Columbia Press: 2357 books
The Demand for Health
A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
A seminal work in health economics first published in 1972, Michael Grossman's The Demand for Health introduced a new theoretical model for determining the health status of the population. His work uniquely synthesized economic and public health knowledge and has catalyzed a vastly influential body...
The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
By the end of the nineteenth century, the world was ready to adopt the gold standard out of concerns of national power, prestige, and anti-English competition. Yet although the gold standard allowed countries to enact a virtual single world currency, the years before World War I were not a time of...
Aid Dependence in Cambodia
How Foreign Assistance Undermines Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
International intervention liberated Cambodia from pariah state status in the early 1990s and laid the foundations for more peaceful, representative rule. Yet the country's social indicators and the integrity of its political institutions declined rapidly within a few short years, while inequality...
by Utsa Patnaik, Prabhat Patnaik
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
In A Theory of Imperialism, economists Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik present a new theory of the origins and mechanics of capitalism that sounds an alarm about its ongoing viability. Their theory centers on trade between the core economies of the global North and the tropical and subtropical countries...
A World Safe for Capitalism
Dollar Diplomacy and America's Rise to Global Power
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2002
This award-winning book provides a unique window on how America began to intervene in world affairs. In exploring what might be called the prehistory of Dollar Diplomacy, Cyrus Veeser brings together developments in New York, Washington, Santo Domingo, Brussels, and London. Theodore Roosevelt plays...
Morals and Markets
The Development of Life Insurance in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Life insurance—the promise of an insurer to pay a sum upon a person's death in exchange for a regular premium—is a bizarre enterprise. How can we monetize human life? Should we? What statistics do we use, what assumptions do we make, and what behavioral factors do we consider? First published...
by Joshua Miller, , Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Disaster responders treat more than just the immediate emotional and psychological trauma of victims: they empower individuals and families to heal themselves long into a disaster's aftermath. This requires helping survivors to rebuild their ability to meet their emotional and psychological needs,...
Book of Value
The Fine Art of Investing Wisely
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Financial markets are noisy and full of half-baked opinions, innuendo, and misinformation. With deep insights about investor psychology, Book of Value shows how to apply tools of business analysis to sort through the deceptions and self-deceptions in financial markets. Anurag Sharma joins philosophy...
This Place, These People
Life and Shadow on the Great Plains
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
The numbers of farms and farmers on the Great Plains are dwindling. Disappearing even faster are the farm places—the houses, barns, and outbuildings that made the rural landscape a place of habitation. Nancy Warner's photographs tell the stories of buildings that were once loved yet have now been...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
Community groups and human service organizations are under a tremendous amount of pressure to strengthen their programs and measure the effectiveness of their work. These challenges have prompted many to seek consultation and technical assistance in order to better plan, develop, and evaluate their...
Meeting with My Brother
A Novella
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Yi Mun-yol's Meeting with My Brother is narrated by a middle-aged South Korean professor, also named Yi, whose father abandoned his family and defected to the North at the outbreak of the Korean War. Many years later, despite having spent most of his life under a cloud of suspicion as the son of a...
Fountain House
Creating Community in Mental Health Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Often people with mental illness feel alone in society, with no place to go and little hope. Their isolation can be further perpetuated through typical approaches to treatment, such as case management and psychotherapy.
Since 1948, the Fountain House "working community" has worked...
by Frederic G. Reamer
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
For more than a decade, teachers and practitioners have turned to Frederic G. Reamer's Social Work Values and Ethics for its comprehensive introduction to ethical decision making and practical guidance regarding professional misconduct. This new edition incorporates the legal and technological realities...
Change Research
A Case Study on Collaborative Methods for Social Workers and Advocates
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Collaborating with community members adds a critical dimension to social work research, providing practitioners with intimate knowledge of a community's goals and needs while equipping community advocates with vital skills for social change. Sharing the inspiring story of one such partnership, Corey...