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2001
- America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe. Volker R. Berghahn
- American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century. Gary Gerstle
- An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking. Hamid Naficy
- Asset Pricing. John H. Cochrane
Preface [PDF only]
Chapter 1: Consumption-Based Model and Overview [PDF only]
- Atom and Archetype: The Pauli/Jung Letters, 1932-1958. Edited by C. A. Meier; Translated by David Roscoe
- Authority and Estrangement: An Essay on Self-Knowledge. Richard Moran
- Autobiography of Ozaki Yukio: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in Japan. Translated by Fujiko Hara; With a foreword by Marius B. Jansen
- Betrayal and Other Acts of Subversion. Leslie Bow
- Breaking the Deadlock: The 2000 Election, the Constitution, and the Courts. Richard Posner
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Road to Florida
- Blessed Events: Religion and Home Birth in America. Pamela E. Klassen.
- Buddhist Learning and Textual Practice in Eighteenth-Century Lankan Monastic Culture. Anne M. Blackburn.
- Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India. Nicholas B. Dirks
- Civil Society and Government. Edited by Nancy L. Rosenblum and Robert C. Post
- Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming. David G. Victor
- Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Vol. 16. Poetical Works: Part 3. Plays. Edited by J.C.C. Mays and Joyce Crick
- Common Ground: Reimagining American History. Gary Y. Okihiro
- Composition of Kepler's Astronomia nova. James R. Voelkel
- Constitutional Politics: Essays on Constitution Making, Maintenance, and Change. Edited by Sotirios A. Barber and Robert P. George
- Constructing Autocracy: Aristocrats and Emperors in Julio-Claudian Rome. Matthew B. Roller
- Corruption of Angels: The Great Inquisition of 1245-1246. Mark Gregory Pegg
- Cradle of Life: The Discovery of Earth's Earliest Fossils J. William Schopf
- Dangers of Ritual: Between Early Medieval Texts and Social Scientific Theory. Philippe Buc
- Debt's Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America. David A. Skeel, Jr.
- Democracy and the Foreigner. Bonnie Honig
- Democracy and Vision: Sheldon Wolin and the Vicissitudes of the Political. Edited by Aryeh Botwinick and William E. Connolly
- Democracy in Suburbia. J. Eric Oliver
- Descartes's Method of Doubt. Janet Broughton
- Disjointed Pluralism: Institutional Innovation and the Development of the U.S. Congress. Eric Schickler
- Diplomacy of Conscience: Amnesty International and Changing Human Rights Norms. Ann Marie Clark
- Diplomatarium of the Crusader Kingdom of Valencia The Registered Charters of Its Conqueror Jaume 1, 1257-1276: The Registered Charters of Its Conqueror, Jaume I, 1257-1276. III: Transition in Crusader Valencia Years of Triumph, Years of War, 1264-1270. Robert I. Burns, S. J.
- Einstein's German World. Fritz Stern
- Enchantment of Modern Life. Jane Bennett
- Fate of Knowledge. Helen E. Longino
- Female Acts in Greek Tragedy. Helene P. Foley
- Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit. Lendol Calder
- First Signals: The Evolution of Multicellular Development. John Tyler Bonner
- Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy: Reputations, Networks, and Policy Innovation in Executive Agencies, 1862-1928. Daniel P. Carpenter
- Free Trade Today. Jagdish Bhagwati
- Gifted Tongues: High School Debate and Adolescent Culture. Gary Alan Fine
- Global Political Economy: Understanding the International Economic Order. Robert Gilpin
- Goodness and Advice. Judith Jarvis Thomson; Edited by Amy Gutmann
- Greed and Injustice in Classical Athens. Ryan K. Balot
- Hamlet in His Modern Guises. Alexander Welsh
- Hamlet in Purgatory. Stephen Greenblatt
- Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage. Kenneth S. Deffeyes
- Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought. Deborah Tarn Steiner
Preface[PDF only]
Chapter 1: Replacement and Replication
- Imperfect Sense: The Predicament of Milton's Irony. Victoria Silver
- Imperial Encounters: Religion and Modernity in India and Britain. Peter van der Veer
- Imperialism and Jewish Society: 200 B.C.E. to 640 C.E.. Seth Schwartz
- Irrational Exuberance. Robert J. Shiller
- Jazz Age Jews. Michael Alexander
- Jewish Marriage in Antiquity. Michael L. Satlow
- Kingdom of Children: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement. Mitchell L. Stevens
- Learning and Expectations in Macroeconomics [PDF only]. George W. Evans and Seppo Honkapohja
- Liberalism Beyond Justice: Citizens, Society, and the Boundaries of Political Theory. John Tomasi
- Life and Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering. Sherry B. Ortner
- Limits of Convergence: Globalization and Organizational Change in Argentina, South Korea, and Spain. Mauro F. Guillén
- Lives of Animals.J. M. Coetzee; Edited and with an introduction by Amy Gutmann
- Making of the Cold War Enemy: Culture and Politics in the Military-Intellectual Complex. Ron Robin
- Making Silence Speak: Women's Voices in Greek Literature and Society. Edited by André Lardinois and Laura McClure
- Men in Wonderland: The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman. Catherine Robson
- Necessary Nation. Gregory Jusdanis
- Neighbors. Jan T. Gross
Introduction
Chapter 1: Outline of the Story
- Nine Crazy Ideas in Science: A Few Might Even Be True. Robert Ehrlich
- Offside: Soccer and American Exceptionalism. Andrei S. Markovits and Steven L. Hellerman
- On Equal Terms: The Constitutional Politics of Educational Opportunity. Douglas S. Reed
- One True God: Historical Consequences of Monotheism. Rodney Stark
- Other Enlightenment: How French Women Became Modern. Carla Hesse
- Others. J. Hillis Miller
- Our Cosmic Habitat. Martin Rees
- People with No Name: Ireland's Ulster Scots, America's Scots Irish, and the Creation of a British Atlantic World, 1689-1764. Patrick Griffin
- Perilous Progress: Economists and Public Purpose in Twentieth-Century America. Michael A. Bernstein
- Plum in the Golden Vase, or Chin P'ing Mei: Volume Two: The Rivals. Translated by David Tod Roy
- Politics of Whiteness: Race, Workers, and Culture in the Modern South. Michelle Brattain
- Politics Out of History. Wendy Brown
- Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy. Richard D. Anderson, Jr., M. Steven Fish, Stephen E. Hanson, and Philip G. Roeder
- Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History. Alice O'Connor
- Princeton Anthology of Writing: Favorite Pieces by the Ferris/McGraw Writers at Princeton University. Edited by John McPhee and Carol Rigolot
- Public Goods, Private Goods. Raymond Geuss
- Puerilities: Erotic Epigrams of The Greek Anthology. Translated by Daryl Hine
- Race Card: Campaign Strategy, Implicit Messages, and the Norm of Equality. Tali Mendelberg
- Rational Ritual:Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge Michael Suk-Young Chwe
- Reinventing Justice: The American Drug Court Movement. James L. Nolan, Jr.
- Religion and Cultural Studies. Edited by Susan L. Mizruchi
- Republic.com. Cass Sunstein
- Rethinking Europe's Future. David P. Calleo
- Revolutions in Sovereignty: How Ideas Shaped Modern International Relations. Daniel Philpott
- Rise of Neoliberalism and Institutional Analysis. Edited by John L. Campbell and Ove K. Pedersen
- Roots of Romanticism. Isaiah Berlin; Edited by Henry Hardy
- Secular Mind. Robert Coles
- Selected Poems of Solomon Ibn Gabirol. Solomon Ibn Gabirol; Translated by Peter Cole
- Self-Organization in Biological Systems. Scott Camazine, Jean-Louis Deneubourg, Nigel R. Franks, James Sneyd, Guy Theraulaz, and Eric Bonabeau
Prologue
Chapter 1: What Is Self-Organization?
- Social Outsiders in Nazi Germany. Edited by Robert Gellately and Nathan Stoltzfus
- Stand and Prosper: Private Black Colleges and Their Students
. Henry N. Drewry and Humphrey Doermann
- Strength in Numbers? Jan E. Leighley
- Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right. Lisa McGirr
- Technological Innovation and Economic Performance. Edited by Benn Steil, David G. Victor, and Richard R. Nelson
Chapter 4: Japan [PDF only]
- Tocqueville between Two Worlds: The Making of a Political and Theoretical Life. Sheldon S. Wolin
- Twenty-First-Century Firm: Changing Economic Organization in International Perspective. Edited by Paul DiMaggio
- Twice upon a Time: Women Writers and the History of the Fairy Tale. Elizabeth Wanning Harries
- Unfree Speech: The Folly of Campaign Finance Reform. Bradley A. Smith
- Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography. Stephen P. Hubbell
- Unpaid Professionals: Commercialism and Conflict in Big-Time College Sports. Andrew Zimbalist
- Wages of Violence: Naming and Identity in Postcolonial Bombay. Thomas Blom Hansen
- Wagners: The Dramas of a Musical Dynasty. Nike Wagner; Translated by Ewald Osers and Michael Downes
- When the State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Condition. Austin Sarat
- When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda. Mahmood Mamdani
- White Diaspora: The Suburb and the Twentieth-Century American Novel. Catherine Jurca
- Who We Are: A History of Popular Nationalism. Robert H. Wiebe
With forewords by Sam Bass Warner, Jr., and James Sheehan
- With the Stroke of a Pen: Executive Orders and Presidential Power. Kenneth R. Mayer
2000
- Academic Instincts. Marjorie Garber
- After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars. G. John Ikenberry
- Allen Tate: Orphan of the South. Thomas A. Underwood
- Almost Home: America's Love-Hate Relationship with Community. David L. Kirp
- Artless Jew: Medieval and Modern Affirmations and Denials of the Visual. Kalman P. Bland
- Available Light:Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics. Clifford Geertz
- Becoming Modern: Young Women and the Reconstruction of Womanhood in the 1920s. Birgitte Sřland
- Beethoven and His World. Edited by Scott Burnham and Michael P. Steinberg
- Biologists and the Promise of American Life: From Meriwether Lewis to Alfred Kinsey. Philip J. Pauly
- Campaign Talk:
Why Elections Are Good for Us. Roderick P. Hart
- Challenge of Global Capitalism: The World Economy in the 21st Century. Robert Gilpin
- Choosing Schools: Consumer Choice and the Quality of American Schools. Mark Schneider, Paul Teske, and Melissa Marschall
- Civil Islam: Muslims and Democratization in Indonesia. Robert W. Hefner
- Darwin's Spectre: Evolutionary Biology in the Modern World. Michael R. Rose
- Democracy and Association. Mark E. Warren
- Divided We Stand: American Workers and the Struggle for Black Equality. Bruce Nelson
Introduction: "Something in the 'Atmosphere' of America"
Chapter 1: The Logic and Limits of Solidarity, 1850s-1920s
- East Meets West: Human Rights and Democracy in East Asia. Daniel A. Bell
- Econometrics. Fumio Hayashi
Preface [PDF only]
Chapter 1: Finite-Sample Properties of OLS [PDF only]
- Economic Evolution of American Health Care: From Marcus Welby to Managed Care. David Dranove
Introduction
Chapter 1: Marcus Welby Medicine
- Essays on the Great Depression. Ben S. Bernanke
- Eternal Darkness: A Personal History of Deep-Sea Exploration. Robert D. Ballard with Will Hively
Introduction
Chapter 1: A Simple Tethered Sphere
- Ethics for Adversaries: The Morality of Roles in Public and Professional Life. Arthur Isak Applbaum
- Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Letters, Reception Materials. Edited by Susan J. Wolfson
- From Subsistence to Exchange and Other Essays. Peter Bauer
- Furies: Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolutions. Arno J. Mayer
- Game of Life: College Sports and Educational Values. James L. Shulman and William G. Bowen
Prelude: Four Snapshots
Preface
- Great Cases in Constitutional Law. Edited by Robert P. George
- Hadrian and the Cities of the Roman Empire. Mary T. Boatwright
- Henry Norris Russell: Dean of American Astronomers. David H. DeVorkin
- Hunting Apes: Meat Eating and the Origins of Human Behavior. Craig B. Stanford
- Idolatry and Representation: The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig Reconsidered. Leora Batnitzky
- In the Shadow of Revolution: Life Stories of Russian Women from 1917 to the Second World War. Edited by Sheila Fitzpatrick and Yuri Slezkine
- In the Shadow of the Bomb: Bethe, Oppenheimer, and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist. S. S. Schweber
- In the Shadow of the Garrison State: America's Anti-Statism and Its Cold War Grand Strategy. Aaron L. Friedberg
- Integral Europe: Fast-Capitalism, Multiculturalism, Neofascism. Douglas R. Holmes
- Is the Temperature Rising? The Uncertain Science of Global Warming. S. George Philander
- Janeites: Austen's Disciples and Devotees. Edited by Deidre Lynch
- Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key: Anglo-Jewry's Construction of Modern Jewish Thought. David B. Ruderman
- Jumpin' Jim Crow: Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights. Edited by Jane Dailey, Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, and Bryant Simon
- Kepler's Philosophy and the New Astronomy. Rhonda Martens
- Lectures on Shakespeare. W. H. Auden Edited by Arthur Kirsch
Henry VI, Parts One, Two, and Three
Sonnets
- Life in the Balance: Humanity and the Biodiversity Crisis. Niles Eldredge
- Lost Words: Narratives of Language and the Brain, 1825-1926. L. S. Jacyna
- Lower East Side Memories: A Jewish Place in America. Hasia R. Diner
- Magical Mushrooms, Mischievous Molds. George W. Hudler
- Making Sense of War: The Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution. Amir Weiner
- Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery. Sander L. Gilman
- Mechanization of the Mind: On the Origins of Cognitive Science. Jean-Pierre Dupuy; Translated by M. B. DeBevoise
- Meetings of the Mind. David Damrosch
- Meritocracy and Economic Inequality. Edited by Kenneth Arrow, Samuel Bowles, and Steven Durlauf
- Methodists and Revolutionary America, 1760-1800: The Shaping of an Evangelical Culture. Dee E. Andrews
- Miracle Years: A Cultural History of West Germany, 1949-1968. Edited by Hanna Schissler
- Modernity's Wager: Authority, the Self, and Transcendence. Adam B. Seligman
- Moral Purity and Persecution in History. Barrington Moore, Jr.
- Nazi War on Cancer. Robert N. Proctor
- Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures:
Orientalism in America, 1870-1930. Edited by Holly Edwards
- Only Yesterday. S. Y. Agnon; Translated by Barbara Harshav
- Other Mirror: Grand Theory through the Lens of Latin America. Edited by Miguel Angel Centeno and Fernando López-Alves
- Out of the Crater: Chronicles of a Volcanologist. Richard V. Fisher
- Outsider: Prejudice and Politics in Italy. Paul M. Sniderman, Pierangelo Peri, Rui J. P. de Figueiredo, Jr., and Thomas Piazza
- Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture, and Community in Interwar Japan. Harry Harootunian
- Political Economy in Macroeconomics. Allan Drazen
- Politics of Gender after Socialism: A Comparative-Historical Essay. Susan Gal and Gail Kligman
- Politics of Institutional Choice: The Formation of the Russian State Duma. Steven S. Smith and Thomas F. Remington
- Politics of Women's Rights: Parties, Positions, and Change. Christina Wolbrecht
- Practicing Democracy: Elections and Political Culture in Imperial Germany. Margaret Lavinia Anderson
- Ptolemy's Geography: An Annotated Translation of the Theoretical Chapters. J. Lennart Berggren and Alexander Jones
Introduction [PDF only]
- Rise of the Agricultural Welfare State: Institutions and Interest Group Power in the United States, France, and Japan. Adam D. Sheingate
- Rude Republic: Americans and Their Politics in the Nineteenth Century. Glenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin
- Russia and Germany Reborn: Unification, the Soviet Collapse, and the New Europe. Angela E. Stent
- Search for Mathematical Roots, 1870-1940: Logics, Set Theories and the Foundations of Mathematics from Cantor through Russell to Gödel. I. Grattan-Guinness
Chapter 1: Explanations [PDF only]
- Self-Deception Unmasked. Alfred R. Mele
- Shakespeare's Brain: Reading with Cognitive Theory. Mary Thomas Crane
- Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions. William G. Bowen and Derek Bok
- Shattering the Myth: Islam beyond Violence. Bruce B. Lawrence
- Shoemaker by Levy: The Man Who Made an Impact. David H. Levy
- Siegfried Kracauer: An Introduction. Gertrud Koch; Translated by Jeremy Gaines
- Silence of Heaven: Agnon's Fear of God. Amos Oz
- The Sin of Knowledge: Ancient Themes and Modern Variations. Theodore Ziolkowski
Preface [PDF only]
Chapter 1: Adam: The Genesis of Consciousness [PDF only]
- Skeletons in Our Closet: Revealing Our Past through Bioarchaeology. Clark Spencer Larsen
- Slaves, Masters, and the Art of Authority in Plautine Comedy. Kathleen McCarthy
- Society and Sentiment: Genres of Historical Writing in Britain, 1740-1820. Mark Salber Phillips
Introduction
Chapter 1: The English Parnassus
- Stay the Hand of Vengeance: The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals. Gary Jonathan Bass
- Sustaining Affirmation: The Strengths of Weak Ontology in Political Theory. Stephen K. White
- Strategic Constitution. Robert D. Cooter
Chapter 1: Taking Consequences Seriously [PDF only]
- Tantra in Practice. Edited by David Gordon White
Introduction [PDF only]
- Teach Me Dreams: The Search for Self in the Revolutionary Era. Mechal Sobel
- Theory of Linear Poroelasticity with Applications to Geomechanics and Hydrogeology. Herbert F. Wang
Chapter 1: Introduction [PDF only]
- Thieves, Deceivers, and Killers: Tales of Chemistry in Nature. William Agosta
- Tribble's Guide to Space: How to Get to Space and What to Do When You are There. Alan C. Tribble
- Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future. Richard B. Alley
- Truth v. Justice: The Morality of Truth Commissions. Edited by Robert I. Rotberg and Dennis Thompson
- Virtue and the Making of Modern Liberalism. Peter Berkowitz
- Water for Gotham: A History. Gerard T. Koeppel
- What Makes Us Think? A Neuroscientist and a Philosopher Argue about Ethics, Human Nature, and the Brain. Jean-Pierre Changeux and Paul Ricoeur; Translated by M. B. DeBevoise
- Why Ethics? Signs of Responsibilities. Robert Gibbs
- Writing Outside the Nation. Azade Seyhan
1999
- Amber Forest: A Reconstruction of a Vanished World. George Poinar, Jr., and Roberta Poinar
- Brink of Peace: The Israeli-Syrian Negotiations. Itamar Rabinovich
- Development Macroeconomics: Second Edition Pierre-Richard Agénor and Peter J. Montiel
- Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany. Charles S. Maier
- Economy of the Unlost: (Reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan). Anne Carson
- Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology. Max Jammer
- Fearful Symmetry: The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics. A. Zee
- Fire within the Eye: A Historical Essay on the Nature and Meaning of Light David Park
- Fits, Trances, and Visions: Experiencing Religion and Explaining Experience from Wesley to James. Ann Taves
- Founding Myths of Israel: Nationalism, Socialism, and the Making of the Jewish State. Zeev Sternhell
- From Wealth to Power: The Unusual Origins of America's World Role. Fareed Zakaria
- God's Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights. Charles Marsh
- Images of the Illustrious: The Numismatic Presence in the Renaissance. John Cunnally
- Iolíni; or, Tahíti as It Was: A Romance. Wilkie Collins; Edited and introduced by Ira B. Nadel
- Jews of France: A History from Antiquity to the Present. Esther Benbassa
- Justice Is Conflict. Stuart Hampshire
- Levels of Selection in Evolution. Edited by Laurent Keller
- Meritocracy and Economic Inequality. Edited by Kenneth Arrow, Samuel Bowles, and Steven Durlauf
- Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery. Brian Boyd
- Promise and Dilemma: Perspectives on Racial Diversity and Higher Education. Edited by Eugene Y. Lowe, Jr.
- Quantum Generations: A History of Physics in the Twentieth Century. Helge Kragh
- Religions of Japan in Practice. George J. Tanabe, Jr., Editor
- Road to Nowhere: The Genesis of President Clinton's Plan for Health Security. Jacob S. Hacker
- Schoenberg and His World. Edited by Walter Frisch
- Syria's Peasantry, the Descendants of Its Lesser Rural Notables, and Their Politics. Hanna Batatu
- Tenacity of Ethnicity: A Siberian Saga in Global Perspective. Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer
- Theory of the Trial. Robert P. Burns
- Why Sex Matters: A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior. Bobbi S. Low
- World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens. Danielle S. Allen
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