January 16, 2014

August Turak on the Myth of Personal Development

In a recent article for Forbes, August Turak, author of Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks: One CEO’s Quest for Meaning and Authenticity (Columbia Business School Publishing), takes a closer look at what is meant by “personal development” and how...

January 15, 2014

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, the Book

Part of the Cultographies series, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! by Dean J. Defino explores Russ Meyer’s iconic, cult classic. (See the film’s trailer below—how could we resist?). In the book, Defino begins by describing his admiration for the film as...

January 14, 2014

New Book Tuesday: Samurai Lust, Berlin, 21st-Century China, and More New Titles

Our weekly list of new titles now available: Lust, Commerce, and Corruption: An Account of What I Have Seen and Heard, by an Edo Samurai Translated by Mark Teeuwen, Kate Wildman Nakai, Miyazaki Fumiko, Anne Walthall, and John Breen The...

January 13, 2014

Kenneth Goldsmith on Shia LaBoeuf

     “Anyone who has worked with shared and borrowed materials for a long time knows that there is a certain degree of craft involved, something LaBeouf has no clue about. Plagiarizing well is hard to do. Had he done it...

January 10, 2014

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. Contrary to the...

January 9, 2014

Choice Selects 9 Columbia University Press Titles as Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013

Every year Choice editors single out for recognition the most significant print and electronic works reviewed in Choice during the previous calendar year. Appearing annually in Choice‘s January issue this list of publications reflects the best in scholarly titles. We...

January 8, 2014

Interview with Gaurav Desai, author of Commerce with the Universe: Africa, India, and the Afrasian Imagination

The following is an interview with Gaurav Desai, author of Commerce with the Universe: Africa, India, and the Afrasian Imagination: Question: The subtitle of your book refers to the “Afrasian” Imagination. Can you explain the term “Afrasian”? Gaurav Desai: My...

January 7, 2014

New Book Tuesday: Lenin, Russ Meyer, Worlds Without End, and More New Titles!

The following titles are now available: Factory of Strategy: Thirty-Three Lessons on Lenin Antonio Negri Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse Mary-Jane Rubenstein Continental Strangers: German Exile Cinema, 1933-1951 Gerd Gemünden Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Dean DeFino...

January 6, 2014

C. T. Hsia, 1921-2013

We were very sad to learn of the death of legendary Chinese literary critic C. T. Hsia at the age of 92. Columbia University Press was fortunate to publish several of Hsia’s works including C. T. Hsia on Chinese Literature...

December 20, 2013

Interview with Nancy Warner, Coauthor of "This Place, These People"

The following is an interview with Nancy Warner whose photographs accompany text by David Stark in This Place, These People: Life and Shadow on the Great Plains. To view photographs and excerpts from the book click here, here, and here....

December 19, 2013

David Stark on Farming in the Great Plains from "This Place, These People"

In the following passages, which are accompanied by the photographs of Nancy Warner, David Stark from This Place, These People: Life and Shadow on the Great Plains look more closely at the changing practices of farming and their impact on...

December 19, 2013

VIDEO: Frederic Wehrey on "Sectarian Politics in the Gulf"

In the following video, Frederic Wehrey discusses his new book Sectarian Politics in the Gulf: From the Iraq War to the Arab Uprisings. Wehrey argues that sectarianism in the region has largely been the product of the institutional weaknesses of...