December 14, 2010

New Book Tuesday

The following books are now available: Accounting for Value Stephen Penman Holy Ignorance: When Religion and Culture Part Ways Olivier Roy

December 13, 2010

China's Nobel Prize Complex, Circa 1946 — An Op-ed by Christopher Rea

In the Toronto Star, Christopher Rea the editor of Humans, Beasts, and Ghosts: Stories and Essays, by Qian Zhongshu, discusses prescient fictional works that speak to China’s recent reaction to Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel Prize. In the 1946 “Inspiration,” Qian tells...

December 10, 2010

University Press blog wrap-up

To showcase the richness of university press publishing, every so often we like to highlight interesting and provocative items from other university press blogs. Apologies for those we did not include in this installment (see the blog roll for other...

December 9, 2010

Gift Ideas and Holiday Sale Reminder

Here are some gift ideas for the various people in your life. Please remember these and all other books are currently 30% off during our Holiday Sale. Please use the coupon code CUP30. (Click here for more details): For the...

December 8, 2010

Winter Office Cleanup Contest — Free Books!

The Contest is now closed. Thanks to everyone for participating and congratulations to the winners. As you can imagine, as a book publishing company, we’ve got quite a lot of book lovers working here. And they collect books in their...

December 7, 2010

On the Anniversary of Pearl Harbor: A Post by Greg Robinson

The following is a post, published last year, is by Greg Robinson, author of A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America, now available in paper. December 7 remains, as Franklin Roosevelt predicted, a date that lives in infamy....

December 7, 2010

New Book Tuesday: Kristeva, Barthes, and the Dalai Lama

The following books are now available: Hatred and Forgiveness Julia Kristeva The Preparation of the Novel: Lecture Courses and Seminars at the Collège de France (1978-1979 and 1979-1980) Roland Barthes Inside the Red Box: North Korea’s Post-totalitarian Politics Patrick McEachern...

December 6, 2010

The Philosophy of David Foster Wallace: "Knock Yourself Out," an Essay by Matt Bucher

Knock Yourself Out Matt Bucher Dedicated followers of Wallace’s writing know Matt Bucher as the administrator of wallace-l, the David Foster Wallace listserv. He is the publisher of two books on Wallace’s work (Elegant Complexity: A Study of Infinite Jest...

December 6, 2010

Alexander C. Y. Huang wins the Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies

Congratulations to Alexander C. Y. Huang who recently won the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies for his book, Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange. The committee’s citation for Huang’s book reads: Alexander C. Y. Huang’s...

December 3, 2010

Hillary L. Chute and Lynda Barry to discuss Graphic Women

Hillary L. Chute, author of the newly published Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics will be participating in a roundtable discussion on the art of the graphic novel this Sunday, December 5, 2010 at 2:30 PM at the Philoctetes...

December 3, 2010

Holiday Sale — Save 30% on All Columbia Titles!

From now until Christmas, we are offering 30% off all Columbia University Press titles. To save 30%, add the books to your shopping cart, and enter code CUP30 in the “Redeem Coupon” field at check out. Click on the “redeem...

December 3, 2010

My Life with the Taliban author on Wikileaks

One of the documents released by Wikileaks (reprinted in The Guardian) includes a US embassy cable regarding the views of Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef a former Taliban minister and author of My Life with the Taliban. Zaeef, who has tried...