Author: Chris McGowa
Publisher: Columbia University Pre
Keywords: steam, locomotion, birth, speed, rail, rocket
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2004-11-01
List price: $36.00
ISBN-10: 0231134746
ISBN-13: 9780231134743

From October 6 through 14, 1829, a competition was held in Rainhill to find a locomotive that could maintain a speed of ten mph for a round trip totaling thirty-five miles, the distance separating Liverpool and Manchester, which were soon to be linked by the world’s first passenger railway. George and Robert Stephenson’s Rocket won the competition, but the Rocket was not necessarily the superior locomotive. Rail, Steam, and Speed explains why and offers an absorbing account of the trials, people, and science that gave birth to steam locomotion.

Author: James B. Twitchell
Publisher: Columbia University Pre
Keywords: living
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2002-02-15
List price: $41.50
ISBN-10: 0231124961
ISBN-13: 9780231124966

The democratization of luxury, Twitchell contends, has been the single most important marketing phenomenon of our times.  

Author: Julian H. Frankli
Publisher: Columbia University Pre
Keywords: philosophy, moral, rights
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2006-12-08
List price: $72.50
ISBN-10: 0231134223
ISBN-13: 9780231134224

Animals obviously cannot have a right of free speech or a right to vote because they lack the relevant capacities. But their right to life and to be free of exploitation is no less fundamental than the corresponding right of humans, writes Julian H. Franklin. This theoretically rigorous book will reassure the committed, help the uncertain to decide, and arm the polemicist.Franklin examines all the major arguments for animal rights proposed to date and extends the philosophy in new directions. Animal Rights and Moral Philosophy begins by considering the utilitarian argument of equal respect for

Author: Nicolas Guilhot
Publisher: Columbia University Pre
Keywords: international, order, rights, human, makers, democracy
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-03-15
List price: $51.00
ISBN-10: 0231131240
ISBN-13: 9780231131247

-- Leslie Sklair, London School of Economics and Political Science

Authors:David Farber, Beth Bailey,
Publisher: Columbia University Pre
Keywords: columbia, history, cultures, american, 1960s, guide, america, guides
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2001-07-15
List price: $80.50
ISBN-10: 0231113722
ISBN-13: 9780231113724

A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title of the Year; The 1960s continue to be the subject of passionate debate and political controversy, a touchstone in struggles over the meaning of the American past and the direction of the American future. Amid the polemics and the myths, making sense of the Sixties and its legacies presents a challenge. This book is for all those who want to take it on. Because there are so many facets to this unique and transformative era, this volume offers multiple approaches and perspectives. The first section gives a lively narrative overview of the decade´s ma

Authors:Graciela Chichilnisky, Geoffrey Heal,
Publisher: Columbia University Pre
Keywords: markets, environmental
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2000-03-15
List price: $70.50
ISBN-10: 0231115881
ISBN-13: 9780231115889

Markets are increasingly central to the resolution of environmental problems. They played a critical role in implementing the 1990 Clean Air Act of the United States, which has been instrumental in reducing acid rain in a cost-effective manner. They are also central to the global strategy adopted for limiting the emissions of greenhouse gases under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and are being used for resolving conflicts over the use of other environmental resources, particularly water. Environmental Markets: Equity and Efficiency represents the first systematic and in-depth study of the economic is

Author: Lisa J. Disch
Publisher: Columbia University Pre
Keywords: system, party, tyranny
Number of Pages: 172
Published: 2002-06-15
List price: $83.50
ISBN-10: 0231110340
ISBN-13: 9780231110341

The closely contested presidential election of 2000, which many analysts felt was decided by voters for the Green Party, cast a spotlight on a structural contradiction of American politics. Critics charged that Green Party voters inadvertently contributed to the election of a conservative Republican president because they chose to "vote their conscience" rather than "choose between two evils." But why this choice of two? Is the two-party system of Democrats and Republicans an immutable and indispensable aspect of our democracy? Lisa Disch maintains that it is not. There is no constitutional wa