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The Rise of the Audiobook
Once considered a format predominantly for the visually impaired, audiobooks have become increasingly popular in recent years. According to Publishing Perspectives, “a six-year trend of double-digit...
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J. C. Sharman on Empires of the Weak
What accounts for the rise of the state, the creation of the first global system, and the dominance of the West? The conventional answer asserts that superior technology, tactics, and institutions...
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Browse our 2019 Mathematics Catalog
Our new Mathematics catalog includes an exploration of mathematical style through 99 different proofs of the same theorem; an outrageous graphic novel that investigates key concepts in mathematics; and...
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Robyn Creswell on City of Beginnings
City of Beginnings is an exploration of modernism in Arabic poetry, a movement that emerged in Beirut during the 1950s and became the most influential and controversial Arabic literary development of...
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Amin Saikal on Iran Rising
When Iranians overthrew their monarchy, rejecting a pro-Western shah in favor of an Islamic regime, many observers predicted that revolutionary turmoil would paralyze the country for decades to come....
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Margaret C. Jacob on The Secular Enlightenment
The Secular Enlightenment is a panoramic account of the radical ways that life began to change for ordinary people in the age of Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau. In this landmark book, familiar...
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Caitlyn Collins on Making Motherhood Work
The work-family conflict that mothers experience today is a national crisis. Women struggle to balance breadwinning with the bulk of parenting, and stress is constant. Social policies don’t help. Of...
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PUP Volunteerism Highlight: The Oxford Hot Water Bottle Project
Many of us in the #ReadUP world are inspired by the university press mission to contribute to society in the form of knowledge and ideas. But the ethos is not bound to the pages of a book; many of our...
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Christian Sahner: Islam spread through the Christian world via the bedroom
There are few transformations in world history more profound than the conversion of the peoples of the Middle East to Islam. Starting in the early Middle Ages, the process stretched across centuries...
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90 Years Ago Today: Einstein’s 50th Birthday
This post is made available by the Einstein Papers Project. Einstein’s fiftieth birthday appears to have been more of a cause for celebration by others than for himself. Having lived under intense...
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Walter Mattli on Darkness by Design: The Hidden Power in Global Capital Markets
Capital markets have undergone a dramatic transformation in the past two decades. Algorithmic high-speed supercomputing has replaced traditional floor trading and human market makers, while centralized...
View ArticlePrinceton University Press and Cornell Lab of Ornithology to Partner
Princeton University Press is proud to announce a new publishing partnership with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, a world leader in the study, appreciation, and conservation of birds. Starting with the...
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Justin Smith on Irrationality
It’s a story we can’t stop telling ourselves. Once, humans were benighted by superstition and irrationality, but then the Greeks invented reason. Later, the Enlightenment enshrined rationality as the...
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Marion Turner on Chaucer: A European Life
More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of political life—yet his poems are anything but conventional. Edgy, complicated, and often dark, they...
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Yan Xuetong on Leadership and the Rise of Great Powers
While work in international relations has closely examined the decline of great powers, not much attention has been paid to the question of their rise. The upward trajectory of China is a particularly...
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Opportunity costs: can carbon taxing become a positive-sum game?
Climate change, caused by human activity, is arguably the biggest single problem facing the world today, and it is deeply entangled with the question of how to lift billions of people out of poverty...
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International Sales Director Andrew Brewer: A Visit to Australia
Australia is large and a very long way away from the US and UK. These are well-known facts about the country. Less well-known, but common knowledge at the Press, is that Australia is a vibrant...
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Jonathan Bate on How the Classics Made Shakespeare
Ben Jonson famously accused Shakespeare of having “small Latin and less Greek.” But he was exaggerating. Shakespeare was steeped in the classics. Shaped by his grammar school education in Roman...
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Dana Johnson on Will This Be on the Test?
Getting into college takes plenty of hard work, but knowing what your professors expect of you once you get there can be even more challenging. Will This Be on the Test? is the essential survival guide...
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John Quiggin on Economics in Two Lessons
Since 1946, Henry Hazlitt’s bestselling Economics in One Lesson has popularized the belief that economics can be boiled down to one simple lesson: market prices represent the true cost of everything....
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