Columbia Press: 2357 books
Why Civil Resistance Works
The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. By attracting impressive support from citizens, whose activism takes the form of protests, boycotts, civil disobedience, and...
NPR
The Trials and Triumphs of National Public Radio
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2005
The people who shaped America's public broadcasting system thought it should be "a civilized voice in a civilized community"—a clear alternative to commercial broadcasting. This book tells the story of how NPR has tried to embody this idea. Michael P. McCauley describes NPR's evolution...
Radical Cosmopolitics
The Ethics and Politics of Democratic Universalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
While supporting the cosmopolitan pursuit of a world that respects all rights and interests, James D. Ingram believes political theorists have, in their approach to this project, compromised its egalitarian and emancipatory principles. Focusing on recent debates without losing sight of cosmopolitanism's...
The Scandal of Reason
A Critical Theory of Political Judgment
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Theories of justice are haunted by a paradox: the more ambitious the theory of justice, the less applicable and useful the model is to political practice; yet the more politically realistic the theory, the weaker its moral ambition, rendering it unsound and equally useless. Brokering a resolution...
by Elsie Myers Stainton
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2002
Many stylebooks and manuals explain writing, but before the release ten years ago of Elsie Myers Stainton's The Fine Art of Copyediting, few addressed the practices and problems of editing. This handbook has guided users through the editing process for books and journals, with tips on how to be diplomatic...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
A growing number of people-immigrants, refugees, asylum-seekers, displaced individuals, and families-lead lives that transcend national boundaries. Often because of economic pressures, these individuals continually move through places, countries, and cultures, becoming exposed to unique risk and protective...
Banished to the Homeland
Dominican Deportees and Their Stories of Exile
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
The 1996 U.S. Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act has led to the forcible deportation of tens of thousands of Dominicans from the United States. Following thousands of these individuals over a seven-year period, David C. Brotherton and Luis Barrios use a unique combination of sociological and...
The Silent Qur'an and the Speaking Qur'an
Scriptural Sources of Islam Between History and Fervor
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Two major events occurred in the early centuries of Islam that determined its historical and spiritual development in the centuries that followed: the formation of the sacred scriptures, namely the Qur'an and the Hadith, and the chronic violence that surrounded the succession of the Prophet, manifesting...
The Quest for God and the Good
World Philosophy as a Living Experience
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
Diana Lobel takes readers on a journey across Eastern and Western philosophical and religious traditions to discover a beauty and purpose at the heart of reality that makes life worth living. Guided by the ideas of ancient thinkers and the insight of the philosophical historian Pierre Hadot, The Quest...
by Jeffrey Robbins
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Alexis de Tocqueville once wrote that "the people reign over the American political world like God over the universe," unwittingly casting democracy as the political instantiation of the death of God. According to Jeffrey W. Robbins, Tocqueville's assessment remains an apt observation of...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2005
The contributors to this volume examine the role of mutual aid groups and social workers in helping members of oppressed, vulnerable, and resilient populations regain control over their lives. The chapters reveal the ways in which mutual aid processes help individuals overcome social and emotional...
They Still Pick Me Up When I Fall
The Role of Caring in Youth Development and Community Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2000
This book is a call to action to parents, youth workers, policymakers—anyone who works for and worries about the next generation—to recognize and promote the values of caring in public and private life. It is about teenagers—those who no longer need the care given to babies and children but...
Days of Death, Days of Life
Ritual in the Popular Culture of Oaxaca
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2005
Kristin Norget explores the practice and meanings of death rituals in poor urban neighborhoods on the outskirts of the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca. Drawing on her extensive fieldwork in Oaxaca City, Norget provides vivid descriptions of the Day of the Dead and other popular religious practices....
Globalization Challenged
Conviction, Conflict, Community
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2006
In Globalization Challenged, George Rupp, president of the International Rescue Committee, outlines the steps necessary to engage the contemporary conflict between traditional religious belief and Western secularism.
According to Rupp, the key objective is to build a community that is inclusive...