AWARD-WINNING TITLES
One Up
Capitalism on Edge
Joost van Dreunen
Albena Azmanova
Choice Outstanding Academic Title
BEST BOOK PRIZE,
How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia
Creativity, Competition, and the Global Business of Video Games
One Up offers a pioneering empirical analysis of innovation and strategy in the video game industry to explain how it has evolved from a fringe activity to become a mainstream form of entertainment. Joost van Dreunen demonstrates that
video game companies flourish when they bring the same level of creativity to business strategy that they bring to game design.
INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY SECTION, ISA
MICHAEL HARRINGTON BOOK AWARD, NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE CAUCUS, APSA
Albena Azmanova demonstrates that capitalism is not on its deathbed, revolution is not in the cards, and utopianism cannot steer us toward a brighter future—but radical change can manifest from within capitalism itself. $30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19537-9
$29.95/ £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-19752-6
$90.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19536-2
2020 296 pages 39 illus.
2020 272 pages
COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING
NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY
Buying Gay
City of Workers, City of Struggle
How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement
How Labor Movements Changed New York
David K. Johnson
Edited by Joshua B. Freeman
WINNER, JOHN BOSWELL PRIZE, THE COMMITTEE ON
WINNER, BOOK OF THE YEAR
LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL &
AWARD, INTERNATIONAL
TRANSGENDER HISTORY
LABOR HISTORY ASSOCIATION
WINNER, PROFESSIONAL PRIZE, NATIONAL POSTAL MUSEUM AWARDS FOR SCHOLARSHIP IN POSTAL HISTORY
Buying Gay reconceives the history of the gay rights movement and shows how consumer culture helped create community and a site for resistance. $26.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-18911-8
City of Workers, City of Struggle offers the definitive account of the four-hundred-year history of efforts by New York workers to improve their lives and their communities. $28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-19193-7 $40.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-19192-0 2019 248 pages 225 illus.
COLUMBIA STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF U.S. CAPITALISM
$34.00 / $28.00 cloth 978-0-231-18910-1 2019 328 pages 55 illus.
COLUMBIA STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF U.S. CAPITALISM
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