July 29, 2020

New from Our Distributed Presses! Let Them Haunt Us and Modern Chinese History, 2nd ed.

Our weekly list of new books is now available! transcript publishing From the Image series Let Them Haunt Us How Contemporary Aesthetics Challenge Trauma as the Unrepresentable Anna-Lena Werner Let Them Haunt Us analyzes contemporary aesthetics engaged in trauma and critically...

July 28, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Sachiko

Our weekly list of new books is now available! From the Weatherhead Books on Asia series Sachiko A Novel Endō Shūsaku. Translated by Van C. Gessel In novels such as Silence, Endō Shūsaku examined the persecution of Japanese Christians in different...

July 28, 2020

Q&A: Christy Wampole on Degenerative Realism: Novel and Nation in Twenty-First-Century France

“One of the smartest books I’ve had the pleasure to read in recent years. Compelling, stimulating, far-reaching, and indispensable. Degenerative Realism is a rich, illuminating concept, plugged into the French national psyche while capturing the zeitgeist of our globalized economy...

July 28, 2020

Announcing Our 2020-2021 Business and Economics Catalog

Letter from the editor: Columbia University Press is pleased to present our 2020-2021 new and upcoming titles from the Columbia Business School Publishing imprint, our economics program and our distributed lines. Columbia Business School Publishing focuses on value investing, finance,...

July 27, 2020

Webinar! SupChina’s Kaiser Kuo in Conversation with Brian Dott

 Chinese cuisine without chile peppers seems unimaginable. Entranced by the fiery taste, diners worldwide have fallen for Chinese cooking. In China, chiles are everywhere, from dried peppers hanging from eaves to Mao’s boast that revolution would be impossible without...

July 24, 2020

Book Excerpt! Universality and Identity Politics (introduction)

“Against the many theories conflating universality with positive content and violent oppression, Universality and Identity Politics illustrates how movements beyond the particular are indispensable for solidarity. Ceaseless catastrophes now rain down; McGowan boldly underwrites new political imaginings of equality and freedom.” ~Anna...

July 24, 2020

Book Excerpt! Design With Nature Now

“This exceptional book presents the enduring wisdom of Ian McHarg to a new generation. His insights, freshly interpreted in the pages of landscape designs and drawings, give me hope for the future of our planet.” ~Bruce Babbitt, Former U.S. Secretary...

July 23, 2020

Where Is the Universal?

By Todd McGowan

“Passionately yet patiently argued, Universality and Identity Politics looks back at earlier debates surrounding the universal and mounts fresh defenses of it. More than timely, this book writes to the moment.” ~Joan Copjec, author of Imagine There’s No Woman: Ethics...

July 22, 2020

Design with Nature Now and the Pandemic

By Frederick Steiner

“Like Ian McHarg’s classic Design with Nature, this beautiful and fulsome reprise of his earlier work inspires us with its sheer virtuosity. Yes, it looks back at the pioneering work of McHarg but, much more, it elucidates contemporary challenges with...

July 22, 2020

New from Our Distributed Presses! Everyday Violence in the Lives of Youth, More Powerful Together, Challenging the Right, Augmenting the Left, and More!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Fernwood Publishing Everyday Violence in the Lives of Youth Speaking Out and Pushing Back Edited by Helene Berman, Catherine Richardson, Kate Elliott, and Eugenia Canas Working with Indigenous, queer, immigrant and...

July 21, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Force of Words, The Diary of 1636, U.S. Strategy in the Asian Century and More!

From the Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare series. Force of Words The Logic of Terrorist Threats Joseph M. Brown Force of Words is a groundbreaking examination of the roles threats play in terrorist strategies. Joseph M. Brown shows how...

July 17, 2020

Book Excerpt! On the Prowl: In Search of Big Cat Origins (preface)

“[An] erudite study of big cats.” ~Nature On the Prowl is a fully illustrated and approachable guide to the evolution of the big cats and what it portends for their conservation today. Mark Hallett and John M. Harris trace the...