February 6, 2009

Happy Birthday Charles!

February 12, 2009 marks Darwin Day, the 200th anniversary of the birth of evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin. That’s a lot of candles on his cake. Donald Prothero, author of Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why it Matters is having...

February 2, 2009

NGOs in Gaza: Humanitarianism vs. Politics by Hugo Slim

Hugo Slim, author of Killing Civilians: Method, Madness, and Morality in War, recently published an essay in Open Democracy arguing that the noble urge of aid agencies to support Palestinians is too often compromised by a blind eye to uncomfortable...

January 30, 2009

Columbia University Press on Twitter

Columbia University Press is now on Twitter! Follow us as we microblog over at http://twitter.com/ColumbiaUP. We hope to see you there.

January 30, 2009

University Press Blog Round-Up

Below is our regular update of interesting posts from fellow university press blogs. Susan Campbell author of Dating Jesus: A Story of Fundamentalism on the Beacon Broadside. Post-Racial America?, an essay by John Iceland on the University of California Weblog....

January 29, 2009

Siddarth Kara Discusses Sex Trafficking on Foreign Exchange with Daljit Dhaliwal

In another fascinating interview, Siddarth Kara, author of Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery discusses why sex trafficking is flourishing, explains what steps can be taken to curtail it, and his own experiences talking with former and current...

January 29, 2009

Obama Reading Recommendations for China

It seems as if everyone has reading recommendations for President Obama and earlier this week Pankaj Mishra weighed in on the subject at The China Beat. One of Mishra’s recommendations was I Love Dollars: And Other Stories of China by...

January 28, 2009

Why Israel Has Failed to Stop Terrorism.

Yesterday, we ran an interview with Ami Pedahzur about his new book The Israeli Secret Services and the Struggle Against Terrorism. In the interview, Pedahzur explores why Israel has failed to stop terrorism despite the amount of resources it has...

January 28, 2009

How University Presses Are Surviving the Economic Downturn

In the latest issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education, Jennifer Howard examines how university presses are faring in the grim economic atmosphere—things are not so good but they’re not so bad either. While some presses have had layoffs and...

January 27, 2009

Interview with Ami Pedahzur

The following is an interview with Ami Pedahuzur, author of The Israeli Secret Services and the Struggle Against Terrorism. Q: Have you ever worked for the Mossad or any other intelligence agency? Ami Pedahzur: No. never. I was a senior...

January 27, 2009

University Presses and Fiction in Translation

Earlier this morning, Three Percent listed the finalists for the best translated books of 2008 for fiction and poetry. In the past year or so, Three Percent has established itself as one of the premier sites for reviews, news, and...

January 26, 2009

Siddharth Kara at the Carnegie Council and in the Financial Times

Over the weekend, Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery, by Siddharth Kara was reviewed in the Financial Times. In the very favorable review, Jonathan Birchall writes: In India, [Kara] argues a bungalow brothel makes an average of $12,926...

January 26, 2009

Seth Lerer Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award

Congratulations to Seth Lerer on being nominated for an NBCC Award in the category of Criticism for his book, Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter.