Columbia University Press: 2355 books
Truth, Errors, and Lies
Politics and Economics in a Volatile World
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
Grzegorz W. Kolodko, one of the world's leading authorities on economics and development policy and a key architect of Poland's successful economic reforms, applies his far-reaching knowledge to the past and future of the world economy, introducing a framework for understanding our global situation...
The Wrath of Capital
Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Although climate change has become the dominant concern of the twenty-first century, global powers refuse to implement the changes necessary to reverse these trends. Instead, they have neoliberalized nature and climate change politics and discourse, and there are indications of a more virulent strain...
Learn or Die
Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
To compete with today's increasing globalization and rapidly evolving technologies, individuals and organizations must take their ability to learn—the foundation for continuous improvement, operational excellence, and innovation—to a much higher level. In Learn or Die, Edward D. Hess combines...
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Using In-Depth Personality Assessment to Predict Leadership Performance
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Leslie S. Pratch is a practicing psychologist who focuses on assessing and coaching executives who occupy or are candidates for top positions in business organizations. In this book, she shares insights from more than twenty years of executive evaluations and offers an empirical method of identifying...
by José Scheinkman
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
As long as there have been financial markets, there have been bubbles—those moments in which asset prices inflate far beyond their intrinsic value, often with ruinous results. Yet economists are slow to agree on the underlying forces behind these events. In this book José A. Scheinkman offers new...
Life at the Zoo
Behind the Scenes with the Animal Doctors
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2004
Please Do Not Annoy, torment, pester, plague, molest, worry, badger, harry, persecute, irk, bullyrag, vex, disquiet, grate, beset, bother, tease, nettle, tantalize or ruffle the Animals.—sign at zoo
Since the early days of traveling menageries and staged attractions that included animal acts,...
by Tren Griffin
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs shows how the insights of leading venture capitalists can teach readers to create a unique approach to building a successful business. Through profiles and interviews of figures such as Bill Gurley of Benchmark Capital, Marc Andreesen and Ben Horowitz of Andreesen...
The Art of War
Sun Zi's Military Methods
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2007
Compiled during the Warring States period of 475-221 B.C.E., The Art of War has had an enormous impact on the development of Chinese military strategy over the past two thousand years and occupies an important place in East Asian intellectual history. It is the first known attempt to formulate a rational...
Han Feizi
Basic Writings
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2003
Trenchant, sophisticated, and cynical, Han Feizi has been read in every age and is still of interest today when people are more than ever concerned with the nature and use of power. Han Feizi (280?-233 B.C.), a prince of Han, was a representative of the Fa-chia, or Legalist, school of philosophy and...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
Compiled by scholars at the court of Liu An, king of Huainan, in the second century B.C.E, The Huainanzi is a tightly organized, sophisticated articulation of Western Han philosophy and statecraft. Outlining "all that a modern monarch needs to know," the text emphasizes rigorous self-cultivation...
Xunzi
Basic Writings
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2003
Xunzi asserted that the original nature of man is evil, differing on this point from Mencius, his famous predecessor in the Confucian school. In the most complete, well-ordered philosophical system of his day, Xunzi advocated the counteraction of man's evil through self-improvement, the pursuit of...
The Dao of the Military
Liu An's Art of War
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Master Sun's The Art of War is by no means the only ancient Chinese treatise on military affairs. One chapter in the Huainanzi, an important compendium of philosophy and political theory written in the second century BCE, synthesizes the entire corpus of military literature inherited from the Chinese...
Time and the Generations
Population Ethics for a Diminishing Planet
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
How should we evaluate the ethics of procreation, especially the environmental consequences of reproductive decisions on future generations, in a resource-constrained world? While demographers, moral philosophers, and environmental scientists have separately discussed the implications of population...
Human Services Management
Organizational Leadership in Social Work Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2002
Human services management occurs in nonprofit, governmental, and for-profit sectors and involves a wide variety of organizational structures. These diverse conditions shape the effort to produce and project services that directly affect the quality of life of individuals, families, and communities...