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Fictional sleuth Henry Spearman returns to solve a murder mystery involving art and economics Henry Spearman, the balding economics professor with a knack for solving crimes, returns in The Mystery...

Einstein said that the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. But was he right? Can the quantum theory of fields and Einstein's general theory of relativity, the...

Why evolution is like a network, not a family tree?and why it matters for understanding the health of all living things In The Network of Life, David Mindell explains why the conventional narrative...

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies?an engaging firsthand portrait of American Judaism today American Judaism has been buffeted by massive social upheavals in recent...

J. E. Gordon's classic introduction to the properties of materials used in engineering answers some fascinating and fundamental questions about how the structural world around us works. Gordon...

How social and intellectual changes undermine our justifications for the welfare state The welfare state has come under severe pressure internationally, partly for the well-known reasons of slowing...

As a kid growing up in Manhattan, William Helmreich played a game with his father they called Last Stop." They would pick a subway line and ride it to its final destination, and explore the...

An acclaimed physicist?s accessible yet rigorous introduction to quantum mechanics for nonspecialists This is a rare and much-needed book: a concise but comprehensive account of quantum mechanics for...

A feminist biography of the only woman to become prime minister of Israel In this authoritative and empathetic biography, Pnina Lahav reexamines the life of Golda Meir (1898-1978) through a feminist...

This book mobilizes the Brazilian artist Lygia Clark's notion of the organic line-an interval of space between material elements-as a conceptual instrument for reimagining the field of modernism as a...

When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel," "Hansel and Gretel," and...

The reasons behind Detroit?s persistent racialized poverty after World War II Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of...

From the UK Poet Laureate and bestselling translator of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a complete verse translation of a spirited and humorous medieval English poem The Owl and the Nightingale, one...

Author: Kate BowlerPublisher: Princeton University PressPublication Date: Sep 15, 2020Number of Pages: 368 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0691209197ISBN-13: 9780691209197

How the booming Islamic finance industry became an ultramodern hybrid of religion and markets In just fifty years, Islamic finance has grown from a tiny experiment operated from a Volkswagen van to a...

How modernist women writers used biographical writing to resist their exclusion from literary history It?s impossible, now, to think of modernism without thinking about gender, sexuality, and the...

A bold new reconception of ancient Greek drama as a mode of philosophical thinking The Philosophical Stage offers an innovative approach to ancient Greek literature and thought that places drama at...

An eminent philosopher explains why we owe it to future generations to take immediate action on global warming Climate change is the supreme challenge of our time. Yet despite growing international...

First published in Great Britain by Granta Books, 2015.Author: Oliver MortonPublisher: Princeton University PressPublication Date: May 02, 2017Number of Pages: 440 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Fifty easy-to-deploy active learning exercises for teaching academic writing in any field The Pocket Instructor: Writing offers fifty practical exercises for teaching students the core elements of...

A new account of one of Rome's most relentless but least understood foes. Claiming Alexander the Great and Darius of Persia as ancestors, Mithradates inherited a wealthy Black Sea kingdom at age...

How the antitax fringe went mainstream?nd now threatens America? future The postwar United States enjoyed large, widely distributed economic rewards?nd most Americans accepted that taxes were a...

Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) was a Dutch humanist, scholar, and social critic, and one of the most important figures of the Renaissance. The Praise of Folly is perhaps his best-known work...

A fully updated and expanded edition of the acclaimed, bestselling dinosaur field guide The bestselling Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs remains the must-have book for anyone who loves dinosaurs,...

The author discusses how business managers can lead with input, consistency and accountability and still succeed in the results-oriented business world.Author: Joel BrocknerPublisher: Princeton...

An exploration of one of the most celebrated and well-known theorems in mathematics By any measure, the Pythagorean theorem is the most famous statement in all of mathematics. In this book, Eli Maor...

A new way to understand the architecture of today?s Internet, based on an innovative general model of network architecture that is rigorous, realistic, and modular This book meets the long-standing...

A clear, accessible exploration of how and why we love by prominent philosopher and bestselling author Harry Frankfurt In The Reasons of Love, leading moral philosopher and bestselling author Harry...

First published by Princeton University Press in 1987. Now with new foreword and a new afterword.Author: Jeffrey K. TulisPublisher: Princeton University PressPublication Date: Nov 07, 2017Number of...

A landmark reinterpretation of why Christianity became the dominant faith of the West The idea that Christianity started as a clandestine movement among the poor is a widely accepted notion. Yet it...