A response from Louise Barrett to Nicholas Wade’s article for the New York Times on dog cognition. Louise is the author of the forthcoming book Beyond the Brain: How Body and Environment Shape Animal and Human Minds which will revolutionize how we think about and define intelligence.

Richard Crossley Unplugged provided some hints on becoming a better birder and tips on identifying birds by size. We also saw some early reviews for this revolutionary bird ID guide.

PUP author Roland Kays (Mammals of North America, 2nd edition) began his stint as a guest-blogger for the New York Times.

David Weintraub, author of How Old Is the Universe?, is interviewed by Sean Moncrieff on Ireland’s Newstalk radio.

Josh Bloom has a book launch for What Are Gamma-Ray Bursts? at the American Astronomical Society conference.

Our jacket designers give us a glimpse into the creativity that goes into a striking cover like the one for The Silicon Jungle by Shumeet Baluja, a novel of deception and mystery that gets at the heart of privacy issues and the googlization of information.

And lastly, Eugene Kaplan, author of What’s Eating You?: People and Parasites, invites you to become an adventurous eater.

The best assessment yet of the role played by the leading western central banks – the US Federal Reserve, the ECB and the Bank of England – in the run-up to the financial crisis and beyond, from two former insiders at the top level of UK policymaking.

A critical look, from a left-leaning perspective, at some of the defining intellectual fashions of the past three decades. Quiggin is a writer of great verve who marshals some powerful evidence.

A high-powered yet accessible analysis of the financial crisis and its aftermath, Fault Lines was awarded the FT/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year. Rajan, a University of Chicago economist, was one of the few who warned that the crisis was coming and his book fizzes with striking and thought-provoking ideas.

The year’s most enchanting science book. Seeley, biology professor at Cornell University, distils the insights of 40 years studying and keeping bees. He focuses on the astonishing “democratic” process that takes place when a swarm of thousands of bees leaves an overcrowded hive to find a new home: how scouts evaluate potential sites and advertise their merits, how a final choice is made, and how the swarm navigates to its new nest.

A very readable guide to the recent globalisation of sport by academics who understand both US and European sports. Packed with examples, from David Beckham to Kobe Bryant, the book explores the tension between sport’s globalisation and the fact that most teams still arouse the greatest emotions in their local areas.

The first installment of Crossley Unplugged, a series of videos from birder and nature photographer Richard Crossley. In this short video, he answers the all-important question: “Where to go birding?” As we gear up for the publication of The Crossley ID Guide in March 2011, we will post many more videos from Richard that address practical birding concerns as well as provide hints to improve your identification skills.

Physical Sciences editor Ingrid Gnerlich gives us an overview of the series Princeton Primers in Climate, including a new book from David Archer on The Global Carbon Cycle.

Bobbi S. Low speaks with Earth Sciences editor Alison Kalett about the “active-learning approach” used in her new textbook An Introduction to Methods and Models in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology (co-authored with Stanton Braude).

Mathematics Editor Vickie Kearn reflects on how Ford and Fulkerson’s Flows in Networks came back in print and also speaks with Sep Kamvar, author of Numerical Algorithms for Personalized Search in Self-organizing Information Networks, about the importance of PageRank in internet searches.

We hear a lot of noise and confusion on the subject of climate. As the subject has become politicized, the climate system has become a subject of high interest outside of the climate and Earth science community, and even outside of the scientific community altogether. Here at Princeton University Press, we felt that it was high time to launch a new series of books that gives scientifically minded readers the facts on how climate works.

Read more after the jump.

With the excitement of Halloween this weekend, I am a little delayed in getting this “issue” of Princeton Global Science published, but there are plenty of goodies this time around.

Just this morning, I’ve posted two terrific math problems drawn from A Mathematical Nature Walk and Guesstimation. We had terrific feedback to last issue’s pumpkin guide, so I hope you enjoy John Adam’s ruminations about fall foliage and rain.

Thomas Seeley, author of The Honeybee Democracy, contributes the 5 rules of democracy we can learn from honeybees and Tom Tyler is interviewed about his new book Why People Cooperate.

Physics and Astronomy editor Ingrid Gnerlich provides an overview of the In a Nutshell series and we also have a relevant excerpt about global climate change from the Princeton Guide to Ecology.

Birders will rejoice because we’ve posted another sneak preview of Joseph Forshaw’s new guide to Parrots of the World.

Paul Nahin contributes a video log about his publishing relationship with with Princeton University Press and his writing process — it turns out he writes a page a day, no matter what. Paul has written eight books for PUP and he describes the behind-the-scenes wrangling that goes into writing his books and the cover designs for three of them.

We also have a dialogue with Paul Thagard, author of The Brain and the Meaning of Life, in which he describes how a book that was originally conceived as an assessment of current research in neuroscience shifted to tackle one of the largest philosophical questions — what is the meaning of life?

Our natural history guides are a large part of our publishing program and with two new guides publishing in October, it makes sense that our Princeton Field Guide series is highlighted this issue. Science Group Publisher Robert Kirk describes the history of this popular series and we have features on the most recent additions The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs by Gregory S. Paul and Parrots of the World by Joseph M. Forshaw with illustrations by Frank Knight.

Click here to view the daily dinosaur feature which draws on information and images from The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs and click here for a sneak peek of the page layout and gorgeous illustrations from Parrots of the World.

As always, we also include a classic text from Princeton University Press history. This issue’s selection from A Century of Books is Finite Dimensional Vector Spaces by Paul R. Halmos.

Also in this edition of PGS will be exclusive articles from Dan Carpenter, author of Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA and Eugene Kaplan, author of What’s Eating You? People and Parasites.

Read more after the jump.

The Science Book Challenge is easy as pi: read 3 (or 3.14!) science books during 2010, then tell us about the books you’ve read and help spread science literacy.

Sounds like an admirable pursuit and you have approximately 5 months left to complete the task. Here are some good PUP books to help you reach your goal:

Steven S. Gubser

James Kasting

Eugene H. Kaplan