Cornell University Press: 1150 books
Foreclosed
High-Risk Lending, Deregulation, and the Undermining of America's Mortgage Market
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
Over the last two years, the United States has observed, with some horror, the explosion and collapse of entire segments of the housing market, especially those driven by subprime and alternative or "exotic" home mortgage lending. The unfortunately timely Foreclosed explains the rise of high-risk...
What Universities Can Be
A New Model for Preparing Students for Active Concerned Citizenship and Ethical Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
In What Universities Can Be, the high-profile educator Robert J. Sternberg writes thoughtfully about the direction of higher education in this country and its potential to achieve future excellence. Sternberg presents, for the first time, his concept of the ACCEL model, in which institutions of higher...
Divided Highways
Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
"Anyone who has ever driven on a U.S. interstate highway or eaten at an exit-ramp McDonald’s will come away from this book with a better understanding of what makes modern America what it is." – Chicago Tribune
"A fascinating work... with a subject central to contemporary life but to which...
The Development Dance
How Donors and Recipients Negotiate the Delivery of Foreign Aid
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
In a book full of directly applicable lessons for policymakers, Haley J. Swedlund explores why foreign aid is delivered in different ways at different times, and why various approaches prove to be politically unsustainable. She finds that no aid-delivery mechanism has yet resolved commitment problems...
Qatar
Small State, Big Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Persian Gulf state of Qatar has fewer than 2 million inhabitants, virtually no potable water, and has been an independent nation only since 1971. Yet its enormous oil and gas wealth has permitted the ruling al Thani family to exert a disproportionately large influence on regional and even international...
Troubled Waters
Insecurity in the Persian Gulf
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Troubled Waters looks at four dynamics in the Persian Gulf that have contributed to making the region one of the most volatile and tension-filled spots in the world. Mehran Kamrava identifies the four dynamics as: the neglect of human dimensions of security, the inherent instability involved in reliance...
City Bound
How States Stifle Urban Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Many major American cities are defying the conventional wisdom that suburbs are the communities of the future. But as these urban centers prosper, they increasingly confront significant constraints. In City Bound, Gerald E. Frug and David J. Barron address these limits in a new way. Based on a study...
Gifts, Favors, and Banquets
The Art of Social Relationships in China
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
An elaborate and pervasive set of practices, called guanxi, underlies everyday social relationships in contemporary China. Obtaining and changing job assignments, buying certain foods and consumer items, getting into good hospitals, buying train tickets, obtaining housing, even doing business—all...
Reprogramming Japan
The High Tech Crisis under Communitarian Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
How have state policies influenced the development of Japan's telecommunications, computer hardware, computer software, and semiconductor industries and their stagnation since the 1990s? Marie Anchordoguy's book examines how the performance of these industries and the economy as a whole are affected...
A Liberal World Order in Crisis
Choosing between Imposition and Restraint
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The collapse of the bipolar international system near the end of the twentieth century changed political liberalism from a regional system with aspirations of universality to global ideological dominance as the basic vision of how international life should be organized. Yet in the last two decades...
by Jack Donnelly
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
In the third edition of his classic work, revised extensively and updated to include recent developments on the international scene, Jack Donnelly explains and defends a richly interdisciplinary account of human rights as universal rights. He shows that any conception of human rights-and the idea...
Taming the Disorderly City
The Spatial Landscape of Johannesburg after Apartheid
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
In postapartheid Johannesburg, tensions of race and class manifest themselves starkly in struggles over "rights to the city." Real-estate developers and the very poor fight for control of space as the municipal administration steps aside, almost powerless to shape the direction of change. Having ceded...
by William G. Tomek, Harry M. Kaiser
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Published continuously since 1972, Agricultural Product Prices has become the standard textbook and reference work for students in agricultural and applied economics, buyers and sellers of commodities, and policymakers, clearly explaining conceptual and empirical models applicable to agricultural...
Taming Tibet
Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The violent protests in Lhasa in 2008 against Chinese rule were met by disbelief and anger on the part of Chinese citizens and state authorities, perplexed by Tibetans' apparent ingratitude for the generous provision of development. In Taming Tibet, Emily T. Yeh examines how Chinese development projects...