October 6, 2015

New Book Tuesday: Transracial Adoption, Sport in India, and More New Books!

Our weekly listing of new titles.

October 5, 2015

An Interview with Steven S. Lee, author of "The Ethnic Avant-Garde"

“Up until Black Lives Matter, there was a lot of talk about ‘post-race’ and ‘post-identity,’ which now seems awfully naïve. I think my book helps us to grasp the ongoing salience of racial and ethnic divides, namely, by explaining how...

October 2, 2015

University Press Roundup

Our weekly links roundup of the best blog posts from around the world of academic publishing!

October 2, 2015

American Individualism Challenged

Read a guest post by George Rupp, author of BEYOND INDIVIDUALISM: THE CHALLENGE OF INCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES, in which he argues that the individualism embraced by both liberals and conservatives in American politics has a deleterious effect on both American domestic and foreign policy.

October 1, 2015

Introducing "Beyond Individualism"

Read the introduction of BEYOND INDIVIDUALISM: THE CHALLENGE OF INCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES, by George Rupp.

October 1, 2015

Interview with Jill Stauffer, author of Ethical Loneliness

Read an interview with Jill Stauffer, author of ETHICAL LONELINESS: THE INJUSTICE OF NOT BEING HEARD.

September 30, 2015

Periodization and Globalization — Jacques Le Goff

The conclusion to “Must We Divide History Into Periods,” by Jacques Le Goff.

September 29, 2015

Jacques Le Goff's Preface to "Must We Divide History Into Periods?"

“I trust I have not lost sight of the broader question with which I began, namely, whether history is a unified, continuous whole or whether it is broken up instead into segments of greater or lesser length. To put the...

September 29, 2015

New Book Tuesday! The China Boom, Marx After Marx, and More New Titles!

Our weekly listing of new titles!

September 24, 2015

The Self-Critique of a Pope

Read “The Self-Critique of a Pope,” an excerpt from Marco Politi’s POPE FRANCIS AMONG THE WOLVES.

September 23, 2015

The Face of a Parish Priest

Read “The Face of a Parish Priest,” an excerpt from Marco Politi’s POPE FRANCIS AMONG THE WOLVES.

September 22, 2015

Announcing the Winner of the First Annual Columbia University Press Distinguished Book Award

Columbia University Press, in conjunction with the Office of the Provost of Columbia University, is pleased to announce that Wael B. Hallaq is the winner of the first annual Columbia University Press Distinguished Book Award for his book “The Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity’s Moral Predicament.”