January 19, 2012

New Book Tuesday (Thursday edition)

Sorry for the delayed posting and only two new books from our weekly list of new titles: Readings of the Platform Sutra Edited by Morten Schlütter and Stephen F. Teiser Ratnakirti’s Proof of Momentariness by Positive Correlation (Ksanabhangasiddhi Anvayatmika): Transliteration,...

January 18, 2012

Siddharth Kara on How to End Sex Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery

Last week Siddharth Kara, author of Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery, was interviewed by Rahim Kanani on forbes.com. Kara who advises the U.N., the U.S. government , and other governments on anti-slavery research and policy, describes how...

January 18, 2012

Michael Mann, author of "The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars" on Up With Chris Hayes

Michael E. Mann, author of the forthcoming The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines, was recently on Up With Chris Hayes to discuss climate warming and its deniers. Michael E. Mann suggests that what we...

January 17, 2012

Jonathan Lyons, author of Islam Through Western Eyes takes the Page 99 Test

This week our featured book will be Islam Through Western Eyes: From the Crusades to the War on Terrorism, by Jonathan Lyons. In conjunction with the publication of his book, Lyons took The Page 99 Test in which he read...

January 13, 2012

Julia Kristeva on the Legacies of the Severed Head

In the concluding chapter to The Severed Head: Capital Visions, Julia Kristeva speculates on some of the meanings and legacies of representations of sacrifice and the severed head: Because the sacred, or the nostalgia for it that remains, turns out...

January 11, 2012

Julia Kristeva: Two Severed Heads from The Severed Head

   In the following passage from The Severed Head: Capital Visions, Julia Kristeva explores the iconography and symbolism of beheadings during the French Revolution: More Roman, Marat takes great pleasure in what he believes to be the “serene joy” of...

January 11, 2012

Designing for Growth Named a Best Business Book

Congratulations to Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie authors of Designing for Growth: A Design Toolkit for Managers, which was named as a Best Business Book for 2011 in the management category by 800-CEO-READ. From 800CEOREAD: Most managers probably don’t consider...

January 10, 2012

Dean Starkman on the "CNBC-ization" of Business News

In the most recent issue of the Columbia Journalism Review, Dean Starkman, co-editor of the forthcoming The Best Business Writing 2012, writes about the development and the recent history of the business press In the article, A Narrowed Gaze: How...

January 10, 2012

Julia Kristeva Free Book Giveaway

This week we will be featuringThe Severed Head: Capital Visions by Julia Kristeva and in conjunction with this, we are also giving away other titles by Kristeva. To enter the giveaway please submit by email your name and mailing address...

January 10, 2012

New Book Tuesday: The Kitchen as Laboratory, Globalectics & More

The Kitchen as Laboratory: Reflections on the Science of Food and Cooking Edited by Cesar Vega, Job Ubbink, and Erik van der Linden Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing Ngugi wa Thiong’o Nomadic Theory: The Portable Rosi Braidotti Rosi...

January 9, 2012

Julia Kristeva on The Severed Head

“That is how the guillotine of history falls, sparing neither men nor works.”—Julia Kristeva This week we will be featuring The Severed Head: Capital Visions by Julia Kristeva. In her newest book, Kristeva explores artistic representations of severed heads from...

January 9, 2012

Jennifer Crewe on University Presses' Commitment to Translation

The following is a letter from Columbia University Press’s editorial director and associate director Jennifer Crewe in response to a recent article in The Chronicle Review on books in translation. I would otherwise wholeheartedly applaud Carlin Romano’s article “American Readers’...