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August 25, 2015

New Book Tuesday: Pope Francis, Eqbal Ahmad, and More New Books

Our weekly listing of new books now available.

August 24, 2015

The Economic Risks of Climate Change

In the following segment from The Leonard Lopate Show, Michael Oppenheimer and Geoffrey Heal, two contributors to Economic Risks of Climate Change: An American Prospectus, discuss their econometric research on human responses to climate, and explain private sector risk-assessment tools:

August 21, 2015

Reactions to Laudato Si': The Great Gift of "Laudato Si'"

Read an article on Pope Francis’s recent Encyclical on climate change by economist Jeffrey D. Sachs, author of THE AGE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, that recently appeared in America Magazine.

August 20, 2015

Reactions to Laudato Si': Is Pope Francis Right on the Science?

Read an essay by scientist James Lawrence Powell, author of THE INQUISITION OF CLIMATE SCIENCE and FOUR REVOLUTIONS IN THE EARTH SCIENCES, on Pope Francis’s recent Encyclical on climate change.

August 19, 2015

Reactions to Laudato Si': Laudato Si and the Art of Unknowing

Read an essay by religion scholar Whitney Bauman, author of RELIGION AND ECOLOGY, on Pope Francis’s recent Encyclical on climate change.

August 18, 2015

Reactions to Laudato Si': A Significant Invitation for Discussion

Read an essay by scientist H. H. Shugart, author of FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH, on Pope Francis’s recent Encyclical on Climate Change.

August 18, 2015

New Book Tuesday: Consumed Nostalgia, Beyond Individualism, Way Too Cool, and More New Books

Our weekly listing of new titles.

August 14, 2015

Evangelicals and Doomsday: Death By Christian Rock?

Read a guest post on how evangelical Christians and Christian music artists relate to the idea of the end of the world by Shawn David Young, author of GRAY SABBATH: JESUS PEOPLE USA, THE EVANGELICAL LEFT, AND THE EVOLUTION OF CHRISTIAN ROCK.

August 13, 2015

Placing Jesus People USA Within Evangelism

Read an excerpt from GRAY SABBATH: JESUS PEOPLE USA, THE EVANGELICAL LEFT, AND THE EVOLUTION OF CHRISTIAN ROCK, by Shawn David Young!

August 13, 2015

Columbia UP Ceasing Distribution of Dalkey Archive Press

Columbia University Press regretfully announces that, as of August 31, we will no longer be distributing Dalkey Archive Press titles

August 12, 2015

To Each Philosopher, Her or His Plant

Michael Marder’s “intention behind The “Philosopher’s Plant” was to create a herbarium of ideas, collecting theories of the most important Western thinkers, from Greek Antiquity to our days, as though they were botanical specimens preserved on the pages of [a] book.”

August 12, 2015

Religious Certainty and Decision 2016

Read a guest post on evangelical Christianity and the American political process by Shawn David Young, author of GRAY SABBATH: JESUS PEOPLE USA, THE EVANGELICAL LEFT, AND THE EVOLUTION OF CHRISTIAN ROCK.