May, 2016 - Columbia University Press Blog

May 31, 2016

The New World of Male Friendship

Read a guest post by Charles Strozier, author of YOUR FRIEND FOREVER, A. LINCOLN, in which he gives an overview of the close male friendship between Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed, and explains why that friendship has become such a touchstone for controversy.

May 31, 2016

New Books This Week: Exhaustion, The Evolution of Money, and More!

Our weekly listing of new books now available.

May 27, 2016

Can Business Help Stop Global Warming and the Other Four Horsemen? — Daniel Callahan

Daniel Callahan’s list of businesses and industry partnerships trying to stop global warming and other environmental and social problems.

May 25, 2016

Fat: To Be Or Not To Be? — Daniel Callahan

Daniel Callahan, author of “The Five Horsemen of the Modern World,” on how society must address and describe obesity in new ways.

May 24, 2016

An Interview with Daniel Callahan, author of "The Five Horsemen of the Modern World"

“At the heart of the progress problem is that we usually do not want to stop progress, and don’t know how to do so even when we need to try.”—Daniel Callahan The following is an interview with Daniel Callahan, author...

May 24, 2016

New Book Tuesday: 17 Thoughts about Language, Eric Rohmer, and More!

Our weekly listing of new books now available.

May 23, 2016

Book Giveaway! The Five Horsemen of the Modern World, by Daniel Callahan

This week our featured book is “The Five Horsemen of the Modern World: Climate, Food, Water, Disease, and Obesity,” by Daniel Callahan.

May 20, 2016

“National Income” in the Encyclopaedia Of the Social Sciences

Read a short excerpt from THE POWER OF A SINGLE NUMBER: A POLITICAL HISTORY OF GDP, by Philipp Lepenies, in which he tells the story of how Simon Kuznets got his conception of national income into the 1933 edition of the Encyclopaedia Of The Social Sciences.

May 19, 2016

The Principle of Effective Demand

Read a short excerpt from ECONOMIC THOUGHT: A BRIEF HISTORY, by Heinz Kurz, in which he gives a quick explanation of John Maynard Keynes’s “principle of effective demand.”

May 18, 2016

What It's All About: A Short Primer on GDP

Read “What It’s All About: A Short Primer on GDP,” the introduction to THE POWER OF A SINGLE NUMBER: A POLITICAL HISTORY OF GDP, by Philipp Lepenies.

May 17, 2016

New Book Tuesday!: Dinosaurs, Freedom Schools, and More!

Dinosaurs: The Textbook Spencer G. Lucas The Freedom Schools: Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement Jon N. Hale The Winemaker’s Hand: Conversations on Talent, Technique, and Terroir (Now available in paper) Natalie Berkowitz Transgression in Anglo-American Cinema: Gender,...