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Selected from works honored in the " Let's Do It Better! Workshop on Journalism, Race, and Ethnicity" held at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, this text, DVD, and website project features interviews with leading journalists, including Ted Koppel, interactive discussion points, teaching tips and weblinks.

he eminent historian Leopold Haimson examines the nature of political power in Russia during the years leading to the Bolshevik revolution. The book explores the issue of power as it was reflected in struggles of Russian workers to control their own lives and in the outlooks and strategies of leading political figures on the objectives of the revolution and the ways to achieve them.

Scholars from political science, history, economics, international relations, and security studies offer fresh insight into the relationship between the two most populous nations on Earth.

Offers insights into the history of Jews and Judaism in America. This title focuses on a variety of important themes in the American Jewish and Judaic experience. It includes essays on the community of Orthodox Jews, the history of Jewish education in America, and, the rise of Jewish social clubs at the turn of the century.

The "science of religion" is an important element in the interpretation of William James's work and in the methodology of the study of religion. An authority on pragmatism and the philosophy of religion, Wayne Proudfoot and a stellar group of contributors from a variety of disciplines including religion, philosophy, psychology, and history, bring innovative perspectives to James's work.

This innovative book examines the fundamental continuities in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's writing during the revolutionary period of 1794 through 1834 to demonstrate his importance as a political philosopher and to recover romanticism as both an aesthetic and political movement.

This is the first journalism textbook aimed at reporters who cover finance and economics in developing and transition countries. Written by economists from the Asian Development Bank and the International Monetary Fund as well as journalists at Dow Jones, the Financial Times, the New York Times, Fortune, and Reuters, the book is a guide to the pressing topics of our times.

Exhibitions of Chinese artifacts were a rare occurrence when the Chinese controlled their own representations in America. This title demonstrates that exhibitions of Chinese artifacts held great popular appeal.

Offer readings of Auden's works and illuminates his use of stylistic registers and poetic genres. This book traces the ideas and ideologies that animated and overwhelmed Auden's poetry. It considers the influence of left-liberal politics, psychoanalytic and evolutionary theory, and Christian theology that characterized Auden's poems of the 1940s.

Columbia's guides to postwar African literature paint a portrait of the continent's literary traditions. This volume examines the growth of modern literature in the three postcolonial nations of Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Zambia. It tracks the multiple political and economic pressures that shaped Central African writing since the end of World War II.

This book places into modern context the information by which North American mammalian paleontologists recognize, divide, calibrate, and discuss intervals of mammalian evolution known as North American Land Mammal Ages.

This analysis of the general subject of WWI prisoners of war focuses on the role of a non-governmental association in confronting the increasingly chaotic conditions of East Europe.

An excellent introduction to real-world ethnography, this book covers short- and long-term participant observation and ethnographic interviewing and uses diverse cultures as cases.

Stories born of the trials and heartache of exile in Taiwan.

A sourcebook for readers and scholars interested in Japan from eighteenth century to post-World War II period. It presents writings from modern Japan's philosophers, religious figures, writers, and political leaders. It also offers introductory essays and commentary to assist in understanding documents' historical setting and significance.

In the most complete, well-ordered philosophical society of his day, Xunzi advocated the counteraction of man's evil through self-improvement, the pursuit of learning, the avoidance of obsession and observance or ritual in life. And his ideas are still close to those of ours today.

This brief history acts as an introduction to the inter-related themes of race, ethnicity and immigration in American history. It spans the years 1600 to 2000, exploring the historical roots of contemporary identity politics.

By focusing on a set of critical issues and case studies, this book explores of the polarized debate over production-oriented forestry and the chances of achieving forest conservation through sustainable management.

Divided into three parts-History, Interpretation, and Practice-this provocative volume incorporates law, history, political theory, and philosophy to analyze the U.S. Constitution as a whole in relation to the rights and fate of women.

Divided into three parts-History, Interpretation, and Practice-this provocative volume incorporates law, history, political theory, and philosophy to analyze the U.S. Constitution as a whole in relation to the rights and fate of women.

This completely revised and updated third edition examines the role of mutual aid groups and social workers in helping members of oppressed, vulnerable, and resilient populations regain control over their lives.

Presents methods and strategies for assisting and collaborating with groups and agencies serving families. This book combines a research-based framework with practical guidance to explain this process and offer cross-cultural case studies. It discusses the role of the coach or capacity-building consultant and related activities of consultation.

Presents methods and strategies for assisting and collaborating with groups and agencies serving families. This book combines a research-based framework with practical guidance to explain this process and offer cross-cultural case studies. It discusses the role of the coach or capacity-building consultant and related activities of consultation.

Social workers provide more mental health services than any other profession, yet recent biomedical trends in psychiatry appear to minimize the importance of their traditional concerns, which focus on the social environment that accompanies mental disorders and their treatment.

A collection of haiku by Japanese women, this volume includes translations of 400 haiku written by 20 poets from the 17th century (Basho's school) to the second half of the 20th. For each poet there is a brief biographical and critical headnote, followed by 20 haiku.

Offers perspectives on the practices and beliefs of Greco-Roman Jews who lived outside of Palestine and beyond rabbinic control or influence. This book investigates their influence on early Christians and examines how the two communities defined themselves in relation to each another.