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Hanna Gray on An Academic Life
Hanna Holborn Gray has lived her entire life in the world of higher education. The daughter of academics, she fled Hitler’s Germany with her parents in the 1930s, emigrating to New Haven, where her...
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Keith Oatley on Our Minds, Our Selves: A Brief History of Psychology
Advances in psychology have revolutionized our understanding of the human mind. Imaging technology allows researchers to monitor brain activity, letting us see what happens when we perceive, think, and...
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Erin Monroe on Gorey’s Worlds
The illustrator, designer, and writer Edward Gorey (1925–2000) is beloved for his droll, surreal, and slightly sinister drawings. While he is perhaps best known for his fanciful, macabre books, such...
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Mark Serreze on Brave New Arctic
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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John Hulsman on To Dare More Boldly
Our baffling new multipolar world grows ever more complex, desperately calling for new ways of thinking, particularly when it comes to political risk. To Dare More Boldly provides those ways, telling...
View ArticleSusan Stewart: National Poetry Month
In honor of National Poetry Month, PUP author and series editor of the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets Susan Stewart gives an overview of the series and talks about explains why, for a poet,...
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Russell Bonduriansky & Troy Day on Extended Heredity
For much of the twentieth century it was assumed that genes alone mediate the transmission of biological information across generations and provide the raw material for natural selection. In Extended...
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Christie Henry on the Ecosystem of University Presses
Adapted from a presentation given at UGA by Christie Henry, Director, Princeton University Press I have had the incredible fortune of living in the university press ecosystem for several decades,...
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David Weintraub on Life on Mars: What to Know Before We Go
Does life exist on Mars? The question has captivated humans for centuries, but today it has taken on new urgency. NASA plans to send astronauts to Mars orbit by the 2030s. SpaceX wants to go by 2024,...
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Keith Whittington: Tolerating Campus Dissent, Left and Right
The reminders come nearly daily that tolerating freedom of speech and thought on college campuses—and in American society—is hard. It is very easy to say that we love freedom of speech in the abstract....
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Stephanie Rojas: Getting to know Blackwell’s Oxford
Walking down the stairs to the basement level of Blackwell’s Oxford, I did not immediately notice the cavernous room I had entered. As Sales Manager David Kelly described the history of the store to...
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Eviatar Zerubavel on Taken for Granted: The Remarkable Power of the Unremarkable
Why is the term “openly gay” so widely used but “openly straight” is not? What are the unspoken assumptions behind terms like “male nurse,” “working mom,” and “white trash?” Offering a revealing and...
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Fabrice Schmitt on Birds of Chile
This is the first modern-style photographic field guide to the birds of Chile, an increasingly popular destination with birders and naturalists. Compact and easy to carry, pack, and use, Birds of Chile...
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Roy Brooks on Designing Gorey’s Worlds
When I begin a new book design project, I immerse myself in the topic. Ideally, this means first reading the text of the book. In the case of Gorey’s Worlds, I had access to the complete manuscript,...
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Paul Tucker on Unelected Power: The Quest for Legitimacy in Central Banking...
Central bankers have emerged from the financial crisis as the third great pillar of unelected power alongside the judiciary and the military. They pull the regulatory and financial levers of our...
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Emma Morgan on the London Book Fair 2018
by PUP International Rights Assistant Emma Morgan 2018 was my first year attending the three-day London Book Fair on the Princeton University Press team, and it was also our biggest book fair yet, with...
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Heather Widdows on Perfect Me: Beauty as an Ethical Ideal
The demand to be beautiful is increasingly important in today’s visual and virtual culture. Rightly or wrongly, being perfect has become an ethical ideal to live by, and according to which we judge...
View ArticleAnnouncing the trailer for Gorey’s Worlds
The illustrator, designer, and writer Edward Gorey (1925–2000) is beloved for his droll, surreal, and slightly sinister drawings. Gorey’s Worlds delves into the numerous and surprising cultural and...
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David Vogel on California Greenin’
Over the course of its 150-year history, California has successfully protected its scenic wilderness areas, restricted coastal oil drilling, regulated automobile emissions, preserved coastal access,...
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W. Kip Viscusi on Pricing Lives: Guideposts for a Safer Society
Like it or not, sometimes we need to put a monetary value on people’s lives. In the past, government agencies used the financial “cost of death” to monetize the mortality risks of regulatory policies,...
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