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Birds of New Guinea
Distribution, Taxonomy, and Systematics
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
New Guinea, the largest tropical island, supports a spectacular bird fauna characterized by cassowaries, megapodes, pigeons, parrots, kingfishers, and owlet-nightjars, as well as the iconic birds of paradise and bowerbirds. Of the nearly 800 species of birds recorded from New Guinea, more than 350...
One Hundred Semesters
My Adventures as Student, Professor, and University President, and What I Learned along the Way
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
In One Hundred Semesters, William Chace mixes incisive analysis with memoir to create an illuminating picture of the evolution of American higher education over the past half century. Chace follows his own journey from undergraduate education at Haverford College to teaching at Stillman, a traditionally...
Faust I & II, Volume 2
Goethe’s Collected Works - Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
One of the great classics of European literature, Faust is Goethe's most complex and profound work. To tell the dramatic and tragic story of one man’s pact with the Devil in exchange for knowledge and power, Goethe drew from an immense variety of cultural and historical material, and a wealth of...
Investors and Markets
Portfolio Choices, Asset Prices, and Investment Advice
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
In Investors and Markets, Nobel Prize-winning financial economist William Sharpe shows that investment professionals cannot make good portfolio choices unless they understand the determinants of asset prices. But until now asset-price analysis has largely been inaccessible to everyone except PhDs...
by Rami Shakarchi, Elias M. Stein
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2010
With this second volume, we enter the intriguing world of complex analysis. From the first theorems on, the elegance and sweep of the results is evident. The starting point is the simple idea of extending a function initially given for real values of the argument to one that is defined when the argument...
How to Solve It
A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
A perennial bestseller by eminent mathematician G. Polya, How to Solve It will show anyone in any field how to think straight.
In lucid and appealing prose, Polya reveals how the mathematical method of demonstrating a proof or finding an unknown can be of help in attacking any problem that...
by Jorie Graham
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1983
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1983
From Erosion:
SAN SEPOLCRO
Jorie Graham
?
. . . . How clean
the mind is,
holy grave. It is this girl
by Piero
della Francesca, unbuttoning
her blue dress,
her mantle of weather,
to go into
labor. Come, we can go in.
It is before
the birth of god. No-one
has risen yet
to the museums,...
Evil in Modern Thought
An Alternative History of Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Evil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter of human cruelty, and Auschwitz as its extreme incarnation. Examining our understanding of evil from the Inquisition...
The Struggle for Equality
Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction - Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2014
Originally published in 1964, The Struggle for Equality presents an incisive and vivid look at the abolitionist movement and the legal basis it provided to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Pulitzer Prize–winning historian James McPherson explores the role played by rights activists during...
The Praise of Folly
Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536) was a Dutch humanist, scholar, and social critic, and one of the most important figures of the Renaissance. The Praise of Folly is perhaps his best-known work. Originally written to amuse his friend Sir Thomas More, this satiric celebration of pleasure, youth, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
This volume of Princeton Readings in Religions brings together the work of more than thirty scholars of Islam and Muslim societies in South Asia to create a rich anthology of primary texts that contributes to a new appreciation of the lived religious and cultural experiences of the world's largest...
Welcome to the Universe
An Astrophysical Tour
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Welcome to the Universe is a personal guided tour of the cosmos by three of today's leading astrophysicists. Inspired by the enormously popular introductory astronomy course that Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott taught together at Princeton,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2009
Robert H. MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson's The Theory of Island Biogeography, first published by Princeton in 1967, is one of the most influential books on ecology and evolution to appear in the past half century. By developing a general mathematical theory to explain a crucial ecological problem--the...
Marxism and Form
20th-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
For more than thirty years, Fredric Jameson has been one of the most productive, wide-ranging, and distinctive literary theorists in the United States and the Anglophone world. Marxism and Form provided a pioneering account of the work of the major European Marxist theorists--T. W. Adorno, Walter...