November 29, 2012

Kara Newman Interviewed by Zester Daily

Earlier this Fall, Kara Newman talked with Zester Daily about her new book The Secret Financial Life of Food: From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets. In the interview Newman explains commodities markets and futures trading and how it affects the price...

November 28, 2012

Kerry Malawista Discusses "Wearing My Tutu to Analysis" on The Psych Files

In a recent episode on the podcast The Psych Files, Kerry Malawista discussed her book Wearing My Tutu to Analysis and Other Stories: Learning Psychodynamic Concepts from Life (written with Anne J. Adelman and Catherine L Anderson). In particular she...

November 28, 2012

Trading Places and the Secret Financial Life of Food

It is hard not to consider the topic food commodities without thinking of Trading Places (see clip below), which Kara Newman references in her new book The Secret Financial Life of Food: From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets. In The Secret...

November 27, 2012

Why Civil Resistance Works wins 2013 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order

Congratulations to Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan, who have been awarded the 2013 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order for their work on Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict.

November 27, 2012

Kara Newman's 3 Predictions for the Future of Food-Based Futures

The following post is by Kara Newman, author of The Secret Financial Life of Food: From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets My new book, The Secret Financial Life of Food, focuses on the history of agricultural commodities, including the personalities and...

November 26, 2012

Holiday Sale! Save 50% on Titles for Everyone on Your List

From peanut butter and meatballs to climate change and epigenetics, we offer some holiday gift suggestions. We are offering a 50% discount on these titles. IMPORTANT: Be sure to enter the special promotion code HOLIDAY in the space provided in...

November 21, 2012

The Science Behind Thanksgiving and Overeating

We conclude our look at the history of Thanksgiving by considering one of the darker traditions of the holiday: overating. Sure, the food is delicious and plentiful but we should know better. Are there other factors that can explain why...

November 20, 2012

Doughnuts for Thanksgiving: A New York City Tradition, Apparently

We continue our week-long (or, at least short week) feature on Thanksgiving with a quick look at the holiday’s history in New York City. In his chapter, “The Food and Drink of New York from 1624 to 1898,” from Gastropolis:...

November 20, 2012

New Book Tuesday: LoveKnowledge and a Concubine's Tale

Our weekly list of new titles now available: LoveKnowledge: The Life of Philosophy from Socrates to Derrida Roy Brand An Imperial Concubine’s Tale: Scandal, Shipwreck, and Salvation in Seventeenth-Century Japan G.G. Rowley Is Democracy a Lost Cause?: Paradoxes of the...

November 19, 2012

A Soul Food Thanksgiving

As the recent and wildly successful university press week reminded us, university presses provide readers with a wide range of new ideas and intellectual perspectives. However, as a university press with a list in food studies, Columbia University Press also...

November 16, 2012

Sheldon Pollock on the Importance of University Presses and the Role of Universities

For university post week, we offer two posts on the importance of university presses and their possible futures. The first is by Sheldon Pollock, who is the Arvind Raghunathan Professor of South Asian Studies at Columbia University. Pollock calls upon...

November 16, 2012

Jennifer Crewe on University Presses: Who Are We? What Do We Do? And Why Is It Important?

For university post week, we offer two posts on the importance of university presses and their possible futures. The first is by Sheldon Pollock, who is the Arvind Raghunathan Professor of South Asian Studies at Columbia University. Pollock calls upon...