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Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of Princeton University, leading educators and commentators participated in a symposium jointly sponsored by Princeton and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Universities and Their Leadership is a collection of original essays from presenters at the Princeton...
Keeping Faith at Princeton
A Brief History of Religious Pluralism at Princeton and Other Universities
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2012
In 1981, Frederick Houk Borsch returned to Princeton University, his alma mater, to serve as dean of the chapel at the Ivy League school. In Keeping Faith at Princeton, Borsch tells the story of Princeton's journey from its founding in 1746 as a college for Presbyterian ministers to the religiously...
Eros the Bittersweet
An Essay
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
The insights presented in the volume are many and wide-ranging, recognizably in tune with the subtlest modern discussions of desire (such as triangulation. or loving what others love), yet offering new solutions to old problems, like the proper interpretation of Plato's Phaedrus. On the frequently...
I Hear My People Singing
Voices of African American Princeton
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
A vivid history of life in Princeton, New Jersey, told through the voices of its African American residents
I Hear My People Singing shines a light on a small but historic black neighborhood at the heart of one of the most elite and world-renowned Ivy-League towns—Princeton, New Jersey. The...
The Five Habits of Highly Effective Honeybees (and What We Can Learn from Them)
From Honeybee Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2010
Studies of animal behavior have often been invoked to help explain and even guide human behavior. Think of Pavlov and his dogs or Goodall and her chimps. But, as these examples indicate, the tendency has been to focus on "higher," more cognitively developed, and thus, it is thought, more...
The New Gilded Age
From Unequal Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2012
"We are the 99%" has quickly become the slogan of our political era as growing numbers of Americans express concern about the disappearing middle class and the ever-widening gap between the super-rich and everyone else. Has America really entered a New Gilded Age? What are the political...
On Reading
From Walden
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2004
As the digital age settles on us and the ebook revolution dawns, the question of why we read to begin with is often forgotten. Who better to turn to for guidance on this question than the man who sought refuge in the simple things we often take for granted, Henry David Thoreau. His thoughts on reading...
On Victory and Defeat
From On War
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1989
The seemingly endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have renewed the age-old debate over what constitutes military victory. Will the withdrawal of troops from Iraq and Afghanistan be seen as a sign of victory or defeat? Although the nature of warfare has changed dramatically since Clausewitz's On War...
The Future of Fossil Fuels
From Hubbert's Peak
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2008
As debates about the effects of fossil fuels on our climate and foreign policy intensify, the question of just how much longer we can depend on this finite source of energy becomes more and more pressing. This selection from Hubbert's Peak, the leading book on the limits of our oil supply, forecasts...
The War for Afghanistan: A Very Brief History
From Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2012
When it invaded Afghanistan in 2001, the United States sought to do something previous foreign powers had never attempted: to create an Afghani state where none existed. More than a decade on, the new regime in Kabul remains plagued by illegitimacy and ineffectiveness. What happened? As Thomas Barfield...
The Second Great Contraction
From "This Time Is Different"
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011
We've been assured that the recession is over, but the country and the economy continue to feel the effects of the 2008 financial crisis, and people are still searching for answers about what caused it, what it has wrought, and how we can recover. This selection from the best-selling book This Time...
The Education of Barack Obama
From Reading Obama
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2012
If you really want to know what makes Barack Obama tick, you need to understand his education. James T. Kloppenberg explains the rich American intellectual tradition that shapes Obama's beliefs and influences his actions--particularly his aversion to absolutes and his commitment to compromise. This...
The Secrets of Pirate Management
From The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2012
What can today's corporate raiders learn from the scourge of the high seas? A lot, as it turns out! Pirates have a surprising amount to teach about building better organizations, promoting diversity in the workplace, and creating powerful brands, among many other business lessons. Curious to hear...
The Meaning of Relativity
Including the Relativistic Theory of the Non-Symmetric Field - Fifth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2014
In 1921, five years after the appearance of his comprehensive paper on general relativity and twelve years before he left Europe permanently to join the Institute for Advanced Study, Albert Einstein visited Princeton University, where he delivered the Stafford Little Lectures for that year. These...