December 13, 2013

University Press Roundup

Welcome to our weekly roundup of the best posts 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. With the second...

December 13, 2013

Excerpt from Natsume Soseki's Light and Dark, Part II

This week our featured book is Light and Dark: A Novel by Natsume Sōseki, translated with an introduction by John Nathan. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book, its author, and its translator on our blog...

December 12, 2013

Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks Shortlisted for a Best Business Book of 2013!

Interest and excitement for August Turak’s Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks: One CEO’s Quest for Meaning and Authenticity continues to grow. The book was recently shortlisted by 800-CEO-READ as one of the best business books of 2013 for the...

December 12, 2013

Natsume Soseki: The Merits and Flaws of -isms

Read “The Merits and Flaws of -isms,” by Natsume Soseki, excerpted from The Theory of Literature.

December 11, 2013

John Nathan's Introduction to Light and Dark

This week our featured book is Light and Dark: A Novel by Natsume Sōseki, translated with an introduction by John Nathan. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book, its author, and its translator on our blog...

December 11, 2013

Mamadou Diouf on Nelson Mandela

Columbia News recently posted remarks from Lee Bollinger and others from the Columbia community about Nelson Mandela. In the video below Professor Mamadou Diouf, director of Columbia’s Institute for African Studies and the editor of Tolerance, Democracy, and Sufis in...

December 10, 2013

Excerpt from Natsume Sōseki's Light and Dark

Read the first nine chapters of Natsume Soseki’s masterpiece, Light and Dark!

December 10, 2013

New Book Tuesday: Watchdogs, Buddhists, and More!

Our weekly list of new titles: The Watchdog That Didn’t Bark: The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism Dean Starkman Meditations of a Buddhist Skeptic: A Manifesto for the Mind Sciences and Contemplative Practice (Now available in paper)...

December 9, 2013

Author Events for the Week of December 9

A jam-packed week of events includes the continuation of Peter Maguire’s very successful author tour. Events for Thai Stick: Surfers, Scammers, and the Untold Story of the Marijuana Trade, coauthored with Mike Ritter, move on to Santa Fe and Albuquerque....

December 6, 2013

University Press Roundup

Our weekly collection of the best posts from the blogs of academic publishers around the world.

December 6, 2013

The Westernization of Chinese Food

In the epilogue to The Land of the Five Flavors: A Cultural History of Chinese Cuisine, Thomas Hollmann concludes with a look at the changes in Chinese food and eating habits. In the following excerpt he discusses the introduction of...

December 5, 2013

The Long History of the Noodle (plus a Dumpling recipe!) via The Land of the Five Flavors

As Thomas Hollmann suggests in his book The Land of the Five Flavors: A Cultural History of Chinese Cuisine, the noodle looms large in Chinese food. Below is an excerpt from the book in which he examines some of the...