April 1, 2014

Umami, Watchdogs, Blacklists, The Hockey Stick and More April Author Events

A variety of Columbia University Press will be traveling from coast to coast to talk about their books in April. Among them are Dean Starkman, who will be talking about his new book The Watchdog That Didn’t Bark: The Financial...

April 1, 2014

The Allure of Work

This week our featured book is Survivors of Slavery: Modern-Day Slave Narratives by Laura T. Murphy. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on our Twitter feed...

April 1, 2014

New Book Tuesday! Badiou, Honneth, Blood, Beyond News, and more New Books!

New books now available: Ahmed the Philosopher: Thirty-Four Short Plays for Children and Everyone Else Alain Badiou Blood: A Critique of Christianity Gil Anidjar Freedom’s Right: The Social Foundations of Democratic Life Axel Honneth Beyond News: The Future of Journalism...

March 28, 2014

University Press Roundup

Welcome to our weekly roundup of the best articles from the blogs of academic publishers! As always, if you particularly enjoy something or think that we missed an important post, please let us know in the comments. We’ll start the...

March 28, 2014

Insects: A Sustainable Alternative to Meat

The following news report (see video below) includes interviews with coauthors of The Insect Cookbook: Food for a Sustainable Planet, scientist Arnolds Van Huis and chef Henk Van Gurp, in which they consider some of the environmental benefits of eating...

March 27, 2014

Cooking with Insects — Recipes for Hopper Kebabs and Buglava

In addition to explaining the nutritional and environmental value of eating insects, the authors of The Insect Cookbook: Food for a Sustainable Planet, also provide dozens of great recipes. Below are two such recipes. Hopper Kebabs (see image above) use...

March 27, 2014

Alfred Kadushin, 1916-2014

Recently, longtime Columbia University Press author Alfred Kadushin passed away. We will mourn his loss and his contribution both to the press and to the field of social work. The following is his obituary: Professor Alfred Kadushin, professor emeritus at...

March 26, 2014

TED Talk from Marcel Dicke on the Nutritional and Environmental Impact of Eating Insects

In the following video taken from a TED Talk , Marcel Dicke, coauthor of The Insect Cookbook: Food for a Sustainable Planet, discusses the environmental and nutritional importance of eating insects:

March 26, 2014

Jeffrey Bennett on the Recent Discovery of Inflation in the Early Universe

In the video/slideshow below, Jeffrey Bennett, author of What Is Relativity?: An Intuitive Introduction to Einstein’s Ideas, and Why They Matter, provides some context about the recent discovery of evidence for “inflation” in the early universe. He explains what it...

March 25, 2014

"There’s no reason we shouldn’t be eating insects. They’re much better for you than regular meat."

In recent interview with the Boston Globe , Marcel Dicke, one of the coauthors of The Insect Cookbook: Food for a Sustainable Planet, discussed his new book and the benefits of eating insects. Dicke concedes that there continue to be...

March 25, 2014

New Book Tuesday: Lady in the Dark, Crowded Orbits, A Semite, and More New Books!

The following books are now available: Lady in the Dark: Iris Barry and the Art of Film Robert Sitton Crowded Orbits: Conflict and Cooperation in Space James Clay Moltz A Semite: A Memoir of Algeria Denis Guénoun. Foreword by Judith...

March 24, 2014

Book Giveaway! Win a Free Copy of The Insect Cookbook

This week we will be featuring The Insect Cookbook: Food for a Sustainable Planet, by Arnold van Huis, Henk van Gurp, and Marcel Dicke on our blog, twitter, and facebook. We are also offering a FREE copy of The Insect...