Princeton University Press: 2605 books
From Communists to Foreign Capitalists
The Social Foundations of Foreign Direct Investment in Postsocialist Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
From Communists to Foreign Capitalists explores the intersections of two momentous changes in the late twentieth century: the fall of Communism and the rise of globalization. Delving into the economic change that accompanied these shifts in central and Eastern Europe, Nina Bandelj presents a pioneering...
Site Reading
Fiction, Art, Social Form
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Site Reading offers a new method of literary and cultural interpretation and a new theory of narrative setting by examining five sites—supermarkets, dumps, roads, ruins, and asylums—that have been crucial to American literature and visual art since the mid-twentieth century. Against the traditional...
What School Could Be
Insights and Inspiration from Teachers across America
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
An inspiring account of ordinary teachers who are doing extraordinary things that could transform education
What School Could Be offers an inspiring vision of what our teachers and students can accomplish if trusted with the challenge of developing the skills and ways of thinking needed to...
Remaking the Heartland
Middle America since the 1950s
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
For many Americans, the Midwest is a vast unknown. In Remaking the Heartland, Robert Wuthnow sets out to rectify this. He shows how the region has undergone extraordinary social transformations over the past half-century and proven itself surprisingly resilient in the face of such hardships as the...
Competitive Solutions
The Strategist's Toolkit
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2009
Competitive Solutions is an entertaining and wideranging introduction to successful business methods applied to a variety of real-world situations. Rejecting the one-size-fits-all premise that underlies so many guides to business strategy, Preston McAfee develops the intellectual tools and insights...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2010
No nineteenth-century composer had more diverse ties to his contemporary world than Franz Liszt (1811-1886). At various points in his life he made his home in Vienna, Paris, Weimar, Rome, and Budapest. In his roles as keyboard virtuoso, conductor, master teacher, and abbé, he reinvented the concert...
Music as Thought
Listening to the Symphony in the Age of Beethoven
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Before the nineteenth century, instrumental music was considered inferior to vocal music. Kant described wordless music as "more pleasure than culture," and Rousseau dismissed it for its inability to convey concepts. But by the early 1800s, a dramatic shift was under way. Purely instrumental...
The Cosmic Cocktail
Three Parts Dark Matter
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2014
The ordinary atoms that make up the known universe—from our bodies and the air we breathe to the planets and stars—constitute only 5 percent of all matter and energy in the cosmos. The rest is known as dark matter and dark energy, because their precise identities are unknown. The Cosmic Cocktail...
Redeeming The Prince
The Meaning of Machiavelli's Masterpiece
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2013
In Redeeming "The Prince," one of the world's leading Machiavelli scholars puts forth a startling new interpretation of arguably the most influential but widely misunderstood book in the Western political tradition. Overturning popular misconceptions and challenging scholarly consensus,...
by Ernst Robert Curtius
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the classical era up to the early nineteenth century, and from the Italian peninsula to the British Isles....
by Leonard Barkan
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2012
Why do painters sometimes wish they were poets--and why do poets sometimes wish they were painters? What happens when Rembrandt spells out Hebrew in the sky or Poussin spells out Latin on a tombstone? What happens when Virgil, Ovid, or Shakespeare suspend their plots to describe a fictitious painting?...
Whose Culture?
The Promise of Museums and the Debate over Antiquities
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
The international controversy over who "owns" antiquities has pitted museums against archaeologists and source countries where ancient artifacts are found. In his book Who Owns Antiquity?, James Cuno argued that antiquities are the cultural property of humankind, not of the countries that...
by Jorie Graham
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
"How I would like to catch the world / at pure idea," writes Jorie Graham, for whom a bird may be an alphabet, and flight an arc. Whatever the occasion--and her work offers a rich profusion of them--the poems reach to where possession is not within us, where new names are needed and meaning...
The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei
Volume One: The Gathering
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
In this first of a planned five-volume set, David Roy provides a complete and annotated translation of the famous Chin P'ing Mei, an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel that focuses on the domestic life of Hsi-men Ch'ing, a corrupt, upwardly mobile merchant in a provincial town, who maintains...