We enjoyed a nice long break for the New Year, but we’re happy to present Issue 9 of Princeton Global Science. Richard Crossley, author of The Crossley ID Guide, explains in two videos how you can make your backyard more bird-friendly by incorporating bird baths and bird feeders (Check out the gorgeous birds in this [...]
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In the last PGS Dialogue, I wrote “Math is everywhere,” and now I find that, with a small modification, this short statement is as applicable to the subject of this Dialogue as the last. I could just as easily write “Hypocrisy is everywhere” and still be on solid ground.
Robert Kurzban, author of Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite, spoke with editor Eric Schwartz about his new book, his research, and of course, what might be on the horizon. Read on below. |
Introducing our new 2011 Physics and Astrophysics catalog at:
http://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/physics11.pdf
See page 2 for our new series, The Princeton Frontiers in Physics. The series offers short introductions to some of today’s most exciting and dynamic research across the physical sciences. Abraham Loeb’s How Did the First Stars and Galaxies Form? and Joshua S. Bloom’s What are Gamma-Ray Bursts? launch the series. Great books for students, scientists, and scientifically minded general readers.
Additions to the Princeton Series in Astrophysics include Bruce T. Draine’s Physics of the Interstellar and Intergalactic Medium and Sara Seager’s Exoplanet Atmospheres. Professors, make sure to check out pages 3-5 for more textbooks.
The catalog is full of new titles by leading experts. We invite you to browse and download the catalog. If you’re at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle, please stop by booth 301 and say hello. Hope to see you there.
Continued »When Princeton was first approached by Ithaka about the prospect of creating a university press platform we were intrigued since there’s a growing need for members of the university press community to expand their electronic offerings to libraries in the U.S. and around the world. As the project took shape, we were particularly pleased to learn that JSTOR would become our partner in this endeavor since they have such a successful and distinguished history within the Journals world. We’re also very excited that our book content will be cross-searchable with JSTOR’s vast journal content and that proper preservation will be provided via Portico. We believe that these features will help make “Books at JSTOR” an invaluable resource for librarians, scholars and students.
This new initiative has been covered briefly at Inside Higher Ed and the Chronicle of Higher Ed.
And here is the official press release:
Five of the nation’s leading university presses – Chicago, Minnesota, North Carolina, Princeton, and Yale – are at the forefront of a new effort to publish scholarly books online as part of the non-profit service JSTOR. Their books, representing ground-breaking scholarship across the humanistic, social, and scientific disciplines, are expected to be available in 2012.
“Books at JSTOR” will make front and back list titles available to libraries around the world in flexible ways that encourage purchase, adoption, and use. This new initiative is the result of a year-long investigation into the needs of the publishing, library, and scholarly communities. Consultations with dozens of libraries, end-users, and project partners helped to identify elements of a solution that include overcoming limitations on use and offering flexible purchase models for libraries, while developing a sustainable model for publishers for whom online book publishing must migrate quickly from being ancillary to a fundamental part of their business. Among the instrumental collaborators in this project were several presses beyond those announced here, including California, Harvard, and MIT.
Continued »The January issue of Scientific American features an article about Fernando Cornejo and John Janovec and their new field guide Seeds of Amazonian Plants. They have also created a slide show on their web site showcasing the beauty of these diverse seeds.
If that doesn’t satisfy your curiosity, you might also enjoy these exclusive images from the book that appeared in an earlier Princeton University Press blog post.
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Privilege by Shamus Rahman Khan! See here for Mankiw’s short, but sweet assessment.
How are those New Year’s resolutions coming? If you’re still on track, great, but in addition to all of the unrealistic goals that you’ll probably only keep up for another week or so, why not take the opportunity to resolve to do something entirely within your control this year: to be a less selfish, more conscientious person more of the time, and to encourage the organizations and other groups you’re a part of to do the same?
In this great post over at Miller-McCune, Emily Badger talks to scholar Lynn Stout about her new book Cultivating Conscience: How Good Laws Make Good People, in which Stout argues there are a lot of other ways for individuals, organizations, the legal system, and government to encourage good behavior than only dispensing material rewards and punishments:
“You’re leaving a bunch of tools in your toolkit unused,” Stout said, when we reach only for carrots and sticks. “Why should we focus only on material incentives — which by the way can be very expensive — when we have all these ways to encourage people to do a good job, tell the truth, obey the law, work hard and which cost us much less. Economists should be horrified that we’re behaving so inefficiently.”
So, read Stout’s book and then resolve to do some nice–and efficient–things this year. Pay your taxes. Help an old lady across the street. Or just buy a copy Cultivating Conscience for your favorite economist, lawyer, or public official. You don’t have to be a saint, but I think we can all do better than we did in 2010.
You can find Lynn Stout’s recent Brookings paper on the power of conscientious behavior here.
Continued »Like Birds? Like books? Then you’ll LIKE our first book giveaway for the New Year: The Princeton Encyclopedia of Birds edited by Christopher Perrins. 
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Birds is the definitive one-volume reference–an essential guide for amateur bird enthusiasts and professional ornithologists alike.
“Packed with photos, illustrations, and lively text that comfortably bridges the gap between a child’s reference tool and a doctoral thesis.”–Scott Kirkwood, National Parks Magazine
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The Princeton Encyclopedia of Birds edited by Christopher Perrins
Continued »Click through to listen to Shamus Rahman Khan, the author of the forthcoming book Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul’s School being interviewed about inequality and elite studies.
Continued »Our authors and economists Rachel Kranton and George Akerlof have just launched their new website IdentityEconomics.org. It’s a very well-done, smart website/blog that we’re thrilled to see enter the arena. Check it out if you have a chance!
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Are you at the annual Allied Social Science Associations meeting in Denver this week? We invite you to check out our new line-up of titles. You can now find our new 2011 Economics and Finance catalog online at:
http://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/econ11.pdf
You will find books by Raghuram G. Rajan, Max H. Bazerman & Ann E. Tenbrunsel, John Quiggin, Kaushik Basu and Diane Coyle, just to name a few. And if you’re at ASSA on Saturday, we hope to see you at the Popular Economics panel discussion moderated by Princeton University Press’s Director, Peter J. Dougherty.
Popular Economics Panel with:
Robert Shiller (Yale University)
Robert Frank (Cornell University)
Diane Coyle (Manchester University)
Steve Levitt (University of Chicago)
Panel Moderator: Peter Dougherty (Princeton University Press)
Jan 08, 2011 8:00 a.m., Sheraton, Governor’s Square 15
Stop by and visit booth no. 311 to say hello and browse the books. We look forward to seeing you there. For a free e-mail notification about new titles in Economics and Finance, sign up at:
http://press.princeton.edu/subscribe/
FACT: During the half century that began in the 1950s, the American Middle West–Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, Missouri, North and South Dakota, Arkansas, and Oklahoma–underwent a dramtic social transformation. The region’s population grew at only half the national rate.
For many Americans, the Midwest is a vast unknown. In Remaking the Heartland, Robert Wuthnow sets out to rectify this. He shows how the region has undergone extraordinary social transformations over the past half-century and proven itself surprisingly resilient in the face of such hardships as the Great Depression and the movement of residents to other parts of the country. He examines the heartland’s reinvention throughout the decades and traces the social and economic factors that have helped it to survive and prosper.
Wuthnow points to the critical strength of the region’s social institutions established between 1870 and 1950–the market towns, farmsteads, one-room schoolhouses, townships, rural cooperatives, and manufacturing centers that have adapted with the changing times. He focuses on farmers’ struggles to recover from the Great Depression well into the 1950s, the cultural redefinition and modernization of the region’s image that occurred during the 1950s and 1960s, the growth of secondary and higher education, the decline of small towns, the redeployment of agribusiness, and the rapid expansion of edge cities. Drawing his arguments from extensive interviews and evidence from the towns and counties of the Midwest, Wuthnow provides a unique perspective as both an objective observer and someone who grew up there.
Remaking the Heartland:
Middle America since the 1950s
By Robert Wuthnow
We invite you to read the introduction online:
http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/i9296.pdf
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