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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
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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
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...
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Twelve Caesars
Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern
2024 || Hardcover || Mary Beard || Princeton University Press
Mastering 'Metrics
The Path from Cause to Effect
2014 || Paperback || Joshua D.Angrist e.a. || Princeton University Press
Applied econometrics, known to aficionados as 'metrics, is the original data science. 'Metrics encompasses the statistical methods economists use to untangle cause and effect in human affairs. Through accessible discussion and with a dose of kung fu-themed humor, Mastering 'Metrics presents the essential tools of econometric research and demonstrates why econometrics is exciting and useful.
The five most valuable econometric methods, or what the authors call the Furious Five--random assignmen...
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Keith Haring
31 Subway Drawings
2024 || Hardcover || Jeffrey Deitch e.a. || Princeton University Press
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Van Gogh and the Seasons
2024 || Hardcover || Sjraar van Heugten || Princeton University Press
A new look at the ways van Gogh represented the seasons and the natural world throughout his careerThe changing seasons captivated Vincent van Gogh (1853-90), who saw in their unending cycle the majesty of nature and the existence of a higher force. Van Gogh and the Seasons is the first book to explore this central aspect of van Gogh's life and
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In Praise of Good Bookstores
2024 || Hardcover || Jeff Deutsch || Princeton University Press
Advanced International Trade / 2nd edition
Theory and Evidence
2015 || Hardcover || Robert C. Feenstra || Princeton University Press
rade is a cornerstone concept in economics worldwide. This updated second edition of the essential graduate textbook in international trade brings readers to the forefront of knowledge in the field and prepares students to undertake their own research. In Advanced International Trade, Robert Feenstra integrates the most current theoretical approaches with empirical evidence, and these materials are supplemented in each chapter by theoretical and empirical exercises.
Feenstra explores a wealth...
Social and Economic Networks / 1st edition
2019 || Paperback || Matthew O. Jackson || Princeton University Press
Networks of relationships help determine the careers that people choose, the jobs they obtain, the products they buy, and how they vote. The many aspects of our lives that are governed by social networks make it critical to understand how they impact behavior, which network structures are likely to emerge in a society, and why we organize ourselves as we do. In Social and Economic Networks, Matthew Jackson offers a comprehensive introduction to social and economic networks, drawing on the lat...