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By: A. John Simmons
ISBN: 9780691020198
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 1981
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Outlining the major competing theories in the history of political and moral philosophy- from Locke and Hume through Hart, Rawls, and Nozick- John Simmons attempts to understand and solve the ancient problem of political obligation.
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By: Scott Burnham
ISBN: 9780691168067
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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It is a common article of faith that Mozart composed the most beautiful music we can know. But few of us ask why. Why does the beautiful in Mozart stand apart, as though untouched by human hands At the same time, why does it inspire intimacy rather than distant admiration, love rather than awe And how does Mozart's music create and sustain its bu
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By: Vladimir Janklvitch
ISBN: 9780691090474
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2003
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Deals with classical issues in the philosophy of music, including metaphysics and ontology. This book argues that music is not a hieroglyph, nor a language or sign system. It argues that music is 'ineffable', because it cannot be pinned down, and has a capacity to engender limitless resonance in several domains.
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By: Eli Maor
ISBN: 9780691176901
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2018
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Eli Maor
ISBN: 9780691202969
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2020
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Robert J. Shiller
ISBN: 9780691182292
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Rene Bergland
ISBN: 9780691235288
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2024
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Stephen A. Ross
ISBN: 9780691121383
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2005
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Provides a concise and powerful account of the underlying principles of modern finance, drawing on a generation of theoretical and empirical advances in the field.
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By: Anthony Blunt
ISBN: 9780691253503
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2023
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Walter A. Kaufmann
ISBN: 9780691160269
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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When the author wrote it in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most scholars outside Germany viewed Nietzsche as part madman, part proto-Nazi, and almost wholly unphilosophical. This title offers an account of his life and works, and of the uses and abuses to which subsequent generations had put his ideas.
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By: John MacCormick
ISBN: 9780691209067
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Professor Rowan Dorin
ISBN: 9780691240930
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2025
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Professor Rowan Dorin
ISBN: 9780691240923
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Daniel Kennefick
ISBN: 9780691217154
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Stephen Biddle
ISBN: 9780691207513
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Charles Perrow
ISBN: 9780691004129
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2000
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Analyzes the social side of technological risk. Charles Perrow argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety - building in more warnings and safeguards - fails because systems complexity makes failures inevitable.
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By: Hugo Mercier
ISBN: 9780691208923
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2022
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Andrew Blauner
ISBN: 9780691247953
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Robin Schuldenfrei
ISBN: 9780691232669
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Helen Craig McCullough
ISBN: 9780691616087
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Presented here in a new and complete translation is the Japanese classic Okagami, an historical talc that mirrors a man's life and the times in which he lived. Dating from the late eleventh or early twelfth century, it focuses on Fujiwara Michinaga, the leading political figure in the great family that dominated the court during most of the Helan p
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By: Isaac Bashevis Singer
ISBN: 9780691259239
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Elaine Scarry
ISBN: 9780691089591
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2002
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Have we become beauty-blind This title not only defends beauty from the political arguments against it but also argues that beauty does indeed press us toward a greater concern for justice. It offers a manifesto for the revival of beauty in our intellectual work as well as our homes, museums, and classrooms.
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By: C. G. Jung
ISBN: 9780691250557
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2025
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Colm Tibn
ISBN: 9780691271040
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2025
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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In this book, novelist Colm Toibin offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences--the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her poetry, prose, letters, and biography, Toibin creates a vivid picture of Bishop while also revealing how her work has helped shape his sensibility as a
