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November 13, 2018

University Press Week Blog Tour, Day Two: #TurnItUP Politics

The book world is groaning under the weight of books about politics. Yet most of them are just dressed up opinion. What university press books on politics have to offer is much better: data and serious analysis. The University of...

November 13, 2018

New Book Tuesday! The End of the West and Other Cautionary Tales, Fortune Favors the Bold, Imagined Geographies, and More

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Now in Paper! The End of the West and Other Cautionary Tales Sean Meighoo ibidem Press Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society Edited by Andrey Makarychev, Nina Rozhanovskaya, Andreas...

November 12, 2018

University Press Week Blog Tour, Day One: #TurnItUP Arts & Culture

Begin the University Press Week blog tour today by visiting these great university press offerings: Duke University Press writes about how partnerships with museums have helped them build a strong art list. Athabasca University Press offers a playlist by author Mark A. McCutcheon...

November 8, 2018

Fifty Years of Publishing in Social Work

Columbia University Press’s social work program — begun in the 1960s in collaboration with faculty at the Columbia School of Social work — consists of works that focus on social problems, give voice to marginalized populations, and further social justice....

November 7, 2018

C. Heike Schotten on Queer Terror

Today, we are featuring a book from the New Directions in Critical Theory series with a guest post from C. Heike Schotten, author of Queer Terror: Life, Death, and Desire in the Settler Colony. In this book, C. Heike Schotten offers a...

November 6, 2018

New Book Tuesday! Rollerball, by Andrew Nette

Our weekly list of new books is now available. This week, we have only one book: Rollerball, by Andrew Nette! Auteur Rollerball Andrew Nette

November 5, 2018

Can a Candidate’s Charisma Influence Voters in the Midterms?

Philadelphia’s KYW Newsradio interviewed Vincent Lloyd, author of In Defense of Charisma about charisma and the midterm elections. Hear what he had to say in the podcast below.

November 2, 2018

Notable Title: The Anarchical Society

Over four decades after its publication, Hedley Bull’s The Anarchical Society continues to define and direct work in international relations. Bull’s work has been praised for its flexibility — there is much more to it than the international society perspective that it...

November 1, 2018

Columbia University Press Welcomes Miranda Martin to its Editorial Team

Last month, Miranda Martin joined Columbia University Press as Editor of our Life and Physical Science list. She came to us from the University of Chicago Press where she was most recently assistant editor for linguistics and life sciences, acquiring titles in...

October 30, 2018

Q&A: Philippe Met on The Cinema of Louis Malle

Louis Malle was the pioneer of the French New Wave and went on to an acclaimed transatlantic career. Today is his birthday and to learn more about this great film director, our Donovan N. Redd interviewed Philippe Met, editor of...

October 30, 2018

New Book Tuesday! Transatlantic Speculations, Triadic Coercion, Conversion Disorder, and More

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Conversion Disorder Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis Jamieson Webster Race Capital? Harlem as Setting and Symbol Edited by Andrew M. Fearnley and Daniel Matlin Triadic Coercion Israel’s Targeting of States...

October 26, 2018

Words Matter: The Many Meanings of Terrorism

This week we are featuring titles from our New Directions in Critical Theory series. Today, we have a guest post from Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson, author of Genealogies of Terrorism: Revolution, State Violence, Empire. In this book, Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson rejects attempts to define what terrorism...

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