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Shows how to use the basic tools of applied econometrics to allow data to speak.

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, gamblers and mathematicians transformed the idea of chance from a mystery into the discipline...

In this unflinchingly candid manifesto, Chris Chambers draws on his own experiences as a working scientist to reveal a dark side to psychology...

This unique textbook provides an accessible introduction to Einstein's general theory of relativity, a subject of breathtaking beauty and...

This richly detailed narrative history of the Tibetan Empire in Central Asia from about A.D. 600 to 866 depicts the struggles of the great...

C. G. Jung and Erich Neumann first met in 1933, at a seminar Jung was conducting in Berlin. Jung was fifty-seven years old and internationally...

Biogeography was stuck in a 'natural history phase' dominated aby the collection of data, the young Princeton biologists Robert H. MacArthur...

Offers a short, accessible and entertaining introduction to this area of physics.

Why doesn't your home page appear on the first page of search results, even when you query your own name? How do other web pages always...

Fungi of Temperate Europe is one of the most comprehensive mycological guides ever published. Featuring more than 7,000 photographs, this...

How socialist architects, planners, and contractors worked collectively to urbanize and develop the Global South during the Soviet eraIn...

Neither art nor philosophy was kind to beauty during the twentieth century. Much modern art disdains beauty, and many philosophers deeply...

"Discoverers of the Universe" tells the gripping story of William Herschel, the brilliant, fiercely ambitious, emotionally complex musician...

Black holes, predicted żeby Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity more than a century ago, have long intrigued scientists and the...

All the creative art psychotherapies (art, dance, music, drama, poetry) can trace their roots to C G Jung's early work on active imagination....

Why the number of young Americans with ethno-racially mixed backgrounds is surging and what this means for the country's future Americans...

A powerful new understanding of global currency trends, including the rise of the Chinese yuan At first glance, the history of the modern...

A sophisticated, original introduction to the philosophy of mathematics from one of its leading thinkersMathematics is a model of precision...

Why psychology is in peril as a scientific discipline--and how to save it Psychological science has made extraordinary discoveries about...

One of the most important and controversial books in modern American politics, The Emerging Republican Majority (1969) explained how Richard...

The Description for this book, Alice's Adverntures in Wonderland: 150th Anniversary Edition Illustrated by Salvador Dali, will be forthcoming.

The essential resource on military and political strategy and the making of the modern worldThe New Makers of Modern Strategy is the next...

Biological evolution is a fact--but the many conflicting theories of evolution remain controversial even today. When Adaptation and Natural...

The definitive reference guide to all of Africa's venomous and dangerous snakesAfrica is home to several hundred snake species, including...

Teh book is the first extensive look at the ways governments have supported entrepreneurs and venture capitalists across decades and continents....

J. E. Gordon's classic introduction to the properties of materials used in engineering answers some fascinating and fundamental questions...

In this highly original and much-anticipated ethnography, Anna Tsing challenges not only anthropologists and feminists but all those who...

An anthology of nearly two hundred "hieroglyphics," or allegorical emblems, said to have been used by the Pharaonic scribes in describing...

Birds of Prey of the East and its companion volume, Birds of Prey of the West, are the most comprehensive and authoritative field guides...

Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953), arguably the most popular composer of the twentieth century, led a life of triumph and tragedy. The story...

The most comprehensive and user-friendly photographic field guide to the world’s wildcats and hyenas From the Leopard Cat of Asia, the Black-footed...

'This brief, readable, and important book is richly informed in folklore and modern scholarship, much of both unfamiliar to classicists....

For a century and a half, women have been proving their passion and talent for building and, in recent decades, their enrollment in architecture...

The field of international political economy gained prominence in the early 1970s--when the Arab oil embargo and other crises ended the...

A short, provocative book about why "useless" science often leads to humanity's greatest technological breakthroughs A forty-year tightening...

The Coming of the French Revolution remains essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of this great turning point in the formation...

Greek film director Theo Angelopoulos is one of the most influential and widely respected filmmakers in the world today, yet his films are...

What a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planet Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world―and a weed...

How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids An international and historical look at how parenting choices change in the face of economic...

Identifies bronze-age riders from the Eurasian steppe grasslands as the original speakers of Proto-Indo-European, from which many modern...

This is the first comprehensive illustrated guide to the natural world of the Caribbean islands. It contains 600 vivid color images featuring...

"Aion," originally published in German in 1951, is one of the major works of Jung's later years. The central theme of the volume is the...

tienne Balibar has been one of Europe's most important philosophical and political thinkers since the 1960s. His work has been vastly influential...

For over half a century, financial experts have regarded the movements of markets as a random walk - unpredictable meanderings akin to a...

This masterwork of interpretative history begins with a bold declaration: "The Modern Age is the Jewish Age, and the twentieth century,...

Covering 630 species, more than any comparable field guide, Trees of Western North America is the most comprehensive, best illustrated,...

Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet aby...

The changing face of the liberal creed from the ancient world to today The Lost History of Liberalism challenges our most basic assumptions...

Early in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in...

The Princeton Guide to Ecology is a concise, authoritative one-volume reference to the field's major subjects and key concepts. Edited aby...

A rare look at the life and music of renowned Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-KorsakovDuring his lifetime, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)...

In the words of B. B. Mandelbrot's contribution to this important collection of original papers, fractal geometry is a "new geometric language,...

Early in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in...

Features CG Jung's views on death and immortality, and his writings. This book shows many of the major themes running throughout the writings,...

A state-of-the-art photographic field guide to the world's oceanic birds Oceanic birds are among the most remarkable but least known of...

From the Nobel Prize "winning economist, a bold new agenda for the role of economics in society" When Jean Tirole won the Nobel Prize in...

The gods of Olympus died with the advent of Christianity - or so we have been taught to believe. But how are we to account for their tremendous...

This is an encyclopedic dictionary of close to 400 important philosophical, literary, and political terms and concepts that defy easy -...

Edward Elgar (1857-1934) is undoubtedly one of the most fascinating, important, and influential figures in the history of British music....

An entertaining mathematical exploration of the heat equation and its role in the triumphant development of the trans-Atlantic telegraph...

Drawing in Silver and Gold examines the history of this evocative medium, in which a metal stylus is used on a specially prepared surface...

The Sherpas were dead, two more victims of an attempt to scale Mt. Everest. Members of a French climbing expedition, sensitive perhaps about...

Animals of the Masai Mara is a lavish photographic guide that explores the charismatic wildlife most likely to be encountered aby a safari...

Beetles of Eastern North America is a landmark book--the most comprehensive full-color guide to the remarkably diverse and beautiful beetles...

Fascism has traditionally been characterized as irrational and anti-intellectual, finding expression exclusively as a cluster of myths,...

In 1903, despite the vehement objections of his parents, Albert Einstein married Mileva Maric, the companion, colleague, and confidante...

Birds of Prey of the West and its companion volume, Birds of Prey of the East, are the most comprehensive and authoritative field guides...

From Nobel Prize-winning economist Jean Tirole, a bold new agenda for the role of economics in society When Jean Tirole won the 2014 Nobel...

Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the...

South Africa's Kruger National Park is one of the largest and most iconic conservation areas in Africa. Habitats range from wide-open savannah...

In The Globalization of Inequality, distinguished economist and policymaker François Bourguignon examines the complex and paradoxical links...

In The Private Science of Louis Pasteur, Gerald Geison has written a controversial biography that finally penetrates the secrecy that has...

In The Globalization of Inequality, distinguished economist and policymaker François Bourguignon examines the complex and paradoxical links...

Einstein's general theory of relativity requires a curved space for the description of the physical world. If one wishes to go beyond superficial...

Politics in America are polarized and trivialized, perhaps as never before. In Congress, the media, and academic debate, opponents from...

A landmark defense of democracy that has been hailed as one of the most important books of the twentieth centuryOne of the most important...

Calls into question some of the most basic assumptions about American politics.

Why is Europe's great monetary endeavor, the Euro, in trouble$2056 A string of economic difficulties in Greece, Ireland, Spain, Italy, and...

Architecture is distinguished from other art forms żeby its sense of function, its localized quality, its technique, its public and nonpersonal...

In the mid-eighteenth century, Swiss-born mathematician Leonhard Euler developed a formula so innovative and complex that it continues to...

Camille Saint-Sans - perhaps the foremost French musical figure of the late nineteenth century and a composer who wrote in nearly every...

This is the first paperback version of the second edition of the popular "A Guide to the Birds of Panama". In the second edition, published...

In this classic study, surveying the city's life from Christian Antiquity through the Middle Ages, Richard Krautheimer focuses on monuments...

One of the most important books of the twentieth century, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of...

Adair Turner became chairman of Britain's Financial Services Authority just as the global financial crisis struck in 2008, and he played...

The reputation of the financial industry could hardly be worse than it is today in the painful aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. "New...

Quantum physicist, New York Times bestselling author, and BBC host Jim Al-Khalili offers a fascinating and illuminating look at what physics...

How should firms decide whether and when to invest in new capital equipment, additions to their workforce, or the development of new products?...

An illustrated record book of theropod facts and figures--from the biggest to the fastest to the smartestThe theropod dinosaurs ruled the...

In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American kanon of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric...

This is the definitive edition of the hugely popular collection of Einstein quotations that has sold tens of thousands of copies worldwide...

The reputation of the financial industry could hardly be worse than it is today in the painful aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. New...

Leviathan and the Air-Pump examines the conflicts over the value and propriety of experimental methods between two major seventeenth-century...

"The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking" presents practical, lively, and inspiring ways for you to become more successful through better thinking....

Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe establish global dominance, when for centuries the...

Pierre Rosenberg, the distinguished art historian and director of the Muse du Louvre, has long admired and studied both paintings and drawings....

This handy photographic guide offers a stunning look at the wildlife of Southeast Asia, which includes Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia,...

We're all hypocrites. Why? Hypocrisy is the natural state of the human mind. Robert Kurzban shows us that the key to understanding our behavioral...

From the famous siege of Constantinople in 1453 through the numerous other campaigns that securely established the Ottoman Empire, the events...

For decades the European Union tried changing its institutions, but achieved only unsatisfying political compromises and modest, incremental...

Now fully revised and updated--a carefully designed and beautifully illustrated photographic field guide helps readers to identify the day-flying...

Rare Birds of North America is the first comprehensive illustrated guide to the vagrant birds that occur throughout the United States and...

An exploration of how the Greeks reacted to and interacted with India from the third to first centuries BCEWhen the Greeks and Macedonians...

A vivid, in-depth look at why birds behave as they doBirds are intelligent, sociable creatures that exhibit a wide array of behaviors--from...

A sweeping narrative history of Eastern Europe from the late eighteenth century to today In the 1780s, the Habsburg monarch Joseph II decreed...

Graph theory goes back several centuries and revolves around the study of graphs--mathematical structures showing relations between objects....

The telegraphic-style diary entries--quirky, succinct, and at times irreverent- record Einstein's musings on science, philosophy, art, and...

"With humor and humanity, Oxygen captures the excitement of scientific discovery and describes the amazing natural history of how Earth's...

No nineteenth-century composer had more diverse ties to his contemporary world than Franz Liszt (1811-1886). At various points in his life...

The story of an extraordinary group of philosophers during a dark chapter in Europe's historyOn June 22, 1936, the philosopher Moritz Schlick...

Can virtuous behavior be explained żeby nature, and not żeby human rational choice$1080 "It's the animal in us," we often hear when we've...

A fully revised and updated new edition of the acclaimed field guide to the birds of northeast AfricaBirds of the Horn of Africa is widely...

World literature was long defined in North America as an established canon of European masterpieces, but an emerging global perspective...

In this book, David Edmonds, coauthor of the best-selling Wittgenstein's Poker, tells the riveting story of why and how philosophers have...

The ideal text for a one-semester course in radio astronomyEssential Radio Astronomy is the only textbook on the subject specifically designed...

A groundbreaking book żeby one of the world's leading historians of Chinese architectureTranslated by Alexandra Harrer.Fu Xinian is considered...

The first comprehensive field guide to the birds of Central AmericaBirds of Central America is the first comprehensive field guide to the...

During his short lifetime, Franz Schubert (1797-1828) contributed to a wide variety of musical genres, from intimate songs and dances to...

Einstein said that the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. But was he right$892 Can the quantum...

The Description for this book, On Psychological and Visionary Art: Notes from C. G. Jung's Lecture on Gerard de Nerval's Aurelia, will be...