Books from Columbia University Press
-
When in Doubt, Tell the Truth: And Other Quotations from Mark Twain
By Mark Twain, Brian CollinsWhen in Doubt, Tell the Truth features 700 of the very best of Mark Twain's comments on the human and American conditions. Candid and colloquial, Twain's insights remain valuable to today's America as well.
-
Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality: Progress and Poverty in the Gilded Age
By Edward O'DonnellBarker, Henry George, 629–30. Francis L. Broderick, Right Reverend New Dealer: John A. Ryan (New York: Macmillan, 1963), 22–23, 60–61, 68–69. While influenced by his broad critique of laissez-faire industrialism, Ryan ultimately opposed ...
-
Stephen Crane, Journalism, and the Making of Modern American Literature
By Michael RobertsonThis critical study of Stephen Crane's journalism examines the climate of change that had begun to blur the line between non-fiction writing and fiction in Crane's era and provides insight into the masculine aesthetic Crane championed in ...
-
The Forms of Youth: Twentieth-century Poetry and Adolescence
By Stephen BurtAccording to Munson, it was through these articles that Hart Crane discovered Rimbaud (The Awakening Twenties, 204). Though the first poem in Crane's first book hailed “all those who step /The legend of their youth into the noon” ...
-
Heinous Crime: Cases, Causes, and Consequences
By Frederic G. ReamerJamie Rouse, seventeen, who walked into the Richland School in Giles County, Tennessee, with a .22-caliber Remington Viper on November 15, 1995. Rouse shot and killed one teacher and a student who crossed Rouse's path as he aimed his ...
-
Advances in Historical Ecology
By William L. BaléeIn this form of historical study there is now a “second generation” of research that has resulted in the detailed study of particular cases of ecological imperialism, such as William Cronon's Changes in the Land (1983) and Carolyn ...
-
Spatial Optimization for Managed Ecosystems
By John G. Hof, Michael BeversChance - Constrained Programming Individual Chance Constraints Charnes and Cooper ( 1963 ) provide what has become a classic analysis of chance constraints in linear programming . Their analysis focuses on problems where some or all of ...
-
For Kin Or Country: Xenophobia, Nationalism, and War
By Stephen M. Saideman, Stephen M.. Saideman, R. William AyresDaniel N. Nelson, 239–259. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. . 1998. “Ethnic Politics and the Post-Communist Transition in ... Curtis, Glenn E., ed. Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia: Country Studies. 1995. Washington, DC: Federal Research ...
-
Research in Social Work
By William James Reid, Anne E. FortuneFontana , Andrea and James H. Frey . 1994. Interviewing : The art of science . In Handbook of Qualitative Research , edited by N. K. Denzin and Y. S. Lincoln , q.v. Forte , James A. , David D. Franks , Janett A. Forte , and Daniel ...
-
States of War: Enlightenment Origins of the Political
By David William BatesJames J. Sheehan, “The Problem of Sovereignty in European History,” American Historical Review 111 (Feb. 2006): 5–6. 8. See Hendrick Spruyt, The Sovereign State and Its Competitors: An Analysis of Systems Change (Princeton, ...
-
Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement
By Stephen Eric BronnerIsaiah Berlin, The Magus of the North: J.G. Hamann and the Origins of Modern Irrationalism, ed. Henry Hardy (London: John Murray, 1993); Isaiah Berlin, “Joseph de Maistre and the Origins of Fascism,” in The Crooked Timber of Humanity: ...
-
Sources of Chinese Tradition
By William Theodore De BaryIt culminated in Cheng Duanli's ( 1271–1345 ) widely emulated “ Daily Schedule of Study in the Cheng Family School , Graded According to Age , ” published in 1315 , the same year the new examinations came into effect .
-
Waiting for the Dawn: A Plan for the Prince
By William Theodore De Bary, Zongxi Huang, Wm. Theodore De Bary... At Ch'eng ( prince ) cheng - choai kề Ch'eng - Chu L * cheng - chün ## ch'eng - fu *** Ch'eng Hao IL ch'eng - hsiang * Cheng Hsüan # Ch'eng I til cheng - i ( regular service ) Eff cheng - shih t'ang *** Cheng Tang - shih ***** Cheng ...
-
The Message of the Mind in Neo-Confucianism
By William Theodore De Bary, Wm. Theodore De BaryJ-i Chen Te-hsiu ig, # Ch'en Hsien-chang Ch'en Li Ch'en Lung-cheng f$.jjtSL Ch'en Pai-sha p$.fe >>' Ch'en Pu-i Ffc^ Ch'en Ta-yu fc^gfc. Cheng Hsuan $|5-£" cheng-hsiieh JL^ ch'eng M, Cheng ching fttt Ch'eng Chu-fu Ch'eng Fu-hsin ^JL
-
Neo-Confucian Orthodoxy and the Learning of the Mind-and-Heart
By Wm. Theodore De Baryi£ il Wen-chang cheng-tsung JJPIEtr and Hsii p/en ^|j§, C/ieM Wen-chung hung hsi-shan hsien-sheng ch'uan-chi ^yCfc-£iB\MJc'£.1kM "Wen kang yu yu" RgHUIH^ (Chen Te-hsiu) "Wen Ta-hsUeh chih shuo ko-wu . . ." ^ ^PRIgftfe (Chen Te-hsiu) Wu ...
-
Learning for One's Self: Essays on the Individual in Neo-Confucian Thought
By William Theodore De Bary, Wm. Theodore De Bary, John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University and Provost Emeritus Wm Theodore De BaryGlossary An - ting shu - yuan *** Chan Jo - shui ( Kan - ch'uan ) *** ( ** ) Ch'an Chang Heng - choũ & Chang P'u *** Chang Chü - cheng RIE Chang Tsai 張载 Chao Chen - chi } Chao Chi 趙歧 Chao Ju - yü tik chen - k'ung ** Chen Te - hsiu ...
-
The Great Civilized Conversation: Education for a World Community
By Wm. Theodore De BaryBelieving a classical liberal education is more necessary than ever, he outlines in these essays a plan to update existing core curricula by incorporating classics from both Eastern and Western traditions, thereby bringing the philosophy ...
-
Sources of Chinese Tradition
By William Theodore De BaryOne of the first Jesuit missionaries to set foot in China was the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci (Li Madou, 1552–1610), who formulated the model—often called “accommodation”—for the approach of Jesuits in blending Christianity with Chinese ...
-
Gerontological Social Work: A Task-centered Approach
By William James Reid, Matthias J. NaleppaThe Mini Mental Status Examination ( MMSE ) , developed by Folstein and associates , is one of the most frequently applied tests of cognitive functioning ( Folstein , Folstein , and McHugh 1975 ) . It has strong psychometric properties ...
-
Crowded Orbits: Conflict and Cooperation in Space
By James Clay MoltzAs Catholic priest L. C. McHugh summarized the views of opponents to the Moon shot: “Why should we waste such vast treasures on a remote bit of cosmic real estate, when there is so much to be done on earth?”12 But McHugh admitted the ...