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Columbia Alumni News

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1006 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015010798547

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Columbia Alumni News

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Electronic
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU09125248

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Inside the Upheaval of Journalism

Author : Ted Gest,Dotty Brown
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1433167778

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Inside the Upheaval of Journalism by Ted Gest,Dotty Brown Pdf

In the spring of 1969, 101 students received master's degrees from Columbia University's prestigious School of Journalism, where they had learned the trade as it was then practiced. Most hoped to start a career in newspapers, radio, television or magazines, the established forms of journalism of that era. Little did they realize how the news world they were entering would be upended by the internet and by the social forces that would sweep through the country over the next 50 years. This book tells the story of the news media revolution through the eyes of those in the Class of 1969 who lived it and helped make it happen. It is an insider's look at the reshaping of the Fourth Estate and the information Americans now get and don't get--crucial aspects of the vibrancy of democracy.

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Author : Laurence Lippsett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSD:31822023542483

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Columbia Alumni News

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015080034146

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From Immigrant to Inventor

Author : Michael Pupin
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781602069527

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Michael Pupin's was a genuinely American story, the lifelong journey of a boy from rural Serbia, from a town so tiny it appeared on no maps, who became one of the greatest scientists of the early 20th century, changing the lives of people the world over with his technological innovations-he invented the therapeutic X-ray and made telephone communications practical and inexpensive-and helping to invent the modern world we know today. First published in 1922, Pupin's autobiography won the Pulitzer Prize in 1924, but Pupin's insightful and incisive words are their own greatest recommendation. American physicist and writer MICHAEL IDVORSKY PUPIN (1858-1935) was born in Serbia and emigrated to the United States as a teenager. As a professor and researcher at Columbia University, he invented sonar and made important discoveries in the fields of X-ray physics and telecommunications.

Underwriters of the United States

Author : Hannah Farber
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469663647

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Unassuming but formidable, American maritime insurers used their position at the pinnacle of global trade to shape the new nation. The international information they gathered and the capital they generated enabled them to play central roles in state building and economic development. During the Revolution, they helped the U.S. negotiate foreign loans, sell state debts, and establish a single national bank. Afterward, they increased their influence by lending money to the federal government and to its citizens. Even as federal and state governments began to encroach on their domain, maritime insurers adapted, preserving their autonomy and authority through extensive involvement in the formation of commercial law. Leveraging their claims to unmatched expertise, they operated free from government interference while simultaneously embedding themselves into the nation's institutional fabric. By the early nineteenth century, insurers were no longer just risk assessors. They were nation builders and market makers. Deeply and imaginatively researched, Underwriters of the United States uses marine insurers to reveal a startlingly original story of risk, money, and power in the founding era.

The Loss of Hindustan

Author : Manan Ahmed Asif
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674987906

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A field-changing history explains how the subcontinent lost its political identity as the home of all religions and emerged as India, the land of the Hindus. Did South Asia have a shared regional identity prior to the arrival of Europeans in the late fifteenth century? This is a subject of heated debate in scholarly circles and contemporary political discourse. Manan Ahmed Asif argues that Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the Republic of India share a common political ancestry: they are all part of a region whose people understand themselves as Hindustani. Asif describes the idea of Hindustan, as reflected in the work of native historians from roughly 1000 CE to 1900 CE, and how that idea went missing. This makes for a radical interpretation of how India came to its contemporary political identity. Asif argues that a European understanding of India as Hindu has replaced an earlier, native understanding of India as Hindustan, a home for all faiths. Turning to the subcontinent’s medieval past, Asif uncovers a rich network of historians of Hindustan who imagined, studied, and shaped their kings, cities, and societies. Asif closely examines the most complete idea of Hindustan, elaborated by the early seventeenth century Deccan historian Firishta. His monumental work, Tarikh-i Firishta, became a major source for European philosophers and historians, such as Voltaire, Kant, Hegel, and Gibbon during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Yet Firishta’s notions of Hindustan were lost and replaced by a different idea of India that we inhabit today. The Loss of Hindustan reveals the intellectual pathways that dispensed with multicultural Hindustan and created a religiously partitioned world of today.

Harlem vs. Columbia University

Author : Stefan M. Bradley
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252090585

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Harlem vs. Columbia University by Stefan M. Bradley Pdf

In 1968–69, Columbia University became the site for a collision of American social movements. Black Power, student power, antiwar, New Left, and Civil Rights movements all clashed with local and state politics when an alliance of black students and residents of Harlem and Morningside Heights openly protested the school's ill-conceived plan to build a large, private gymnasium in the small green park that separates the elite university from Harlem. Railing against the university's expansion policy, protesters occupied administration buildings and met violent opposition from both fellow students and the police. In this dynamic book, Stefan M. Bradley describes the impact of Black Power ideology on the Students' Afro-American Society (SAS) at Columbia. While white students--led by Mark Rudd and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)--sought to radicalize the student body and restructure the university, black students focused on stopping the construction of the gym in Morningside Park. Through separate, militant action, black students and the black community stood up to the power of an Ivy League institution and stopped it from trampling over its relatively poor and powerless neighbors. Comparing the events at Columbia with similar events at Harvard, Cornell, Yale, and the University of Pennsylvania, Bradley locates this dramatic story within the context of the Black Power movement and the heightened youth activism of the 1960s. Harnessing the Civil Rights movement's spirit of civil disobedience and the Black Power movement's rhetoric and methodology, African American students were able to establish an identity for themselves on campus while representing the surrounding black community of Harlem. In doing so, Columbia's black students influenced their white peers on campus, re-energized the community's protest efforts, and eventually forced the university to share its power.

Rescuing Socrates

Author : Roosevelt Montas
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691224398

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A Dominican-born academic tells the story of how the Great Books transformed his life—and why they have the power to speak to people of all backgrounds What is the value of a liberal education? Traditionally characterized by a rigorous engagement with the classics of Western thought and literature, this approach to education is all but extinct in American universities, replaced by flexible distribution requirements and ever-narrower academic specialization. Many academics attack the very idea of a Western canon as chauvinistic, while the general public increasingly doubts the value of the humanities. In Rescuing Socrates, Dominican-born American academic Roosevelt Montás tells the story of how a liberal education transformed his life, and offers an intimate account of the relevance of the Great Books today, especially to members of historically marginalized communities. Montás emigrated from the Dominican Republic to Queens, New York, when he was twelve and encountered the Western classics as an undergraduate in Columbia University’s renowned Core Curriculum, one of America’s last remaining Great Books programs. The experience changed his life and determined his career—he went on to earn a PhD in English and comparative literature, serve as director of Columbia’s Center for the Core Curriculum, and start a Great Books program for low-income high school students who aspire to be the first in their families to attend college. Weaving together memoir and literary reflection, Rescuing Socrates describes how four authors—Plato, Augustine, Freud, and Gandhi—had a profound impact on Montás’s life. In doing so, the book drives home what it’s like to experience a liberal education—and why it can still remake lives.

3 Sections

Author : Vijay Seshadri
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781555973452

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* Winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry * The long-awaited third poetry book by Vijay Seshadri, "one of the most respected poets working in America today" (Time Out New York) Vijay Seshadri's new poetry is assured and expert, his line as canny as ever. In an array of poetic forms from the rhyming lyric to the philosophical meditation to the prose essay, 3 Sections confronts perplexing divisions of contemporary life—a wayward history, an indeterminate future, and a present condition of wanting to outthink time. This is an extraordinary book, witty and vivacious, by one of America's best poets.

Death in the Afternoon

Author : Peter Benjaminson
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015012066091

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The first book ever written on the decline of big-city afternoon newspapers in America.

Columbia University Quarterly

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X030605770

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Vol. 6 includes 150th anniversary number.

No Better Home?

Author : David Koffman
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781487531119

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No Better Home? by David Koffman Pdf

This book begins with an audacious question: Has there ever been a better home for Jews than Canada? By certain measures, Canada might be the most socially welcoming, economically secure, and religiously tolerant country for Jews in the diaspora, past or present. No Better Home? takes this question seriously, while also exploring the many contested meanings of the idea of "home." Contributors to the volume include leading scholars of Canadian Jewish life as well as eminent Jewish scholars writing about Canada for the first time. The essays compare Canadian Jewish life with the quality of life experienced by Jews in other countries, examine Jewish and non-Jewish interactions in Canada, analyse specific historical moments and literary texts, reflect deeply personal histories, and widen the conversation about the quality and timbre of the Canadian Jewish experience. No Better Home? foregrounds Canadian Jewish life and ponders all that the Canadian experience has to teach about Jewish modernity.

Princeton Alumni Weekly

Author : Anonim
Publisher : princeton alumni weekly
Page : 1022 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101081976738

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