Princeton University Press: 2605 books
Seeing the World
How US Universities Make Knowledge in a Global Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
An in-depth look at why American universities continue to favor U.S.-focused social science research despite efforts to make scholarship more cosmopolitan
U.S. research universities have long endeavored to be cosmopolitan places, yet the disciplines of economics, political science, and sociology...
A Community of Scholars
Impressions of the Institute for Advanced Study
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
This beautifully illustrated anthology celebrates eighty years of history and intellectual inquiry at the Institute for Advanced Study, one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research. Featuring essays by current and former faculty and members along with photographs by Serge J-F. Levy,...
The Supreme Court and Religion in American Life, Vol. 2
From "Higher Law" to "Sectarian Scruples"
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
School vouchers. The Pledge of Allegiance. The ban on government grants for theology students. The abundance of church and state issues brought before the Supreme Court in recent years underscores an incontrovertible truth in the American legal system: the relationship between the state and religion...
How Evolution Shapes Our Lives
Essays on Biology and Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
It is easy to think of evolution as something that happened long ago, or that occurs only in "nature," or that is so slow that its ongoing impact is virtually nonexistent when viewed from the perspective of a single human lifetime. But we now know that when natural selection is strong, evolutionary...
Hamlet in Purgatory
Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2013
In Hamlet in Purgatory, renowned literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt delves into his longtime fascination with the ghost of Hamlet's father, and his daring and ultimately gratifying journey takes him through surprising intellectual territory. It yields an extraordinary account of the rise and fall...
The Science of War
Defense Budgeting, Military Technology, Logistics, and Combat Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2009
The U.S. military is one of the largest and most complex organizations in the world. How it spends its money, chooses tactics, and allocates its resources have enormous implications for national defense and the economy. The Science of War is the only comprehensive textbook on how to analyze and understand...
The Machiavellian Moment
Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Originally published in 1975, The Machiavellian Moment remains a landmark of historical and political thought. Celebrated historian J.G.A. Pocock looks at the consequences for modern historical and social consciousness arising from the ideal of the classical republic revived by Machiavelli and other...
by Robert B. Banks
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
Have you ever daydreamed about digging a hole to the other side of the world? Robert Banks not only entertains such ideas but, better yet, he supplies the mathematical know-how to turn fantasies into problem-solving adventures. In this sequel to the popular Towing Icebergs, Falling Dominoes (Princeton,...
The Great Mother
An Analysis of the Archetype
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
This landmark book explores the Great Mother as a primordial image of the human psyche. Here the renowned analytical psychologist Erich Neumann draws on ritual, mythology, art, and records of dreams and fantasies to examine how this archetype has been outwardly expressed in many cultures and periods...
Fourier Analysis
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
This first volume, a three-part introduction to the subject, is intended for students with a beginning knowledge of mathematical analysis who are motivated to discover the ideas that shape Fourier analysis. It begins with the simple conviction that Fourier arrived at in the early nineteenth century...
by Umberto Zannier, David Masser
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
This book considers the so-called Unlikely Intersections, a topic that embraces well-known issues, such as Lang's and Manin-Mumford's, concerning torsion points in subvarieties of tori or abelian varieties. More generally, the book considers algebraic subgroups that meet a given subvariety in a set...
Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control Theory
A Concise Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
This textbook offers a concise yet rigorous introduction to calculus of variations and optimal control theory, and is a self-contained resource for graduate students in engineering, applied mathematics, and related subjects. Designed specifically for a one-semester course, the book begins with calculus...
Science and Polity in France
The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
From the 1770s through the 1820s the French scientific community predominated in the world to a degree that no other scientific establishment did in any period prior to the Second World War. In his classic Science and Polity in France: The End of the Old Regime, Charles Gillispie analyzed the cultural,...
The Jews of Islam
Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2014
This landmark book probes Muslims' attitudes toward Jews and Judaism as a special case of their view of other religious minorities in predominantly Muslim societies. With authority, sympathy and wit, Bernard Lewis demolishes two competing stereotypes: the Islamophobic picture of the fanatical Muslim...