April 26, 2013

University Press Roundup

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

April 25, 2013

Vivien Gornitz — Welcome to the Anthropocene

“To forestall these rapid planetary transformations from bringing civiliza­tion to the brink requires a solution to the impending climate and environ­mental crisis that transcends short-term fixes. It calls for a major paradigm shift.”—Vivien Gornitz In the following excerpt from Rising...

April 24, 2013

Vivien Gornitz on Rising Sea Levels in NYC

In the following excerpt from Rising Seas: Past, Present, Future, Vivien Gornitz examines how New York City is reacting to and planning for the possibility of flooding due to rising seas. (To read the excerpt in a full screen, click...

April 23, 2013

Vivien Gornitz — Toward an Aquatic Future

“Could future greenhouse gas-induced global warming push the Earth’s climate system into an unstable mode, triggering a catastrophic meltdown of the polar ice sheets?”—Vivien Gornitz The follow post is from Vivien Gornitz, author of Rising Seas: Past, Present, Future. Superstorm...

April 22, 2013

Interview with Christopher Collins, Author of Paleopoetics

“When we feel powerfully moved by what words do to us, I think it’s because we’ve entered into some deeper, older part of us, a place of wisdom and wholeness that is preverbal, even prehuman.”—Christopher Collins The following is an...

April 22, 2013

Book Giveaway: "Rising Seas: Past, Present, Future" by Vivien Gornitz

This week our featured book is Rising Seas: Past, Present, Future, by Vivien Gornitz. Throughout the week, we will be featuring the books and their editors on our blog as well as on our Twitter feed, and on our Facebook...

April 19, 2013

University Press Roundup

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

April 19, 2013

Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp – The Dalai Lamas and the Origins of Reincarnate Lamas

Read “The Dalai Lamas and the Origins of Reincarnate Lamas,” by Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp, excerpted from The Tibetan History Reader.

April 18, 2013

Santiago Zabala – Out of Network: The Art of Filippo Minelli

Read “Out of Network: The Art of Filippo Minelli,” an op-ed by Santiago Zabala, which appeared in the New York Times blog, The Stone.

April 18, 2013

The Epic of King Gesar

A few excerpts from the Epic of King Gesar, “often described as the Tibetan national epic and as the longest poem in the world,” taken from Sources of Tibetan Tradition.

April 17, 2013

"History as Myth," by Peter Schwieger

Read “History as Myth,” by Peter Schwieger, from The Tibetan History Reader.

April 16, 2013

William Logan Poetry Criticism Quiz Answers

Columbia University Press has had the privilege of publishing two volumes of critical essays by the poet and critic William Logan, Our Savage Age: Poetry and the Civil Tongue and The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin. As...