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The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks Tales of Important Geological Puzzles and the People Who Solved Them

Donald R. Prothero

The amazing stories of the rocks that helped geologists uncover Earth’s past.

Every rock is a tangible trace of the earth’s past. In The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks, Donald R. Prothero tells the fascinating stories behind the discoveries that shook the foundations of geology. In twenty-five chapters—each about a particular rock, outcrop, or geologic phenomenon—Prothero recounts the scientific detective work that took us from the unearthing of exemplary specimens to tectonic shifts in how we view our planet and history.

Prothero follows in the footsteps of the scientists who asked—and answered—geology’s biggest questions: How do we know how old the earth is? What happened to the supercontinent Pangea? How did ocean rocks end up at the top of Mount Everest? What can we learn about our planet from meteorites and moon rocks? The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks answers these questions through expertly chosen case studies, such as Pliny the Elder’s firsthand account of the eruption of Vesuvius; the granite outcrops that led a Scottish scientist to theorize that the landscapes he witnessed were far older than Noah’s Flood; the gypsum deposits under the Mediterranean Sea that indicate that it was once a desert; and how trying to date the age of meteorites revealed the dangers of lead poi-soning. Each of these breakthroughs filled in a piece of the puzzle that is the earth, with scientific discoveries dovetailing with each other to offer increasingly solid evidence of the geologic past. Summarizing a wealth of information in an entertaining, approachable style, The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks is essential reading for the armchair geologist, the rock hound, and all who are curious about the earth beneath their feet.

Donald R. Prothero has taught paleontology and geology for almost four decades. He is adjunct professor of geological sciences at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, adjunct professor of astronomy and earth sciences at Mt. San Antonio College, and research associate in vertebrate paleontology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. His Columbia University Press books include Bringing Fossils to Life: An Introduction to Paleobiology (third edi-tion, 2013); The Story of Life in 25 Fossils: Tales of Intrepid Fossil Hunters and the Wonders of Evolution (2015); and Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters (second edition, 2017).

352 pagesJanuary 2018All rights: Columbia University Press

The Story of Life in 25 Fossils has been translated into simplified Chinese, complex Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Russian.

Today’s challenges are too great and too complex for any one country, organization, or even sector of society to address on its own. Traditional governance structures have either failed or been too slow to serve the public interest. But solutions to these challenges do exist. Cross-sector partnerships are becoming the most effective method of accomplishing large-scale public projects, worldwide. Combining the efficiency of the private sector with the equity of public policy, partnerships between public and private sector companies can create sustainable solutions that maintain social values.

In Sharing Success, Howard W. Buffett and William B. Eimicke offer practical insight into the present and future role of partnerships as the twenty-first century’s most effective method of accomplishing the public good. Successfully developing complex partnerships pose considerable challenges for any private sector CEO, public sector administrator, or nonprofit manager. These leaders need to employ multiple strategies to provide higher quality goods and services to more people at a lower cost and in a more ethical and trans-parent way. Buffett and Eimicke present a new partnership methodology called social value investing, inspired by value investing, one of history’s most successful investment paradigms. Sharing Success provides a how-to for leaders in both public and private sectors to successfully build and manage a sustainable venture that can solve the most intractable problems.

Howard W. Buffett is a lecturer at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. He served as executive director of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation and is coauthor of the New York Times best-seller 40 Chances: Finding Hope in a Hungry World (2013). Previously, Buffett oversaw economic stabilization programs in Afghanistan and Iraq for the U.S. Department of Defense and was a policy advisor for the White House Domestic Policy Council.

William B. Eimicke is professor of practice and founding director of the Picker Center for Executive Education at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. He previously served as New York City’s Deputy Fire Commissioner for Strategic Planning and Policy, housing “czar” of New York State, and as a housing policy and man-agement consultant to Vice President Al Gore’s National Performance Review.

288 pagesMay 2018All rights: Columbia University Press

Sharing SuccessPartnerships that Create Social Value

Howard W. Buffett and William Eimicke

How the public and private sectors can partner up for the common good.


Alexander Hamilton on Finance, Credit, and Debt Richard Sylla and David J. Cowen

How Hamilton led a f inancial revolution, in his own words.

While serving as the first Treasury Secretary from 1789 to 1795, Alexander Hamilton engineered a financial revolution. Hamilton established the Treasury debt market, the dollar, and a central bank, while strategically prompting private entrepreneurs to establish securities markets and stock exchanges and encouraging state governments to charter a growing number of commercial banks and other business corporations. Yet despite a surge of interest in Hamilton, U.S. financial modernization has not been fully recognized as one of his greatest achievements.

This book traces the development of Hamilton’s financial thinking, policies, and actions through a selection of his writings alongside expert commentary that demonstrates the impact Hamilton had on the modern economic system. The financial historians David Cowen and Richard Sylla guide readers through Hamilton’s career from his post as Washington’s aide-de-camp in the Revolutionary War through his years as Secretary of the Treasury. The book showcases Hamilton’s ideas on the American founding, the need for a strong central government, his analysis of the nascent nation’s problems such as a depre-ciating paper currency and weak public credit, and the architecture of the financial system. Hamilton’s deft political maneuvering and economic savvy saved the fledgling republic’s economy, as he effectively managed the country’s first full-blown financial crisis in 1792. Sylla and Cowen demystify finance, credit, and debt to center Hamilton’s writings on finance among his most important accomplishments, making his brilliance as an economic policy maker accessible to all interested in this Founding Father’s legacy.

Richard Sylla is President/CEO of the Museum of American Finance. He is coauthor of Financial Founding Fathers: The Men Who Made America Rich, (University of Chicago Press, 2006). He is the cochair of the International Federation of Finance Museums (IFFM) and serves on the Smithsonian Affiliates Advisory Council and the Federal Reserve Board's Centennial Advisory Council.

David Cowen is the emeritus Henry Kaufman Professor of the History of Financial Institutions and Markets and a professor of economics, entrepreneurship and innova-tion at the New York University Stern School of Business. He is the author of several books, including The American Capital Market and A History of Interest Rates. He has been a member of the Museum of American Finance’s Board of Trustees since 2004, and the Chairman of the Board since 2010.

352 pagesApril 2018All rights: Columbia University Press

The Universe as it Really IsEarth, Space, Matter, and Time

Thomas R. Scott, with the assistance of James L. Powell

A popular science account of our physical universe and the laws that govern it.

The universe that science reveals to us can seem dauntingly beyond our comprehension. Our bodies and our world are made up of molecules, atoms, hadrons, leptons, quarks, and strings. We inhabit a universe that extends from our immediate environs out beyond our solar system into distant galaxies. The human mind’s comfort zone has been left far behind. Yet here we are, citizens of this universe and its unlikely products, with the immensely powerful tool of science at our disposal to make sense of that which our imagination balks at.

In this book, Thomas R. Scott ventures into the known and the unknown to explain our uni-verse and the laws that govern it. The Universe as it Really Is begins with the “essentials,” the building blocks of the universe: time, gravity, light, and elementary particles, and the interac-tions among them. Presenting great scientific achievements—the shape of the atom and the nature of the nucleus, or how we use GPS to measure time and what that has to do with relativity—Scott fully acquaints readers with our scientific inheritance. He details the physi-cal systems that we interact with most directly, touring earth and atmospheric sciences to explain the forces that shape our planet. Finally, he describes our place in the larger cosmos, as one planet among others orbiting a star, which is in turn moving through a galaxy, which is itself part of a larger network. A clear demonstration of the power of scientific reasoning to bring the incomprehensible within our grasp, The Universe as it Really Is is an engrossing account of just how much about the world we do understand.

Thomas R. Scott (1944-2017) was professor emeritus of psychology and academic vice president emeritus at San Diego State University, where he also served as dean of the College of Sciences, vice president for research, dean of the Graduate Division and chief executive officer of the SDSU Research Foundation.

James Lawrence Powell is executive director of the National Physical Science Consortium. He served on the National Science Board and has also been president of Franklin and Marshall College, Reed College, the Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. Powell is the author of The Inquisition of Climate Science (2011) and Four Revolutions in the Earth Sciences: From Heresy to Truth (2012), both from Columbia University Press.

288 pagesJune 2018All rights: Columbia University Press


NeurotheologyHow Science Can Enlighten Us About Spirituality

Andrew Newberg

What we gain by bringing brain science and religious experience together.

Religion is often cast in opposition to science. Yet both are deeply rooted in the inner work-ings of the human brain. With the advent of the modern cognitive neurosciences, the scientific study of religious and spiritual phenomena has become far more sophisticated and wide-rang-ing. What might brain scans of people in prayer, meditation, and under the influence of psy-choactive substances, for instance, show us about religious and spiritual beliefs? Are religious and spiritual phenomena reducible to brain processes? Or might there be aspects of religion and spirituality that, at least for now, appear to transcend scientific claims?

In this book, Andrew Newberg explores the latest findings of neurotheology, the multidis-ciplinary field linking neuroscience with religious and spiritual phenomena. He investigates some of the most controversial—and potentially transformative—implications of a neurotheo-logical approach for the truth claims of religion and our understanding of minds and brains. Newberg leads readers on a tour through key intersections of neuroscience and theology, including the potential evolutionary basis of religion; the psychology of religion, including mental health and brain pathology; the neuroscience of myths, rituals, and mystical experi-ences; how studies of altered states of consciousness shed new light on the mind-brain rela-tionship; what neurotheology can tell us about free will; and the limitations of what science can say about our religious and spiritual experience of reality. When brain science and reli-gious experience are considered together in an integrated approach, Newberg shows, we might come closer to a fuller understanding of the deepest questions.

Andrew Newberg is the director of research at the Marcus Institute of Integrative Health at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. His books include Why God Won’t Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief (2001), Why We Believe What We Believe: Uncovering Our Biological Need for Meaning, Spirituality, and Truth (2006), How God Changes Your Brain: Breakthrough Findings from a Leading Neuroscientist (2009), and Principles of Neurotheology (2010).

336 pagesMarch 2018All rights: Columbia University Press

Troublesome ScienceThe Misuse of Genetics and Genomics in Understanding Race

Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall

A comprehensive antidote to the myth that race has any meaningful biological or genetic basis.

It is well established that all human beings today, wherever they live, belong to one single species. Yet even many people who claim to abhor racism take for granted that human “races” have a biological reality. From pharmacological researchers to the U.S. government, the dubi-ous tradition of classifying people by race lives on. In Troublesome Science, Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall provide a lucid and compelling presentation of how the tools of modern biologi-cal science have been misused to sustain the belief in the biological basis of racial classification.

Troublesome Science illustrates that taxonomy, the scientific classification of organisms, provides a cure for such misbegotten mischaracterizations. DeSalle and Tattersall explain how taxono-mists do their job, especially the genomic and morphological techniques they use to identify a species and to understand and organize the relationships among different species and the vari-ants within them. They detail the use of genetic data to trace human origins and look at how scientists have attempted to recognize discrete populations within Homo sapiens. DeSalle and Tattersall demonstrate conclusively that these techniques, when applied correctly to the study of human variety, fail to find genuine differences, striking a blow against pseudoscientific chi-canery. While the diversity that exists within our species is a real phenomenon, it defeats any systematic attempt to recognize discrete units within it. The stark lines that humans insist on drawing between their own groups and others are nothing but a mixture of imagination and ideology. Troublesome Science is an important call for researchers, journalists, and citizens to cast aside the belief that race has a biological meaning, for the sake of social justice and sound science alike.

Rob DeSalle is a a curator in the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics and professor at the Richard Gilder Graduate School at the American Museum of Natural History. He is the author of The Science of Jurassic Park and the Lost World: or How to Build a Dinosaur (1997) and Welcome to the Microbiome: Getting to Know the Trillions of Bacteria and Other Microbes In, On, and Around You (2015), among others.

Ian Tattersall is curator emeritus in the Division of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History. His many books include Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins (2012) and The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack and Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution (2015). DeSalle and Tattersall’s previous books together include Human Origins: What Bones and Genomes Tell Us About Ourselves (2007); Race? Debunking a Scientific Myth (2011); and A Natural History of Wine (2015).



Chaos in the Liberal OrderThe Trump Presidency and International Politics in the 21st Century

Edited by Robert L. Jervis, Francis Gavin, Joshua Rovner, and Diane Labrosse

Collecting perspectives from top experts in international politics and history, this book explores the global trends that led to Trump’s rise and the impact his presidency will have on the international political order.

The election of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States has uprooted many assumptions about politics and society in the contemporary era. In Chaos in the Liberal Order, a selection of top political science, international relations, and history scholars contemplate the impact his presidency will have on the global order and our understanding of how it works. The book explores a number of key issues in this vein, such as understanding Trump within the context of international relations theory, what Trump means for America’s place in the world, Trump’s place in the global rise of the far right, and how Trump’s presidency will affect trends in human rights, global governance, conflicts in the Middle East, and global nuclear policy. Contributors include many leading lights in this field, including Robert Jervis, Stephen Walt, Michael Barnett, Joshua Rovner, Paul Miller, and Samuel Moyn. A very timely collection, this book will bring a much-needed perspective from highly respected scholars on the state of the world in this very uncertain era.

Robert L. Jervis is the Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics at Columbia University. His publications include Why Intelligence Fails: Lessons from the Fall of the Shah and Iraqi WMD (Cornell, 2011) and How Statesmen Think: The Psychology of International Politics (Princeton, 2017).

Francis J. Gavin is the Frank Stanton Chair in Nuclear Security Policy at the University of Texas at Austin’s Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law. His publications include Nuclear Statecraft: History and Strategy in America’s Atomic Age (Cornell, 2015).


A Dozen Lessons for EntrepreneursTren Griffin

344pagesDecember 2017All rights: Columbia University Press

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World-class venture capitalists and business-founder coaches explain their success in the start-up world.

The Digital Transformation PlaybookRethink Your Business for the Digital Age

David L. Rogers

296 pagesApril 2016All rights: Columbia University Press

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A practical action plan for businesses seeking to adapt and grow in today’s digital market.

A Survival Guide to the Misinformation AgeScientific Habits of Mind

David J. Helfand

344 pagesFebruary 2016All rights: Columbia University Press

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A step-by-step strategy for protecting ourselves against the phony claims, trendy pseudoscience, and sloppy thinking that permeate our world.


Quarks to CultureHow We Came To Be

Tyler Volk


A lively synthesis of knowledge across physics, chemistry, biology and ecology that lucidly explains how these f ields build upon each other’s intellectual vitality. A broad-ranging and highly original tour of modern science appropriate for fans of sophisticated science and philosophy of science.

Fear, Wonder, and Science in the New Age of Reproductive BiotechnologyScott Gilbert and Clara Pinto-Correia., with a foreword by Donna

Haraway

296 pagesAugust 2017All rights: Columbia University Press

A timely overview of the world of Assisted Reproductive Technology that conveys the real science underpinning this f ield, but also the emotional and personal costs. Elegantly written, up-to-the-minute science and a moving portrayal of families who have turned to ART raise it beyond typical science or self-help titles.

CataclysmsA New Geology for the Twenty-First Century

MIchael R. Rampino

224 pagesDecember 2009All rights: Columbia University Press

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A controversial look at Earth’s violent past and the major extinction events caused by cataclysms from above and below.

Inside TerrorismThird Edition

Bruce Hoffman

528 pagesSeptember 2017All rights: Columbia University Press

Rights sold: German

Updated to describe the changing face of terrorism: the new adversaries, new moti-vations, and new methods that have surfaced in recent years to challenge many of our most fundamental assumptions about terrorists and how they operate.

TunisiaAn Arab Anomaly

Safwan M. Masri


Based on interviews with dozens of experts, leaders, activists, and ordinary citi-zens, and a synthesis of a rich body of knowledge, Masri provides a sensitive, often personal, account that is critical for understanding not only Tunisia but also the broader Arab world.

Evolving Brains, Emerging GodsEarly Humans and the Origins of Religion

E. Fuller Torrey


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Providing clear and accessible explanations of evolutionary neuroscience,Torrey draws on cutting-edge neuroscience research to propose that religious belief is a byproduct of evolution.


Sacred KnowledgePsychedelics and Religious Experiences

William A. Richards


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The surprising results of formal investigations into the visionary and mystical experiences and the physical, mental, and spiritual effects of psychedelic drugs.

Better PresentationsA Guide for Scholars, Researchers, and Wonks

Enzo Traverso

192 pagesNovember 2016All rights: Columbia University Press

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A step-by-step approach for creating clear, sophisticated, and captivating presenta-tions.

Film StudiesAn Introduction

Ed Sikov


A step-by-step curriculum for the appreciation of all types of narrative cinema, detailing the essential elements of f ilm form and systematically training the specta-tor to be an active reader and critic.

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Foreign rights guide · University Press books include Bringing Fossils to Life: An Introduction to Paleobiology (third edi-tion, 2013); The Story of Life in 25 Fossils: Tales of