Columbia University Press: 2355 books
by Joan Wallach Scott
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Academic freedom rests on a shared belief that the production of knowledge advances the common good. In an era of education budget cuts, wealthy donors intervening in university decisions, and right-wing groups threatening dissenters, scholars cannot expect that those in power will value their work....
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Following the publication of C. S. Holling's seminal work on the relationship between animal body mass patterns and scale-specific landscape structure, ecologists began to explore the theoretical and applied consequences of discontinuities in ecosystems and other complex systems. Are ecosystems and...
by Celia Brickman
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
This textbook teaches the basics of French grammar, reinforcing its lessons with exercises and key practice translations. A systematic guide, the volume is a critical companion for university-level students learning to read and translate written French into English; for graduate scholars learning...
Against a Hindu God
Buddhist Philosophy of Religion in India
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2009
Philosophical arguments for and against the existence of God have been crucial to Euro-American and South Asian philosophers for over a millennium. Critical to the history of philosophy in India, were the centuries-long arguments between Buddhist and Hindu philosophers about the existence of a God-like...
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...
Workers, Unions, and Global Capitalism
Lessons from India
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
While it's easy to blame globalization for shrinking job opportunities, dangerous declines in labor standards, and a host of related discontents, the "flattening" of the world has also created unprecedented opportunities for worker organization. By expanding employment in developing countries,...
The Science of Chinese Buddhism
Early Twentieth-Century Engagements
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Kexue, or science, captured the Chinese imagination in the early twentieth century, promising new knowledge about the world and a dynamic path to prosperity. Chinese Buddhists embraced scientific language and ideas to carve out a place for their religion within a rapidly modernizing society.
Examining...
China's War on Smuggling
Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842–1965
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Smuggling along the Chinese coast has been a thorn in the side of many regimes. From opium and weapons concealed aboard foreign steamships in the Qing dynasty to nylon stockings and wristwatches trafficked in the People’s Republic, contests between state and smuggler have exerted a surprising but...
The Birth of Vietnamese Political Journalism
Saigon, 1916-1930
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Philippe M. F. Peycam completes the first ever English-language study of Vietnam's emerging political press and its resistance to colonialism. Published in the decade that preceded the Communist Party's founding, this journalistic phenomenon established a space for public, political contestation that...
Presidential Debates
Risky Business on the Campaign Trail
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Alan Schroeder's big-picture history recounts the phenomenon of American televised presidential debates and its evolution over the past half century. From pundits to political operatives, from debate moderators to the viewing public, Presidential Debates reveals how the various stakeholders make and...