Columbia Press: 2357 books
Sports Analytics
A Guide for Coaches, Managers, and Other Decision Makers
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Benjamin C. Alamar founded the first journal dedicated to sports statistics, the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports. He developed and teaches a class on sports analytics for managers at the University of San Francisco and has published numerous cutting-edge studies on strategy and player evaluation....
Reds at the Blackboard
Communism, Civil Rights, and the New York City Teachers Union
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
The New York City Teachers Union shares a deep history with the American left, having participated in some of its most explosive battles. Established in 1916, the union maintained an early, unofficial partnership with the American Communist Party, winning key union positions and advocating a number...
Decision Cases for Advanced Social Work Practice
Confronting Complexity
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
These fifteen cases take place in child welfare, mental health, hospital, hospice, domestic violence, refugee resettlement, veterans' administration, and school settings and reflect individual, family, group, and supervised social work practice. They confront common ethical and treatment issues and...
Lines of the Nation
Indian Railway Workers, Bureaucracy, and the Intimate Historical Self
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2007
Lines of the Nation radically recasts the history of the Indian railways, which have long been regarded as vectors of modernity and economic prosperity. From the design of carriages to the architecture of stations, employment hierarchies, and the construction of employee housing, Laura Bear explores...
Marching Through Suffering
Loss and Survival in North Korea
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Marching Through Suffering is a deeply personal portrait of the ravages of famine and totalitarian politics in modern North Korea since the 1990s. Featuring interviews with more than thirty North Koreans who defected to Seoul and Tokyo, the book explores the subjective experience of the nation's famine...
by Danielle Chubb
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
In South Korea, the contentious debate over relations with the North transcends traditional considerations of physical and economic security, and political activists play a critical role in shaping the discussion of these issues as they pursue the separate yet connected agendas of democracy, human...
Centrifugal Empire
Central–Local Relations in China
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Despite the destabilizing potential of governing of a vast territory and a large multicultural population, the centralized government of the People's Republic of China has held together for decades, resisting efforts at local autonomy. By analyzing Beijing's strategies for maintaining control even...
Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes
Sovereignty, Justice, and Transcultural Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
How did American schoolchildren, French philosophers, Russian Sinologists, Dutch merchants, and British lawyers imagine China and Chinese law? What happened when agents of presumably dominant Western empires had to endure the humiliations and anxieties of maintaining a profitable but precarious relationship...
Sewing Women
Immigrants and the New York City Garment Industry
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2005
Many Latino and Chinese women who immigrated to New York City over the past several decades found work in the garment industry-an industry well known for both hiring immigrants and its harsh working conditions. In the 1990s, the garment industry was one of the largest immigrant employers in New York...
Calypso Jews
Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
In original and insightful ways, Caribbean writers have turned to Jewish experiences of exodus and reinvention, from the Sephardim expelled from Iberia in the 1490s to the "Calypso Jews" who fled Europe for Trinidad in the 1930s. Examining these historical migrations through the lens of...
The Capitalist Unconscious
From Korean Unification to Transnational Korea
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The unification of North and South Korea is widely considered an unresolved and volatile matter for the global order, but this book argues capital has already unified Korea in a transnational form. As Hyun Ok Park demonstrates, rather than territorial integration and family union, the capitalist unconscious...
The Liberal State on Trial
The Cold War and American Politics in the Truman Years
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
What was left, in both senses of the word, of liberalism after the death of Franklin Roosevelt? This question has aroused considerable historical debate because it raises the question of why the United States, during the Truman years, developed a much less state-centered orthodoxy than other comparable,...
New York’s Yiddish Theater
From the Bowery to Broadway
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
In the early decades of the twentieth century, a vibrant theatrical culture took shape on New York City's Lower East Side. Original dramas, comedies, musicals, and vaudeville, along with sophisticated productions of Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Chekhov, were innovatively staged for crowds that rivaled...
Upsetting the Apple Cart
Black-Latino Coalitions in New York City from Protest to Public Office
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Upsetting the Apple Cart surveys the history of black-Latino coalitions in New York City from 1959 to 1989. In those years, African American and Latino Progressives organized, mobilized, and transformed neighborhoods, workplaces, university campuses, and representative government in the nation's urban...