ways it is. In many ways it is also invaluable, and perhaps the most significant piece of philosophy to emerge in the last half-century (though I don't think so, but I also don't ...
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Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement (Columbia Business School)
William Duggan
Columbia University Press, 2007
A must read for anyone doing strategy
I teach strategy in graduate business school and have done so for over twenty years. I routinely judge strategy books to be without much practical use. This book takes an entirely different approach from most others and is thoroughly successful. Rather than simply ...
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Hidden Dimensions: The Unification of Physics and Consciousness (Columbia Series in Science and Religion)
B. Alan Wallace
Columbia University Press, 2007
innovation in mind research
The Dalai Lama often refers to Buddhism as "the science of the mind". This book is very interesting even important by suggesting new research projects about how the minds work. Allan Wallace has deep knowledge about the latest developments in physics and has extensive ...
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Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings
Columbia University Press, 1996
Becoming a Chuang Tzu enthusiast.
Anyone who may be coming to Chuang Tzu for the first time is in for a treat. Although Chuang Tzu is sometimes described as the most brilliant of all Chinese philosophers, what we find in him isn't what we normally understand by 'Philosophy' and isn't technical at ...
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