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...

November 15, 2012

William Duggan on Strategic Intuition

With the recent publication of Creative Strategy: A Guide for Innovation, we wanted to revisit William Duggan’s related book, Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement. In the following video, Duggan explains some of the ideas that shaped Strategic...

November 15, 2012

University Press Week Continues to Be Great!

So much great stuff on university press blogs during university press week that it’s difficult to keep up. So, in case you missed it here’s what happened yesterday: * Scott Esposito, editor of the always worthwhile and indispensable The Quarterly...

November 14, 2012

Andrew Nathan Discusses Trends in China's Foreign Policy

In the following video, Andrew Nathan, most recently the author of China’s Search for Security discusses trends in China’s foreign policy:

November 14, 2012

Celebrating the Bookstores That Make University Press Publishing Possible

As part of university press week, we wanted to shine a light on some of the independent and campus bookstores, an integral part of the university press community. Without these stores, university presses would not be able to publish what...

November 13, 2012

New Titles This Week — William Duggan on Creative Strategy Plus Great Selections from Hong Kong UP

Creative Strategy: A Guide for Innovation William Duggan Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism: History, Semiology, and Transgression in the Indian Traditions Christian K. Wedemeyer The Inquisition of Climate Science (Now available in paper) James Lawrence Powell Sex and Desire in...

November 13, 2012

University Press Week Kicks Off: Anthony Grafton, Judith Jack Halberstam, and More!

In case you missed it, yesterday was the first day of university press week and the kick off of the blog tour, which included a post from Judith Jack Halberstam on the Duke University Press, arguing for the importance of...

November 12, 2012

Columbia University Press Around the World — University Press Week

Far from being confined to the walls of academia or even the streets around Morningside Heights, Columbia University Press’s influence spreads far and wide. In fact, thanks to David Ainley’s The Adélie Penguin: Bellwether of Climate Change, between where our...