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Columbia University Press

Type: Company

Name: Columbia University Press

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

East African Community

Africans march upward to economic purgatory

THE great and the good converged on Cape Town recently for the annual three-day World Economic Forum (WEF), Africa’s equivalent of Davos. Security was tight as business and politics courted each other in the ultimate power game. Under the broad theme ... [Published BDlive - May 20 2013]

Entities: BRIC, East African Community, Kenya, African Development Bank, Infrastructure

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

University of Melbourne

The use and abuse of history in the People’s Republic of China

Lecture | School of Historical and Philosophical Studies University of MelbourneMelbourne, VictoriaIn this lecture, Professor Antonia Finnane talks about history and propaganda in contemporary China, taking her point of departure from Chairman Xi Jinping’s ... [Published Australian Policy Online - May 15 2013]

Entities: China, University of Melbourne, Abuse, FAR, Melbourne University Publishing

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

Why Haruki Murakami Translated ‘The Great Gatsby’

The great Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami once translated The Great Gatsby$ for Japanese readers. In Columbia University Press?$ anthology, you can read an essay he wrote about translating the book. We?ve embedded the complete essay below. Murakami ... [Published Media Bistro - May 08 2013]

Entities: Haruki Murakami, Raymond Chandler, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

Barack Obama

George W. Obama After his first yea...

But now, Bush?s successor—who actually taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago—is continuing much of the Bush-Cheney parallel government and, in some cases, is going much further in disregarding our laws and the international treaties we?ve ... [Published Bulatlat.com - May 06 2013]

Entities: Barack Obama, Torture, CIA Central Intelligence Agency

First reported May 05 2013 - Updated May 05 2013 - 1 reports

Libya: Security versus democracy

Democratisation has to be Libya's destination to stem the tide of implosion so that Libyans can live peacefully.Dr Larbi Sadiki is a Senior Lecturer in Middle East Politics at the University of Exeter, and author of Arab Democratization: Elections without ... [Published Al Jazeera - May 05 2013]

Entities: Libya, Democracy, Security

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Why Turkey isn't a model for the Arab Spring

Turkey needs a new and robustly democratic constitution - only then can we talk about a regional democratisation model.Dr Larbi Sadiki is a Senior Lecturer in Middle East Politics at the University of Exeter, and author of Arab Democratization: Elections ... [Published Al Jazeera - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Democratization, Turkey, Democracy, Arab Spring, Süleyman Demirel

First reported Apr 22 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 1 reports

Why Humans Are Responsible For Climate Change

By Michael E. Mann, Ph.D.Distinguished Professor, Pennsylvania State UniversityBy the mid-1990s, it was possible to investigate the causal mechanisms behind changes in Earth's climate using relatively sophisticated mathematical models of Earth's climate. ... [Published Huffington Post - Apr 22 2013]

Entities: Aerosol, Climate, Human Factors, James Hansen, Global Warming/Climate Change

First reported Apr 22 2013 - Updated Apr 22 2013 - 1 reports

Lecture on Egyptian women and the paradox of the Arab spring presented April 24

BOONE—Dr. Birsen Bulmus, assistant professor of modern Middle Eastern history at Appalachian State University, will lecture on Egyptian women and the paradox of the Arab spring. Her talk begins at 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 24, in Plemmons Student Union’s ... [Published Appalachian Today - Apr 22 2013]

Entities: EDINBURGH University Press, Columbia University Press, Appalachian State University

First reported Apr 20 2013 - Updated Apr 20 2013 - 1 reports

300 Portraits of Power

Talk about having intimidating people constantly looking over your shoulder! Founded in 1768, the New York Chamber of Commerce was one of the nations premier business organizations, and over its history it amassed nearly 300 portraits of American civic ... [Published New York Times - Apr 20 2013]

Entities: Adam Gopnik, Manhattan, Princeton Architectural Press, Columbia University Press, Chamber of Commerce

First reported Apr 17 2013 - Updated Apr 17 2013 - 1 reports

Smell, flavor and the act of eating

Michael Hastings/Winston-Salem Journal Winston-Salem JournalGordon Shepherd believes that people don’t give their sense of smell enough credit.Think about it. If you had to rate the five senses by importance, would smell make the top half?Probably not, ... [Published Winston-Salem Journal - Apr 17 2013]

Entities: olfaction, Columbia University Press, Biology, Dendrite

First reported Apr 16 2013 - Updated Apr 16 2013 - 1 reports

Lecture on horror cinema explores disability and eugenics

The speaker, Angela Smith, is an associate professor in English and Gender Studies at the University of Utah. Her book that served as the basis of the lecture was published in 2011 by Columbia University Press.On Sunday, April 14, the Forum for Questioning ... [Published Globe SLCC - Apr 16 2013]

Entities: Angela Smith, Eugenics, Disability

First reported Feb 04 2013 - Updated Feb 04 2013 - 1 reports

James Jordan Retires as Leader of Columbia University Press

James D. Jordan has announced his retirement as President and Director of Columbia University Press, effective Sept. 1, 2013. Jordan came to Columbia in January 2004 from Johns Hopkins University Press where he served as Director and from W. W. Norton ... [Published Columbia University News - Feb 04 2013]

Entities: Columbia University Press, James Jordan, Johns Hopkins University Press, W. W. Norton & Company, Jordan

Quotes

...Extropy, as coined by Tom Bell and defined by Max More in 1988, is "the extent of a living or organizational system's intelligence, functional order, vitality, energy, life, experience, and capacity and drive for improvement and growth." Extropy is not a rigorously defined technical term in philosophy or science; in a metaphorical sense, it simply expresses the opposite of entropy

The Principles of Extropy: A Quarter Century Later [Published World Future Society - 4 hours ago]

"We don't want to pay our taxes until the last moment, so let's not do it, let's put off filing that document until we have to" said Williams, speculating on why they would have put off recording births...

Cemetery Reveals Baby-Making Season in Ancient Egypt [Published LiveScience.com - May 16 2013]

Mr. Feeney said, "I am excited to be joining a firm with the reputation for excellence, commitment to its clients and integrity that Nardello enjoys. I am particularly keen on being part of the team of experienced professionals that make up the firm’s litigation support and corporate investigations practice and look forward to serving its broad base of clients, including many Fortune 500 corporations, international law firms, and financial institutions."

Martin Stone and Thomas Feeney Join Investigative Firm Nardello & Co. [Published Business Wire - May 08 2013]

Grayson, James. “ "Christianity and State Shinto in Colonial Korea: A Clash of Nationalisms and Religious Beliefs”, - Discus 1/2 (1993): 13-30."

South Korea’s Christian Military Chaplaincy in the Korean War - religion as ideology? [Published Japan Focus - May 06 2013]

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The Principles of Extropy: A Quarter Century Later [Published World Future Society - 4 hours ago]
Africans march upward to economic purgatory [Published BDlive - May 20 2013]
Cemetery Reveals Baby-Making Season in Ancient ... [Published LiveScience.com - May 16 2013]
Al Nakba and Canada [Published Dissident Voice - May 16 2013]
The use and abuse of history in the People’s Re... [Published Australian Policy Online - May 15 2013]
Hot Issue: The Boston Marathon Bombing: Radical... [Published Jamestown Foundation - May 10 2013]
The Kurds: Poised to Profit [Published Middle East Online - May 09 2013]
Why Haruki Murakami Translated ‘The Great Gatsby’ [Published Media Bistro - May 08 2013]
Martin Stone and Thomas Feeney Join Investigati... [Published Business Wire - May 08 2013]
George W. Obama After his first yea... [Published Bulatlat.com - May 06 2013]
South Korea’s Christian Military Chaplaincy in ... [Published Japan Focus - May 06 2013]
Libya: Security versus democracy [Published Al Jazeera - May 05 2013]
My modern experience teaching a MOOC [Published University World News - May 04 2013]
Yangtze Rep in 'The Empress Dowager' [Published NewsBlaze - May 03 2013]
Ghosts of Party Past: New Yorkâs Last Two Democ... [Published Dissent Magazine - May 03 2013]
Impunity and Reenactment: Reflections on the 19... [Published Japan Focus - May 02 2013]
Why Turkey isn't a model for the Arab Spring [Published Al Jazeera - Apr 30 2013]
My Modern MOOC Experience [Published Chronicle of Higher Education - Apr 29 2013]
Why Resurrect the Divisive Politics of Yasukuni? [Published Council On Foreign Relations - Apr 27 2013]
The militant groups next door [Published Foreign Policy Magazine - Apr 24 2013]
The Daily Agenda for Wednesday, April 24 [Published Box Turtle Bulletin - Apr 24 2013]
Why Humans Are Responsible For Climate Change [Published Huffington Post - Apr 22 2013]
Lecture on Egyptian women and the paradox of th... [Published Appalachian Today - Apr 22 2013]
300 Portraits of Power [Published New York Times - Apr 20 2013]
Boston Marathon bombing: Seeking answers at the... [Published Washington Times - Apr 17 2013]
Smell, flavor and the act of eating [Published Winston-Salem Journal - Apr 17 2013]
Lecture on horror cinema explores disability an... [Published Globe SLCC - Apr 16 2013]
Unity College names Michael Evans provost and ... [Published Waldo County Village Soup - Apr 16 2013]
On Shi`ite Lebanon: Rabab versus Rababah [Published The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي ... - Apr 14 2013]
Atheists, the Next Generation: Unbelief Moves F... [Published PublishersWeekly.com - Apr 13 2013]

Blogs

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The Daily Agenda for Wednesday, April 24 [Published Box Turtle Bulletin - Apr 24 2013] TODAY’S AGENDA: Rhode Island Senate To Vote On Marriage Equality: Providence, RI. The last holdout state in New England to withhold marriage equality to same-sex couples is expected to finally address that deficiency this afternoon. An earlier attempt ...
On Shi`ite Lebanon: Rabab versus Rababah [Published The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي ... - Apr 14 2013] Regarding the informed book by Roschanack Shaery-Eisenlohr, Shi`ite Lebanon published by Columbia University Press, there was a need for a comprehensive edit for mistakes in names (I mean to refer to Jeffrey Feltman as David Feltman is but one example ...
Amateur fanatics [Published CSC Center for Strategic Communication - Apr 10 2013] Finally posting my longer piece for Jane’s about the Birmingham plotters who were convicted last month. I have already done a piece for my new institutional home RUSI on this plot, and in the fullness of time will probably do more as it is a group with ...
Epistemic Modernization and Social Movements [Published Mobilizing Ideas - Apr 01 2013] By David J. Hess I am interested in the epistemic modernization of the relations among the scientific, industrial, political, and civil society fields. For centuries scientists have had to defend the precarious autonomy of their concepts, methods, ...
Philosophical Moods [Published 3quarksdaily - Apr 01 2013] by Jalees Rehman Nietzschean, Heideggerian, fascist, anarchist, libertarian, brilliant genius, blabberingnutjob - these and many other labels have probably been used to describe Peter Sloterdijk , who is one of Germany'smost widely known contemporary ...

Press Releases

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Martin Stone and Thomas Feeney Join Investigati... [Published Business Wire - May 08 2013]
200 Publishers Now Partner With AcademicPub [Published GlobeNewswire: Advertising News - Mar 26 2013]