Columbia University Press imprint: 2220 books
by Joshua Miller, , Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Disaster responders treat more than just the immediate emotional and psychological trauma of victims: they empower individuals and families to heal themselves long into a disaster's aftermath. This requires helping survivors to rebuild their ability to meet their emotional and psychological needs,...
Book of Value
The Fine Art of Investing Wisely
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Financial markets are noisy and full of half-baked opinions, innuendo, and misinformation. With deep insights about investor psychology, Book of Value shows how to apply tools of business analysis to sort through the deceptions and self-deceptions in financial markets. Anurag Sharma joins philosophy...
This Place, These People
Life and Shadow on the Great Plains
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
The numbers of farms and farmers on the Great Plains are dwindling. Disappearing even faster are the farm places—the houses, barns, and outbuildings that made the rural landscape a place of habitation. Nancy Warner's photographs tell the stories of buildings that were once loved yet have now been...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
Community groups and human service organizations are under a tremendous amount of pressure to strengthen their programs and measure the effectiveness of their work. These challenges have prompted many to seek consultation and technical assistance in order to better plan, develop, and evaluate their...
Meeting with My Brother
A Novella
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Yi Mun-yol's Meeting with My Brother is narrated by a middle-aged South Korean professor, also named Yi, whose father abandoned his family and defected to the North at the outbreak of the Korean War. Many years later, despite having spent most of his life under a cloud of suspicion as the son of a...
Fountain House
Creating Community in Mental Health Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Often people with mental illness feel alone in society, with no place to go and little hope. Their isolation can be further perpetuated through typical approaches to treatment, such as case management and psychotherapy.
Since 1948, the Fountain House "working community" has worked...
by Frederic G. Reamer
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
For more than a decade, teachers and practitioners have turned to Frederic G. Reamer's Social Work Values and Ethics for its comprehensive introduction to ethical decision making and practical guidance regarding professional misconduct. This new edition incorporates the legal and technological realities...
Change Research
A Case Study on Collaborative Methods for Social Workers and Advocates
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Collaborating with community members adds a critical dimension to social work research, providing practitioners with intimate knowledge of a community's goals and needs while equipping community advocates with vital skills for social change. Sharing the inspiring story of one such partnership, Corey...
Bomb Scare
The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2007
Since their inception, nuclear weapons have multiplied at an alarming rate, leaving everyone from policymakers to concerned citizens wondering what it will take to slow, stop, or even reverse their spread. With clarity and expertise, Joseph Cirincione presents an even-handed look at the history of...
Me Medicine vs. We Medicine
Reclaiming Biotechnology for the Common Good
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Personalized healthcare—or what the award-winning author Donna Dickenson calls "Me Medicine"—is radically transforming our longstanding "one-size-fits-all" model. Technologies such as direct-to-consumer genetic testing, pharmacogenetically developed therapies in cancer care,...
Security and Profit in China’s Energy Policy
Hedging Against Risk
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
China has developed sophisticated hedging strategies to insure against risks in the international petroleum market. It has managed a growing net oil import gap and supply disruptions by maintaining a favorable energy mix, pursuing overseas equity oil production, building a state-owned tanker fleet...
by Nicole Chareyron
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2005
"Every man who undertakes the journey to the Our Lord's Sepulcher needs three sacks: a sack of patience, a sack of silver, and a sack of faith."—Symon Semeonis, an Irish medieval pilgrim
As medieval pilgrims made their way to the places where Jesus Christ lived and suffered, they...
Health at Risk
America's Ailing Health System—and How to Heal It
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2008
In this volume, the nation's leading advisors on health policy and financing appraise America's ailing healthcare system and suggest reasonable approaches to its rehabilitation. Each chapter confronts a major challenge to the country's health security, from runaway costs and uneven quality of care...
Nuclear Nightmares
Securing the World Before It Is Too Late
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
There is a high risk that someone will use, by accident or design, one or more of the 17,000 nuclear weapons in the world today. Many thought such threats ended with the Cold War or that current policies can prevent or contain nuclear disaster. They are dead wrong—these weapons, possessed by states...