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Heidegger's Children

Hannah Arendt, Karl Lowith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse

2024 || Paperback || Richard Wolin || Princeton University Press

Martin Heidegger is perhaps the twentieth century's greatest philosopher, and his work stimulated much that is original and compelling in modern thought. A seductive classroom presence, he attracted Germany's brightest young intellects during the 1920s. Many were Jews, who ultimately would have to reconcile their philosophical and, often, personal

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Three Stones Make a Wall

The Story of Archaeology

2024 || Paperback || Eric H. Cline || Princeton University Press

*One of CHOICE's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017*

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Japan Transformed

Political Change and Economic Restructuring

2010 || Paperback || Frances Rosenbluth e.a. || Princeton University Press

With little domestic fanfare and even less attention internationally, Japan has been reinventing itself since the 1990s, dramatically changing its political economy, from one managed by regulations to one with a neoliberal orientation. Rebuilding from the economic misfortunes of its recent past, the country retains a formidable economy and its political system is healthier than at any time in its history. Japan Transformed explores the historical, political, and economic forces that led to th...

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The Princeton Guide to Historical Research

2021 || Paperback || Zachary Schrag || Princeton University Press

The essential handbook for doing historical research in the twenty-first centuryThe Princeton Guide to Historical Research provides students, scholars, and professionals with the skills they need to practice the historian's craft in the digital age, while never losing sight of the fundamental values and techniques that have defined historical s

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Quaternions and Rotation Sequences: A Primer with Applications to Orbits, Aeorspace and Virtual Reality

2002 || Paperback || J.B. Kuipers || Princeton University Press

Ever since the Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton introduced quaternions in the nineteenth century--a feat he celebrated by carving the founding equations into a stone bridge--mathematicians and engineers have been fascinated by these mathematical objects. Today, they are used in applications as various as describing the geometry of spacetime, guiding the Space Shuttle, and developing computer applications in virtual reality. In this book, J. B. Kuipers introduces quaternions for scie...

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Two Cheers for Anarchism / 1st edition

Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play

2014 || Paperback || James C. Scott || Princeton University Press

James Scott taught us what's wrong with seeing like a state. Now, in his most accessible and personal book to date, the acclaimed social scientist makes the case for seeing like an anarchist. Inspired by the core anarchist faith in the possibilities of voluntary cooperation without hierarchy, Two Cheers for Anarchism is an engaging, high-spirited, and often very funny defense of an anarchist way of seeing--one that provides a unique and powerful perspective on everything from everyday social ...

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The Long Thaw

How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate

2024 || Paperback || David Archer || Princeton University Press

The human impact on Earth's climate is often treated as a hundred-year issue lasting as far into the future as 2100, the year in which most climate projections cease. In The Long Thaw, David Archer, one of the world's leading climatologists, reveals the hard truth that these changes in climate will be "locked in," essentially forever. If you think

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Twelve Caesars

Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern

2024 || Paperback || Mary Beard || Princeton University Press

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Weimar Germany

Promise and Tragedy, Weimar Centennial Edition

2018 || Paperback || Eric D. Weitz || Princeton University Press

The definitive history of Weimar politics, culture, and societyA New York Times Book Review Editor’s ChoiceA Financial Times Best Book of the YearThoroughly up-to-date, skillfully written, and strikingly illustrated, Weimar Germany brings to life an era of unmatched creativity in the twentieth century—one whose influence and inspiration still resonate today. Eric Weitz has written the authoritative history that this fascinating and complex period deserves, and he illuminates the uniquely ...

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The Great Leveler

Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

2018 || Paperback || Walter Scheidel || Princeton University Press

Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that it never dies peacefully. The Great Leveler is the first book to chart the crucial role of violent shocks in reducing inequality over the full sweep of human history around the world.

The "Four Horsemen" of leveling-mass-mobilization warf...