Princeton University Press: 2605 books
Investigating the President
Congressional Checks on Presidential Power
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Although congressional investigations have provided some of the most dramatic moments in American political history, they have often been dismissed as mere political theater. But these investigations are far more than grandstanding. Investigating the President shows that congressional investigations...
The Substance of Representation
Congress, American Political Development, and Lawmaking
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2013
Lawmaking is crucial to American democracy because it completely defines and regulates the public life of the nation. Yet despite its importance, political scientists spend very little time studying the direct impact that the politics surrounding a particular issue has on lawmaking. The Substance...
Playing at Acquisitions
Behavioral Option Games
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2015
It is widely accepted that a large proportion of acquisition strategies fail to deliver the expected value. Globalizing markets characterized by growing uncertainty, together with the advent of new competitors, are further complicating the task of valuing acquisitions. Too often, managers rely on...
The Language of Global Success
How a Common Tongue Transforms Multinational Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
For nearly three decades, English has been the lingua franca of cross-border organizations, yet studies on corporate language strategies and their importance for globalization have been scarce. In The Language of Global Success, Tsedal Neeley provides an in-depth look at a single organization—the...
Pricing Lives
Guideposts for a Safer Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
How society’s undervaluing of life puts all of us at risk—and the groundbreaking economic measure that can fix it
Like it or not, sometimes we need to put a monetary value on people's lives. In the past, government agencies used the financial "cost of death" to monetize the mortality...
Disruptive Fixation
School Reform and the Pitfalls of Techno-Idealism
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
In New York City in 2009, a new kind of public school opened its doors to its inaugural class of middle schoolers. Conceived by a team of game designers and progressive educational reformers and backed by prominent philanthropic foundations, it promised to reinvent the classroom for the digital age....
by Xuetong Yan
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
The rise of China could be the most important political development of the twenty-first century. What will China look like in the future? What should it look like? And what will China's rise mean for the rest of world? This book, written by China's most influential foreign policy thinker, sets out...
The War of the Sexes
How Conflict and Cooperation Have Shaped Men and Women from Prehistory to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
As countless love songs, movies, and self-help books attest, men and women have long sought different things. The result? Seemingly inevitable conflict. Yet we belong to the most cooperative species on the planet. Isn't there a way we can use this capacity to achieve greater harmony and equality between...
Cat Wars
The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
In 1894, a lighthouse keeper named David Lyall arrived on Stephens Island off New Zealand with a cat named Tibbles. In just over a year, the Stephens Island Wren, a rare bird endemic to the island, was rendered extinct. Mounting scientific evidence confirms what many conservationists have suspected...
Contested Tastes
Foie Gras and the Politics of Food
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Who cares about foie gras? As it turns out, many do. In the last decade, this French delicacy—the fattened liver of ducks or geese that have been force-fed through a tube—has been at the center of contentious battles between animal rights activists, artisanal farmers, industry groups, politicians,...
Innovation and Its Discontents
How Our Broken Patent System is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What to Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
The United States patent system has become sand rather than lubricant in the wheels of American progress. Such is the premise behind this provocative and timely book by two of the nation's leading experts on patents and economic innovation.
Innovation and Its Discontents tells the story of...
Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies
A Comprehensive Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies provides a comprehensive introduction to the revolutionary yet often misunderstood new technologies of digital currency. Whether you are a student, software developer, tech entrepreneur, or researcher in computer science, this authoritative and self-contained...
Women Don't Ask
Negotiation and the Gender Divide
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
When Linda Babcock asked why so many male graduate students were teaching their own courses and most female students were assigned as assistants, her dean said: "More men ask. The women just don't ask." It turns out that whether they want higher salaries or more help at home, women often...
Market Threads
How Cotton Farmers and Traders Create a Global Commodity
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
What is a global market? How does it work? At a time when new crises in world markets cannot be satisfactorily resolved through old ideas, Market Threads presents a detailed analysis of the international cotton trade and argues for a novel and groundbreaking understanding of global markets. The book...