SPRING 2013 FEATURED ACADEMIC BOOKS

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Anthropology

• When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health. J. Biehl and A. Petryna, eds.

Art

• The Family Model in Chinese Art and Culture. J. Silbergeld and D.C.Y. Ching, eds.

Biology & Animal Behavior

• Comparative Biomechanics: Life's Physical World (Second Edition). S. Vogel.
• Social Learning: An Introduction to Mechanisms, Methods, and Models. W. Hoppitt and K. Laland.

Classics

• Status in Classical Athens. D. Kamen.

Economics

• Competition Policy and Price Fixing. L. Kaplow.
• Game Theory: An Introduction. S. Tadelis.
• Rational Expectations and Inflation (Third Edition). T.J. Sargent.
• Remembering Inflation. B. Granville.
• Rethinking Expectations: The Way Forward for Macroeconomics. R. Frydman, E. Phelps, et al., eds. E. Phelps, et al., eds.
• Sovereign Wealth Funds: Legitimacy, Governance, and Global Power. G. Clark, A. Dixon, et al.

Earth Science & Climate Science

• Climate and Ecosystems. D. Schimel.
• Climate Dynamics. K.H. Cook.
• Paleoclimate. M.L. Bender.

Ecology

• Ecology of Climate Change: The Importance of Biotic Interactions. E. Post.
• Handbook of Meta-analysis in Ecology and Evolution. J. Koricheva, J. Gurevitch, et al., eds.

History

• After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Protestant Liberalism in Modern American History. D.A. Hollinger.
• Cultural Exchange: Jews and Christians in the Medieval Marketplace. J. Shatzmiller.
• Men of Bronze: Hoplite Warfare in Ancient Greece. D. Kagan and G. Viggiano, eds.
• Weimar Thought: A Contested Legacy. P. Gordon and J. McCormick, eds.

Intellectual History

• The Devil's Tabernacle: The Pagan Oracles in Early Modern Thought. A. Ossa-Richardson.

Law

• Looking for Rights in All the Wrong Places: Why State Constitutions Contain?America's Positive Rights. E. Zackin.
• Making Human Rights a Reality. E. Hafner-Burton.

Literature

• Mirages and Mad Beliefs: Proust the Skeptic. C. Prendergast.

Mathematics

• Arithmetic Compactifications of PEL-Type Shimura Varieties. K. Lan.
• Degenerate Diffusion Operators Arising in Population Biology. C.L. Epstein and R. Mazzeo.
• Spaces of PL Manifolds and Categories of Simple Maps. F. Waldhausen, B. Jahren, et al.

Medieval & Renaissance Studies

• Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Princeton University Library (Two-Volume Set). D.C. Skemer, ed.

Music

• Reflections on the Musical Mind: An Evolutionary Perspective. J. Schulkin.
• Shaping Jazz: Cities, Labels, and the Global Emergence of an Art Form. D. Phillips.

Philosophy

• Aboutness. S. Yablo.
• Aristotle: His Life and School. C. Natali; D. Hutchinson, ed.
• Moral Perception. R. Audi.
• Partiality. S. Keller.

Physics

• Dynamics and Evolution of Galactic Nuclei. D. Merritt.
• Einstein Gravity in a Nutshell. A. Zee.
• Topological Insulators and Topological Superconductors. B. Bernevig.

Political Science

• He Runs, She Runs: Gender Stereotypes, Double Standards, and Political Campaigns. D. Brooks.
• Jane Austen, Game Theorist. M.S-Y. Chwe.
• Presidents and the Dissolution of the Union: Leadership Style from Polk to Lincoln. F.I. Greenstein.
• Thinking about the Presidency: The Primacy of Power. W.G. Howell.
• War Powers: The Politics of Constitutional Authority. M. Zeisberg.
• What Is Your Race? The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Classify Americans. K. Prewitt.

Political Theory

• Our Bodies, Whose Property? A. Phillips.

Religion

• The Bible in Arabic: The Scriptures of the 'People of the Book' in the Language of Islam. S.H. Griffith.
• Confucianism as a World Religion: Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities. A. Sun.

Sociology

• Climbing Mount Laurel: The Struggle for Affordable Housing and Social Mobility in an American Suburb. D.S. Massey, L. Albright, et al.
• Come Out Swinging: The Changing World of Boxing in Gleason's Gym. L. Trimbur.
• Keys to the City: How Economics, Institutions, Social Interaction, and Politics Shape Development. M. Storper.
• Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind. N. Rose and J. Abi-Rached.
• Security: Politics, Humanity, and the Philology of Care. J. Hamilton.

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