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View book details for Environment, Power, and Society for the Twenty-First Century
The Hierarchy of Energy
Columbia University Press
Howard T. Odum possessed one of the most innovative minds of the twentieth century. He pioneered the fields of ecological engineering, ecological economics, and environmental accounting, working throughout his life to better understand the interrelationships of energy, environment, and society …
View book details for The Holocaust and the Nakba
A New Grammar of Trauma and History
Columbia University Press
In this groundbreaking book, leading Arab and Jewish intellectuals examine how and why the Holocaust and the Nakba are interlinked without blurring fundamental differences between them. While these two foundational tragedies are often discussed separately and in abstraction from the …
Columbia University Press
Through a novel integration of child welfare data, policy analysis, and evidence-informed youth permanency practice, the essays in this volume show how to achieve and sustain family permanence for older children and youth in foster care. Researchers examine what is …
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The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s
Columbia University Press
Mary Helen Washington recovers the vital role of 1950s leftist politics in the works and lives of modern African American writers and artists. While most histories of McCarthyism focus on the devastation of the blacklist and the intersection of leftist …
Columbia University Press
Gu Yanwu pioneered the late-Ming and early Qing-era practice of Han Learning, or Evidential Learning, favoring practical over theoretical approaches to knowledge. He strongly encouraged scholars to return to the simple, ethical precepts of early Confucianism, and in his best-known …
Columbia University Press
In this unique, well-illustrated book, readers learn how fifty financial corporations came to dominate the U.S. banking system and their impact on the nation's political, social, and economic growth. A story that spans more than two centuries of war, crisis, …
Columbia University Press
The 1944 Bretton Woods conference created new institutions for international economic governance. Though flawed, the system led to a golden age in postwar reconstruction, sustained economic growth, job creation, and postcolonial development. Yet financial liberalization since the 1970s has involved …
View book details for Dreaming of Cockaigne
Medieval Fantasies of the Perfect Life
Columbia University Press
Imagine a dreamland where roasted pigs wander about with knives in their backs to make carving easy, where grilled geese fly directly into one's mouth, where cooked fish jump out of the water and land at one's feet. The weather …
View book details for Women in Iraq
Past Meets Present
Columbia University Press
Noga Efrati outlines the first social and political history of women in Iraq during the periods of British occupation and the British-backed Hashimite monarchy (19171958). She traces the harsh and long-lasting implications of British state building on Iraqi women, particularly …
View book details for New Strategies for Social Innovation
Market-Based Approaches for Assisting the Poor
Columbia University Press
Market-based development strategies designed to help the world's poor receive significant support from advocates, academics, governments, and the media, yet frequently the perceived success of these programs rests on carefully selected examples and one-sided, enthusiastic accounts. In practice, these approaches …
View book details for Moved by the Past
Discontinuity and Historical Mutation
Columbia University Press
Historians go to great lengths to avoid confronting discontinuity, searching for explanations as to why such events as the fall of the Berlin Wall, George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq, and the introduction of the euro logically develop from what …
View book details for Unearthing the Changes
Recently Discovered Manuscripts of the Yi Jing (I Ching) and Related Texts
Columbia University Press
In recent years, three ancient manuscripts relating to the Yi jing (I Ching), or Classic of Changes, have been discovered. The earliestthe Shanghai Museum Zhou Yidates to about 300 B.C.E. and shows evidence of the text's original circulation. The Guicang, …
View book details for The Problem with God
Why Atheists, True Believers, and Even Agnostics Must All Be Wrong
Columbia University Press
Whether people praise, worship, criticize, or reject God, they all presuppose at least a rough notion of what it means to talk about God. Turning the certainty of this assumption on its head, a respected educator and humanist shows that …
View book details for I Speak, Therefore I Am
Seventeen Thoughts About Language
Columbia University Press
There are no men so dull and stupid, not even idiots, as to be incapable of joining together different words, and thereby constructing a declaration by which to make their thoughts understood.... On the other hand, there is no other …
Columbia University Press
This user-friendly resource is the perfect reference for English-language readers who are eager to explore fiction from around the world. Profiling hundreds of titles and authors from 1945 to today, with an emphasis on fiction published in the past two …
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German Exile Cinema, 1933-1951
Columbia University Press
Hundreds of German-speaking film professionals took refuge in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, making a lasting contribution to American cinema. Hailing from Austria, Hungary, Poland, Russia, and the Ukraine, as well as Germany, and including Ernst Lubitsch, Fred Zinnemann, …
Columbia University Press
Many hospice social workers must address spiritual issues with their clients, but do not feel competent to do so effectively. This targeted volume draws upon multidisciplinary theory and research to advance a relational model of spiritually sensitive hospice care. The …
View book details for Horses, Horses, in the End the Light Remains Pure
A Tale That Begins with Fukushima
Columbia University Press
"As we passed from the city center into the Fukushima suburbs I surveyed the landscape for surgical face masks. I wanted to see in what ratios people were wearing such masks. I was trying to determine, consciously and unconsciously, what …
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American Youth on Screen
Columbia University Press
Teen Movies: American Youth on Screen is a detailed look at the depiction of teens on film and its impact throughout film's history. Timothy Shary looks at the development of the teen movie the rebellion, the romance, the sex and …
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The War Experience of the Japanese People
Columbia University Press
Grassroots Fascism profiles the Asia Pacific War (19371945)the most important though least understood experience of Japan's modern historythrough the lens of ordinary Japanese life. Moving deftly from the struggles of the home front to the occupied territories to the ravages …
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Cult Film and the Cine-Erotic
Columbia University Press
From mediations on explicit imagery and profiles of prominent performers to discussions of national nudities and the titillating thrills of new technologies, cine-erotica has become a significant and subversive category of contemporary film, media, and cultural studies. Expanding on recent …
Columbia University Press
Offering a multidimensional approach to one of the most important episodes of the twentieth century, The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust offers readers and researchers a general history of the Holocaust while delving into the core issues and debates in …
View book details for Voices of the Arab Spring
Personal Stories from the Arab Revolutions
Columbia University Press
Narrated by dozens of activists and everyday individuals, this book documents the unprecedented events that led to the collapse of dictatorial regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen. Beginning in 2011, these stories offer unique access to the message that …
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Europeans, Ottomans, and Egyptians in Alexandria
Columbia University Press
Nationality is the most important legal mechanism sorting and classifying the world's population today. An individual's place of birth or naturalization determines where he or she can and cannot be and what he or she can and cannot do. Although …
Columbia University Press
As Ida Susser writes in reference to Belmonte's Broken Fountain, "good ethnographies have long lives." This classic of urban anthropology, one of the most acclaimed ethnographies of recent years, offers vivid, literary descriptions of Fontana del Re, an impoverished Neapolitan …
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