October 27, 2010

Interviews with and talks by James Rodger Fleming, author of "Fixing the Sky"

James Rodger Fleming, author of Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control, was recently interviewed by both ABC Radio’s Late Night Live as well as New Books in History. In both interviews, Fleming talks about the...

October 26, 2010

Do You Know Graphic Women? — A Quiz Based on "Graphic Women," by Hillary Chute

In Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics, author Hillary L. Chute explores the visual and verbal techniques of five acclaimed female cartoonists: Marjane Satrapi, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Alison Bechdel, Phoebe Gloeckner, and Lynda Barry. Think you know your graphic women?...

October 26, 2010

New Book Tuesday and New Additions to CUPOLA

One new book hot off the presses and now available: Audience Evolution: New Technologies and the Transformation of Media Audiences Philip M. Napoli We’ve also added some new titles to our newly launched Columbia University Press Online Access (CUPOLA), which...

October 25, 2010

Hillary L. Chute Recommends Five Graphic Narratives

In her recently published book Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics, Hillary Chute explores the aesthetics and politics of five acclaimed autobiographical comics by women. Three of those artists who she writes about in Graphic Women she also mentions...

October 25, 2010

Upcoming Events with Columbia University Press Authors

The following are some events with Columbia University Press authors for this week. For more information on author events: On Monday, October 25 6:30 pm, Steven Cohen will discuss his book Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the...

October 22, 2010

University Press Blog Roundup

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...

October 21, 2010

Video for Seth Stein's Disaster Deferred

See below for a video for Seth Stein’s new book, Disaster Deferred: How New Science Is Changing our View of Earthquake Hazards in the Midwest. For more on the book, you can also read an interview with the author, browse...

October 21, 2010

Award Winner! Triumph of Order Wins the Kenneth Jackson Book Award

The Triumph Of Order: Democracy and Public Space in New York and London, by Lisa Keller has been selected as a co-recipient of the Kenneth Jackson Book Award. Congratulations to Lisa Keller. For more on the book browse the book...

October 20, 2010

Announcing Columbia University Press Online Access (CUPOLA)

We are very excited to announce the launch of Columbia University Press Online Access (CUPOLA). CUPOLA provides quick and easy access to full-text e-books and chapters of CUP’s award-winning academic and trade publications. CUPOLA allows users to search the full...

October 19, 2010

Save 30% on Social Work Titles

We are pleased to announced a special sale for Social Work titles. Save 30% on dozens of Social Work titles. Click here for a full list of titles on sale and for more details. To save 30%, add the book(s)...

October 19, 2010

Award Winner! Ted Striphas for "The Late Age of Print"

Congratulations to Ted Striphas, whose Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control recently won the 2010 Outstanding Book Award from the National Communication Association’s Critical Cultural Studies Division. For more on the book read an excerpt...

October 19, 2010

Rorty, Graphic Women & Beautiful Circuits — New Book Tuesday

Here are some new books that are hot off the presses and now available: An Ethics for Today: Finding Common Ground Between Philosophy and Religion Richard Rorty Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics Hillary Chute Beautiful Circuits: Modernism and...