Category: Book Excerpt

September 1, 2020

Translation Month! Celebrating Works of Literature and History from Japan, Korea, and Russia

September is National Translation Month, and we’re ready to celebrate! This year’s featured books take us back to unsettling times in Japan, Korea, and Russia. Peruse the list and book excerpts below, and check back every Tuesday for a guest post....

August 21, 2020

Book Excerpt! Educating Harlem: A Century of Schooling and Resistance in a Black Community, edited by Ansley T. Erickson and Ernest Morrell

 “An outstanding collection of cutting-edge essays, Educating Harlem rewrites the narrative of twentieth-century urban education. Eschewing a single thesis or grand narrative, this groundbreaking volume shows the creativity, debate, fierce love, and impassioned determination of a community to make...

August 20, 2020

Book Excerpt! “Out of the Laughing Woods,” by Vo Thi Hao

“Long awaited in English, these stories are beautiful, nuanced translations from the Vietnamese side of the America-Vietnam War. One of the best collections I have read from postwar Vietnam, the stories illuminate the country’s darkest period with humor, shock, and...

August 19, 2020

Book Excerpt! Le Boogie Woogie: Inside an After-Hours Club, by Terry Williams (introduction)

“Terry Williams has already established himself as a master of gaining access to hard-to-reach, hidden, and vulnerable populations. He has done so again here, giving an in-depth look at a place with which most people will be totally unfamiliar in...

August 13, 2020

Book Excerpt! Social Appearances: A Philosophy of Display and Prestige, by Barbara Carnevali

“Barbara Carnevali’s concept of ‘social aesthetics’ is tremendously powerful, and explains a lot of otherwise baffling phenomena. Carnevali makes me think that the rise of Orban and Trump and the Brexit movement is better understood as a matter of social...

August 9, 2020

ASA Book Giveaway! Measuring Culture

“Measuring Culture is the canonical text we have been waiting for in the sociology of culture. It is a massive achievement that will be the definitive account on the topic for a long time to come. I’ll be thinking with...

August 7, 2020

Join Myles Thompson on a Tour of Our AOM 2020 Virtual Booth

Socially Distanced greetings, I’m Myles Thompson, the publisher for Columbia Business School Publishing, and because we won’t be together in Vancouver, I want to invite you to our Academy of Management virtual book exhibit on the Columbia University Blog. I...

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 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 17, 2020

Book Excerpt! On the Prowl: In Search of Big Cat Origins (preface)

“[An] erudite study of big cats.” ~Nature On the Prowl is a fully illustrated and approachable guide to the evolution of the big cats and what it portends for their conservation today. Mark Hallett and John M. Harris trace the...