Today marks the anniversary of the Chinese warlord Koxinga’s victory over the Dutch during the Sino-Dutch War–China’s first war with Europe. Emory University has put together this fun book trailer for Tonio Andrade and his new book Lost Colony: The Untold Story of China’s First Great Victory over the West, which shows how Koxinga outfoxed the Dutch at every turn to capture Taiwan:
Happy Year of the Dragon!
Read a terrific profile on Persi Diaconis from the Chronicle Review that begins more like a fantastic, coming of age novel: “Persi Diaconis’s unlikely scholarly career in mathematics began with a disappearing act.”
He was 14 years old and obsessed with magic, spending much of his free time in or around Tannen’s Magic Store, on Times Square, where sleight-of-hand masters regularly gathered to show off tricks and to gossip. There, one of the most influential magicians of the past century, a card maestro named Dai Vernon, saw Diaconis’s prodigious trick dealing and invited the young man to leave New York and join him on the road.
Diaconis vanished from his regular life, dropping out of school and cutting ties with his family. “I packed a little bag—I took some decks of cards and some socks,” remembers Diaconis, now 66 with unruly tufts of white hair, in his office at Stanford University, where he is a professor of mathematics and statistics.
Where do Diaconis’s travels take him? While it may not be too surprising to discover that he grew up to be a renowned magician, it may be slightly more surprising to learn that he ended up being a well-respected mathematician and professor. However, as Diaconis explains — a love of mathematics was a natural outgrowth of his passion for magic. Read the complete profile here: http://wiredcampus.chronicle.com/article/The-Magical-Mind-of-Persi/129404/
Sep
6
2011
The I Ching or Book of Changes app
We have jumped into the high tech world of apps twice now. This is our first offering, based on the best-selling PUP version of The I Ching or Book of Changes. You can read more about the app here, purchase a copy here, or watch the video below to learn more about how to use the app.
it is easy to see why PUP boasts one of the most exciting social sciences publishing programs. Come meet Eric Schwartz at Booth 205 to learn more about our catalog of books and how to publish with us!
You can watch this video on the TV Ontario web site for The Agenda with Steve Paikin here: http://www.tvo.org/TVO/WebObjects/TVO.woa?videoid?918414807001
Learn more about Dr. Churchland’s book Braintrust and read a sample chapter here: http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s9399.pdf
This is the answer to the age-old question “How does he do it?” Anyone who has admired birds from afar and then looked through their favorite bird book at the close-up photographs has wondered, “How do they get so close to the birds?” Well, here’s Richard’s take on it.
Want to learn more about The Crossley ID Guide? Sign up for our webinar on February 22nd at noon or 2 PM. Click here for details.
Have you pre-ordered your copy of The Crossley ID Guide? It is available for pre-order on our web site and from many online retailers.
Earlier Crossley Unplugged videos:
- Where to go birding?
- In the garden: bird baths and plantings
- In the garden: bird feeders
- Becoming a Better Birder
Post your bird IDs from this episode in the comments section below. How many different types of birds do you see in this installment?
Have you pre-ordered you copy of The Crossley ID Guide? It is available for pre-order on our web site and from many online retailers.
Earlier Crossley Unplugged videos:
Post your bird IDs from this episode in the comments section below. How many different types of birds do you see in this installment?
Nov
15
2010
This Week’s Book Giveaway
This week’s book giveaway is Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn’t Buy Presents for the Holidays by Joel Waldfogel. By reprioritizing our gift-giving habits, Scroogenomics proves that we can still maintain the economy without gouging our wallets, and reclaim the true spirit of the holiday season.
“Waldfogel delivers a badly needed poke in the eye at holiday-time consumer madness, positing that not only is compulsory gift giving stressful and expensive, but it’s economically unsound. . . . This lively, spot-on book may be the one gift that still makes sense to buy come Black Friday.”–Publishers Weekly
“[A] small but very well-written and well-argued book which makes some serious points as well as poking fun at the nightmare of Christmas shopping. . . . Point by point the author demolishes the case for giving gifts. In fact, this is a very sensible book on every level.”–Times Literary Supplement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTGy8KgYtfk
Anyone who “LIKES” us on our Facebook page is automatically entered in our book giveaway drawings. The free copy of Scroogenomics will be given away to one of our Facebook followers this Friday in the random draw.
“Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn’t Buy Presents for the Holidays” by Joel Waldfogel.
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27
2010
Michelangelo book trailer is here!
As far as book trailers go, this one has few peers. Isn’t it simply stunning? Many, many thanks to Leonard Barkan and Nick Barberio for their elegant work.
Doesn’t it make you want to run out and buy Michelangelo: A Life on Paper? Well, you can starting next month. Official pub date is December 1, just in time for the holidays (naturally)! This book is perfect for the coming cold. It’s a great fireside culture detective read. There is something exhilarating about piecing together all of Michelangelo’s fragments of consciousness in order to form a more fully realized portrait of the man behind the masterpieces.
My advice? Grab your cozy blanket and your hot beverage of choice and snuggle up with Barkan’s Michelangelo for an engrossing visual study of the artist we all think we know well. You’re in for a treat and maybe even a few surprises.
Continued »Learn more about the book here: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9271.html
In this video log, Paul describes his writing process and three of his eight Princeton University Press books: An Imaginary Tale: The Story of i [the square root of minus one], Dr. Euler’s Fabulous Formula: Cures Many Mathematical Ills, and Mrs. Perkins’s Electric Quilt: And Other Intriguing Stories of Mathematical Physics. He gives us the behind the scenes story of how Dr. Euler’s Fabulous Formula’s jacket was designed and the we meet then quilter of the titular Electric Quilt.
Sep
17
2010
International Talk Like A Pirate Day
Aaaargh, yea mateys. What are you doing this Sunday for International Talk Like A Pirate Day? Check out this book trailer:
The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates by Peter T. Leeson
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Abraham Loeb is is a Professor at the Harvard University Department of Astronomy and the director of the Institute for Theory and Computation, within the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Here he discusses his book How Did the First Stars and Galaxies Form?
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Following her readings of two poems from The Eternal City, Graber is interviewed by Anthony Carelli who will author a subsequent book of poems, Carnations, in The Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets.
“Google: Young Will Have to Change Names to Escape ‘Cyber Past.’ Eric Schmidt suggested that young people should be entitled to change their identity to escape their misspent youth, which is now recorded in excruciating detail on social networking… sites such as Facebook.”–The New Media Journal.us
Echoing those sentiments: “Digital technology empowers us as never before, yet it has unforeseen consequences as well.”–Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age”
Want a visual? Check out the book trailer for “Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age:
The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960 won’t be out for many months, but I thought you might like hearing more from the author about how he came to write the book and how he conducted his research. You can place pre-orders online or follow the book on Facebook.
Continued »Geoff Robinson, author of “If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die” is participating in the LA Festival of Books this week (details of his panel below). Meantime, for those of us who are not in Los Angeles and can’t attend the panel, this video interview from UCLA is fantastic.
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
Saturday, April 24, 11 a.m.
Geoff’s panel is being held on campus at UCLA in Haines 39.
Get the book that Santa doesn’t want you to read! SCROOGENOMICS: Why You Shouldn’t Buy Presents for the Holidays
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4
2009
Book Trailer for DELETE
The book trailer for Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age is available now. Copies are just now being distributed and the official publication date will be in October. The author has an North American tour planned and we’ll post dates here, soon.
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