Columbia University Press imprint: 2220 books
Moving Data
The iPhone and the Future of Media
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The iPhone has revolutionized not only how people communicate but also how we consume and produce culture. Combining traditional and social media with mobile connectivity, smartphones have redefined and expanded the dimensions of everyday life, allowing individuals to personalize media as they move...
The Conflicted Superpower
America’s Collaboration with China and India in Global Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
For decades, leadership in technological innovation has sustained U.S. power worldwide. Today, however, processes that undergird innovation increasingly transcend national borders. Cross-border flows of brainpower have reached unprecedented heights, while multinationals invest more and more in high-tech...
Creditworthy
A History of Consumer Surveillance and Financial Identity in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
The first consumer credit bureaus appeared in the 1870s and quickly amassed huge archives of deeply personal information. Today, the three leading credit bureaus are among the most powerful institutions in modern life—yet we know almost nothing about them. Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion are multi-billion-dollar...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
The economy of India is growing at a rate of 8 percent per year, and its exports of goods and services have more than doubled in the past three years. Considering these trends, economists, scholars, and political leaders across the globe are beginning to wonder whether India's growth can be sustained.
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The Animal Rights Debate
Abolition or Regulation?
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Gary L. Francione is a law professor and leading philosopher of animal rights theory. Robert Garner is a political theorist specializing in the philosophy and politics of animal protection. Francione maintains that we have no moral justification for using nonhumans and argues that because animals...
From Head Shops to Whole Foods
The Rise and Fall of Activist Entrepreneurs
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
In the 1960s and ’70s, a diverse range of storefronts—including head shops, African American bookstores, feminist businesses, and organic grocers—brought the work of the New Left, Black Power, feminism, environmentalism, and other movements into the marketplace. Through shared ownership, limited...
Our Forest, Your Ecosystem, Their Timber
Communities, Conservation, and the State in Community-Based Forest Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Community-based forest management (CBFM) is a model of forest management in which a community takes part in decision making and implementation, and monitoring of activities affecting the natural resources around them. CBFM provides a framework for a community members to secure access to the products...
People, Plants, and Justice
The Politics of Nature Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2000
In an era of market triumphalism, this book probes the social and environmental consequences of market-linked nature conservation schemes. Rather than supporting a new anti-market orthodoxy, Charles Zerner and colleagues assert that there is no universal entity, "the market." Analysis and...
Getting Biodiversity Projects to Work
Towards More Effective Conservation and Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2004
This book explores both the theoretical and practical underpinnings of integrated conservation and development. It synthesizes existing experience to better inform conservationists and decision makers of the role ICDPs play in conservation and management and analyzes their successes and shortcomings.
by Douglas Jamison, Stephen Waite
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Over the past decade, software companies have increasingly monopolized the flow of venture capital, starving support for scientific research and its transformative discoveries. New medicines, cheaper and faster personal computers, and other life-changing developments all stem from investment in science....
Governance Without a State?
Policies and Politics in Areas of Limited Statehood
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Governance discourse centers on an "ideal type" of modern statehood that exhibits full internal and external sovereignty and a legitimate monopoly on the use of force. Yet modern statehood is an anomaly, both historically and within the contemporary international system, while the condition...
by Moura Quayle
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Great leaders aspire to manage “by design”—with a sense of purpose and foresight. But too few leaders incorporate the proven practices and principles of the design disciplines. Lessons learned from the world of design, when applied to management, can turn leaders into collaborative, creative,...
The President and His Inner Circle
Leadership Style and the Advisory Process in Foreign Policy Making
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2001
Few would argue that presidential policies and performance would have been the same whether John F. Kennedy or Richard Nixon became president in 1960, or if Jimmy Carter instead of Ronald Reagan had won the White House in 1980. Indeed, in recent elections, the character, prior policy experience, or...
Medieval Tastes
Food, Cooking, and the Table
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
In his new history of food, acclaimed historian Massimo Montanari traces the development of medieval tastes—both culinary and cultural—from raw materials to market and captures their reflections in today's food trends. Tying the ingredients of our diet evolution to the growth of human civilization,...