August 6, 2020

Announcing Our 2020-2021 Sociology Catalog

Letter from the editor: It is with great pleasure that, on behalf of my colleagues at Columbia University Press, I introduce this year’s sociology catalog. These are interesting times in the wider world. With our sociology publishing at Columbia we...

August 6, 2020

Author Event! Join Steve Coll in Conversation with Mary Kaldor and Saskia Sassen

Chaired by Safwan M. Masri

Provocative discussions on the global issues of our time with world-class scholars, authors, and thought leaders Tuesday, August 1112:00 – 1:00 PM EDT5:00 – 6:00 PM GMT +17:00 – 8:00 PM GMT +3 Register Warfare in the twenty-first century goes...

August 6, 2020

Taking the Risk to Translate as Our Intelligence Morphs

By Carolyn Shread

“Malabou, with her characteristic clarity and insight, radically redraws the lines between humans and machines, brains and computers. Morphing Intelligence is a major achievement and not to be missed.” ~Adrian Johnston, author of A New German Idealism: Hegel, Žižek, and...

August 5, 2020

New from Our Distributed Presses! Farming as Financial Asset, Market/Place, and Bounded Rationality

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Agenda Publishing From the Economic Transformations series Farming as Financial Asset Global Finance and the Making of Institutional Landscapes Stefan Ouma In a world with a growing population that needs to...

August 4, 2020

The Other Corona Crisis: The Anger It’s Going to Unleash Once It’s Over

By Mark Blyth

“With considerable sophistication and a good dose of humour, this book dissects the popular anger that has made our economics unsustainable and our politics dysfunctional. Lonergan and Blyth rightly call for a reset of our current model of capitalism. To...

August 4, 2020

Online Teaching and Collective Intelligence: The Poison or the Cure?

By Catherine Malabou

“In this remarkable book, Catherine Malabou focuses on the transformations of ‘intelligence’ as it moves from genetics to epigenetics to automatism. Historically grounded, philosophically astute, and engagingly written, this book is highly recommended for anyone interested in intelligence—artificial and natural—and...

August 4, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Oath Keepers, On the Judgment of History, and Modern Sufis and the State

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Oath Keepers Patriotism and the Edge of Violence in a Right-Wing Antigovernment Group Sam Jackson In Oath Keepers, Sam Jackson takes readers inside the world of the most prominent antigovernment group...

August 3, 2020

Book Giveaway! Women in Translation Month 2020

It’s Women in Translation Month and we’re celebrating with a special month-long book giveaway. Fill out the form below for a chance to win one of this month’s featured titles! There will be one winner for each title. Check Saturday’s...

August 1, 2020

Women in Translation Month 2020! A Celebration of Philosophy and Literature

Welcome to Women in Translation Month 2020! WITMonth was launched six years ago when blogger and scholar Meytal Tadzinkski noticed that works by women authors made up less than 30% of the books translated into English. Since then, WITMonth has...

July 30, 2020

Book Excerpt! Rethinking Readiness (introduction)

“Covering a wide range of natural hazards and man made threats, Schlegelmilch’s book pushes us to think through the question that we ask all too often: are we truly prepared?” Daniel P. Aldrich, author of Black Wave and Building Resilience...