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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*
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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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Porcelain
A History from the Heart of Europe
2024 || Paperback || Suzanne L. Marchand || Princeton University Press
A sweeping cultural and economic history of porcelain, from the eighteenth century to the present
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A Book Forged in Hell
Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age
2024 || Paperback || Steven Nadler || Princeton University Press
When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published - "godless," "full of abominations," "a book forged in hell ...by the devil himself." This title the tells of story of incendiary ideas and vicious backlash.