How the big pieces fit together: Europe’s place in the multipolar world
by Dr. John C. Hulsman Introduction: The Lesson of the G7 train wreck It’s official. After the calamitous G7 summit meeting in Canada, it is clear that an unbound Donald Trump is Europe’s worst...
View ArticleSara Blair on How the Other Half Looks
New York City’s Lower East Side, long viewed as the space of what Jacob Riis notoriously called the “other half,” was also a crucible for experimentation in photography, film, literature, and visual...
View ArticleBrian Stanley on Christianity in the Twentieth Century
Christianity in the Twentieth Century charts the transformation of one of the world’s great religions during an age marked by world wars, genocide, nationalism, decolonization, and powerful ideological...
View ArticleWilliam B. Helmreich on The Manhattan Nobody Knows
Bill Helmreich walked every block of New York City—six-thousand miles in all—to write the award-winning The New York Nobody Knows. Now he has re-walked most of Manhattan—721 miles—to write this new,...
View ArticleTanya Bub & Jeffrey Bub on Totally Random: A Serious Comic on Entanglement
Totally Random is a comic for the serious reader who wants to really understand the central mystery of quantum mechanics—entanglement: what it is, what it means, and what you can do with it. A fresh...
View ArticleHans-Lukas Kieser on Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of...
Talaat Pasha (1874–1921) led the triumvirate that ruled the late Ottoman Empire during World War I and is arguably the father of modern Turkey. He was also the architect of the Armenian Genocide, which...
View ArticleKeith Whittington: Campus protests should stop at the door of the classroom
by Keith Whittington Protests are a time-honoured tradition on college campuses – memorably exemplified by the protests of 1968 by the grandparents of the current generation of students. They reflect...
View ArticleAnnouncing the trailer for On the Future by Martin Rees
Humanity has reached a critical moment. Our world is unsettled and rapidly changing, and we face existential risks over the next century. Various outcomes—good and bad—are possible. Yet our approach to...
View ArticleAnnouncing PUP Audio
Princeton University Press (PUP) is pleased to announce the launch of PUP Audio. Overseen by Digital and Audio Publisher Kim Williams, PUP Audio will work closely with the UK-based production...
View ArticleMarcin Wodziński on Historical Atlas of Hasidism
Historical Atlas of Hasidism is the very first cartographic reference book on one of the modern era’s most vibrant and important mystical movements. Featuring sixty-one large-format maps and a wealth...
View ArticleAsma Naeem on Black Out
Before the advent of photography in 1839, Americans were consumed by the fashion for silhouette portraits. Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now, the first major publication to focus on the development...
View ArticleAmy Stewart: International Medieval Congress 2018
Although I have been helping with the behind-the-scenes organisation of conferences for 6 months now, this month I got to experience an academic conference front and centre selling books at the...
View ArticleJoseph Barber on The Chicken
Inherently social creatures, chickens are enjoying a renaissance as prized members of many households and small farms. From feathers and flock formation to imprinting and incubating, The Chicken by...
View ArticleBrowse Our New Biology 2018-2019 Catalog
In our Biology 2018-2019 catalog you will find a host of new books, from a look at how genes are not the only basis of heredity, a new framework for the neuroscientific study of emotions in humans and...
View ArticleWalter Perez on Galápagos
The Galápagos Islands are home to an amazing variety of iconic creatures, from Giant Tortoises, Galápagos Sea Lions, Galápagos Penguins, and Ghost Crabs to Darwin’s finches, the Blue-footed Booby, and...
View ArticleBrowse our 2018 Sociology Catalog
We are pleased to announce our new Sociology catalog for 2018-2019! Among the exciting new titles are a cross-national account of working mothers’ daily lives and the revolution in public policy and...
View ArticleDavid Lindo on How to Be an Urban Birder
Urban birding is fast becoming ornithology’s new rock ’n’ roll. Birds and birding have never been cooler—and urban birding is at the cutting edge. How to Be an Urban Birder is the world’s first guide...
View ArticleMohamed Noor on Live Long and Evolve
In Star Trek, crew members travel to unusual planets, meet diverse beings, and encounter unique civilizations. Throughout these remarkable space adventures, does Star Trek reflect biology and evolution...
View ArticleDave Smallshire and Andy Swash on Britain’s Dragonflies
Britain’s Dragonflies is the only comprehensive photographic field guide to the damselflies and dragonflies of Great Britain and Ireland. Written by two of Britain’s foremost Dragonfly experts, this...
View ArticleKatrina van Grouw on Unnatural Selection
Is Unnatural Selection all about domestication? No, only Chapter 12, the final chapter, is about domestication. The rest of the book is about selective breeding, and the book as a whole is about...
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