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We invite you to check out new and forthcoming books in our political science & law catalog at:
http://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/politics11.pdf

Race and politics, immigration, public opinion, Tea Party, global rulers, ethics and zombies – just a few of the hot topics you will find in the catalog.
Yes, zombies!

If you’re at the APSA meeting in Seattle, stop by our booth no. 508 to say hello and browse new books. We hope to see you there.

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We invite you to browse our new 2011-2012 biology catalog at:
http://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/bio11.pdf

The catalog’s cover image is Pale-madibled Toucan (Pteroglossus erythropygius). The beautiful photo is by John Kricher, author of Tropical Ecology, one of the many great books featured in this year’s catalog.

Check out these favorites in new paperback editions:

The Origin Then and Now:
An Interpretive Guide to the Origin of Species

By David N. Reznick
With an introduction by Michael Ruse

How and Why Species Multiply:
The Radiation of Darwin’s Finches

By Peter R. Grant & B. Rosemary Grant

A Mathematical Nature Walk
By John A. Adam

Be on the lookout for these new and forthcoming titles (just to name a few):

Honeybee Democracy
By Thomas D. Seeley

Pollination and Floral Ecology
By Pat Willmer

Chemical Biomarkers in Aquatic Ecosystems
By Thomas S. Bianchi & Elizabeth A. Canuel

The Cryosphere
By Shawn J. Marshall

The Crossley ID Guide:
Eastern Birds

By Richard Crossley

The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs
By Gregory S. Paul

There are too many new and forthcoming titles to list here. You’re just going to have to check it out online: http://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/bio11.pdf

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Jun
16
2011

New History & Philosophy of Science Catalog

catalog coverWe invite you to browse our new 2011 history & philosophy of science catalog at:
http://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/HPS11.pdf

Check out these favorites in new paperback editions:

Leviathan and the Air-Pump:
Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life

By Steven Shapin & Simon Schaffer, with a new introduction by the authors

The Poison King:
The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome’s Deadliest Enemy

By Adrienne Mayor

Dr. Euler’s Fabulous Formula:
Cures Many Mathematical Ills

By Paul J. Nahin, with a new preface by the author

Also, be the first to check out these new and forthcoming titles listed in the catalog (just to name a few):

Reinventing Discovery:
The New Era of Networked Science

By Michael Nielsen

Fascinating Mathematical People:
Interviews and Memoirs

Edited by Donald J. Albers & Gerald L. Alexanderson
With a foreword by Philip J. Davis

Discoverers of the Universe:
William and Caroline Herschel

By Michael Hoskin

The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
Collected and edited by Alice Calaprice
With a foreword by Freeman Dyson

There are too many new and forthcoming titles to list here. You’re just going to have to check it out online:
http://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/HPS11.pdf

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Mar
15
2011

What are You Reading this Spring?

If you’re looking to add books to your reading list, we invite you to browse our Spring 2011 Announcement Catalog. Our Spring list includes a full range of subjects and you’ll definitely find something you want to read. Below are a few suggestions to get you started. Click through the links to find free chapters online.

Blind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What’s Right and What to Do about It
Max H. Bazerman & Ann E. Tenbrunsel

The End of the West: The Once and Future Europe
David Marquand

Strange New Worlds: The Search for Alien Planets and Life beyond Our Solar System
Ray Jayawardhana

Soul Dust: The Magic of Consciousness
Nicholas Humphrey

Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality
Patricia S. Churchland

Guaranteed to Fail: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Debacle of Mortgage Finance
Viral V. Acharya, Matthew Richardson, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh & Lawrence J. White

Partisan Balance: Why Political Parties Don’t Kill the U.S. Constitutional System
David R. Mayhew

The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters
Diane Coyle

Discoverers of the Universe: William and Caroline Herschel
Michael Hoskin

Poems Under Saturn: Poèmes saturniens
Paul Verlaine
Translated and with an introduction by Karl Kirchwey

We are launching our new series Lives of Great Religious Books with titles by Garry Wills, Martin E. Marty and Donald S. Lopez, Jr.:
http://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/series/lgrb.html
The series of short volumes recount the complex and fascinating histories of important religious texts from around the world.

The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds
Richard Crossley

We invite you to check out these titles and the complete Spring 2011 list for even more great books by great authors:
http://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/s11trade.html

Enjoy reading!

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Feb
3
2011

New and Forthcoming Titles in Art and Architecture

Catalog CoverCaravaggio, Frank Lloyd Wright, Michelangelo, Gauguin, Edgar Degas, plus many more are all in our 2011 Art & Architecture catalog. We invite you to be among the first to check it out.
http://bit.ly/fGVZ1y

We’re launching our new series edited by Sarah Whiting, POINT: ESSAYS ON ARCHITECTURE. These short books, written by leading critics, theorists, historians, and practitioners, engage the major issues concerning architecture and design today. See page 2 in our catalog for more information.

If you’re attending the CAA annual conference in New York this month, make sure to stop by our booth (#114) to say hello and browse new books. We hope to meet you there.

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



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Jan
13
2011

New and Forthcoming Titles in Physics & Astrophysics

catalog coverIntroducing 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.

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Jan
7
2011

New and Forthcoming Titles in Economics and Finance

catalog coverAre 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/

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catalog coverIf you’re attending the AIA and APA joint annual meeting in Texas, stop by our booth (no. 302) to say hello and browse new books. If you can’t make it to the meeting, we invite you to browse and download our new 2011 Ancient World catalog:

http://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/ancientworld11.pdf

Check out new titles by Erich S. Gruen, Leslie Kurke, Garry Wills, Andrea Carandini, Brooke Holmes, Andrew Feldherr and many more. New paperback editions are also available for Adrienne Mayor’s The Poison King, and The First Fossil Hunters. The catalog is full of great books by great authors. You will definitely find a great book to add to your reading list and library.

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Jan
6
2011

New and Forthcoming Titles in History

history catalog coverIntroducing our new 2011 History catalog:
http://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/history11.pdf
We invite you to browse and download the catalog.

There are many new titles this year to check out. Our catalog cover image features The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party’s Revolution and the Battle over American History by Jill Lepore. This book tells the story of the centuries-long struggle over the meaning of the nation’s founding, including the battle waged by the Tea Party, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, and evangelical Christians to “take back America.”

You will also enjoy checking out Mumbai Fables by Gyan Prakash. It is a sweeping cultural history of India’s largest city. Other highlights in the catalog include titles by Louis Hyman and Margot Canaday in the Politics & Society in Twentieth-Century America series. You can find titles by Thomas J. Sugrue, James T. Kloppenberg, Julian E. Zelizer, Emma Rothschild and many more in the history catalog. From U.S. history to Asian history, the catalog covers the globe.

If you’re attending #AHA2011 in Boston this week, please make sure to stop by our booth no. 420 to say hello and browse the books.

You can also learn about new books by signing up for our e-mail notification service at:
http://press.princeton.edu/subscribe/

Your e-mail address will remain strictly confidential.

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Jan
5
2011

New and Forthcoming Titles in Literature

catalog coverWe invite you to browse and download our new 2011 Literature catalog at:
http://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/lit11.pdf

Check out the Writers on Writers series featuring C.K. Williams’ On Whitman and Phillip Lopate’s Notes on Sontag. See how they were influenced, fascinated or troubled by these important writers.

And for a hilarious account of the first day of a creative writing course, you need to check out Andrei Codrescu’s The Poetry Lesson. Neither a novel nor a memoir but mimicking aspects of each, The Poetry Lesson is pure Andrei Codrescu: irreverent, unconventional, brilliant, and always funny. You will also enjoy Andrei Codrescu’s forthcoming book, Whatever Gets You through the Night: A Story of Sheherezade and the Arabian Entertainments. It is an irreverent and deeply funny retelling of the Arabian Nights and a wildly inspired exploration of the timeless art of storytelling.

Two essay collections are also a must read. The Joy of Secularism: 11 Essays for How We Live Now edited by George Levine and The Princeton Reader: Contemporary Essays by Writers and Journalists at Princeton University edited by John McPhee & Carol Rigolot will make great additions to your reading list and library.

There are so many new titles to check out in the catalog. From The Quotable Thoreau to the 4th volume of The Plum in the Golden Vase, or Chin P’ing Mei: The Climax, you’ll definitely find something you want to read.

If you’re attending #MLA11 in Los Angeles, please stop by booth no. 111 to say hello and browse the books. Hope to see you there.

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Jan
5
2011

New and Forthcoming Titles in Mathematical Sciences

We invite you to see what is new and forthcoming in our 2011 Mathematical Sciences catalog.

View the catalog online at:
http://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/math2011.pdf

From Computational Aspects of Modular Forms to Loving and Hating Mathematics, you’ll find something you want to read. The catalog is full of great books by great authors. Professors, make sure to check out pages 6-10 for course books. And if you’re in New Orleans for the Joint Mathematics Meeting, please stop by booth no. 509 to say hello and browse the books.

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

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Dec
22
2010

New and Forthcoming Titles in Philosophy

We invite you to be among the first to browse our new 2011 philosophy catalog. You can find books by Peter Singer, Patricia S. Churchland, Nicholas Humphrey, Martha C. Nussbaum and many more. The catalog is full of great books by great authors.

Check out page 3 for books in a new series, Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy (series editor Scott Soames). Leading experts write about major areas of active research in contemporary philosophy providing high-level introductions for students and fresh perspectives for researchers.

Also check out the series, The Princeton Monographs in Philosophy (series editor Harry G. Frankfurt) on page 12. The series offers distinctively short and tightly focused systematic and historical studies on a wide variety of philosophical topics.

The philosophy catalog is full of new books. You’ll definitely find something you want to read. If you’re attending the annual American Philosophical Association meeting next week in Boston, please stop by booth no. 1026 to say hello and browse the books. We would like to see you there.

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

Philosophy Catalog 2011:
http://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/phil11.pdf

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