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Browse Our 2018 Literature Catalog
Our new Literature catalog includes an unguarded look into the mind of Vladimir Nabokov, an examination of simultaneous absorption in and critical distance from a work of art, a study of poetry and...
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Check out Matthew Salganik’s Tedx Talk
In just the past several years, we have witnessed the birth and rapid spread of social media, mobile phones, and numerous other digital marvels. In addition to changing how we live, these tools enable...
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Geoff Mulgan on Big Mind: How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World
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...
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Jonathan Haskel & Stian Westlake on Capitalism without Capital
Early in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design, branding, R&D, and...
View ArticleCheck out our Spring 2018 preview
We’re thrilled to present a preview of our Spring 2018 books. From The Tyranny of Metrics to Van Gogh and the Seasons, we’re looking forward to bringing forth a range of titles across disciplines in...
View ArticleJerry Z. Muller on The Tyranny of Metrics
Today, organizations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that the path to success is quantifying human performance, publicizing the results, and dividing up the rewards based on the numbers. But in...
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Tim Rogan: What’s Wrong with the Critique of Capitalism Now
What’s wrong with capitalism? Answers to that question today focus on material inequality. Led by economists and conducted in utilitarian terms, the critique of capitalism in the twenty-first century...
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Bryan Caplan on The Case against Education
Despite being immensely popular—and immensely lucrative—education is grossly overrated. In this explosive book, Bryan Caplan argues that the primary function of education is not to enhance students’...
View ArticleAnnouncing the 2018 Bookselling Without Borders International Book Fair...
NEW YORK, New York (January 16, 2018) — A partnership of seven independent publishers (Catapult, Europa Editions, Graywolf, The New Press, Other Press, Princeton University Press, Rutgers University...
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Jörg Rüpke on Pantheon: A New History of Roman Religion
In this ambitious and authoritative book, Jörg Rüpke provides a comprehensive and strikingly original narrative history of ancient Roman and Mediterranean religion over more than a millennium—from the...
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Princeton University Press launches WeChat in China
On Monday, January 15th 2018, Princeton University Press’s China Office launched its official WeChat account, establishing a new and growing social media presence in China. From now on, PUP will be...
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Browse our 2018 Art and Architecture Catalog
We are delighted to announce our new Art and Architecture catalog for 2018. Our list features a range of new titles, including a collection of quotations by one of the world’s most important political...
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Kieran Setiya: How Schopenhauer’s thought can illuminate a midlife crisis
This article was originally published at Aeon and has been republished under Creative Commons. Despite reflecting on the good life for more than 2,500 years, philosophers have not had much to say about...
View ArticleKim Williams: How to write a book for audio
PUP’s International Rights Director Kim Williams shares her top tips for writing for audio format. The audio book sector is the fastest growing area of book publishing right now, and chances are you’ve...
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Scott Page: Why hiring the ‘best’ people produces the least creative results
This article was originally published at Aeon and has been republished under Creative Commons. While in graduate school in mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I took a logic course from...
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Scott Cowen on Winnebagos on Wednesdays
In Winnebagos on Wednesdays: How Visionary Leadership Can Transform Higher Education, Scott Cowen, president emeritus of Tulane University, acknowledges the crisis in higher education but also presents...
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Michael J. Ryan: A Taste for the Beautiful
Darwin developed the theory of sexual selection to explain why the animal world abounds in stunning beauty, from the brilliant colors of butterflies and fishes to the songs of birds and frogs. He...
View ArticleA peek inside Brave New Arctic by Mark C. Serreze
In the 1990s, researchers in the Arctic noticed that floating summer sea ice had begun receding. This was accompanied by shifts in ocean circulation and unexpected changes in weather patterns...
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Cynthia Miller-Idriss on The Extreme Gone Mainstream
The past decade has witnessed a steady increase in far right politics, social movements, and extremist violence in Europe. Scholars and policymakers have struggled to understand the causes and dynamics...
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A. James McAdams: What South Korea can learn from Germany
When athletes from North and South Korea marched onto the field under the same flag in Pyeongchang on February 9, this was not the first time that two fiercely antagonistic states, one socialist and...
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