October 16, 2013

Laura Sjoberg — What’s Wrong with FETs? Thoughts from Gendering Global Conflict

The following is a post by Laura Sjoberg, author of Gendering Global Conflict: Toward a Feminist Theory of War. “The deployment of Female Engagement Teams seems ridiculous to me as a feminist scholar—women are not to be essentialized or instrumentalized;...

October 15, 2013

New Book Tuesday: Deaths in Venice, Yogin and the Madman, and More

Our weekly list of new titles now available: Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach Philip Kitcher The Yogin and the Madman: Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet’s Great Saint Milarepa Andrew Quintman Religion, the Secular, and the...

October 11, 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. Many publishing professionals...

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.