April 10, 2018

New Book Tuesday! Melodrama Unbound, Asia’s Space Race, and More!

Our weekly listing of new books is now available! Religious Statecraft The Politics of Islam in Iran Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar Strategies for Work with Involuntary Clients third edition Edited by Ronald H. Rooney and Rebecca G. Mirick Home- and Community-Based...

April 10, 2018

Book Giveaway! Confronting the Climate Challenge

In reflection of Earth Day, this month we’ll be featuring a title related to climate change, environmental studies, and sustainability. This week’s book is Confronting the Climate Challenge: U.S. Policy Options, by Lawrence Goulder and Marc Hafstead. Throughout the week, we will be...

April 9, 2018

Sexual Violence from the Hunger Games to Campus Rape: A Presentation at the Coalition to End Sexual Exploitation Global Summit

Last Friday, author of  Hunting Girls: Sexual Violence from The Hunger Games to Campus Rape, Kelly Oliver gave a compelling presentation about the implications of women and sexual violence at the Coalition to End Sexual Exploitation Global Summit. Her presentation begins on...

April 9, 2018

Book Giveaway! Writings from the Golden Age of Russian Poetry

In celebration of National Poetry Month, we are featuring Writings from the Golden Age of Russian Poetry, by Konstantin Batyushkov. Presented and translated by Peter France. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its translator on our blog as well as...

April 6, 2018

Fracking: Dirty Word or Harmless Technique?

“There are few words in Energy that inspire more polarized and extreme response than this one; fracking.” –Jason Bordoff, Columbia Energy Exchange This month, in honor of Earth Day, we’re featuring titles that are related to climate change, sustainability, and...

April 5, 2018

More Than a Decade of Publishing on Climate Change

It’s the first Throwback Thursday of April. Later this month, we’ll celebrate Earth Day. Did you know that Columbia University Press has been a leading publisher on the topics of Climate Change and other environmental issues for over a decade?...

April 5, 2018

The Sarashina Diary (Reader’s Edition): An Excerpt

In celebration of National Poetry Month, we are featuring The Sarashina Diary: A Woman’s Life in Eleventh-Century Japan (Reader’s Edition) by Sugawara Takasue no Musume, translated, with an introduction, by Sonja Arntzen and Moriyuki Itō.  Today we are pleased to offer you an...

April 5, 2018

The Fracking Debate: A Discussion

In January, we published The Fracking Debate: The Risks, Benefits, and Uncertainties of the Shale Revolution, by Daniel Raimi; the newest release from the Center on Global Energy Policy series.  Below is a video of the book’s launch during which the author...

April 4, 2018

The Fracking Debate: An Excerpt

This month, in honor of Earth Day, we’re featuring titles that are related to climate change and environmental studies. Today we’re presenting you with an excerpt from The Fracking Debate: The Risks, Benefits, and Uncertainties of the Shale Revolution by Daniel Raimi....

April 3, 2018

Q&A: Sonja Arntzen on the The Sarashina Diary: A Woman’s Life in Eleventh-Century Japan

Gazing at this, I might think that the snow had fallen out of season, if it were not for the fragrance of this orange blossoms tree. The inclusion of poetry in all the classical Japanese diaries is perhaps what sets...

April 3, 2018

New Book Tuesday! American Immanence, From Selma to Moscow, The Auschwitz Concentration Camp and More!

Our weekly listing of new books is now available!     American Immanence Democracy for an Uncertain World Michael S. Hogue   The Duplicity of Philosophy’s Shadow Heidegger, Nazism, and the Jewish Other Elliot R. Wolfson   From Selma to...

March 30, 2018

Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Search for an Adequate Witness: An Excerpt

Although their humble beginnings inspired comparison, Thomas’s upbringing was defined by paternal abandonment, and Hill’s, by a large and supportive family. Whereas Thomas is recalled as a boisterous consumer of porn and something of the “class clown” in his needling of straitlaced colleagues in...