Literatura obcojęzyczna Princeton University Press

Charles Darwin's "Origin of Species" is one of the most widely cited books in modern science. Yet tackling this classic can be daunting...

How America's vulnerable frontier allies--and American power--are being targeted żeby rival nationsFrom the Baltic to the South China Sea,...

Since its first publication in 1990, "Brahms and His World" has become a key text for listeners, performers, and scholars interested in...

The go-to photographic guide to all the damselflies and dragonflies recorded in Europe, including the Macaronesian Islands and western TurkeyEurope's...

This is the acclaimed central volume of the definitive biography of Franz Kafka. Reiner Stach spent more than a decade working with over...

Originally delivered as the prestigious Mellon Lectures on the Fine Arts in 1995, After the End of Art remains a classic of art criticism...

These essays by the famous analytical psychologist and student of creativity, Erich Neumann belong in the context of the depth psychology...

Should laws about sex and pornography be based on social conventions about what is disgusting? Should felons be required to display bumper...

A finely drawn portrait of Einstein's sixteen months in Prague In the spring of 1911, Albert Einstein moved with his wife and two sons to...

When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published - "godless,"...

'Henry Corbin's works are the best guide to the visionary tradition...Corbin, like Scholem and Jonas, is remembered as a scholar of genius....

Australia is home to a spectacular diversity of birdlife, from parrots and penguins to emus and vibrant passerines. Birds of Australia covers...

Why our workplaces are authoritarian private governments$2047and why we can't see it One in four American workers says their workplace is...

Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries Japan was totally isolated from the West żeby imperial decree. During that time, a unique...

Mircea Eliade - one of the most renowned expositors of the psychology of religion, mythology, and magic - shows that myth and symbol constitute...

Our universe seems strangely ''biophilic,'' or hospitable to life. Is this happenstance, providence, or coincidence$580 According to cosmologist...

"Poems Under Saturn" is the first complete English translation of the collection that announced Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) as a poet of promise...

A comprehensively updated edition of an identification guide that was named a Guardian Best Nature Book of the YearNow in a comprehensively...

In this visually stunning and much anticipated book, acclaimed art historian Joseph Koerner casts the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch and...

This illustrated book vividly depicts the most endangered birds in the world and provides the latest information on the threats each species...

This revised, updated, and expanded second edition includes two new chapters on the political economy of the Obama era. One presents the...

The first field guide to all of the world’s major land habitats―richly illustrated and packed with essential information to help you get...

This is a sweeping and provocative work of aesthetic theory: a trenchant critique of the philosophy of art as it developed from the eighteenth...

Artemisia Gentileschi, widely regarded as the most important woman artist before the modern period, was a major Italian Baroque painter...

Game Theory in Action is an undergraduate textbook about using game theory across a range of real-life scenarios. From traffic accidents...

A book that challenges our most basic assumptions about Judeo-Christian monotheismContrary to popular belief, Judaism was not always strictly...

In 1932, Wolfgang Pauli was a world-renowned physicist and had already done the work that would win him the 1945 Nobel Prize. He was also...

A landmark work of literary criticismNorthrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism is the magnum opus of one of the most important and influential...

Revised and updated second edition of this beautifully illustrated photographic field guide. Accessible, authoriative and easy to use.

China's economic growth is sputtering, the Euro is under threat, and the United States is combating serious trade disadvantages. Another...

For many students, calculus can be the most mystifying and frustrating course they will ever take. "The Calculus Lifesaver" provides students...

Describing dreams as communications from the unconscious, this title explains how the symbols that occur in dreams compensate for repressed...

A decade after the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China established their formidable alliance in 1950, escalating public disagreements...

Timeless wisdom on controlling anger in personal life and politics from the Roman Stoic philosopher and statesman Seneca In his essay "On...

The description for this book, The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theology, will be forthcoming.

An original history of psychology told through the stories of its most important breakthroughs and the people who made them Advances in...

Marcus Cicero, Rome's greatest statesman and orator, was elected to the Roman Republic's highest office at a time when his beloved country...

The essential primer for physics students who want to build their physical intuitionPresented in A. Zee's incomparably engaging style, this...

The sociological study of economic activity has witnessed a significant resurgence. Recent texts have chronicled economic sociology's nineteenth-century...

The last decade has brought dramatic changes in the way that researchers analyze economic and financial time series. This book synthesizes...

This book shows that the secret of our success lies not in our innate intelligence, but in our collective brains - on the ability of human...

Translation of: Kafka, die Jahre der Erkenntnis.

In some religious countries, churches have drafted constitutions, restricted abortion, and controlled education. In others, church influence...

This pioneering work revises our notions of the origins and early development of textiles in Europe and the Near East. Using innovative...

How honeybees make collective decisions, and what humans can learn from this amazing democratic process.

Music is filled with mathematical elements, the works of Bach are often said to possess a math-like logic, and Igor Stravinsky said "musical...

This is the definitive treatment of the phenomenology of galaxies - a clear and comprehensive volume that takes full account of the extraordinary...

In this revised, updated, and expanded edition of his New York Times bestseller, Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller, who warned...

A comprehensive photographic guide to the world's gull speciesWith more than 50 gull species in the world, this family of seabirds poses...

From Nobel Prize–winning economist and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller, a groundbreaking account of how stories help drive...

Often downplayed in the excitement of starting up a new business venture is one of the most important decisions entrepreneurs will face:...

Bovids are a diverse group of ruminant mammals that have hooves and unbranched hollow horns. Bovids of the World is the first comprehensive...

How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens business, medicine, education, government "and the quality of our lives Today,...

In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container...

Timeless advice about how to use humor to win over any audience Can jokes win a hostile room, a hopeless argument, or even an election?...

This is the completely revised edition of the essential field guide to the birds of New Guinea. The world's largest tropical island, New...

In Philosophy of Law, Andrei Marmor provides a comprehensive analysis of contemporary debates about the fundamental nature of law--an issue...

The most complete and user-friendly photographic field guide to the world's canidsThis stunningly illustrated and easy-to-use field guide...

Today complex numbers have such widespread practical use--from electrical engineering to aeronautics--that few people would expect the story...

The Description for this book, Mathematics and Art: A Cultural History, will be forthcoming.

Most people believe democracy is a uniquely just form of government. They believe people have the right to an equal share of political power....

Essential reading for understanding the international economy--now thoroughly updated Lucid, accessible, and provocative, and now thoroughly...

The go-to photographic guide to all the insect orders of Britain and IrelandBritain's Insects is an innovative, up-to-date, carefully designed...

Scattered throughout the Talmud, the founding document of rabbinic Judaism in late antiquity, can be found quite a few references to Jesus--and...

Our democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence...

"Identity Economics" provides an important and compelling new way to understand human behavior, revealing how our identities - and not just...

The description for this book, The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition, will be forthcoming.

Timeless advice on how to be a successful leader in any field The ancient biographer and essayist Plutarch thought deeply about the leadership...

Applied econometrics, known to aficionados as 'metrics, encompasses the statistical methods economists use to untangle cause and effect...

On a rainy day in May 1988, a lowland gorilla named Willie B. Stepped outdoors for the first time in twenty-seven years, into a new landscape...

Mainland Ecuador's spectacular wildlife makes it a magnet for nature tourists, but until now there hasn't been a go-to, all-in-one guide...

What Can Be Computed$86 is a uniquely accessible yet rigorous introduction to the most profound ideas at the heart of computer science....

"Early Modern Jewry" boldly offers a new history of the early modern Jewish experience. From Krakow and Venice to Amsterdam and Smyrna,...

The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of Tolstoy's...

Ideal for the nature-loving traveler, Wildlife of Australia is a handy photographic pocket guide to the most widely seen birds, mammals,...

From Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller, a new way to think about how popular stories help...

The Neanderthals populated western Europe from nearly 250,000 to 30,000 years ago when they disappeared from the archaeological record....

Many historical processes are dynamic. Populations grow and decline. Empires expand and collapse. Religions spread and wither. Natural scientists...

A splendid new translation of one of the greatest books on friendship ever writtenIn a world where social media, online relationships, and...

A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of "models and bottles" to reveal how beautiful...

An unprecedented look at the quest to unravel the mysteries of the human brain, The Future of the Brain takes readers to the absolute frontiers...

Dream analysis is a distinctive and foundational part of analytical psychology, the school of psychology founded by C G Jung and his successors....

This stunningly illustrated guide to the world's primates covers nearly 300 species, from the feather-light and solitary pygmy mouse lemurs...

Ever since Adam Smith, the central teaching of economics has been that free markets provide us with material well-being, as if aby an invisible...

How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens our schools, medical care, businesses, and governmentToday, organizations...

Drawing from Eastern and Western literatures, Heinrich Zimmer presents a selection of stories linked together aby their common concern for...

In this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but largely unknown story of Central Asia's medieval...

In the second half of the twentieth century, the United States engaged in the most ambitious and far-reaching liberal order building the...

Why people are not as gullible as we think. Not Born Yesterday explains how we decide who we can trust and what we should believe-and argues...

The Quotable Jung is the single most comprehensive collection of Jung quotations ever assembled. It is the essential introduction for anyone...

Again available in paperback, this definitive work on the genius of Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) is the result of twelve years of devoted...

A new, evolutionary explanation of markets and investor behavior Half of all Americans have money in the stock market, yet economists can...

In The Soul of the World, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends the experience of the sacred against todays fashionable forms of atheism....

Half of all Americans have money in the stock market, yet economists can't agree on whether investors and markets are rational and efficient,...

In the 1930s C. G. Jung embarked upon a bold investigation into childhood dreams as remembered by adults to better understand their significance...

This is the most comprehensive anthology of Sren Kierkegaard's works ever assembled in English. Drawn from the volumes of Princeton's authoritative...

Picasso and Truth offers a breathtaking and original new look at the most significant artist of the modern era. From Pablo Picasso's early...

In this title, Jan Gross describes the terrors of the Soviet occupation of the lands that made up eastern Poland between the two world wars:...

A rich and surprising exploration of the intelligence of beesMost of us are aware of the hive mind―the power of bees as an amazing collective....

Putting his feet to the test, he decided that the only way to truly understand New York was to walk virtually every block of all five boroughs...

"Guesstimation 2.0" reveals the simple and effective techniques needed to estimate virtually anything - quickly - and illustrates them using...

When John Nash won the Nobel prize in economics in 1994, many people were surprised to learn that he was alive and well. Since then, Sylvia...

During the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread...

In today's world, the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite. Highly educated and defined by cultural capital rather than income...

The Calculus of Friendship is the story of an extraordinary connection between a teacher and a student, as bronicled through more than thirty...

The Description for this book, Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception, will be forthcoming.

James Pritchard's classic anthologies of the ancient Near East have introduced generations of readers to texts essential for understanding...

Carl von Clausewitz's major theoretical work, On War, has retained its freshness and relevance since it first appeared 160 years ago. Clausewitz...

This is the fourth and final volume in "The Princeton Lectures in Analysis", a series of textbooks that aim to present, in an integrated...

One of the century's most influential philosophers assesses a movement that changed the course of history in this unedited transcript of...

The description for this book, Against Democracy, will be forthcoming.

Recent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played around roulette wheels and card tables to solitary gambling...

The Reign of Terror continues to fascinate scholars as one of the bloodiest periods in French history, when the Committee of Public Safety...

New Guinea, the largest tropical island, supports a spectacular bird fauna characterized aby cassowaries, megapodes, pigeons, parrots, kingfishers,...

The Description for this book, The Quotable Feynman, will be forthcoming.

How a computational framework can account for the successes and failures of human cognition At the heart of human intelligence rests a fundamental...

Since the Holocaust and the end of World War II, Europeans in particular have been consumed by remorse. But Pascal Bruckner argues that...

On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived...

The fungi realm has been called the "hidden kingdom," a mysterious world populated by microscopic dużes, gigantic mushrooms and toadstools,...

Game theory, the formalized study of strategy, began in the 1940s by asking how emotionless geniuses should play games, but ignored until...