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...

October 22, 2019

New Book Tuesday! Cook, Taste, Learn; Reforming Modernity And More!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Reforming Modernity Ethics and the New Human in the Philosophy of Abdurrahman Taha Wael B. Hallaq Reforming Modernity is a sweeping intellectual history and philosophical reflection built around the work of the...

October 21, 2019

Announcing Our 2019-2020 Social Work Catalog

Letter from the editor: I am pleased to share the 2019-2020 Columbia University Press social work catalog. If I were to pick a theme tying these books together, it would be “social work in an anxious age.” In politically precarious times, when...

October 18, 2019

Celebrating the Ten-Year Anniversary of Global Corporate Governance and U.S. Corporate Governance

In 2007, Columbia Business School Publishing, an imprint of Columbia University Press was founded in concert with Columbia Business School. Its mission mirrors that of the Graduate School of Business— to bridge academic research and business practice, reaching the global...

October 17, 2019

Book Excerpt! Modern Things on Trial (prologue)

“By tracing the evolution of ‘laissez-faire Salafism’ in response to consumer concerns about the religious status of new commodities and technologies, Halevi positions Islam’s modern reformation as driven more by materialist than ideational forces. This is a highly original rethinking of...

October 16, 2019

Q&A: Leor Halevi on Modern Things on Trial

“This nuanced, meticulously researched, yet accessible study illuminates how significant early-twentieth-century debates on Islamic law often revolved around some surprisingly ordinary objects and how local anxieties and input shaped a reformist Islam with transregional appeal. Halevi’s focus on the material...

October 16, 2019

New From Our Distributed Presses! Gao Village Revisited and Signal. Image. Architecture.

Our weekly list of new books is now available! The Chinese University Press Gao Village Revisited The Life of Rural People in Contemporary China Mobo C. F. Gao Gao Village Revisited is a close study of Gao village twenty years...

October 15, 2019

New Book Tuesday! Educating Harlem, The Art of Ideas, and More!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Educating Harlem A Century of Schooling and Resistance in a Black Community Edited by Ansley T. Erickson and Ernest Morrell Educating Harlem brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars to consider the...

October 14, 2019

Announcing Our 2019-2020 Science Catalog

 Letter from the editor: Please allow me to introduce myself as the new acquiring editor for the physical and life sciences at Columbia University Press. I’m excited to present the latest science catalog, our first since I joined the press in...