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ELECTION TUESDAY

October 2, 2012 by

FACT: “[C]hocolate chip cookies (CCCs) have eight times the energy as the same weight of TNT. How can that be true? Why can’t we blow up a building with CCCs instead of TNT? Almost everyone who hasn’t studied the subject assumes (incorrectly) that TNT releases a great deal more energy than cookies. That includes most physics majors….Even though chocolate chip cookies contain more energy than a similar weight of TNT, the energy is normally released more slowly, through a series of chemical processes that we call metabolism.”

Physics and Technology for Future Presidents:
An Introduction to the Essential Physics Every World Leader Needs to Know
by Richard A. Muller

We invite you to read the preface online:
http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/p9226.pdf

“Modern science and technology have the power to shape the world we live in, for good or for evil. Muller, himself a brilliant, creative scientist, has distilled the most important scientific principles that define our choices, and has presented them clearly and objectively. To make wise decisions, not only future presidents, but future business and community leaders, and thoughtful citizens generally, need the information in this book.”–Frank Wilczek, Nobel Prize–winning physicist

 

 

Filed Under: Election 101, Physics, Textbooks, Twitter

New 2012 Political Science & Law Catalog and #APSA2012 Announcement

August 27, 2012 by

We invite you to check out new and forthcoming books in our 2012 political science & law catalog at:
http://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/polisci12.pdf

We are sorry to say we will not see you at the American Political Science Association’s annual meeting in New Orleans. Due to Hurricane/Storm Isaac we decided to play it safe and not attend. Is everyone going to Vegas now? Yes, we’re following the #APSA2012 tweets.

Even though you won’t find our booth at APSA, you can still order PUP books using the conference discount. Because we could not make it to the meeting, we are offering 30% off when you order at press.princeton.edu. Please enter code P05129 in the Catalog Code box when you check out. Your discount will be applied when the order is processed. This special offer expires October 31, 2012. You can also order by phone at 1-800-777-4726, just make sure to mention the special offer code P05129.

You can start browsing the catalog, or start browsing these great new and forthcoming titles below (just to name a few):

The Unheavenly Chorus:
Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy
Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba & Henry E. Brady
Read chapter one online.

The Spirit of Compromise:
Why Governing Demands It and Campaigning Undermines It
Amy Gutmann & Dennis Thompson
Read the introduction online.

How to Win an Election:
An Ancient Guide for Modern Politicians
Quintus Tullius Cicero
Translated and with an introduction by Philip Freeman
Read the introduction online.

Creating a New Racial Order:
How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America
Jennifer L. Hochschild, Vesla M. Weaver & Traci R. Burch
Read the introduction online.

Solomon’s Knot:
How Law Can End the Poverty of Nations
Robert D. Cooter & Hans-Bernd Schäfer
Read chapter one online.

And of special interest – two chapters available for free download:
The Gamble
by John Sides & Lynn Vavreck

The Hand You’re Dealt and Random, or Romney?

We hope everyone stays safe. We’ll see you next year at APSA!

To learn more about new political science and law books, you can sign up for our new book e-mail announcements at:
http://press.princeton.edu/subscribe/

Filed Under: International Relations, International Studies, New Catalog, Political Philosophy, Political Science, Political Theory, Twitter

A Fresh Look at a French Composer and Virtuoso – Camille Saint-Saëns

August 14, 2012 by

The Bard Music Festival’s second weekend featuring Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) starts on August 17th.  The concerts, lectures, and panel discussions of the festival are complemented by a book of related articles, essays, and letters edited by a prominent music scholar.  Princeton University Press is pleased to announce:

Camille Saint-Saëns and His World
Edited by Jann Pasler

Camille Saint-Saëns–perhaps the foremost French musical figure of the late nineteenth century and a composer who wrote in nearly every musical genre, from opera and the symphony to film music–is now being rediscovered after a century of modernism overshadowed his earlier importance. In a wide-ranging and trenchant series of essays, articles, and documents, Camille Saint-Saëns and His World deconstructs the multiple realities behind the man and his music. Topics range from intimate glimpses of the private and playful Saint-Saëns, to the composer’s interest in astronomy and republican politics, his performances of Mozart and Rameau over eight decades, and his extensive travels around the world. This collection also analyzes the role he played in various musical societies and his complicated relationship with such composers as Liszt, Massenet, Wagner, and Ravel. Featuring the best contemporary scholarship on this crucial, formative period in French music, Camille Saint-Saëns and His World restores the composer to his vital role as innovator and curator of Western music.

 

You can find more information about the Bard Music Festival and activities this weekend at:
http://fishercenter.bard.edu/bmf/2012/

For more information on the Bard Music Festival Book Series, check out:
http://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/series/bfs.html

Filed Under: Music, Twitter Tagged With: ,

New Sociology Catalog

August 13, 2012 by

sociology catalog coverWe invite you to browse and download our new sociology catalog.
http://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/socio12.pdf

Be sure to check out John F. Padgett & Walter W. Powell’s The Emergence of Organizations and Markets, Peter V. Marsden’s findings from the General Social Survey since 1972 in Social Trends in American Life and Harvey Molotch’s Against Security: How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways, and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger. There are many great books by great authors not to be missed in the catalog.

We hope to see you soon at the upcoming ASA annual meeting in Denver, Colorado. We’ll be at booth no. 802 in the exhibit area.  Gina Neff and Jennifer Lena invite you to a party to celebrate the publication of Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries (MIT Press) and Banding Together: How Communities Create Genres in Popular Music (Princeton University Press). We hope to see you there, party is open. Details:

Saturday, August 18th, 2012
8-10 p.m.
Harry’s Bar in the lobby of the Magnolia Hotel
818 17th Street between Stout and Champa Streets (just 2.5 blocks from the convention center)

Stop by to celebrate with our authors and meet PUP Editor of Sociology & Cognitive Science, Eric Schwartz. Rumor has it that Eric will be producing another video documenting this year’s meeting. Make sure he gets your “good side” when filming.

 

You can also learn about new sociology books by joining our e-mail list at:
http://press.princeton.edu/subscribe/

 

Filed Under: New Catalog, Sociology, Twitter

New Catalog – Fall 2012 Seasonal Announcement Catalog

April 27, 2012 by

The Princeton University Press sales conference wrapped up this week and you can see what the buzz is all about by checking out our new Fall 2012 seasonal announcement catalog:

PDF file: http://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/F12Seasonal.pdf

HTML: http://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/F12trade.html

We thank PUP authors Edward B. Burger and Peter Brown for their wonderful presentations during sales conference. You can be among the first to check out their new forthcoming books (available in September):

The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking
By Edward B. Burger & Michael Starbird

Through the Eye of a Needle:
Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD
By Peter Brown

The catalog is full of great books by great authors. Start browsing!

Filed Under: New Catalog, Twitter Tagged With: ,

Announcing Two New Books in the Lives of Great Religious Books Series

April 2, 2012 by

book jacketsLives of Great Religious Books is a new series of short volumes that recount the complex and fascinating histories of important religious texts from around the world. We are pleased to announce two more books are available in the series. These books examine the historical origins of texts from the great religious traditions, and trace how their reception, interpretation, and influence have changed–often radically–over time.

The Book of Mormon:
A Biography
by Paul C. Gutjahr

Late one night in 1823 Joseph Smith, Jr., was reportedly visited in his family’s farmhouse in upstate New York by an angel named Moroni. According to Smith, Moroni told him of a buried stack of gold plates that were inscribed with a history of the Americas’ ancient peoples, and which would restore the pure Gospel message as Jesus had delivered it to them. Thus began the unlikely career of the Book of Mormon, the founding text of the Mormon religion, and perhaps the most important sacred text ever to originate in the United States. Here Paul Gutjahr traces the life of this book as it has formed and fractured different strains of Mormonism and transformed religious expression around the world.

We invite you to read chapter one online at:
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9655.html

The I Ching:
A Biography
by Richard J. Smith

The I Ching originated in China as a divination manual more than three thousand years ago. In 136 BCE the emperor declared it a Confucian classic, and in the centuries that followed, this work had a profound influence on the philosophy, religion, art, literature, politics, science, technology, and medicine of various cultures throughout East Asia. Jesuit missionaries brought knowledge of the I Ching to Europe in the seventeenth century, and the American counterculture embraced it in the 1960s. Here Richard Smith tells the extraordinary story of how this cryptic and once obscure book became one of the most widely read and extensively analyzed texts in all of world literature.

Read the introduction online at:
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9656.html

For a complete listing of the books in the series, please visit:
http://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/series/lgrb.html

Filed Under: American History, Asian and Asian American studies, Biography, Religion, Twitter

New Art & Architecture Catalog

February 16, 2012 by

art catalog

We invite you to download and browse our 2012 Art & Architecture catalog at:
http://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/art12.pdf

Of special interest this year is a major new take on Pop art from esteemed critic Hal Foster, The First Pop Age. If you are attending the College Art Association’s annual meeting in L.A., please join us at the PUP booth #102 for a champagne toast and book signing. Hal Foster will be signing copies of his new book at 12:30 pm on Thursday, February 23rd. We hope to see you there.

You will also find many more great books by great authors in the catalog including; Sylvia Lavin’s Kissing Architecture, Wu Hung’s A Story of Ruins, Johanna G. Seasonwein’s Princeton and the Gothic Revival, and Meaning in Motion edited by Nino Zchomelidse & Giovanni Freni – just to name a few. You will also find many of your favorites now in paperback. Enjoy browsing.

 

To be notified about new books in art & architecture, sign up for an e-mail notification at:
http://press.princeton.edu/subscribe/

Filed Under: Art and Architecture, New Catalog, Twitter

New Philosophy Catalog

December 20, 2011 by

We invite you to check out our new 2012 philosophy catalog at:
http://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/phil12.pdf

You will find books by Martha C. Nussbaum, Peter Singer, Steven Nadler, John M. Cooper, Emrys Westacott, Patricia S. Churchland, Pascal Bruckner and many more. Many new paperbacks and ebooks are also available. It’s easy to download the catalog to your smartphone or tablet for browsing.

Will we see you in D.C. at the annual American Philosophical Association meeting? We’ll be there in the exhibit hall (booth no. 103). Stop by to say hello and browse new books.

Filed Under: New Catalog, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Twitter Tagged With: , , , ,

New Earth Science Catalog

December 5, 2011 by

catalog coverWe invite you to be among the first to download and browse our 2012 Earth Science catalog at:
http://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/earth12.pdf

Check out what is new in our Princeton Primers in Climate series. You will find books by Geoffrey K. Vallis, Shawn J. Marshall, David Randall and David Archer. Princeton Primers in Climate is a new series of short, authoritative books that explain the state of the art in climate-science research. Written specifically for students, researchers, and scientifically minded general readers looking for succinct and readable books on this frequently misunderstood subject, these primers reveal the physical workings of the global climate system with unmatched accessibility and detail.

We are celebrating the new series at the AGU annual meeting in San Francisco on Tuesday, December 6th.  You are invited to join us at our exhibit booth (no. 1449) at 3:30 p.m. for the party.  We hope to see you there.

Filed Under: Earth Sciences, Habitable Planet, New Catalog, Twitter Tagged With: , , , ,

Two New Catalogs – Religion and Anthropology

November 28, 2011 by

We invite you to browse and download two new catalogs featuring great books by great authors.

In the religion catalog you can check out the Lives of Great Religious Books series with books by Garry Wills, Donald S. Lopez, Jr., and Martin E. Marty. You will also find new books from Robert Wuthnow, Paula Fredriksen, Mark Chaves, Leora Batnitzky, Peter Schäfer and Timothy Matovina – just to name a few.

Follow the link to the religion catalog:
http://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/rel12.pdf

In the anthropology catalog look for new books by Chloe Silverman, Peter Benson, Junko Kitanaka, Stephen J. Collier, Duana Fullwiley, and Marcia C. Inhorn. Forthcoming this May are books by Partha Chatterjee, Thomas Blom Hansen, and a book by Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi. Be the first to check them out in the catalog.

Follow the link to the anthropology catalog:
http://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/anthro12.pdf

Both catalogs have many more new titles and your favorites now in paperback.  Enjoy browsing.

Filed Under: Anthropology, New Catalog, Religion, Twitter

New Cognitive Science Catalog

November 11, 2011 by

We invite you to be among the first to browse our new 2012 cognitive science catalog.
Browse and download it to your e-reader:
http://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/cog12.pdf

PUP’s sociology and cognitive science editor, Eric Schwartz, will be attending the Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) and the Science Society for Neuroscience’s (SfN) annual meeting in Washington, DC this month. You can find PUP books at booth No. 138. Of special interest at this year’s meetings are appearances by two PUP authors: neurophilosopher Patricia Churchland will be responding to the S4SN Keynote Address and economist Robert Shiller will be joining SfN President Susan Amara and neuroscientists Antonio Rangel and Wolfram Schultz in a discussion about the interplay between economics and the brain: http://www.sfn.org/am2011/index.aspx?pagename=amn_072011_Shiller.

You can read the introduction to Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism by George A. Akerlof & Robert J. Shiller at: http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/i9163.pdf and Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality? by Patricia S. Churchland at: http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s9399.pdf.

The cognitive science catalog is full of great authors and great books. Eric Schwartz introduces the 2012 cognitive science catalog:

Our cognitive science publishing reflects the state-of-the-art of the field, and includes
work by psychologists and neuroscientists, philosophers of mind, evolutionary biologists, and social scientists of all stripes.

The catalog highlights recent and forthcoming books by Max
H. Bazerman and Ann E. Tenbrunsel, Patricia S. Churchland,
Nicholas Humphrey, Michael C. Corballis, Robert Kurzban,
Enrico Coen, and Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, among
others. We are proud to make available in paperback Paul
Thagard’s acclaimed The Brain and the Meaning of Life, George
A. Akerlof and Rachel E. Kranton’s important Identity Economics,
and Peter Singer’s classic The Expanding Circle. We also use
this opportunity to draw your attention to significant earlier
works published by the Press by authors such as Louise Barrett,
Robin Dunbar, Frans de Waal, Jean-Pierre Changeux, Richard
L. Gregory, Richard H. Thaler, Robert J. Shiller, and Thomas
Henry Huxley. Unifying all of these authors and books, past and
present, is an effort to provide a clearer understanding of the
relationship between the brain, the mind, individual behavior,
social interaction, and social institutions.

This catalog is indicative of the bright future for the Princeton
University Press cognitive science program and we hope that
within these pages you find books and ideas that will inspire
and enlighten.

Cognitive Science Catalog 2012:
http://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/cog12.pdf

Filed Under: Cognitive Science, New Catalog, Twitter

An Eye on the Sky

September 21, 2011 by

With NASA’s Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) plummeting to earth on Friday, September 23rd (U.S. date), you’re probably going to be watching the sky. It could be quite the light show depending on where you are and where it falls. Not to worry, NASA says the public safety risk is extremely small. The satellite will break up into pieces during re-entry, but not all of it will burn up as it re-enters earth’s atmosphere adding to the excitement of watching the sky. NASA is posting UARS updates to their website and you can follow it here:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/uars/index.html .

Around the world, armchair astronomers will also be keeping a close eye on the sky. Did you know back in the 1950′s thousands of ordinary people across the globe seized the opportunity to participate in the start of the Space Age? Known as the “Moonwatchers,” these largely forgotten citizen-scientists helped professional astronomers by providing critical and otherwise unavailable information about the first satellites. In Keep Watching the Skies!, Patrick McCray tells the story of this network of pioneers who, fueled by civic pride and exhilarated by space exploration, took part in the twentieth century’s biggest scientific endeavor. You can read chapter one at:
http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/i8645.html

Moonwatchers witnessed firsthand the astonishing beginning of the Space Age. In the process, these amateur scientists organized themselves into a worldwide network of satellite spotters that still exists today. Drawing on previously unexamined letters, photos, scrapbooks, and interviews, Keep Watching the Skies! recreates a pivotal event from a perspective never before examined–that of ordinary people who leaped at a chance to take part in the excitement of space exploration.

Keep Watching the Skies!
The Story of Operation Moonwatch and the Dawn of the Space Age
by W. Patrick McCray

Filed Under: American History, Astronomy and Cosmology, history of science, Twitter
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