Category: New Book Tuesday

September 22, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Bombay Hustle, Quality Shareholders, and more!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! From the Film and Culture series Bombay Hustle Making Movies in a Colonial City Debashree Mukherjee Bombay Hustle presents an ambitious history of Indian cinema as a history of material practice, bringing...

September 15, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Desolation and Enlightenment

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Desolation and Enlightenment Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust, anniversary edition Ira Katznelson In this major intellectual history, Ira Katznelson examines the works of Hannah Arendt, Robert Dahl,...

September 8, 2020

New Book Tuesday! The Huayan University Network

Our weekly list of new books is now available! The Huayan University Network The Teaching and Practice of Avataṃsaka Buddhism in Twentieth-Century China Erik J. Hammerstrom In The Huayan University Network, Erik J. Hammerstrom examines how Huayan Buddhism was imagined,...

September 1, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Little Lindy Is Kidnapped and Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow

Our weekly list of new books is now available! From the Russian Library series Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow Alexander Radishchev Translated by Andrew Kahn and Irina Reyfman Alexander Radishchev’s Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow is among the most...

August 25, 2020

New Book Tuesday! One UP, The Future of Us, Social Appearances, and More!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! One Up Creativity, Competition, and the Global Business of Video Games Joost van Dreunen One Up offers a pioneering empirical analysis of innovation and strategy in the video game industry to explain...

August 18, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Human Relations Commissions and Global Entanglements of a Man

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Human Relations Commissions Relieving Racial Tensions in the American City Brian Calfano and Valerie Martinez-Ebers Brian Calfano and Valerie Martinez-Ebers examine the history and current efforts of human relations commissions in...

August 11, 2020

New Book Tuesday! A College of Her Own and Common Sense

Our weekly list of new books is now available! A College of Her Own The History of Barnard Robert McCaughey A College of Her Own offers a comprehensive and lively narrative of Barnard from its beginnings to the present day. Through...

August 4, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Oath Keepers, On the Judgment of History, and Modern Sufis and the State

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Oath Keepers Patriotism and the Edge of Violence in a Right-Wing Antigovernment Group Sam Jackson In Oath Keepers, Sam Jackson takes readers inside the world of the most prominent antigovernment group...

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 21, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Force of Words, The Diary of 1636, U.S. Strategy in the Asian Century and More!

From the Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare series. Force of Words The Logic of Terrorist Threats Joseph M. Brown Force of Words is a groundbreaking examination of the roles threats play in terrorist strategies. Joseph M. Brown shows how...

July 14, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Tortured Logic, Midcentury Suspension, American Zealots and More!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Tortured Logic Why Some Americans Support the Use of Torture in Counterterrorism Erin M. Kearns and Joseph K. Young In Tortured Logic, Erin M. Kearns and Joseph K. Young draw upon a...

June 30, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Measuring the Effects of Racism, China’s Fintech Explosion, and Universality and Identity Politics

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Measuring the Effects of Racism Guidelines for the Assessment and Treatment of Race-Based Traumatic Stress Injury Robert T. Carter and Alex L. Pieterse A large body of research has established a...