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New Book Tuesday! The Terroir of Whiskey, Pleasure in Profit and More!
Our weekly list of new books is now available!
The Terroir of Whiskey
A Distiller’s Journey Into the Flavor of Place
Rob Arnold
In this book, the master distiller Rob Arnold reveals how innovative whiskey producers are recapturing a sense of place to create distinctive, nuanced flavors. He takes readers on a world tour of whiskey and the science of flavor, stopping along the way at distilleries in Kentucky, New York, Texas, Ireland, and Scotland.
Pleasure in Profit
Popular Prose in Seventeenth-Century Japan
Laura Moretti
In the first comprehensive study of the birth of Japanese commercial publishing, Laura Moretti investigates the vibrant world of vernacular popular literature. She marshals new data on the magnitude of the seventeenth-century publishing business and highlights the diversity and porosity of its publishing genres.
Ulysses by Numbers
Eric Bulson
Taking a computational approach, Ulysses by Numbers lets us see the novel’s basic building blocks in a significantly new light—words, paragraphs, pages, and characters, as well as the original print run and the dates marking the beginning and end of its composition.
Slave in a Palanquin
Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka
Nira Wickramasinghe
Nira Wickramasinghe uncovers the traces of slavery in the history and memory of the Indian Ocean world, exploring moments of revolt in the lives of enslaved people in the wake of abolition. She tells the stories of Wayreven, the slave who traveled in the palanquin of his master; Selestina, accused of killing her child; Rawothan, who sought permission for his son to be circumcised; and others, enslaved or emancipated, who challenged their status.
New from Columbia Business School Publishing!
Emerging Domestic Markets
How Financial Entrepreneurs Reach Underserved Communities in the United States
Gregory Fairchild
Gregory Fairchild introduces readers to the rising set of entrepreneurs whose efforts to reach marginalized groups are reshaping the emerging markets of the United States. He explores how minority-owned and community-development institutions are achieving innovations in consumer- and small-business-targeted financial services to further economic development and reduce inequality.
New In Paper!
Rescuing Retirement
A Plan to Guarantee Retirement Security for All Americans
Teresa Ghilarducci and Tony James
Foreword by Timothy Geithner
In Rescuing Retirement, Teresa Ghilarducci and Tony James offer a comprehensive yet simple plan to help workers save for retirement, increase retirement savings by earning higher returns, and guarantee lifelong income for everyone.
Secularism and Cosmopolitanism
Critical Hypotheses on Religion and Politics
Étienne Balibar
Going beyond circumscribed notions of religion and the public sphere, Secularism and Cosmopolitanism is a profound rethinking of identity and difference that seeks to make room for a renewed political imagination.
From the Gender and Culture Series
An Empire of Touch
Women’s Political Labor and the Fabrication of East Bengal
Poulomi Saha
Poulomi Saha offers an innovative account of women’s political labor in East Bengal over more than a century, one that suggests new ways to think about textiles and the gendered labors of their making. An Empire of Touch argues that women have articulated—in writing, in political action, in stitching—their own desires in their own terms.
