The most comprehensive and user-friendly photographic field guide to the world’s wildcats and hyenasFrom the Leopard Cat of Asia, the Black-footed Cat of Africa, and the Amur Tiger of Siberia to South America’s Ocelots and North America’s Bobcats, the wildcats known as felids are among the most fascinating and spectacular of all animals. This stunningly illustrated book is the most comprehensive and user-friendly guide to the world’s felids and their often misunderstood relative, the hyenas. Covering and illustrating every species and subspecies, the guide features more than 150 superb full-color plates that incorporate more than 600 photographs and show species in similar poses for quick and easy comparison. Drawing on the latest taxonomy and research, the facing-page species accounts provide distribution maps, common and scientific names, and detailed information on key identification features, distribution, behavior, reproduction, similar species, habitat, conservation status, and where to observe each species. An ideal field companion for use anywhere in the world, the book will appeal to both casual nature enthusiasts and seasoned professionals.Covers 41 felids and 4 hyenas―every species and subspecies in the worldFeatures more than 150 color plates incorporating more than 600 photosDepicts species in similar poses for quick and easy comparisonsProvides key identification information in detailed, facing-page species accountsUses the latest taxonomyIncludes easy-to-read distribution maps and tips on where to observe each species
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 240, Publishers: Princeton University Press, Author: Jeffrey E. Lovich,J. Whitfield Gibbons, ISBN-13: 9780691223223, Date of issue: 2021
This stunningly illustrated guide to the world's primates covers nearly 300 species, from the feather-light and solitary pygmy mouse lemurs of Madagascar - among the smallest primates known to exist - to the regal mountain gorillas of Africa. Organized by region and spanning every family of primates on Earth, the book features 72 splendid color plates, facing-page descriptions of key features of each family, and 86 color distribution maps. Primates of the World also includes concise introductory chapters that discuss the latest findings on primate origins and evolution, behavior and adaptations, and classification, making it the most comprehensive and up-to-date primate guide available. It covers nearly 300 species and every family of primates worldwide. It features 72 color plates - the finest illustrations of primates ever produced. It includes facing-page descriptions for each family and 86 color distribution maps he most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the world's primates.
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 300, Publishers: Princeton University Press, Author: Daniel Arsham,Larry Warsh, ISBN-13: 9780691234267, Date of issue: 2022
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 752, Publishers: Princeton University Press, Author: Jens Christian Schou,Bjarne Moeslund,Klaus Van De Weyer,Gerhard Wiegleb,Richard Lansdown, ISBN-13: 9780691251011, Date of issue: 2023
Half of all Americans have money in the stock market, yet economists can't agree on whether investors and markets are rational and efficient, as modern financial theory assumes, or irrational and inefficient, as behavioral economists believe--and as financial bubbles, crashes, and crises suggest. This is one of the biggest debates in economics and the value or futility of investment management and financial regulation hang on the outcome. In this groundbreaking book, Andrew Lo cuts through this debate with a new framework, the Adaptive Markets Hypothesis, in which rationality and irrationality coexist. Drawing on psychology, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and other fields, Adaptive Markets shows that the theory of market efficiency isn't wrong but merely incomplete. When markets are unstable, investors react instinctively, creating inefficiencies for others to exploit. Lo's new paradigm explains how evolution shapes behavior and markets at the speed of thought--a fact revealed by swings between stability and crisis, profit and loss, and innovation and regulation
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 240, Publishers: Princeton University Press, Author: David Wagner, ISBN-13: 9780691248288, Date of issue: 2024
Named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by the Modern LibraryAnne Carson's remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic loveSince it was first published, Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson's lyrical meditation on love in ancient Greek literature and philosophy, has established itself as a favorite among an unusually broad audience, including classicists, essayists, poets, and general readers. Beginning with the poet Sappho's invention of the word "bittersweet" to describe Eros, Carson's original and beautifully written book is a wide-ranging reflection on the conflicted nature of romantic love, which is both "miserable" and "one of the greatest pleasures we have."
First published in 1973, Gravitation is a landmark graduate-level textbook that presents Einstein's general theory of relativity and offers a rigorous, full-year course on the physics of gravitation. Upon publication, Science called it "a pedagogic masterpiece." With an emphasis on geometric interpretation, this masterful and comprehensive book introduces the theory of relativity; describes physical applications, from stars to black holes and gravitational waves; and portrays the field's frontiers. The book also offers a unique, alternating, two-track pathway through the subject.
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 416, Publishers: Princeton University Press, Author: Keith Barnes,Iain Campbell, ISBN-13: 9780691244761, Date of issue: 2025
Einstein said that the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. But was he right? Can the quantum theory of fields and Einsteins general theory of relativity, the two most accurate and successful theories in all of physics, be united into a single quantum theory of gravity? Can quantum and cosmos ever be combined? In The Nature of Space and Time, two of the worlds most famous physicists - Stephen Hawking (A Brief History of Time) and Roger Penrose (The Road to Reality) - debate these questions. The authors outline how their positions have further diverged on a number of key issues, including the spatial geometry of the universe, inflationary versus cyclic theories of the cosmos, and the black-hole information-loss paradox. Though much progress has been made, Hawking and Penrose stress that physicists still have further to go in their quest for a quantum theory of gravity.
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 144, Publishers: Princeton University Press, Author: Damion Searls, ISBN-13: 9780691243511, Date of issue: 2025
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 224, Publishers: Princeton University Press, Author: Peter J. F. Davie, ISBN-13: 9780691201719, Date of issue: 2021
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 208, Publishers: Princeton University Press, Author: Julius Csotonyl,Sante Mazzei,Shuyu Hsu, ISBN-13: 9780691272436, Date of issue: 2025
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 1104, Publishers: Princeton University Press, Author: Barbara Stollberg–rilin, ISBN-13: 9780691179063, Date of issue: 2022
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 240, Publishers: Princeton University Press, Author: Shinichi Nakahara, ISBN-13: 9780691265209, Date of issue: 2025
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 464, Publishers: Princeton University Press, Author: Egidio Viola, ISBN-13: 9780691250250, Date of issue: 2026
Marx's Inferno reconstructs the major arguments of Karl Marx's Capital and inaugurates a completely new reading of a seminal classic. Rather than simply a critique of classical political economy, William Roberts argues that Capital was primarily a careful engagement with the motives and aims of the workers' movement. Understood in this light, Capital emerges as a profound work of political theory. Placing Marx against the background of nineteenth-century socialism, Roberts shows how Capital was ingeniously modeled on Dante's Inferno, and how Marx, playing the role of Virgil for the proletariat, introduced partisans of workers' emancipation to the secret depths of the modern social Hell. In this manner, Marx revised republican ideas of freedom in response to the rise of capitalism.
A comprehensive photographic guide to the gull species of the Western PalearcticGulls occupy a particularly important place in the world of birds. But because they are notoriously difficult to identify, they have been relatively neglected in the ornithological literature. Gulls of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East offers the most up-to-date guide for gull identification in Europe and beyond. With a direct and visual approach, and an abundance of beautiful color photographs, this book provides thorough accounts of all species and subspecies of gulls found in the Western Palearctic. The guide compares similar taxa and addresses the complexities of identifying hybrids. Gulls of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East will be the standard work for identifying these birds for some time to come.Richly illustrated with nearly 1,400 color photographsThorough accounts of all species and subspecies of gulls found in the Western PalearcticUp-to-date information for easy and accurate identification of 45 species
"The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking" presents practical, lively, and inspiring ways for you to become more successful through better thinking. The idea is simple: you can learn how to think far better by adopting specific strategies. Brilliant people aren't a special breed - they just use their minds differently. By using the straightforward and thought-provoking techniques in "The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking", you will regularly find imaginative solutions to difficult challenges, and you will discover new ways of looking at your world and yourself - revealing previously hidden opportunities. The book offers real-life stories, explicit action items, and concrete methods that allow you to attain a deeper understanding of any issue, exploit the power of failure as a step toward success, develop a habit of creating probing questions, see the world of ideas as an ever-flowing stream of thought, and embrace the uplifting reality that we are all capable of change. No matter who you are, the practical mind-sets introduced in the book will empower you to realize any goal in a more creative, intelligent, and effective manner.Filled with engaging examples that unlock truths about thinking in every walk of life, "The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking" is written for all who want to reach their fullest potential - including students, parents, teachers, businesspeople, professionals, athletes, artists, leaders, and lifelong learners. Whenever you are stuck, need a new idea, or want to learn and grow, "The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking" will inspire and guide you on your way. To share thinking stories, go to website.
The fascinating untold story of how the ancients imagined robots and other forms of artificial life--and even invented real automated machines The first robot to walk the earth was a bronze giant called Talos. This wondrous machine was cre
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 384, Publishers: Princeton University Press, Author: David Andrews,Tobias Uller,Nathalie Feiner,Marcus Feldman,Scott F. Gilbert, ISBN-13: 9780691262413, Date of issue: 2024
Over the past 40 years, Tom Stanley and his daughter Sarah Stanley Fallaw have been involved in research examining how self-made, economically successful Americans became that way. Despite the publication of The Millionaire Next Door, The Millionaire Mind,
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 272, Publishers: Princeton University Press, Author: John Cassian,Jamie Kreiner, ISBN-13: 9780691208084, Date of issue: 2024
Children explore the many ways we use airplanes, from seaplanes to crop dusters to planes that write messages in the sky. With simple text and vibrant illustrations, readers will learn about transportation by plane. Byron Barton's Planes "will delight the youngest, and have enough meat for older preschoolers and beginning readers."--Kirkus ReviewsSupports the Common Core State Standards
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 256, Publishers: Princeton University Press, Author: Paula Fredriksen, ISBN-13: 9780691157696, Date of issue: 2024
From Kate Mosse, the number one Sunday Times bestselling Joubert Family Chronicles series continues with The Ghost Ship, a thrilling tale of piracy and a sweeping historical epic about love in a time of war.
Translated and Introduced by Magnus J. Krynski and Robert A. Maguire Regarded as one of the best representatives since World War II of the rich and ancient art of poetry in Poland, Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012) is, in the translators' words, "that rarest of phenomena: a serious poet who commands a large audience in her native land." The seventy poems in this bilingual edition are among the largest and most representative offering of her work in English, with particular emphasis on the period since 1967. They illustrate virtually all her major themes and most of her important techniques. Describing Szymborka's poetry, Magnus Krynski and Robert Maguire write that her verse is marked by high seriousness, delightful inventiveness, a prodigal imagination, and enormous technical skill. She writes of the diversity, plenitude, and richness of the world, taking delight in observing and naming its phenomena. She looks on with wonder, astonishment, and amusement, but almost never with despair.
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 a powerful chord, capturing the imagination of the cultural moment that it diagnosed and named. Beginning as a conversation among four strangers in a barroom on New York's Third Avenue, Auden's analysis of Western culture during the Second World War won the Pulitzer Prize and inspired a symphony by Leonard Bernstein as well as a ballet by Jerome Robbins. Yet reviews of the poem were sharply divided, and today, despite its continuing fame, it is unjustly neglected by readers. This volume--the first annotated, critical edition of the poem--introduces this important work to a new generation of readers by putting it in historical and biographical context and elucidating its difficulties. Alan Jacobs's introduction and thorough annotations help today's readers understand and appreciate the full richness of a poem that contains some of Auden's most powerful and beautiful verse, and that still deserves a central place in the canon of twentieth-century poetry.
Now children can enter the world of Little House with this splendid first collection of paper dolls. Beautifully designed and illustrated by Renee Graef, the illustrator of "Winter Days in the Big Woods" and "Dance at Grandpa's," this enchanting collection includes: Six full-color paper dolls-Laura, Mary, Ma, Pa, Baby Carrie, and Jack the bulldog-made of durable and sturdy cardstock Several easy-to-detach authentic nineteenth-century outfits for each character Two full-color pull-out scenes: one of the cozy room inside the Little House, the other of the garden outside A special pouch in which to store all the outfits, props and dolls The complete text of "Winter Days in the Big Woods" interspersed throughout the book "My Book of Little House Paper Dolls" is a wonderful way to involve even the youngest child in the joy of "Little House."
The first authoritative collection of drawings by legendary modern architect Lina Bo BardiLina Bo Bardi (1914-92) was one of the most prolific and visionary architects of the twentieth century. Raised in Italy under Mussolini's Fascist reg
During the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread across the globe. While much has been made of the details of the Industrial Revolution, what remains a mystery is why it took place at all. Why did this revolution begin in the West and not elsewhere, and why did it continue, leading to today's unprecedented prosperity? In this groundbreaking book, celebrated economic historian Joel Mokyr argues that a culture of growth specific to early modern Europe and the European Enlightenment laid the foundations for the scientific advances and pioneering inventions that would instigate explosive technological and economic development. Bringing together economics, the history of science and technology, and models of cultural evolution, Mokyr demonstrates that culture- the beliefs, values, and preferences in society that are capable of changing behavior- was a deciding factor in societal transformations.
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 240, Publishers: PENGUIN GROUP, Author: Jenny Offill, ISBN-13: 9780143136132, Date of issue: 2021
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 848, Publishers: Princeton University Press, Author: Michael Cook, ISBN-13: 9780691236575, Date of issue: 2024
It's People Who Help Us day at playgroup, so Peppa and her friends get a very special visit from Dr Brown Bear and Nurse Fox! They've come to show the children how to keep fit, eat healthy snacks and, most importantly, always remember to wash their hands! Then the children get to have a go at playing doctors and nurses, too...
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 208, Publishers: Princeton University Press, Author: Jhumpa Lahiri, ISBN-13: 9780691238616, Date of issue: 2023
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 288, Publishers: Princeton University Press, Author: Andrei Sourakov,Rachel Warren Chadd, ISBN-13: 9780691228563, Date of issue: 2022
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 264, Publishers: Princeton University Press, Author: Ben Yagoda, ISBN-13: 9780691262291, Date of issue: 2024
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 248, Publishers: Princeton University Press, Author: Manon Garcia, ISBN-13: 9780691223209, Date of issue: 2023
With more than 5,000 entries totalling over a million words, this is the most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of Buddhism ever produced in English. It is also the first to cover terms from all of the canonical Buddhist languages and traditions: Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Unlike reference works that focus on a single Buddhist language or school, The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism bridges the major Buddhist traditions to provide encyclopedic coverage of the most important terms, concepts, texts, authors, deities, schools, monasteries, and geographical sites from across the history of Buddhism. The main entries offer both a brief definition and a substantial short essay on the broader meaning and significance of the term covered. Extensive cross-references allow readers to find related terms and concepts. An appendix of Buddhist lists (for example, the four noble truths and the thirty-two marks of the Buddha), a timeline, six maps, and two diagrams are also included.Written and edited by two of today's most eminent scholars of Buddhism, and more than a decade in the making, this landmark work is an essential reference for every student, scholar, or practitioner of Buddhism and for anyone else interested in Asian religion, history, or philosophy. The most comprehensive dictionary of Buddhism ever produced in English More than 5,000 entries totalling over a million words. This is the first dictionary to cover terms from all of the canonical Buddhist languages and traditions - Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. It features detailed entries on the most important terms, concepts, texts, authors, deities, schools, monasteries, and geographical sites in the history of Buddhism. It contains cross-references and appendixes that allow readers to find related terms and look up equivalent terms in multiple Buddhist languages. It includes a list of Buddhist lists, a timeline, and maps. It also contains selected terms and names in Thai, Burmese, Vietnamese, Lao, Khmer, Sinhalese, Newar, and Mongolian.
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 216, Publishers: Princeton University Press, Author: Darren Naish, ISBN-13: 9780691212029, Date of issue: 2021
Neither art nor philosophy was kind to beauty during the twentieth century. Much modern art disdains beauty, and many philosophers deeply suspect that beauty merely paints over or distracts us from horrors. Intellectuals consigned the passions of beauty
Democracy is struggling in America--by now this statement is almost cliché. But what if the country is no longer a democracy at all? In Democracy Incorporated, Sheldon Wolin considers the unthinkable: has America unwittingly morphed into a new and strange kind of political hybrid, one where economic and state powers are conjoined and virtually unbridled? Can the nation check its descent into what the author terms "inverted totalitarianism"? Democracy Incorporated is one of the most worrying diagnoses of America's political ills to emerge in decades. It is sure to be a lightning rod for political debate for years to come. Now with a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize - winning journalist Chris Hedges, Democracy Incorporated remains an essential work for understanding the state of democracy in America.
