Columbia Press: 2357 books
The Holocaust and the Nakba
A New Grammar of Trauma and History
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
In this groundbreaking book, leading Arab and Jewish intellectuals examine how and why the Holocaust and the Nakba are interlinked without blurring fundamental differences between them. While these two foundational tragedies are often discussed separately and in abstraction from the constitutive historical...
Ballots, Bullets, and Bargains
American Foreign Policy and Presidential Elections
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Drawing on twenty-four years of experience in government, Michael H. Armacost explores how the contours of the U.S. presidential election system influence the content and conduct of American foreign policy. He examines how the nomination battle impels candidates to express deference to the foreign...
Dying: What Happens When We Die?
A Selection from Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
In the ancient Indian epic, Mahabharata, the Lord of Death asks, "What is the most wondrous thing in the world?", and his son answers, "It is that all around us people can be dying and we don't believe it can happen to us." This refusal to face the inevitability of death is especially...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2003
Designed for both the undergraduate and graduate classroom, this selection of important articles provides a comprehensive overview of current thought about the psychological issues affecting lesbians, bisexuals, and gay men. The editors have revised and updated the introduction and included a new...
Militarizing the Nation
The Army, Business, and Revolution in Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Egypt's army portrays itself as a faithful guardian "saving the nation." Yet saving the nation has meant militarizing it. Zeinab Abul-Magd examines both the visible and often invisible efforts by Egypt's semi-autonomous military to hegemonize the country's politics, economy, and society...
The Life Model of Social Work Practice
Advances in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008
Originally published in 1980, this seminal work was the first to introduce an ecological perspective into social work practice. The third edition expands and deepens this perspective, further developing the basic premise that, by being situated within the people:environment interface, the social work...
The Democracy Makers
Human Rights and the Politics of Global Order
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2005
Has the international movement for democracy and human rights gone from being a weapon against power to part of the arsenal of power itself? Nicolas Guilhot explores this question in his penetrating look at how the U.S. government, the World Bank, political scientists, NGOs, think tanks, and various...
Trading the Genome
Investigating the Commodification of Bio-Information
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2004
In a groundbreaking work that draws on anthropology, history, philosophy, business and law, Parry links firsthand knowledge of the operation of the bioprospecting industry to a sophisticated analysis of broader economic, regulatory, and technological transformations to reveal the complex economic and political dynamics that underpin the new global trade in bio-information.
Not Like a Native Speaker
On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Although the era of European colonialism has long passed, misgivings about the inequality of the encounters between European and non-European languages persist in many parts of the postcolonial world. This unfinished state of affairs, this lingering historical experience of being caught among unequal...
Science and Social Work
A Critical Appraisal
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2002
Science and Social Work is a critical appraisal of the strategies and methods that have been used to develop knowledge for social work practice. It identifies the major ways in which social workers have drawn upon scientific knowledge and techniques, placing each one in historical perspective by explaining...
by Laura Katz Olson
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2010
In 1965, the United States government enacted legislation to provide low-income individuals with quality health care and related services. Initially viewed as the friendless stepchild of Medicare, Medicaid has grown exponentially since its inception, becoming a formidable force of its own. Funded...
Baby Boomers of Color
Implications for Social Work Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Because researchers often treat baby boomers of color as belonging to one group, quality data on the individual status of specific racial populations is lacking, leading to insufficiently designed programs, policies, and services. The absence of data is a testament to the invisibility of baby boomers...
Troublesome Science
The Misuse of Genetics and Genomics in Understanding Race
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
It is well established that all humans today, wherever they live, belong to one single species. Yet even many people who claim to abhor racism take for granted that human “races” have a biological reality. In Troublesome Science, Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall provide a lucid and forceful critique...
The Headless State
Aristocratic Orders, Kinship Society, and Misrepresentations of Nomadic Inner Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2007
In this groundbreaking work, social anthropologist David Sneath aggressively dispels the myths surrounding the history of steppe societies and proposes a new understanding of the nature and formation of the state. Since the colonial era, representations of Inner Asia have been dominated by images...