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Cornell University Press fosters a culture of broad and sustained inquiry through the publication of scholarship that is engaged, influential, and of lasting significance. Established in 1869 as the first American university press, the press embodies and advances Cornell University's core values by disseminating fundamental and practical knowledge, while commanding its own distinct editorial profile. The press, as part of a land-grant institution, is also dedicated to transforming research into publications that reach and benefit the wider public.
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Red Dynamite: Creationism, Culture Wars, and Anticommunism in America
(Cornell University Press, 2021-10-15)In Red Dynamite, Carl R. Weinberg argues that creationism's tenacious hold on American public life depended on culture-war politics inextricably embedded in religion. Many Christian conservatives were convinced that ... -
Phantom Billing, Fake Prescriptions, and the High Cost of Medicine: Health Care Fraud and What to Do about It
(Cornell University Press, 2011-04-15)U.S. health care is a 2.5 trillion dollar system that accounts for more than 17 percent of the nation’s GDP. It is also highly susceptible to fraud. Estimates vary, but some observers believe that as much as 10 percent of ... -
America's Disenfranchised: Why Restoring Their Vote Can Save the Soul of Our Democracy
(Cornell University Press, 2021-10-15)Voting is foundational in a democracy, yet over six million American citizens remain stripped of their ability to participate in elections. Once convicted of a felony, people who complete their sentences reenter society, ... -
Counterpreservation: Architectural Decay in Berlin since 1989
(Cornell University Press, 2016-12-15)In Berlin, decrepit structures do not always denote urban blight. Decayed buildings are incorporated into everyday life as residences, exhibition spaces, shops, offices, and as leisure space. As nodes of public dialogue, ... -
Mixed Feelings: Tropes of Love in German Jewish Culture
(Cornell University Press, 2016-12-15)Since the late eighteenth century, writers and thinkers have used the idea of love—often unrequited or impossible love—to comment on the changing cultural, social, and political position of Jews in the German-speaking ... -
Spatial Revolution: Architecture and Planning in the Early Soviet Union
(Cornell University Press, 2022-01-15)Spatial Revolution is the first comparative parallel study of Soviet architecture and planning to create a narrative arc across a vast geography. The narrative binds together three critical industrial-residential projects ... -
Thomas Mann's War: Literature, Politics, and the World Republic of Letters
(Cornell University Press, 2019-10-15)In Thomas Mann's War, Tobias Boes traces how the acclaimed and bestselling author became one of America's most prominent anti-fascists and the spokesperson for a German cultural ideal that Nazism had perverted. Thomas Mann, ... -
Repentance for the Holocaust: Lessons from Jewish Thought for Confronting the German Past
(Cornell University Press, 2017-08-15)In Repentance for the Holocaust, C. K. Martin Chung develops the biblical idea of “turning” (tshuvah) into a conceptual framework to analyze a particular area of contemporary German history, commonly referred to as ... -
Substantial Relations: Making Global Reproductive Medicine in Postcolonial India
(Cornell University Press, 2021-12-15)Substantial Relations examines global reproductive medicine in India, focusing on in vitro fertilization. Since the 1970s, India has played a central but changable role in shaping global reproductive medicine: from a ... -
Prescription for the People: An Activist’s Guide to Making Medicine Affordable for All
(Cornell University Press, 2017)In Prescription for the People, Fran Quigley diagnoses our inability to get medicines to the people who need them and then prescribes the cure. He delivers a clear and convincing argument for a complete shift in the global ...
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