Literatura obcojęzyczna Princeton University Press

One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share....

In war, do mass and materiel matter most? Will states with the largest, best equipped, information-technology-rich militaries invariably...

This is the first full-scale biography of Leonhard Euler (1707-83), one of the greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists of all...

Coptic emerged as the written form of the Egyptian language in the third century, when Greek was still the official language in Egypt. Aby...

Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality$29 To judge żeby thousands of years of...

It is taken for granted in the knowledge economy that companies must employ the most talented performers to compete and succeed. Many firms...

On April 14, 1994, two U.S. Air Force F-15 fighters accidentally shot down two U.S. Army Black Hawk Helicopters over Northern Iraq, killing...

The fascinating untold story of digital cash and its creators--from experiments in the 1970s to the mania over Bitcoin and other cryptocurrenciesBitcoin...

The Holy Grail and its quest is a legend that has had a powerful impact on our civilization and culture. The Grail itself is an ancient...

Inside the epic quest to find life on the water-rich moons at the outer reaches of the solar systemWhere is the best place to find life...

This classic work chronicles how New York, London, and Tokyo became command centers for the global economy and in the process underwent...

In "It's About Time", N. David Mermin asserts that relativity ought to be an important part of everyone's education - after all, it is largely...

A major new look at the evolution of mating decisions in organisms from protozoans to humans The popular consensus on mate choice has long...

Joseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume "Dostoevsky" is widely recognized as the best biography of the writer in any language - and one...

For 150 million years, the skies didn't belong to birds--they belonged to the pterosaurs. These flying reptiles, which include the pterodactyls,...

The first major English-language biography of Francisco Goya y Lucientes, considered the last of Spain's old masters and the first artist...

We make up our minds about others after seeing their faces for a fraction of a second--and these snap judgments predict all kinds of important...

A handsome annotated edition of Einstein's celebrated book on relativity After completing the final version of his general theory of relativity...

Written by one of the twentieth century's leading textile artists, this splendidly illustrated book is a luminous meditation on the art...

How looking beautiful has become a moral imperative in today's worldThe demand to be beautiful is increasingly important in today's visual...

Amazons - fierce warrior women dwelling on the fringes of the known world - were the mythic archenemies of the ancient Greeks. Heracles...

A major new look at the work of one of America's foremost self-taught artistsBill Traylor (ca. 1853-1949) came to art-making on his own...

The Last Pharaohs, the first detailed history of Ptolemaic Egypt as a state, departs radically from previous studies aby putting the Ptolemaic...

A full-color illustrated guide to the natural history of the most poisonous plants on earthThis richly illustrated book provides an in-depth...

The fascinating untold story of how the ancients imagined robots and other forms of artificial life--and even invented real automated machines...

Cities shape the lives and outlooks of billions of people, yet they have been overshadowed in contemporary political thought by nation-states,...

The renowned tale of Amor and Psyche, from Apuleius' second-century Latin novel "The Golden Ass", is one of the most charming fragments...

This book presents the radically new theory of subjectivity found in the work of Jacques Lacan. Against the tide of post-structuralist thinkers...

When confronted with an ethical dilemma, most of us like to think we would stand up for our principles. But we are not as ethical as we...

A brief, radical defense of human uniqueness from acclaimed philosopher Roger ScrutonIn this short book, acclaimed writer and philosopher...

Machiavelli praised his military genius. European royalty sought out his secret elixir against poison. His life inspired Mozart's first...

A compelling explanation of how the law shapes the distribution of wealthWhat is it that transforms a simple object, an idea, or a promise...

How can you reconcile yourself with the lives you will never lead, with possibilities foreclosed, and with nostalgia for lost youth$477...

How a Greek philosopher's encounters with Buddhism in Central Asia influenced Western philosophy Pyrrho of Elis went with Alexander the...

Shortlisted for the 2009 }Financial Times/ Goldman Sachs Business Book Of The Year{ award, and ahead of the eventual winner in the online...

Isaiah Berlin's intellectual biography of Karl Marx has long been recognized as one of the best concise accounts of the life and thought...

A field guide to the birds of the Indian subcontinent. It features maps and text opposite the plates for quicker and easier reference.

The most comprehensive single-volume photographic guide to Europe’s birds ever produced―from the authors of the acclaimed Britain’s Birds...

How much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does it influence our children? More than we wish to...

The concept of opposing forces of good and evil expressed in a range of moral qualities - virtues and vices - is one of the dominant themes...

Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) was a Dutch humanist, scholar, and social critic, and one of the most important figures of the Renaissance....

This provocative book shows that Europe in the Middle Ages was as much a product of a process of conquest and colonization as it was later...

Many historical processes exhibit recurrent patterns of change. Century-long periods of population expansion come before long periods of...

In 2009, Harper's Magazine sent war-crimes expert Lawrence Douglas to Munich to cover the last chapter of the lengthiest case ever to arise...

More than half the world's population lives in cities, and that proportion is expected to rise to three-quarters aby 2050. Urbanization...

No other god of the Greeks is as widely present in the monuments and nature of Greece and Italy, in the sensuous tradition of antiquity,...

Pack your cutlass and blunderbuss - it's time to go a-pirating! "The Invisible Hook" takes readers inside the wily world of late seventeenth-...

Art today is defined aby its relationship to money as never before. Prices have been driven to unprecedented heights, conventional boundaries...

How a new breed of dictators holds power żeby manipulating information and faking democracy Hitler, Stalin, and Mao ruled through violence,...

Nearly a century after it was first published in 1925, Medieval Cities remains one of the most provocative works of medieval history ever...

Many blame today's economic inequality, stagnation, and political instability on the free market. The solution is to rein in the market,...

A provocative and timely case for how the science of genetics can help create a more just and equal society In recent years, scientists...

A perennial bestseller żeby eminent mathematician G. Polya, How to Solve It will show anyone in any field how to think straight. In lucid...

First published in 1973, Gravitation is a landmark graduate-level textbook that presents Einstein's general theory of relativity and offers...

This book is a comprehensive study of cooperation among the advanced capitalist countries. Can cooperation persist without the dominance...

Most of us know there is a payoff to looking good, and in the quest for beauty we spend countless hours and billions of dollars on personal...

A superb new edition of Epictetus's famed handbook on Stoicism--translated by one of the world's leading authorities on Stoic philosophyBorn...

Subtitled, }Death In A Siberian Gulag{.

A new, improved and thoroughly updated edition of the bestselling photographic guide--the only one to cover every bird, in every plumage,...

How to overcome barriers to the long-term investments that are essential for solving the world's biggest problems There has never been a...

This is the first modern-style photographic field guide to the birds of Chile, an increasingly popular destination with birders and naturalists....

Featuring a new prologue and conclusion and two new chapters on recent developmentsWith Hezbollah's entry into the Lebanese government in...

When it was first published in 1947, The Age of Anxiety--W. H. Auden's last, longest, and most ambitious book-length poem--immediately struck...

The indispensable guide to the night sky--now in a newly updated and expanded editionIn this newly updated and expanded edition of their...

The description for this book, Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah, 1626-1676, will be forthcoming.

How did human societies scale up from tight-knit groups of hunter-gatherers to the large, anonymous, cooperative societies of today - even...

How the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political polarization in the age of automation...

What is ethics? Where do moral standards come from? Are they based on emotions, reason, or some innate sense of right and wrong? For many...

The world is drowning in cash - and it's making us poorer and less safe. In The Curse of Cash, Kenneth Rogoff, one of the world's leading...

Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome...

The Untold Story of the Honey Bee in the Wild How the lives of wild honey bees offer vital lessons for saving the world's managed bee coloniesHumans...

A provocative and timely case for how the science of genetics can help create a more just and equal society In recent years, scientists...

This is the first complete, one-volume English translation of the ancient Chinese text Xunzi, one of the most extensive, sophisticated,...

"In the vast literature of love, The Seducer's Diary is an intricate curiosity--a feverishly intellectual attempt to reconstruct an erotic...

This landmark book probes Muslims' attitudes toward Jews and Judaism as a special case of their view of other religious minorities in predominantly...

Leonhard Euler's polyhedron formula describes the structure of many objects - from soccer balls and gemstones to Buckminster Fuller's buildings...

Confronts the story of the man who challenged God, the man who experienced hell on earth and still did not reject his faith. This title...

"Afghanistan" traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the...

A provocative and inspiring look at the future of humanity and science from world-renowned scientist and bestselling author Martin ReesHumanity...

Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the twentieth century. His...

Between the third and sixth centuries, the ancient gods, goddesses, and heroes who had populated the imagination of humankind for a millennium...

Why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to our planetary survivalFew of us have any conception of the enormous timescales...

Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Now, as the world struggles to recover,...

Nabokov's dream diary--published for the first timeOn October 14, 1964, Vladimir Nabokov, a lifelong insomniac, began a curious experiment....

Why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to our planetary survival Few of us have any conception of the enormous timescales...

Creativity, Competition, and the Partial Productivity of Constructions Why our use of language is highly creative yet also constrained We...

"It takes an entire lifetime to learn how to die," wrote the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca (c. 4 BC-65 AD). He counseled readers to "study...

The Muqaddimah, often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written...

The enigmatic sixteenth-century Swiss physician and natural philosopher Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, called...

A brief introduction to gravity through Einstein's general theory of relativity Of the four fundamental forces of nature, gravity might...

An illustrated mini-encyclopedia of fungal lore, from John Cage and Terrence McKenna to mushroom sex and fairy rings Fungipedia presents...

China's breathtaking diversity of natural habitats--from mountains and deserts to grasslands and lush tropical forests--is home to more...

In this short book, acclaimed writer and philosopher Roger Scruton presents an original and radical defense of human uniqueness. Confronting...

How does life work$277 How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the African savanna, or fish in the ocean$278 How...

If you had a 10 percent chance of having a fatal car accident, you'd take necessary precautions. If your finances had a 10 percent chance...

When the Soviet Union collapsed, many hoped that Russias centuries-long history of autocratic rule might finally end. Yet todays Russia...

In this authoritative and accessible book, one of the world's most renowned historians provides a concise and comprehensive history of capitalism...

This book introduces first year PhD students to standard graduate econometrics material from a modern perspective.

This essential guide to doing social research in this fast-evolving digital age explains how the digital revolution is transforming the...

A major new collection from the winner of the 2019 Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry Before Our Eyes gathers...

A savory account of how the pursuit of delicious foods shaped human evolutionNature, it has been said, invites us to eat aby appetite and...

Revealing bold new ways to structure markets for the good of everyone, this book shows how the emancipatory force of genuinely open, free,...

This bilingual edition of the Qur'an, the Holy Book of Islam, was first published in the United States in 1988. Ahmed Ali, the distinguished...

How climate change and disease helped to bring down the Roman Empire Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters...

A must-read book for understanding this vibrant and influential modern Jewish movementHasidism originated in southeastern Poland, in mystical...

An accessible blend of narrative history and science, Strange Glow describes mankind's extraordinary, thorny relationship with radiation,...

Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) is the man who gave living organisms two Latin names. This book gives a portrait of Linnaeus the man, charting...

A richly illustrated account of the story of ancient viniculture The history of civilization is, in many ways, the history of wine. This...

More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism. A brilliant...

Earth's climate has undergone dramatic changes over the geologic timescale. At one extreme, Earth has been glaciated to the equator for...

At the start of the nineteenth century, Passenger Pigeons were perhaps the most abundant birds on the planet, numbering literally in the...

The world is a better place than it used to be. People are wealthier and healthier, and live longer lives. Yet the escapes from destitution...

One of the most influential and compelling books in American literature, Walden is a vivid account of the years that Henry D. Thoreau spent...

From the first centuries of Islam to well into the Middle Ages, Jews and Christians produced hundreds of manuscripts containing portions...

Globalisierung beginnt nicht erst in der Gegenwart. Sie hat sich über mehrere Jahrhunderte hinweg entfaltet. Das Buch beschreibt die Vielfalt...

This landmark book explores the Great Mother as a primordial image of the human psyche. Here the renowned analytical psychologist Erich...