Category: New Book Tuesday

September 11, 2012

New Book Tuesday: A New Book by Siddharth Kara and More

Our weekly listing of new titles now available: Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia Siddharth Kara Imaginary Ethnographies: Literature, Culture, and Subjectivity Gabriele Schwab The Millennial Sovereign: Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam A. Azfar Moin...

September 5, 2012

New Book Tuesday: Americans and Macao and More

Our weekly list of new titles now available from Columbia University Press and our distributed presses: Americans and Macao: Trade, Smuggling and Diplomacy on the South China Coast Edited by Paul A. Van Dyke “Of Laws of Ships and Shipmen”:...

August 28, 2012

New Book Tuesday: Literary Critics on the State of the Field, Vietnamese Tradition, and More!

The Critical Pulse: Thirty-six Credos by Contemporary Critics Edited by Jeffrey J. Williams and Heather Steffen Heritage, Culture, and Politics in the Postcolony Daniel Herwitz Mission Revolution: The U.S. Military and Stability Operations Jennifer Morrison Taw Sources of Vietnamese Tradition...

August 21, 2012

New Book Tuesday — Beyond Pure Reason & More

Our weekly listing of new titles: Beyond Pure Reason: Ferdinand de Saussure’s Philosophy of Language and Its Early Romantic Antecedents Boris Gasparov Post-War Planning on the Periphery: Anglo-American Economic Diplomacy in South America, 1939-1945 Thomas Mills Cosmopolitanisms in Muslim Contexts...

August 7, 2012

New Book Tuesday: The Art of Philosophy, The Art of Making Magazines, and More

New titles this week: The Art of Philosophy: Wisdom as a Practice Peter Sloterdjik The Art of Making Magazines: On Being an Editor and Other Views from the Industry Edited by Victor S. Navasky and Evan Cornog Animal Rights Without...

July 31, 2012

New Book Tuesday: Revolt in Syria, Factory Towns in China, and Anna May Wong

Revolt in Syria: Eye-witness to the Uprising Stephen Starr Anna May Wong: From Laundryman’s Daughter to Hollywood Legend Graham Russell Gao Hodges Factory Towns of South China: An Illustrated Guidebook Edited by Stefan Al Nonviolence in Political Theory Iain Attack...

July 24, 2012

New Book Tuesday: Terrorism and Counterintelligence

Terrorism and Counterintelligence: How Terrorist Groups Elude Detection Blake W. Mobley Craving Earth: Understanding Pica–the Urge to Eat Clay, Starch, Ice, and Chalk (Now available in paper) Sera Young Ourselves and Others: Scotland 1832-1914 (2nd Edition) Graeme Morton Hungary Through...

July 17, 2012

New Book Tuesday: Poetry of the Taliban and The Archaeology of an Imaginary City

Poetry of the Taliban Edited by Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City Dung Kai-cheung; Translated by Dung Kai-cheung, Anders Hansson, and Bonnie S. McDougall The Science of the Oven (Now available in...

July 11, 2012

New Books Tuesday (Wednesday Edition!): Judith Butler, China, and the Matrix

Our newly released titles for the week.

July 3, 2012

New Book Tuesday: Amusement Parks, Badiou, and Deleuze

Our weekly list of new titles now available: Electric Dreamland: Amusement Parks, Movies, and American Modernity Lauren Rabinovitz Disaster Deferred: A New View of Earthquake Hazards in the New Madrid Seismic Zone (Now available in paper) Seth Stein Politics and...

June 26, 2012

New Book Tuesday: Military Masculinity in America and the Aesthetics of American Literature

Our weekly list of new titles now available: Bring Me Men: Military Masculinity and the Benign Façade of American Empire, 1898-2001 Aaron Belkin American Literature’s Aesthetic Dimensions Edited by Cindy Weinstein and Christopher Looby Dekalog 5: On Dogville Edited by...

June 19, 2012

New Book Tuesday: Modernism at the Barricades and International Poetry

Our weekly list of new titles includes Stephen Bronner’s reinterpretation of the cultural politics of modernism and several new titles from the International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong poetry series: Modernism at the Barricades: Aesthetics, Politics, Utopia Stephen Bronner To...