January 25, 2012 - Columbia University Press Blog

January 25, 2012

Olivier Roy: The cold choice — jobs or jihad

“In the final analysis, the victory of the Islamists is part of the normalisation of the Arab world.”—Olivier Roy In the most recent issue of the New Statesman , Olivier Roy, author of Holy Ignorance: When Religion and Culture Part...

January 25, 2012

Michael R. Powers on Risk

In his book, Acts of God and Man: Ruminations on Risk and Insurance, Michael R. Powers discusses how risk impacts our lives, health, and possessions and proceeds to introduce the statistical techniques necessary for analyzing these uncertainties. In this excerpt...

January 25, 2012

Interview with Joshua Miller, author of "Psychosocial Capacity Building in Response to Disasters"

Joshua Miller, author of Psychosocial Capacity Building in Response to Disasters, was recently interviewed as part of the Living Proof Podcast Series. Here is a description of the series from “Living Proof”: Dr. Joshua Miller discusses the many types of...

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Daily Archive: January 25, 2012

Olivier Roy: The cold choice — jobs or jihad

Michael R. Powers on Risk

Interview with Joshua Miller, author of "Psychosocial Capacity Building in Response to Disasters"