Columbia Press: 2357 books
Active Social Capital
Tracing the Roots of Development and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2002
The idea of social capital allows scholars to assess the quality of relationships among people within a particular community and show how that quality affects the ability to achieve shared goals. With evidence collected from sixty-nine villages in India, Krishna investigates what social capital is,...
Nagarjuna in Context
Mahayana Buddhism and Early Indian Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2005
Joseph Walser provides the first examination of Nagarjuna's life and writings in the context of the religious and monastic debates of the second century CE. Walser explores how Nagarjuna secured the canonical authority of Mahayana teachings and considers his use of rhetoric to ensure the transmission...
by Eric Maskin, Amartya Sen
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Kenneth J. Arrow's pathbreaking "impossibility theorem" was a watershed innovation in the history of welfare economics, voting theory, and collective choice, demonstrating that there is no voting rule that satisfies the four desirable axioms of decisiveness, consensus, nondictatorship, and...
NGOs as Newsmakers
The Changing Landscape of International News
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
As traditional news outlets’ international coverage has waned, several prominent nongovernmental organizations have taken on a growing number of seemingly journalistic functions. Groups such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Médecins Sans Frontières send reporters to gather information...
The Power of the Internet in China
Citizen Activism Online
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2009
Since the mid-1990s, the Internet has revolutionized popular expression in China, enabling users to organize, protest, and influence public opinion in unprecedented ways. Guobin Yang's pioneering study maps an innovative range of contentious forms and practices linked to Chinese cyberspace, delineating...
Contesting Cyberspace in China
Online Expression and Authoritarian Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
The Internet was supposed to be an antidote to authoritarianism. It can enable citizens to express themselves freely and organize outside state control. Yet while online activity has helped challenge authoritarian rule in some cases, other regimes have endured: no movement comparable to the Arab Spring...
Strong Society, Smart State
The Rise of Public Opinion in China's Japan Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
The rise and influence of public opinion on Chinese foreign policy reveals a remarkable evolution in authoritarian responses to social turmoil. James Reilly shows how Chinese leaders have responded to popular demands for political participation with a sophisticated strategy of tolerance, responsiveness,...
More Than You Know
Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places (Updated and Expanded)
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
Since its first publication, Michael J. Mauboussin's popular guide to wise investing has been translated into eight languages and has been named best business book by BusinessWeek and best economics book by Strategy+Business. Now updated to reflect current research and expanded to include new chapters...
The Greening of Asia
The Business Case for Solving Asia's Environmental Emergency
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
One of Asia's best-respected writers on business and economy, Hong Kong-based author Mark L. Clifford provides a behind-the-scenes look at what companies in China, India, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Thailand are doing to build businesses that will lessen the...
Post-Soviet Russia
A Journey Through the Yeltsin Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2000
Roy Medvedev, one of the world's best-known Russian scholars and a former consultant to both Gorbachev and Yeltsin analyzes the main events that have transpired in the Russian federation since late August 1991. He looks at the plans that were meant to restructure a society in crisis but—for reasons...
Humanity's Footprint
Momentum, Impact, and Our Global Environment
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2008
For the first time in history, humans have exceeded the sustaining capacity of Earth's global ecosystems. Our expanding footprint has tremendous momentum, and the insidious explosion of human impact creates a shockwave that threatens ecosystems worldwide for decades-possibly centuries.
Walter...
A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age
Scientific Habits of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
We live in the Information Age, with billions of bytes of data just two swipes away. Yet how much of this is mis- or even disinformation? A lot of it is, and your search engine can't tell the difference. As a result, an avalanche of misinformation threatens to overwhelm the discourse we so desperately...
Environment, Power, and Society for the Twenty-First Century
The Hierarchy of Energy
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2007
Howard T. Odum possessed one of the most innovative minds of the twentieth century. He pioneered the fields of ecological engineering, ecological economics, and environmental accounting, working throughout his life to better understand the interrelationships of energy, environment, and society and...
Human Behavior and Social Environments
A Biopsychosocial Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2001
Human behavior is a subject so vast that it would seem to defy one's ability to comfortably and confidently grasp its varieties, nuances, shapes, and dynamics. But in this wide-ranging and comprehensive survey of the contexts of human behavior, Dennis Saleebey examines the different social science...