Monthly Archive: December, 2009

December 31, 2009

Food traditions for New Year's

On his blog Frederick Douglass Opie, author of Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America, looks at the history of some culinary traditions observed among African Americans on New Year’s Day and also provides some recipes! Opie explains...

December 28, 2009

Siddarth Kara's "Sex Slavery" chosen as most popular article of 2009

Global Policy Innovations, a publication of the Carnegie Council that explores issues of fairer globalization, recently listed its most popular articles of 2009. Leading the list was Sex Slavery by Siddharth Kara, author of Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of...

December 23, 2009

Robin Wood

We were very saddened to hear of the recent death of Robin Wood one of the most influential critics and scholars of Hitchcock and other directors such as Howard Hawks and Arthur Penn. We were fortunate to have the opportunity...

December 22, 2009

Interview with Geoffrey Kabat, author of Hyping Health Risks

The following are excerpts from a recent interview with Geoffrey Kabat, author of Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology that appeared in the Epidemiology Monitor. The November issue was devoted to Kabat’s work...

December 21, 2009

Sharing intelligence with Pakistan — A post by James I. Walsh

Every so often, we like to feature blogs maintained by Columbia University Press authors. Today, we look at Back Channels, a blog by James I. Walsh, author of The International Politics of Intelligence Sharing. As Walsh describes it, he uses...

December 18, 2009

Christopher Davidson on recent events in Dubai and the UAE

“It’s not the end of the Arab dream, it just means the Arab dream will be taking a different course now and Dubai will not be the poster boy for it.”—Christopher Davidson Christopher Davidson, author of Dubai: The Vulnerability of...

December 17, 2009

The World selects Sōseki as an international read for the holidays

One of the more interesting year-end lists comes from Bill Marx at PRI’s The World. Marx, a champion of books in translation and works published by university and independent presses, chooses a list of titles that raise the thorny issue...

December 16, 2009

Morality is not necessarily good — An interview with Hans-Georg Moeller

Q: Are you hoping to just inform readers? Give them pleasure? Piss them off? A: All of the above. Admittedly, the following quote from a recent interview in Religion Dispatches with Hans-Georg Moeller, author of The Moral Fool: A Case...

December 15, 2009

How the books saved Christmas

“Books may be going high-tech this holiday season, but that doesn’t mean, as some fear, that we’ve abandoned the cultural and economic habits they’ve helped to foster. Our Kindles and Nooks may appear to be pointing toward the digital future,...

December 14, 2009

Sibyl Schwarzenbach on Huffington Post and Rorotoko

Sibyl Schwarzenbach, author of the just-published On Civic Friendship: Including Women in the State, has recently contributed pieces to both Rorotoko and The Huffington Post. In “A Failure of Civic Friendship,” Schwarzenbach argues that the United States and its political...

December 11, 2009

Save on holiday books from Columbia University Press

From food history and the science of the oven to birds and baseball, click HERE for some holiday gift suggestions from Columbia University Press. All books are available online or at your local bookstore. Happy Holidays! SAVE 30% on these...

December 10, 2009

Experimenting with Herve This

Below is a video of a lecture Herve This recently gave at Imperial College entitled “Molecular Cooking is Cooking: Molecular Gastronomy is a Scientific Activity.” However, don’t let the word “lecture” scare you off, This’s talks, which include several experiments...