Monthly Archive: July, 2020

July 30, 2020

Book Excerpt! Rethinking Readiness (introduction)

“Covering a wide range of natural hazards and man made threats, Schlegelmilch’s book pushes us to think through the question that we ask all too often: are we truly prepared?” Daniel P. Aldrich, author of Black Wave and Building Resilience...

July 29, 2020

Book Excerpt! Degenerative Realism (introduction)

“One of the smartest books I’ve had the pleasure to read in recent years. Compelling, stimulating, far-reaching, and indispensable. Degenerative Realism is a rich, illuminating concept, plugged into the French national psyche while capturing the zeitgeist of our globalized economy,...

July 29, 2020

Why It Takes More Than Stockpiling Supplies and First Responder Training to Prepare for Megadisasters

By Jeff Schlegelmilch

“This timely book both looks ahead to the mega-disasters on the horizon—disasters that tank economies, shred infrastructure, and take lives—and outlines how communities can start preparing now. It is an essential guide for policy makers and concerned citizens alike who...

July 29, 2020

New from Our Distributed Presses! Let Them Haunt Us and Modern Chinese History, 2nd ed.

Our weekly list of new books is now available! transcript publishing From the Image series Let Them Haunt Us How Contemporary Aesthetics Challenge Trauma as the Unrepresentable Anna-Lena Werner Let Them Haunt Us analyzes contemporary aesthetics engaged in trauma and critically...

July 28, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Sachiko

Our weekly list of new books is now available! From the Weatherhead Books on Asia series Sachiko A Novel Endō Shūsaku. Translated by Van C. Gessel In novels such as Silence, Endō Shūsaku examined the persecution of Japanese Christians in different...

July 28, 2020

Q&A: Christy Wampole on Degenerative Realism: Novel and Nation in Twenty-First-Century France

“One of the smartest books I’ve had the pleasure to read in recent years. Compelling, stimulating, far-reaching, and indispensable. Degenerative Realism is a rich, illuminating concept, plugged into the French national psyche while capturing the zeitgeist of our globalized economy...

July 28, 2020

Announcing Our 2020-2021 Business and Economics Catalog

Letter from the editor: Columbia University Press is pleased to present our 2020-2021 new and upcoming titles from the Columbia Business School Publishing imprint, our economics program and our distributed lines. Columbia Business School Publishing focuses on value investing, finance,...

July 27, 2020

Webinar! SupChina’s Kaiser Kuo in Conversation with Brian Dott

 Chinese cuisine without chile peppers seems unimaginable. Entranced by the fiery taste, diners worldwide have fallen for Chinese cooking. In China, chiles are everywhere, from dried peppers hanging from eaves to Mao’s boast that revolution would be impossible without...

July 24, 2020

Book Excerpt! Universality and Identity Politics (introduction)

“Against the many theories conflating universality with positive content and violent oppression, Universality and Identity Politics illustrates how movements beyond the particular are indispensable for solidarity. Ceaseless catastrophes now rain down; McGowan boldly underwrites new political imaginings of equality and freedom.” ~Anna...

July 24, 2020

Book Excerpt! Design With Nature Now

“This exceptional book presents the enduring wisdom of Ian McHarg to a new generation. His insights, freshly interpreted in the pages of landscape designs and drawings, give me hope for the future of our planet.” ~Bruce Babbitt, Former U.S. Secretary...

July 23, 2020

Where Is the Universal?

By Todd McGowan

“Passionately yet patiently argued, Universality and Identity Politics looks back at earlier debates surrounding the universal and mounts fresh defenses of it. More than timely, this book writes to the moment.” ~Joan Copjec, author of Imagine There’s No Woman: Ethics...

July 22, 2020

Design with Nature Now and the Pandemic

By Frederick Steiner

“Like Ian McHarg’s classic Design with Nature, this beautiful and fulsome reprise of his earlier work inspires us with its sheer virtuosity. Yes, it looks back at the pioneering work of McHarg but, much more, it elucidates contemporary challenges with...