Cornell University Press: 1150 books
by Pin Yathay
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
On April 17, 1975, the Khmer Rouge entered Phnom Penh to open a new and appalling chapter in the story of the twentieth century. On that day, Pin Yathay was a qualified engineer in the Ministry of Public Works. Successful and highly educated, he had been critical of the corrupt Lon Nol regime and...
Nabokov
The Mystery of Literary Structures
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Vladimir Nabokov described the literature course he taught at Cornell as "a kind of detective investigation of the mystery of literary structures." Leona Toker here pursues a similar investigation of the enigmatic structures of Nabokov's own fiction. According to Toker, most previous critics stressed...
by Chekitan S. Dev
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
In recent years the brand has moved squarely into the spotlight as the key to success in the hospitality industry. Business strategy once began with marketing and incorporated branding as one of its elements; today the brand drives marketing within the larger hospitality enterprise. Not only has it...
Food Policy for Developing Countries
The Role of Government in Global, National, and Local Food Systems
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Despite technological advances in agriculture, nearly a billion people around the world still suffer from hunger and poor nutrition while a billion are overweight or obese. This imbalance highlights the need not only to focus on food production but also to implement successful food policies.
In...
The Art of English Poesy
A Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
George Puttenham's Art of English Poesy is a foundational work of English Renaissance criticism and literary theory. Rich in detail about the nature, purpose, and functions of poetry as well as the poet's character and goals, it is also a valuable historical document, offering generous insight into...
by Jacqueline de Romilly
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
The publication of Jacqueline de Romilly’s Histoire et raison chez Thucydide in 1956 virtually transformed scholarship on Thucydides. Rather than mining The Peloponnesian War to speculate on its layers of composition or second-guess its accuracy, it treated it as a work of art deserving rhetorical...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
High-security organizations around the world face devastating threats from insiders—trusted employees with access to sensitive information, facilities, and materials. From Edward Snowden to the Fort Hood shooter to the theft of nuclear materials, the threat from insiders is on the front page and...
The Space That Remains
Reading Latin Poetry in Late Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
When we think of Roman Poetry, the names most likely to come to mind are Vergil, Horace, and Ovid, who flourished during the age of Augustus. The genius of Imperial poets such as Juvenal, Martial, and Statius is now generally recognized, but the final years of the Roman Empire are not normally associated...
by Stephen van Van Evera
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"Stephen Van Evera's Guide to Methods makes an important contribution toward improving the use of case studies for theory development and testing in the social sciences. His trenchant and concise views on issues ranging from epistemology to specific research techniques manage to convey not only the...
Democracy's Children
Intellectuals and the Rise of Cultural Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
How do American intellectuals try to achieve their political and social goals? By what means do they articulate their hopes for change? John McGowan seeks to identify the goals and strategies of contemporary humanistic intellectuals who strive to shape the politics and culture of their time. In a...
For the Common Good
A New History of Higher Education in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Are colleges and universities in a period of unprecedented disruption? Is a bachelor's degree still worth the investment? Are the humanities coming to an end? What, exactly, is higher education good for?
In For the Common Good, Charles Dorn challenges the rhetoric of America’s so-called crisis...
Engineering Philadelphia
The Sellers Family and the Industrial Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Sellers brothers, Samuel and George, came to North America in 1682 as part of the Quaker migration to William Penn’s new province on the shores of the Delaware River. Across more than two centuries, the Sellers family—especially Samuel’s descendants Nathan, Escol, Coleman, and William—rose...
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Inside the Presidency of George H. W. Bush
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Although it lasted only a single term, the presidency of George H. W. Bush was an unusually eventful one, encompassing the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the invasion of Panama, the Persian Gulf War, and contentious confirmation hearings...
DPs
Europe's Displaced Persons, 1945–51
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"Wyman's book is the only one that comprehensively, and sensitively, depicts the plight of the postwar refugees in Western Europe."—M. Mark Stolarik, University of Ottawa
"This is a fascinating and very moving book."—International Migration Review
"Wyman has written a highly readable...