Spring 2009 FEATURED ACADEMIC BOOKS

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American History

• From Scottsboro to Munich: Race and Political Culture in 1930s Britain. S.D. Pennybacker.
• Remembering Scottsboro: The Legacy of an Infamous Trial. J.A. Miller.
• The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America. M. Canaday.

Anthropology

• The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood. D. Fassin and R. Rechtman.
• The Politics of Women's Rights in Iran. A. Osanloo.
• When Experiments Travel: Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects. A. Petryna.

Art History

• Objects of Translation: Material Culture and Medieval "Hindu-Muslim" Encounter. F.B. Flood.
• Pontius Pilate, Anti-Semitism, and the Passion in Medieval Art. C. Hourihane.

Biology

• Critical Transitions in Nature and Society. M. Scheffer.
• Resource Strategies of Wild Plants. J. Craine.
• The Social Amoebae: The Biology of Cellular Slime Molds. J.T. Bonner.

Economics

• The Bounds of Reason: Game Theory and the Unification of the Behavioral Sciences. H. Gintis.
• Economic Modeling and Inference. B.J. Christensen & N.M. Kiefer
• Game Theory Evolving: A Problem-Centered Introduction to Modeling Strategic Interaction (Second Edition). H. Gintis.
• The Hesitant Hand: Taming Self-Interest in the History of Economic Ideas. S.G. Medema.
• An Introduction to Mathematical Analysis for Economic Theory and Econometrics. D. Corbae, M. Stinchcombe, et al.
• Making Cities Work: Prospects and Policies for Urban America. R.P. Inman, ed.
• Rational Decisions. K. Binmore.
• Secular Cycles. P. Turchin and S.A. Nefedov.

Finance

• Asset Pricing Theory. C. Skiadas.
• Indifference Pricing: Theory and Applications. R. Carmona, ed.
• International Finance: Theory into Practice. P. Sercu.

History

• Remembering Scottsboro: The Legacy of an Infamous Trial. J.A. Miller.
• From Scottsboro to Munich: Race and Political Culture in 1930s Britain. S.D. Pennybacker.
• The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America. M. Canaday.
• A Tale of Two Monasteries: Westminster and Saint-Denis in the Thirteenth Century. W.C. Jordan.

History of Science

• The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 11: Cumulative Index, Bibliography, List of Correspondence, Chronology, and Errata to Volumes 1-10. A. Einstein; A.J. Kox, T. Sauer, et al., eds.
• The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 12: Correspondence, January-December 1921. A. Einstein; D. Buchwald, Z. Rosenkranz, et al., eds.
• The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 12: Correspondence, January-December 1921 (English translation supplement). A. Einstein; A. Hentschel, trans; K. Hentschel, consultant.

Law

• Prison Religion: Faith-Based Reform and the Constitution. W. Sullivan.

Literature / Literary Studies

• Becoming a Woman of Letters: Myths of Authorship and Facts of the Victorian Market. L.H. Peterson.
• The Ramayana of Valmiki: An Epic of Ancient India, Volume VI: Yuddhakanda. R.P. Goldman, S.S. Goldman, et al., eds. and trans.
• Shakespeare and Elizabeth: The Meeting of Two Myths. H. Hackett.

Mathematics

• Elliptic Partial Differential Equations and Quasiconformal Mappings in the Plane (PMS-47). K. Astala, T. Iwaniec, et al.
• Higher Topos Theory (AM-170). J. Lurie
• Mathematicians Fleeing from Nazi Germany: Individual Fates and Global Impact. R. Siegmund-Schultze
• The Mathematics of the Heavens and the Earth: The Early History of Trigonometry. G. Van Brummelen.
• Matrix Mathematics: Second Edition. D.S. Bernstein.
• Mind and Nature: Selected Writings on Philosophy, Mathematics, and Physics. H. Weyl; P. Pesic, ed.
• Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science. H. Weyl.
• Probability, Markov Chains, Queues, and Simulation: The Mathematical Basis of Performance Modeling. W.J. Stewart.
• Stability and Stabilization: An Introduction. W.J. Terrell.

Natural History

• Birds of East Asia: China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and Russia. M. Brazil.
• Birds of Eastern Africa: Updated Edition. B. van Perlo.
• Birds of Europe, Russia, China, and Japan: Non-Passerines: Loons to Woodpeckers. N. Arlott.
• Birds of Southern Africa. B. van Perlo.
• Dragonflies and Damselflies of the West. D. Paulson.
• Lars Jonsson's Birds: Paintings from a Near Horizon. L. Jonsson.
• Mammals of India. V. Menon.
• Palms of Southern Asia. A. Henderson.
• The Princeton Encyclopedia of Birds. C. Perrins, ed.
• The Princeton Encyclopedia of Mammals. D.W. Macdonald, ed.

Philosophy

• The Apologetics of Evil: The Case of Iago. R. Raatzsch.
• Between Two Worlds: A Reading of Descartes's Meditations. J. Carriero.
• Descartes's Changing Mind. P. Machamer and J.E. McGuire.
• History Man: The Life of R. G. Collingwood. F. Inglis.
• An Intellectual History of Cannibalism. C. Avramescu; A.I Blyth, trans.
• On Myself and Other, Less Important Subjects. C. Hare.
• Philosophical Essays, Volume 2: The Philosophical Significance of Language. S. Soames.
• Reason and Rationality. J. Elster; S. Rendall, trans.
• Social Conventions: From Language to Law. A. Marmor.

Physics and Astrophysics

• High-Energy Astrophysics. F. Melia.
• Quantum Mechanics in a Nutshell. G.D. Mahan.
• Stellar Spectral Classification. R. Gray and C.J. Corbally.

Political Science and International Relations

• Boundaries of Contagion: How Ethnic Politics Have Shaped Government Responses to AIDS. E.S. Lieberman.
• Citizens, Courts, and Confirmations: Positivity Theory and the Judgments of the American People. J.L. Gibson and G. Caldeira.
• Contracting States: Sovereign Transfers in International Relations. A. Cooley & H. Spruyt
• The Democratic Virtues of the Christian Right. J.A. Shields.
• The Fifth Freedom: Jobs, Politics, and Civil Rights in the United States, 1941-1972. A.S. Chen.
• The Message Matters: An Economic Theory of Campaigns. L. Vavreck.
• Paying the Human Costs of War: American Public Opinion and Casualties in Military Conflicts. C. Gelpi, P.D. Feaver, et al.
• The Politics of Global Regulation. W. Mattli and N. Woods, eds.
• Power, Interdependence, and Nonstate Actors in World Politics. H.V. Milner and A. Moravcsik, eds.
• The Rights of Spring: A Memoir of Innocence Abroad. D. Kennedy.
• The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe: Religious Conflict, Dynastic Empires, and International Change. D.H. Nexon.

Political Theory

• How Do You Know? The Economics of Ordinary Knowledge. R. Hardin.
• Liberal Loyalty: Freedom, Obligation, and the State. A. Stilz.

Reference

• The Princeton Guide to Ecology. S.A. Levin, ed.

Religion

• The Religious Enlightenment: Protestants, Jews, and Catholics from London to Vienna. D. Sorkin.
• Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent: Faith and Power in the New Russia. J. Garrard and C. Garrard.

Sociology

• Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain, and France, 1890s to 1990s. M. Fourcade.
• Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi. C. Mukerji.
• Inventing Equal Opportunity. F. Dobbin.
• Legal Accents, Legal Borrowing: The International Problem-Solving Court Movement. J.L. Nolan.
• Social Conventions: From Language to Law. A. Marmor.
• Social Structures. J.L. Martin.
• Tocqueville's Political Economy. R. Swedberg.

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