December 17, 2019

Book Giveaway! The Rise and Fall of the Religious Left: Politics, Television, and Popular Culture in the 1970s and Beyond, by L. Benjamin Rolsky

“Although the religious right looms large in histories of the 1970s, the struggle over religion, politics and culture didn’t unfold only on the right. In this lively and engaging study, Rolsky shows how Norman Lear and People for the American...

December 17, 2019

New Book Tuesday! In China’s Wake, The Self-Help Compulsion and Plum Shadows and Plank Bridge

Our weekly list of new books is now available! The Self-Help Compulsion Searching for Advice in Modern Literature Beth Blum The Self-Help Compulsion reveals the profound entanglement of modern literature and commercial advice from the late nineteenth century to the present...

December 16, 2019

Announcing Our Spring 2020 Catalog

Dear Readers, One of the most challenging questions we all face is how to balance thinking and action. That’s why I’m so proud to announce the books in this catalog, in which extraordinary writers and scholars lead the way in tying together theory...

December 13, 2019

Why Chimpanzees Can’t Learn Language: My Rollercoaster Experience Trying to Teach a Chimp Sign Language

“Language seems to be a miracle; even our closest relatives, the great apes, lack any capacity for the grammatical structures that make human language unique. Herbert Terrace goes further and shows that chimpanzees can’t even learn words. With characteristic clarity,...

December 12, 2019

Book Excerpt! Extraordinary Justice, by Craig Etcheson

“In this absorbing, persuasively argued book, Craig Etcheson draws on over thirty years of involvement with Cambodia and on his prolonged association with the so-called Khmer Rouge Tribunal, giving his readers a clear idea of what happened at the Tribunal...

December 11, 2019

New From Our Distributed Presses!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Transcript-Verlag From the Image series Border Wall Aesthetics Artworks in Border Spaces Elisa Ganivet Is there a deeper significance in the artistic encounter with border walls? Elisa Ganivet revisits the history...

December 11, 2019

How to Catch a War Criminal

“Extraordinary Justice is hands down the final verdict on the UN’s controversial ‘mixed tribunal.’ . . . Simply put, nobody knows more about the Khmer Rouge war crimes trials than Etcheson. This is a remarkable, three-dimensional study of the legally simple...

December 10, 2019

New Book Tuesday! Peace on Our Terms, Capitalism on Edge, The Ferrante Letters and more!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! From the Columbia Studies in International and Global History series Peace on Our Terms The Global Battle for Women’s Rights After the First World War Mona L. Siegel Peace on Our...

December 6, 2019

Book Excerpt! Social Media and the Public Interest, by Philip M. Napoli (introduction)

“Drawing on the history of U.S. media regulation, Napoli offers an insightful framework for reimagining how social media can serve the public interest. Social Media and the Public Interest is an essential text for policy makers and those struggling to reduce the...

December 5, 2019

Book Excerpt! Allies of Convenience: A Theory of Bargaining in U.S. Foreign Policy

 “Standard bargaining theories are puzzled by the ability of allies that are not only weak but also distasteful to get so much advantage when dealing with the United States. In an important contribution, Evan N. Resnick shows that the...

December 4, 2019

New from Our Distributed Presses!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Auteur From the Devil’s Advocates series Shivers Luke Aspell Shivers (1975) was David Cronenberg’s first commercial feature and his first horror film. Luke Aspell’s analysis addresses shot composition, lighting, cinematographic texture,...

December 4, 2019

Can We Still Rely on Counterspeech to Correct Disinformation in Political Advertising?

“Napoli takes up the daunting challenge of lassoing and taming the wild social media beasts that have wreaked so much havoc in democracies around the world. This book is bold, clear, and necessary. Readers of this book will gain a...