September 8, 2009

R. Glenn Hubbard on The Aid Trap

Here is our book trailer with R. Glenn Hubbard, co-author of The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty:

September 4, 2009

Mother Nature Network reviews Climate Change, by Edmond Mathez

Titled “A (much needed) climate change bible,” the Mother Nature Network’s review of Edmond Mathez’s Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future, extols the virtues of the book for both general readers and students. The reviewer...

September 3, 2009

David Harvey's newest reviewed in Bookforum

The Fall issue of Bookforum, now available online, includes Scott McLemee’s review of David Harvey’s Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom. In an intriguing move, McLemee situates Harvey’s work between the cosmopolitanism of Kant’s and that of Thomas Friedman, the...

September 2, 2009

Mark C. Taylor on college majors: are they a thing of the past?

This spring, Mark Taylor’s New York Times op-ed, “End the University as We Know It,” in which he referred to graduate education as the “Detroit of higher learning,” engendered a great deal of debate and a fair amount of anger...

September 1, 2009

On Thomas Berry

Thomas Berry’s The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-first Century is now available. The excitement and interest about a new work from Berry is of course tempered by the sadness of his death earlier this summer. Mary...

September 1, 2009

Another side of William Logan

Much is made of William Logan’s more acerbic side. He has been called “The Dirty Harry of the Poetry Beat” and “The Most Hated Man in American Poetry” and has become well known for his sharp, biting takedowns of such...

August 31, 2009

R. Glenn Hubbard on Obama's health care policy

Bill Clinton’s failed attempt at health care reform is frequently cited as an example from which Obama can learn from as he tries to pass his own health care reform. In a New York Times op-ed, R. Glenn Hubbard, former...

August 28, 2009

Dr. Paul Offit on Dateline this Sunday

This Sunday at 7 pm Dateline will have a special program on the vaccine “controversy.” The program will include Matt Lauer’s talk with Dr. Paul Offit, author of Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a...

August 28, 2009

Christopher Davidson's work censored (again!)

An article in Forbes highlights new difficulties for Christopher Davidson, author of the recently published Abu Dhabi: Oil and Beyond. Like his previous book Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success, which was held up in “bureaucratic limbo,” Abu Dhabi‘s release in...

August 28, 2009

Columbia University Press editor on the politics of Black hair

We were all very excited to see that “Black Hair, Still Tangled in Politics,” an article from yesterday’s New York Times featured a quote from our colleague Afua Adusei-Gontarz, an assistant editor Columbia University Press (pictured). The article discussed the...

August 27, 2009

Listening to Kristeva and This Incredible Need to Believe

We recently came upon the excellent Web site Discourse Notebook Archive, which offers audio of lectures by contemporary philosophers such as Julia Kristeva, Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, and Jean-Luc Nancy. It also includes some nice surprises such as...

August 27, 2009

Did the Columbia University Press design department start a trend?

Perhaps we are indulging a bit in hyperbole with our headline but as noted in Galleycat, it seems like other publishers are catching on to the remarkable photographs of Cara Barer. We used one of her photographs for Ted Striphas’s...