Books from Columbia University Press

  • The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster in America
    The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster in America
    By Albert Fried

    Thompson , Craig , and Raymond , Allen . Gang Rule in New York . New York , 1940 . Thrasher , Frederick M. The Gang . Chicago , 1927 . Toll , David W. The Compleat Nevada Traveler . Reno , 1976 . Tully , Andrew . Treasury Agent .

  • Engaging the Past: Mass Culture and the Production of Historical Knowledge
    Engaging the Past: Mass Culture and the Production of Historical Knowledge
    By Alison Landsberg

    These mass cultural texts cultivate what Alison Landsberg calls an "affective engagement" with the past, tying the viewer to an event or person and fostering a sense of intimacy that does more than transport the viewer back in time.

  • Wondrous Difference: Cinema, Anthropology & Turn-of-the-century Visual Culture
    Wondrous Difference: Cinema, Anthropology & Turn-of-the-century Visual Culture
    By Alison Griffiths

    Spencer , Walter Baldwin and Frank J. Gillen . Across Australia . London : Macmillan , 1912 . Starr , Frederick . The Ainu Group at the St. Louis Exposition . Chicago : Open Court , 1904 . " Anthropology at the World's Fair .

  • When MBAs Rule the Newsroom
    When MBAs Rule the Newsroom
    By Doug Underwood

    ... scandals of the Nixon administration ; the work of I. F. Stone , Drew Pearson , and Jack Anderson ; and modern , computeroriented investigators like Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele of 46 · The Historical Roots of the Revolution.

  • Paleoclimates: Understanding Climate Change Past and Present
    Paleoclimates: Understanding Climate Change Past and Present
    By Thomas M. Cronin

    Pauling, A., J. Luterbacher, C. Casty, ... Pearson, P.N., B. E. van Dongen, C.J. Nicholas, et al. 2007. ... Pelejero, C., E. Calvo, M. T. McCulloch, J. F. Marshall, M. K. Gagan, J. M. Lough, and B. N. Opdyke. 2005.

  • The Khilafat Movement: Religious Symbolism and Political Mobilization in India
    The Khilafat Movement: Religious Symbolism and Political Mobilization in India
    By Gail Minault

    Many good friends have read this work in its various forms and made helpful suggestions : David Lelyveld , Gerald Barrier , Michael Pearson , Robert Hardgrave , Barbara Metcalf , Emily Hodges , Diana Tonsich , and Francis Robinson .

  • Dissenting Bodies: Corporealities in Early New England
    Dissenting Bodies: Corporealities in Early New England
    By Martha L. Finch

    R[obert] C[ushman], “Reasons and Considerations touching the lawfulness of removing out of England into the parts of America” (1622), in Mourt's Relation: A Journal ofthe ... George Parker Winship (New York: Burt Franklin, 1970), 49–50.

  • Fountain House: Creating Community in Mental Health Practice
    Fountain House: Creating Community in Mental Health Practice
    By Alan Doyle, Julius Lanoil, Kenneth Dudek

    Boston: Pearson/Allyn & Bacon. . (1996). The strengths perspective in social work practice: Extensions and cautions. Social Work, 41(3), 296–305. Saraceno, B. (2006). Building awareness-reducing risks: Suicide and mental illness.

  • The Unworthy Scholar from Pingjiang: Republican-Era Martial Arts Fiction
    The Unworthy Scholar from Pingjiang: Republican-Era Martial Arts Fiction
    By John Christopher Hamm

    High and low face each other not across a Great Divide but within a dynamic field structured by the tensions between perpendicular axes of heteronomous and autonomous value, that is, of economic value esteemed by society as a whole and ...

  • Journalism in the Age of Virtual Reality: How Experiential Media Are Transforming News
    Journalism in the Age of Virtual Reality: How Experiential Media Are Transforming News
    By John V. Pavlik

    In television, images and video are presented within a frame that is horizontally oriented and takes in about thirty degrees of a human viewer's field of view (humans have a field of view of about 180 degrees horizontally and 135 ...

  • Science and Technology in a Multicultural World: The Cultural Politics of Facts and Artifacts
    Science and Technology in a Multicultural World: The Cultural Politics of Facts and Artifacts
    By David J. Hess

    It is therefore not surprising that “ Yule moved away from the biometric laboratory where Pearson had taught him into the more conservative context provided by the Royal Statistical Society " ( 61 ) . MacKenzie therefore shows how the ...

  • Japanese War Criminals: The Politics of Justice After the Second World War
    Japanese War Criminals: The Politics of Justice After the Second World War
    By Sandra Wilson, Robert Cribb, Beatrice Trefalt

    ... be unable to continue his policy of countering Communism and keeping Japan in the Western camp.37 Conservative member of Parliament Godfrey Nicholson, who had visited Japan as part of a parliamentary delegation the previous year, ...

  • Dying for Rights: Putting North Korea’s Human Rights Abuses on the Record
    Dying for Rights: Putting North Korea’s Human Rights Abuses on the Record
    By Sandra Fahy

    ... Volker Türk, and Frances Nicholson, Refugee Protection in International Law: UNHCR's Global Consultations on International Protection (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 118. Emma Haddad, “The Refugee: The Individual ...

  • The Compromise of Liberal Environmentalism
    The Compromise of Liberal Environmentalism
    By Steven F. Bernstein

    OECD 1975; Pearson 1994; author's interview, Jim MacNeill, a Canadian del- egate and organizer of the OECD ... For example, sections 10.4.d, 13.4 and 13.5 on public participation in devel- opment planning and 14.10 and 14.11 on ...

  • Groupthink Versus High-Quality Decision Making in International Relations
    Groupthink Versus High-Quality Decision Making in International Relations
    By Mark Schafer, Scott Crichlow

    ... −.188 (.25) −.190 (.24) In-group bias −.233 (.15) −.166 (.31) Task orientation −.074 (.66) −.188 (.25) Complexity .100 (.55) .230 (.16) Distrust .350 (.03) .408 (.01) Note: Cell values are Pearson's correlations with p values ...

  • The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines
    The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines
    By Michael E. Mann

    See principal component analysis PC (principal component) time series, 43 Pearce, Fred, 222, 342n64 Pearson, Ben, 186 Pearson, Karl, 305n16 peer review, 78–80, 122 Penn Future, 231, 235, 245 Penn State, 234 Peterson, Tom, 181 Phillips, ...

  • Complexity Theory for a Sustainable Future
    Complexity Theory for a Sustainable Future
    By Jon Norberg, Graeme Cumming

    The reduced major axis regression line has a Pearson's r value of 0.997 and a slope of 1 , indicating that the pressure per unit area exerted by ungulates is independent of body mass . The gray lines indicate 90 percent confidence ...

  • The Collected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft
    The Collected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft
    By Mary Wollstonecraft

    203n , 218 , 224n 169n , 17in , 183 , 188n , 197 , Fitzgerald , Henry Gerald 88 , 95 , 104 , 204-5 , 206 , 207n , 34on , 405n , 107 423 , 437n Fitzgerald , Margaret , Maria and Harriet as artist and writer 167-8 , 190 , 193 , 8on , 84 ...

  • Mammals from the Age of Dinosaurs: Origins, Evolution, and Structure
    Mammals from the Age of Dinosaurs: Origins, Evolution, and Structure
    By Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, Richard L. Cifelli, Zhe-Xi Luo

    Watson (1916) suggested that monotremes are distinctive in that the lateral wall of the braincase is formed by the intramembranous ossification of the anterior lamina of the petrosal. By contrast, he characterized the therian group, ...

  • Cotton, Climate, and Camels in Early Islamic Iran: A Moment in World History
    Cotton, Climate, and Camels in Early Islamic Iran: A Moment in World History
    By Richard W. Bulliet

    Chapter 6 ofAndrew Watson's Agricultural Innovation in the Early Islamic World: The Diffusion ofCrops andFarming Techniques, 700–1100 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983) provides a wealth of information about the earliest ...