Princeton University Press: 2605 books
by John Guckenheimer, Stephen P. Ellner
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
From controlling disease outbreaks to predicting heart attacks, dynamic models are increasingly crucial for understanding biological processes. Many universities are starting undergraduate programs in computational biology to introduce students to this rapidly growing field. In Dynamic Models in Biology,...
Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 2
Experimental Researches
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Includes Jung's famous word-association studies in normal and abnormal psychology, two lectures on the association method given in 1909 at Clark University, and three articles on psychophysical researches from American and English journals in 1907 and 1908.
Responding to Imperfection
The Theory and Practice of Constitutional Amendment
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 1995
An increasing number of constitutional theorists, within both the legal academy and university departments of government, are focusing on the conceptual and political problems attached to the notion of constitutional amendment. Amendments are, among other things, recognitions of the imperfection of...
China's New Confucianism
Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2010
What is it like to be a Westerner teaching political philosophy in an officially Marxist state? Why do Chinese sex workers sing karaoke with their customers? And why do some Communist Party cadres get promoted if they care for their elderly parents? In this entertaining and illuminating book, one...
Unlocking the Gates
How and Why Leading Universities Are Opening Up Access to Their Courses
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
Over the past decade, a small revolution has taken place at some of the world's leading universities, as they have started to provide free access to undergraduate course materials--including syllabi, assignments, and lectures--to anyone with an Internet connection. Yale offers high-quality audio and...
Philology
The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2014
Many today do not recognize the word, but "philology" was for centuries nearly synonymous with humanistic intellectual life, encompassing not only the study of Greek and Roman literature and the Bible but also all other studies of language and literature, as well as history, culture, art, and more....
The History of American Higher Education
Learning and Culture from the Founding to World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2014
This book tells the compelling saga of American higher education from the founding of Harvard College in 1636 to the outbreak of World War II. The most in-depth and authoritative history of the subject available, The History of American Higher Education traces how colleges and universities were shaped...
Pagans and Philosophers
The Problem of Paganism from Augustine to Leibniz
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2015
From the turn of the fifth century to the beginning of the eighteenth, Christian writers were fascinated and troubled by the "Problem of Paganism," which this book identifies and examines for the first time. How could the wisdom and virtue of the great thinkers of antiquity be reconciled with the...
by Alfred I. Tauber
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Freud began university intending to study both medicine and philosophy. But he was ambivalent about philosophy, regarding it as metaphysical, too limited to the conscious mind, and ignorant of empirical knowledge. Yet his private correspondence and his writings on culture and history reveal that he...
Speak Freely
Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Why colleges and universities live or die by free speech
Free speech is under attack at colleges and universities today, as critics on and off campus challenge the value of freewheeling debate. In Speak Freely, Keith Whittington argues that universities must protect and encourage vigorous free...
Where Economics Went Wrong
Chicago's Abandonment of Classical Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
How modern economics abandoned classical liberalism and lost its way
Milton Friedman once predicted that advances in scientific economics would resolve debates about whether raising the minimum wage is good policy. Decades later, Friedman’s prediction has not come true. In Where Economics...
The Game of Life
College Sports and Educational Values
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
The President of Williams College faces a firestorm for not allowing the women's lacrosse team to postpone exams to attend the playoffs. The University of Michigan loses $2.8 million on athletics despite averaging 110,000 fans at each home football game. Schools across the country struggle with the...
The Strength in Numbers
The New Science of Team Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Once upon a time, it was the lone scientist who achieved brilliant breakthroughs. No longer. Today, science is done in teams of as many as hundreds of researchers who may be scattered across continents and represent a range of hierarchies. These collaborations can be powerful, but they demand new...
Becoming Right
How Campuses Shape Young Conservatives
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2012
Conservative pundits allege that the pervasive liberalism of America's colleges and universities has detrimental effects on undergraduates, most particularly right-leaning ones. Yet not enough attention has actually been paid to young conservatives to test these claims—until now. In Becoming Right,...