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March 10, 2011

Erica Chenoweth on the Nonviolent Resistance in the Arab Revolts

“Nonviolent resistance is about finding and exploiting points of leverage in one’s own society. Every dictatorship has vulnerabilities, and every society can find them.”—Erica Chenoweth Erica Chenoweth, co-author of the forthcoming Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent...

March 8, 2011

Arshin Adib-Moghaddam: Postmodern Islam and the Arab Revolts

Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, author of A Metahistory of the Clash of Civilisations: Us and Them Beyond Orientalism, recently wrote an op-ed for Open Democracy on the revolutions in the Arab world, in which he argues: What is striking about this moment...

March 8, 2011

New Book Tuesday: Vattimo and Hegel

The following books are now available: A Farewell to Truth Gianni Vattimo Hegel and the Infinite: Religion, Politics, and Dialectic Edited by Slavoj Zizek, Clayton Crockett, and Creston Davis Inside New York 2011 Inside New York Contemporary American Judaism: Transformation...

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...

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