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UPress Week Blog Tour #TurnItUp History
The UPress Week blog tour continues today and we are ready to crank up the volume on History. Here’s what’s on the lineup: In the WLU Press blog post, Nil Santiáñez, author of the recently-published...
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Joel Waldfogel on Digital Renaissance
The digital revolution poses a mortal threat to the major creative industries—music, publishing, television, and the movies. The ease with which digital files can be copied and distributed has...
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David Hu on How to Walk on Water and Climb Up Walls (Part 1)
Insects walk on water, snakes slither, and fish swim. Animals move with astounding grace, speed, and versatility: how do they do it, and what can we learn from them? In How to Walk on Water and Climb...
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Christie Henry on the Evolution of University Press Science Publishing
In The Atlantic this month, science journalist Ed Yong writes about new studies on the evolution of mammals that convey how much humans have turned up evolutionary dynamics. Since the 16th century, we...
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Edward Burger on Making Up Your Own Mind
We solve countless problems—big and small—every day. With so much practice, why do we often have trouble making simple decisions—much less arriving at optimal solutions to important questions? Are we...
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François-Xavier Fauvelle on The Golden Rhinoceros
From the birth of Islam in the seventh century to the voyages of European exploration in the fifteenth, Africa was at the center of a vibrant exchange of goods and ideas. It was an African golden age...
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Daniel Rodgers on As a City on a Hill
“For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill,” John Winthrop warned his fellow Puritans at New England’s founding in 1630. More than three centuries later, Ronald Reagan remade that...
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An Innocent Abroad: Starting Out in Oxford
It is by a stroke of good fortune and a gesture of good faith that PUP has seen fit to permit me to spend this academic year living and working from Oxford. It is good fortune insofar as we have a...
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David Hu on How to Walk on Water and Climb Up Walls (Part 2)
Insects walk on water, snakes slither, and fish swim. Animals move with astounding grace, speed, and versatility: how do they do it, and what can we learn from them? In How to Walk on Water and Climb...
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Kevin Mitchell: Wired that way – genes do shape behaviours but it’s complicated
Many of our psychological traits are innate in origin. There is overwhelming evidence from twin, family and general population studies that all manner of personality traits, as well as things such as...
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Hassan Malik on Bankers and Bolsheviks
In a year that has seen emerging markets, including Argentina and Turkey, experience major market crashes, Hassan Malik’s Bankers and Bolsheviks is a timely reminder of the long history of emerging...
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PUP Seminary Co-op Notables for 2018
We’re thrilled and honored to see so many Princeton University Press titles featured as notables for 2018. Thanks to our friends at the Seminary Co-op!
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Ethan Shagan on The Birth of Modern Belief
This landmark book traces the history of belief in the Christian West from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, revealing for the first time how a distinctively modern category of belief came into...
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Jason Brennan on When All Else Fails
The economist Albert O. Hirschman famously argued that citizens of democracies have only three possible responses to injustice or wrongdoing by their governments: we may leave, complain, or comply. But...
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Dave Colander: Where Economics Went Wrong
Milton Friedman once predicted that advances in scientific economics would resolve debates about whether raising the minimum wage is good policy. Decades later, Friedman’s prediction has not come...
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Browse our Jewish Studies 2019 Catalog
Our new Jewish Studies catalog includes a new exploration of the ancient story of Masada, an engaging firsthand portrait of American Judaism today, and a gripping revisionist history that shows how...
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Public Thinker: Issa Kohler-Hausmann on Misdemeanors and Mass Incarceration
Issa-Kohler-Hausmann This article was originally published by Public Books and is reprinted here with permission. Thinking in public demands knowledge, eloquence, and courage. In this new interview...
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Browse our 2019 History Catalog
Our new History catalog includes a groundbreaking history of early America that shows how Boston built and sustained an independent city-state in New England before being folded into the United States,...
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Stanley Corngold on Walter Kaufmann: Philosopher, Humanist, Heretic
Walter Kaufmann (1921–1980) was a charismatic philosopher, critic, translator, and poet who fled Nazi Germany at the age of eighteen, emigrating alone to the United States. He was astonishingly...
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Browse our 2019 Economics Catalog
Our new Economics catalog includes a candid assessment of why the job market is not as healthy we think, an engaging and enlightening account of why American health care is so expensive—and why it...
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