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A necessary reckoning with America?s troubled history of injustice to Indigenous people After One Hundred Winters confronts the harsh truth that the United States was founded on the violent...

In 1764, a Milanese aristocrat named Cesare Beccaria created a sensation when he published On Crimes and Punishments. At its centre is a rejection of the death penalty as excessive, unnecessary, and...

This brief and accessible book draws lessons from the history and governance of three recent transformative technologies - the space race, in-vitro fertilization (IVF), and the internet - to argue...

A trade book that argues that predictive AI is snake oil: it cannot and will never work. Artificial Intelligence is an umbrella term for a set of loosely related technologies. For instance, ChatGPT...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley It is only a slight exaggeration to say that...

An engaging account of the life and work of the legendary polymath Alexander von Humboldt In this lucid biography, Andreas Daum offers a succinct and novel intrepretation of the life and oeuvre of...

Inside the epic quest to find life on the water-rich moons at the outer reaches of the solar system Where is the best place to find life beyond Earth? We often look to Mars as the most promising site...

Over the past fifteen years, journalism has experienced a rapid proliferation of data about online reader behavior in the form of web metrics. These newsroom metrics influence which stories are...

American Dark Age contends that life in early and antebellum America for Black people resembles what Keidrick Roy calls racial feudalism," a race-based system of social stratification in the U.S...

A "powerful text" (Tavis Smiley) about how religion drove the fight for social justice in modern America American Prophets sheds critical new light on the lives and thought of seven major prophetic...

In the title, "[the square root of minus one]" appears as a radical over "-1."Author: Paul J. NahinPublisher: Princeton University PressPublication Date: Mar 15, 2016Number of Pages: 296...

An argument for the classical realist approach to world politics An Unwritten Future offers a fresh reassessment of classical realism, an enduring approach to understanding crucial events in the...

A new narrative history of the origins and development of ancient Mediterranean Christianity from the time of the apostle Paul up to the fifth century CE--Author: Paula FredriksenPublisher: Princeton...

A richly illustrated account of the story of ancient viniculture The history of civilization is, in many ways, the history of wine. This book is the first comprehensive account of the earliest stages...

Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives The Economy, And Why It Matters For Global CapitalismAuthor: George A. Akerlof, Robert J. ShillerPublisher: Princeton University PressPublication Date: Feb...

How philosophy can teach us to be less anxious about being anxious by understanding that it?s an essential part of being human Today, anxiety is usually thought of as a pathology, the most diagnosed...

A collection of compelling quotations from a rising star in contemporary art, architecture, and design The work of renowned contemporary artist Daniel Arsham blurs the lines between art,...

A examination of one of the key artists of the early-modern era from the point of view of the business considerations that informed her life, art, career, and legacy--Author: Christopher R...

A guide to AI?s thorniest implications that asks: How shall we navigate our brave new world? We are at a monumental turning point in human history. AI is taking intelligence in new directions. The...

A new look at the first few seconds after the Big Bang?and how research into these moments continues to revolutionize our understanding of our universe Scientists in recent decades have made crucial...

This book documents the decline of white-working class lives over the last half-century and examines the social and economic forces that have slowly made these lives more difficult. Case and Deaton...

How poor urban youth in Chicago use social media to profit from portrayals of gang violence, and the questions this raises about poverty, opportunities, and public voyeurism Amid increasing hardship...

Although thinkers of the past might have started from presumptions of fundamental difference and inequality between (say) the genders, or people of different races, this is no longer the case. At...

How campus communities of every kind can transform themselves from good to great Becoming Great Universities highlights ten core challenges that all colleges and universities face and offers...

How new technology is rapidly changing the nature of money and the way we pay A diverse and growing range of financial institutions and platforms?rom PayPal and Venmo to WeChat, Alipay, and the brave...

Billionaire Wilderness offers an unprecedented look inside the world of the ultra-wealthy and their relationship to the natural world, showing how the ultra-rich use nature to resolve key...

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, chosen by Tom Stoppard "A revelation."?Marc Weingarten, Washington Post Acclaimed film director Billy Wilder?s early writings?brilliantly translated into...

Biological motion is the first book to study the foundational relationship between motion and life, unearthing the long history of motion as the signum of the living world from Aristotle's animal...

A stunningly illustrated celebration of the world?s best bird photography The Bird Photographer of the Year is a competition that celebrates the artistry of bird photography from around the world,...

This book is an engaging and interesting compendium of bird facts. Presented in a format similar to that of Lawrence Millman's Fungipedia, the book contains alphabetized entries on all things birds-...