Tag: women’s history month

March 7, 2018

Book Excerpt! Diana Trilling on the 1968 Columbia University Protests

Perhaps this was the act of courage he was facing all his life, and Diana replied: “Perhaps the act of courage he was facing all his life was to stay alive.” —LIONEL TRILLING, JOURNAL ENTRY, 1961 (RE: HEMINGWAY’ S SUICIDE) This week,...

March 5, 2018

Book Giveaway! The Untold Journey: The Life of Diana Trilling

This week, our featured book is The Untold Journey: The Life of Diana Trilling, by Natalie Robin. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its authors on our blog as well as on our Twitter feed and our Facebook page. Enter our book giveaway by Friday...

March 2, 2018

2018 Women’s History Month: Featured Books

In honor of Women’s History Month, we’re featuring books centered on women and gender studies for the next  four weeks. Check-in each Monday to enter our book giveaway competition and to find out which title will be the “Book of...

March 1, 2018

More Than a Decade of Publishing on Feminism and Gender

It’s Throwback Thursday and the first day of Women’s History Month. Did you know that Columbia has been a leader in gender studies, queer studies, and feminist theory since the publication in the 1980s of now-classic works such as Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Between Men and...

April 24, 2015

The Drugs Do Work (Sometimes) — Nessa Carey on Junk DNA and Medicine

Nessa Carey looks at how science’s growing knowledge of junk DNA is leading to new advances in medicine and the positive and negative role of Big Pharma.

April 23, 2015

Nessa Carey Introduces Us to Dark Genomic Matter

Read an excerpt from “An Introduction to Genomic Dark Matter,” a chapter in Nessa Carey’s JUNK DNA: A JOURNEY THROUGH THE DARK MATTER OF THE GENOME.

April 22, 2015

VIDEO: Nessa Carey Discusses Junk DNA

Watch Nessa Carey, author of JUNK DNA, discuss her new book.

April 21, 2015

An Interview with Nessa Carey, Author of "Junk DNA"

The following is an interview with Nessa Carey, author of Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome: Question: Junk DNA explores the massive amount of excess DNA that do not directly create genes and make up...

July 11, 2014

Bangladesh, New York, and Florida after the Great Collapse of 2093

We conclude our week-long feature on The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway with three maps from 2393 that illustrate the ravages of climate change on Bangladesh, New York, and...

July 8, 2014

Interview with Naomi Oreskes, author of The Collapse of Western Civilization

The following is an interview with Naomi Oreskes, coauthor of, with Erik M. Conway, The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future: Question: In The Collapse of Western Civilization you approach climate change as a fictionalized future historian...