Off the Shelf is a Columbia News series in which professors discuss their recently published books, as well as what they have read recently and recommend, and who they would invite to the perfect dinner party.
Susan Boynton looks at this, along with bibliophilia, libraries, and the study of medieval liturgy in her new book.
A new book, co-edited by Barbara Faedda, focuses on this strategic Mediterranean port city.
A new book by GSAPP Dean Emerita Amale Andraos and Dan Wood offers readers an overview of their recent design work.
In her book, ‘The Rest Is Silence,’ Joanna Stalnaker offers an intimate portrait of Enlightenment philosophers as they faced the end of their lives and their historical moment.
Yes, says Columbia Law School Professor Katharina Pistor, who shows in her book how the legal underpinnings of the system must be altered.
In her new book, Eleanor Johnson makes frightening connections between horror films and feminism.
In Three or More Is a Riot, he takes readers to the front lines of conflict to uncover the meaning of it all.
Clémence Boulouque shows how this theory was built on older Jewish ideas, which offered the possibility of emancipation to Jews as well as others.
Older adults especially benefit from this therapeutic practice, say the authors.
Professor Mark Mazower guides readers through a history that seeks to illuminate rather than to blame.
In Vera, or Faith, the School of the Arts writing professor portrays a crumbling modern American family.
Professor Jeremy Dauber takes on middle-grade readers in his second book for children.