January 23, 2009

Jameel Jaffer on Rachel Maddow

Jameel Jaffer, coauthor of Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond, was on the Rachel Maddow Show yesterday to discuss the closing of the Guantánamo Bay detention center.

January 23, 2009

University Press News

It was not the best week for university press publishing with layoffs announced at Oxford University Press and the report from the AAUP about declining sales. However, and needless to say, great books continue to be published by university presses....

January 23, 2009

Paul Offit in Huffington Post

Paul Offit’s article in the Huffington Post has already garnered a lot of attention and responses. In the post, Offit points to the outbreaks of measles and other diseases that have resulted from parents not vaccinating their children due to...

January 22, 2009

The End of Black History? — By Robert L. Harris Jr. and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn

Robert L. Harris Jr. and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn are the co-editors of The Columbia Guide to African American History Since 1939 Some pundits have predicted that Barack Obama’s inauguration as the 44th President of the United States spells the end of...

January 22, 2009

David Kang Advises Obama on North Korea

The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) has published a special roundtable in which members of its editorial board offer their expert insights and recommendations on a wide array of topics and issues, including China, North Korea, Japan, Mongolia, economic...

January 22, 2009

Gastropolis Event

Contributors to Gastropolis: Food and New York City will be discussing the book and food in New York City at a special event at the National Arts Club on Monday, January 26 at 8:00 pm. The National Arts Club is...

January 21, 2009

Jeffrey Perry on History News Network

On Monday, History News Network published “The Growing Interest in Hubert Harrison,” by Jeffrey Perry, author of Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918. Perry begins the essay discussing Harrison’s relevance at the dawn of the administration of America’s...

January 21, 2009

Marc Lynch's Four Suggestions for the Obama Administration

Marc Lynch, author of Voices of the New Arab Public: Iraq, al-Jazeera, and Middle East Politics Today, offers four suggestions to the Obama administration on his blog now hosted on the Foreign Policy Web site: 1. Give the order to...

January 21, 2009

UPfront at the Seminary Co-op Bookstore

Lately, the Seminary Co-op Bookstores, located in Chicago, has been receiving a lot of attention as the Obama’s bookstore of choice. Of course for those interested in scholarly books or books in general, the Seminary Co-op is well-known for being...

January 21, 2009

Leonard Cassuto Nominated for an Edgar

Congratulations to Leonard Cassuto for his Edgar nomination in the category of Best Critical Work / Biography for Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories. The Edgars are an annual award selected by the Mystery Writers of America...

January 20, 2009

Inauguration 2009

HELLO GOODBYE Both images are from All the Art That’s Fit to Print (And Some That Wasn’t): Inside the New York Times Op-ed Page by Jerelle Kraus. Watch a video for the book for more images from the book and...

January 16, 2009

Columbia University Press Outstanding Academic Titles from 2008

Every year, Choice subject editors single out for recognition the most significant print and electronic works reviewed in Choice during the previous calendar year. This prestigious list of publications reflects the best in scholarly titles and attracts extraordinary attention from...