Princeton University Press: 2605 books
by J. M. Coetzee
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her to be conspirators in a crime of stupefying magnitude taking place on farms and in slaughterhouses,...
Macroeconomic Theory
A Dynamic General Equilibrium Approach - Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Macroeconomic Theory is the most up-to-date graduate-level macroeconomics textbook available today. This revised second edition emphasizes the general equilibrium character of macroeconomics to explain effects across the whole economy while taking into account recent research in the field. It is the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
The essays in this volume analyze war, its strategic characterisitics and its political and social functions, over the past five centuries. The diversity of its themes and the broad perspectives applied to them make the book a work of general history as much as a history of the theory and practice...
Mimesis
The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (New Expanded Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2013
More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf depicted reality has taught generations how...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Few writers are more quotable than Henry David Thoreau. His books, essays, journals, poems, letters, and unpublished manuscripts contain an inexhaustible treasure of epigrams and witticisms, from the famous ("The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation") to the obscure ("Who are...
The Sense of the Past
Essays in the History of Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Before his death in 2003, Bernard Williams planned to publish a collection of historical essays, focusing primarily on the ancient world. This posthumous volume brings together a much wider selection, written over some forty years. His legacy lives on in this masterful work, the first collection ever...
by Bernard Williams
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
What can--and what can't--philosophy do? What are its ethical risks--and its possible rewards? How does it differ from science? In Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline, Bernard Williams addresses these questions and presents a striking vision of philosophy as fundamentally different from science...
The Handbook of Economic Sociology
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
The Handbook of Economic Sociology, Second Edition is the most comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of economic sociology available. The first edition, copublished in 1994 by Princeton University Press and the Russell Sage Foundation as a synthesis of the burgeoning field of economic sociology,...
Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved
How Morality Evolved
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2009
"It's the animal in us," we often hear when we've been bad. But why not when we're good? Primates and Philosophers tackles this question by exploring the biological foundations of one of humanity's most valued traits: morality.
In this provocative book, primatologist Frans de Waal argues that...
How to Build a Habitable Planet
The Story of Earth from the Big Bang to Humankind - Revised and Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
Since its first publication more than twenty-five years ago, How to Build a Habitable Planet has established a legendary reputation as an accessible yet scientifically impeccable introduction to the origin and evolution of Earth, from the Big Bang through the rise of human civilization. This classic...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2009
This book provides clear presentations of more than sixty important unsolved problems in mathematical systems and control theory. Each of the problems included here is proposed by a leading expert and set forth in an accessible manner. Covering a wide range of areas, the book will be an ideal reference...
Saving God
Religion after Idolatry
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
In this book, Mark Johnston argues that God needs to be saved not only from the distortions of the "undergraduate atheists" (Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris) but, more importantly, from the idolatrous tendencies of religion itself. Each monotheistic religion has its...
Theory of Games and Economic Behavior
60th Anniversary Commemorative Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2007
This is the classic work upon which modern-day game theory is based. What began more than sixty years ago as a modest proposal that a mathematician and an economist write a short paper together blossomed, in 1944, when Princeton University Press published Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. In...
Agent_Zero
Toward Neurocognitive Foundations for Generative Social Science
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2014
The Final Volume of the Groundbreaking Trilogy on Agent-Based Modeling
In this pioneering synthesis, Joshua Epstein introduces a new theoretical entity: Agent_Zero. This software individual, or "agent," is endowed with distinct emotional/affective, cognitive/deliberative, and social modules....