Discovery and Invention: A Comparative Study of Civilization
Economics Professor Emeritus Charles Stewart surveys seven civilizations in terms of both their achievements and their failures as an explanation of the Scientific and Industrial...
Faculty Books
From the history of race and caste in Latin America to the role of music in religion around the world, Columbian College faculty publish numerous thought-provoking and timely titles every year. Their work has topped bestseller lists, inspired debate and dialogue and received positive reviews from high-profile outlets like the Los Angeles Review of Books and The New York Times.
Ethics of War and Peace in Islam: A Shi‘a View
Mohammad Faghfoory, professor of Islamic studies, demonstrates that the Shia perception of war and peace is deeply rooted in the Quran and the Tradition of the Prophet and is defensive in nature. He...
Margaret Gonglewski, associate professor of German, takes a student-centered, communicative approach to teaching German. Her textbook, co-authored with Beverly Moser and Cornelius...
¿Qué tienen en común, Iván Kohen, traductor estadounidense, y Sergio Mancino, periodista?: Un tren equivocado, un recorrido por distintos pueblos de la provincia argenti.
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Semantics of Chinese Questions: An Interface Approach
Hongyuan Dong's "Semantics of Chinese Questions: An Interface Approach" looks to study the syntax, semantics, and phonology of questions and proposes a phonological scope-...
Post-Migratory Cultures in Postcolonial France
Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies Kathryn Kleppinger's "Post-Migratory Cultures in Postcolonial France" offers a critical assessment of the ways in which...
The Routledge Course in Business Korean
"The Routledge Course in Business Korean" is a textbook for teaching Korean to mid-intermediate to low-advanced students to learn the language used in a business context in every-day life in Korea...
Cultures of the Fragment: Uses of the Iberian Manuscript, 1100-1600
The majority of medieval and 16th-century Iberian manuscripts contain fragments or are fragments — isolated bits of manuscript material with a damaged appearance, or a piece of a larger...
Second Language Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese Tones
Tones are the most challenging aspect of learning Chinese pronunciation for adult learners and traditional research mostly attributes tonal errors to interference from learners' native languages....
Rewriting Revolution: Women, Sexuality, and Memory in North Korean Fiction
Immanuel Kim’s book confronts North Korean stereotypes, offering a more complex portrayal of literature in the North based on writings from the 1960s to the present. The...