Cornell University Press

06/05/2026

VITAL TIES depicts an emergent form of intimacy with the dead mediated by digital technologies.

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06/04/2026

In THE TRIUMPH OF CHRISTIANITY REDESCRIBED, Éric Rebillard argues that the appearance of Christian signs and practices in the Roman Empire has long been misunderstood.

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06/04/2026

RIGHTLESS RESISTANCE investigates why resistance to land grabbing so often fails.

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06/01/2026

THE HUMAN EDGE is a call to action for anyone who wants to lead—and not merely follow—using artificial intelligence (AI) to transform the way we make decisions.

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05/29/2026

HIGH LANDS, PURE EARTH foregrounds Tibetan experiences of urban transitions in China’s late-reform period.

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05/28/2026

Join us next Tuesday, June 2 for a discussion on "The Finnish Front Line" with author Gordon F. Sander and Consul General of Finland Jarmo Sareva! 🇫🇮📖

"The Finnish Front Line: Kekkonen, Kennedy, and Khrushchev’s Cold War Showdown" is a historical biography of Urho Kekkonen, the eighth and longest-serving president of Finland. The most controversial as well as the most misunderstood figure in Finnish history, Kekkonen governed Finland for 25 years from 1956–81.

Gordon F. Sander focuses on Kekkonen’s pivotal first term as president, which was bracketed by two crises that together formed the template for both Finland’s relationship with the Soviet Union from 1956 through the fall of the USSR, and Kekkonen’s own “special” relationship with Moscow: the Night Frost crisis of 1957, which derived from the Kremlin’s desire to exert greater influence on Finnish politics, and the Note Crisis of 1961, which coincided with the great Berlin crisis of 1961, and occurred when Moscow suddenly invoked the clause in the 1948 Finnish-Soviet treaty that entitled the Kremlin to call for mutual discussions between the Finnish and Soviet militaries and was perceived as a threat to Finnish independence. Thinking this might presage a Soviet invasion of Finland, a distressed Kekkonen was able to resolve the crisis by flying to Siberia to meet with his erstwhile friend Nikita Khrushchev—who may well have precipitated the crisis in order to insure Kekkonen’s reelection.

Out now from , "The Finnish Front Line" centers an overlooked chapter of the Cold War as well as a revealing if forgotten chapter of the presidency of John Kennedy and his secret offer to help Kekkonen, which the latter rejected, ultimately to avoid making Finland into next front of the Cold War.

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Gordon F. Sander and Consul General of Finland Jarmo Sareva discuss "The Finnish Front Line: Kekkonen, Kennedy and Kruschev's Cold War Showdown."

05/28/2026

ANXIOUS HOMES is a study of the power that shapes the forms of the homes Chinese citizens strive for and the possible paths they may take to realize their home ownership dreams.

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05/26/2026

PLUNKITT OF TAMMANY HALL, first published in 1905, provides an extraordinary account of the political corruption and profiteering of George Washington Plunkitt, a long-time district leader in the New York Democratic Party’s political machine in Manhattan.

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05/22/2026

THE SUDANS tells the story of the African Union’s efforts to make peace in the Sudans during the years 2009 to 2013.

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05/20/2026

TAKING TERRITORY is an eye-opening account of why territorial conquest remains a phenomenon today.

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