October 6, 2014

This Week's Author Events — Blood, The Hockey Stick, Vital Conversations, Lady in the Dark, and More!

Check out our great author events for the week of October 6th.

October 6, 2014

The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov

In the following video, Jeremi Szaniawski talks with Dominique Nasta (ULB) about his book The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov: Figures of Paradox:

October 3, 2014

How Poverty and Income Disparities Influences Doctor-Patient Relations — Dennis Rosen

Dennis Rosen, author of “Vital Conversations: Improving Communication Between Doctors and Patients,” explores how socioeconomic disparities affect communication between doctor and patient.

October 2, 2014

A Doctor, a Rabbi and a Chicken — Dennis Rosen

Dennis Rosen, author of “Vital Conversations: Improving Communication Between Doctors and Patients,” explains how an encounter between a patient, a rabbi, and a chicken shaped his approach to medicine and treating patients.

October 2, 2014

Thursday Fiction Corner: Interview with Adda Djorup, a Contributor to Best European Fiction 2015

Read an interview with Danish writer Adda Djorup, a contributor to Dalkey Archive’s just-published “Best European Fiction 2015”

October 1, 2014

Staying Out of the Hospital — Dennis Rosen

The following post is by Dennis Rosen, author of Vital Conversations: Improving Communication Between Doctors and Patients Hopefully, all of you will live long and healthy lives that will end peacefully in your sleep sometime after seeing your youngest great-grandchild...

October 1, 2014

October Author Events: Joseph Stiglitz, Herve This, and More!

Check out our latest and greatest author events!

September 30, 2014

To the Point: A New E-book Series from Columbia University Press

                  Columbia University Press is proud to announce the launch of To the Point an exciting new e-book series that extends the scholarship of our authors for a growing global and digital audience. We present standalone chapters from the press’s...

September 30, 2014

Interview with Dennis Rosen, author of "Vital Conversations"

The following is an interview with Dennis Rosen, author of Vital Conversations: Improving Communication Between Doctors and Patients: Question: So what is Vital Conversations about? Dennis Rosen: Vital Conversations is about why good communication between doctors and patients is so...

September 30, 2014

New Book Tuesday: Buffett, Best European Fiction, and More New Books!

Our weekly listing of new titles: Berkshire Beyond Buffett: The Enduring Value of Values Lawrence A. Cunningham Schools for Conflict or for Peace in Afghanistan Dana Burde After the Silents: Hollywood Film Music in the Early Sound Era, 1926-1934 Michael...

September 29, 2014

Flying Dinosaurs Challenge

Take a challenge on flying dinosaurs written specially for the CUP blog by John Pickrell, author of FLYING DINOSAURS!

September 26, 2014

From Radio to Film … And Beyond — Rey Chow

“Long before I came to study film academically, these visits [to my mother’s film studios] had opened my eyes to the utterly fragmentary making of the artwork in the age of technical reproducibility.”—Rey Chow We conclude our week-long feature on...