Edward W. Said
Edward W. Said was born in Jerusalem, raised in Jerusalem and Cairo, and educated in the United States, where he attended Princeton (B.A. 1957) and Harvard (M.A. 1960; Ph.D. 1964). In 1963, he began teaching at Columbia University, where he was ... [... more]
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Stand, Columbia: A History of Columbia University in the ...
 Too Many Details with No Focus: I read "Stand, Columbia" with much eagerness, but I discovered that the book is hardly reader friendly. The writer's talent as a historian is strong, and his research into the university's history is excellent. [... more]
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Jonathan Selwood
Jonathan Selwood grew up in Hollywood. He received an MFA from Columbia University and is married and lives in Portland, OR. [... more]
Harper Collins |
Esther Perel
Esther Perel is a couples and family therapist with a private practice in New York City. She is on the faculty of the International Trauma Studies program at Columbia University, is a member of the American Family Therapy Academy, and has ... [... more]
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Charlotte Craft
Charlotte Craft studied comparative literature at Columbia University in New York. After graduating, she traveled to Japan, where she worked as an interpreter and photographer. She now lives in Scotland with her family. The New York Times ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Burton Bernstein
Burton Bernstein, staff writer for the New Yorker from 1957 to 1992, is the author of eight books. Like his older brother, he is a Bostonian by birth and upbringing. A graduate of Dartmouth College and the Columbia University Graduate School of ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Kiran Desai
Kiran Desai was born in India in 1971 and educated in India, England, and the United States. She studied creative writing at Columbia University, where she was the recipient of a Woolrich fellowship. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker and ... [... more]
Random House |
Scott Smith
Scott Smith was educated at Dartmouth College and Columbia University. He lives in New York City. Two brothers and their friend stumble upon the wreckage of a plane-the pilot is dead and his duffle bag contains four million dollars in cash. The ... [... more]
Random House |
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
Amazon.ca: Anyone who has ever gamely tried and failed to absorb, enjoy, and--especially--understand the complex works of Schoenberg, Mahler, Strauss, or even Philip Glass will allow themselves a wry smile reading New Yorker music critic Alex Ross's [... more]
CDN$46.83
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Vampire Weekend
"An educated, endlessly imaginative and different piece of work".: This quartet of Columbia University graduates have been attracting a lot of attention with their jaunty blend of African-influenced indie-pop and unabashedly haut-bourgeois [... more]
CDN$14.99
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Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis
With Gog and Magog right in the middle.: This is a book which seeks a place for humanity in the poetic extremes of intellectual life. Near the end, "Dionysus in 1990," Georges Bataille, author of THE ACCURSED SHARE, gets credit for writing, & [... more]
CDN$22.87
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The Nag Hammadi Library in English: Translated and ...
From Amazon.co.uk: The Nag Hammadi Library was discovered in 1945 buried in a large stone jar in the desert outside the modern Egyptian city of Nag Hammadi. It is a collection of religious and philosophical texts gathered and translated into Coptic by [... more]
CDN$98.23
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