Princeton University Press: 2605 books
Cowardice
A Brief History
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2014
Coward. It's a grave insult, likely to provoke anger, shame, even violence. But what exactly is cowardice? When terrorists are called cowards, does it mean the same as when the term is applied to soldiers? And what, if anything, does cowardice have to do with the rest of us? Bringing together sources...
The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter
A Portrait of Descartes
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
In the Louvre museum hangs a portrait that is considered the iconic image of René Descartes, the great seventeenth-century French philosopher. And the painter of the work? The Dutch master Frans Hals--or so it was long believed, until the work was downgraded to a copy of an original. But where is...
Cultural Exchange
Jews, Christians, and Art in the Medieval Marketplace
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
Demonstrating that similarities between Jewish and Christian art in the Middle Ages were more than coincidental, Cultural Exchange meticulously combines a wide range of sources to show how Jews and Christians exchanged artistic and material culture. Joseph Shatzmiller focuses on communities in northern...
Reading Cy Twombly
Poetry in Paint
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Many of Cy Twombly's paintings and drawings include handwritten words and phrases—naming or quoting poets ranging from Sappho, Homer, and Virgil to Mallarmé, Rilke, and Cavafy. Enigmatic and sometimes hard to decipher, these inscriptions are a distinctive feature of his work. Reading Cy Twombly...
Mathletics
How Gamblers, Managers, and Sports Enthusiasts Use Mathematics in Baseball, Basketball, and Football (New in Paper)
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2012
Mathletics is a remarkably entertaining book that shows readers how to use simple mathematics to analyze a range of statistical and probability-related questions in professional baseball, basketball, and football, and in sports gambling. How does professional baseball evaluate hitters? Is a singles...
by Sylvia Lavin
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Kissing Architecture explores the mutual attraction between architecture and other forms of contemporary art. In this fresh, insightful, and beautifully illustrated book, renowned architectural critic and scholar Sylvia Lavin develops the concept of "kissing" to describe the growing intimacy...
Mitzvah Girls
Bringing Up the Next Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2009
Mitzvah Girls is the first book about bringing up Hasidic Jewish girls in North America, providing an in-depth look into a closed community. Ayala Fader examines language, gender, and the body from infancy to adulthood, showing how Hasidic girls in Brooklyn become women responsible for rearing the...
How Judaism Became a Religion
An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
Is Judaism a religion, a culture, a nationality--or a mixture of all of these? In How Judaism Became a Religion, Leora Batnitzky boldly argues that this question more than any other has driven modern Jewish thought since the eighteenth century. This wide-ranging and lucid introduction tells the story...
(God) After Auschwitz
Tradition and Change in Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 1998
The impact of technology-enhanced mass death in the twentieth century, argues Zachary Braiterman, has profoundly affected the future shape of religious thought. In his provocative book, the author shows how key Jewish theologians faced the memory of Auschwitz by rejecting traditional theodicy, abandoning...
Not in the Heavens
The Tradition of Jewish Secular Thought
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Not in the Heavens traces the rise of Jewish secularism through the visionary writers and thinkers who led its development. Spanning the rich history of Judaism from the Bible to today, David Biale shows how the secular tradition these visionaries created is a uniquely Jewish one, and how the emergence...
How the Internet Became Commercial
Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New Network
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
In less than a decade, the Internet went from being a series of loosely connected networks used by universities and the military to the powerful commercial engine it is today. This book describes how many of the key innovations that made this possible came from entrepreneurs and iconoclasts who were...
by Søren Kierkegaard, Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Søren Kierkegaard, the nineteenth-century Danish philosopher rediscovered in the twentieth century, is a major influence in contemporary philosophy, religion, and literature. He regarded Either/Or as the beginning of his authorship, although he had published two earlier works on Hans Christian Andersen...
Superstition
Belief in the Age of Science
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008
From uttering a prayer before boarding a plane, to exploring past lives through hypnosis, has superstition become pervasive in contemporary culture? Robert Park, the best-selling author of Voodoo Science, argues that it has. In Superstition, Park asks why people persist in superstitious convictions...
by Nigel Dodd, Nigel Dodd
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Questions about the nature of money have gained a new urgency in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Even as many people have less of it, there are more forms and systems of money, from local currencies and social lending to mobile money and Bitcoin. Yet our understanding of what money is—and...