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...

October 14, 2019

Author Event: Walter Bernard and Milton Glaser Discuss Mag Men with Anne Quito

Location SVA MA Design Research, Writing and Criticism, 2nd floor 136 West 21st Street New York, NY 10010 Date and Time: Tue, December 3, 2019 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM EST For more than fifty years, Walter Bernard and Milton Glaser have revolutionized the...

October 11, 2019

Nim Chimpsky and Noam Chomsky: Why Language Began with Words

“Herbert S. Terrace, known for his breakthrough work on the ape, Nim Chimpsky, now shines light on language acquisition in human children. In this masterful work, Terrace provides extraordinarily novel ideas about the evolution and development of the human mind...

October 10, 2019

Book Excerpt! On the Screen: Displaying the Moving Image, 1926–1942, by Ariel Rogers

“There is no other book remotely like this. On the Screen is original in the material it unearths and discusses, offering an innovative history of film and technology. It strikes an easy balance between big ideas and focused analysis, addressing unmapped screen...

October 9, 2019

New from ibidem Press!

Columbia University Press is the proud distributor of several international and domestic presses, publishing in a variety of subject areas. Below is this week’s list of new releases from our distributed presses! Ibidem Press Janet Frame’s World of Books Patricia...