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November 4, 2021

Announcing Our 2021 Social Work Catalog

Letter from the editor: I am pleased to share the 2021 Columbia University Press social work catalog. At what we hope is the tail end of a long pandemic, this fall semester marks a return to some kind of normality....

November 3, 2021

Announcing Our 2021-2022 Science Catalog

Letter from the editor: Thank you for picking up the Columbia University Press science catalog and for supporting our mission to share scientific knowledge. As we live through a second  year of this pandemic, I’ve found a lot of comfort...

October 27, 2021

Cryptocurrency, Speculation, and How We Imagine the Future

By Gayle Rogers

Bitcoin, Dogecoin, Ethereum. Now there’s Polkadot and Pancake Swap. Much about the world of cryptocurrency can feel bewildering, like money is being conjured as a “dream within a dream,” to quote Edgar Allan Poe. In many ways, though, there’s nothing...

October 19, 2021

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

Columbia University Press, in conjunction with the Office of the Provost, is pleased to announce that I Am the People: Reflections on Popular Sovereignty Today by Partha Chatterjee is the winner of the seventh annual Columbia University Press Distinguished Book...

October 15, 2021

Reflections On Adversity: An AUP RoundUP

By Olivia Treynor

As I began writing this post around the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, the subject of conflict and recovery from tragedy felt like an urgent subject, especially given that New York and the rest of the world were observing the solemn...

October 12, 2021

Q&A: Thomas Heise on The Gentrification Plot

For decades, crime novelists have set their stories in New York City, a place long famed for decay, danger, and intrigue. What happens when the mean streets of the city are no longer quite so mean? In this Q&A, Thomas...

September 30, 2021

Susan Emanuel on Translating The Belle Époque

The cover image for The Belle Époque: A Cultural History, Paris and Beyond typifies how most people conceive of the period before 1914, when the First World War broke out. Nobody at the time used the term Belle Epoque, which...

September 29, 2021

Ukraine: Life After Nord Stream 2

By Margarita M. Balmaceda

Much has been written about the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline, the second set of lines of the Nord Stream pipeline, which transports natural gas from Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea without going through the territory of...

September 29, 2021

Presidential Pardons: A History of Healing Divisions Through Reconciliation

By Graham G. Dodds

Before the assault on the Capitol nine months ago, the question of how to deal with a domestic rebellion probably struck most Americans as an antiquarian hypothetical. After all, aside from the Civil War, the country hasn’t had much experience with...

September 28, 2021

The Tip of the Iceberg: Why Pop Culture Creators Should Dig Deep in Research

By Jordan Mechner

When I build a fictional world for a book, video game, or film/TV project, I spend months doing research. Whether the setting is history, fantasy, or the present day, my research investments always pay huge creative dividends. People sometimes think...

September 23, 2021

You and Your Profile: Identity After Authenticity

A Quiz and Book Excerpt

More and more, we present ourselves and encounter others through profiles. A profile shows us not as we are seen directly but how we display ourselves to a broader public. As we observe how others observe us, we calibrate our...

September 23, 2021

Of Understanding Experience and the Experience of Understanding

By Sonam Kachru

Time was when the words of Vasubandhu, the influential Buddhist philosopher from Peshawar (fl. late fourth–early fifth centuries C.E.), could be imagined to be part of the ecology of a place—as when the Sanskrit poet Bāṇabhaṭṭa intimated that Vasubandhu’s Treasury...

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