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Greed, Exploitation, and Elephants: The Story of a Failed Congo Conquest
Cover of A Training School for Elephants by Sophy Roberts
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Greed, Exploitation, and Elephants: The Story of a Failed Congo Conquest

A Training School for Elephants, by travel writer Sophy Roberts ’97JRN, tells the little-known tale of a Belgian king and Irish fixer in Africa

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The Pacifist's Guide to Satanism
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The Pacifist's Guide to Satanism

La Carmina, an award-winning blogger, journalist, and author, offers a spirited defense of the often-misunderstood religion

The Best Way to Stop a Negative-Thought Spiral
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The Best Way to Stop a Negative-Thought Spiral

Psychologist Ethan Kross ’07GSAS suggests strategies to root out negative self-talk 

Genius at Work: How Franz Boas Created the Field of Cultural Anthropology
Archive photo of Franz Boas reenacting a Kwakiutl ceremonial dance to assist Smithsonian Institution sculptors building a diorama
Boas reenacts a Kwakiutl ceremonial dance to assist Smithsonian Institution sculptors building a diorama. (Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives)

Genius at Work: How Franz Boas Created the Field of Cultural Anthropology

A century ago, when people believed that human potential was determined by race and gender, a maverick Columbia professor decided everyone was wrong

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A Rose for Emily
Cover of The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson by Jerome Charyn
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A Rose for Emily

An interview with Jerome Charyn ’59CC, author of The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson: A Novel

Book Review: "The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower"
Columbia students stage a mock book burning in 1936 to protest Nicholas Murray Butler's decision to send a delegate to the University of Heidelberg's 550th anniversary celebration
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Book Review: "The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower"

Complicity and Conflict on American Campuses, by Stephen H. Norwood '84GSAS

Book Review: "The Publisher"
Henry Luce in 1937 with Columbia law professor, Newsweek columnist, and disillusioned Brain Truster Raymond Moley
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Book Review: "The Publisher"

Henry Luce and His American Century, by Alan Brinkley

Book Review: "Sound Kapital"
Liu Liu
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Book Review: "Sound Kapital"

Beijing’s Music Underground. By photographer Matthew Niederhauser ’05CC

Book Review: "No Enchanted Palace"
"No Enchanted Palace" by Mark Mazower
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Book Review: "No Enchanted Palace"

The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations. By Mark Mazower

Book Review: "Wrestling with Moses"
"Wrestling with Moses" by Anthony Flint
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Book Review: "Wrestling with Moses"

How Jane Jacobs Took on New York’s Master Builder and Transformed the American City. By Anthony Flint '85JRN

Book Review: "Koestler"
Arthur Koestler
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Book Review: "Koestler"

The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic. By Michael Scammell '85GSAS

Book Review: "Asylum"
Photo by Christopher Payne of a patient ward in Buffalo State Hospital
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Book Review: "Asylum"

Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals. Photographs by Christopher Payne '90CC with an essay by Oliver Sacks

Review: "Leisureville"
"Leisureville" by Andrew D. Blechman
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Review: "Leisureville"

Adventures in America's Retirement Utopias, by Andrew D. Blechman '93JRN

Review: "Sweet Land of Liberty"
Cover of Sweet Land of Liberty by Thomas J. Sugrue
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Review: "Sweet Land of Liberty"

The Forgotten Struggle of Civil Rights in the North, by Thomas J. Sugrue '84CC

Review: "Our Lincoln"
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Review: "Our Lincoln"

New Perspectives on Lincoln and his World, edited by Eric Foner '63CC, '69GSAS

Review: "The Street Stops Here"
Cover of The Street Stops Here: A Year at a Catholic High School in Harlem by Patrick J. McCloskey
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Review: "The Street Stops Here"

A Year at a Catholic High School in Harlem, by Patrick J. McCloskey '98JRN

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