Princeton University Press: 2605 books
Ethics in the Real World
82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Peter Singer is often described as the world's most influential philosopher. He is also one of its most controversial. The author of important books such as Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, Rethinking Life and Death, and The Life You Can Save, he helped launch the animal rights and effective altruism...
Louis Bachelier's Theory of Speculation
The Origins of Modern Finance
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
March 29, 1900, is considered by many to be the day mathematical finance was born. On that day a French doctoral student, Louis Bachelier, successfully defended his thesis Théorie de la Spéculation at the Sorbonne. The jury, while noting that the topic was "far away from those usually considered...
Oxygen
A Four Billion Year History
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014
The air we breathe is twenty-one percent oxygen, an amount higher than on any other known world. While we may take our air for granted, Earth was not always an oxygenated planet. How did it become this way? Donald Canfield—one of the world's leading authorities on geochemistry, earth history, and...
More Than You Wanted to Know
The Failure of Mandated Disclosure
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2014
Perhaps no kind of regulation is more common or less useful than mandated disclosure—requiring one party to a transaction to give the other information. It is the iTunes terms you assent to, the doctor's consent form you sign, the pile of papers you get with your mortgage. Reading the terms, the...
Straightforward
How to Mobilize Heterosexual Support for Gay Rights
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
What can straight people do to support gay rights? How much work or sacrifice must allies take on to do their share? Ian Ayres and Jennifer Brown--law professors, activists, husband and wife--propose practical strategies for helping straight men and women advocate for and with the gay community.
Straightforward...
by David J. T. Sumpter
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Fish travel in schools, birds migrate in flocks, honeybees swarm, and ants build trails. How and why do these collective behaviors occur? Exploring how coordinated group patterns emerge from individual interactions, Collective Animal Behavior reveals why animals produce group behaviors and examines...
Uneasy Street
The Anxieties of Affluence
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
A surprising and revealing look at how today’s elite view their wealth and place in society
From TV’s “real housewives” to The Wolf of Wall Street, our popular culture portrays the wealthy as materialistic and entitled. But what do we really know about those who live on “easy street”?...
Told Again
Old Tales Told Again - Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2014
Originally published in 1927, Told Again is an enchanting collection of elegant fairy tales, showcasing the formidable talents of a writer who used magical realism before the term had even been invented. Walter de la Mare (1873–1956) was one of the most celebrated writers of children's literature...
by David Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Modern war is law pursued by other means. Once a bit player in military conflict, law now shapes the institutional, logistical, and physical landscape of war. At the same time, law has become a political and ethical vocabulary for marking legitimate power and justifiable death. As a result, the battlespace...
The Dark Sides of Virtue
Reassessing International Humanitarianism
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
In this provocative and timely book, David Kennedy explores what can go awry when we put our humanitarian yearnings into action on a global scale--and what we can do in response.
Rooted in Kennedy's own experience in numerous humanitarian efforts, the book examines campaigns for human rights,...
by Raymond Roussel
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
Poet, novelist, playwright, and chess enthusiast, Raymond Roussel (1877-1933) was one of the French belle époque's most compelling literary figures. During his lifetime, Roussel's work was vociferously championed by the surrealists, but never achieved the widespread acclaim for which he yearned....
Poems Under Saturn
Poèmes saturniens
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Poems Under Saturn is the first complete English translation of the collection that announced Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) as a poet of promise and originality, one who would come to be regarded as one of the greatest of nineteenth-century writers. This new translation, by respected contemporary poet...
Last Looks, Last Books
Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
In Last Looks, Last Books, the eminent critic Helen Vendler examines the ways in which five great modern American poets, writing their final books, try to find a style that does justice to life and death alike. With traditional religious consolations no longer available to them, these poets must invent...
In Praise of Simple Physics
The Science and Mathematics behind Everyday Questions
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Physics can explain many of the things that we commonly encounter. It can tell us why the night is dark, what causes the tides, and even how best to catch a baseball. With In Praise of Simple Physics, popular math and science writer Paul Nahin presents a plethora of situations that explore the science...