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The Great Escape
Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
2013 || Hardcover || Angus Deaton || Princeton University Press
The world is a better place than it used to be. People are healthier, wealthier, and live longer. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many has left gaping inequalities between people and nations.
In The Great Escape, Angus Deaton--one of the foremost experts on economic development and on poverty--tells the remarkable story of how, beginning 250 years ago, some parts of the world experienced sustained progress, opening up gaps and setting the stage for today's disproportionately unequal wo...
A Spinoza Reader
The Ethics and Other Works
1994 || Paperback || Benedictus de Spinoza || Princeton University Press
This anthology of the work of Baruch de Spinoza (1632-1677) presents the text of Spinoza's masterwork, the Ethics, in what is now the standard translation by Edwin Curley. Also included are selections from other works by Spinoza, chosen by Curley to make the Ethics easier to understand, and a substantial introduction that gives an overview of Spinoza's life and the main themes of his philosophy. Perfect for course use, the Spinoza Reader is a practical tool with which to approach one of the w...
The Mushroom at the End of the World / 1st edition
On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
2023 || Paperback || Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing || Princeton University Press
What a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planetMatsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world-and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees, matsutake helps forests to grow in daunting places. It is also an edible delicacy in Japan, where it sometimes commands astronomical prices.
In all its contradictions, matsutake offers insights into areas far beyond just mushrooms and addresses a cru...
The Craft of International History
A Guide to Method
2006 || Paperback || Marc Trachtenberg || Princeton University Press
This is a practical guide to the historical study of international politics. The focus is on the nuts and bolts of historical research--that is, on how to use original sources, analyze and interpret historical works, and actually write a work of history. Two appendixes provide sources sure to be indispensable for anyone doing research in this area.
The book does not simply lay down precepts. It presents examples drawn from the author's more than forty years' experience as a working historian....
Fundamentals of Microbiome Science
How Microbes Shape Animal Biology
2021 || Paperback || Angela E. Douglas || Princeton University Press
An essential introduction to microbiome science, a new cutting-edge discipline that is transforming the life sciencesThis book provides an accessible and authoritative guide to the fundamental principles of microbiome science, an exciting and fast-emerging new discipline that is reshaping many aspects of the life sciences. Resident microbes in healthy animals--including humans—can dictate many traits of the animal host. This animal microbiome is a second immune system conferring protection ...
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels
How Human Values Evolve
2017 || Paperback || Ian Morris || Princeton University Press
Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, biology, and history, Ian Morris explains why. Fundamental long-term changes in