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We are happy to announce that we have joined with VitalSource to make its titles available for free as e-books for students affected by the COVID-19 crisis. Read more about the resources on our blog.

Today is the last day of Women’s History Month! Follow our blog to enter our #WHM2020 book drawing and for more about women’s history and contemporary women’s issues.

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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Announcing Our 2020 Film, Media, and Journalism Studies Catalog! (Mar 31, 2020)
Letter from the editors: We are pleased to be sharing with you Columbia University Press’s 2020 Film, Media, and Journalism Studies catalog. The books featured here reflect the press’s commitment to publishing innovative works examining the multifaceted ways in which...
Columbia University Press Makes E-Book Learning Resources Available to Students Online at No Cost (Mar 31, 2020)
Columbia University Press has joined with VitalSource to make its titles available for free as e-books for students affected by the COVID-19 crisis. Many students purchased books for classroom use but now can’t access them after having moved rapidly to...
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...

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