July 14, 2015

Has Hillary Really Helped the World’s Women?

Read an excerpt from THE HILLARY DOCTRINE: SEX AND AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY, by Valerie M. Hudson and Patricia Leidl, that originally appeared in Politico.

July 13, 2015

How Sex Came to Matter in U.S. Foreign Policy

Read an excerpt from the first chapter of THE HILLARY DOCTRINE: SEX AND AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY, by Valerie M. Hudson and Patricia Leidl.

July 13, 2015

My Killer Recipes for Two Sangrias — Natalie Berkowitz

Now that we’re fully into summer what could be more timely than a recipe for sangria? And, who better to provide it than Natalie Berkowitz, author of The Winemaker’s Hand: Conversations on Talent, Technique, and Terroir. Here you go: A...

July 9, 2015

Thursday Fiction Corner: Henry George and Leo Tolstoy

Read a guest post by Beatrice Collison on the fascinating connection between Leo Tolstoy and Henry George.

July 7, 2015

New Book Tuesday: Ballots, Bullets, and Bargains

Our weekly listing of new books now available: Ballots, Bullets, and Bargains: American Foreign Policy and Presidential Elections Michael H. Armacost

July 3, 2015

The Father-Daughter Relationship in Early China

Read a short post on the complicated relationship between fathers and daughters in early China by Anne Behnke Kinney, author of EXEMPLARY WOMEN OF EARLY CHINA.

July 2, 2015

Thursday Fiction Corner — A New Perspective on Virginia Woolf

As Anne Fernald suggests in her very thoughtful review of Virginia Woolf: A Portrait, by Viviane Forrester, we don’t suffer from a lack of books on or biographies of Virginia Woolf. However, Forrester’s work, which won the Prix Goncourt award...

July 2, 2015

Sheldon Krimsky on What's at Stake in Our Use of Stem Cells

Read an excerpt from the epilogue to “Stem Cell Dialogues”

July 1, 2015

The President's Stem Cells — A Dialogue from the "Stem Cell Dialogues"

“You put your finger on one of the peculiarities of the bifurcated sys­tem of ethics in our country—one set of principles for public funding and another for private funding. Embryo ethics straddles two moral universes, and scientists have had to...

July 1, 2015

The New York Times on New York Books from Columbia University Press

Our books on New York City get some shout-outs from the New York Times!

June 30, 2015

Sheldon Krimsky on the Use of Dialogue in "Stem Cell Dialogues"

The following post is by Sheldon Krimsky, author of Stem Cell Dialogues: A Philosophical and Scientific Inquiry Into Medical Frontiers In 1998 cell biology and medical research had entered a new stage of development. James Thomson of the University of...

June 30, 2015

New Book Tuesday: Postmodernism and Film

Our weekly listing of new books now available.