Columbia Press: 2357 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Only by inhabiting Dao (the Way of Nature) and dwelling in its unity can humankind achieve true happiness and freedom, in both life and death. This is Daoist philosophy's central tenet, espoused by the person—or group of people—known as Zhuangzi (369?-286? B.C.E.) in a text by the same name. To...
Sinning in the Hebrew Bible
How the Worst Stories Speak for Its Truth
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Stories of rape, murder, adultery, and conquest raise crucial issues in the Hebrew Bible, and their interpretation helps societies form their religious and moral beliefs. From the sacrifice of Isaac to the adultery of David, narratives of sin engender vivid analysis and debate, powering the myths...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
The Platform Sutra comprises a wide range of important Chan/Zen Buddhist teachings. Purported to contain the autobiography and sermons of Huineng (638–713), the legendary Sixth Patriarch of Chan, the sutra has been popular among monastics and the educated elite for centuries. The first study of...
Kuan-yin
The Chinese Transformation of Avalokitesvara
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2001
By far one of the most important objects of worship in the Buddhist traditions, the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara is regarded as the embodiment of compassion. He has been widely revered throughout the Buddhist countries of Asia since the early centuries of the Common Era. While he was closely identified...
by Tubten Khétsun
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2007
Born in 1941, Tubten Khétsun is a nephew of the Gyatso Tashi Khendrung, one of the senior government officials taken prisoner after the Tibetan peoples' uprising of March 10, 1959. Khétsun himself was arrested while defending the Dalai Lama's summer palace, and after four years in prisons and labor...
by Massimo Montanari
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
"Do not let the peasant know how good cheese is with pears" goes the old saying. Intrigued by these words and their portent, Massimo Montanari unravels their origin and utility. Perusing archival cookbooks, agricultural and dietary treatises, literary works, and anthologies of beloved sayings,...
The Last of the Whampoa Breed
Stories of the Chinese Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2003
Whampoa Military Academy was China's first modern military institution. For decades the "Spirit of Whampoa" was invoked as the highest praise to all Chinese soldiers who guarded their nation heroically. But of all the battles these soldiers have fought, the most challenging one was the civil...
by Marc Lee Raphael
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2005
Jews have been a religious and cultural presence in America since the colonial era, and the community of Jews in the United States today—some six million people—continues to make a significant contribution to the American religious landscape. Emphasizing developments in American Judaism in the...
A Possible Peace Between Israel and Palestine
An Insider's Account of the Geneva Initiative
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2007
In 2003, after two years of negotiations, a group of prominent Israelis and Palestinians signed a model peace treaty. The document, popularly called the Geneva Initiative, contained detailed provisions resolving all outstanding issues between Israel and the Palestinian people, including drawing a...
Juggling Identities
Identity and Authenticity Among the Crypto-Jews
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Juggling Identities is an extensive ethnography of the crypto-Jews who live deep within the Hispanic communities of the American Southwest. Critiquing scholars who challenge the cultural authenticity of these individuals, Seth D. Kunin builds a solid link between the crypto-Jews of New Mexico and...
Equal Rites
The Book of Mormon, Masonry, Gender, and American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2004
Both the Prophet Joseph Smith and his Book of Mormon have been characterized as ardently, indeed evangelically, anti-Masonic. Yet in this sweeping social, cultural, and religious history of nineteenth-century Mormonism and its milieu, Clyde Forsberg argues that masonry, like evangelical Christianity,...
Believing History
Latter-day Saint Essays
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2007
The eminent historian Richard Bushman here reflects on his faith and the history of his religion. By describing his own struggle to find a basis for belief in a skeptical world, Bushman poses the question of how scholars are to write about subjects in which they are personally invested. Does personal...
Global Alert
The Rationality of Modern Islamist Terrorism and the Challenge to the Liberal Democratic World
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Many associate terrorism with irrational behavior and believe only lunatics could perpetuate such horrific acts. Global Alert debunks this myth by anatomizing the rationale behind modern terrorism. It draws a distinct picture of its root and instrumental causes and plots the different stages of a...
by Roger Lohmann, Nancy Lohmann
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2001
By making explicit linkages both to social work practice and to the history of management thought, covering the rapidly expanding field of nonprofit studies, and incorporating management approaches from Henri Fayol's principles to Total Quality Management, this pioneering work grounds the practice...