October 11, 2013

"Potency and Ontology: Heidegger and Spinoza," by Antonio Negri

This week our featured book is Spinoza for Our Time: Politics and Postmodernity, by Antonio Negri, translated by William McCuaig and with a foreword by Rocco Gangle. For the final day of our week-long feature, we’ve excerpted Negri’s chapter comparing...

October 10, 2013

Antonio Negri in conversation with Gabriele Fadini

This week our featured book is Spinoza for Our Time: Politics and Postmodernity, by Antonio Negri, translated by William McCuaig and with a foreword by Rocco Gangle. We’ve excerpted brief parts of a longer conversation between Antonio Negri and Gabriele...

October 10, 2013

"Crusades Against Science 101" with Michael Mann

The election between Ken Cuccinelli and Terry McAuliffe for Governor of Virginia is one of the most closely watched and hotly contested races this election season. Michael Mann, author of The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the...

October 9, 2013

Rocco Gangle on Spinoza and Negri

This week our featured book is Spinoza for Our Time: Politics and Postmodernity, by Antonio Negri, translated by William McCuaig and with a foreword by Rocco Gangle. Today, we have Rocco Gangle’s foreword to Negri’s text. In his essay, Gangle...

October 9, 2013

New Series in American-East Asian Relations

Columbia University Press is pleased to announce the creation of the Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and Warren I. Cohen Books on American–East Asian Relations series. The series is named after noted diplomatic historians and Columbia University Press authors Nancy Bernkopf Tucker...

October 8, 2013

"Spinoza and Us," by Antonio Negri

This week our featured book is Spinoza for Our Time: Politics and Postmodernity, by Antonio Negri, translated by William McCuaig and with a foreword by Rocco Gangle. Today, we have an excerpt from the introduction of Spinoza for Our Time,...

October 8, 2013

New Book Tuesday: African American Children, Chinese Youth, and The Silence of the Lambs

African American Children and Families in Child Welfare: Cultural Adaptation of Services Ramona W. Denby and Carla M. Curtis The Silence of the Lambs Barry Forshaw The Lost Generation: The Rustification of Chinese Youth (1968–1980) Michel Bonin

October 7, 2013

Interview with Michael Emmerich, author of The Tale of Genji: Translation, Canonization, and World Literature

The following is an interview with Michael Emmerich, author of The Tale of Genji: Translation, Canonization, and World Literature. In the interview, Emmerich discusses, among other subjects, how The Tale of Genji became a classic of Japanese literature, how it...

October 4, 2013

University Press Roundup

Our weekly roundup of the best blog posts from around the world of academic publishing.

October 4, 2013

King: Four Design Thinking Tools for Engaging Your Team

This week our featured book is Solving Problems with Design Thinking: Ten Stories of What Works, by Jeanne Liedtka, Andrew King, and Kevin Bennett. Today, we feature a Aug 2013 article by Andrew King, co-author of “Solving Problems with Design...

October 3, 2013

Kevin Bennett on How Design Thinking Leads to Better Planning

In an August 2013 Forbes article Kevin Bennett, co-author with Jeanne Liedtka and Andrew King of of Solving Problems with Design Thinking: 10 Stories of What Works,” explains how design thinking can create a better understanding of today to get...

October 2, 2013

Jeanne Liedtka on the "Moses Myth" of Innovation

Today we continue our week-long feature of Solving Problems with Design Thinking: Ten Stories of What Works, by Jeanne Liedtka, Andrew King, and Kevin Bennett and published by Columbia Business School Publishing. (And don’t forget to enter our book giveaway...