Columbia Press: 2357 books
Conquering Lyme Disease
Science Bridges the Great Divide
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne illness in the United States, with more than 300,000 cases diagnosed each year. However, doctors are deeply divided on how to diagnose and treat it, giving rise to the controversy known as the “Lyme Wars.” Firmly entrenched camps have emerged, causing...
Journalism Under Fire
Protecting the Future of Investigative Reporting
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
A healthy democracy requires vigorous, uncompromising investigative journalism. But today the free press faces a daunting set of challenges: in the face of harsh criticism from powerful politicians and the threat of lawsuits from wealthy individuals, media institutions are confronted by an uncertain...
Strategic Intuition
The Creative Spark in Human Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
How "Aha!" really happens.
When do you get your best ideas? You probably answer "At night," or "In the shower," or "Stuck in traffic." You get a flash of insight. Things come together in your mind. You connect the dots. You say to yourself, "Aha!...
Buddhism and Medicine
An Anthology of Premodern Sources
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
From its earliest days, Buddhism has been closely intertwined with medicine. Buddhism and Medicine is a singular collection showcasing the generative relationship and mutual influence between these fields across premodern Asia. The anthology combines dozens of English-language translations of premodern...
The Bhāgavata Purāna
Selected Readings
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Formalized by the tenth century, the expansive Bhagavata Purana resists easy categorization. While the narrative holds together as a coherent literary work, its language and expression compete with the best of Sanskrit poetry. The text's theological message focuses on devotion to Krishna or Vishnu,...
Voices of Revolution
The Dissident Press in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2001
Streitmatter tells the stories of dissident American publications and press movements of the last two centuries, and of the colorful individuals behind them. From publications that fought for the disenfranchised to those that promoted social reform, Voices of Revolution examines the abolitionist and...
Wrestling with the Muse
Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2004
And as I groped in darkness
and felt the pain of millions,
gradually, like day driving night across the continent,
I saw dawn upon them like the sun a vision.
—Dudley Randall, from "Roses and Revolutions"
In 1963, the African American poet Dudley Randall...
CBS’s Don Hollenbeck
An Honest Reporter in the Age of McCarthyism
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2008
Loren Ghiglione recounts the fascinating life and tragic suicide of Don Hollenbeck, the controversial newscaster who became a primary target of McCarthyism's smear tactics. Drawing on unsealed FBI records, private family correspondence, and interviews with Walter Cronkite, Mike Wallace, Charles Collingwood,...
by Audrey Altstadt
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Frustrated Democracy in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan follows a newly independent oil-rich former Soviet republic as it adopts a Western model of democratic government and then turns toward corrupt authoritarianism. Audrey L. Altstadt begins with the Nagorno-Karabagh War (1988–1994) which triggered Azerbaijani...
The Watchdog That Didn’t Bark
The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
In this sweeping, incisive post mortem, Dean Starkman exposes the critical shortcomings that softened coverage in the business press during the mortgage era and the years leading up to the financial collapse of 2008. He locates the roots of the problem in the origin of business news as a market messaging...
by Thomas Doherty
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Between 1933 and 1939, representations of the Nazis and the full meaning of Nazism came slowly to Hollywood, growing more ominous and distinct only as the decade wore on. Recapturing what ordinary Americans saw on the screen during the emerging Nazi threat, Thomas Doherty reclaims forgotten films,...
Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-garde
War, Civilization, Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2006
Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde traces the dynamic emergence of Woolf's art and thought against Bloomsbury's public thinking about Europe's future in a period marked by two world wars and rising threats of totalitarianism. Educated informally in her father's library and in Bloomsbury's...
Carceral Fantasies
Cinema and Prison in Early Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
A groundbreaking contribution to the study of nontheatrical film exhibition, Carceral Fantasies tells the little-known story of how cinema found a home in the U.S. penitentiary system and how the prison emerged as a setting and narrative trope in modern cinema. Focusing on films shown in prisons before...
Deciding What’s True
The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Over the past decade, American outlets such as PolitiFact, FactCheck.org, and the Washington Post's Fact Checker have shaken up the political world by holding public figures accountable for what they say. Cited across social and national news media, these verdicts can rattle a political campaign and...