Focus on Climate September 16, 2019 These books will deepen your understanding about the science, economics, politics, and history of climate change. Read More
Radcliffe Edmonds on Drawing Down the Moon September 12, 2019 What did magic mean to the people of ancient Greece and Rome? How did Greeks and Romans not only imagine what magic could do, but also use it to try to influence the world around them? Read More
Eric D. Weitz on A World Divided September 03, 2019 From Greek rebels, American settlers, and Brazilian abolitionists in the nineteenth century to anticolonial Africans and Zionists in the twentieth, nationalists have confronted a crucial question: Who has the “right to have rights?” Read More
Peter Martin on The Dictionary Wars August 26, 2019 Peter Martin recounts the patriotic fervor in the early American republic to produce a definitive national dictionary that would rival Samuel Johnson’s 1755 Dictionary of the English Language. Read More
In Dialogue with Sara Lewis and Jeffrey Skevington: Reframing how we think about bugs August 26, 2019 We live in a world dominated by insects. Sometimes it may seem to us that all of them are pests, but in reality, pest species are an infinitesimally small component of our biodiversity. Read More
Announcing a new partnership with the Center for Humans and Nature August 23, 2019 Princeton University Press is thrilled to announce a new partnership with the Center for Humans and Nature, a nonprofit organization based in Chicago that explores, promotes, and publishes big ideas around environmental ethics, ecological responsibility and stewardship, and the relationship between humans and nature. Read More
Sharon Marcus on The Drama of Celebrity August 19, 2019 Why do so many people care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star? What are the privileges and pleasures of fandom? Do celebrities ever deserve the outsized attention they receive? Read More
Back to School Reading August 12, 2019 Whether you’re an educator looking for inspiration, a student wondering just how to get through calculus this year, or anyone struggling to balance the ever mounting costs of education, these books offer something for everyone returning to academic life. Read More
Celebrating Eid al-Adha August 11, 2019 The Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, or Feast of Sacrifice, commemorates the willingness of Ibrahim (Abraham) to sacrifice his son in obedience to God’s wishes—and God’s mercy in providing a lamb to sacrifice instead after Ibrahim’s faith had been tested—and also marks the end of the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. Read More
Artemis Leontis on Eva Palmer Sikelianos: A Life in Ruins August 05, 2019 This is the first biography to tell the fascinating story of Eva Palmer Sikelianos (1874–1952), an American actor, director, composer, and weaver best known for reviving the Delphic Festivals. Read More
Hanna Gray on An Academic Life June 19, 2019 Hanna Holborn Gray has lived her entire life in the world of higher education. The daughter of academics, she fled Hitler’s Germany with her parents in the 1930s, emigrating to New Haven, where her father was a professor at Yale University. Read More
Sketches from Red Meat Republic June 15, 2019 Joshua Specht puts people at the heart of Red Meat Republic—the big cattle ranchers who helped to drive the nation’s westward expansion, the meatpackers who created a radically new kind of industrialized slaughterhouse, and the stockyard workers who were subjected to the shocking and unsanitary conditions described by Upton Sinclair in his novel The Jungle. Read More
Producing Nonfiction Audiobooks June 11, 2019 Once upon a time, an audiobook was something your grandmother borrowed from the library. The shoebox-sized case contained hundreds of cassettes, and the cover generally featured a woman in a shawl looking tragic as she gazed wistfully out to sea… Read More
Princeton University Press acquires rights to The Obama Portraits May 29, 2019 Princeton University Press is thrilled to announce plans to publish The Obama Portraits, in association with the National Portrait Gallery, Washington. Read More
In Dialogue with Eelco Rohling and Sean Fleming: Earth’s changing bodies of water April 20, 2019 Earth’s bodies of water have gone through considerable changes over time. We asked Eelco J. Rohling and Sean W. Fleming if these changes can tell us anything about climate change—and the future? Read More
