Columbia University Press: 2355 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Global struggles over women's roles, rights, and dress increasingly cast the secular and the religious in tense if not violent opposition. When advocates for equality speak in terms of rights and modern progress, or reactionaries ground their authority in religious and scriptural appeals, both tend...
Catechizing Culture
Missionaries, Aymara, and the "New Evangelization"
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
Nearly five centuries after the first wave of Catholic missionaries arrived in the New World to spread their Christian message, contemporary religious workers in the Bolivian highlands have begun to encourage Aymara Indians to return to traditional ritual practices. All but eradicated after hundreds...
Transracial and Intercountry Adoptions
Cultural Guidance for Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
With essays by well-known adoption practitioners and researchers who source empirical research and practical knowledge, this volume addresses key developmental, cultural, health, and behavioral issues in the transracial and international adoption process and provides recommendations for avoiding fraud...
African American Children and Families in Child Welfare
Cultural Adaptation of Services
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
This text proposes corrective action to improve the institutional care of African American children and their families, calling attention to the specific needs of this population and the historical, social, and political factors that have shaped its experience within the child welfare system. The...
In Their Parents' Voices
Reflections on Raising Transracial Adoptees
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2007
Rita J. Simon and Rhonda M. Roorda's In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories shared the experiences of twenty-four black and biracial children who had been adopted into white families in the late 1960s and 70s. The book has since become a standard resource for families and practitioners,...
In Their Siblings’ Voices
White Non-Adopted Siblings Talk About Their Experiences Being Raised with Black and Biracial Brothers and Sisters
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2009
In Their Siblings' Voices shares the stories of twenty white non-adopted siblings who grew up with black or biracial brothers and sisters in the late 1960s and 1970s. Belonging to the same families profiled in Rita J. Simon and Rhonda M. Roorda's In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their...
by Mark Hamm, Ramón Spaaij
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
The lethality of lone-wolf terrorism has reached an all-time high in the United States. Isolated individuals using firearms with high-capacity magazines are committing brutally efficient killings with the aim of terrorizing others, yet there is little consensus on what connects these crimes and the...
Talking About Torture
How Political Discourse Shapes the Debate
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
When the photographs depicting torture at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison were released in 2004, U.S. politicians attributed the incident to a few bad apples in the American military, exonerated high-ranking members of the George W. Bush administration, promoted Guantánamo as a model prison, and dismissed...
Islam Through Western Eyes
From the Crusades to the War on Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Despite the West's growing involvement in Muslim societies, conflicts, and cultures, its inability to understand or analyze the Islamic world threatens any prospect for East–West rapprochement. Impelled by one thousand years of anti-Muslim ideas and images, the West has failed to engage in any meaningful...
The Global and the Intimate
Feminism in Our Time
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
By placing the global and the intimate in near relation, sixteen essays by prominent feminist scholars and authors forge a distinctively feminist approach to questions of transnational relations, economic development, and intercultural exchange. This pairing enables personal modes of writing and engagement...
On the Move
Women and Rural-to-Urban Migration in Contemporary China
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2004
This book explores the impact of migration on the identities, values, worldviews, and social positions of migrant women in contemporary China based on original fieldwork as well as in-depth research in multiple regions of China.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2005
Featuring contributions from practitioners, researchers, and academics, this volume synthesizes and analyzes current trends in rural social work practice and considers the most effective ways to serve rural communities. Contributors consider the history and development of rural social work from its...
Protest with Chinese Characteristics
Demonstrations, Riots, and Petitions in the Mid-Qing Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
The origin of political modernity has long been tied to the Western history of protest and revolution, the currents of which many believe sparked popular dissent worldwide. Reviewing nearly one thousand instances of protest in China from the eighteenth to the early-nineteenth centuries, Ho-fung Hung...
The Splendid Vision
Reading a Buddhist Sutra
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Featuring the first-ever English translation of the "Splendid Vision Sutra," a sixth-century Indian Mahayana Buddhist scripture known for its rich ritual magic and worship of bodhisattva-goddesses, this volume explicates the text's cultural significance as a source of extraordinary value,...