Columbia Global Reports: 18 books
Outpatients
The Astonishing New World of Medical Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Today more people travel to Hungary for dental care than to any other country in Europe. The fascinating story of how Hungary became Europe's dental chair is a case study in medical tourism, which has become a growing multi-billion-dollar industry - exploding in places as varied as India, Brazil,...
The Chibok Girls
The Boko Haram Kidnappings and Islamist Militancy in Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
On the night of April 14, 2014, 276 girls from the Chibok Secondary School in northern Nigeria were kidnapped by Boko Haram, the world's deadliest terrorist group.
Fifty-seven of them escaped over the next few months, but most were never heard from again.
Acclaimed novelist Helon Habila,...
The Nationalist Revival
Trade, Immigration, and the Revolt Against Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Why Has Nationalism Come Roaring Back?
Trump in America, Brexit in the U.K., anti-EU parties in Italy, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, and Hungary, and nativist or authoritarian leaders in Turkey, Russia, India, and China -- Why has nationalism suddenly returned with a vengeance?...
We Want to Negotiate
The Secret World of Kidnapping, Hostages and Ransom
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Starting in late 2012, Westerners working in Syria -- journalists and aid workers -- began disappearing without a trace. A year later the world learned they had been taken hostage by the Islamic State. Throughout 2014, all the Europeans came home, first the Spanish, then the French, then an Italian,...
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