Columbia Press: 2357 books
by Alfred Kadushin, Daniel Harkness
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
First published in 1976, Supervision in Social Work has become an essential text for social work educators and students, detailing the state of the field and the place, function, and challenges of supervision in social work practice.
This fifth edition takes into account the sizable number...
The Wise Advocate
The Inner Voice of Strategic Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Leadership is the habit of making good choices. Even in difficult and uncertain circumstances, the most effective leaders focus their attention and overcome entrenched patterns of behavior to push an organization to new heights of success. This capability is no fluke: the latest research on the brain...
The Ethical Economy
Rebuilding Value After the Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
A more ethical economic system is now possible, one that rectifies the crisis spots of our current downturn while balancing the injustices of extreme poverty and wealth. Adam Arvidsson and Nicolai Peitersen, a scholar and an entrepreneur, outline the shape such an economy might take, identifying its...
Clio Wired
The Future of the Past in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
In these pathbreaking essays, Roy Rosenzweig charts the impact of new media on teaching, researching, preserving, presenting, and understanding history. Negotiating between the "cyberenthusiasts" who champion technological breakthroughs and the "digital skeptics" who fear the end...
The Aid Trap
Hard Truths About Ending Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2009
Over the past twenty years more citizens in China and India have raised themselves out of poverty than anywhere else at any time in history. They accomplished this through the local business sector-the leading source of prosperity for all rich countries. In most of Africa and other poor regions the...
Truth, Errors, and Lies
Politics and Economics in a Volatile World
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
Grzegorz W. Kolodko, one of the world's leading authorities on economics and development policy and a key architect of Poland's successful economic reforms, applies his far-reaching knowledge to the past and future of the world economy, introducing a framework for understanding our global situation...
The Wrath of Capital
Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Although climate change has become the dominant concern of the twenty-first century, global powers refuse to implement the changes necessary to reverse these trends. Instead, they have neoliberalized nature and climate change politics and discourse, and there are indications of a more virulent strain...
Learn or Die
Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
To compete with today's increasing globalization and rapidly evolving technologies, individuals and organizations must take their ability to learn—the foundation for continuous improvement, operational excellence, and innovation—to a much higher level. In Learn or Die, Edward D. Hess combines...
Looks Good on Paper?
Using In-Depth Personality Assessment to Predict Leadership Performance
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Leslie S. Pratch is a practicing psychologist who focuses on assessing and coaching executives who occupy or are candidates for top positions in business organizations. In this book, she shares insights from more than twenty years of executive evaluations and offers an empirical method of identifying...
by José Scheinkman
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
As long as there have been financial markets, there have been bubbles—those moments in which asset prices inflate far beyond their intrinsic value, often with ruinous results. Yet economists are slow to agree on the underlying forces behind these events. In this book José A. Scheinkman offers new...
Life at the Zoo
Behind the Scenes with the Animal Doctors
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2004
Please Do Not Annoy, torment, pester, plague, molest, worry, badger, harry, persecute, irk, bullyrag, vex, disquiet, grate, beset, bother, tease, nettle, tantalize or ruffle the Animals.—sign at zoo
Since the early days of traveling menageries and staged attractions that included animal acts,...
by Tren Griffin
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs shows how the insights of leading venture capitalists can teach readers to create a unique approach to building a successful business. Through profiles and interviews of figures such as Bill Gurley of Benchmark Capital, Marc Andreesen and Ben Horowitz of Andreesen...
The Art of War
Sun Zi's Military Methods
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2007
Compiled during the Warring States period of 475-221 B.C.E., The Art of War has had an enormous impact on the development of Chinese military strategy over the past two thousand years and occupies an important place in East Asian intellectual history. It is the first known attempt to formulate a rational...
Han Feizi
Basic Writings
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2003
Trenchant, sophisticated, and cynical, Han Feizi has been read in every age and is still of interest today when people are more than ever concerned with the nature and use of power. Han Feizi (280?-233 B.C.), a prince of Han, was a representative of the Fa-chia, or Legalist, school of philosophy and...