FALL 2010 FEATURED ACADEMIC BOOKS

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Anthropology

• Scripting Addiction: The Politics of Therapeutic Talk and American Sobriety. E.S. Carr.

Art

• Ambitious Form: Giambologna, Ammanati, and Danti in Florence. M. Cole.
• A General Theory of Visual Culture. W. Davis.
• The Art of the Deal: Contemporary Art in a Global Financial Market. N. Horowitz
• ARTiculations: Undefining Chinese Contemporary Art. J. Silbergeld and D.C. Y. Ching, eds.
• Inner Sanctum: Memory and Meaning in Princeton's Faculty Room at Nassau Hall. K. Kusserow, ed.

Astrophysics

• How Did the First Stars and Galaxies Form? A. Loeb.
• What Are Gamma-Ray Bursts? J. Bloom.

Classics / Ancient History

• Aesopic Conversations: Popular Tradition, Cultural Dialogue, and the Invention of Greek Prose. L. Kurke.
• Imperialism, Power, and Identity: Experiencing the Roman Empire. D.J. Mattingly.
• Playing Gods: Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Politics of Fiction. A. Feldher.
• Rethinking the Other in Antiquity. E.S. Gruen.

Earth Science

• The Global Carbon Cycle. D. Archer.

Ecology / Biology

• Collective Animal Behavior. D.J. T. Sumpter.
• In Search of the Causes of Evolution: From Field Observations to Mechanisms. P.R. Grant and B. Grant, eds.
• Resolving Ecosystem Complexity. O.J. Schmitz.

Economics / Finance

• Economics Evolving: A History of Economic Thought. A. Sandmo.
• How Big Banks Fail, and What to Do about It. D. Duffie.
• Running the World's Markets: The Governance of Financial Infrastructure. R. Lee.

History

• History Lessons: The Creation of American Jewish Heritage. B.S. Wenger.
• Noir Urbanisms: Dystopic Images of the Modern City. G. Prakash, ed.
• Prophets of the Past: Interpreters of Jewish History. M. Brenner; S. Rendall, trans.
• Reforming the World: The Creation of America's Moral Empire. I. Tyrrell.

Jewish Studies

• Not in the Heavens: The Tradition of Jewish Secular Thought. D. Biale

Law

• Justice in Luritz: Experiencing Socialist Law in East Germany. I. Markovits.
• Lawyers and Fidelity to Law. W.B. Wendel.

Literature / Writing

• Being Numerous: Poetry and the Ground of Social Life. O. Izenberg.
• Between Religion and Rationality: Essays in Russian Literature and Culture. J. Frank.
• The Event of Postcolonial Shame. T. Bewes.
• The Global Remapping of American Literature. P. Giles.
• The Novel and the Sea. M. Cohen.
• The Princeton Reader: Contemporary Essays by Writers and Journalists at Princeton University. John McPhee & Carol Rigolit, eds.

Mathematics

• Numerical Algorithms for Personalization and Reputation in Self-organizing Information Networks. S. Kamvar.
• Szego's Theorem and Its Descendants: Spectral Theory for L2 Perturbations of Orthogonal Polynomials. B. Simon.

Music

• Alban Berg and His World. C. Hailey, ed.

Philosophy

• Essays on Giordano Bruno. H. Gatti.
• Freud, the Reluctant Philosopher. A.I. Tauber.
• Hegel on Self-Consciousness: Desire and Death in the Phenomenology of Spirit. R.B. Pippin.
• Knowing Full Well. E. Sosa.
• Michael Oakeshott's Skepticism. A. Botwinick.
• Philosophy of Language. S. Soames.
• What Is Meaning? S. Soames.
• Wilhelm Dilthey: Selected Works, Volume II: Understanding the Human World. W. Dilthey; R.A. Makkreel and F. Rodi, eds.

Physics

• Condensed Matter in a Nutshell. G.D. Mahan.
• Statistical and Thermal Physics: With Computer Applications. H. Gould and Jan Tobochnik.
• Principles of Laser Spectroscopy and Quantum Optics. P.S. Berman and V.S. Malinovsky.

Political Science

• A Behavioral Theory of Elections. J. Bendor, D. Diermeier, et al.
• The Blame Game: Spin, Bureaucracy, and Self-Preservation in Government. C. Hood.
• The Clash of Ideas in World Politics: Transnational Networks, States, and Regime Change, 1510-2010. J.M. Owen, IV.
• Hard Line: The Republican Party and U.S. Foreign Policy since World War II. C. Dueck.
• The Limits of Constitutional Democracy. J.K. Tulis and S. Macedo, eds.
• The Litigation State: Public Regulation and Private Lawsuits in the United States. S. Farhang.
• Religion and Democracy in the United States: Danger or Opportunity?. A. Wolfe and I. Katznelson, eds.

Political Theory

• Democratic Governance. M. Bevir.
• The Imperative of Integration. D. Kelly.
• The Judge as Political Theorist: Contemporary Constitutional Review. D. Robertson.
• Liberating Judgment: Fanatics, Skeptics, and John Locke's Politics of Probability. D.J. Casson.
• The Propriety of Liberty: Persons, Passions, and Judgement in Modern Political Thought. D. Kelly.
• The Real World of Democratic Theory. I. Shapiro.
• Tough Choices: Structured Paternalism and the Landscape of Choice. S.R. Ben-Porath.

Psychology / Sociology

• Dead Ringers: How Outsourcing is Changing the Way Indians Understand Themselves. S. Nadeem.
• Durkheim and the Birth of Economic Sociology. P. Steiner; K. Tribe, trans.
• Group Problem Solving . P.R. Laughlin.
• The Hoods: Crime and Punishment in Belfast. K. Çaliskan.
• Mafias on the Move: The Globalization of Organized Crime. F. Varese.
• Market Threads: How Cotton Farmers and Traders Create a Global Commodity. K. Çaliskan.
• Max Weber in America . L.A. Scaff.
• Why People Cooperate: The Role of Social Motivations. T. Tyler.
• Winning: Reflections on an American Obsession. F. Duina.

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