June 12, 2008

The Pesky Quiz: How Well Do You Know the History of American Attempts to Wipe out Insects?

To highlight the history of U.S. efforts to control insects we offer a quiz to test your knowledge of this fascinating story as explored by James E. McWilliams in American Pests: The Losing War on Insects from Colonial Times to...

June 11, 2008

The Hudson as Literary Muse: Frances Dunwell's The Hudson: America's River

The New Yorker’s blog on books, The Book Bench, recently featured Frances Dunwell’s The Hudson: America’s River. The post reflects on how the Hudson River has inspired key American writers such as, Washington Irving, Edith Wharton, and Herman Melville. Frances...

June 11, 2008

A Review of Olivier Roy’s The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East from "A Fistful of Euros"

We had meant to post something about this sooner but earlier this month A Fistful of Euros (AFOE) reviewed Olivier Roy’s The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East. (Read a pdf of the Roy’s introduction here.) AFOE is an...

June 10, 2008

Dr. Paul Offit on Autism and the Safety of Vaccines

Last week, parents including those associated with the group Moms Against Mercury marched in Washington D. C. to express their concerns about the possible connection between vaccines and childhood autism. The parents are also troubled by the vaccine schedule which...

June 9, 2008

Bruce Hoffman and the Feud over Terrorism

Yesterday’s New York Times “Week in Review” featured an article about the growing dispute between experts on the nature of the terrorist threat. One of the central figures in this debate is Bruce Hoffman, professor at Georgetown University’s School of...

June 6, 2008

Beer, Richard Dawkins, New York's Sexual Underworld, DJ Spooky, and More from University Press Blogs

Every so often we like to highlight books and blog postings from other university presses. The following links reveal the great breadth of what university presses publish and the fascinating reading and listening to be found at university press blogs:...

June 5, 2008

Benjamin Barber on the Clinton Legacy

With Hillary Clinton dropping out of the race and Bill Clinton recently telling a crowd in South Dakota that he may not be involved in another political campaign, attention will undoubtedly once again turn to examining the Clinton legacy and...

June 4, 2008

Religion and Other Animals: An Essay from Paul Waldau

Over the next few weeks we hope to have a series of posts highlighting titles from our Animal Studies list. Yesterday, the list’s editor Wendy Lochner wrote about her interest in the field and in recent days we’ve had three...

June 3, 2008

Why Animal Studies Now?: A Short Personal Note from the Editor

The following post is by Wendy Lochner, senior executive editor for Religion, Philosophy, and Animal Studies Why animal studies now? Like many people who are interested in the fate of animals and of the Earth, I came to this issue...

June 2, 2008

Report from Book Expo America

From Meredith Howard, director of publicity at Columbia University Press: Well, the doors have closed on Book Expo America 2008 in Los Angeles, and as always it was a great experience reaffirming everyone’s commitment to publishing, writing, and selling great...

May 30, 2008

Books, Videos, and Wii: CUP in LA and a Report from our BEA Correspondent

BOOKS Like much of the publishing world, Columbia University Press is in Los Angeles for the annual Book Expo America (BEA). At the expo, we’ll be promoting some of our forthcoming Fall titles (stay tuned for more information in the...

May 29, 2008

Last Days of the White Sale.

Please forgive our last-minute shilling, but there’s still time to take advantage of great savings during Columbia University Press’s White Sale, which ends this weekend. Save up to 80% on hundreds of titles in all subjects. *Please note all sales...