Princeton University Press: 2605 books
The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe
Religious Conflict, Dynastic Empires, and International Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
Scholars have long argued over whether the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, which ended more than a century of religious conflict arising from the Protestant Reformations, inaugurated the modern sovereign-state system. But they largely ignore a more fundamental question: why did the emergence of new forms...
Imperialism, Power, and Identity
Experiencing the Roman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Despite what history has taught us about imperialism's destructive effects on colonial societies, many classicists continue to emphasize disproportionately the civilizing and assimilative nature of the Roman Empire and to hold a generally favorable view of Rome's impact on its subject peoples. Imperialism,...
Why Stock Markets Crash
Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
The scientific study of complex systems has transformed a wide range of disciplines in recent years, enabling researchers in both the natural and social sciences to model and predict phenomena as diverse as earthquakes, global warming, demographic patterns, financial crises, and the failure of materials....
by Susan Wolf, John Koethe, Nomy Arpaly
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Most people, including philosophers, tend to classify human motives as falling into one of two categories: the egoistic or the altruistic, the self-interested or the moral. According to Susan Wolf, however, much of what motivates us does not comfortably fit into this scheme. Often we act neither for...
by Troy Jollimore
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Love often seems uncontrollable and irrational, but we just as frequently appear to have reasons for loving the people we do. In Love's Vision, Troy Jollimore offers a new way of understanding love that accommodates both of these facts, arguing that love is guided by reason even as it resists and...
How We Hope
A Moral Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2013
What exactly is hope and how does it influence our decisions? In How We Hope, Adrienne Martin presents a novel account of hope, the motivational resources it presupposes, and its function in our practical lives. She contends that hoping for an outcome means treating certain feelings, plans, and imaginings...
Strong Medicine
Creating Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research on Neglected Diseases
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Millions of people in the third world die from diseases that are rare in the first world--diseases like malaria, tuberculosis, and schistosomiasis. AIDS, which is now usually treated in rich countries, still ravages the world's poor. Vaccines offer the best hope for controlling these diseases and...
The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable in Financial Risk Management
Measurement and Theory Advancing Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2010
A clear understanding of what we know, don't know, and can't know should guide any reasonable approach to managing financial risk, yet the most widely used measure in finance today--Value at Risk, or VaR--reduces these risks to a single number, creating a false sense of security among risk managers,...
In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman
Mathematics at the Limits of Computation
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
What is the shortest possible route for a traveling salesman seeking to visit each city on a list exactly once and return to his city of origin? It sounds simple enough, yet the traveling salesman problem is one of the most intensely studied puzzles in applied mathematics—and it has defied solution...
Hybrid Dynamical Systems
Modeling, Stability, and Robustness
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2012
Hybrid dynamical systems exhibit continuous and instantaneous changes, having features of continuous-time and discrete-time dynamical systems. Filled with a wealth of examples to illustrate concepts, this book presents a complete theory of robust asymptotic stability for hybrid dynamical systems that...
Stability and Control of Large-Scale Dynamical Systems
A Vector Dissipative Systems Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Modern complex large-scale dynamical systems exist in virtually every aspect of science and engineering, and are associated with a wide variety of physical, technological, environmental, and social phenomena, including aerospace, power, communications, and network systems, to name just a few. This...
by Louis Kaplow
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Throughout the world, the rule against price fixing is competition law's most important and least controversial prohibition. Yet there is far less consensus than meets the eye on what constitutes price fixing, and prevalent understandings conflict with the teachings of oligopoly theory that supposedly...
Pillars of Prosperity
The Political Economics of Development Clusters
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
"Little else is required to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things." So wrote Adam Smith a quarter of a millennium ago. Using the tools...
Unequal Democracy
The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age - Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Bartels’s acclaimed examination of how the American political system favors the wealthy—now fully revised and expanded
The first edition of Unequal Democracy was an instant classic, shattering illusions about American democracy and spurring scholarly and popular interest in the political...