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We are honored that Emma Watson has shared Sex and World Peace with her followers. Visit our blog to read an excerpt from the book, and check out this conversation and the author, Valerie M. Hudson on Teen Vogue.

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Book Excerpts! Mad for Foucault and Are the Lips a Grave?, By Lynne Huffer (Mar 31, 2020)
As part of our celebration of Women’s History Month, we are featuring Foucault’s Strange Eros, a modern consideration of Foucault’s erotic ethics. by Lynne Huffer. In this forthcoming book, Huffer provocatively rewrites Foucault as a Sapphic poet and shows how...
New Book Tuesday! How the Suburbs Were Segregated, The Bearded Lady Project and Socialist Cosmopolitanism (Mar 31, 2020)
Our weekly list of new books is now available! From the Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism series How the Suburbs Were Segregated Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890–1960 Paige Glotzer Focusing on Baltimore’s wealthiest, whitest...
Sapphic Foucault By Lynne Huffer (Mar 30, 2020)
“Foucault’s Strange Eros challenges its readers to describe aptly, to touch delicately their seeking, mortal, embodied selves. The book elicits and sustains their interest. It rejoices on some pages to weep on others, but it is animated throughout by generous reading...
ISA 2020 Happy Hour Reads: Books About Global Politics (Mar 28, 2020)
Today is the last day of our ISA 2020 virtual exhibit, but we’re not done yet. We are ending with a book sampled from each of our series in international relations. Explore jihadism in Tunisia, nuclear policy in North Korea,...
New Books in International Affairs from Agenda Publishing, Verlag Barbara Budrich, and Ibidem Press (Mar 28, 2020)
No trip to the Columbia University Press booth would be complete without a look at what’s new from our distribution partners around the world! This year, we’re very excited to launch a robust list of titles on a wide swath...

New Titles from Distributed Presses

Mind-Body Medicine in Inpatient Psychiatry
Design with Nature Now
Ways of Knowing Cities
A Medical History of Hong Kong
The Price of Football
Displacement and Citizenship