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.

In Splinters, her first memoir, Leslie Jamison explores her divorce and the birth of her daughter.

Anne Nelson’s Red Orchestra warns about the fragility of all democracies, and how citizens need to be vigilant.

A new book traces how the Tea Party laid the groundwork for the rise of Trump.

A book gathers experts and scholars to investigate how this decline is playing out during the climate crisis.

By replicating successful strategies found in nature, as Dickson Despommier outlines in his new book.

When he was a child, Shane McCrae’s grandparents abducted him, as he recounts in his memoir.

Samson Occom was the first Native person to be ordained a minister in the New England colonies.

Leveling the Learning Curve shows how digital tools can share knowledge more widely by reaching new audiences.

Nicholas Dames provides the answer in his new volume.

David Helfand explores this question and many others in The Universal Timekeepers.

Rafael Yuste provides a unified framework for how the brain functions in “Lectures in Neuroscience.”

The new book Catastrophic Incentives explores why society is underprepared for natural and human-made disasters.