Cornell University Press imprint: 972 books
by Kim Hopper
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"It must be some kind of experiment or something, to see how long people can live without food, without shelter, without security."—homeless woman, Grand Central Station, winter
"Homelessness is a routine fact of life on the margins. Materially, it emerges out of a tangled but unmysterious...
An Education in Politics
The Origins and Evolution of No Child Left Behind
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2012
Since the early 1990s, the federal role in education—exemplified by the controversial No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)—has expanded dramatically. Yet states and localities have retained a central role in education policy, leading to a growing struggle for control over the direction of the nation’s...
Making Immigrant Rights Real
Nonprofits and the Politics of Integration in San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
More than half of the 41 million foreign-born individuals in the United States today are noncitizens, half have difficulty with English, a quarter are undocumented, and many are poor. As a result, most immigrants have few opportunities to make their voices heard in the political process. Nonprofits...
Hidden Hunger
Gender and the Politics of Smarter Foods
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
For decades, NGOs targeting world hunger focused on ensuring that adequate quantities of food were being sent to those in need. In the 1990s, the international food policy community turned its focus to the "hidden hunger" of micronutrient deficiencies, a problem that resulted in two scientific solutions:...
Poor Numbers
How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do about It
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
One of the most urgent challenges in African economic development is to devise a strategy for improving statistical capacity. Reliable statistics, including estimates of economic growth rates and per-capita income, are basic to the operation of governments in developing countries and vital to nongovernmental...
Priests of Prosperity
How Central Bankers Transformed the Postcommunist World
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Priests of Prosperity explores the unsung revolutionary campaign to transform postcommunist central banks from command-economy cash cows into Western-style monetary guardians. Juliet Johnson conducted more than 160 interviews in seventeen countries with central bankers, international assistance providers,...
Prosper or Perish
Credit and Fiscal Systems in Rural China
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The official banking institutions for rural China are Rural Credit Cooperatives (RCCs). Although these co-ops are mandated to support agricultural development among farm households, since 1980 half of RCC loans have gone to small and medium-sized industrial enterprises located in, and managed by,...
Corporate Warriors
The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Some have claimed that "War is too important to be left to the generals," but P. W. Singer asks "What about the business executives?" Breaking out of the guns-for-hire mold of traditional mercenaries, corporations now sell skills and services that until recently only state militaries possessed. Their...
by William Hasker
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
In The Emergent Self, William Hasker joins one of the most heated debates in analytic philosophy, that over the nature of mind. His provocative and clearly written book challenges physicalist views of human mental functioning and advances the concept of mind as an emergent individual.Hasker begins...
Sarajevo, 1941–1945
Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Hitler's Europe
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
On April 15, 1941, Sarajevo fell to Germany's 16th Motorized Infantry Division. The city, along with the rest of Bosnia, was incorporated into the Independent State of Croatia, one of the most brutal of Nazi satellite states run by the ultranationalist Croat Ustasha regime. The occupation posed an...
Only Muslim
Embodying Islam in Twentieth-Century France
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
The French state has long had a troubled relationship with its diverse Muslim populations. In Only Muslim, Naomi Davidson traces this turbulence to the 1920s and 1930s, when North Africans first immigrated to French cities in significant numbers. Drawing on police reports, architectural blueprints,...
Brothers in Arms
Chinese Aid to the Khmer Rouge, 1975–1979
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
When the Khmer Rouge came to power in Cambodia in 1975, they inherited a war-ravaged and internationally isolated country. Pol Pot’s government espoused the rhetoric of self-reliance, but Democratic Kampuchea was utterly dependent on Chinese foreign aid and technical assistance to survive. Yet in...
Machines as the Measure of Men
Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Over the past five centuries, advances in Western understanding of and control over the material world have strongly influenced European responses to non-Western peoples and cultures. In Machines as the Measure of Men, Michael Adas explores the ways in which European perceptions of their scientific...
The Consuming Temple
Jews, Department Stores, and the Consumer Revolution in Germany, 1880–1940
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Department stores in Germany, like their predecessors in France, Britain, and the United States, generated great excitement when they appeared at the end of the nineteenth century. Their sumptuous displays, abundant products, architectural innovations, and prodigious scale inspired widespread fascination...