April 10, 2019

Book Excerpt and Reviews! The Ecocentrists: A History of Radical Environmentalism

“Woodhouse deftly brings together the intellectual history of the many threads of American environmentalism with the thinkers, the activists, the organizations, and the issues that have charged environmental politics since the 1960s. Required reading for anyone with a serious interest...

April 9, 2019

Book Excerpt! The Shahnameh: The Persian Epic as World Literature (preface)

“A major achievement. With wit and erudition, Hamid Dabashi has pushed open one of the great locked doors of world literature: the Shahnameh. In bringing the central work of Persian literature vividly to life, he also offers us a new way...

April 9, 2019

New Book Tuesday! Reassembling Motherhood, Nostalgia for the Future, The Informal Economy, And More!

Our list of new books is now available! Emancipation After Hegel Achieving a Contradictory Revolution Todd McGowan Plate Tectonics and Great Earthquakes 50 Years of Earth-Shaking Events Lynn R. Sykes The Designing for Growth Field Book A Step-by-Step Project Guide,...

April 8, 2019

Media Roundup: Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence

“In often witty and humorous language, Timothy Morton provides a kind of affective atlas for the human era. The book calls for scholars to recognize the structures of entwinement between (the human) species and ecological phenomena and to develop modes...

April 5, 2019

Book Excerpt! The Fall of the Wild: Extinction, De-Extinction, and the Ethics of Conservation

“The central ethical question addressed by Minteer is not only how far we might go to prevent biological extinction but also how far should we go. He comes to this conundrum as a distinguished environmental philosopher with a broad and...

April 5, 2019

Media Roundup: Ghalib: Selected Poems and Letters

“Ghalib is the first ample and compact introduction to the Urdu oeuvre of the last great ‘Mughal’ poet of India. It fills a long-felt lacuna, and does so admirably well. The translators have provided all that a reader might need to...

April 4, 2019

Media Roundup: The Fall of the Wild

 “Minteer bravely takes on the many facile assumptions of conservation’s technofixologists and misanthropes alike to offer us a humbler and hopefully more effective way to save and to savor the presence of the remaining living riches of the “natural” world.”...

April 4, 2019

Book Excerpt! Ghalib: Selected Poems and Letters (introduction)

“This is a superb introduction to this marvelous poet, resonant with his subtle nuances and exquisite meanings.” ~ Asif Farrukhi, editor of An Evening of Caged Beasts: Seven Postmodernist Urdu Poets Read about Ghalib’s life and times in the introduction to...

April 3, 2019

Q&A: Ben A. Minteer on The Fall of the Wild

“What to do—and not to do—about the biodiversity crisis that we ourselves are engineering? In The Fall of the Wild, Ben Minteer takes us through the options. His assessment of the situation is balanced, clear-sighted, and humane.” ~ Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The...

April 2, 2019

Book Giveaway! Environmental and Climate Studies

April 22 is Earth Day, but here at CUP, we believe that a discussion about the environment and climate change warrants more than one day of conversation. Thus, we’ll be showcasing new and forthcoming titles on the topic all month....

April 2, 2019

New Book Tuesday! Drought, Necropolis, Minjian and More!

Our list of new books is now available! Drought An Interdisciplinary Perspective Benjamin I. Cook Necropolis Vladislav Khodasevich. Translated by Sarah Vitali. Living with Hate in American Politics and Religion How Popular Culture Can Defuse Intractable Differences Jeffrey Israel. Foreword...

April 1, 2019

Book Giveaway! National Poetry Month 2019

In celebration of National Poetry Month we’ll be featuring media roundups and book excerpts from recent titles about poetry as well as highlighting works of poetry published by The Chinese University Press. In addition to these weekly features, we’re offering...