Columbia University Press: 2355 books
Women and the U.S. Constitution
History, Interpretation, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2004
Women and the U.S. Constitution is about much more than the nineteenth amendment. This provocative volume incorporates law, history, political theory, and philosophy to analyze the U.S. Constitution as a whole in relation to the rights and fate of women. Divided into three parts—History, Interpretation,...
Shifting Sands
The United States in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Joel S. Migdal revisits the approach U.S. officials have adopted toward the Middle East since World War II, which paid scant attention to tectonic shifts in the region. After the war, the United States did not restrict its strategic model to the Middle East. Beginning with Harry S. Truman, American...
Kinship with Monkeys
The Guajá Foragers of Eastern Amazonia
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2003
Intrigued by a slide showing a woman breast-feeding a monkey, anthropologist Loretta A. Cormier spent fifteen months living among the Guajá, a foraging people in a remote area of Brazil. The result is this ethnographic study of the extraordinary relationship between the Guajá Indians and monkeys....
Time and Complexity in Historical Ecology
Studies in the Neotropical Lowlands
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2006
This collection of studies by anthropologists, botanists, ecologists, and biologists is an important contribution to the emerging field of historical ecology. The book combines cutting-edge research with new perspectives to emphasize the close relationship between humans and their natural environment.
Contributors...
by Steven Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2001
The most significant shift in environmental governance over the last thirty years has been the convergence of environmental and liberal economic norms toward "liberal environmentalism"—which predicates environmental protection on the promotion and maintenance of a liberal economic order....
International Express
New Yorkers on the 7 Train
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Nicknamed the International Express, the New York City Transit Authority 7 subway line runs through a highly diverse series of ethnic and immigrant neighborhoods in Queens. People from Andean South America, Central America, China, India, Italy, Korea, Mexico, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, and Vietnam,...
Zoographies
The Question of the Animal from Heidegger to Derrida
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
Zoographies challenges the anthropocentrism of the Continental philosophical tradition and advances the position that, while some distinctions are valid, humans and animals are best viewed as part of an ontological whole. Matthew Calarco draws on ethological and evolutionary evidence and the work...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2010
Normativity concerns what we ought to think or do and the evaluations we make. For example, we say that we ought to think consistently, we ought to keep our promises, or that Mozart is a better composer than Salieri. Yet what philosophical moral can we draw from the apparent absence of normativity...
On the Parole Board
Reflections on Crime, Punishment, Redemption, and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Few people experience life inside of prison. Even fewer are charged with the formidable responsibility of deciding whether inmates should be released. In his twenty-four years on the Rhode Island Parole Board, Frederic G. Reamer has judged the fates of thousands of inmates, deciding which are ready...
Craving Earth
Understanding Pica—the Urge to Eat Clay, Starch, Ice, and Chalk
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
Humans have eaten earth, on purpose, for more than 2,300 years. They also crave starch, ice, chalk, and other unorthodox items of food. Some even claim they are addicted and "go crazy" without these items, but why?
Sifting through extensive historical, ethnographic, and biomedical...
Nature's Pharmacopeia
A World of Medicinal Plants
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
This beautifully illustrated, elegantly written textbook pairs the best research on the biochemical properties and physiological effects of medicinal plants with a fascinating history of their use throughout human civilization, revealing the influence of nature's pharmacopeia on art, war, conquest,...
Toxic Exposures
Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2007
The increase in environmentally induced diseases and the loosening of regulation and safety measures have inspired a massive challenge to established ways of looking at health and the environment. Communities with disease clusters, women facing a growing breast cancer incidence rate, and people of...
Toxic Safety
Flame Retardants, Chemical Controversies, and Environmental Health
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Initially marketed as a life-saving advancement, flame retardants are now mired in controversy. Some argue that data show the chemicals are unsafe while others continue to support their use. The tactics of each side have far-reaching consequences for how we interpret new scientific discoveries.
An...
The Five Horsemen of the Modern World
Climate, Food, Water, Disease, and Obesity
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
In recent decades, we have seen five perilous and interlocking trends dominate global discourse: irreversible climate change, extreme food and water shortages, rising chronic illnesses, and rampant obesity. Why can't we make any progress in counteracting these problems despite vast expenditures of...