Princeton University Press

Author: W. Bernard CarlsonPublisher: Princeton University PressPublication Date: Apr 27, 2015Number of Pages: 520 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0691165610ISBN-13: 9780691165615

The aan Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews of alyAuthor: Simon Levis SullamPublisher: Princeton University PressPublication Date: Dec 08, 2020Number of Pages: 208 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

John Wilkes Booth fired his fatal shot on the evening of April 14, 1865, and as the news reached nearly every corner of the globe, President Abraham Lincoln lay dying. Pervasive sympathy for...

A major reassessment of the vikings and their legacy The Vikings maintain their grip on our imagination, but their image is too often distorted by myth. It is true that they pillaged, looted, and...

Author: Sharon MarcusPublisher: Princeton University PressPublication Date: Aug 11, 2020Number of Pages: 328 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0691210187ISBN-13: 9780691210186

Amazons?fierce warrior women dwelling on the fringes of the known world?were the mythic archenemies of the ancient Greeks. Heracles and Achilles displayed their valor in duels with Amazon queens, and...

Common in Eurasia, red wood ants (the Formica rufa group) are also found in North America. This beautifully illustrated book follows the annual life-cycle of a red wood ant nest with a particular...

A splendid new translation of an extraordinary work of modern literature?featuring facing-page commentary by Kafka?s acclaimed biographer In 1917 and 1918, Franz Kafka wrote a set of more than 100...

A New York Times Book Review Editors? Choice Why the conventional wisdom about the Arab Spring is wrong The Arab Spring promised to end dictatorship and bring self-government to people across the...

From one of today? most inspired architects and urban advocates, a manifesto for architecture as a force for addressing our biggest social challenges The world is facing unprecedented challenges,...

How we can use what we?ve learned about the brain to improve our mental health There are many routes to mental well-being. In this groundbreaking book, neuroscientist Camilla Nord offers a...

A Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Bloomberg Businessweek Book of the Year Why our banking system is broken?nd what we must do to fix it New bank failures have been a rude awakening for...

This book explores the subject of gravity in a fresh way, taking the reader from Newton to the frontiers of gravitational physics. Per Einstein's general theory of relativity, gravity is a...

What an intensely divisive election portends for American politics The year 2020 was a tumultuous time in American politics. It brought a global pandemic, protests for racial justice, and a...

The untold story of South America?s most interesting beverage Brewed from the dried leaves and tender shoots of an evergreen tree native to South America, yerba mate gives its drinkers the jolt of...

In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that reshaped...

More than three centuries after its creation, calculus remains a dazzling intellectual achievement and the gateway to higher mathematics. This book charts its growth and development by sampling from...

How math holds the keys to improving one's health, wealth, and love life? What's the best diet for overall health and weight management? How can we change our finances to retire earlier? How can we...

With a new afterword by the author--Cover.Author: Bryan CaplanPublisher: Princeton University PressPublication Date: Aug 20, 2019Number of Pages: 424 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: Paperback/Business...

A fundamental and groundbreaking reassessment of how we view and manage cancer When we think of the forces driving cancer, we don?t necessarily think of evolution. But evolution and cancer are...

F. E. Peters, a scholar without peer in the comparative study of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, revisits his pioneering work. Peters has rethought and thoroughly rewritten his classic The Children...

How China's political model could prove to be a viable alternative to Western democracy Westerners tend to divide the political world into "good" democracies and ?bad? authoritarian regimes. But the...

A definitive scholarly edition of the correspondence and papers of Albert Einstein This volume finds Einstein recovered and traveling again after a prolonged illness, to Paris, London, and Zurich to...

Why democracies believe they can survive any crisisùand why that belief is so dangerous Why do democracies keep lurching from success to failure? The current financial crisis is just the latest...

Semi-autobiographical discussion of astronomy and astronomers, and history of astronomy and cosmology.--Author: J. Richard GottPublisher: Princeton University PressPublication Date: Jun 26,...

An entertaining tour of Old English words for animals, from the author of The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English, which Neil Gaiman called ?a delightful book? Many of the animals we encounter in...

A book about how businesses and other organizations can improve their performance by tapping the power of differences in how people think. What if workforce diversity is more than simply the right...

A novel economic interpretation of how religions have become so powerful in the modern world Religion in the twenty-first century is alive and well across the world, despite its apparent decline in...

A comprehensive and illuminating account of the history of credit in America?nd how it continues to divide the haves from the have-nots The Economy of Promises is a far-reaching study of credit in...