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e: The Story of a Number
The story of a number
2024 || Paperback || Eli Maor || Princeton University Press
The interest earned on a bank account, the arrangement of seeds in a sunflower, and the shape of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis are all intimately connected with the mysterious number e. In this informal and engaging history, Eli Maor portrays the curious characters and the elegant mathematics that lie behind the number. Designed for a reader with o
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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*
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...
The Crisis of the Twelfth Century
Power, Lordship, and the Origins of European Government
2015 || Paperback || Thomas N. Bisson || Princeton University Press
Medieval civilization came of age in thunderous events like the Norman Conquest and the First Crusade. Power fell into the hands of men who imposed coercive new lordships in quest of nobility. Rethinking a familiar history, Thomas Bisson explores the circumstances that impelled knights, emperors, nobles, and churchmen to infuse lordship with social purpose.
Bisson traces the origins of European government to a crisis of lordship and its resolution. King John of England was only the latest and...
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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
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...
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