Off the Shelf

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.

Philip Kitcher’s volume is one of the first in a new series put out by Columbia University Press that celebrates the Core’s centennial.

In her book, "Violent Victors," political scientist Sarah Z. Daly delves into why aggressors in civil conflicts are rewarded at the ballot box.

Jessica Merrill traces the emergence of Russian Formalism and its impact on literary form.

The Great Polarization lays out the issue in stark terms, and outlines potential ways forward.

In Human Rights for Pragmatists, Jack Snyder demonstrates that where local power and politics lead, rights follow.

Jeannette Wing and Chris Wiggins are co-authors of a book on the promises and perils of the burgeoning field.

The School of the Arts Professor has published back-to-back works of fiction this fall.

Nights of Plague was well underway when COVID struck, but the pandemic influenced the book all the same.

Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America is now revised and expanded, 25 years later.

Nicole Wallack and her co-editors have put together a book devoted to the time-honored writing form.

Helen Benedict presents the plight of people from the Middle East and Africa in her new book.

Professor Bruce Usher offers a guide to investing in companies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.