Columbia University Press imprint: 2220 books
The Return of Bipolarity in World Politics
China, the United States, and Geostructural Realism
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the international system has been unipolar, centered on the United States. But the rise of China foreshadows a change in the distribution of power. Øystein Tunsjø shows that the international system is moving toward a U.S.-China standoff, bringing us back...
Globalized Arts
The Entertainment Economy and Cultural Identity
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Our interactive world can take a creative product, such as a Hollywood film, Bollywood song, or Latin American telenovela, and transform it into a source of cultural anxiety. What does this artwork say about the artist or the world she works in? How will these artworks evolve in the global market?...
International Trade and Labor Standards
A Proposal for Linkage
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2008
Progressive governments in poor countries fear that if they undertake measures to enhance real wages and working conditions, rising labor costs would cause wealthier countries to import from and invest elsewhere. Yet if the world trading system were designed to facilitate or even reward measures to...
The Fracking Debate
The Risks, Benefits, and Uncertainties of the Shale Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Over roughly the past decade, oil and gas production in the United States has surged dramatically—thanks largely to technological advances such as high-volume hydraulic fracturing, more commonly known as “fracking.” This rapid increase has generated widespread debate, with proponents touting...
Green Innovation in China
China's Wind Power Industry and the Global Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
As the greatest coal-producing and consuming nation in the world, China would seem an unlikely haven for wind power. Yet the country now boasts a world-class industry that promises to make low-carbon technology more affordable and available to all. Conducting an empirical study of China's remarkable...
Work and the Workplace
A Resource for Innovative Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2005
For more than twenty years Sheila H. Akabas and Paul A. Kurzman have written extensively about workers and work organizations, and given leadership to the occupational social welfare movement worldwide. Recognized as leaders in their field, Akabas and Kurzman offer an invaluable and comprehensive...
Reforming Democracies
Six Facts About Politics That Demand a New Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Even well-established democracies need reform, and any successful effort to reform democracies must look beyond conventional institutions—elections, political parties, special interests, legislatures and their relations with chief executives—to do so.
Expanding a traditional vision of the...
by Xiu Ouyang
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2004
Only fragments of historical text from China's middle period have been translated into English, until now. Here at last is the first major Chinese historical work from the Song dynasty. Written by Ouyang Xiu, an intellectual giant of the eleventh century, this is a history of the preceding century...
by Michael Weinstein, Ralph Bradburd
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
The Robin Hood Foundation is a charitable organization focused on alleviating poverty in New York City. Michael M. Weinstein is the foundation's senior vice president. In that role he developed its metrics-based approach, called "relentless monetization," to ensure that the money the foundation...
Reworking Race
The Making of Hawaii's Interracial Labor Movement
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
In the middle decades of the twentieth century, Hawai'i changed rapidly from a conservative oligarchy firmly controlled by a Euro-American elite to arguably the most progressive part of the United States. Spearheading the shift, tens of thousands of sugar, pineapple, and longshore workers eagerly...
The Chautauqua Moment
Protestants, Progressives, and the Culture of Modern Liberalism, 1874-1920
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2003
This book traces the rise and decline of what Theodore Roosevelt once called the "most American thing in America." The Chautauqua movement began in 1874 on the shores of Chautauqua Lake in western New York. More than a college or a summer resort or a religious assembly, it was a composite...
Food, Medicine, and the Quest for Good Health
Nutrition, Medicine, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
What we eat, how we eat, where we eat, and when we eat are deeply embedded cultural practices. Eating is also related to how we medicate. The multimillion-dollar diet industry offers advice on how to eat for a better body and longer life, and avoiding harmful foods (or choosing healthy ones) is considered...
by Harold Brookfield
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2001
Small farmers are often viewed as engaging in wasteful practices that wreak ecological havoc. Exploring Agrodiversity sets the record straight: Small farmers are in fact ingenious and inventive and engage in a diverse range of land-management strategies, many of them resourcefully geared toward conserving...
The Cutting Edge
Conserving Wildlife in Logged Tropical Forests
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2001
Recent decades have seen unprecedented growth in the scale and intensity of industrial forestry. Directly and indirectly, it has degraded the wildlife and ecological integrity of these tropical forests, prompting a need to evaluate the impact of current forest management practices and reconsider how...