Princeton University Press imprint: 2599 books
by Plato
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1961
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1961
All the writings of Plato generally considered to be authentic are here presented in the only complete one-volume Plato available in English. The editors set out to choose the contents of this collected edition from the work of the best British and American translators of the last 100 years, ranging...
Thieves, Deceivers, and Killers
Tales of Chemistry in Nature
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2009
The tobacco plant synthesizes nicotine to protect itself from herbivores. The female moth broadcasts sex pheromones to attract a mate, while a soldier ant deploys an alarm pheromone to call for help. The carbon dioxide on a mammal's breath beckons hungry ticks and mosquitoes, while a flower's fragrance...
Darwin's Unfinished Symphony
How Culture Made the Human Mind
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Humans possess an extraordinary capacity for culture, from the arts and language to science and technology. But how did the human mind—and the uniquely human ability to devise and transmit culture—evolve from its roots in animal behavior? Darwin’s Unfinished Symphony presents a captivating new...
by Alexander Pope
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Voltaire called it "the most sublime didactic poem ever written in any language." Rousseau rhapsodized about its intellectual consolations. Kant recited long passages of it from memory during his lectures. And Adam Smith and David Hume drew inspiration from it in their writings. This was...
Grimm Legacies
The Magic Spell of the Grimms' Folk and Fairy Tales
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2014
In Grimm Legacies, esteemed literary scholar Jack Zipes explores the legacy of the Brothers Grimm in Europe and North America, from the nineteenth century to the present. Zipes reveals how the Grimms came to play a pivotal and unusual role in the evolution of Western folklore and in the history of...
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
An Anthology of Magical Tales
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
A diverse new anthology that traces the meaning and magic of the sorcerer's apprentice tale throughout history
"The Sorcerer's Apprentice" might conjure up images of Mickey Mouse from the Disney film Fantasia, or of Harry Potter. As this anthology reveals, however, "sorcerer's...
Smack-Bam, or The Art of Governing Men
Political Fairy Tales of Édouard Laboulaye
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Wry political fairy tales from a nineteenth-century politician that speak to our current times
Édouard Laboulaye (1811–1883), one of nineteenth-century France’s most prominent politicians and an instrumental figure in establishing the Statue of Liberty, was also a prolific writer of fairy...
The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga
Notes of the Seminar Given in 1932
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
"Kundalini yoga presented Jung with a model of something that was almost completely lacking in Western psychology--an account of the development phases of higher consciousness.... Jung's insistence on the psychogenic and symbolic significance of such states is even more timely now than then....
Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned
Enchanted Stories from the French Decadent Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
The wolf is tricked by Red Riding Hood into strangling her grandmother and is subsequently arrested. Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella do not live happily ever after. And the fairies are saucy, angry, and capricious. Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned collects thirty-six tales, many newly translated,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1988
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1988
In a single volume that will be of service to philosophy students of all levels and to their teachers, this reader provides modern, accurate translations of the texts necessary for a careful study of most aspects of Aristotle's philosophy. In selecting the texts Professor J. L. Ackrill has drawn on...
Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 1
Psychiatric Studies
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
At the turn of the last century C. G. Jung began his career as a psychiatrist. During the next decade three men whose names are famous in the annals of medical psychology influenced his professional development: Pierre Janet, under whom he studied at the Salpetriere Hospital in Paris; Eugen Bleuler,...
The I Ching
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
The I Ching originated in China as a divination manual more than three thousand years ago. In 136 BCE the emperor declared it a Confucian classic, and in the centuries that followed, this work had a profound influence on the philosophy, religion, art, literature, politics, science, technology, and...
Eugene Onegin
A Novel in Verse: Text (Vol. 1)
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
When Vladimir Nabokov's translation of Pushkin’s masterpiece Eugene Onegin was first published in 1964, it ignited a storm of controversy that famously resulted in the demise of Nabokov’s friendship with critic Edmund Wilson. While Wilson derided it as a disappointment in the New York Review of...
Puerilities
Erotic Epigrams of The Greek Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Elegiac lyrics celebrating the love of boys, which the translator terms Puerilities, comprise most of the twelfth book of The Greek Anthology. That book, the so-called Musa Puerilis, is brilliantly translated in this, the first complete verse version in English. It is a delightful eroticopia of short...