FALL 2009 FEATURED ACADEMIC BOOKS

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American History

• Little Rock: Race and Resistance at Central High School. K. Anderson.
• The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 36: 1 December 1801 to 3 March 1802. T. Jefferson; B.B. Oberg, ed.
• The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series: Volume 6: 11 March to 27 November 1813. T. Jefferson; J.J. Looney, ed.

Ancient History/Archaeology

• The Last Pharaohs: Egypt Under the Ptolemies, 305-30 BC. J. Manning.
• The Lost World of Old Europe. D. Anthony and J.Y. Chi, eds.

Anthropology

• Can Islam Be French? Pluralism and Pragmatism in a Secularist State. J.R. Bowen.
• Islamism and Democracy in India: The Transformation of Jamaat-e-Islami. I. Ahmad.
• Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Transformation of Islam in Postsocialist Bulgaria. K. Ghodsee.

Astrophysics

• High-Energy Radiation from Black Holes: Gamma Rays, Cosmic Rays, and Neutrinos. C.D. Dermer and G. Menon.

Biology

• The Geographic Spread of Infectious Diseases: Models and Applications. L. Sattenspiel.
• Glimpses of Creatures in Their Physical Worlds. S. Vogel.
• Scale, Heterogeneity, and the Structure and Diversity of Ecological Communities. M.E. Ritchie.
• Sex Allocation. S. West.
• The Theory of Island Biogeography Revisited. J. Losos and R. Ricklefs, eds.

Birds and Natural History

• Birds of Borneo: Brunei, Sabah, Sarawak, and Kalimantan. S. Myers.
• Birds of Eastern North America: A Photographic Guide. P. Sterry and B.E. Small.
• Birds of Europe: Second Edition. L. Svensson.
• Birds of the Horn of Africa: Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, and Socotra. N. Redman, T. Stevenson, et al.
• Birds of Western North America: A Photographic Guide. P. Sterry and B.E. Small.
• Mammals of North America: Second Edition. R.W. Kays and D.E. Wilson.
• A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Jamaica. A. Haynes-Sutton, A. Downer, et al.
• Shorebirds of North America, Europe, and Asia: A Photographic Guide. R. Chandler.
• Trogons: A Natural History of the Trogonidae. J.M. Forshaw.

Classics

• Greek Manuscripts at Princeton, Sixth to Nineteenth Century: A Descriptive Catalogue. N.P. Sevcenko and S. Kotzabassi and
• Recognizing Persius. K.J. Reckford.
• Roman Republics. H. Flower.

Earth Science

• Geochemical Kinetics. Y. Zhang.

Economics

• After Adam Smith: A Century of Transformation in Politics and Political Economy. M. Milgate and S.C. Stimson.
• Experimental Economics: Rethinking the Rules. R. Cubitt, R. Cubitt, et al.
• International Trade with Equilibrium Unemployment. C. Davidson and S.J. Matusz.
• Mathematical Techniques in Finance: Tools for Incomplete Markets (Second Edition). A. Cerný.
• Quantitative Techniques for Competition and Antitrust Analysis. P. Davis and E. Garcés.
• Rules for the Global Economy. H. Siebert.

Education

• Educating Scholars: Doctoral Education in the Humanities. H. Zuckerman, H. Zuckerman, et al.
• No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and Class in Elite College Admission and Campus Life. T.J. Espenshade and A.W. Radford.

Film Studies

• Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War. A. Kaes.

Geophysics

• Earthquake and Volcano Deformation. P. Segall.

History

• The Great American Mission: Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order. D. Ekbladh.
• Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy: The Case of Nanette Leroux. J. Goldstein.
• The Other Alliance: Student Protest in West Germany and the United States in the Global 1960s. M. Klimke.
• Treason in the Northern Quarter: War, Terror, and the Rule of Law in the Dutch Revolt. H. van Nierop; J.C. Grayson, trans.

History of Science

• Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and Its Ambitions, 1500-1700 (Second Edition). P. Dear.

Jewish Studies

• Maimonides in His World: Portrait of a Mediterranean Thinker. S. Stroumsa.
• Mitzvah Girls: Bringing Up the Next Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn. A. Fader.
• Were the Jews a Mediterranean Society? Reciprocity and Solidarity in Ancient Judaism. S. Schwartz.

Law

• Beyond the Formalist-Realist Divide: The Role of Politics in Judging. B.Z. Tamanaha.
• Racial Justice in the Age of Obama. R.L. Brooks.
• The Religious Left and Church-State Relations. S.H. Shiffrin.

Literature / Literary Studies

• Making Waste: Leftovers and the Eighteenth-Century Imagination. S. Gee.
• The Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature: From the European Enlightenment to the Global Present. D. Damrosch, N. Melas, et al., eds.
• The Spread of Novels: Translation and Prose Fiction in the Eighteenth Century. M.H. McMurran.
• War at a Distance: Romanticism and the Making of Modern Wartime. M.A. Favret.

Mathematics

• Algebraic Geometry in Coding Theory and Cryptography. H. Niederreiter and C. Xing.
• Control Theoretic Splines: Optimal Control, Statistics, and Path Planning. M. Egerstedt and C. Martin.
• Distributed Control of Robotic Networks: A Mathematical Approach to Motion Coordination Algorithms. F. Bullo, J. Cortés, et al.
• The Ergodic Theory of Lattice Subgroups. A. Gorodnik and A. Nevo.
• Linear Systems Theory. J. Hespanha.
• Matrices, Moments, and Quadrature with Applications. G. Golub and G. Meurant.
• Outer Billiards on Kites. R. Schwartz.
• Robust Optimization. A. Ben-Tal, L. El Ghaoui, et al.

Music

• Hearing and Knowing Music: The Unpublished Essays of Edward T. Cone. E.T. Cone; R.P. Morgan, ed.

Philosophy

• Hobbes and the Law of Nature. P. Zagorin.
• Philosophical Logic. J. Burgess.
• Philosophy after Darwin: Classic and Contemporary Readings. M. Ruse, ed.
• Politics and the Imagination. R. Geuss.
• Taking Wittgenstein at His Word: A Textual Study. R.J. Fogelin.

Political Science

• Capital Ideas: The IMF and the Rise of Financial Liberalization. J.M. Chwieroth.
• Fighting for Democracy: Black Veterans and the Struggle Against White Supremacy in the Postwar South. C.S. Parker.
• How Wars End. D. Reiter.
• Our Army: Soldiers, Politics, and American Civil-Military Relations. J.K. Dempsey.
• Presidential Party Building: Dwight D. Eisenhower to George W. Bush. D.J. Galvin.
• Princeton Readings in American Politics. R.M. Valelly, ed.
• Securing the Peace: The Durable Settlement of Civil Wars. M.D. Toft.
• War Stories: The Causes and Consequences of Public Views of War. M.A. Baum and T.J. Groeling.

Political Theory

• A Cosmopolitanism of Nations: Giuseppe Mazzini's Writings on Democracy, Nation Building, and International Relations. G. Mazzini; S. Recchia and N. Urbinati, eds.
• Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy. B. Honig.
• Health, Luck, and Justice. S. Segall.
• Machiavelli's Ethics. E. Benner.

Reference

• The Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History. R. Edwards, R. Edwards, et al., eds.

Religion

• Early Christian Books in Egypt. R.S. Bagnall.
• Islam in South Asia in Practice. B.D. Metcalf, ed.
• Medieval Christianity in Practice. M. Rubin, ed.
• Princeton Readings in Islamist Thought: Texts and Contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden. R.L. Euben and M.Q. Zaman, eds.
• Religious Experience Reconsidered: A Building-Block Approach to the Study of Religion and Other Special Things. A. Taves.

Sociology

• From the Ground Up: Translating Geography into Community through Neighbor Networks. R. Grannis.
• The Sense of Dissonance: Accounts of Worth in Economic Life. D. Stark.
• Usable Theory: Analytic Tools for Social and Political Research. D. Rueschemeyer.

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