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New Book Tuesday! Le Boogie Woogie, Your Sons Are at Your Service, and more!
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From The Cosmopolitan Life series
Le Boogie Woogie
Inside an After-Hours Club
Terry Williams
The sociologist Terry Williams returns to the cocaine culture of Harlem in the 1980s and ’90s with an ethnographic account of a club he calls Le Boogie Woogie. He explores the life of a cast of characters that includes regulars and bar workers, dealers and hustlers, following social interaction around the club’s active bar.
From the Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare series
Your Sons Are at Your Service
Tunisia’s Missionaries of Jihad
Aaron Y. Zelin
Aaron Y. Zelin uncovers the history of Tunisian involvement in the jihadi movement and offers an in-depth examination of the reasons why so many Tunisians became drawn to jihadism following the 2011 revolution. Your Sons Are at Your Service is a meticulously researched account that challenges simplified views of jihadism’s appeal and success.
Sibling Action
The Genealogical Structure of Modernity
Stefani Engelstein
Stefani Engelstein argues that the sibling paradigm shaped the modern subject, life sciences, human sciences, and collective identities such as race, religion, and gender. Integrating close readings with panoramic intellectual history, Sibling Action presents a compelling new understanding of systems of knowledge.
New in Paper from Columbia Business School Publishing!
Big Money Thinks Small
Biases, Blind Spots, and Smarter Investing
Joel Tillinghast
In Big Money Thinks Small, veteran fund manager Joel Tillinghast offers a set of simple but crucial steps to successful investing. Tillinghast teaches readers how to learn from their mistakes—and his own, giving investors the tools to ask the right questions in any situation and to think objectively and generatively about portfolio management.
Class Clowns
How the Smartest Investors Lost Billions in Education
Jonathan A. Knee
In Class Clowns, professor and investment banker Jonathan A. Knee dissects what drives investors’ efforts to improve education and why they consistently fail. Knee offers an important guide for public policy makers and guardrails for future investors, as well as an intelligent exposé for activists and teachers frustrated with the repeated underperformance of these attempts to shake up education.
Berkshire Beyond Buffett
The Enduring Value of Values
Lawrence A. Cunningham
In a comprehensive portrait of the corporate culture that unites Berkshire’s subsidiaries, Lawrence A. Cunningham unearths the traits that assure the conglomerate’s continued prosperity. Riveting stories of each subsidiary’s origins, triumphs, and journey to Berkshire reveal how managers generate economic value from intangibles like thrift, integrity, entrepreneurship, autonomy, and a sense of permanence.
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