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Reviews and Media Appearances

as of November 23, 2009
Below are links to recent reviews of Columbia University Press titles and media appearances by CUP authors.

The Garden and the Fire: Heaven and Hell in Islamic Culture
Nerina Rustomji

Read a review from the Financial Times.

Cloth, $45.00 / £31.00 240 pages


Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds
Edited by Billy Collins; Paintings by David Allen Sibley

Read a review from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel

Cloth, $22.95 / £15.95 288 pages


Paleoclimates: Understanding Climate Change Past and Present
Thomas M. Cronin

Read a review from the Island of Doubt.

Cloth, $95.00 / £65.50 448 pages


The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control
Ted Striphas

Named as one of "The Best Books about Books" by Book Patrol.

Cloth, $27.50 / £19.00 272 pages


Utopia or Auschwitz: Germany’s 1968 Generation and the Holocaust
Hans Kundnani

Read a review from The New Statesman

Cloth, $27.50 320 pages


The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty
R. Glenn Hubbard and William Duggan

Read Hubbard's Washington Post op-ed Bypassing the aid trap in Pakistan.

Cloth, $22.95 / £15.95 212 pages


Decoding the New Taliban: Insights from the Afghan Field
Edited by Antonio Giustozzi

Read Steve Coll's review in the New Yorker's Think Tank.

Cloth, $40.00 420 pages


The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty
R. Glenn Hubbard and William Duggan

Watch R. Glenn Hubbard on CNBC with Maria Bartiromo.

Cloth, $22.95 / £15.95 212 pages


The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty
R. Glenn Hubbard and William Duggan

Read Glenn Hubbard's op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, The Berlin Wall of Aid: When Will It Fall?

Cloth, $22.95 / £15.95 212 pages


History of the Mafia
Salvatore Lupo; Translated by Antony Shugaar

Read a review from A Fisftul of Euros.

Cloth, $32.95 / £21.95 352 pages


Military Orientalism: Eastern War Through Western Eyes
Patrick Porter

Read an essay from Patrick Porter on IntelliBriefs.

Cloth, $25.00 256 pages


A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America
Greg Robinson

Read Greg Robinson's essay in Rorotoko.

Cloth, $29.95 / £19.95 408 pages


The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty
R. Glenn Hubbard and William Duggan

Read an interview with Hubbard and Duggan at Ideas at Work.

Cloth, $22.95 / £15.95 212 pages


Everyday Ethics and Social Change: The Education of Desire
Anna L. Peterson

Read an interview with Anna Peterson from Religion Dispatches.

Paper, $24.50 / £17.00 216 pages


Cloth, $79.50 / £55.00 216 pages


Utopia or Auschwitz: Germany’s 1968 Generation and the Holocaust
Hans Kundnani

Read a review from The Guardian.

Cloth, $27.50 320 pages


Food, Medicine, and the Quest for Good Health
Nancy N. Chen

Read a review from Metapsychology.

Cloth, $24.50 / £17.00 144 pages


The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty
R. Glenn Hubbard and William Duggan

Read an essay by R. Glenn Hubbard in Fortune.

Cloth, $22.95 / £15.95 212 pages


Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor
Kim Yong; with Kim Suk-Young

Read Donald Richie's review in The Japan Times.

Cloth, $30.50 / £21.00 184 pages


A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America
Greg Robinson

Read Greg Robinson's op-ed on military rule in Hawaii during WWII.

Cloth, $29.95 / £19.95 408 pages


Eating History: Thirty Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine
Andrew F. Smith

Read a review from Prevention.

Cloth, $29.95 / £19.95 392 pages


Making Sense of Pakistan
Farzana Shaikh

Read a review from DAWN.

Cloth, $24.95 288 pages


The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty
R. Glenn Hubbard and William Duggan

Featured in Forbes and Forbes Business Visionaries here and here.

Cloth, $22.95 / £15.95 212 pages


Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War
Stephen F. Cohen

Read a review from the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Cloth, $28.50 / £19.50 328 pages


Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War
Stephen F. Cohen

Read a review from World Policy.

Cloth, $28.50 / £19.50 328 pages


Firestorm: American Film in the Age of Terrorism
Stephen Prince

NPR's "On the Media" interviews Stephen Prince.

Paper, $27.50 / £19.00 400 pages


Cloth, $87.50 / £60.50 400 pages


The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control
Ted Striphas

Richard Nash's review in The Critical Flame.

Cloth, $27.50 / £19.00 272 pages


The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel’s Bargain with the Bomb
Avner Cohen

Avner Cohen on Al Jazeera's Riz Khan show (here and here.)

Cloth, $35.00 416 pages


Zoographies: The Question of the Animal from Heidegger to Derrida
Matthew Calarco

Join the discussion at The Inhumanities.

Paper, $24.50 / £17.00 184 pages


Cloth, $74.50 / £51.50 184 pages


War and Peace in the Caucasus: Russia’s Troubled Frontier
Vicken Cheterian

Read a review from Foreign Affairs.

Cloth, $40.00 288 pages


How East Asians View Democracy
Edited by Yun-han Chu, Larry Diamond, Andrew J. Nathan, and Doh Chull Shin

Read a review from Foreign Affairs.

Paper, $26.50 / £18.50 328 pages


Cloth, $50.00 / £34.50 328 pages


African Film and Literature: Adapting Violence to the Screen
Lindiwe Dovey

Read a review from the Times Higher Education supplement.

Paper, $32.50 / £22.50 360 pages


Cloth, $89.50 / £62.00 360 pages


Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor
Kim Yong; with Kim Suk-Young

Read a review in the Financial Times.

Cloth, $30.50 / £21.00 184 pages


Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future
Edmond A. Mathez

Read a review from Mother Nature Network.

Cloth, $55.00 / £38.00 344 pages


Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom
David Harvey

Read a review from Bookforum.

Cloth, $27.50 / £19.00 352 pages


Abu Dhabi: Oil and Beyond
Christopher M. Davidson

Read an article from Forbes on the censoring of the book.

Cloth, $35.00 256 pages


Contemporary American Judaism: Transformation and Renewal
Dana Evan Kaplan

Read a review in Tablet.

Cloth, $34.50 / £24.00 446 pages


Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds
Edited by Billy Collins; Paintings by David Allen Sibley

Read a review from Wingnut/Star-Tribune.

Cloth, $22.95 / £15.95 288 pages


States Without Nations: Citizenship for Mortals
Jacqueline Stevens

Read Jacqueline Stevens's essay in Huffington Post.

Cloth, $35.00 / £24.00 384 pages


History of the Mafia
Salvatore Lupo; Translated by Antony Shugaar

Read a review from The New Yorker.

Cloth, $32.95 / £21.95 352 pages


The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control
Ted Striphas

Read a review from The Book Studio.

Cloth, $27.50 / £19.00 272 pages


The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty
R. Glenn Hubbard and William Duggan

"Think Again: A Marshall Plan for Africa.", by R. Glenn Hubbard (Foreign Policy, August 14)

Cloth, $22.95 / £15.95 212 pages


Greenhouse of the Dinosaurs: Evolution, Extinction, and the Future of Our Planet
Donald R. Prothero

Read Prothero's essay "Is Paleontology going extinct?" (reg. req'd.)

Cloth, $29.50 / £20.50 288 pages


Building a Meal: From Molecular Gastronomy to Culinary Constructivism
Hervé This; Translated by Malcolm DeBevoise

Read a review from the Globe & Mail.

Cloth, $19.95 / £13.95 152 pages


The Cinema of Ang Lee: The Other Side of the Screen
Whitney Crothers Dilley

Dilley quoted in the New York Times.

Paper, $25.00 224 pages
Wallflower Press


Cloth, $80.00 224 pages


The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online
Guobin Yang

Read a review from Understanding Society.

Cloth, $29.50 / £20.50 320 pages


History of the Mafia
Salvatore Lupo; Translated by Antony Shugaar

Read a review from the Financial Times.

Cloth, $32.95 / £21.95 352 pages


Abu Dhabi: Oil and Beyond
Christopher M. Davidson

Christopher Davidson takes The Page 99 Test.

Cloth, $35.00 256 pages


Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang
James Millward

James Millward Reflecting on Urumchi events (The China Beat)

Paper, $24.50 352 pages


Cloth, $41.50 352 pages


Not Being God: A Collaborative Autobiography
Gianni Vattimo; With Piergiorgio Paterlini and Translated by William McCuaig

Read a review from A Fistful of Euros.

Cloth, $27.50 / £19.00 200 pages


Acts of Conscience: Christian Nonviolence and Modern American Democracy
Joseph Kip Kosek

Read a review from Religion in American History.

Cloth, $50.00 / £34.50 376 pages


Programs to Reduce Teen Dating Violence and Sexual Assault: Perspectives on What Works
Arlene N. Weisz and Beverly M. Black

Listen to an interview with Arlene Weisz on Detroit Today.

Paper, $35.00 / £24.00 336 pages


Cloth, $89.50 / £62.00 336 pages


Fitzgerald and Hemingway: Works and Days
Scott Donaldson

Read a review from the Los Angeles Times.

Cloth, $32.50 / £22.50 520 pages


The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty
R. Glenn Hubbard and William Duggan

Read Glenn Hubbard's op-ed in the Financial Times, Only local business can end global poverty.

Cloth, $22.95 / £15.95 212 pages


There’s Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night
Cao Naiqian; Translated by John Balcom

Read reviews from PRI's The World, The Book Bench, and the Book Fox.

Cloth, $26.50 / £18.50 248 pages


The Scientific Way of Warfare: Order and Chaos on the Battlefields of Modernity
Antoine J. Bousquet

Read a review from Religion Dipatches.

Cloth, $35.00 288 pages


Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor
Kim Yong; with Kim Suk-Young

Read a review from Foreign Policy in Focus.

Cloth, $30.50 / £21.00 184 pages


Building a Meal: From Molecular Gastronomy to Culinary Constructivism
Hervé This; Translated by Malcolm DeBevoise

Read a review from the Toronto Globe and Mail.

Cloth, $19.95 / £13.95 152 pages


How East Asians View Democracy
Edited by Yun-han Chu, Larry Diamond, Andrew J. Nathan, and Doh Chull Shin

Read a review from The People's Daily (!?) and from the Korea Times.

Paper, $26.50 / £18.50 328 pages


Cloth, $50.00 / £34.50 328 pages


Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang
James Millward

Listen to an interview with James Millward on BBC.

Paper, $24.50 352 pages


Cloth, $41.50 352 pages


Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor
Kim Yong; with Kim Suk-Young

Listen to an interview with Kim Yong on ABC News.

Cloth, $30.50 / £21.00 184 pages


Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War
Stephen F. Cohen

Read Cohen's essay "On Russia with an open mind," from Rorotoko and watch clips of Cohen's recent television appearences.

Cloth, $28.50 / £19.50 328 pages


Making Sense of Pakistan
Farzana Shaikh

Farzana Shaikh on Tea with the Economist.

Cloth, $24.95 288 pages


Japan’s Cold War: Media, Literature, and the Law
Ann Sherif

Read a review from the Far Eastern Economic Review

Cloth, $50.00 / £34.50 304 pages


Greenhouse of the Dinosaurs: Evolution, Extinction, and the Future of Our Planet
Donald R. Prothero

Read a review from Laelaps.

Cloth, $29.50 / £20.50 288 pages


The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control
Ted Striphas

Read a review from The Guardian and The Quarterly Conversation.

Cloth, $27.50 / £19.00 272 pages


Contemporary American Judaism: Transformation and Renewal
Dana Evan Kaplan

Read a review from the Forward.

Cloth, $34.50 / £24.00 446 pages


Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies
Victor D. Cha and David C. Kang

Victor Cha speaks at The Carnegie Council.

Paper, $26.00 / £18.00 280 pages


Cloth, $70.50 / £48.50 280 pages


Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War
Stephen F. Cohen

Stephen Cohen on Dan Rather Reports.

Cloth, $28.50 / £19.50 328 pages


Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor
Kim Yong; with Kim Suk-Young

Read a review from Asia Times Online.

Cloth, $30.50 / £21.00 184 pages


Breeding: A Partial History of the Eighteenth Century
Jenny Davidson

Follow a discussion of Breeding on The Valve.

Cloth, $32.50 / £22.50 312 pages


Philosophy and Animal Life
Stanley Cavell, Cora Diamond, John McDowell, Ian Hacking, and Cary Wolfe

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews on Philosophy and Animal Life.

Paper, $18.50 / £13.00 184 pages


Cloth, $24.50 / £17.00 184 pages


Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship
Gary Steiner

Gary Steiner on Rorotoko.

Cloth, $40.00 / £27.50 232 pages


Building a Meal: From Molecular Gastronomy to Culinary Constructivism
Hervé This; Translated by Malcolm DeBevoise

Eat Me Daily and eats.com on Building a Meal.

Cloth, $19.95 / £13.95 152 pages


Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond
Jameel Jaffer and Amrit Singh

Jameel Jaffer on Hardball with Chris Matthews.

Paper, $22.50 / £15.50 456 pages


Cloth, $29.95 / £19.95 456 pages


Our Savage Art: Poetry and the Civil Tongue
William Logan

Read the review from the New York Times.

Read a post from Anecdotal Evidence.

Cloth, $29.50 / £20.50 368 pages


Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918
Jeffrey B. Perry

Columbia Journalism Review on Hubert Harrison as book reviewer and a review from New World Review.

Cloth, $37.50 / £26.00 624 pages