Princeton University Press: 2605 books
America's Asia
Racial Form and American Literature, 1893-1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2009
What explains the perception of Asians both as economic exemplars and as threats? America's Asia explores a discursive tradition that affiliates the East with modern efficiency, in contrast to more familiar primitivist forms of Orientalism. Colleen Lye traces the American stereotype of Asians as a...
Magical Mathematics
The Mathematical Ideas That Animate Great Magic Tricks
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Magical Mathematics reveals the secrets of fun-to-perform card tricks—and the profound mathematical ideas behind them—that will astound even the most accomplished magician. Persi Diaconis and Ron Graham provide easy, step-by-step instructions for each trick, explaining how to set up the effect...
by Anne Norton
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
In the post-9/11 West, there is no shortage of strident voices telling us that Islam is a threat to the security, values, way of life, and even existence of the United States and Europe. For better or worse, "the Muslim question" has become the great question of our time. It is a question bound up...
by David Alan Grier
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Before Palm Pilots and iPods, PCs and laptops, the term "computer" referred to the people who did scientific calculations by hand. These workers were neither calculating geniuses nor idiot savants but knowledgeable people who, in other circumstances, might have become scientists in their...
Philip Roth's Rude Truth
The Art of Immaturity
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2008
Has anyone ever worked harder and longer at being immature than Philip Roth? The novelist himself pointed out the paradox, saying that after establishing a reputation for maturity with two earnest novels, he "worked hard and long and diligently" to be frivolous--an effort that resulted in...
The Funeral Casino
Meditation, Massacre, and Exchange with the Dead in Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
The Funeral Casino is a heretical ethnography of the global age. Setting his book within Thailand's pro-democracy movement and the street massacres that accompanied it, Alan Klima offers a strikingly original interpretation of mass-mediated violence through a study of funeral gambling and Buddhist...
The Irresistible Fairy Tale
The Cultural and Social History of a Genre
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
If there is one genre that has captured the imagination of people in all walks of life throughout the world, it is the fairy tale. Yet we still have great difficulty understanding how it originated, evolved, and spread--or why so many people cannot resist its appeal, no matter how it changes or what...
Revolutionary Ideas
An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2014
Historians of the French Revolution used to take for granted what was also obvious to its contemporary observers—that the Revolution was shaped by the radical ideas of the Enlightenment. Yet in recent decades, scholars have argued that the Revolution was brought about by social forces, politics,...
A Revolution of the Mind
Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009
Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of peoples, sexual and racial equality--these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. But if these...
Analytical Psychology in Exile
The Correspondence of C. G. Jung and Erich Neumann
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2015
C. G. Jung and Erich Neumann first met in 1933, at a seminar Jung was conducting in Berlin. Jung was fifty-seven years old and internationally acclaimed for his own brand of psychotherapy. Neumann, twenty-eight, had just finished his studies in medicine. The two men struck up a correspondence that...
The "Book of Common Prayer"
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
While many of us are familiar with such famous words as, "Dearly beloved, we are gathered together here. . ." or "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust," we may not know that they originated with The Book of Common Prayer, which first appeared in 1549. Like the words of the King James Bible...
The Work of the Dead
A Cultural History of Mortal Remains
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone else care what became of his corpse? In The Work of the Dead, acclaimed cultural historian Thomas Laqueur examines why humanity has universally rejected...
Against the Current
Essays in the History of Ideas - Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2013
In this outstanding collection of essays, Isaiah Berlin, one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, discusses the importance of dissenters in the history of ideas--among them Machiavelli, Vico, Montesquieu, Herzen, and Sorel. With his unusual powers of imaginative re-creation, Berlin brings...
by G. A. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
This is the second of three volumes of posthumously collected writings of G. A. Cohen, who was one of the leading, and most progressive, figures in contemporary political philosophy. This volume brings together some of Cohen's most personal philosophical and nonphilosophical essays, many of them previously...