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Mobilizing the Community for Better Health
What the Rest of America Can Learn from Northern Manhattan
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
From 1999 to 2009, The Northern Manhattan Community Voices Collaborative put Columbia University and its Medical Center in touch with surrounding community organizations and churches to facilitate access to primary care, nutritional improvement, and smoking cessation, and to broker innovative ways...
Sex Trafficking in the United States
Theory, Research, Policy, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Sex Trafficking in the United States is a unique exploration of the underlying dynamics of sex trafficking. This comprehensive volume examines the common risk factors for those who become victims, and the barriers they face when they try to leave. It also looks at how and why sex traffickers enter...
Traditional Japanese Literature
An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600, Abridged Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Haruo Shirane's critically acclaimed Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600, contains key examples of both high and low styles of poetry, drama, prose fiction, and essays. For this abridged edition, Shirane retains substantial excerpts from such masterworks as The Tale of...
Philosophies of Happiness
A Comparative Introduction to the Flourishing Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
What does it mean to be truly happy? In Philosophies of Happiness, Diana Lobel provides a rich spectrum of arguments for a theory of happiness as flourishing or well-being, offering a global, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary perspective on how to create a vital, fulfilling, and significant life....
Alan Brinkley
A Life in History
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Few American historians of his generation have had as much influence in both the academic and popular realms as Alan Brinkley. His debut work, the National Book Award–winning Voices of Protest, launched a storied career that considered the full spectrum of American political life. His books give...
Climate Change
The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2009
Climate Change is geared toward a variety of students and general readers who seek the real science behind global warming. Exquisitely illustrated, the text introduces the basic science underlying both the natural progress of climate change and the effect of human activity on the deteriorating health...
The Seventh Sense
How Flashes of Insight Change Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Flashes of insight—the "Eureka!" moments that produce new and useful ideas in a single thought—are behind some of the world's most creative and practical innovations. This book shows how to cultivate more and better flashes of insight by harnessing the science and practice of the "seventh...
Nakba
Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2007
For outside observers, current events in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank are seldom related to the collective memory of ordinary Palestinians. But for Palestinians themselves, the iniquities of the present are experienced as a continuous replay of the injustice of the past.
By focusing on memories...
by C. T. Hsia
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2004
Best known for the groundbreaking works A History of Modern Chinese Fiction (1961) and The Classic Chinese Novel (1968), C. T. Hsia has gathered sixteen essays and studies written during his Columbia years as a professor of Chinese literature. Wider in range and scope, C. T. Hsia on Chinese Literature...
Bargaining with the State from Afar
American Citizenship in Treaty Port China, 1844-1942
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2001
In the early 1990s, when organizations representing the 2.6 million U.S. nationals living abroad appealed to Congress for their own non-voting representative, the response of one Senator was to dismiss these "moans of the mink-swathed Americans abroad." However, the image of a life of luxury...
The Untold Journey
The Life of Diana Trilling
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Throughout her life, Diana Trilling (1905-1996) wrote about profound social changes with candor and wisdom, first for The Nation and later for Partisan Review, Harpers, and such popular magazines as Vogue and McCalls. She went on to publish five books, including the best-selling Mrs. Harris: The Death...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2010
Government plays a critical role in mitigating individual and collective vulnerability to disaster. Through measures such as disaster relief, infrastructure development, and environmental regulation, public policy is central to making societies more resilient. However, the recent drive to replace...
American Environmental History
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2007
By studying the many ways diverse peoples have changed, shaped, and conserved the natural world over time, environmental historians provide insight into humanity's unique relationship with nature and, more importantly, are better able to understand the origins of our current environmental crisis....
by Michael Dummett
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2003
Michael Dummett's three John Dewey Lectures—"The Concept of Truth," "Statements About the Past," and "The Metaphysics of Time"—were delivered at Columbia University in the spring of 2002. Revised and expanded, the lectures are presented here along with two new essays...