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This week’s book giveaway is Modern Things on Trial: Islam’s Global and Material Reformation in the Age of Rida, 1865–1935, by Leor Halevi.  Check our blog on Wednesday to read an exclusive interview with the author, and on Thursday to read an excerpt from the introduction to the book.

The fall conference season is in full swing. Look for us at the:

Modernist Studies Association meeting, October 17-20

Society for Neuroscience meeting, October 19-23

Council on Social Work Education meeting, October 24-27

Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy meeting, October 31-Nov. 2

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New Book Tuesday! Educating Harlem, The Art of Ideas, and More! (Oct 15, 2019)
Our weekly list of new books is now available! Educating Harlem A Century of Schooling and Resistance in a Black Community Edited by Ansley T. Erickson and Ernest Morrell Educating Harlem brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars to consider the history of schooling in perhaps the nation’s most iconic black community. The volume traces the
Announcing Our 2019-2020 Science Catalog (Oct 14, 2019)
 Letter from the editor: Please allow me to introduce myself as the new acquiring editor for the physical and life sciences at Columbia University Press. I’m excited to present the latest science catalog, our first since I joined the press in late 2018. The science list at Columbia spans a wide range of disciplines that teach us
Author Event: Walter Bernard and Milton Glaser Discuss Mag Men with Anne Quito (Oct 14, 2019)
Location SVA MA Design Research, Writing and Criticism, 2nd floor 136 West 21st Street New York, NY 10010 Date and Time: Tue, December 3, 2019 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM EST For more than fifty years, Walter Bernard and Milton Glaser have revolutionized the look of magazine journalism. In Mag Men, Bernard and Glaser recount their storied careers, offering insiders’
Book Giveaway! Modern Things on Trial: Islam’s Global and Material Reformation in the Age of Rida, 1865–1935, by Leor Halevi (Oct 14, 2019)
“Leor Halevi’s original study offers important perspectives on turn of the twentieth-century Islamic reformist thought in the context of changing relations between law and material history. He matches up instructive readings in legal opinions delivered in Cairo by Rashid Rida with innovative background research on the new products and technologies that prompted questions to him
Nim Chimpsky and Noam Chomsky: Why Language Began with Words (Oct 11, 2019)
“Herbert S. Terrace, known for his breakthrough work on the ape, Nim Chimpsky, now shines light on language acquisition in human children. In this masterful work, Terrace provides extraordinarily novel ideas about the evolution and development of the human mind and brain. This book will change how you think about human uniqueness. Terrace fills in

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