February 19, 2016

The First Financial Commandment for the 21st Century: “Thou Shalt Not Plead Total Investment Ignorance”

Norton Reamer and Jesse Downing, authors of INVESTMENT: A HISTORY, discuss their first financial commandment for today’s investors.

February 19, 2016

Moments in Investing History You've Never Heard Of

Watch a short series of Youtube videos produced by the INVESTMENT: A HISTORY team that take a closer look at turning points in the history of investing that may not be as well-known as they should be.

February 18, 2016

Thursday Fiction Corner: Ch’oe Yun’s There a Petal Silently Falls

Russian Library editor Christine Dunbar asks how much, if any, contextualizing information should be provided to the reader of a translation.

February 18, 2016

Savvy Investors Look Back at the History of Investment for Lessons for 2016

Norton Reamer and Jesse Downing, authors of INVESTMENT: A HISTORY, discuss how investors can learn practical lessons for 2016 from investing history.

February 18, 2016

Five Archetypal Investing Mistakes That Have Bedeviled Investors Through the Ages

Norton Reamer and Jesse Downing, authors of INVESTMENT: A HISTORY, break down the five investing mistakes that they see repeated again and again throughout the history of investing.

February 17, 2016

The Investment Challenge

Read an excerpt from the Introduction to INVESTMENT: A HISTORY, by Norton Reamer and Jesse Downing.

February 17, 2016

The new and improved Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) database

Columbia University Press announces the new and improved Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) database

February 16, 2016

A conversation with Norton Reamer and Jesse Downing, authors of "Investment: A History"

Read an interview with Norton Reamer and Jesse Downing on the history and future of investing.

February 16, 2016

New Book Tuesday: Contemporary Art, Beyond the Secular West, Malaysian Fiction, Acute Melancholia, and More!

Our weekly list of new titles now available.

February 12, 2016

The Wheel: A Great Innovation?

Read an article by Richard Bulliet, author of THE WHEEL: INVENTIONS AND REINVENTIONS, originally published at the Innovation in Practice blog.

February 11, 2016

Thursday Fiction Corner: Li Ang and her “Lost Garden”

Watch an panel featuring Li Ang, author of THE LOST GARDEN, as well as her translators, Sylvia Li-chun Lin and Howard Goldblatt, and editor, Jennifer Crewe.

February 10, 2016

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Years: Striking Images From Richard W. Bulliet's THE WHEEL

“Tracking the wheel from 4000 B.C.E to the present, Bulliet argues that the traditional myth falsifies history by melding three kinds of wheel into one. Rather than a “viral” tool that changed the world, different wheels serviced particular niches–mine-cars, children’s...