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Reviews and Media Appearances

as of November 7, 2009
Below are links to recent reviews of Columbia University Press titles and media appearances by CUP authors.

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


Israel’s Bargain with the Bomb: Democracy, Secrecy, and Taboo
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