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  • History and Popular Memory

    The Power of Story in Moments of Crisis

    by Paul Cohen ...
    When people experience a traumatic event, such as war or the threat of annihilation, they often turn to history for stories that promise a positive outcome to their suffering. During World War II, the French took comfort in the story of Joan of Arc and her heroic efforts to rid France of foreign occupation. To bring the Joan narrative more into line with current circumstances, however, popular ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Discovering History in China

    American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past

    by Paul Cohen ...
    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    Since its first publication, Paul A. Cohen's Discovering History in China has occupied a singular place in American China scholarship. Translated into three East Asian languages, the volume has become essential to the study of China from the early nineteenth century to today.Cohen critiques the work of leading postwar scholars and is especially adamant about not reading China through the lens of ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Glamshack

    by Paul Cohen ...
    Reluctant fashion journalist Henry Folsom is in love with Her, a deer-hued snake-taut beauty whose smile is an Event. The only problem is Her fiancé in New Orleans. And She’s going to see him for twelve days, while Henry smolders in The Glamshack, his borrowed Silicon Valley poolhouse and site of their months-long affair. Mesmerized by the American Indian wars, grasping for the divine as he ... Read more

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  • The Glamshack

    by Paul Cohen ...
    Reluctant fashion journalist Henry Folsom is in love with Her, a deer-hued snake-taut beauty whose smile is an Event. The only problem is Her fiancé in New Orleans. And She’s going to see him for twelve days, while Henry smolders in The Glamshack, his borrowed Silicon Valley poolhouse and site of their months-long affair. Mesmerized by the American Indian wars, grasping for the divine as he ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Time Stood Still

    My Internment in England: 1914-1918

    by Paul Cohen-Portheim ...
    A masterpiece of humanism, Time Stood Still recounts Paul Cohen-Portheim's years of internment in England as an enemy alien during World War One. An artist and theatre designer, he at first viewed internment as a sort of holiday: 'Should I bring my bathing things and evening dress?' he asked the policeman taking him prisoner. Though confined in a 'gentleman's camp' near Wakefield, as Cohen ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Mission Afghanistan

    An Army Doctor's Memoir

    by Elie Paul Cohen ...
    Translated by Jessica Levine ...
    Elie Paul Cohen, a Franco-British civilian emergency doctor, was in his youth an anti-militarist who evaded conscription. But decades later, his military record comes back to haunt him when it turns up in his professional dossier. In a surreal coincidence, the French, British, and Israeli secret services suddenly become interested in recruiting him, and Cohen accepts the deal the French Army ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Global Revolutionary Aesthetics and Politics after Paris ‘68

    by Chris Bennett, Timo Obergöker, Tenley Bick, Paul Cohen, Giuseppina Mecchia, Chris Reynolds, Valerie Orlando, Alexis Chauchois, Gilles Glacet, Augustus O’Neill ...
    Series series After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
    The year 2018 marked the fiftieth anniversary of May ’68, a startling, by now almost mythic event which combined seriousness, courage, humor and theatrics. The contributions of this volume—based on papers presented the conference Does “la lutte continue”? The Global Afterlife of May ’68 at Florida State University in March 2019—explore the ramifications of that springtime protest in the ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Piety and Politics

    Catholic Revival and the Generation of 1905-1914 in France

    by Paul M. Cohen ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: 19th Century Religion
    In this book, first published in 1984, Paul Cohen examines the Catholic revival among the young French intelligentsia prior to the First World War. He explores this intellectual revival by studying that period’s "talas", the Catholic students at the elite Ecole Normale Supérieure, and devotes his attention to some of the highest-profile coverts, such as Charles Péguy and Jacques Maritain. This ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Facing Up to Mortality

    Interfaith/Interreligious Explorations

    by Daniel Liechty, Paul Cantz, Jonathan Cohen, Spee Kosloff, David R. Loy, Anas Malik, Merlyn E. Mowrey, Anantanand Rambachan, Sheldon Solomon0 ...
    Exploring a new approach to interfaith/interreligious communication, the contributors to this collection seek to interact from the perspective of their own tradition or academic discipline with Ernest Becker's theory on the relationship between religion, culture, and the human awareness of death and mortality. While much interfaith/interreligious dialogue focuses on beliefs and practices, thus ... Read more

    $85.09 USD

  • Political Cohesion In A Fragile Mosaic

    The Yugoslav Experience

    by Lenard J Cohen, Paul V Warwick ...
    This book represents the first comprehensive empirical investigation of political cohesion in the multi-ethnic state of Yugoslavia, covering the entire period from the nation's independence to the present. The authors base their analysis on an extensive body of aggregate voting data from elections during both the precommunist and communist periods ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Theory in Economic Anthropology

    by Edwins Laban Gwako, James M. Acheson, Timothy Earle, Robert C. Hunt, Duran Bell, E. Paul Durrenberger, Jeffrey H. Cohen, Elena Obukhova, Karen Tranberg Hansen, Richard Wilk, Joseph Henrich, Deborah Winslow ...
    Series series Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series
    This new volume from the Society for Economic Anthropology examines the unique contributions of anthropologists to general economic theory. Editor Jean Ensminger and other contributors challenge our understanding of human economies in the expanding global systems of interaction, with models and analyses from cross-cultural research. They examine a broad range of theoretical concerns from the new ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Gas Turbine Theory

    by H.I.H. Saravanamuttoo, G.F.C. Rogers, H. Cohen, Paul Straznicky, A. Nix ...
    When the First Edition of this book was written in 1951, the gas turbine was just becoming established as a powerplant for military aircraft. It took another decade before the gas turbine was introduced to civil aircraft, and this market developed so rapidly that the passenger liner was rendered obsolete. Other markets like naval propulsion, pipeline compression and electrical power applications ... Read more

    $48.99 USD