Author: Columbia University Press

April 23, 2020

Origin Stories

By Mike Chasar

“A persuasive, thoroughly researched, memorable, and often delightful book. Mike Chasar has excelled in his ambitious coverage of primary sources. Moreover, this is a book that addresses questions that come up frequently in the poetry world about where and why...

April 22, 2020

New from Our Distributed Presses! Restless Ideas

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Fernwood Publishing Restless Ideas Contemporary Social Theory in an Anxious Age Tony Simmons How do we make sense of the rise of political strongmen like Trump and Erdoğan, or the increase...

April 22, 2020

Picturing Wilderness

By James Clarke

“Examines Cameron’s place in the transitional paradigm of a post-analogue, posthuman, and painterly cinema where impossible bodies are rendered through reassuringly old-fashioned narrative and spectacular conventions that have made his films the biggest on the planet. This comprehensive study outlines...

April 21, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Away from Chaos, Climate Change Science and more!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Away from Chaos The Middle East and the Challenge to the West Gilles Kepel. Translated by Henry Randolph. Away from Chaos is a sweeping political history of four decades of Middle...

April 17, 2020

Book Excerpt! Capital and the Common Good, by Georgia Levenson Keohane (introduction)

 “Keohane weaves together case studies from around the globe that illustrate the immense potential of market mechanisms to more effectively use public, philanthropic, and private sector funds to address the world’s seismic challenges. Capital and the Common Good should...

April 16, 2020

Book Excerpt! Make It the Same, by Jacob Edmond (introduction)

“With its revisionist echoes of Pound’s ‘make it new,’ Make It the Same is theoretically generative for thinking about modernist, contemporary, and world literature. Edmond powerfully demonstrates how the new media of repetition have generated a poetics of the same, a ‘copy...

April 16, 2020

Why Stakeholder Capitalism Is a Good Bet in Times of Crisis

By Georgia Levenson Keohane

“Capital and the Common Good shows we are living in a time where financial tools can expand to solve some of the world’s most vexing problems. This book is packed with information and inspiration.” ~Robert J. Shiller, Nobel Laureate in...

April 15, 2020

New from Our Distributed Presses!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Scenario Planning for Cities and Regions Managing and Envisioning Uncertain Futures Robert Goodspeed This book offers the first in-depth examination of scenario planning. This urban and...

April 15, 2020

Verse Versus Virus

By Jacob Edmond

“Make It the Same rebuts the notion that formal word-games are a decadent first-world hobby. It is an empirically broad, thoughtfully constructed, well-written, timely book about an important subject: a technical ‘mode of production’ prominent in contemporary poetry, with its...

April 14, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Friend, No Finish Line, and The Life of Imagination

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Friend A Novel from North Korea Paek Nam-nyong. Translated by Immanuel Kim Paek Nam-nyong’s Friend is a tale of marital intrigue, abuse, and divorce in North Korea. This groundbreaking translation of...

April 11, 2020

A Thank You Message to All the Essential Workers

 For Columbians, the fight against coronavirus in New York City—and worldwide—is personal. As part of the Columbia community we send our appreciation and admiration for all of you essential workers fighting to keep us fed, safe and healthy during...

April 9, 2020

Book Excerpt! The Greening of Asia, By Mark L. Clifford (introduction)

“With wisdom and insights sprinkled throughout, The Greening of Asia demonstrates that innovation and a core commitment to sustainability are beginning to build a greener prosperity in the world’s fastest growing region…. A well-researched, hopeful book.” ~Doug Ogden, Asian Review of Books...