Columbia Press: 2357 books
by Michael Weinstein, Ralph Bradburd
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
The Robin Hood Foundation is a charitable organization focused on alleviating poverty in New York City. Michael M. Weinstein is the foundation's senior vice president. In that role he developed its metrics-based approach, called "relentless monetization," to ensure that the money the foundation...
Reworking Race
The Making of Hawaii's Interracial Labor Movement
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
In the middle decades of the twentieth century, Hawai'i changed rapidly from a conservative oligarchy firmly controlled by a Euro-American elite to arguably the most progressive part of the United States. Spearheading the shift, tens of thousands of sugar, pineapple, and longshore workers eagerly...
The Chautauqua Moment
Protestants, Progressives, and the Culture of Modern Liberalism, 1874-1920
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2003
This book traces the rise and decline of what Theodore Roosevelt once called the "most American thing in America." The Chautauqua movement began in 1874 on the shores of Chautauqua Lake in western New York. More than a college or a summer resort or a religious assembly, it was a composite...
Food, Medicine, and the Quest for Good Health
Nutrition, Medicine, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
What we eat, how we eat, where we eat, and when we eat are deeply embedded cultural practices. Eating is also related to how we medicate. The multimillion-dollar diet industry offers advice on how to eat for a better body and longer life, and avoiding harmful foods (or choosing healthy ones) is considered...
by Harold Brookfield
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2001
Small farmers are often viewed as engaging in wasteful practices that wreak ecological havoc. Exploring Agrodiversity sets the record straight: Small farmers are in fact ingenious and inventive and engage in a diverse range of land-management strategies, many of them resourcefully geared toward conserving...
The Cutting Edge
Conserving Wildlife in Logged Tropical Forests
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2001
Recent decades have seen unprecedented growth in the scale and intensity of industrial forestry. Directly and indirectly, it has degraded the wildlife and ecological integrity of these tropical forests, prompting a need to evaluate the impact of current forest management practices and reconsider how...
Moving Data
The iPhone and the Future of Media
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The iPhone has revolutionized not only how people communicate but also how we consume and produce culture. Combining traditional and social media with mobile connectivity, smartphones have redefined and expanded the dimensions of everyday life, allowing individuals to personalize media as they move...
The Conflicted Superpower
America’s Collaboration with China and India in Global Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
For decades, leadership in technological innovation has sustained U.S. power worldwide. Today, however, processes that undergird innovation increasingly transcend national borders. Cross-border flows of brainpower have reached unprecedented heights, while multinationals invest more and more in high-tech...
Creditworthy
A History of Consumer Surveillance and Financial Identity in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
The first consumer credit bureaus appeared in the 1870s and quickly amassed huge archives of deeply personal information. Today, the three leading credit bureaus are among the most powerful institutions in modern life—yet we know almost nothing about them. Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion are multi-billion-dollar...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
The economy of India is growing at a rate of 8 percent per year, and its exports of goods and services have more than doubled in the past three years. Considering these trends, economists, scholars, and political leaders across the globe are beginning to wonder whether India's growth can be sustained.
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The Animal Rights Debate
Abolition or Regulation?
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Gary L. Francione is a law professor and leading philosopher of animal rights theory. Robert Garner is a political theorist specializing in the philosophy and politics of animal protection. Francione maintains that we have no moral justification for using nonhumans and argues that because animals...
From Head Shops to Whole Foods
The Rise and Fall of Activist Entrepreneurs
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
In the 1960s and ’70s, a diverse range of storefronts—including head shops, African American bookstores, feminist businesses, and organic grocers—brought the work of the New Left, Black Power, feminism, environmentalism, and other movements into the marketplace. Through shared ownership, limited...
Our Forest, Your Ecosystem, Their Timber
Communities, Conservation, and the State in Community-Based Forest Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Community-based forest management (CBFM) is a model of forest management in which a community takes part in decision making and implementation, and monitoring of activities affecting the natural resources around them. CBFM provides a framework for a community members to secure access to the products...
People, Plants, and Justice
The Politics of Nature Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2000
In an era of market triumphalism, this book probes the social and environmental consequences of market-linked nature conservation schemes. Rather than supporting a new anti-market orthodoxy, Charles Zerner and colleagues assert that there is no universal entity, "the market." Analysis and...