Hitler’s Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway by Despina Stratigakos tells the fascinating untold story of how Nazi architects and planners envisioned and began to build a model “Aryan” society in Norway during World War II
The book has just been reviewed in the Washington Post.
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691199795/britains-birds
Read an article by the author on the Columbia University Press Blog:
In this short book, world-renowned historian Federico Finchelstein explains why fascists regarded simple and often hateful lies as truth, and why so many of their followers believed the falsehoods. Throughout the history of the twentieth century, many supporters of fascist ideologies regarded political lies as truth incarnated in their leader. This history continues in the present, when lies again seem to increasingly replace empirical truth, and has a long political and intellectual lineage that we cannot ignore.
Booksmith and UC Press present a 6-part series of virtual events focused on urgent societal issues, broadcasting every Monday at 11am PST. This second event in the series features Federico Finchelstein discussing his book A Brief History of Fascist Lies. It’s on August 10th at 11am San Francisco time (7pm UK time).
This is a free event, but RSVP is required. RSVP here.
https://www.booksmith.com/event/virtual-federico-finchelstein-brief-history-fascist-lies
The breadth and impact of Black Lives Matter in the United States has been extraordinary. Between 2012 and 2016, thousands of people marched, rallied, held vigils, and engaged in direct actions to protest and draw attention to state and vigilante violence against Black people. What began as outrage over the 2012 murder of Trayvon Martin and the exoneration of his killer, and accelerated during the Ferguson uprising of 2014, has evolved into a resurgent Black Freedom Movement, which includes a network of more than fifty organizations working together under the rubric of the Movement for Black Lives coalition. Employing a range of creative tactics and embracing group-centered leadership models, these visionary young organizers, many of them women, and many of them queer, are not only calling for an end to police violence, but demanding racial justice, gender justice, and systemic change.
How can people and businesses become more innovative and more adaptable in highly uncertain situations? In The Uncertainty Mindset, Vaughn Tan provides an answer based on years of unprecedented access to some of the most influential culinary R&D teams in the world, including The Fat Duck Experimental Kitchen, ThinkFoodTank, and The Cooking Lab (creators of Modernist Cuisine and Modernist Bread).
The Uncertainty Mindset, Innovation Insights from the Frontiers of Food, Vaughn Tan, Columbia University Press 9780231196895
A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of “models and bottles” to reveal how beautiful young women are used to boost the status of men.
Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit (Princeton University Press) 9780691168654
