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March 7, 2011

Craving Earth (and Ice): Sera Young on Sonic Ice

“I NEVER join these things but I really DO love Sonic Ice!!”– A post on the Sonic Ice Facebook page In Craving Earth: The Urge to Eat Clay, Starch, Ice and Chalk, Sera L. Young examines nonfood cravings described in...

March 4, 2011

Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab: Revolution and Enlightenment in the Arab World?

The following post is by Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab, author of Contemporary Arab Thought: Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective. Portions of this were also part of a BBC interview with Kassab. (You can listen to the BBC interview here.) I have...

March 3, 2011

Grzegorz W. Kolodko: New Pragmatism versus Failing Neoliberalism

“The source of the current global economic crisis lies in the failure of America’s neoliberal capitalism.”—Grzegorz W. Kolodko The following essay is from Grzegorz W. Kolodko, the author of Truth, Errors, and Lies: Politics and Economics in a Volatile World....

March 1, 2011

New Book Tuesday: A Philosophical Retrospective and Fantasies of the New Class

These books are now available: A Philosophical Retrospective: Facts, Values, and Jewish Identity Alan Montefiore Fantasies of the New Class: Ideologies of Professionalism in Post-World War II American Fiction Stephen Schryer Hermaphroditism: A Primer on the Biology, Ecology, and Evolution...

March 1, 2011

Ed Hess on the Business Revolution That's Destroying the American Dream

“Over the last 25 years American capitalism has become financialism, which is primarily transactional, unrestrained greed.”–Ed Hess, Forbes The capitalism envisaged by Adam Smith has been replaced by what Ed Hess, author of Smart Growth: Building an Enduring Business by...

February 28, 2011

Do Mayors Matter? A review of "America's Mayor" and "Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City"

In The New Republic, Edward Glaeser, reviews three recent books on New York City that explore the city’s postwar politics, finances, and efforts at urban renewal. The books discussed include America’s Mayor: John V. Lindsay and the Reinvention of...

February 25, 2011

Columbia University Press Online Access (CUPOLA)

Visitors to the Columbia University Press site will notice that many of our titles in social work, business, and economics, now include a button that allows you to access the book on Columbia University Press Online Access (CUPOLA). As...

February 24, 2011

Interview with Norma Lang, author of Group Work Practice to Advance Social Competence

The following is an interview with Norma Lang, author of Group Work Practice to Advance Social Competence: A Specialized Methodology for Social Work. Q: To what readership is the book addressed? Norma Lang.: The book is intended for use by...

February 23, 2011

Martin Murphy, author of "Somalia the New Barbary," on the Newshour

In the wake of the most recent incident of hijacking by Somali pirates, PBS’s Newshour interviewed Martin Murphy, author of Somalia, the New Barbary?: Piracy and Islam in the Horn of Africa and Small Boats, Weak States, Dirty Money: Piracy...

February 22, 2011

New Book Tuesday — Paul Offit and Antonio Gramsci

Books now available: Vaccines and Your Child: Separating Fact from Fiction Paul A. Offit, MD, FAAP and Charlotte A. Moser Prison Notebooks: Three Volume Set Antonio Gramsci; translated by Joseph A. Buttigieg Ottomans Into Europeans: State and Institution-Building in South...

February 18, 2011

Roland Barthes Concludes The Preparation of the Novel

Fittingly, our last excerpt from Barthes’s extraordinary lecture series will be his final words from his session of February 23, 1980). (For other excerpts from The Preparation of the Novel, click here, here, here, and here.) Thus, what I’m waiting...

February 18, 2011

Olivier Roy on Egypt and the New Arab World

Olivier Roy, most recently the author of Holy Ignorance: When Religion and Culture Part Ways, has written two pieces on events in the Arab world that have been widely cited and offer a counter-perspective to Western coverage. In his piece...

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