Literatura obcojęzyczna Princeton University Press

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

A trenchant defense of hierarchy in different spheres of our lives, from the personal to the politicalAll complex and large-scale societies...

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

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

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

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...

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....

Ambitious Form describes the transformation of Italian sculpture during the neglected half century between the death of Michelangelo and...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

Maimonides was the greatest Jewish philosopher and legal scholar of the medieval period, a towering figure who has had a profound and lasting...

A definitive biography of the great French essayist and thinkerOne of the most important writers and thinkers of the Renaissance, Michel...

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

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

Optics--a field of physics focusing on the study of light--is also central to many areas of biology, including vision, ecology, botany,...

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

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...

The period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of the economic forecasters, pioneers who sought to use the tools of science...

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...

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

Acclaimed economists Shiller and Akerlof challenge the economic wisdom that led to the current financial crisis, and put forward a new vision...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

In today's unpredictable and chaotic world, we look to science to provide certainty and answers--and often blame it when things go wrong....

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

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

The Killing Season explores one of the largest and swiftest, yet least examined, instances of mass killing and incarceration in the twentieth...

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...

How a simple equation reshaped mathematics Leonhard Euler's polyhedron formula describes the structure of many objects--from soccer balls...

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

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

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...

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

Andrea Carandini's archaeological discoveries and controversial theories about ancient Rome have made international headlines over the past...

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

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...

In The Patron's Payoff, Jonathan Nelson and Richard Zeckhauser apply the innovative methods of information economics to the study of art....

The description for this book, The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations, will be forthcoming.

The U.S. Military is one of the largest and most complex organizations in the world. How it spends its money, chooses tactics, and allocates...

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

Some 250 million years ago, the earth suffered the greatest biological crisis in its history. Around 95 percent of all living species died...

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

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

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

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

Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars, New Edition - New Edition The end of the Cold War was a...

Who was the greater economist - Adam Smith or Charles Darwin? The question seems absurd. Darwin, after all, was a naturalist, not an economist....

A major contribution to the debate over ancient Greek warfare żeby some of the world's leading scholars Men of Bronze takes up one of the...

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,...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

Scott Page, a leading thinker, writer, and speaker whose ideas and advice are sought after by corporations, nonprofits, universities, and...

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

The Story of Hebrew explores the extraordinary hold that Hebrew has had on Jews and Christians, who have invested it with a symbolic power...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

"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...

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...

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

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

Examining how the power of diversity creates better efficiency, showing how groups of people with many different disciplines often outperform...

A spellbinding new biography of Stalin in his formative yearsThis is the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin from his birth to the October...

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

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,...

Brooklyn-born Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-88) was one of the most important artists of the 1980s. A key figure in the New York art scene,...

The Description for this book, The New Deal: A Global History, will be forthcoming.

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

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

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

In this lively and entertaining book, Matthew Lane discusses how gamers are engaging with the traveling salesman problem when they play...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...