Princeton University Press: 2605 books
Dilemmas of Inclusion
Muslims in European Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
As Europe’s Muslim communities continue to grow, so does their impact on electoral politics and the potential for inclusion dilemmas. In vote-rich enclaves, Muslim views on religion, tradition, and gender roles can deviate sharply from those of the majority electorate, generating severe trade-offs...
Einstein and the Quantum
The Quest of the Valiant Swabian
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Einstein and the Quantum reveals for the first time the full significance of Albert Einstein's contributions to quantum theory. Einstein famously rejected quantum mechanics, observing that God does not play dice. But, in fact, he thought more about the nature of atoms, molecules, and the emission...
Heart of Darkness
Unraveling the Mysteries of the Invisible Universe
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Heart of Darkness describes the incredible saga of humankind's quest to unravel the deepest secrets of the universe. Over the past thirty years, scientists have learned that two little-understood components--dark matter and dark energy--comprise most of the known cosmos, explain the growth of all...
Troublemaker
A Personal History of School Reform since Sputnik
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2008
Few people have been more involved in shaping postwar U.S. education reforms--or dissented from some of them more effectively--than Chester Finn. Assistant secretary of education under Ronald Reagan, and an aide to politicians as different as Richard Nixon and Daniel Moynihan, Finn has also been a...
Ruling Russia
Authoritarianism from the Revolution to Putin
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
When the Soviet Union collapsed, many hoped that Russia's centuries-long history of autocratic rule might finally end. Yet today’s Russia appears to be retreating from democracy, not progressing toward it. Ruling Russia is the only book of its kind to trace the history of modern Russian politics...
by Martin Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
A sweeping history of Judaism over more than three millennia
Judaism is one of the oldest religions in the world, and it has preserved its distinctive identity despite the extraordinarily diverse forms and beliefs it has embodied over the course of more than three millennia. A History of Judaism...
The Bible in Arabic
The Scriptures of the "People of the Book" in the Language of Islam
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
From the first centuries of Islam to well into the Middle Ages, Jews and Christians produced hundreds of manuscripts containing portions of the Bible in Arabic. Until recently, however, these translations remained largely neglected by Biblical scholars and historians. In telling the story of the Bible...
The Monotheists: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Conflict and Competition, Volume I
The Peoples of God
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2009
The world's three great monotheistic religions have spent most of their historical careers in conflict or competition with each other. And yet in fact they sprung from the same spiritual roots and have been nurtured in the same historical soil. This book--an extraordinarily comprehensive and approachable...
by Lewis Glinert
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
A unique history of the Hebrew language from biblical times to the modern Jewish state
This book explores the extraordinary hold that Hebrew has had on Jews and Christians, who have invested it with a symbolic power far beyond that of any other language in history. Preserved by the Jews across...
The Monotheists: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Conflict and Competition, Volume II
The Words and Will of God
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2009
The world's three great monotheistic religions have spent most of their historical careers in conflict or competition with each other. And yet in fact they sprung from the same spiritual roots and have been nurtured in the same historical soil. This book--an extraordinarily comprehensive and approachable...
Founding Gods, Inventing Nations
Conquest and Culture Myths from Antiquity to Islam
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
From the dawn of writing in Sumer to the sunset of the Islamic empire, Founding Gods, Inventing Nations traces four thousand years of speculation on the origins of civilization. Investigating a vast range of primary sources, some of which are translated here for the first time, and focusing on the...
Culture and Redemption
Religion, the Secular, and American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
Many Americans wish to believe that the United States, founded in religious tolerance, has gradually and naturally established a secular public sphere that is equally tolerant of all religions--or none. Culture and Redemption suggests otherwise. Tracy Fessenden contends that the uneven separation...
American Covenant
A History of Civil Religion from the Puritans to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
The long battle between exclusionary and inclusive versions of the American story
Was America founded as a Christian nation or a secular democracy? Neither, argues Philip Gorski in American Covenant. What the founders envisioned was a prophetic republic that would weave together the ethical...
Village Atheists
How America's Unbelievers Made Their Way in a Godly Nation
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
A much-maligned minority throughout American history, atheists have been cast as a threat to the nation's moral fabric, barred from holding public office, and branded as irreligious misfits in a nation chosen by God. Yet, village atheists—as these godless freethinkers came to be known by the close...