Princeton University Press: 2605 books
City of the Good
Nature, Religion, and the Ancient Search for What Is Right
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
How we came to seek absolute good in religion and nature—and why that quest often leads us astray
People have long looked to nature and the divine as paths to the good. In this panoramic meditation on the harmonious life, Michael Mayerfeld Bell traces how these two paths came to be seen as...
Weimar Germany
Promise and Tragedy, Weimar Centennial Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Thoroughly up-to-date, skillfully written, and strikingly illustrated, Weimar Germany brings to life an era of unmatched creativity in the twentieth century—one whose influence and inspiration still resonate today. Eric Weitz has written the authoritative history that this fascinating and complex...
The Serengeti Rules
The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters - With a new Q&A with the author
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Now the subject of a feature film that the New York Times calls "spellbinding"
How does life work? How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the African savanna, or fish in the ocean? How do our bodies produce the right numbers of cells in our organs and bloodstream?...
Free Trade under Fire
Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Growing international trade has helped lift living standards around the world, and yet free trade is always under attack. Critics complain that trade forces painful economic adjustments, such as plant closings and layoffs of workers, and charge that the World Trade Organization serves the interests...
by Edward Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Challenging the modern assumption that ancient Athens is best understood as a polis, Edward Cohen boldly recasts our understanding of Athenian political and social life. Cohen demonstrates that ancient sources referred to Athens not only as a polis, but also as a "nation" (ethnos), and that...
The Closed Commercial State
Perpetual Peace and Commercial Society from Rousseau to Fichte
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
This book presents an important new account of Johann Gottlieb Fichte's Closed Commercial State, a major early nineteenth-century development of Rousseau and Kant's political thought. Isaac Nakhimovsky shows how Fichte reformulated Rousseau's constitutional politics and radicalized the economic implications...
Pursuing Sustainability
A Guide to the Science and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Sustainability is a global imperative and a scientific challenge like no other. This concise guide provides students and practitioners with a strategic framework for linking knowledge with action in the pursuit of sustainable development, and serves as an invaluable companion to more narrowly focused...
Zombie Economics
How Dead Ideas Still Walk among Us (New in Paper)
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
In the graveyard of economic ideology, dead ideas still stalk the land.
The recent financial crisis laid bare many of the assumptions behind market liberalism--the theory that market-based solutions are always best, regardless of the problem. For decades, their advocates dominated mainstream...
The Long Thaw
How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
The human impact on Earth's climate is often treated as a hundred-year issue lasting as far into the future as 2100, the year in which most climate projections cease. In The Long Thaw, David Archer, one of the world’s leading climatologists, reveals the hard truth that these changes in climate will...
Microeconomic Foundations I
Choice and Competitive Markets
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
Microeconomic Foundations I develops the choice, price, and general equilibrium theory topics typically found in first-year theory sequences, but in deeper and more complete mathematical form than most standard texts provide. The objective is to take the reader from acquaintance with these foundational...
Dead on Arrival
The Politics of Health Care in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Why, alone among industrial democracies, does the United States not have national health insurance? While many books have addressed this question, Dead on Arrival is the first to do so based on original archival research for the full sweep of the twentieth century. Drawing on a wide range of political,...
Big Mind
How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
A new field of collective intelligence has emerged in the last few years, prompted by a wave of digital technologies that make it possible for organizations and societies to think at large scale. This “bigger mind”—human and machine capabilities working together—has the potential to solve...
Foreign Direct Investment
Analysis of Aggregate Flows
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
The 1990s saw global flows of foreign direct investment increase some sevenfold, spurring economists to explore FDI from a micro- or trade-based perspective. Foreign Direct Investment is one of the first books to analyze the macroeconomics of FDI, treating FDI as a unique form of international capital...
Territory, Authority, Rights
From Medieval to Global Assemblages
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Where does the nation-state end and globalization begin? In Territory, Authority, Rights, one of the world's leading authorities on globalization shows how the national state made today's global era possible. Saskia Sassen argues that even while globalization is best understood as "denationalization,"...