Category: Reference

September 8, 2022

Q&A: Giuseppe Caruso on The Botany of Beer

Pour a pint, and read about its incredible plant origins. Giuseppe Caruso’s The Botany of Beer: An Illustrated Guide to More Than 500 Plants Used in Brewing provides a lovely look into the raw materials that can spice up your...

March 16, 2021

Three Things You Can do to Make Your Data Tables More Visual

By Jonathan Schwabish

Tables are different from graphs and charts. Charts are meant to present a quick, visual representation of data. But tables are drill-downs, an outlay of all the data down to their exact values or estimates. Tables are not always the...

February 9, 2018

Reference in the Age of Technology: The Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry Online

Yesterday we introduced you to a hefty product of the past. Today we’d like to tell you about the present. Modern technology has paved the way to dynamic databases like The Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry Online. Accessible anytime, anywhere,...

February 8, 2018

Columbia University Press: A Quasquicentennial

Did you know that 2018 is CUP’s quasquicentennial? (Hint: the meaning of that word is in our new social media logo.) In honor of this great feat, we’re going to be treating you all to an inside look at CUP...

March 3, 2010

Need the right quote? There's an app for that!

The Columbia World of Quotations is now available as app for the iPhone, and features 65,000 quotations by more than 5,000 authors covering 3,000 years—from Bella Abzug to Frank Zappa and Galileo to Themistocles. The application is based on an...

March 17, 2008

Books to bring out the Irish in you

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! In honor of the Irish today we bring you books that celebrate the achievements of the Irish and Irish-Americans. We begin with acclaimed The Columbia Guide to Irish American History by Timothy J. Meagher. Named a...

February 12, 2008

The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama Wins the PSP Award for Best Reference Work

On February 7th, the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers named The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama, edited by Gabrielle H. Cody and Evert Sprinchorn, as Best of Reference for 2007 as part of the...