Review of Iran’s Grand Strategy in the FT
Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads and Professor of Global History at Worcester College Oxford, reviews Iran’s Grand Strategy in the Financial Times.
A jargon and hype-free introduction to how Bitcoin really works.
Principles of Bitcoin presents a holistic, first-principles-based framework for understanding one of the most misunderstood inventions of our time. By stripping away the hype, jargon, and superficial analysis that often surrounds the crypto industry, this book uncovers the true ingenuity behind Satoshi Nakamoto’s creation—and its profound implications for the future of money, governance, and individual freedom.
Housing Under Platform Capitalism – how can short term rentals be regulated in European Cities?
Since the birth of Airbnb in 2008, many of the world’s cities have been transformed by platform-mediated short-term accommodation—a phenomenon suspected of disturbing local life and removing dwellings from local housing inventories. Drawing on mixed-method, multi-level comparative research in twelve large European cities, coauthors Thomas Aguilera, Francesca Artioli, and Claire Colomb show that strikingly different regulatory regimes have emerged around short-term rentals.
Are we monsters?
A history of how humans have created monsters out of one another—from our deepest fears—and what these monsters tell us about humanity’s present and future.
To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement, by Benjamin Nathans wins Pulitzer Prize
WINNER OF THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZE
A “riveting history” (Wall Street Journal) of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR and still provides a model of opposition in Putin’s Russia—and beyond
“A book about a past time that is very much a book for our time. . . . A story from which we all stand to learn as we face a new wave of authoritarianism.”—Los Angeles Review of Books
Akiko’s Japan Selection
Please see below for links to download information about a selection of books about Japan and Japanese Culture specially chosen by our sales consultant Akiko!
Man-Devil by John J. Callanan
A lively and provocative account of Bernard Mandeville and the work that scandalized and appalled his contemporaries—and made him one of the most influential thinkers of the eighteenth century
Pink: The History of a Color by Michel Pastoureau
From the acclaimed author of Blue and other color histories, the beautifully illustrated story of pink, from the first ancient pigments to Barbie
Julia Kristeva, all titles re-issued
Please find below a link to the list of the Julia Kristeva titles which are being re-issued by Columbia University Press
Fire in California, a selection of titles from UCP
Please find below a link to a selection of titles from the University of California press which help to explain the relationship between fire, people and the environment.
