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...

October 9, 2019

Q&A: Ariel Rogers on On the Screen

“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...

October 8, 2019

New Book Tuesday! Empowering the Great Energy Transition and The Original Meaning of the Yijing

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Empowering the Great Energy Transition Policy for a Low-Carbon Future Scott Victor Valentine, Marilyn A. Brown, and Benjamin K. Sovacool Empowering the Great Energy Transition demonstrates that a transition away from...

October 3, 2019

Announcing The Winner Of The Fifth Annual Columbia University Press Distinguished Book Award

Columbia University Press, in conjunction with the Office of the Provost, honored Adam Reich, an associate professor of sociology, and Peter Bearman, the Cole Professor of the Social Sciences and director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theories and Empirics,...

October 3, 2019

Book Excerpt! The Making of a Periphery (introduction)

 “The incorporation of island Southeast Asia into the global capitalist economy was not one homogenizing process, as scholars from Immanuel Wallerstein to Daron Acemoglu would have it. Instead, local demographic, social, and political conditions determined the emergence of a...

October 2, 2019

New Books from Our Distributed Presses!

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! Agenda Publishing  Exploring the Thought of Karl Polanyi...

October 2, 2019

Q&A: Ulbe Bosma on The Making of a Periphery

“The incorporation of Island Southeast Asia into the global capitalist economy was not one homogenizing process, as scholars from Immanuel Wallerstein to Daron Acemoğlu would have it. Instead, local demographic, social, and political conditions determined the emergence of a variety...