Princeton University Press: 2605 books
Birds of Prey of the West
A Field Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Birds of Prey of the West and its companion volume, Birds of Prey of the East, are the most comprehensive and authoritative field guides to North American birds of prey ever published. Written and lavishly illustrated with stunning, lifelike paintings by leading field-guide illustrator, photographer,...
A Sparrowhawk's Lament
How British Breeding Birds of Prey Are Faring
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2014
Britain is home to fifteen species of breeding birds of prey, from the hedgerow-hopping Sparrowhawk to the breathtaking White-tailed Eagle. In this handsomely illustrated book, acclaimed British filmmaker and naturalist David Cobham offers unique and deeply personal insights into Britain's birds of...
Italo Calvino
Letters, 1941-1985
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This is the first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Italy's most important postwar novelist, Italo Calvino (1923-1985) achieved worldwide fame with such books as Cosmicomics, Invisible Cities, and If on a winter's night a traveler....
by Pat Willmer
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Pollination and Floral Ecology is the most comprehensive single-volume reference to all aspects of pollination biology--and the first fully up-to-date resource of its kind to appear in decades. This beautifully illustrated book describes how flowers use colors, shapes, and scents to advertise themselves;...
by Michael Ruse
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
A brief, accessible history of the idea of purpose in Western thought, from ancient Greece to the present
Can we live without the idea of purpose? Should we even try to? Kant thought we were stuck with purpose, and even Darwin’s theory of natural selection, which profoundly shook the idea,...
Success through Failure
The Paradox of Design
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
Design pervades our lives. Everything from drafting a PowerPoint presentation to planning a state-of-the-art bridge embodies this universal human activity. But what makes a great design? In this compelling and wide-ranging look at the essence of invention, distinguished engineer and author Henry Petroski...
Normal Accidents
Living with High Risk Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
Normal Accidents analyzes the social side of technological risk. Charles Perrow argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety--building in more warnings and safeguards--fails because systems complexity makes failures inevitable. He asserts that typical precautions, by adding...
Strange New Worlds
The Search for Alien Planets and Life beyond Our Solar System
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Soon astronomers expect to find alien Earths by the dozens in orbit around distant suns. Before the decade is out, telltale signs that they harbor life may be found. If they are, the ramifications for all areas of human thought and endeavor--from religion and philosophy to art and biology--will be...
Imperialism and Jewish Society
200 B.C.E. to 640 C.E.
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
This provocative new history of Palestinian Jewish society in antiquity marks the first comprehensive effort to gauge the effects of imperial domination on this people. Probing more than eight centuries of Persian, Greek, and Roman rule, Seth Schwartz reaches some startling conclusions--foremost among...
by Bruce Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion is a defining book of the Reformation and a pillar of Protestant theology. First published in Latin in 1536 and in Calvin's native French in 1541, the Institutes argues for the majesty of God and for justification by faith alone. The book decisively...
by Perez Zagorin
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Religious intolerance, so terrible and deadly in its recent manifestations, is nothing new. In fact, until after the eighteenth century, Christianity was perhaps the most intolerant of all the great world religions. How Christian Europe and the West went from this extreme to their present universal...
Cities of Commerce
The Institutional Foundations of International Trade in the Low Countries, 1250-1650
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2013
Cities of Commerce develops a model of institutional change in European commerce based on urban rivalry. Cities continuously competed with each other by adapting commercial, legal, and financial institutions to the evolving needs of merchants. Oscar Gelderblom traces the successive rise of Bruges,...
Pterosaurs
Natural History, Evolution, Anatomy
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2013
For 150 million years, the skies didn't belong to birds--they belonged to the pterosaurs. These flying reptiles, which include the pterodactyls, shared the world with the nonavian dinosaurs until their extinction 65 million years ago. Some pterosaurs, such as the giant azhdarchids, were the largest...
An Imaginary Tale
The Story of √-1
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
Today complex numbers have such widespread practical use--from electrical engineering to aeronautics--that few people would expect the story behind their derivation to be filled with adventure and enigma. In An Imaginary Tale, Paul Nahin tells the 2000-year-old history of one of mathematics' most...