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Author |
: Ashbel Green |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 480 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 023113486X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780231134866 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (6X Downloads) |
Synopsis My Columbia by : Ashbel Green
During its 250-year history, Columbia University has produced a remarkable array of writers, poets, scientists, and statesmen--many of whom have written eloquently about their experiences at the university. My Columbia collects a broad range of these reminiscences--excerpts from memoirs, novels, and poems--that relate the experiences of students, faculty, and administrators and paint a vibrant portrait of the university and the city of which it is such a vital part.
Author |
: Michael I. Sovern |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 325 |
Release |
: 2014-02-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231537056 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0231537050 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis An Improbable Life by : Michael I. Sovern
Columbia University began the second half of the twentieth century in decline, bottoming out with the student riots of 1968. Yet by the close of the century, the institution had regained its stature as one of the greatest universities in the world. According to the New York Times, "If any one person is responsible for Columbia's recovery, it is surely Michael Sovern." In this memoir, Sovern, who served as the university's president from 1980 to 1993, recounts his sixty-year involvement with the institution after growing up in the South Bronx. He addresses key issues in academia, such as affordability, affirmative action, the relative rewards of teaching and research, lifetime tenure, and the role of government funding. Sovern also reports on his many off-campus adventures, including helping the victims of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, stepping into the chairmanship of Sotheby's, responding to a strike by New York City's firemen, a police riot and threats to shut down the city's transit system, playing a role in the theater world as president of the Shubert Foundation, and chairing the Commission on Integrity in Government.
Author |
: Kenneth Goldsmith |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0231186959 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780231186957 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Duchamp is My Lawyer by : Kenneth Goldsmith
In 1996, during the relatively early days of the web, Kenneth Goldsmith created UbuWeb to post hard-to-find works of concrete poetry. What started out as a site to share works from a relatively obscure literary movement grew into an essential archive of twentieth- and twenty-first-century avant-garde and experimental literature, film, and music. Visitors around the world now have access to both obscure and canonical works, from artists such as Kara Walker, Yoko Ono, Pauline Oliveros, Samuel Beckett, Marcel Duchamp, Cecil Taylor, Glenn Ligon, William Burroughs, and Jean-Luc Godard. In Duchamp Is My Lawyer, Goldsmith tells the history of UbuWeb, explaining the motivations behind its creation and how artistic works are archived, consumed, and distributed online. Based on his own experiences and interviews with a variety of experts, Goldsmith describes how the site navigates issues of copyright and the ways that UbuWeb challenges familiar configurations and histories of the avant-garde. The book also portrays the growth of other "shadow libraries" and includes a section on the artists whose works reflect the aims, aesthetics, and ethos of UbuWeb. Goldsmith concludes by contrasting UbuWeb's commitment to the free-culture movement and giving access to a wide range of artistic works with today's gatekeepers of algorithmic culture, such as Netflix, Amazon, and Spotify.
Author |
: Paul Cronin |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 711 |
Release |
: 2018-01-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231544337 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0231544332 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Time to Stir by : Paul Cronin
For seven days in April 1968, students occupied five buildings on the campus of Columbia University to protest a planned gymnasium in a nearby Harlem park, links between the university and the Vietnam War, and what they saw as the university’s unresponsive attitude toward their concerns. Exhilarating to some and deeply troubling to others, the student protests paralyzed the university, grabbed the world’s attention, and inspired other uprisings. Fifty years after the events, A Time to Stir captures the reflections of those who participated in and witnessed the Columbia rebellion. With more than sixty essays from members of the Columbia chapter of Students for a Democratic Society, the Students’ Afro-American Society, faculty, undergraduates who opposed the protests, “outside agitators,” and members of the New York Police Department, A Time to Stir sheds light on the politics, passions, and ideals of the 1960s. Moving beyond accounts from the student movement’s white leadership, this book presents the perspectives of black students, who were grappling with their uneasy integration into a supposedly liberal campus, as well as the views of women, who began to question their second-class status within the protest movement and society at large. A Time to Stir also speaks to the complicated legacy of the uprising. For many, the events at Columbia inspired a lifelong dedication to social causes, while for others they signaled the beginning of the chaos that would soon engulf the left. Taken together, these reflections present a nuanced and moving portrait that reflects the sense of possibility and excess that characterized the 1960s.
Author |
: Lewis R. Freeman |
Publisher |
: Dixon Price Pub |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1929516185 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781929516186 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Down the Columbia by : Lewis R. Freeman
Originally published in 1921, Freeman's account of his journey down the Columbia river depicts in detail the natural beauty of the area and provides a glimpse at life along the river during the 1920's. The narrative traces his voyage from the headwaters of the Columbia to the run past Palisade Rock
Author |
: 才一·丸谷 |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 361 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231126588 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0231126581 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Grass for My Pillow by : 才一·丸谷
First published in Japanese in 1966, this debut novel by the critically acclaimed author of Singular Rebellion creates an unparalleled portrait of a man at odds with his society, and with himself."--BOOK JACKET.
Author |
: Roosevelt Montas |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 248 |
Release |
: 2023-03-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691224398 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691224390 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Rescuing Socrates by : Roosevelt Montas
A Dominican-born academic tells the story of how the Great Books transformed his life—and why they have the power to speak to people of all backgrounds What is the value of a liberal education? Traditionally characterized by a rigorous engagement with the classics of Western thought and literature, this approach to education is all but extinct in American universities, replaced by flexible distribution requirements and ever-narrower academic specialization. Many academics attack the very idea of a Western canon as chauvinistic, while the general public increasingly doubts the value of the humanities. In Rescuing Socrates, Dominican-born American academic Roosevelt Montás tells the story of how a liberal education transformed his life, and offers an intimate account of the relevance of the Great Books today, especially to members of historically marginalized communities. Montás emigrated from the Dominican Republic to Queens, New York, when he was twelve and encountered the Western classics as an undergraduate in Columbia University’s renowned Core Curriculum, one of America’s last remaining Great Books programs. The experience changed his life and determined his career—he went on to earn a PhD in English and comparative literature, serve as director of Columbia’s Center for the Core Curriculum, and start a Great Books program for low-income high school students who aspire to be the first in their families to attend college. Weaving together memoir and literary reflection, Rescuing Socrates describes how four authors—Plato, Augustine, Freud, and Gandhi—had a profound impact on Montás’s life. In doing so, the book drives home what it’s like to experience a liberal education—and why it can still remake lives.
Author |
: Claudio Lomnitz |
Publisher |
: Other Press, LLC |
Total Pages |
: 465 |
Release |
: 2021-02-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781635420708 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1635420709 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nuestra América by : Claudio Lomnitz
NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS A riveting study of the intersections between Jewish and Latin American culture, this immigrant family memoir recounts history with psychological insight and the immediacy of a thriller. In Nuestra América, eminent anthropologist and historian Claudio Lomnitz traces his grandparents’ exile from Eastern Europe to South America. At the same time, the book is a pretext to explain and analyze the worldview, culture, and spirit of countries such as Peru, Colombia, and Chile, from the perspective of educated Jewish emigrants imbued with the hope and determination typical of those who escaped Europe in the 1920s. Lomnitz’s grandparents, who were both trained to defy ghetto life with the pioneering spirit of the early Zionist movement, became intensely involved in the Peruvian leftist intellectual milieu and its practice of connecting Peru’s indigenous past to an emancipatory internationalism that included Jewish culture and thought. After being thrown into prison supposedly for their socialist leanings, Lomnitz’s grandparents were exiled to Colombia, where they were subject to its scandals, its class system, its political life. Through this lens, Lomnitz explores the almost negligible attention and esteem that South America holds in US public opinion. The story then continues to Chile during World War II, Israel in the 1950s, and finally to Claudio’s youth, living with his parents in Berkeley, California, and Mexico City.
Author |
: Donald Keene |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 203 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231144414 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0231144415 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis Chronicles of My Life by : Donald Keene
"I sometimes think that if, as the result of an accident, I were to lose my knowledge of Japanese, there would not be much left for me. Japanese, which at first had no connection with my ancestors, my literary tastes, or my awareness of myself as a person, has become the central element of my life." In this eloquent and wholly absorbing memoir, the renowned scholar Donald Keene shares more than half a century of his extraordinary adventures as a student of Japan. Keene begins with an account of his bittersweet childhood in New York; then he describes his initial encounters with Asia and Europe and the way in which World War II complicated that experience. He captures the sights, scents, and sounds of Japan as they first enveloped him, and talks of the unique travels and well-known intellectuals who later shaped the contours of his academic career. Keene traces the movement of his passions with delicacy and subtlety, deftly weaving his love for Japan into a larger narrative about identity and home and the circumstances that led a Westerner to find solace in a country on the opposite side of the world. Chronicles of My Life is not only a fascinating tale of two cultures colliding, but also a thrilling account of the emotions and experiences that connect us all, regardless of our individual origins.
Author |
: Erica Jong |
Publisher |
: Harper Collins |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: 2011-06-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780062092205 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0062092200 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sugar in My Bowl by : Erica Jong
Poet, novelist, and essayist, the legendary Erica Jong—whose novel Fear of Flying opened eyes and broke down walls—offers us a provocative collection of essays about sex from some of the most respected female authors writing today. “Real Women Write about Real Sex” in Sugar in My Bowl, as such marquee names as Gail Collins, Eve Ensler, Daphne Merken, Anne Roiphe, Liz Smith, Naomi Wolf, and Jennifer Weiner, to name but a few, join together to speak openly about female desire—what provokes it and what satisfies it. In the free, unfettered spirit of The Bitch in the House, Sugar in My Bowl explores the bedroom lives of women with daring, wit, intelligence, and candor.