November 5, 2019

New Book Tuesday! A Couple of Soles, Fearing the Worst and more!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! From the Woodrow Wilson Center Series Fearing the Worst How Korea Transformed the Cold War Samuel F. Wells Jr. Fearing the Worst explains how the Korean War fundamentally changed postwar competition between...

November 4, 2019

AUP Week, Day 1: Read. Think. Act.

 Today marks the start of University Press Week 2019 with the theme “Read. Think. Act”. Josh Shanholtzer (University of Pittsburgh Press) breaks down this theme and expands on the importance of each individual word. Our Science editor, Miranda Martin,...

October 31, 2019

Book Excerpt! The Politics of Secularism (preface)

“Murat Akan has given us an incredibly thorough account of how ideas about secularism have traveled between France and Turkey and how to relate these ideas to broader understandings of the relation between religion and society. His sophisticated theoretical approach...

October 30, 2019

New from Barbara Budrich!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Rethinking Teacher Education for the 21st Century Trends, Challenges and New Directions Edited by Marta Kowalczuk-Walędziak, Alicja Korzeniecka-Bondar, and Wioleta Danilewicz Gao Village Revisited is a close study of Gao village...

October 30, 2019

Q&A: Murat Akan on The Politics of Secularism

“Murat Akan has given us an incredibly thorough account of how ideas about secularism have traveled between France and Turkey and how to relate these ideas to broader understandings of the relation between religion and society. His sophisticated theoretical approach...

October 29, 2019

New Book Tuesday! Mag Men, Extraordinary Justice, The Brain in Context and more!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Mag Men Fifty Years of Making Magazines Walter Bernard and Milton Glaser; foreword by Gloria Steinem For more than fifty years, Walter Bernard and Milton Glaser have revolutionized the look of...

October 28, 2019

Announcing Our 2019-2020 Philosophy Catalog

Letter from the Philosophy Editor: It is with great pleasure that I present the Columbia University Press philosophy catalog for 2020. These books, which span subjects from aesthetics to ethics; critical life, environmental, and animal studies; Asian studies; philosophy of religion;...

October 25, 2019

Cameron Vanderscoff on Robert Rauschenberg in India

“Fall in love with Robert Rauschenberg, galactic master of art and life, through his worldwide collaborations.” ~Dorothy Lichtenstein, president of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation To close our week long celebration of Robert Rauschenberg, oral historian Cameron Vanderscoff brings Rauschenberg’s 1975...

October 24, 2019

Robert Rauschenberg from the Cutting Room Floor

“The informative and entertaining voices of this solid work are as idiosyncratic as the artist himself. This is an excellent history for fans of Rauschenberg and mid-20th-century art.” ~ Publishers Weekly Our celebration Robert Rauschenberg continues today with an inside...

October 23, 2019

New Books From Our Distributed Presses!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Columbia Books on Architecture and the City The Revolution Will Be Stopped Halfway Oscar Niemeyer in Algeria Jason Oddy. Foreword by Samia Henni. The Revolution Will Be Stopped Halfway collects Jason Oddy’s...

October 23, 2019

Q&A: Sara Sinclair on Robert Rauschenberg: An Oral History

“Fall in love with Robert Rauschenberg, galactic master of art and life, through his worldwide collaborations.” ~ Dorothy Lichtenstein, president of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation In today’s Q&A, the editor and lead interviewer for Robert Rauschenberg: An Oral History, Sara Sinclair, describes...

October 22, 2019

Make Your Acquaintance with Robert Rauschenberg!

“Fall in love with Robert Rauschenberg, galactic master of art and life, through his worldwide collaborations.” ~ Dorothy Lichtenstein, president of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation Today we are wishing Robert Rauschenberg—one of America’s most influential artists— a happy birthday. Rauschenberg is...