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By: Professor Michael D. Gordin
ISBN: 9780691146980
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2010
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The concepts of utopia and dystopia have received much historical attention. Utopias have traditionally signified the ideal future: large-scale social, political, ethical, and religious spaces that have yet to be realized. This title offers a fresh approach to these ideas.
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By: Ashley Mears
ISBN: 9780691168654
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Barbara Gates
ISBN: 9780691600482
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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When Viscount Castlereagh, leader of the House of Commons and architect of the Grand Alliance, committed suicide in 1822, the coroner's inquest could consider only two legal verdicts: insanity or self-murder. Public outrage greeted his burial in Westminster Abbey; the tradition lingered that a suicide's burial place be at a crossroads, with a stake
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By: Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni
ISBN: 9780691232232
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2022
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Randall Collins
ISBN: 9780691143224
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Argues that violent confrontation goes against human physiological hardwiring. This book challenges standard views about the root causes of violence and offers solutions for confronting it in the future. It guides readers into the disturbing world of human discord - from domestic abuse and schoolyard bullying to muggings, and armed conflicts.
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By: Krishan Kumar
ISBN: 9780691192802
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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In this extraordinary volume, Kumar provides readers with a brilliant tour of some of history's most important empires, demonstrating the critical importance of imperial ideas and ideologies for understanding their modalities of rule and the conflicts that beset them.
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By: Tristan Needham
ISBN: 9780691203706
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2021
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Efrn Prez
ISBN: 9780691215136
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2022
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Svetlana Alpers
ISBN: 9780691195872
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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"A magisterial study of celebrated photographer Walker Evans"--
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By: Leslie A. Geddes
ISBN: 9780691192697
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Manon Garcia
ISBN: 9780691201825
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2021
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Manon Garcia
ISBN: 9780691223209
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Musa al-Gharbi
ISBN: 9780691232607
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2025
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Ai Weiwei
ISBN: 9780691157665
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2013
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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A collection of quotes that demonstrates the simplicity of the author's thoughts on key aspects of his art, politics, and life. It is organized into six categories: freedom of expression; art and activism; government, power, and moral choices; the digital world; history, the historical moment, and the future; and personal reflections.
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By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
ISBN: 9780691157245
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
ISBN: 9780691177809
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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A "companion to Welcome to the Universe, a ... bestseller that was inspired by the ... introductory astronomy course for non-science majors that Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott taught together at Princeton. [It] features more than one hundred problems and exercises used in the original course"--Amazon.com.
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By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
ISBN: 9780691177816
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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A "companion to Welcome to the Universe, a ... bestseller that was inspired by the ... introductory astronomy course for non-science majors that Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott taught together at Princeton. [It] features more than one hundred problems and exercises used in the original course"--Amazon.com.
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By: David Damrosch
ISBN: 9780691049861
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2003
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Probes the uses and abuses of world literature in a changing world. This book looks at the ways works change as they move from national to global contexts. It argues that world literature is work that gains in translation.
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By: David M. Pea-Guzmn
ISBN: 9780691227061
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Steven Nadler
ISBN: 9780691212760
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2021
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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"In this book the philosophers Steve Nadler and Lawrence Shapiro will explain why bad thinking happens to good people. Why is it, they ask, that so large a segment of public can go so wrong in both how they come to form the opinions they do and how they fail to appreciate the moral consequences of acting on them."--Publisher's description.
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By: Steven Nadler
ISBN: 9780691227955
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Paul J. Nahin
ISBN: 9780691218762
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Erin Lin
ISBN: 9780691255958
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2024
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Elizabeth Wayland Barber
ISBN: 9780691127743
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2006
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Why were Prometheus and Loki envisioned as chained to rocks What was the Golden Calf Why are mirrors believed to carry bad luck This book shows that myths originally transmitted real information about real events and observations, preserving the information sometimes for millennia within nonliterate societies.
