Princeton University Press: 2605 books
The Straight State
Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
The Straight State is the most expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality yet written. Unearthing startling new evidence from the National Archives, Margot Canaday shows how the state systematically came to penalize homosexuality, giving rise to a regime of second-class citizenship...
by Leah Price
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who...
Hasidism
A New History
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
The first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern Judaism
This is the first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern Judaism. The book’s unique blend of intellectual, religious, and social history offers perspectives on the movement’s...
American Crucible
Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
This sweeping history of twentieth-century America follows the changing and often conflicting ideas about the fundamental nature of American society: Is the United States a social melting pot, as our civic creed warrants, or is full citizenship somehow reserved for those who are white and of the "right"...
On Rumors
How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, and What Can Be Done
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2014
Many of us are being misled. Claiming to know dark secrets about public officials, hidden causes of the current economic situation, and nefarious plans and plots, those who spread rumors know precisely what they are doing. And in the era of social media and the Internet, they know a lot about how...
The Dictionary Wars
The American Fight over the English Language
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
A compelling history of the national conflicts that resulted from efforts to produce the first definitive American dictionary of English
In The Dictionary Wars, Peter Martin recounts the patriotic fervor in the early American republic to produce a definitive national dictionary that would rival...
College
What it Was, Is, and Should Be
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
As the commercialization of American higher education accelerates, more and more students are coming to college with the narrow aim of obtaining a preprofessional credential. The traditional four-year college experience--an exploratory time for students to discover their passions and test ideas and...
by W. Bradley Wendel
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Even lawyers who obey the law often seem to act unethically--interfering with the discovery of truth, subverting justice, and inflicting harm on innocent people. Standard arguments within legal ethics attempt to show why it is permissible to do something as a lawyer that it would be wrong to do as...
Politics of Piety
The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Politics of Piety is a groundbreaking analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt. Unlike those organized Islamist activities that seek to seize or transform the state, this is a moral reform movement...
Religion
What It Is, How It Works, and Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
A groundbreaking new theory of religion
Religion remains an important influence in the world today, yet the social sciences are still not adequately equipped to understand and explain it. This book builds on recent developments in science, theory, and philosophy to advance an innovative theory...
QED
The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Celebrated for his brilliantly quirky insights into the physical world, Nobel laureate Richard Feynman also possessed an extraordinary talent for explaining difficult concepts to the general public. Here Feynman provides a classic and definitive introduction to QED (namely quantum electrodynamics),...
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language
How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? Until now their identity has remained a tantalizing mystery...
Lost Enlightenment
Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2013
In this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but largely unknown story of Central Asia's medieval enlightenment through the eventful lives and astonishing accomplishments of its greatest minds--remarkable figures who built a bridge to the modern world....
Reinventing Discovery
The New Era of Networked Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
In Reinventing Discovery, Michael Nielsen argues that we are living at the dawn of the most dramatic change in science in more than 300 years. This change is being driven by powerful new cognitive tools, enabled by the internet, which are greatly accelerating scientific discovery. There are many books...