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Why our workplaces are authoritarian private governments?and why we can?t see it One in four American workers says their workplace is a ?dictatorship.? Yet that number almost certainly would be...

Priced Out: The Economic And Ethical Costs Of American Health CareAuthor: Uwe E. ReinhardtPublisher: Princeton University PressPublication Date: Sep 01, 2020Number of Pages: 232 pagesLanguage:...

As one of the most prestigious high schools in the nation, St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, has long been the exclusive domain of America's wealthiest sons. But times have changed. Today,...

Over the past several decades and increasingly since the beginning of the pandemic, second homeowners have left a distinctive mark across both rural and urban America. As wealthy elites reallocate...

The controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into the heart of twentieth-century intellectual life Scion of a distinguished line of Talmudic scholars, Jacob Taubes (1923?987) was an...

How did Puerto Rico end up in its current situation? A Spanish-speaking territory controlled by the United States and populated by the descendants of conquistadors, enslaved Africans, and indigenous...

Provides an introduction to QED (quantum electrodynamics), that part of quantum field theory describing the interactions of light with charged particles. Using everyday language, spatial concepts,...

A hands-on lab guide in the MATLAB programming language that enables students in the life sciences to reason quantitatively about living systems across scales This lab guide accompanies the textbook...

A hands-on lab guide in the Python programming language that enables students in the life sciences to reason quantitatively about living systems across scales This lab guide accompanies the textbook...

A hands-on lab guide in the R programming language that enables students in the life sciences to reason quantitatively about living systems across scales This lab guide accompanies the textbook...

Are antisemitism and white supremacy manifestations of a general phenomenon? Why didn't racism appear in Europe before the fourteenth century, and why did it flourish as never before in the...

Revealing bold new ways to structure markets for the good of everyone, this book shows how the emancipatory force of genuinely open, free, and competitive markets can reawaken the dormant...

From an award-winning poet, a collection that explores the complexities of transformation, cultures, and politics In Radioactive Starlings, award-winning poet Myronn Hardy explores the divergences...

Rain in Plal: Poems (Princeton Ser's of Contempary Poets, 155) -apeackAuthor: Fiona Sze-LorrainPublisher: Princeton University PressPublication Date: Sep 29, 2020Number of Pages: 128 pagesLanguage:...

How the Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center informed the PLO?s relationship to Zionism and Israel In September 1982, the Israeli military invaded West Beirut and Israel-allied Lebanese...

An engaging and enlightening account of taxation told through lively, dramatic, and sometimes ludicrous stories drawn from around the world and across the ages Governments have always struggled to...

Author: Joshua SpechtPublisher: Princeton University PressPublication Date: Oct 06, 2020Number of Pages: 368 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0691209189ISBN-13: 9780691209180

How the internet and powerful online tools are democratizing and accelerating scientific discovery Reinventing Discovery argues that we are living at the dawn of the most dramatic change in science...

Relativity: The Special And The General Theory - 100Th Anniversary EditionAuthor: Albert Einstein, Hanoch GutfreundPublisher: Princeton University PressPublication Date: Mar 12, 2019Number of Pages:...

How a single haunting image tells a story about violence, mourning, and memory In 1865, Clara Barton traveled to the site of the notorious Confederate prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, where she...

How ordinary forms of writing?including manuals, petitions, almanacs, and magazines?shaped the way colonial subjects understood their place in empire In Required Reading, Priyasha Mukhopadhyay offers...

A Dominican-born academic tells the story of how the Great Books transformed his life?and why they have the power to speak to people of all backgrounds What is the value of a liberal education?...

How Robespierre? career and legacy embody the dangerous contradictions of democracy Maximilien Robespierre (1758?794) is arguably the most controversial and contradictory figure of the French...

Author: Chris Pellant, Helen PellantPublisher: Princeton University PressPublication Date: Nov 17, 2020Number of Pages: 208 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0691204063ISBN-13:...

The first field guide that allows amateur rock enthusiasts to identify basic rocks and rock formations in a systematic way Many of us are fascinated by rocks?but identifying them can seem daunting...

Author: Anthony A. BarrettPublisher: Princeton University PressPublication Date: Feb 22, 2022Number of Pages: 368 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0691233942ISBN-13: 9780691233949

A panoramic history of rules in the Western world Rules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and set the table, tell us whether to offer an extended...

Finalist for the National Book Award An intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America's heartland The Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less...

How Arabic influenced the evolution of vernacular literatures and anticolonial thought in Egypt, Indonesia, and Senegal Sacred Language, Vernacular Difference offers a new understanding of Arabic?s...