SPRING 2012 Contents N Trade 1

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n Na tural History 19

n Ac ademic Trade 24

n Paperbacks 42

n Art 66

n A rchaeology 68

n Classics 68

n Literature 69

n A merican History 71

n His tory 73

n World History 75

n Jest wi h S udies 76

n P hilosophy 77

n Political Theory 82

n S ociology 86

n Ec onomics 89

n Poli tical Science 92

n Antho r pology 98

n M athematics 101

n P hysics 107

n Erhca t S ience 109

n B iology 111

n Rt ecen & Best-Selling Titles 114

n Ah ut or / Title Index 120

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Cover image from Paula Fredriksen’s Sin: The Early History of an Idea (see page 4). Image courtesy of Shutterstock. Trade 1 College THE STRENGTHS AND FAILURES OF THE What It Was, Is, and Should Be AMERICAN COLLEGE, AND WHY LIBERAL EDUCATION STILL MATTERs Andrew Delbanco

As the commercialization of American higher education ac- celerates, more and more students are coming to college with the narrow aim of obtaining a preprofessional credential. The traditional four-year college experience—an exploratory time for students to discover their passions and test ideas and values with the help of teachers and peers—is in danger of becoming a thing of the past. In College, prominent cultural critic Andrew Delbanco offers a trenchant defense of such an education, and warns that it is becoming a privilege reserved for the relatively rich. In arguing for what a true college education should be, he demonstrates why making it available to as many young people as possible remains central to America’s democratic promise. In a brisk and vivid historical narrative, Delbanco explains how the idea of college arose in the colonial period from the Puritan idea of the gathered church, how it struggled to survive in the nineteenth century in the shadow of the new research universities, and how, in the twentieth century, it slowly opened its doors to women, minorities, and students from low-income families. He describes the unique strengths of America’s colleges in our era of globalization and, while recognizing the growing centrality of science, technology, and “This terrific book is wonderfully direct vocational subjects in the curriculum, he mounts a vigorous and engaging, and full of well-chosen defense of a broadly humanistic education for all. Acknowledg- historical examples and relevant quota- ing the serious financial, intellectual, and ethical challenges tions. Delbanco’s love of learning comes that all colleges face today, Delbanco considers what is at through clearly. He eloquently articu- stake in the urgent effort to protect these venerable institu- lates and defends a certain ideal conceptions for future generations. tion of the undergraduate experience Andrew Delbanco is the Mendelson Family Chair of American and rightly makes us worry about the Studies and the Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humani- prospects for preserving it.” ties at Columbia University. His many books include Melville: —Michael McPherson, The Spencer His World and Work (Vintage), which won the Lionel Trilling Foundation Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times book prize in biography.

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press.princeton.edu 2 Trade Finance and Best-selling economist explains why we need to reclaim finance the Good Society for the common good

Robert J. Shiller

The reputation of the financial industry could hardly be worse than it is today in the painful aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. New York Times best-selling economist Robert Shiller is no apologist for the sins of finance—he is probably the only person to have predicted both the stock market bubble of 2000 and the real estate bubble that led up to the subprime mortgage meltdown. But in this important and timely book, Shiller argues that, rather than condemning finance, we need to reclaim it for the common good. He makes a powerful case for recognizing that finance, far from being a parasite on society, is one of the most powerful tools we have for solving our common problems and increasing the general well-being. We need more financial innovation—not less—and finance should play a larger role in helping society achieve its goals. Challenging the public and its leaders to rethink finance and its role in society, Shiller argues that finance should be defined not merely as the manipulation of money or the management of risk but as the stewardship of society’s assets. He explains how people in financial careers—from CEO, investment manager, and banker to insurer, lawyer, and regulator— can and do manage, protect, and increase these assets. He “This is an overflowing feast of ideas describes how finance has historically contributed to the good and facts—from Adam Smith to neuro- of society through inventions such as insurance, mortgages, science to casino design—that will con- savings accounts, and pensions, and argues that we need to vince intelligent readers who think of envision new ways to rechannel financial creativity to benefit finance as an arcane subject that it is not society as a whole. just interesting but even entertaining.” Ultimately, Shiller shows how society can once again har- —Robert Wade, London School of ness the power of finance for the greater good. Economics and Political Science Robert J. Shiller is the author of Irrational Exuberance and The Subprime Solution, and the coauthor, with George A. Akerlof, of Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism (all Princeton). He is the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics at Yale University.

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press.princeton.edu Trade 3 An interview with Robert J. Shiller

The title of your book, Finance and the Good Society, might strike some readers as a contradiction in terms. Why are they wrong? Finance is widely viewed as an activity that promotes inequality. But financial institutions can be democratizing and can reduce inequality if they are set up right. Finance is not merely about making money. It’s about achieving our deep goals and protecting the fruits of our labor. It’s about stewardship and therefore about achieving the good society.

Who are you trying to reach with this book? My first inspiration was my college students, who are trying to find their place in the world. Doing just about anything important for our society requires some knowledge of finance and working with people in the various financial roles outlined in the book. As I worked on it more, though, I conceived a Michael Marsland/Yale University broader mission, namely rethinking how people in these financial roles actually work together to produce a good society. Thinking about this is something we should all do because it will help us do a better job of figuring out how financial innovation can improve society.

New York Times best-selling economist Robert J. Shiller How does the current financial crisis relate to your book? “Drawing from history, economic theory, The financial crisis is a growing pain, the kind of accident that and keen observation of our economy, happens as we develop and move forward. There was too Robert Shiller brings a fresh perspective much complacency about existing institutions. Our reaction to to a big issue—the role of finance in our the crisis should primarily be to develop fundamental financial society. He urges us to overcome the innovations that better serve our real goals. popular misperception that all finance is sleazy and to think broadly about how Given the aims of the good society, what role should govern- we can harness its power for the benefit ment play in the financial sector? of society as a whole.” We have to be careful that government isn’t captured by exist- —Darrell Duffie, Graduate School of ing financial interests. People have to see a sharp distinction Business, Stanford University between financial forms as they exist today, and that often serve some specific interests, and the kinds of democratized forms we might see tomorrow. A properly functioning govern- “Many MBA students are fascinated by ment and a properly functioning financial community should the world of finance but wary of enter- consider the interests of all elements of society, and will en- ing it because they perceive it as declin- courage innovation that will eventually make existing financial ing and marred by unethical behavior. forms obsolete. Doing this well requires technical financial This book will show them why finance expertise, not political slogans, and respect for the experience is and should be a vital part of the good of people in the financial community. society’s solution, rather than its problem. No other book does this with more authority or credibility.” —Shlomo Maital, professor emeritus, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

press.princeton.edu 4 Trade Sin WHY THE MEANING OF SIN CHANGED RADICALLY The Early History of an Idea DURING THE FIRST CENTURIES OF CHRISTIANITY

Paula Fredriksen

Ancient Christians invoked sin to account for an astonishing range of things, from the death of God’s son to the politics of the Roman Empire that worshipped him. In this book, award-winning historian of religion Paula Fredriksen tells the surprising story of early Christian concepts of sin, exploring the ways that sin came to shape ideas about God no less than about humanity. Long before Christianity, of course, cultures had articulated the idea that human wrongdoing violated relations with the divine. But Sin tells how, in the fevered atmosphere of the four centuries between Jesus and Augustine, singular new Christian ideas about sin emerged in rapid and vigorous variety, including the momentous shift from the belief that sin is something one does to something that one is born into. As the original defin- ing circumstances of their movement quickly collapsed, early Christians were left to debate the causes, manifestations, and remedies of sin. This is a powerful and original account of the early history of an idea that has centrally shaped Christianity and left a deep impression on the secular world as well.

Paula Fredriksen is the author of Jesus of Nazareth, King of the “Paula Fredriksen’s new book offers a Jews, which won the National Jewish Book Award. She is also masterfully clear and readable exposi- the author of Augustine and the Jews and From Jesus to Christ. The Aurelio Professor Emerita at Boston University, she now tion of complex issues, showing how teaches as Distinguished Visiting Professor of Comparative traditional Jewish views of sin were Religion at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. transmuted by the Christian theologians Origen and Augustine in nearly “Paula Fredriksen’s Sin is a gripping book on an im- opposite ways, to create startlingly dif- mense theme. Fredriksen makes us realize that what ferent views of human nature.” is at stake is not simply ‘sin’ (as we usually think of —Elaine Pagels, author of The Origin it) but what it is to be human, to live in a material of Satan universe, and to expect redemption from a God of many faces. . . . [Sin] is a magnificent ride.” —Peter Brown, Princeton University

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press.princeton.edu Trade 5 The War of the Sexes how our stone-age brains made How Conflict andC ooperation Have Shaped Men and modern society, and why it matters Women from Prehistory to the Present for relationships between men and women

Paul Seabright

As countless love songs, movies, and self-help books attest, men and women have long sought different things.T he result? Seemingly inevitable conflict. Yet we belong to the most cooperative species on the planet. Isn’t there a way we can use this capacity to achieve greater harmony and equality between the sexes? In The War of the Sexes, Paul Seabright argues that there is—but first we must understand how the tension between conflict and cooperation developed in our remote evolutionary past, how it shaped the modern world, and how it still holds us back, both at home and at work. Drawing on biology, sociology, anthropology, and economics, Seabright shows that conflict between the sexes is, paradoxically, the product of cooperation. The evolutionary niche—the long dependent childhood—carved out by our ancestors requires the highest level of cooperative talent. But it also gives couples more to fight about. Men and women became experts at influencing one another to achieve their cooperative ends, but also became trapped in strategies of manipulation and deception in pursuit of sex and partnership. In early societies, economic conditions moved the balance of power in favor of men, as they cornered scarce resources “The War of the Sexes is a delight to for use in the sexual bargain. Today, conditions have changed read. Paul Seabright launches a charm beyond recognition, yet inequalities between men and women offensive on those who would prefer not persist, as the brains, talents, and preferences we inherited to think that gender differences have from our ancestors struggle to deal with the unpredictable any biological basis, and an intellectual forces unleashed by the modern information economy. offensive on those who think that these Men and women today have an unprecedented oppor- differences are large and intractable.” tunity to achieve equal power and respect. But we need to —Terri Apter, author of Working Women understand the mixed inheritance of conflict and cooperation Don’t Have Wives left to us by our primate ancestors if we are finally to escape their legacy.

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press.princeton.edu 6 Trade LIVES OF GREAT RELIGIOUS BOOKS

THE SURPRISING CAREER OF JOSEPH SMITH’S FAMOUS BOOK The Book of Mormon A Biography

Paul C. Gutjahr

Late one night in 1823 Joseph Smith, Jr. was reportedly visited in his family’s farmhouse in upstate New York by an angel named Moroni. According to Smith, Moroni told him of a buried stack of gold plates that were inscribed with a history of the Americas’ ancient peoples, and which would restore the pure Gospel message as Jesus had delivered it to them. Thus began the unlikely career of the Book of Mormon, the founding text of the Mormon religion, and perhaps the most important sacred text ever to originate in the United States. Here Paul Gutjahr traces the life of this book as it has formed and fractured different strains of Mormonism and transformed religious expression around the world. Gutjahr looks at how the Book of Mormon emerged from the burned-over district of upstate New York, where revivalist preachers, missionaries, and spiritual entrepreneurs of every stripe vied for the loyalty of settlers desperate to scratch a living from the land. He examines how a book that has long been the subject of ridicule—Mark Twain called it “chloroform in “This probing and engaging study print”—has more than 150 million copies in print in more than surveys the history, use, translation, and a hundred languages worldwide. Gutjahr shows how Smith’s adaptation into other media of the Book influential book launched one of the fastest growing new religions on the planet, and has featured in everything from of Mormon. I know of nothing else quite comic books and action figures to feature-length films and an like it. Religious traditions change over award-winning Broadway musical. time, and controlling a sacred text plays an important role in the self-identity of Paul C. Gutjahr is professor of English at Indiana University. the community. Gutjahr explains not His books include Charles Hodge: Guardian of American Or- simply how changes in the text took thodoxy and An American Bible: A History of the Good Book in place, but why.” the United States, 1777–1880.

—Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp, editor of Li ves of Great Religious Books American Scriptures: An Anthology of Sacred Writings Lives of Great Religious Books is a new series of short volumes that recount the complex and fascinating histories of important religious texts from around the world. Written for general readers by leading authors and experts, these books examine the historical origins of texts from the great religious traditions, and trace how their reception, interpretation, and influence have changed—often radi- APRIL cally—over time. As these stories of translation, adaptation, appro- priation, and inspiration dramatically remind us, all great religious Cloth $24.95T books are living things whose careers in the world can take the most 978-0-691-14480-1 unexpected turns. 232 pages. 23 halftones. 1 1 1 table. 4 ⁄2 x 7 ⁄2. RELIGION z AMERICAN HISTORY

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HOW THE I CHING BECAME ONE OF The I Ching THE MOST WIDELY READ AND INFLUENTIAL A Biography BOOKS IN THE WORLD

Richard J. Smith

T he I Ching originated in China as a divination manual more than three thousand years ago. In 136 BCE the emperor declared it a Confucian classic, and in the centuries that followed, this work had a profound influence on the philosophy, religion, art, literature, politics, science, technology, and medicine of various cultures throughout East Asia. Jesuit missionaries brought knowledge of the I Ching to Europe in the seventeenth century, and the American counterculture embraced it in the 1960s. Here Richard Smith tells the extraordinary story of how this cryptic and once obscure book became one of the most widely read and extensively analyzed texts in all of world literature. In this concise history, Smith traces the evolution of the I Ching in China and throughout the world, explaining its complex structure, its manifold uses in different cultures, and its enduring appeal. He shows how the indigenous beliefs and customs of Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and Tibet “domesticated” the text, and he reflects on whether thisC hinese classic can be compared to religious books such as the Bible or the Qur’an. “Richard Smith synthesizes a great Smith also looks at how the I Ching came to be published in deal of information about the I Ching dozens of languages, providing insight and inspiration to mil- and presents it with admirable clarity. lions worldwide—including ardent admirers in the West such I know of no one else who commands as Leibniz, Carl Jung, Philip K. Dick, Allen Ginsberg, Hermann the history of this text to the extent that Hesse, Bob Dylan, Jorge Luis Borges, and I. M. Pei. Smith offers an unparalleled biography of the most revered book in China’s he does, whether in China or especially entire cultural tradition, and he shows us how this enigmatic in its global context. His excellent book ancient classic has become a truly global phenomenon. will find a ready and wide readership.” —Edward L. Shaughnessy, author of Richard J. Smith is the George and Nancy Rupp Professor of Confucian and Taoist Wisdom Humanities and professor of history at Rice University.

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Amy Gutmann & Dennis Thompson

If politics is the art of the possible, then compromise is the artistry of democracy. Unless one partisan ideology holds sway over all branches of government, compromise is necessary to govern for the benefit of all citizens. A rejection of compromise biases politics in favor of the status quo, even when the rejection risks crisis. Why then is compromise so difficult in American politics today? In The Spirit of Compromise, eminent political thinkers Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson connect the rejection of compromise to the domination of campaigning over governing—the permanent campaign—in American democracy today. They show that campaigning for political office calls for a mindset that blocks compromise—standing tenaciously on principle to mobilize voters and mistrusting opponents in order to defeat them. Good government calls for an opposite cluster of attitudes and arguments—the compromising mindset—that inclines politicians to adjust their principles and to respect their opponents. It is a mindset that helps politicians “As one would expect from Gutmann appreciate and take advantage of opportunities for desirable and Thompson, The Spirit of Compromise compromise. thoughtfully and effectively blends theory Gutmann and Thompson explore the dynamics of these mindsets by comparing the historic compromises on tax with real-life examples to underscore reform under President Reagan in 1986 and health care reform a larger important thesis: the political under President Obama in 2010. Both compromises were process of compromise matters.” difficult to deliver but only tax reform was bipartisan. Drawing —Norman J. Ornstein, coauthor of The lessons from these and other important compromises—and Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing failures to compromise—in American politics, Gutmann and America and How to Get It Back on Track Thompson propose changes in our political institutions, processes, and mindsets that would encourage a better balance between campaigning and governing. Calling for greater cooperation in contemporary politics, The Spirit of Compromise will interest all who care about whether their government leaders can work together.

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press.princeton.edu Trade 9 How to Win an Election A PRIMER ON CAMPAIGNING IN ANCIENT ROME An Ancient Guide for Modern Politicians THAT READS LIKE A STRATEGY MEMO FROM A MODERN POLITICAL CONSULTANT Quintus Tullius Cicero T ranslated and with an introduction by Philip Freeman

How to Win an Election is an ancient Roman guide for campaigning that is as up-to-date as tomorrow’s headlines. In 64 BC when idealist Marcus Cicero, Rome’s greatest orator, ran for consul (the highest office in theR epublic), his practical brother Quintus decided he needed some no-nonsense advice on running a successful campaign. What follows in his short letter are timeless bits of political wisdom, from the importance of promising everything to everybody and reminding voters about the sexual scandals of your opponents to being a chameleon, putting on a good show for the masses, and constantly surrounding yourself with rabid supporters. Presented here in a lively and colorful new translation, with the Latin text on facing pages, this unashamedly pragmatic primer on the humble art of personal politicking is dead-on (Cicero won)— and as relevant today as when it was written. A little-known classic in the spirit of Machiavelli’s Prince, How to Win an Election is required reading for politicians and “In his election advice to his brother everyone who enjoys watching them try to manipulate their Marcus, Quintus Cicero shows himself way into office. to be a master political strategist with a clear understanding of opposition Philip Freeman is the author of many books, including Oh My Gods: A Modern Retelling of Greek and Roman Myths, research, organization, and turnout Alexander the Great, and Julius Caesar (all Simon & Schuster). (though a little weak on message). He received his PhD from Harvard University and holds the Fresh, lively, and sharp, this primer pro- Qualley Chair of Classical Languages at Luther College in vides timeless counsel and a great read Decorah, Iowa. for the modern political practitioner.” —Karl Rove, former deputy chief of “Given the lowly state of politics these days, this staff and senior advisor to President ancient Roman handbook on electioneering shows George W. Bush how little has changed. Freeman has done a masterful job of bringing this delightful text into the modern day—so masterful that one might think it was actually a spoof.” —Gary Hart, former U.S. senator

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press.princeton.edu 10 Trade Cells to THE SCIENCE OF CHANGE, FROM CELLS TO CULTURE Civilizations The Principles of Change That Shape Life

Enrico Coen

Cells to Civilizations is the first unified account of how life transforms itself—from the production of bacteria to the emergence of complex civilizations. What are the connections between evolving microbes, an egg that develops into an infant, or a child who learns to walk and talk? Award-winning scientist Enrico Coen synthesizes the growth of living systems and creative processes, and he reveals that the four great life transformations—evolution, development, learning, and human culture—while typically understood separately, actually all revolve around shared core principles and manifest the same fundamental recipe. Coen blends provocative discussion, the latest scientific research, and colorful examples to demonstrate the links between these critical stages in the history of life. Coen tells a story rich with genes, embryos, neurons, and fascinating discoveries. He examines the development of the zebra, the adaptations of seaweed, the cave paintings of Lascaux, and the formulations of Alan Turing. He explores how dogs make predictions, how weeds tell the time of day, and how our brains distinguish a Modigliani from a Rembrandt. Locating commonalities in important findings, Coen gives “This is a charming, clever, and thought- readers a deeper understanding of key transformations and provoking book. With examples and provides a bold portrait for how science both frames and is metaphor, the book advances the idea framed by human culture. that the same basic principles operate A compelling investigation into the relationships between in evolution, development, learning, our biological past and cultural progress, Cells to Civilizations and culture.” presents a remarkable story of living change. —Stephen C. Stearns, Yale University Enrico Coen is a plant molecular geneticist based at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, United Kingdom. He is the author of The Art of Genes, a fellow of the Royal Society, and a foreign associate of the U.S. National Academy of Science. His awards include the Linnean Gold Medal and the Royal Society Darwin Medal.

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press.princeton.edu Trade 11 Nature’s Compass The Mystery of Animal Navigation THE MYSTERIOUS AND REMARKABLE WAYS THAT ANIMALS NAVIGATE

James L. Gould & Carol Grant Gould

We know that animals cross miles of water, land, and sky with pinpoint precision on a daily basis. But it is only in recent years that scientists have learned how these astounding feats of navigation are actually accomplished. With colorful and thorough detail, Nature’s Compass explores the remarkable methods by which animals find their way both near home and around the globe. Noted biologist James Gould and popular science writer Carol Gould delve into the elegant strategies and fail-safe backup systems, the invisible sensitivities and mysterious forces, and incredible mental abilities used by familiar and rare species, as they investigate a multitude of navigation strategies, from the simple to the astonishing. The Goulds discuss how animals navigate, without instruments and training, at a level far beyond human talents. They explain how animals measure time and show how the fragile monarch butterfly employs an internal clock, calendar, compass, and map to commence and measure the two- thousand-mile annual journey to Mexico—all with a brain that weighs only a few thousandths of an ounce. They look at honey bees and how they rely on the sun and mental maps to “Nature’s Compass is a captivating intro- locate landmarks such as nests and flowers. And they examine duction to animal navigation. It draws whether long-distance migrants, such as the homing pigeon, depend on a global positioning system to let them know where readers into a world in which myriad they are. Ultimately, the authors ask if the disruption of migra- creatures outperform humans in every tory paths through habitat destruction and global warming is way possible. Enlightening and thought- affecting and endangering animal species. provoking, this book is a comprehensive Providing a comprehensive picture of animal navigation exploration of the topic and shows how and migration, Nature’s Compass decodes the mysteries of this an understanding of navigation may be extraordinary aspect of natural behavior. critical for conservation.” —Irene M. Pepperberg, author of Alex James L. Gould is professor of ecology and evolutionary biol- & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot ogy at Princeton University. Carol Grant Gould is a science writer who has published widely. Together, the Goulds have Uncovered a Hidden World of Animal written nine earlier books, including The Animal Mind and Intelligence—and Formed a Deep Bond Animal Architects. in the Process

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press.princeton.edu 12 Trade Who’s # 1? THE MATHEMATICS BEHIND TODAY’S MOST The Science of Rating and Ranking WIDELY USED RATING AND RANKING METHODS

Amy N. Langville & Carl D. Meyer

A website’s ranking on Google can spell the difference between success and failure for a new business. NCAA football ratings determine which schools get to play for the big money in postseason bowl games. Product ratings influence everything from the clothes we wear to the movies we select on Netflix. Ratings and rankings are everywhere, but how exactly do they work? Who’s #1? offers an engaging and accessible account of how scientific rating and ranking methods are created and applied to a variety of uses. Amy Langville and Carl Meyer provide the first comprehensive overview of the mathematical algorithms and methods used to rate and rank sports teams, political candidates, products, Web pages, and more. In a series of interesting asides, Langville and Meyer provide fascinating insights into the ingenious contributions of many of the field’s pioneers.T hey survey and compare the different methods employed today, showing why their strengths and weaknesses depend on the underlying goal, and explaining why and when a given method should be considered. Langville and Meyer also describe what can and can’t be “Who’s #1? provides a much-needed expected from the most widely used systems. synthesis of the methods used for rank- The science of rating and ranking touches virtually every ing and rating things like sports teams, facet of our lives, and now you don’t need to be an expert to movies, politicians, and more. There understand how it really works. Who’s #1? is the definitive introduction to the subject. It features easy-to-understand is a ton of interest in this topic, and examples and interesting trivia and historical facts, and much readers now have one place to look for a of the required mathematics is included. comprehensive treatment of the different approaches.” Amy N. Langville is associate professor of mathematics at the —Wayne L. Winston, author of Mathlet- College of Charleston. Carl D. Meyer is professor of mathe- ics: How Gamblers, Managers, and Sports matics at North Carolina State University. They are the authors Enthusiasts Use Mathematics in Baseball, of Google’s PageRank and Beyond: The Science of Search Engine Rankings (Princeton). Basketball, and Football

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press.princeton.edu Trade 13 The Universe THE ULTIMATE ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO in Zero Words 24 EQUATIONS THAT HAVE CHANGED THE WORLD The Story of Mathematics as Told through Equations

Dana Mackenzie

Most popular books about science, and even about mathematics, tiptoe around equations as if they were something to be hidden from the reader’s tender eyes. Dana Mackenzie starts from the opposite premise: He celebrates equations. No history of art would be complete without pictures. Why, then, should a history of mathematics—the universal language of science—keep the masterpieces of the subject hidden behind a veil? The Universe in Zero Words tells the history of twenty-four great and beautiful equations that have shaped mathematics, science, and society—from the elementary (1+1=2) to the sophisticated (the Black-Scholes formula for financial derivatives), and from the famous (E=mc2) to the arcane (Hamil- ton’s quaternion equations). Mackenzie, who has been called a “popular-science ace” by Booklist magazine, lucidly explains what each equation means, who discovered it (and how), and how it has affected our lives. Illustrated in color throughout, the book tells the human “Demanding very little prior math- and often-surprising stories behind the invention or discovery ematical knowledge, this is one of the of the equations, from how a bad cigar changed the course best popular histories of mathemat- of quantum mechanics to why whales (if they could commu- ics in recent years. Dana Mackenzie’s nicate with us) would teach us a totally different concept of prose is lively and easy to read, and geometry. At the same time, the book shows why these equa- his mix of historical background and tions have something timeless to say about the universe, and personal biographies of the main char- how they do it with an economy (zero words) that no other form of human expression can match. acters is engaging.” The Universe in Zero Words is the ultimate introduction —Eli Maor, author of The Pythagorean and guide to equations that have changed the world. Theorem: A 4,000-Year History and e: The Story of a Number Dana Mackenzie is the author of The Big Splat, or How Our Moon Came to Be (Wiley), among other books. He is a frequent contributor to Science, Discover, and New Scientist. He has a PhD in mathematics from Princeton and was a mathematics professor for thirteen years before becoming a full-time writer. JUNE Cloth $27.95T 978-0-691-15282-0 224 pages. 26 color illus. 1 17 halftones. 12 line illus. 7 x 9 ⁄2. POPULAR MATHEMATICS z POPULAR SCIENCE

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press.princeton.edu 14 Trade X and the City WHAT MATHEMATICAL MODELING Modeling Aspects of Urban Life UNCOVERS ABOUT LIFE IN THE CITY

John A. Adam

X and the City, a book of diverse and accessible math-based topics, uses basic modeling to explore a wide range of entertaining questions about urban life. How do you estimate the number of dental or doctor’s offices, gas stations, restaurants, or movie theaters in a city of a given size? How can mathematics be used to maximize traffic flow through tunnels?C an you predict whether a traffic light will stay green long enough for you to cross the intersection? And what is the likelihood that your city will be hit by an asteroid? Every math problem and equation in this book tells a story and examples are explained throughout in an informal and witty style. The level of mathematics ranges from pre-calculus through calculus to some differential equations, and any reader with knowledge of elementary calculus will be able to follow the materials with ease. There are also some more challenging problems sprinkled in for the more advanced reader. Filled with interesting and unusual observations about how cities work, X and the City shows how mathematics undergirds and plays an important part in the metropolitan landscape.

John A. Adam is professor of mathematics at Old Dominion “In X and the City, John Adam proves University. He is the author of A Mathematical Nature Walk himself to be a genial and endlessly and Mathematics in Nature, and coauthor of Guesstima- tion: Solving the World’s Problems on the Back of a Cocktail curious companion as he takes us on Napkin (all Princeton). a stroll through that fascinating place where reality meets the mathematical imagination. How many squirrels live in Central Park? Should you walk or run in the rain? Anyone who’s ever pon- dered puzzles like these will find this book to be a treat.” —Steven Strogatz, Cornell University

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press.princeton.edu Trade 15 The Irrationals THE FIRST POPULAR HISTORY OF IRRATIONAL A Story of the Numbers You Can’t Count On NUMBERS AND THEIR DISCOVERERS, FROM ANCIENT GREECE TO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Julian Havil

The ancient Greeks discovered them, but it wasn’t until the nineteenth century that irrational numbers were properly understood and rigorously defined, and even today not all their mysteries have been revealed. In The Irrationals, the first popular and comprehensive book on the subject, Julian Havil tells the story of irrational numbers and the mathematicians who have tackled their challenges, from antiquity to the twenty-first century. Along the way, he explains why irrational numbers are surprisingly difficult to define—and why so many questions still surround them. That definition seems so simple: they are numbers that cannot be expressed as a ratio of two integers, or that have decimal expansions that are neither infinite nor recurring. But, as The Irrationals shows, these are the real “complex” numbers, and they have an equally complex and intriguing history, from Euclid’s famous proof that the square root of 2 is irrational to Roger Apéry’s proof of the irrationality of a number called Zeta(3), one of the greatest results of the twentieth century. In between, Havil explains other important results, such as the irrationality of e and pi. He also discusses the distinction between “ordinary” irrationals and transcenden- tals, as well as the appealing question of whether the decimal “Readers will be swept away by Havil’s expansion of irrationals is “random.” command of the subject and his won- Fascinating and illuminating, this is a book for everyone derful writing style. The Irrationals is a who loves math and the history behind it. lot of fun.” —Robert Gross, coauthor of Fearless Julian Havil is the author of Gamma: Exploring Euler’s Con- Symmetry: Exposing the Hidden Patterns stant, Nonplussed!: Mathematical Proof of Implausible Ideas, of Numbers and Elliptic Tales: Curves, and Impossible?: Surprising Solutions to Counterintuitive Conundrums (all Princeton). He is a retired former master at Counting, and Number Theory Winchester College, England, where he taught mathematics for more than three decades.

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press.princeton.edu 16 Trade Elliptic Tales A LOOK AT ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING Curves, Counting, and Number Theory UNSOLVED PROBLEMS IN MATHEMATICS TODAY

Avner Ash & Robert Gross

Elliptic Tales describes the latest developments in number theory by looking at one of the most exciting unsolved problems in contemporary mathematics—the Birch and Swinnerton- Dyer Conjecture. The Clay Mathematics Institute is offering a prize of $1 million to anyone who can discover a general solution to the problem. In this book, Avner Ash and Robert Gross guide readers through the mathematics they need to understand this captivating problem. The key to the conjecture lies in elliptic curves, which are cubic equations in two variables. These equations may appear simple, yet they arise from some very deep—and often very mystifying—mathematical ideas. Using only basic algebra and calculus while presenting numerous eye-opening examples, Ash and Gross make these ideas accessible to general readers, and in the process venture to the very frontiers of modern mathematics. Along the way, they give an informative and entertaining introduction to some of the most profound discoveries of the last three centuries in algebraic geometry, abstract algebra, and number theory. They demonstrate how mathematics grows more abstract to tackle ever more challenging problems, and how each new generation of mathematicians “The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Con- builds on the accomplishments of those who preceded them. jecture is one of the great insights in Ash and Gross fully explain how the Birch and Swinnerton- number theory from the twentieth cen- Dyer Conjecture sheds light on the number theory of elliptic tury, and Ash and Gross write with care curves, and how it provides a beautiful and startling connec- and a clear love of the subject. Elliptic tion between two very different objects arising from an elliptic Tales will have wide appeal.” curve, one based on calculus, the other on algebra. —Peter Sarnak, Princeton University Avner Ash is professor of mathematics at Boston College. Robert Gross is associate professor of mathematics at Boston College. They are the coauthors of Fearless Symmetry: Exposing the Hidden Patterns of Numbers (Princeton).

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press.princeton.edu Trade 17 Why Cats Land HOW TO USE PHYSICAL REASONING on Their Feet TO SOLVE SURPRISING PARADOXES And 76 Other Physical Paradoxes and Puzzles

Mark Levi

Ever wonder why cats land on their feet? Or what holds a spin- ning top upright? Or whether it is possible to feel the Earth’s rotation in an airplane? Why Cats Land on Their Feet is a compendium of paradoxes and puzzles that readers can solve using their own physical intuition. And the surprising answers to virtually all of these astonishing paradoxes can be arrived at with no formal knowledge of physics. Mark Levi introduces each physical problem, sometimes gives a hint or two, and then fully explains the solution. Here readers can test their critical-thinking skills against a whole assortment of puzzlers and paradoxes involving floating and diving, sailing and gliding, gymnastics, bike riding, outer space, throwing a ball from a moving car, centrifugal force, gyroscopic motion, and, of course, falling cats. Want to figure out how to open a wine bottle with a book? Or how to compute the square root of a number using a ten- nis shoe and a watch? Why Cats Land on Their Feet shows you how, and all that’s required is a familiarity with basic high- school mathematics. This lively collection also features an appendix that explains all physical concepts used in the book, “Why Cats Land on Their Feet is a collec- from Newton’s laws to the fundamental theorem of calculus. tion of fun physical puzzles that will be Mark Levi is professor of mathematics at Pennsylvania State attractive to a wide spectrum of readers, University. He is the author of The Mathematical Mechanic: from teachers to those looking simply Using Physical Reasoning to Solve Problems (see page 54). for good reading and educational en- tertainment. Levi’s sense of humor and friendly, informal style add to the pleasure of the book. Each of these puzzles, without exception, kept my attention.” —Paul J. Nahin, author of Number- Crunching: Taming Unruly Compu- tational Problems from Mathematical Physics to Science Fiction

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press.princeton.edu 18 Trade The Ultimate Book THE BEST BACKYARD EXPERIMENTS FOR HANDS-ON SCIENCE LEARNING of Saturday Science The Very Best Backyard Science Experiments You Can Do Yourself

Neil A. Downie

The Ultimate Book of Saturday Science is Neil Downie’s biggest and most astounding compendium yet of science experiments you can do in your own kitchen or backyard using common household items. It may be the only book that encourages hands-on science learning through the use of high-velocity, air-driven carrots. Downie, the undisputed maestro of Saturday science, here reveals important principles in physics, engineering, and chemistry through such marvels as the Helevator—a contraption that’s half helicopter, half elevator—and the Rocket Railroad, which pumps propellant up from its own track. The Riddle of the Sands demonstrates why some granular materials form steep cones when poured while others collapse in an avalanche. The Sunbeam Exploder creates a combustible delivery system out of sunlight, while the Red Hot Memory experiment shows you how to store data as heat. Want to learn to tell time using a knife and “This is the most extensive collection some butter? There’s a whole section devoted to exotic clocks of project ideas at this level that I know and oscillators that teaches you how. of. Downie gives better ‘how to’ ex- The Ultimate Book of Saturday Science features more than planations and takes the ideas further seventy fun and astonishing experiments that range in diffi- than most other books of this kind. The culty from simple to more challenging. All of them are original, Ultimate Book of Saturday Science is a and all are guaranteed to work. Downie provides instructions true omnibus.” for each one and explains the underlying science, and also —David Willey, University of Pittsburgh presents experimental variations that readers will want to try. at Johnstown Neil A. Downie is a lead scientist with Air Products and Chem- icals, Inc., and visiting professor of multidisciplinary engineering at the University of Surrey. His books include Vacuum Bazookas, Electric Rainbow Jelly, and 27 Other Saturday Science Projects (Princeton).

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A ONE-OF-A-KIND NATURAL HISTORY OF Spring Wildflowers NORTHEASTERN SPRING WILDFLOWERS of the Northeast A Natural History

Carol Gracie With a foreword by Eric Lamont

This exquisitely illustrated volume provides an in-depth look at spring-blooming wildflowers of the Northeast, from old favorites to lesser-known species. Featuring more than 500 full-color photos in a stunning large-sized format, the book delves deep into the life histories, lore, and cultural uses of more than 35 plant species. The rich narrative covers topics such as the naming of wildflowers; the reasons for taxonomic changes; pollination of flowers and dispersal of seeds; uses by Native Americans; related species in other parts of the world; herbivores, plant pathogens, and pests; medicinal uses; and wildflower references in history, literature, and art. The photos capture the beauty of these plants and also illustrate the concepts discussed in the text. A book unlike any other, Spring Wildflowers of the North- east combines the latest scientific research with an accessible, entertaining style, making it the ideal volume for readers of all levels of expertise. “This is a wonderful collection of essays

u Showcases the Northeast’s most spectacular spring- on some of our favorite early spring blooming wildflowers wildflowers, taking readers way beyond u Features more than 500 full-color photos the typical coverage of identity, general u Covers the life histories, lore, and cultural uses of more habitat, and range. Spring Wildflowers than 35 species of the Northeast is an excellent, unique, u Combines the latest scientific research with an easy-to- and exceptionally well-illustrated book, read style a wonderful addition to our literature u Offers something new for seasoned botanists as well as on wildflowers.” armchair naturalists —Garrett E. Crow, professor emeritus, Carol Gracie is an acclaimed naturalist, photographer, and University of New Hampshire writer. Now retired, she worked for many years as an educator and tour leader with the New York Botanical Garden before teaming up with Scott Mori, her husband, on botanical research projects in South America. Her books include Wildflow- ers in the Field and Forest.

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press.princeton.edu 20 Natural History Birds of India A Field Guide to the Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Birds of New Zealand Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives Second Edition Julian Fitter & Don Merton Richard Grimmett, Carol Inskipp & Tim Inskipp New Zealand is commonly described as “the land of birds.” Now, there is an easy-to-use guide for all those interested in this country’s remarkable bird The best field guide to the birds of the Indian subcon- population. A Field Guide to the Birds of New Zealand tinent is now even better. Thoroughly revised, with 73 contains over 600 stunning photographs of the more new plates and many others updated or repainted, than 350 bird species likely to be seen in this area of the second edition of Birds of India now features all the world. Comprehensive and compact, the book in- maps and text opposite the plates for quicker and cludes full descriptions of all native species and regu- easier reference. Newly identified species have been lar visitors, distribution maps and measurements, key added, the text has been extensively revised, and all information on national parks, and useful information the maps are new. Comprehensive and definitive, this on ongoing conservation efforts in the country. Filled is the indispensable guide for anyone birding in this with handy tips for nature enthusiasts wanting to part of the world. make the most of their trip, this is the only bird guide that anyone exploring this region will need.

u The leading field guide to the birds of the Indian subcontinent—now thoroughly revised u 600+ color photographs feature more than 350 and improved bird species with full descriptions u Distribution maps and measurements u 1,375 species illustrated and described, including all residents, migrants, and vagrants u Key information on national parks helps readers find the best spots for bird sightings u 226 color plates—including 73 new ones— depict every species and many distinct u Useful information on conservation efforts plumages and races u Guidelines on sensible behavior for encountering nature at its best u Concise text and accurate distribution maps opposite plates for easy reference Julian Fitter is a longtime resident of New Zealand u Includes newly identified species and a key member of Friends of the Galápagos, the Galápagos Conservation Trust, and Falklands Richard Grimmett is head of conservation at BirdLife Conservation. He is the coauthor of Wildlife of the International. Carol Inskipp and Tim Inskipp are free- Galápagos (Princeton). Don Merton (1939–2011) was lance wildlife consultants. The authors have traveled one of New Zealand’s most internationally acclaimed widely in Asia and together written a series of books conservationists. Prior to his retirement in 2005, he on the continent’s birds. was a senior scientific staff member of New Zealand’s P rinceton Field Guides Department of Conservation and helped save the Kākāpō and Black Robin from extinction. MARCH P rinceton Pocket Guides Paper $39.50T 978-0-691-15349-0 JANUARY 528 pages. 226 color illus. 1 1 Paper $24.95T 1,375 maps. 5 ⁄2 x 8 ⁄2. 978-0-691-15351-3 FIELD GUIDES z BIRDS 320 pages. 600+ color photos. 1 1 4 ⁄2 x 7 ⁄2. Not for sale in the Commonwealth (except Canada) and Europe FIELD GUIDES z BIRDS

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the essential tools you need How to Be a Better Birder to become a better birder

Derek Lovitch

This unique illustrated handbook provides all the essential “This book is useful for those wanting tools you need to become a better birder. Here Derek Lovitch a convenient introduction to birding as offers a more effective way to go about identification—he calls it is currently practiced by many of the it the “Whole Bird and More” approach—that will enable you leaders in the North American field. to identify more birds, more quickly, more of the time. He The writing is informative and conver- demonstrates how to use geography and an understanding of sational, a good balance to strike when habitats, ecology, and even the weather to enrich your birding trying to make more advanced bird- experience and help you find something out of the ordinary. ing techniques accessible to a broader Lovitch shows how to track nocturnal migrants using radar, collect data for bird conservation, discover exciting rarities, audience.” develop patch lists—and much more. —Jeffrey A. Gordon, president of the This is the ideal resource for intermediate and advanced American Birding Association birders. Whether you want to build a bigger list or simply learn more about birds, How to Be a Better Birder will take your birding skills to the next level.

u Explains the “Whole Bird and More” approach to bird identification u Demonstrates how to use geography, habitats, ecology, and the weather to be a better birder u Shows how to bird at night using radar, collect conservation data, develop patch lists—and more u Offers essential tools for intermediate and advanced birders

Derek Lovitch has worked on avian research and education projects throughout the United States, has written numerous articles for birding publications, and was a columnist for Birding magazine. He now owns and runs Freeport Wild Bird Supply in Maine.

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press.princeton.edu 22 Natural History Birds of Central Asia Cotingas and Manakins Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan Guy M. Kirwan & Graeme Green

Raffael Ayé, Manuel Schweizer The New World tropics are home to the richest & Tobias Roth avifauna on the planet, with more than 4,000 species, many of them endemic. Two groups found exclusively in this region are the cotingas and the manakins. Few Central Asia—a vast and remote area of steppe, other families of birds have such widespread appeal. semi-desert, and mountains separating Europe from They are much sought after by birders for their color- eastern Asia—is home to a diversity of birds. Birds of ful displays, unusual plumages, and, in some cases, Central Asia is the first-ever field guide to the avian great rarity. Their natural history and behavior offer population of this fascinating part of the world. From fascinating case studies for evolutionary biologists, ground jays, larks, and raptors to warblers, nut- while the intriguingly elusive relationships of these hatches, and snowfinches, this comprehensive guide birds are of profound interest to taxonomists. covers 627 species—including all residents, migrants, Cotingas and Manakins is the definitive work on and vagrants—and 141 superb plates depict every these jewels of the Neotropics, covering more than species and many distinct plumages and races. This 130 species. These range from some of the rarest portable book contains important introductory sec- and most enigmatic birds in the world to some of the tions on the land and its birds, and up-to-date color best studied of all tropical species. Many are breath- maps. The concise, authoritative text on facing pages takingly colorful and ornate while some are plain highlights key identification features, such as status, and difficult to see. This stunning volume features voice, and habitat. Birds of Central Asia is indispens- 34 color plates by Eustace Barnes, who has observed able for anyone interested in the birds of this remark- many of these species in the field, as well as distribu- able and little-known region. tion maps and approximately 400 color photographs that cover all but a tiny handful of species. Com- u First-ever field guide to the birds of Kazakhstan, plete with detailed species accounts describing key Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, identification features, Cotingas and Manakins is the Tajikistan, and Afghanistan authoritative illustrated guide to these magnificent u Covers 627 species, including all residents, Neotropical birds. migrants, and vagrants u 141 superb plates depict every species and many u Covers more than 130 species of cotingas distinct plumages and races and manakins Raffael Ayé, Manuel Schweizer, and Tobias Roth are u Features 34 color plates and about 400 ornithologists based at the University of Berne in color photos Switzerland. They are experts on the birds of Central Asia, and their notable achievements include the Guy M. Kirwan is one of the world’s leading authori- discovery of the breeding grounds of the Large-billed ties on New World birds. He is a freelance author and Reed-warbler in Tajikistan. editor. His books include The Birds of Turkey. Graeme Green is a bird tour leader in Ecuador and has P rinceton Field Guides traveled widely in search of cotingas and manakins.

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Not for sale in the Commonwealth Not for sale in the Commonwealth (except Canada) and Europe (except Canada) and Europe Natural History 23 Birds of Aruba, Curaçao, Birds of Melanesia and Bonaire Bismarcks, Solomons, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia

Bart de Boer, Eric Newton Guy Dutson & Robin Restall I llustrated by Richard Allen, Adam Bowley, John Cox & Tony Disley

Located in the southern Caribbean off the coast of Venezuela, the islands of Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire Melanesia harbors an amazing range of endemic bird are home to a colorful diversity of bird species. Birds species and subspecies, many of which are poorly of Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire is the first compre- known. Birds of Melanesia is the first comprehensive hensive field guide to the birds of the region and the field guide to all 501 species found in the Bismarck ideal companion for identifying the islands’ remark- Archipelago, Bougainville, the Solomons, Vanuatu, able avian population. This compact and portable and New Caledonia. This beautifully illustrated guide book contains close to 1,000 superb color illustra- features 86 color plates that depict almost every tions on 71 color plates and detailed descriptions of species—including many endemic subspecies—and every species. Concise text on facing pages highlights many of the plates are arranged by island group for key identification features, including voice, habitat, easy reference. Detailed species accounts describe behavior, and status. This field guide is essential for key identification features and distribution, as well as all birdwatchers and wildlife enthusiasts interested in key features for all subspecies. Distribution bars are this part of the world. also given for all species except extreme vagrants.

u First-ever comprehensive field guide to the birds u Covers all 501 species recorded in Melanesia, of the Lesser Antilles 204 of which are endemic u Complete coverage of the islands’ bird species, u Features 86 color plates that illustrate almost including residents, migrants, and vagrants every species u Close to 1,000 illustrations on 71 color plates u Provides detailed species accounts depicting every species and all major plumages u Includes distribution bars for all species except and races extreme vagrants u Concise text on facing pages highlights key identification features, including voice, habitat, Guy Dutson is an ornithologist and tour leader. He behavior, and status is the world’s leading authority on the birds of the southwest Pacific, where he has described or redis- Bart de Boer is a Dutch ornithologist. He is the covered several species. author of Our Birds: Curaçao, Bonaire, Aruba and Our Animals: Curaçao, Bonaire, Aruba. Eric Newton is an P rinceton Field Guides amateur ornithologist who resides on Curaçao. Robin Restall is the principal author and sole illustra- MARCH tor of Birds of Northern South America. Paper $49.95T 978-0-691-15350-6 P rinceton Field Guides 448 pages. 86 color plates. 6 x 9. z MARCH FIELD GUIDES BIRDS

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Not for sale in the Commonwealth (except Canada) and Europe 24 Academic Trade The Irresistible Fairy Tale A PROVOCATIVE NEW THEORY The Cultural and Social History of a Genre ABOUT FAIRY TALES FROM ONE OF THE WORLD’S LEADING AUTHORITIES Jack Zipes

If there is one genre that has captured the imagination of people in all walks of life throughout the world, it is the fairy tale. Yet we still have great difficulty understanding how it originated, evolved, and spread—or why so many people cannot resist its appeal, no matter how it changes or what form it takes. In this book, renowned fairy-tale expert Jack Zipes presents a provocative new theory about why fairy tales were created and retold—and why they became such an indelible and infinitely adaptable part of cultures around the world. Drawing on cognitive science, evolutionary theory, anthropology, psychology, literary theory, and other fields, Zipes presents a nuanced argument about how fairy tales originated in ancient oral cultures, how they evolved through the rise of literary culture and print, and how, in our own time, they continue to change through their adaptation in an ever- growing variety of media. In making his case, Zipes considers a wide range of fascinating examples, including fairy tales told, collected, and written by women in the nineteenth century; Catherine Breillat’s film adaptation of Perrault’s “Bluebeard”; and contemporary fairy-tale drawings, paintings, sculptures, and photographs that critique canonical print versions. “This is Zipes’s magnum opus, the While we may never be able to fully explain fairy tales, The culmination of more than thirty years of Irresistible Fairy Tale provides a powerful theory of how and research, and his broadest consideration why they evolved—and why we still use them to make mean- yet of the fairy tale. He tackles very dif- ing of our lives. ficult fundamental questions, and pro- Jack Zipes is professor emeritus of German and comparative vides credible theoretical foundations literature at the University of Minnesota and the author, trans- and historical evidence for the answers lator, and editor of dozens of studies and collections of folk he proposes. Ultimately, he redirects the and fairy tales. His recent books include Why Fairy Tales Stick: conversation about the origins, nature, The Evolution and Relevance of a Genre, Relentless Progress: and appeal of the fairy tale.” The Reconfiguration of Children’s Literature, Fairy Tales, and —Donald Haase, editor of Marvels & Storytelling, and The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films. Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies

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press.princeton.edu Academic Trade 25 The Princeton THE MOST IMPORTANT POETRY REFERENCE Encyclopedia of FOR MORE THAN FOUR DECADES—NOW FULLY Poetry and Poetics UPDATED FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Fourth Edition

Roland Greene, editor in chief

Stephen Cushman, general editor C lare Cavanagh, Jahan Ramazani & Paul F. Rouzer, associate editors

Through three editions over more than four decades, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics has built an unrivaled reputation as the most comprehensive and authoritative reference for students, scholars, and poets on all aspects of its subject: history, movements, genres, prosody, rhetorical devices, critical terms, and more. Now this landmark work has been thoroughly revised and updated for the twenty-first century. Compiled by an entirely new team of editors, the fourth edition—the first new edition in almost twenty years—reflects recent changes in literary and cultural studies, providing up-to-date coverage and giving greater attention to the international aspects of poetry, all while preserving the best of the previous volumes. At well over a million words and more than 1,000 entries, Praise for previous editions: the Encyclopedia has unparalleled breadth and depth. Entries range in length from brief paragraphs to major essays of “An extraordinarily helpful volume that 15,000 words, offering a more thorough treatment—includ- will save untold hours of reference time ing expert synthesis and indispensable bibliographies—than for the student, the general reader, and conventional handbooks or dictionaries. the literary scholar.” This is a book that no reader or writer of poetry will want —Modern Language Journal to be without. “The standard source for information u Thoroughly revised and updated by a new editorial team for on the history and criticism of poetry twenty-first-century students, scholars, and poets and poetic technique and theory.” u More than 250 new entries cover recent terms, movements, —Booklist national poetic traditions, and other topics

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press.princeton.edu 26 Academic Trade The Young Turks’ Crime AN UNPRECEDENTED LOOK AT SECRET DOCUMENTS SHOWING THE DELIBERATE NATURE against Humanity OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire

Taner Akçam

Introducing new evidence from more than 600 secret Otto- man documents, this book demonstrates in unprecedented detail that the Armenian Genocide and the expulsion of Greeks from the late Ottoman Empire resulted from an official effort to rid the empire of its Christian subjects. Presenting these previously inaccessible documents along with expert context and analysis, Taner Akçam’s most authoritative work to date goes deep inside the bureaucratic machinery of Ottoman Turkey to show how a dying empire embraced genocide and ethnic cleansing. Although the deportation and killing of Armenians was internationally condemned in 1915 as a “crime against humanity and civilization,” the Ottoman government initiated a policy of denial that is still maintained by the Turkish Republic. The case for Turkey’s “official history” rests on documents from the Ottoman imperial archives, to which access has been heavily restricted until recently. It is this very source that Akçam now uses to overturn the official narrative. “This is an extraordinary book in many The documents presented here attest to a late-Ottoman ways. It is an important contribution policy of Turkification, the goal of which was no less than the radical demographic transformation of Anatolia. To that to the documentation of the Armenian end, about one-third of Anatolia’s 15 million people were Genocide and stands as a marker to displaced, deported, expelled, or massacred, destroying the what we now know. And it is simply ethno-religious diversity of an ancient cultural crossroads of stunning to read through the docu- East and West, and paving the way for the Turkish Republic. ments gathered by Akçam and to hear By uncovering the central roles played by demographic the voices of those who ordered the engineering and assimilation in the Armenian Genocide, this deportations and killings.” book will fundamentally change how this crime is understood —Ronald Suny, University of Michigan and show that physical destruction is not the only aspect of the genocidal process.

Taner Akçam, the first scholar of Turkish origin to publicly acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, holds the Kaloosdian and Mugar Chair in Armenian Genocide Studies at Clark University. His many books include A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility MAY (Metropolitan Books). Cloth $39.50S 978-0-691-15333-9 Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity 528 pages. 5 halftones. E ric D. Weitz, Series Editor 3 tables. 5 maps. 6 x 9. HISTORY

press.princeton.edu Academic Trade 27 The Paradox of Love A PROVOCATIVE REFLECTION ON THE DILEMMAS OF MODERN LOVE Pascal Bruckner T ranslated by Steven Rendall and with an afterword by Richard Golsan

The sexual revolution is justly celebrated for the freedoms it brought—birth control, the decriminalization of abortion, the liberalization of divorce, greater equality between the sexes, women’s massive entry into the workforce, and more tolerance of homosexuality. But as Pascal Bruckner, one of France’s leading writers, argues in this lively and provocative reflection on the contradictions of modern love, our new freedoms have also brought new burdens and rules—without, however, wip- ing out the old rules, emotions, desires, and arrangements: the couple, marriage, jealousy, the demand for fidelity, the war between constancy and inconstancy. It is no wonder that love, sex, and relationships today are so confusing, so difficult, and so paradoxical. Drawing on history, politics, psychology, literature, pop culture, and current events, this book—a best seller in France—exposes and dissects these paradoxes. With his cus- tomary brilliance and wit, Bruckner traces the roots of sexual liberation back to the Enlightenment in order to illuminate the long background of love’s supreme paradox, epitomized by the 1960s oxymoron of “free love”: the tension between free- “Pascal Bruckner is one of the most dom, which separates, and love, which attaches. Ashamed that our sex lives fail to live up to such liberated ideals, we have original, and least academic, of the new traded neuroses of repression for neuroses of inadequacy, and French philosophers. He has a mordant we overcompensate: “Our parents lied about their morality,” wit, a feeling for the pregnant sentence, Bruckner writes, but “we lie about our immorality.” and his dissection of the myths of Mixing irony and optimism, Bruckner argues that, when it romantic love—too elegantly done to be comes to love, we should side neither with the revolutionaries called a ‘deconstruction’—is ideal read- nor the reactionaries. Rather, taking love and ourselves as we ing for lovers of paradox, and even for are, we should realize that love makes no progress and that those still in love with love’s paradox.” its messiness, surprises, and paradoxes are not merely the —Adam Gopnik, author of Paris to the sources of its pain—but also of its pleasure and glory. Moon and The Table Comes First Pascal Bruckner is the award-winning author of many books of fiction and nonfiction, including the novel Bitter Moon, which was made into a film byR oman Polanski. Bruckner’s nonfiction books include Perpetual Euphoria (Princeton) and The Tyranny of Guilt (see page 48).

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press.princeton.edu 28 Academic Trade Krupp A HISTORY OF THE STEEL AND ARMS MAKER A History of the Legendary German Firm THAT CAME TO SYMBOLIZE THE BEST AND WORST OF MODERN GERMAN HISTORY Harold James

The history of Krupp is the history of modern Germany. No company symbolized the best and worst of that history more than the famous steel and arms maker. In this book, Harold James tells the story of the Krupp family and its industrial empire between the early nineteenth century and the present, and analyzes its transition from a family business to one owned by a nonprofit foundation. Krupp founded a small steel mill in 1811, which laid the basis for one of the largest and most important companies in the world by the end of the century. Famously loyal to its highly paid workers, it rejected an exclusive focus on profit, but the company also played a central role in the armament of Nazi Germany and the firm’s head was convicted as a war criminal at Nuremberg. Yet after the war Krupp managed to rebuild itself and become a symbol of Germany once again—this time open, economically successful, and socially responsible. Books on Krupp tend to either denounce it as a diaboli- cal enterprise or celebrate its technical ingenuity. In contrast, James presents a balanced account, showing that the owners felt ambivalent about the company’s military connection even while becoming more and more entangled in Germany’s ag- “This is a clear and well-informed gressive politics during the imperial era and the Third Reich. history of one of the most important in- By placing the story of Krupp and its owners in a wide dustrial firms in Europe’s most impor- context, James also provides new insights into the political, social, and economic history of modern Germany. tant industrial economy. Harold James situates the story of Krupp within the Harold James is professor of history and international affairs main strands of the history of modern and the Claude and Lore Kelly Professor of European Studies Germany, modern industrial capital- at Princeton University. His books include The Creation and ism, and globalization. This is also a Destruction of Value, The End of Globalization, and Family fascinating story about a family and Capitalism. He was awarded the 2004 Helmut Schmidt Prize for Economic History, and the 2005 Ludwig Erhard Prize for their business.” economics writing. He is also the Marie Curie Visiting Profes- —Richard Bessel, author of Germany sor at the European University Institute. 1945: From War to Peace

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press.princeton.edu Academic Trade 29 The International A FASCINATING HISTORY OF THE Human Rights Movement INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT AS SEEN BY ONE OF ITS FOUNDERS A History

Aryeh Neier

During the past several decades, the international human rights movement has had a crucial hand in the struggle against totalitarian regimes, cruelties in wars, and crimes against humanity. Today, it grapples with the war against terror and subsequent abuses of government power. In The Interna- tional Human Rights Movement, Aryeh Neier—a leading figure and a founder of the contemporary movement—offers a comprehensive and authoritative account of this global force, from its beginnings in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to its essential place in world affairs today.N eier combines analysis with personal experience, and gives a unique insider’s perspective on the movement’s goals, the disputes about its mission, and its rise to international importance. Discussing the movement’s origins, Neier looks at the dissenters who fought for religious freedoms in seventeenth- century England and the abolitionists who opposed slavery before the Civil War era. He pays special attention to the period from the 1970s onward, and he describes the growth of the human rights movement after the Helsinki Accords, the roles played by American presidential administrations, “Aryeh Neier’s insightful account of the and the astonishing Arab revolutions of 2011. Neier argues human rights movement underlines the that the contemporary human rights movement was, to a crucial role played by individuals and large extent, an outgrowth of the Cold War, and he demon- human rights defenders in speaking strates how it became the driving influence in international out against abuses. This book describes law, institutions, and rights. Throughout, Neier highlights key many of the human rights challenges figures, controversies, and organizations, including Amnesty that remain and is essential reading International and Human Rights Watch, and he considers the challenges to come. for all those wishing to understand the Illuminating and insightful, The International Human political challenges of our times.” Rights Movement is a remarkable account of a significant —Kofi Annan, former secretary-general of world movement, told by a key figure in its evolution. the United Nations (1997–2006)

Aryeh Neier has been president of the Open Society Founda- tions since 1993. Prior to that, he was a founder and executive director of Human Rights Watch and executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union. A contributor to many major publications, he is the author of Taking Liberties and War Crimes, among other books. MAY Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity Cloth $35.00S E ric D. Weitz, Series Editor 978-0-691-13515-1 440 pages. 6 x 9. HISTORY z POLITICS

press.princeton.edu 30 Academic Trade On the Origins of A NEW INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF “JEWISH SELF-HATRED” Jewish Self-Hatred

Paul Reitter

T oday, the term “Jewish self-hatred” often denotes a treason- ous brand of Jewish self-loathing, and is frequently used as a smear, such as when it is applied to politically moderate Jews who are critical of Israel. In On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred, Paul Reitter demonstrates that the concept of Jewish self-hatred once had decidedly positive connotations. He traces the genesis of the term to Anton Kuh, a Viennese- Jewish journalist who coined it in the aftermath of World War I, and shows how the German-Jewish philosopher Theodor Lessing came, in 1930, to write a book that popular- ized “Jewish self-hatred.” Reitter contends that, as Kuh and Lessing used it, the concept of Jewish self-hatred described a complex and possibly redemptive way of being Jewish. Paradoxically, Jews could show the world how to get past the blight of self-hatred only by embracing their own, singularly advanced self-critical tendencies—their “Jewish self-hatred.” Provocative and elegantly argued, On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred challenges widely held notions about the history and meaning of this idea, and explains why its history is so badly misrepresented today.

“A readable, sensible, well-researched Paul Reitter is associate professor of Germanic languages and conceptual history.” literatures at Ohio State University. He is the author of The —Jonathan Franzen Anti-Journalist: Karl Kraus and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Fin-de- Siècle Europe. “On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred is an impressively fluent, deeply learned, and morally responsible treatment of what can be an incendiary label. Reitter’s major revelation is that the concept of Jewish self-hatred emerged as part of an affirmative discourse rather than as a label of denunciation.” —Samuel Moyn, Columbia University

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press.princeton.edu Academic Trade 31 Governing America The Revival of Political History NEW PERSPECTIVES ON AMERICAN POLITICAL HISTORY FROM ONE OF ITS LEADING WRITERS Julian E. Zelizer

In recent years, the study of American political history has experienced a remarkable renaissance. After decades during which the subject fell out of fashion and disappeared from public view, it has returned to prominence as the study of American history has shifted its focus back to politics broadly defined. In this book, one of the leaders of the resurgence in American political history, Julian Zelizer, assesses its revival and demonstrates how this work not only illuminates the past but also helps us better understand American politics today. Accessibly written, Governing America addresses issues of wide interest, including the rise of the welfare state, the development of modern conservatism, the history of Con- gress, the struggle over campaign finance, changing views about presidential power, and national security. Throughout, it addresses four big questions: How have interpretations of American political history changed over time? How have taxes and budgets constrained policymakers? How have changes in the political process defined historical eras? And how have policy and politics interacted on decisions like going to war? Zelizer’s answers to these questions are fresh and often surprising, providing compelling new perspectives on modern American politics. “Governing America offers us an opportunity to observe one of the country’s Julian E. Zelizer is professor of history and public affairs at best political historians working at the Princeton University. His most recent books include Jimmy top of his game. Zelizer’s range is ex- Carter, Arsenal of Democracy, and The Presidency of George W. traordinary, and he brings a penetrating Bush (Princeton). He is a regular contributor to CNN.com and Politico and has written for the New York Times, the Washing- intelligence to every topic he touches. ton Post, and many other publications. No scholar working today has a better grasp of how the key institutions of American democracy, notably the Con- gress and the Presidency, have evolved over time, and how they have translated political demands emanating from society into state policy. A tour de force.” —Gary Gerstle, Vanderbilt University

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press.princeton.edu 32 Academic Trade Keeping Faith AN INSIDE LOOK AT HOW RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY CAME TO PRINCETON at Princeton A Brief History of Religious Pluralism at Princeton and Other Universities

Frederick Houk Borsch

In 1981, Frederick Houk Borsch returned to Princeton Uni- versity, his alma mater, to serve as dean of the chapel at the Ivy League school. In Keeping Faith at Princeton, Borsch tells the story of Princeton’s journey from its founding in 1746 as a college for Presbyterian ministers to the religiously diverse institution it is today. He sets this landmark narrative history against the backdrop of his own quest for spiritual illumination, first as a student atP rinceton in the 1950s and later as campus minister amid the turmoil and uncertainty of 1980s America. Borsch traces how the trauma of the Depression and two world wars challenged the idea of progress through education and religion—the very idea on which Princeton was founded. Even as the numbers of students gaining access to higher education grew exponentially after World War II, student demographics at Princeton and other elite schools remained all male, predominantly white, and Protestant. Then came the 1960s. Campuses across America became battlegrounds for the antiwar movement, civil rights, and gender equality. By the “Frederick Borsch has written an excel- dawn of the Reagan era, women and blacks were being admit- lent book that deals with the compli- ted to Princeton. So were greater numbers of Jews, Catholics, cated and controversial subject of the and others. Borsch gives an electrifying insider’s account of role of religion on college and university this era of upheaval and great promise. campuses. This is the best discussion With warmth, clarity, and penetrating firsthand insights, Keeping Faith at Princeton demonstrates how Princeton and of the subject that I know, and everyone other major American universities learned to promote religious interested in the topic will want to read diversity among their students, teachers, and administrators. this exceptional work.” —Neil Rudenstine, president emeritus, Frederick Houk Borsch is the Chair of Anglican Studies at Harvard University the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia and was Episcopal bishop of Los Angeles. His many books include The Spirit Searches Everything: Keeping Life’s Questions. From 1981 to 1988, he was dean of the chapel at Princeton University.

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press.princeton.edu Academic Trade 33 The Unheavenly Chorus Unequal Political Voice and the WHY AMERICAN DEMOCRACY FAVORS Broken Promise of American Democracy THE AFFLUENT AND EDUCATED

Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba & Henry E. Brady

Politically active individuals and organizations make huge investments of time, energy, and money to influence everything from election outcomes to congressional subcommittee hearings to local school politics, while other groups and individual citizens seem woefully underrepresented in our political system. The Unheavenly Chorus is the most comprehensive and systematic examination of political voice in America ever undertaken—and its findings are sobering. The Unheavenly Chorus is the first book to look at the political participation of individual citizens alongside the political advocacy of thousands of organized interests—membership associations such as unions, professional associations, trade associations, and citizens groups, as well as organizations like corporations, hospitals, and universities. Drawing on numerous in-depth surveys of members of the public as well as the largest database of interest organizations ever created—representing more than thirty-five thousand organizations over a twenty-five-year period—this book conclusively demonstrates that American democracy is marred by deeply ingrained and “This book is one of a kind. It rep- persistent class-based political inequality. The well educated resents a major statement about the and affluent are active in many ways to make their voices current state of American democracy, heard, while the less advantaged are not. This book reveals political participation, social class, and how the political voices of organized interests are even less social inequality. The Unheavenly Cho- representative than those of individuals, how political advan- rus gives overwhelming evidence that tage is handed down across generations, how recruitment to something is wrong with our political political activity perpetuates and exaggerates existing biases, how political voice on the Internet replicates these inequali- system and needs to be fixed. I believe ties—and more. this is one of the most important books In a true democracy, the preferences and needs of all citi- of the decade.” zens deserve equal consideration. Yet equal consideration is —Frank R. Baumgartner, coauthor only possible with equal citizen voice. The Unheavenly Chorus of Agendas and Instability in American reveals how far we really are from the democratic ideal and Politics how hard it would be to attain it.

Kay Lehman Schlozman is the J. Joseph Moakley Endowed Professor of Political Science at Boston College. Sidney Verba is the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor Emeritus and MAY Research Professor of Government at Harvard University. Henry E. Brady is the Class of 1941 Monroe Deutsch Profes- Cloth $35.00S sor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of 978-0-691-15484-8 California, Berkeley. 608 pages. 59 line illus. 58 tables. 6 x 9. POLITICS z PUBLIC POLICY

press.princeton.edu 34 Academic Trade The Oil Curse EXPLAINING—AND SOLVING— How Petroleum Wealth Shapes THE OIL CURSE IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD the Development of Nations

Michael L. Ross

Countries that are rich in petroleum have less democracy, less economic stability, and more frequent civil wars than countries without oil. What explains this oil curse? And can it be fixed? In this groundbreaking analysis, Michael L. Ross looks at how developing nations are shaped by their mineral wealth—and how they can turn oil from a curse into a blessing. Ross traces the oil curse to the upheaval of the 1970s, when oil prices soared and governments across the developing world seized control of their countries’ oil industries. Before nationalization, the oil-rich countries looked much like the rest of the world; today, they are 50 percent more likely to be ruled by autocrats—and twice as likely to descend into civil war—than countries without oil. The Oil Curse shows why oil wealth typically creates less economic growth than it should; why it produces jobs for men but not women; and why it creates more problems in poor states than in rich ones. It also warns that the global thirst for petroleum is causing companies to drill in increasingly poor nations, which could further spread the oil curse. This landmark book explains why good geology often “This important book brings new leads to bad governance, and how this can be changed. and timely insight into a key global Michael L. Ross is professor of political science at the Uni- phenomenon. High oil prices have versity of California, Los Angeles. He has published widely on triggered oil strikes concentrated in the politics of resource-rich countries and served on advisory the poorest countries—the bottom boards for the World Bank, the Revenue Watch Institute, billion. Will this time be different? and the Natural Resource Charter. His work has appeared in Will oil drive transformation or cause a Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and the New York Times, and has been featured in the Washington Post, Newsweek, and repeat of the history of plunder? Ross many other publications. In 2009, he received the Heinz Eulau presents new research in an accessible Award from the American Political Science Association. style. Read it: understanding is the foundation for change.” —Paul Collier, author of The Bottom Billion

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press.princeton.edu Academic Trade 35 The Founder’s Dilemmas Anticipating and Avoiding the A GUIDE TO THE EARLY DECISIONS THAT CAN Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup MAKE OR BREAK STARTUP VENTURES

Noam Wasserman

Often downplayed in the excitement of starting up a new business venture is one of the most important decisions entrepreneurs will face: Should they go it alone or bring in cofounders, hires, and investors to help build the business? More than just financial rewards are at stake. Friendships and relationships can suffer. Bad decisions at the inception of a promising venture lay the foundations for its eventual ruin. The Founder’s Dilemmas is the first book to examine the early decisions by entrepreneurs that can make or break a startup and its team. Drawing on a decade of research, Noam Wasserman reveals the common pitfalls founders face and how to avoid them. He looks at whether it is a good idea to cofound with friends or relatives, how and when to split the equity within the founding team, and how to recognize when a successful founder-CEO should exit or be fired. Wasserman explains how to anticipate, avoid, or recover from disastrous mistakes that can splinter a founding team, strip founders of control, and leave founders without a financial payoff for their hard work and innovative ideas. He highlights the need at each step to strike a careful balance between controlling the startup and attracting the best resources to grow it, and demonstrates why “This book provides the rare combina- the easy short-term choice is often the most perilous in the tion of practical advice and scholarly long term. research. It gets to the heart of the The Founder’s Dilemmas draws on the inside stories of people issues that can bedevil every, and founders like Evan Williams of Twitter and Tim Westergren I do mean every, startup. Issues such as of Pandora, while mining quantitative data on almost ten thousand founders. founder motivations, equity splits, and People problems are the leading cause of failure in start- equity control can make or break a com- ups. This book offers solutions. pany. I guarantee that the price of this book is approximately one-thousandth Noam Wasserman is associate professor and Tukman Faculty of what you’ll pay lawyers to clean up Fellow at Harvard Business School. your mess if you don’t read it.”

Th e KaufFMAn Foundation Series —Guy Kawasaki, author of Enchantment on Innovation and Entrepreneurship and former chief evangelist of Apple

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press.princeton.edu 36 Academic Trade Creating a A GROUNDBREAKING EXPLORATION OF HOW RACE IN AMERICA IS BEING REDEFINED New Racial Order How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America

Jennifer L. Hochschild, Vesla M. Weaver & Traci R. Burch

The American racial order—the beliefs, institutions, and practices that organize relationships among the nation’s races and ethnicities—is undergoing its greatest transformation since the 1960s. Creating a New Racial Order takes a groundbreaking look at the reasons behind this dramatic change, and considers how different groups of Americans are being affected. Through revealing narrative and striking research, the authors show that the personal and political choices of Americans will be critical to how, and how much, racial hierarchy is redefined in decades to come. The authors outline the components that make up a racial order and examine the specific mechanisms influencing group dynamics in the United States: immigration, multiracialism, genomic science, and generational change. Cumula- tively, these mechanisms increase heterogeneity within each racial or ethnic group, and decrease the distance separating “It is not often that one reads a book groups from each other. The authors show that individuals are moving across group boundaries, that genomic science that changes how we think the world is challenging the whole concept of race, and that economic works. Creating a New Racial Order is variation within groups is increasing. Above all, young adults replete with original, and sometimes understand and practice race differently from their elders: surprising, insights and evidence on the their formative memories are 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and forces that are generating rising racial Obama’s election—not civil rights marches, riots, or the early heterogeneity in the United States. The stages of immigration. Blockages could stymie or distort authors’ compelling analysis of the these changes, however, so the authors point to essential ongoing transformation of America’s policy and political choices. racial order is a must-read.” Portraying a vision, not of a postracial America, but of a —William Julius Wilson, Harvard different racial America, Creating a New Racial Order examines University how the structures of race and ethnicity are altering a nation. Jennifer L. Hochschild is the Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government, professor of African and African American studies, and Harvard College Professor at Harvard University. Vesla M. Weaver is an assistant professor in the Woodrow MARCH Wilson Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. Cloth $29.95S Traci R. Burch is assistant professor of political science at 978-0-691-15299-8 Northwestern University and research professor at the Ameri- 283 pages. 17 halftones. can Bar Foundation. 14 line illus. 10 tables. 6 x 9. POLITICAL SCIENCE z SOCIOLOGY

press.princeton.edu Academic Trade 37 The Making of ONE OF THE WORLD’S LEADING POLITICAL Modern Liberalism THINKERS EXPLORES THE HISTORY, NATURE, AND PROSPECTS OF THE LIBERAL TRADITION Alan Ryan

The Making of Modern Liberalism is a deep and wide-ranging exploration of the origins and nature of liberalism from the Enlightenment through its triumphs and setbacks in the twentieth century and beyond. The book is the fruit of the more than four decades during which Alan Ryan, one of the world’s leading political thinkers, has reflected on the past of the liberal tradition—and worried about its future. Tracing the emergence of liberalism as articulated by some of its greatest proponents, including Locke, Tocqueville, Mill, Dewey, Russell, Popper, Berlin, and Rawls, the book explores key themes such as the meaning and nature of freedom, individual rights, and tolerance. It also examines how property rights fit within liberal thinking, how work and freedom are connected, and how far liberal freedoms are com- patible with a socialized economy. This is essential reading for anyone interested in political theory or the history of liberalism.

Alan Ryan, the former warden of New College, Oxford, has taught political theory at Oxford and Princeton since 1969. His books include The Philosophy of John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Rus- sell: A Political Life, John Dewey and the High Tide of American “In The Making of Modern Liberalism, Liberalism, and Liberal Anxieties and Liberal Education. Alan Ryan sheds new light on key thinkers in the Western political tradition and presents his own liberal perspective on political affairs. Ryan’s work shines with insight and intelligence. No one can read this book without being provoked to self-reflection, disagreement, and counterargument—precisely what’s needed in a great work of political theory.” —Glyn Morgan, Syracuse University

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press.princeton.edu 38 Academic Trade Overreach Why OBAMA has OVERESTIMATED THE POWER Leadership in the Obama Presidency OF RHETORIC AND PERSUASION DURING HIS PRESIDENCY George C. Edwards III

When Barack Obama became president, many Americans embraced him as a transformational leader who would fundamentally change the politics and policy of the country. Yet, two years into his administration, the public resisted his calls for support and Congress was deadlocked over many of his major policy proposals. How could this capable new president have difficulty attaining his goals?D id he lack tactical skills? In Overreach, respected presidential scholar George Edwards argues that the problem was strategic, not tactical. He finds that in President Obama’s first two years in office, Obama governed on the premise that he could create opportunities for change by persuading the public and some congressional Republicans to support his major initiatives. As a result, he proposed a large, expensive, and polarizing agenda in the middle of a severe economic crisis. The president’s proposals alienated many Americans and led to a severe electoral defeat for the Democrats in the 2010 midterm elections, undermin- ing his ability to govern in the remainder of his term. Edwards shows that the president’s frustrations were predictable and the inevitable result of misunderstanding the nature of presidential power. The author demonstrates that “Presidents facing criticism or difficul- the essence of successful presidential leadership is recogniz- ties—which is to say, all of them—nor- ing and exploiting existing opportunities, not in creating them mally blame their problems on a failure through persuasion. When Obama succeeded in passing to communicate rather than their own important policies, it was by mobilizing Democrats who were policy choices. With a special focus already predisposed to back him. Thus, to avoid overreaching, on Barack Obama, though, Overreach presidents should be alert to the limitations of their power to shows us that presidential choices are persuade and rigorously assess the possibilities for obtaining public and congressional support in their environments. the key, since attempts to use communication skills to change hearts and minds George C. Edwards III is University Distinguished Professor of are largely doomed to failure. Fluently Political Science and the Jordan Chair in Presidential Studies at written, this book provides both a good Texas A&M University. His many books include The Strategic read and important claims to consider.” President (see page 64). He is the editor of Presidential Studies —Andrew Rudalevige, Dickinson Quarterly. College

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press.princeton.edu Academic Trade 39 How to Build a A CLASSIC INTRODUCTION TO THE STORY OF Habitable Planet EARTH’S ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION—REVISED AND EXPANDED FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY The Story of Earth from the Big Bang to Humankind Revised and Expanded Edition

Charles H. Langmuir & Wally Broecker

Since its first publication more than twenty-five years ago, How to Build a Habitable Planet has established a legendary reputation as an accessible yet scientifically impeccable introduction to the origin and evolution of Earth, from the Big Bang through the rise of human civilization. This classic account of how our habitable planet was assembled from the stuff of stars introduced readers to planetary, Earth, and climate science by way of a fascinating narrative. Now this great book has been made even better. Harvard geochemist Charles Langmuir has worked closely with the original author, Wally Broecker, one of the world’s leading Earth scientists, to revise and ex- pand the book for a new generation of readers for whom active planetary stewardship is becoming imperative. Interweaving physics, astronomy, chemistry, geology, and biology, this sweeping account tells Earth’s complete story, from the synthesis of chemical elements in stars, to the formation of the Solar System, to the evolution of a habitable climate “This is a magnificent book, a success- on Earth, to the origin of life and humankind. The book also ful and very worthwhile revision of its addresses the search for other habitable worlds in the Milky legendary and coveted first edition. The Way and contemplates whether Earth will remain habitable new edition offers more than a minor as our influence on global climate grows. It concludes by considering the ways in which humankind can sustain Earth’s dusting off of the material. There are habitability and perhaps even participate in further planetary some completely new chapters and the evolution. authors have also done a good job of in- Like no other book, How to Build a Habitable Planet pro- troducing newer discoveries. This book vides an understanding of Earth in its broadest context, as well is more timely than ever, and I greet this as a greater appreciation of its possibly rare ability to sustain revision with uncontained enthusiasm.” life over geologic time. —Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, University of Chicago Charles H. Langmuir is the Higgins Professor of Geochemistry at Harvard University. Wally Broecker is the Newberry Profes- sor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia Uni- versity and the author of Fixing Climate and The Great Ocean Conveyor (Princeton), among other books. Both are members of the National Academy of Sciences. MAY Cloth $39.95S 978-0-691-14006-3 720 pages. 16 color plates. 62 halftones. 220 line illus. 18 tables. 6 x 9. EARTH SCIENCE

press.princeton.edu 40 Academic Trade A Wealth of Numbers AN ENTERTAINING AND INFORMATIVE An Anthology of 500 Years of Popular Mathematics Writing ANTHOLOGY OF POPULAR MATH WRITING FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO CYBERSPACE Edited by Benjamin Wardhaugh

Despite what we may sometimes imagine, popular mathematics writing didn’t begin with Martin Gardner. In fact, it has a rich tradition stretching back hundreds of years. This entertaining and enlightening anthology—the first of its kind— gathers nearly one hundred fascinating selections from the past 500 years of popular math writing, bringing to life a little- known side of math history. Ranging from the late fifteenth to the late twentieth century, and drawing on books, newspapers, magazines, and websites, A Wealth of Numbers includes recreational, classroom, and work mathematics; mathematical histories and biographies; accounts of higher mathematics; explanations of mathematical instruments; discussions of how math should be taught and learned; reflections on the place of math in the world; and math in fiction and humor. Featuring many tricks, games, problems, and puzzles, as well as much history and trivia, the selections include a sixteenth-century guide to making a horizontal sundial; “New- ton for the Ladies” (1739); Leonhard Euler on the idea of velocity (1760); “Mathematical Toys” (1785); a poetic version of the rule of three (1792); “Lotteries and Mountebanks” (1801); Lewis Carroll on the game of logic (1887); “Maps and Mazes” (1892); “This accessible and inviting anthology “Einstein’s Real Achievement” (1921); “Riddles in Mathemat- shows how entertaining it can be to ics” (1945); “New Math for Parents” (1966); and “PC Astro- think about mathematics. The selection, nomy” (1997). Organized by thematic chapters, each selection is placed in context by a brief introduction. organization, and commentaries result A unique window into the hidden history of popular in a unique book that is equal to far mathematics, A Wealth of Numbers will provide many hours more than the sum of its parts.” of fun and learning to anyone who loves popular mathematics —Paul C. Pasles, author of Benjamin and science. Franklin’s Numbers Benjamin Wardhaugh is a postdoctoral research fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford, where he studies and teaches the history of mathematics. He is the author of How to Read Historical Mathematics (Princeton).

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press.princeton.edu Academic Trade 41 Mathematical HOW MATHEMATICS HELPED BUILD Excursions to the THE WORLD’S MOST IMPORTANT BUILDINGS, World’s Great Buildings FROM EARLY EGYPT TO THE PRESENT

Alexander J. Hahn

From the pyramids and the Parthenon to the Sydney Opera House and the Bilbao Guggenheim, this book takes readers on an eye-opening tour of the mathematics behind some of the world’s most spectacular buildings. Beautifully illustrated, the book explores the milestones in elementary mathematics that enliven the understanding of these buildings and combines this with an in-depth look at their aesthetics, history, and structure. Whether using trigonometry and vectors to explain why Gothic arches are structurally superior to Roman arches, or showing how simple ruler and compass construc- tions can produce sophisticated architectural details, Alexander Hahn describes the points at which elementary mathematics and architecture intersect. Beginning in prehistoric times, Hahn proceeds to guide readers through the Greek, Roman, Islamic, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, and modern styles. He “Readers who enjoy connecting explores the unique features of the Pantheon, the Hagia So- mathematics to real-world applications phia, the Great Mosque of Cordoba, the Duomo in Florence, will find this book intriguing, as will Palladio’s villas, and Saint Peter’s Basilica, as well as the U.S. anyone who wants to learn more Capitol Building. Hahn celebrates the forms and structures about the forces and mathematics of architecture made possible by mathematical achievements behind the construction of the world’s from Greek geometry, the Hindu-Arabic number system, two- and three-dimensional coordinate geometry, and calculus. great buildings.” Along the way, Hahn introduces groundbreaking architects, —Michael Huber, author of including Brunelleschi, Alberti, da Vinci, Bramante, Michelan- Mythematics gelo, della Porta, Wren, Gaudí, Saarinen, Utzon, and Gehry. Rich in detail, this book takes readers on an expedition around the globe, providing a deeper understanding of the mathematical forces at play in the world’s most elegant buildings.

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Winner of the 2010 Phillip E. Frandson Award for Literature, University Professional and Continuing Whose Culture? Education Association The Promise of Museums and Honorable Mention, 2010 PROSE Award for Excellence the Debate over Antiquities in Education, Association of American Publishers The Great Brain Race Edited by James Cuno How Global Universities Are Reshaping the World In Whose Culture?, James Cuno assembles a group of Ben Wildavsky eminent museum directors, curators, and scholars to explain for themselves what’s at stake in the interna- With a new preface by the author tional controversy over who “owns” antiquities—and why the museums’ critics couldn’t be more wrong. In The Great Brain Race, former U.S. News & World Whose Culture? argues that modern nation-states have Report education editor Ben Wildavsky presents the at best a dubious connection with the ancient cultures first popular account of how international competition they claim to represent. for the brightest minds is transforming the world of In addition to the editor, the contributors are higher education—and why this revolution should be Kwame Anthony Appiah, Sir John Boardman, Michael welcomed, not feared. Wildavsky shows that as inter- F. Brown, Derek Gillman, Neil MacGregor, John Henry national universities strive to become world-class, the Merryman, Philippe de Montebello, David I. Owen, new global education marketplace is providing more and James C. Y. Watt. opportunities to more people than ever before. In a new preface, Wildavsky discusses some of the notable “[This volume] marks an important advance. After an un- developments in global higher education since the certain, not to say timorous, few decades, the leadership of book was first published. at least some of our major institutions has found its voice.” —John Adamson, Standpoint Magazine “Comprehensive and fascinating.” —James K. Glassman, Wall Street Journal “[Cuno] has emerged as the champion of museums who want to keep their holdings—and not a moment too soon. Ben Wildavsky is a senior scholar in research and . . . Culture matters more than concocted national pride, policy at the Kauffman Foundation. Previously, he was economic policy correspondent for the National as curators and museum directors know. At last they’re Journal, higher education reporter for the San Francisco re-asserting their principles.” Chronicle, and executive editor of the Public Interest. —Robert Fulford, National Post

James Cuno is president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust. His books include Who Owns Antiquity? (Princeton).

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Martha C. Nussbaum With a new afterword by the author

In this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education. Historically, the humanities have been central to education because they have been seen as essential for creating competent democratic citizens. But recently, Nussbaum argues, thinking about the aims of education has gone dis- turbingly awry in the United States and abroad. We increasingly treat education as though its primary goal were to teach students to be economically productive rather than to think critically and become knowledgeable and empathetic citizens. This shortsighted focus on profitable skills has eroded our ability to criticize authority, reduced our sympathy with the marginalized and different, and damaged our competence to deal with complex global problems.

“Nussbaum makes a persuasive case that, in the age of No Child Left Behind, ‘the pedagogy of rote learning rules the roost.’” —New Yorker Martha C. Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and “Nussbaum . . . brings to this perennial [education] debate an im- Ethics in the Philosophy Department, Law passioned urgency . . . and broad erudition. . . . Nussbaum’s defense School, and Divinity School at the University of Chicago. She is the author of many books, of this worthy cause is deeply learned.” including Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, —New York Times Book Review Shame, and the Law (Princeton).

“One turns with some relief to Martha Nussbaum’s Not for Profit, and her impassioned . . . argument in favor of study of the humanities.” —Peter Brooks, New York Review of Books

“Against the commercialisation of the academy, [Nussbaum] poses a sentient, Socratic and cosmopolitan vision of higher education.” —Jon Nixon, Times Higher Education

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Finalist, 2011 Estoril Global Issues America’s Mission Distinguished Book Prize The United States and the Worldwide Struggle for Democracy How Enemies Become Friends Expanded Edition The Sources of Stable Peace

Tony Smith Charles A. Kupchan

America’s Mission argues that the global strength and How Enemies Become Friends provides a bold account prestige of democracy today are due in large part to of how nations escape geopolitical competition America’s impact on international affairs. Tony Smith and replace hostility with friendship. Foreign policy documents the extraordinary history of how Ameri- expert Charles Kupchan contends that diplomacy, not can foreign policy has been used to try to promote economic interdependence, is the currency of peace, democracy worldwide. With new chapters and a new that engagement between rivals promotes the mutual introduction and epilogue, this expanded edition trust needed to advance rapprochement, and that also traces U.S. attempts to spread democracy more countries should deal with other states based on their recently, under presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama. foreign policy behavior rather than on whether they are democracies. “[Smith’s] account of the 20th century is just about as close to unputdownable as it gets in the genre of politi- “This book will be read by scholars and policy thinkers for cal history.” a very long time.” —Washington Post —G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs

“America’s Mission provides a comprehensive historical “[Kupchan] is one of those rare Americans with a genu- review of the record of American liberal internationalism.” inely global view of international relations.” —Francis Fukuyama, New Republic —Gilles Andreani, Survival

Tony Smith is the Cornelia M. Jackson Professor of Charles A. Kupchan is professor of international affairs Political Science at Tufts University. His recent work at Georgetown University and senior fellow at the Coun- includes The Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilson- cil on Foreign Relations. He served on the National ianism in the Twenty-First Century (Princeton). Security Council during the Clinton presidency and is the author of The End of the American Era (Knopf). P rINCETON Studies in International History and Politics P rINCETON Studies in G. John Ikenberry, Thomas Christensen, International History and Politics and Marc Trachtenberg, Series Editors G. John Ikenberry, Thomas Christensen, and Marc Trachtenberg, Series Editors Antury Ce Foundation Book A CoUNCIL on Foreign Relations Book

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James T. Kloppenberg With a new preface by the author

Derided by the Right as dangerous and by the Left as spine- less, Barack Obama puzzles observers. In Reading Obama, James T. Kloppenberg reveals the sources of Obama’s ideas and explains why he does not fit contemporary partisan categories. Obama’s writings and speeches reflect a prin- cipled aversion to absolutes; his commitments to deliberation and experimentation derive from sustained engagement with American democratic thought. Kloppenberg shows that Obama’s political ideas stem from deeply rooted—although currently unfashionable—convictions about how a democracy must deal with conflict.

“Kloppenberg, one of America’s foremost intellectual historians, persuasively argues that [there is] a broader shift in American philosophy away from appeal to general principles, valid at all times and in all places, toward a reliance on local, historically particular values and ideals. Kloppenberg’s own endeavor, in surveying the work in political and legal theory that seems to have shaped President Obama’s thinking, is to argue for the coherence, James T. Kloppenberg is the Charles Warren the Americanness, and the plausibility of Obama’s approach to Professor of American History and chair of politics and the Constitution.” the history department at Harvard University. —Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Review of Books His books include Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in European and American Thought, 1870–1920; The Virtues “One of Kloppenberg’s most important claims is that Obama of Liberalism; and A Companion to American embodies the spirit of pragmatism—not the colloquial pragma- Thought. tism that is more or less the same thing as practicality, but the philosophical pragmatism that emerged largely from William James and John Dewey. . . . Kloppenberg provides an excellent summary of the pragmatic tradition—a tradition rooted in the belief that there are no eternal truths.” —Alan Brinkley, Democracy

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press.princeton.edu 46 Paperbacks The Axe and the Oath Power over Peoples Ordinary Life in the Middle Ages Technology, Environments, and Western Imperialism, 1400 to the Present Robert Fossier Translated by Lydia G. Cochrane Daniel R. Headrick

Power over Peoples examines Western imperialism’s In The Axe and the Oath, one of the world’s leading complex relationship with technology, from the first medieval historians presents a compelling picture of Portuguese ships that ventured down the coast of daily life in the Middle Ages as it was experienced by Africa in the 1430s to America’s post-9/11 invasions ordinary people. Robert Fossier vividly describes how of Iraq and Afghanistan. Daniel Headrick traces the these vulnerable people confronted life, from birth to evolution of Western technologies and sheds light death, including childhood, marriage, work, sex, food, on the environmental and social factors that have illness, religion, and the natural world. While most brought victory in some cases and unforeseen defeat histories of the period focus on the ideas and actions in others. Breathtaking in scope, Power over Peoples of the few who wielded power and stress how different is a revealing history of technological innovation, its medieval people were from us, Fossier concentrates promise and limitations, and its central role in the rise on the other nine-tenths of humanity in the period and and fall of empires. concludes that “medieval man is us.”

“Headrick destroys the simplistic notion that technological “This is a wonderful book—the product of a lifetime’s im- advances alone can explain the historic limits of Western mersion in the documents and artefacts that survive from global hegemony.” the 1,000 years that we call the ‘Middle Ages.’” —Choice —Helen Castor, Times Higher Education

“This will be an important and widely cited book.” “Fossier writes with a passion that makes this amazing period of European history come alive for any reader —Stanley L. Engerman, University of Rochester interested in medieval or social history.” Daniel R. Headrick is professor emeritus of social sci- —Library Journal ence and history at Roosevelt University. His books include The Tools of Empire and The Earth and Its Peoples. Robert Fossier is professor emeritus of medieval history at the Sorbonne. He is the author of many books Te h PrINCETON Economic History on medieval history and the editor of The Cambridge of the Western World History of the Middle Ages. Joel Mokyr, Series Editor

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Thomas Barfield

Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth century to the Taliban resurgence today. Thomas Barfield introduces readers to the bewildering diversity of tribal and ethnic groups in Afghanistan, explaining what unites them as Afghans despite the regional, cultural, and political differences that divide them. He vividly describes how Afghanistan’s armed factions plunged the country into a civil war, giving rise to clerical rule by the Taliban and isolating Afghanistan from the world. He examines why the American invasion in the wake of Septem- ber 11 toppled the Taliban so quickly, and how this easy victory lulled the United States into falsely believing that a viable state could be built just as easily. Afghanistan is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how a land conquered and ruled by foreign dynasties for more than a thousand years became the “graveyard of empires” for the British and Soviets, and what the United States must do to avoid a similar fate.

“[I]mpressive.” Thomas Barfield is professor of anthropology —Christopher de Bellaigue, New York Review of Books at Boston University. His books include The Perilous Frontier: Nomadic Empires and China, 221 BC to AD 1757; The Central Asian Arabs of “This book is an authoritative and well-written summary of what Afghanistan; and Afghanistan: An Atlas of Indig- we might call the majority view. There is a streak in this book, enous Domestic Architecture. however, of more radical thinking. . . . It leads him near the end of the book to some startling predictions for Afghanistan’s possible futures.” —Gerard Russell, Foreign Policy

“[A]n invaluable book. Mr. Barfield . . . provide[s] the context necessary for good policymaking.” —Doug Bandow, Washington Times

P rINCETON Studies in Muslim Politics Dale F. Eickelman and Augustus Richard Norton, Series Editors

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press.princeton.edu 48 Paperbacks The Tyranny of Guilt The Wind from the East An Essay on Western Masochism French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s Pascal Bruckner Translated by Steven Rendall Richard Wolin

Since the Holocaust and the end of World War II, the During the 1960s, a who’s who of French think- West, and Europeans in particular, have been con- ers, writers, and artists, spurred by China’s Cultural sumed by remorse. But Pascal Bruckner argues that Revolution, were seized with a fascination for Maoism. guilt has now gone too far. Bruckner argues that obses- Combining a merciless exposé of left-wing political sive guilt has obscured important realities. The West folly and cross-cultural misunderstanding with a spir- has destroyed monsters as well as created them. The ited defense of the 1960s, The Wind from the East tells West should be proud—and ready to defend itself and the colorful story of this legendary period in France. its values. In this, Europeans should learn from Ameri- Richard Wolin’s riveting narrative reveals that Mao- cans, who still have sufficient self-esteem to act deci- ism’s allure among France’s best and brightest actually sively in a world of chaos and violence. Lamenting the had little to do with a real understanding of Chinese vice of anti-Americanism that grips so many European politics. Instead, it paradoxically served as a vehicle for intellectuals, Bruckner urges a renewed transatlantic an emancipatory transformation of French society. alliance. This is a searing, provocative, and psychologi- cally penetrating account of the crude thought and bad “The Wind from the East must be regarded as a monu- politics that arise from excessive bad conscience. ment of committed scholarship.” —David Gress, Wall Street Journal “Pascal Bruckner’s short book is one of the most vital published in recent years.” “[A] fascinating and dispassionate account of one of the —Douglas Murray, Literary Review more curious follies of recent times.” —Jeremy Jennings, Standpoint “[A] stirring and important book.” —Eric Kaufmann, Prospect Richard Wolin is Distinguished Professor of History, Comparative Literature, and Political Science at the City Pascal Bruckner is the award-winning author of many University of New York Graduate Center. His books, books of fiction and nonfiction, including the novel which include Heidegger’s Children and The Seduction Bitter Moon, which was made into a film by Roman Po- of Unreason (both Princeton), have been translated into lanski. Bruckner’s nonfiction books include Perpetual ten languages. His articles and reviews have appeared Euphoria (Princeton) and The Paradox of Love (see in Dissent, the Nation, and the New Republic. page 27).

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Michael Brenner Translated by Jeremiah Riemer

This is a sweeping and powerful narrative history of the Jew- ish people from biblical times to today. Based on the latest scholarship and richly illustrated, it is the most authoritative and accessible chronicle of the Jewish experience available. Michael Brenner tells a dramatic story of change and migration deeply rooted in tradition, taking readers from the mythic wanderings of Moses to the unspeakable atrocities of the Holocaust, and from the Babylonian exile to the Hasidic enclaves of modern-day Brooklyn. The book is full of fascinating personal stories of exodus and return, from that told about Abraham, who brought his newfound faith into Canaan, to that of Holocaust survivor Esther Barkai, who lived on a kib- butz established on a German estate seized from the Nazi Julius Streicher as she awaited resettlement in Israel. Describ- ing the events and people that have shaped Jewish history, and highlighting the important contributions Jews have made to the arts, politics, religion, and science, A Short History of the Jews is a compelling blend of storytelling and scholarship that brings the Jewish past marvelously to life. Michael Brenner is professor of Jewish history and culture at the University of Munich. His “[A]n excellent introduction.” books include Zionism: A Brief History and —Jay Freeman, Booklist After the Holocaust: Rebuilding Jewish Lives in Postwar Germany (Princeton). “In this concise but all-encompassing account of the Jews, Brenner . . . does a remarkable job of escorting readers from the biblical narrative of Abraham’s journey from Ur and idolatry through the treacherous, monotheistic course of Jewish history.” —Publishers Weekly Religion Book Line

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Winner of the 2010 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies, Jewish Book Council Allegory The Theory of a Symbolic Mode The Rebbe The Life and Afterlife of Angus Fletcher Menachem Mendel Schneerson With a foreword by Harold Bloom and a new afterword by the author Samuel Heilman & Menachem Friedman The allegorical expression of ideas pervades literature, art, music, religion, politics, business, and advertis- From the 1950s until his death in 1994, Menachem ing. But how does allegory really work and how should Mendel Schneerson—revered by his followers world- we understand it? For more than forty years, Angus wide simply as the Rebbe—built the Lubavitcher Fletcher’s classic book has provided an answer that is movement from a relatively small sect within Hasidic still unsurpassed for its comprehensiveness, brilliance, Judaism into the powerful force in Jewish life that it and eloquence. With a preface by Harold Bloom and is today. Samuel Heilman and Menachem Friedman a substantial new afterword by the author, this edition paint an unforgettable portrait of Schneerson, who, reintroduces this essential text to a new generation of swept away by his expectation that the Messiah was students and scholars of literature and art. coming, came to believe that he could deny death and change history. The Rebbe demonstrates how “Allegory is a brilliantly original analytical description Schneerson’s embrace of traditionalism and Ameri- of the organization of symbolic fiction; it deals with the can style modernity made him uniquely suited to his most interesting topics and asks the right questions; its messianic mission. examples are learned and fascinatingly offbeat.” —Times Literary Supplement “[A] groundbreaking study.” —Keith Kahn-Harris, Times Literary Supplement “An enormously valuable tool for understanding complex literary texts like Spenser’s Faerie Queene.” “[A]n outstanding biography.” —Stephen Greenblatt, author of Will in the World: —Publishers Weekly How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

Samuel Heilman is Distinguished Professor of Sociol- Angus Fletcher is distinguished professor emeritus ogy at Queens College and holds the Harold Proshan- of English and comparative literature at the Graduate sky Chair in Jewish Studies at the Graduate Center of School of the City University of New York. His most the City University of New York. Menachem Friedman recent books are Time, Space, and Motion in the Age of is professor emeritus of sociology at Bar-Ilan Univer- Shakespeare and A New Theory for American Poetry. sity in Israel.

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Jacobus de Voragine Translated by William Granger Ryan With aN INTRODUCTION by Eamon Duffy

Depicting the lives of the saints in an array of factual and fictional stories, The Golden Legend was perhaps the most widely read book, after the Bible, during the late Middle Ages. It was compiled around 1260 by Jacobus de Voragine, a scholarly friar and later archbishop of Genoa, whose purpose was to captivate, encourage, and edify the faithful, while preserving a vast store of information pertaining to the legends and traditions of the church. In this translation, the first in English of the complete text, William Granger Ryan captures the im- mediacy of this rich work, which offers an important guide for readers interested in medieval art and literature and, more generally, in popular religious culture. Arranged according to the order of saints’ feast days, these fascinating stories are now combined into one volume. This edition also features an introduction by Eamon Duffy contextualizing the work.

“Art historians depend on it. Medievalists should know it William Granger Ryan was a priest in the inside-out. . . . [F]or the rest of us it remains a treasure-house of diocese of Brooklyn and Queens and president European culture, crammed full of the things which everyone, of Seton Hill College. Eamon Duffy is profes- once upon a time, used to know.” sor of the history of Christianity at Cambridge —Noel Malcolm, Sunday Telegraph University. His books include The Stripping of the Altars and Saints and Sinners. “An unequaled source book for the study of the art and literature of the high Middle Ages. . . .[de Voragine] showed himself to be a narrative artist of the first rank, and in Ryan’s fine English version we have a splendid volume that can take its place somewhere between Butler’s Lives of the Saints and Aesop’s Fables.” —George Sim Johnston, New Criterion

“[The Golden Legend] came to serve as the literary equivalent of wall-paintings and stained glass. . . . For the translation of the work in its entirety into English we have had to wait 700 years for the energy and learning of a distinguished American academic, William Granger Ryan.” —Gerard Irvine, Times Literary Supplement MAY Paper $39.50S 978-0-691-15407-7 824 pages. 6 x 9. RELIGION z EUROPEAN HISTORY

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Slicing Pizzas, Across the Board Racing Turtles, and The Mathematics of Chessboard Problems Further Adventures in Applied Mathematics John J. Watkins

Robert B. Banks Across the Board is not simply about chess, but the chessboard itself and the fascinating mathematics be- Have you ever daydreamed about digging a hole to the hind it. John Watkins surveys all the well-known prob- other side of the world? This book not only entertains lems in this area of recreational mathematics. Many such ideas but, better yet, supplies the mathemati- beautiful solutions have emerged for basic chessboard cal know-how to turn fantasies into problem-solving problems since mathematicians first began working on adventures. This book presents a collection of puzzles them over three centuries ago. But now such problems for readers interested in sharpening their thinking and have been extended to three-dimensional chessboards math skills. The problems range from the wondrous and even to chessboards on unusual surfaces such as to the eminently practical. Designed to entertain and toruses (the equivalent of playing chess on a dough- to stimulate thinking, this book can be read for sheer nut) and cylinders. Across the Board will captivate personal enjoyment. students and instructors, mathematicians, chess enthusiasts, and puzzle devotees. “[Banks displays] a playful imagination and love of the fantastic that one would not ordinarily associate with a “This book is extremely well written and is, no doubt, the mathematical engineer. . . . Banks’s style is entertaining.” best exposition of the connection between the chessboard —Christian Science Monitor problems and recreational mathematics.” —Mohammed Aassila, MAA Review “Banks turns trivial questions into mind-expanding dem- onstrations of the magical powers of mathematics.” “Watkins offers an excellent invitation to serious —Booklist mathematics.” —Choice Robert B. Banks (1922–2002) was the author of Towing Icebergs, Falling Dominoes, and Other Adventures in John J. Watkins is professor emeritus of mathematics at Applied Mathematics (Princeton). He was professor of Colorado College. An award-winning teacher, he is the engineering at Northwestern University and dean of author of Topics in Commutative Ring Theory (Prince- engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. ton) and coauthor of Graphs: An Introductory Approach.

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Paradoxes, Perplexities, and Mathematical Conundrums for the Serious Head Scratcher

Chases and Escapes Duelling Idiots and Other The Mathematics of Pursuit and Evasion Probability Puzzlers Paul J. Nahin Paul J. Nahin With a new preface by the author

What are your chances of dying on your next flight, In Chases and Escapes, Paul Nahin gives us the com- being called for jury duty, or winning the lottery? In plete history of the fascinating math behind pursuit this collection of twenty-one puzzles, Paul Nahin theory, from its classical analytical beginnings to the challenges us to think creatively about the laws of present day. Nahin also offers an array of challenging probability as they apply in surprising and some- puzzles with their historical background and broader times deceptive ways to a fascinating array of specu- applications. Chases and Escapes includes solutions lative situations. Enriched with historical anecdotes, to all problems and provides computer programs that Duelling Idiots will entertain and enlighten anyone readers can use for their own cutting-edge analysis. who enjoys recreational mathematics. Now with a gripping new preface on how the Enola Gay escaped the shock wave from the atomic “Nahin’s sophisticated puzzles . . . have a far better than bomb dropped on Hiroshima, this book will appeal even chance of fascinating and preoccupying the math- to anyone interested in the mathematics that underlie ematically literate readership they seek.” pursuit and evasion. —Publishers Weekly

“[A] fascinating history of the mathematics of pursuit, “Nahin’s book is an entertaining, thought-provoking in which [Nahin] guides us masterfully through the collection. . . . These puzzles invite the reader to think maths itself.” intuitively, mathematically, and creatively.” —Justin Mullins, New Scientist —Mathematics Teacher

“[T]his book will appeal to everyone who is interested in mathematics and game theory. Excellent work.” —Prabhat Kumar Mahanti, Zentralblatt Math

Paul J. Nahin is the best-selling author of many popular math books, including Mrs. Perkins’s Electric Quilt, Digital Dice, Dr. Euler’s Fabulous Formula, When Least Is Best, and An Imaginary Tale (all Princeton). He is professor emeritus of electrical engineering at the University of New Hampshire.

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One of Choice’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2009 Winner of the 2010 Euler Book Prize, One of Amazon’s Top 10 Science Books for 2009 Mathematical Association of America One of Choice’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2009 The Mathematical Mechanic Using Physical Reasoning to Solve Problems Euler’s Gem The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology Mark Levi David S. Richeson

Everybody knows that mathematics is indispensable to physics. But how many people realize that physics can From ancient Greek geometry to today’s cutting- be used to produce many astonishing and strikingly edge research, Euler’s Gem celebrates the discovery elegant solutions in mathematics? Mark Levi shows of the beloved polyhedron formula and traces its how in this delightful book, treating readers to a host far-reaching impact on topology, the study of shapes. of entertaining problems and mind-bending puzzlers David Richeson tells how the Greeks missed the that will amuse and inspire their inner physicist. formula entirely; how Descartes almost discovered it The Mathematical Mechanic will appeal to anyone but fell short; how nineteenth-century mathematicians interested in the little-known connections between widened the formula’s scope in ways that Euler never mathematics and physics and how both endeavors envisioned; and how twentieth-century mathemati- relate to the world around us. cians discovered that every shape has its own Euler’s formula. Using wonderful examples and numerous “[V]ery engaging.” illustrations, Richeson presents the formula’s many —Choice elegant and unexpected applications.

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One of Strategy + Business’s Mathletics Best Business Books for 2010 How Gamblers, Managers, and Sports Winner of the 2011 Gold Medal Axiom Enthusiasts Use Mathematics in Baseball, Business Book Award in Operations Management/ Basketball, and Football Productivity/TQM, Jenkins Group, Inc. Chasing Stars Wayne L. Winston The Myth of Talent and With a new epilogue by the author the Portability of Performance

Mathletics shows readers how to use simple mathe- Boris Groysberg matics to analyze a range of statistical and probability- related questions in professional baseball, basketball, and football. Wayne Winston gives math enthusiasts Many companies go to great lengths to lure star the practical tools they need to enhance their un- employees away from competitors in the belief that derstanding and enjoyment of their favorite sports. talented performers who change firms will bring their Mathletics blends fun math problems with sports success with them. But in Chasing Stars, Boris Groys- stories of actual games, teams, and players, along with berg reveals what a disastrous assumption this can be. anecdotes from Winston’s work as a sports consultant. After examining the careers of more than a thousand In a new epilogue, Winston discusses the stats star analysts at Wall Street investment banks, he and numerical analysis behind some recent sporting comes to a striking conclusion: star analysts who events, such as how the Dallas Mavericks used analyt- switch firms suffer an immediate and lasting decline in ics to become the 2011 NBA champions. performance. The book also examines how its findings apply to many other occupations, from general manag- “[Winston] gets inside professional sports like no other ers to football players. Offering profound insights into the fundamental nature of outstanding performance, writer I know. Mathletics is like a seat at courtside.” Chasing Stars also provides practical guidance. —Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks

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Winner of the 2011 Silver Medal Axiom Business Book Co-Winner of the 2010 Gold Medal Axiom Business Award in Entrepreneurship, Jenkins Group, Inc. Book Award in Entrepreneurship, Jenkins Group, Inc. Winner of the 2009 PROSE Award for Excellence The Invention of Enterprise in Business, Finance, and Management, Entrepreneurship from Association of American Publishers Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times Boulevard of Broken Dreams Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship Edited by David S. Landes, and Venture Capital Have Failed—and Joel Mokyr & William J. Baumol What to Do about It

The Invention of Enterprise is the first comprehensive Josh Lerner history of entrepreneurship from antiquity to the present. Written by a group of leading economic historians, This book is the first extensive look at the ways govern- the book examines the changing role of the entrepre- ments have supported entrepreneurs and venture neur across the millennia and around the globe. It capitalists around the globe in recent decades. Lerner provides a sweeping history of enterprise in Mesopo- provides insights into why some public initiatives work tamia and Neo-Babylon; offers insights into the entre- while others don’t, and offers suggestions for how preneurial history of China, Japan, Colonial India, and public ventures should be implemented in the future. the Islamic Middle East; and describes the crucial role The book argues for a careful approach to govern- of the entrepreneur in innovative activity in Europe and ment support of entrepreneurial activities, so that the the United States, from the medieval period to today. mistakes of earlier efforts are not repeated.

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John Quiggin With a new chapter by the author

In the graveyard of economic ideology, dead ideas still stalk the land. The recent financial crisis laid bare many of the assumptions behind market liberalism—the theory that market-based solutions are always best, regardless of the problem. For decades, their advocates dominated mainstream economics, and their influence created a system where an unthinking faith in markets led many to view speculative investments as safe. The crisis seemed to have killed off these ideas, but they still live on in the minds of many. In Zombie Economics, John Quiggin explains how these dead ideas still walk among us— and why we must find a way to kill them once and for all if we are to avoid an even bigger financial crisis in the future. In a new chapter, Quiggin brings the book up to date with a discussion of the re-emergence of pre-Keynesian ideas about austerity and balanced budgets as a response to recession.

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press.princeton.edu 58 Paperbacks The Brain and the Why Everyone (Else) Meaning of Life Is a Hypocrite Evolution and the Modular Mind Paul Thagard

Why is life worth living? What makes actions right Robert Kurzban or wrong? What is reality and how do we know it? Defending the superiority of evidence-based reason- We’re all hypocrites. Why? Hypocrisy is the natural ing over religious faith and philosophical thought state of the human mind. experiments, cognitive scientist Paul Thagard argues The key to understanding our behavioral inconsis- that minds are brains and that reality is what science tencies lies in understanding the design of the mind, can discover. The Brain and the Meaning of Life reveals which consists of many specialized units evolved by how our cognitive and emotional abilities allow us to the process of natural selection. While these mod- understand reality, decide effectively, act morally, and ules sometimes work together seamlessly, they don’t pursue the vital needs of love, work, and play. always. Modularity suggests that there is no “I.” Instead, each of us is a contentious “we”—a collection “[Thagard] offers a tightly reasoned, often humorous, and of discrete but interacting systems whose constant original contribution to the emerging practice of applying conflicts shape our interactions with one another and science to areas heretofore the province of philosophers, our experience of the world. theologians, ethicists, and politicians.” —Michael Shermer, Science “Bolstered by recent studies and research, Kurzban makes a convincing and coherent . . . case for the modular mind, “Thagard lays out detailed arguments that reality is greatly helped by humorous footnotes and examples.” knowable through science, that minds are nothing other —Publishers Weekly than material brains and that there are no ultimate rights and wrongs handed down by a supernatural being.” “Using humour and anecdotes, [Kurzban] reveals how —New Scientist conflict between the modules of the mind leads to con- tradictory beliefs, vacillating behaviours, broken moral boundaries and inflated egos.” Paul Thagard is professor of philosophy and director —Nature of the cognitive science program at the University of Waterloo, Canada. His books include Hot Thought: Robert Kurzban is associate professor of psychol- Mechanisms and Applications of Emotional Cognition ogy and founder of the Pennsylvania Laboratory for and How Scientists Explain Disease. Experimental Evolutionary Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Birdscapes is a unique meditation on the variety of human responses to birds, from antiquity to today, and from casual observers to the globe-trotting “twitchers” who sometimes risk life, limb, and marriages simply to add new species to their “life lists.” Drawing extensively on literature, history, philosophy, and science, Jeremy Mynott puts his own experiences as a birdwatcher in a rich cultural context. His sources range from the familiar—Thoreau, Keats, Darwin, and Audubon—to the unexpected—Benjamin Franklin, Giacomo Puccini, Oscar Wilde, and Monty Python. Just as unusual are the extensive illustrations, which explore our perceptions and representations of birds through images such as national emblems, women’s hats, and professional sports logos, as well as classics of bird art. Conversational, playful, and witty, Birdscapes gently leads us to reflect on large questions about our relation to birds and the natural world.

“[An] inventive disquisition.” —New Yorker

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Winner of the 1989 James H. Breasted Prize, One of Choice’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2010 American Historical Association Alexander the Great Memphis Under and His Empire the Ptolemies A Short Introduction Second Edition

Dorothy J. Thompson Pierre Briant Translated by Amélie Kuhrt Drawing on archaeological findings and an unusual combination of Greek and Egyptian evidence, Dorothy This is the only book in any language that sets the rise Thompson examines the economic life and multicul- of Alexander’s short-lived empire within the broad con- tural society of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis text of ancient Near Eastern history under Achaemenid in the era between Alexander and Augustus. Now thor- Persian rule, as well as against Alexander’s Macedonian oughly revised and updated, this masterful account background. As a renowned historian of both the Mace- is essential reading for anyone interested in ancient donians and the Persians, Pierre Briant is uniquely able Egypt or the Hellenistic world. to assess Alexander’s significance from the viewpoint of both the conquerors and the conquered. For this trans- “Memphis Under the Ptolemies is one of the greatest lation, Briant has written a new foreword and conclu- studies of an ancient city and a true testament to one of sion, updated the main text and the thematic annotated the finest scholars of the Hellenistic world.” bibliography, and added a substantial appendix. —J. G. Manning, Yale University “[T]he best introduction to the history of Alexander the “[A] masterful analysis of the surviving evidence for an- Great in English.” cient Memphis.” —Choice —John F. Oates, American Journal of Philology “Briant is one of the most brilliant historians of antiquity “[A] book of utmost importance to all readers interested in at work today.” ancient civilizations.” —Tom Holland, Wall Street Journal —C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, Choice Pierre Briant is the Professor of the History and Civi- Dorothy J. Thompson is a fellow of Girton College, lization of the Achaemenid World and the Empire of University of Cambridge, and a member of the faculty Alexander the Great at the Collège de France. His many of classics at the University of Cambridge. She is a fel- books include From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the low of the British Academy and an honorary president Persian Empire. of the International Association of Papyrologists.

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One of the “Five Best Political and Economics Books Machiavelli’s God for 2010,” New Statesman Maurizio Viroli A Political Philosophy Translated by Antony Shugaar in Public Life Civic Republicanism in Zapatero’s Spain To many readers of The Prince, Machiavelli appears to be deeply un-Christian or even anti-Christian, a cynic José Luis Martí & Philip Pettit who thinks rulers should use religion only to keep their subjects in check. But in Machiavelli’s God, Maurizio This book examines an unlikely development in Viroli, one of the world’s leading authorities on modern political philosophy: the adoption by a major Machiavelli, argues that Machiavelli, far from oppos- national government of the ideas of a living political ing Christianity, thought it was crucial to republican theorist. In 2000, Spain’s new opposition leader, José social and political renewal—but that first it needed Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, pledged that if his socialist to be renewed itself. Viroli places Machiavelli in the party won power he would govern in accordance with context of Florence’s republican Christianity, which the principles laid out in Philip Pettit’s Republicanism. was founded on the idea that the true Christian is a Pettit returned to Spain in 2007 to give Zapatero’s citizen who serves the common good. Building on this government a qualified thumbs-up for promoting tradition, Machiavelli advocated a religion of virtue, republican ideals. In this book, Pettit and José Luis and he believed that, without this faith, free republics Martí provide the background to these events, explain could not survive. the principles of civic republicanism, present Pettit’s report, and include an interview with Zapatero himself. “[L]ively and wide-ranging.” —Victoria Kahn, Times Literary Supplement “[C]ompelling evidence that contemporary political philosophy is as capable of inspiring those who are active “[F]ascinating. [This] is an indispensable book for anyone in the public square as it is of those gathered around who wishes to write about Machiavelli and religion or seminar tables.” Machiavelli and republicanism.” —Richard Dagger, Ethics —Laurie M. Johnson Bagby, Notre Dame Philosophi- cal Reviews José Luis Martí is associate professor of law at Pom- peu Fabra University in Barcelona. Philip Pettit is the Maurizio Viroli is professor of politics at Princeton Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics University and professor of political communication and Human Values at Princeton University. His books at the University of Italian Switzerland in Lugano. His include Republicanism, A Theory of Freedom, and Made many books include Niccolò’s Smile and The Liberty of with Words (Princeton). Servants (Princeton).

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Ted Cohen Susan Wolf Introduction by Stephen Macedo In Thinking of Others, Ted Cohen argues that the ability With commentary by John Koethe, to imagine oneself as another person is an indispens- Robert M. Adams, Nomy Arpaly & Jonathan Haidt able human capacity and that this talent for identification is the same as the talent for metaphor. To see oneself as someone else, whether a real person or a Most people, including philosophers, tend to classify fictional character, is to exercise the ability to deal with human motives as falling into one of two categories: metaphor and other figurative language. The underly- the egoistic or the altruistic, the self-interested or the ing faculty, Cohen contends, is the same—simply the moral. According to Susan Wolf, however, much of ability to think of one thing as another when it plainly what motivates us does not comfortably fit into this is not. Using many literary examples, Cohen makes the scheme. Often we act neither for our own sake nor out case that we can engage with fictional characters just of duty or an impersonal concern for the world. Rather, as intensely as we do with real people, and he looks at we act out of love for objects that we rightly perceive some of the ways literature itself takes up the question as worthy of love—and it is these actions that give of interpersonal identification and understanding. meaning to our lives. Wolf makes a compelling case that, along with happiness and morality, this kind of “[T]remendous.” meaningfulness constitutes a distinctive dimension of a good life. —James Wood, “Ten Favorite Books of 2008,” New Yorker blog “Susan Wolf is one of the clearest, most thoughtful, and most incisively elegant writers in contemporary ethics.” “This is really philosophy at its best: clearly written and —John Martin Fischer, University of California, Riverside free from jargon, sophisticated yet unpretentious, and highly engaging.” “This book is absorbing and a pleasure to read.” —Jeanette Bicknell, Philosophy in Review —Kieran Setiya, University of Pittsburgh Ted Cohen is professor of philosophy at the Univer- sity of Chicago and the author of Jokes: Philosophical Susan Wolf is the Edna J. Koury Professor of Philoso- Thoughts on Joking Matters. phy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the author of Freedom within Reason. P rINCETON Monographs in Philosophy Harry G. Frankfurt, Series Editor U nIVERSITY Center for Human Values Charles R. Beitz, Series Editor

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“[This book] successfully gives voice to the new Hispanic “[Brennan’s] argument lodges a serious objection to voter and clearly illustrates the importance of a diverse research in political science and behavioral economics sug- and growing population.” gesting that even lazy voters can use shortcuts to vote well.” —Choice —Josh Rothman, Boston Globe “New Faces, New Voices offers a great deal of analysis in “Jason Brennan’s surprising investigation of the ethics of a relatively small package.” voting grapples with some of the most entrenched dogmas —Louis De Sipio, American Review of Politics in our political culture. . . . His conclusions will shake some Marisa A. Abrajano is associate professor of political readers up, and our thinking about democracy will be bet- science at the University of California, San Diego. She ter for the debates that are sure to ensue.” is the author of Campaigning to the New American —David Estlund, Brown University Electorate. R. Michael Alvarez is professor of political science at the California Institute of Technology. He is Jason Brennan is assistant professor of ethics at the coauthor of Electronic Elections and Hard Choices, Georgetown University. He is the coauthor of A Brief Easy Answers (both Princeton). History of Liberty.

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George C. Edwards III is Distinguished Professor “This is a very good book with an important idea.” of Political Science and Jordan Chair in Presidential —Stephen J. Wayne, Perspectives on Politics Studies at Texas A&M University. His books include Overreach: Leadership in the Obama Presidency (see Heather K. Gerken is the J. Skelly Wright Professor page 38). of Law at Yale Law School, where she teaches election and constitutional law. She is a frequent media commentator on elections and has written for the New Republic, Roll Call, Legal Affairs, and the Legal Times.

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One of the “Best Reference Books, Law & Politics” for 2010, Library Journal

A Dictionary of 20th-Century Communism

Edited by Silvio Pons & Robert Service

This unique reference provides encyclopedic coverage of 20th-century communism and its enormous impact on world history from the Russian Revolution through the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond. Drawing on the archives of former communist states, this indispensable work reflects the most up-to-date understanding of communism as an ideological and political force.

u Features contributions from an international team of 160 scholars u Includes more than 400 concise entries on major topics, such as: Silvio Pons is professor of eastern European l Figures: Lenin, Mao, Stalin, Ho Chi Minh, history at the University of Rome Tor Vergata Pol Pot, Castro, Gorbachev and director of the Gramsci Institute Founda- l Events: Cold War, Prague Spring, Cultural Revolution, tion in Rome. His books include The Soviet Sandinista Revolution Union and Europe in the Cold War, 1943–1953 l Ideas and concepts: Marxism-Leninism, cult of and Stalin and the Inevitable War, 1936–1941. personality, labor Robert Service teaches Russian history at the

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Published in association with A Story of Ruins The Metropolitan Museum of Art Presence and Absence in Chinese Visual Art and Culture The Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Wu Hung Volume XII European Sculpture This richly illustrated book examines the changing and Metalwork significance of ruins as vehicles for cultural memory in Chinese art and visual culture from ancient times to Frits Scholten the present. Leading scholar of Chinese art Wu Hung This volume catalogs the more than two hundred shows how the story of ruins in China is different from remarkable and varied pieces of European sculpture but connected to “ruin culture” in the West. He investi- and metalwork—dating from the Middle Ages through gates indigenous Chinese concepts of ruins and their the twentieth century—amassed by Robert Lehman, visual manifestations, as well as the complex historical one of the foremost art collectors of his generation. interactions between China and the West since the Each work in this catalog is illustrated, in many cases eighteenth century. with new color photography, and elucidated by in- Analyzing a broad variety of traditional and con- depth scholarly discussion. temporary visual materials, including painting, architecture, photography, prints, and cinema, Hung also Frits Scholten is senior curator of sculpture at the embraces a wide variety of subjects—from indigenous Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. He has published widely methods of recording damage and decay in ancient on European sculpture and decorative arts. China, to realistic images of architectural ruins in the MARCH nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to the strong inter- Cloth $75.00S est in urban ruins in contemporary China, as shown in 978-0-691-15489-3 the many artworks that depict demolished houses and 268 pages. 244 color illus. 1 decaying industrial sites. The result is an original inter- 110 duotones. 8 ⁄2 x 11. pretation of the development of Chinese art, as well as ART a unique contribution to global art history. Volume XV Wu Hung is the Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distin- guished Service Professor in Chinese Art History and European and Asian director of the Center for the Art of East Asia, both at the University of Chicago. He is the author of many Decorative Arts books, including, most recently, The Art of the Yellow Wolfram Koeppe, Clare Le Corbeiller, Springs: Understanding Chinese Tombs and Remaking William Rieder, Charles Truman, Beijing: Tiananmen Square and the Creation of a Politi- Suzanne G. Valenstein, cal Space. Clare Vincent & Others

JUNE This volume catalogs more than four hundred Cloth $60.00S decorative objects in the Robert Lehman Collection at 978-0-691-15502-9 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, including painted 256 pages. 250 color illus. enamels, snuffboxes, porcelain, pottery, ceram- 1 1 7 ⁄2 x 11 ⁄2. ics, jewelry, furniture, cast metal, and textiles from ART z ASIAN STUDIES throughout Europe and Asia, with the majority dating

For sale only in the United States, from the late seventh century to the twentieth century. its dependencies, and Canada MAY Cloth $95.00S 978-0-691-15490-9 400 pages. 354 halftones. 1 8 ⁄2 x 11. ART Art 67 Commemorative Princeton and the Landscape Painting Gothic Revival in China 1870–1930

Anne de Coursey Clapp Johanna G. Seasonwein

When is a landscape more than a landscape? This Princeton and the Gothic Revival investigates America’s is a richly illustrated study of an important genre of changing attitudes toward medieval art around the Ming-dynasty Chinese painting in which landscapes turn of the twentieth century through the lens of are actually disguised portraits that celebrate an indi- Princeton University and its role as a major patron of vidual and his achievements, ambitions, and tastes in Gothic Revival art and architecture. Johanna Season- an open effort to win recognition, support, and social wein charts a shift from eclecticism to a more unified, status. In this unique study, Anne de Coursey Clapp “authentic” approach to medieval art, and examines presents a broad view of these commemorative land- how the language of medieval forms was used to scape paintings, including antecedents in the Song articulate a new model of American higher education and Yuan dynasties. in campus design and the classroom. The book traces how in commemorative land- The catalog for an exhibition at the Princeton Uni- scape painting members of the literati address their versity Art Museum, Princeton and the Gothic Revival peers in a deeply familiar language of values, just breaks new ground by addressing why universities, as they had for centuries through literary biography. and Princeton in particular, were so effective at bring- Although the setting for such pictures is always natural ing together what had been disparate interests in the landscape, it is secondary to the man, and its true Middle Ages. Revivalists and Medievalists were often function is to mirror him as the humanistic ideal of at odds, yet at Princeton they used the language of the the recluse-scholar. The book shows how the literary Middle Ages to create a new identity for the American associations attached to the new landscape increased university, one that was steeped in the traditions of during the Yuan dynasty (1271–1368), when the first Oxford and Cambridge but also embraced the model commemorative paintings appeared, and flourished of the German research university. through the Ming (1368–1644), producing an art form Princeton and the Gothic Revival provides an over- that was simultaneously pictorial and verbal. In the view of Princeton’s Romanesque and Gothic Revival course of exploring the sources and meaning of these architecture and examines the changing approach to paintings, the book examines several varieties of dedi- the idea of the “Gothic” by looking at three Princeton catory paintings, including departure paintings, and buildings and their stained glass windows: the Mar- the interesting subgenre of “biehao,” in which portrait quand Chapel, Procter Hall at the Graduate College, subjects are symbolized through pictorial representa- and the University Chapel. tions of their literary names. Johanna G. Seasonwein is the Andrew W. Mellon Anne de Coursey Clapp is professor emerita of Welles- Curatorial Fellow for Academic Programs at the ley College, where she taught East and Southeast Princeton University Art Museum. An art historian Asian art history in the Art Department for more than specializing in the Middle Ages, she holds a PhD three decades, retiring in 1999. She is the author of from Columbia University. monographs on the Ming dynasty artists Wen Zheng- Publications of ming and Tang Yin. the Princeton University Art Museum

Publications of the Department of Art and APRIL Archaeology, Princeton University Cloth $35.00S July 978-0-691-15401-5 128 pages. 65 color illus. Flexibound $29.95S 2 halftones. 9 x 10. 978-0-691-15476-3 176 pages. 51 color illus. ART z ARCHITECTURE 35 halftones. 7 x 10. ART z ASIAN STUDIES 68 Archaeology / Classics Nomads and Networks Slaves Tell Tales The Ancient Art and Culture of Kazakhstan And Other Episodes in the Politics of Popular Culture in Ancient Greece Edited by Sören Stark, Zainolla Samashev, Sara Forsdyke Karen S. Rubinson & Jennifer Y. Chi Most studies of ancient Greek politics focus on formal institutions such as the political assembly and the law courts, and overlook the role that informal social prac- The catalog for the groundbreaking exhibition at New tices played in the regulation of the political order. Sara York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient Forsdyke argues, by contrast, that various forms of World, Nomads and Networks presents an unparal- popular culture in ancient Greece—including festival leled overview of the sophisticated ancient nomadic revelry, oral storytelling, and popular forms of jus- culture of Kazakhstan. Contrary to the perception that tice—were a vital medium for political expression and Central Asia’s nomadic societies were less developed played an important role in the negotiation of relations than sedentary ones and randomly roamed over the between elites and masses, as well as masters and steppes, this catalog argues that the nomadic peoples slaves, in the Greek city-states. Although these forms of Kazakhstan followed a systematic cycle of move- of social life are only poorly attested in the sources, ment based on established economic and societal Forsdyke suggests that Greek literature reveals traces needs, and that pastoralism, or herding of domesti- of popular culture that can be further illuminated by cated animals, played an integral role. comparison with later historical periods. By looking Focusing on sixth to first century BC material beyond institutional contexts, moreover, Forsdyke from the Altai and Tianshan regions, Nomads and Net- recovers the ways that groups that were excluded from works explores how the reliance on animals is reflected the formal political sphere—especially women and in the material culture, which represented all types of slaves—participated in the process by which society creatures, from the domestic to the mythic. Materials was ordered. featured for the first time include saddles and saddle Forsdyke begins each chapter with an appar- covers, and grave goods from the burial mounds in ently marginal incident in Greek history—the worship the Berel valley. Other objects, such as gold mortuary of a dead slave by masters on Chios, the naming of ornaments from Shilikty and Kargali, attest to influ- Sicyon’s civic divisions after lowly animals such as pigs ences from foreign cultures—most notably China and and asses, and the riding of an adulteress on a donkey Persia. Contributors include: Alisher Akishev, Nursan through the streets of Cyme—and shows how these Alimbaev, Nikolai Bokovenko, Claudia Chang, Bryan episodes demonstrate the significance of informal Hanks, Sarynbai Murgabaev, and Abdesh Toleubaev. social practices and discourses in the regulation and reproduction of the social order. The result is an origi- is assistant professor of Central Asian Art Sören Stark nal, fascinating, and enlightening new perspective on and Archaeology at the Institute for the Study of the An- politics and popular culture in ancient Greece. cient World at New York University. Zainolla Samashev is a senior researcher at the A. Kh. Margulan Institute Sara Forsdyke is associate professor of classical stud- of Archaeology, Kazakhstan. Karen S. Rubinson is a ies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of research associate at the Institute for the Study of the Exile, Ostracism, and Democracy: The Politics of Expul- Ancient World. Jennifer Y. Chi is exhibitions director sion in Ancient Greece (Princeton). and chief curator at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. JULY A copublication with the Institute for the Study of Cloth $39.50S the Ancient World at New York University 978-0-691-14005-6 208 pages. 10 halftones. 1 map. 6 x 9. APRIL CLASSICS z ANCIENT HISTORY Cloth $49.95S 978-0-691-15480-0 240 pages. 140 color illus. 6 x 9. ARCHAEOLOGY z ANCIENT HISTORY Classics / Literature 69 A Written Republic Archives of Authority Cicero’s Philosophical Politics Empire, Culture, and the Cold War

Yelena Baraz Andrew N. Rubin

In the 40s BCE, during his forced retirement from Combining literary, cultural, and political history, politics under Caesar’s dictatorship, Cicero turned and based on extensive archival research, including to philosophy, producing a massive and important previously unseen FBI and CIA documents, Archives body of work. As he was acutely aware, this was an of Authority argues that cultural politics—specifically unusual undertaking for a Roman statesman because America’s often covert patronage of the arts—played Romans were often hostile to philosophy, perceiving it a highly important role in the transfer of imperial as foreign and incompatible with fulfilling one’s duty authority from Britain to the United States during as a citizen. How, then, are we to understand Cicero’s a critical period after World War II. Andrew Rubin decision to pursue philosophy in the context of the po- argues that this transfer reshaped the postwar literary litical, intellectual, and cultural life of the late Roman space and he shows how, during this time, new and republic? In A Written Republic, Yelena Baraz takes up efficient modes of cultural transmission, replication, this question and makes the case that philosophy for and travel—such as radio and rapidly and globally cir- Cicero was not a retreat from politics but a continua- culated journals—completely transformed the position tion of politics by other means, an alternative way of occupied by the postwar writer and the role of world living a political life and serving the state under newly literature. restricted conditions. Rubin demonstrates that the nearly instantaneous Baraz examines the rhetorical battle that Cicero translation of texts by George Orwell, Thomas Mann, stages in his philosophical prefaces—a battle between W. H. Auden, Richard Wright, Mary McCarthy, and the forces that would oppose or support his project. Albert Camus, among others, into interrelated journals He presents his philosophy as intimately connected that were sponsored by organizations such as the to the new political circumstances and his exclusion CIA’s Congress for Cultural Freedom and circulated from politics. His goal—to benefit the state by provid- around the world effectively reshaped writers, critics, ing new moral resources for the Roman elite—was and intellectuals into easily recognizable, transnational traditional, even if his method of translating Greek figures.T heir work formed a new canon of world litera- philosophical knowledge into Latin and combining ture that was celebrated in the United States and sup- Greek sources with Roman heritage was unorthodox. posedly represented the best of contemporary thought, A Written Republic provides a new perspective on while less politically attractive authors were ignored or Cicero’s conception of his philosophical project while even demonized. This championing and demonizing also adding to the broader picture of late-Roman politi- of writers occurred in the name of anti-Communism— cal, intellectual, and cultural life. the new, transatlantic “civilizing mission” through which postwar cultural and literary authority emerged. Yelena Baraz is assistant professor of classics at Princeton University. Andrew N. Rubin is assistant professor of English at Georgetown University. He is the coeditor of Adorno: MAY A Critical Reader and The Edward Said Reader. Cloth $45.00S 978-0-691-15332-2 Translation/Transnation 272 pages. 6 x 9. E mily Apter, Series Editor CLASSICS AUGUST Cloth $39.50S 978-0-691-15415-2 168 pages. 6 x 9. LITERATURE z HISTORY 70 Literature How to Do Things The Rise and with Books in Fall of Meter Victorian Britain Poetry and English National Culture, 1860–1930

Leah Price Meredith Martin

How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks Why do we often teach English poetic meter by the how our culture came to frown on using books for any Greek terms iamb and trochee? How is our under- purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table standing of English meter influenced by the history book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts of England’s sense of itself in the nineteenth century? forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victo- Not an old-fashioned approach to poetry, but a dy- rian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the namic, contested, and inherently nontraditional field, newspaper, ladies who matched their books’ binding “English meter” concerned issues of personal and to their dress, and servants who reduced newspapers national identity, class, education, patriotism, milita- to fish ’n’ chips wrap? rism, and the development of English literature as a Shedding new light on novels by Thackeray, Dick- discipline. The Rise and Fall of Meter tells the unknown ens, the Brontës, Trollope, and Collins, as well as the story of English meter from the late eighteenth century urban sociology of Henry Mayhew, Leah Price also un- until just after World War I. Uncovering a vast and covers the lives and afterlives of anonymous religious unexplored archive in the history of poetics, Meredith tracts and household manuals. From knickknacks to Martin shows that the history of prosody is tied to wastepaper, books mattered to the Victorians in ways the ways Victorian England argued about its national that cannot be explained by their printed content identity. Gerard Manley Hopkins, Coventry Patmore, alone. And whether displayed, defaced, exchanged, and Robert Bridges used meter to negotiate their rela- or discarded, printed matter participated, and still tionship to England and the English language; George participates, in a range of transactions that stretches Saintsbury, Matthew Arnold, and Henry Newbolt wor- far beyond reading. ried about the rise of one metrical model among mul- Supplementing close readings with a sensitive re- tiple competitors. The pressure to conform to a stable construction of how Victorians thought and felt about model, however, produced reactionary misunderstand- books, Price offers a new model for integrating literary ings of English meter and the culture it stood for. This theory with cultural history. How to Do Things with unstable relationship to poetic form influenced the Books in Victorian Britain reshapes our understand- prose and poems of Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, ing of the interplay between words and objects in the Wilfred Owen, W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and Alice nineteenth century and beyond. Meynell. A significant intervention in literary history, this book argues that our contemporary understand- Leah Price is professor of English at Harvard Univer- ing of the rise of modernist poetic form was crucially sity. She is the author of The Anthology and the Rise of bound to narratives of English national culture. the Novel. Meredith Martin is assistant professor of English at MAY Princeton University. Cloth $45.00S 978-0-691-11417-0 JUNE 328 pages. 18 halftones. Paper $35.00S 2 line illus. 6 x 9. 978-0-691-15512-8 LITERATURE Cloth $75.00S 978-0-691-15273-8 288 pages. 4 halftones. 6 x 9. LITERATURE American History 71 Mothers of Jim and Jap Crow Conservatism A Cultural History of 1940s Interracial America Women and the Postwar Right Matthew M. Briones Michelle M. Nickerson Following Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the U.S. government rounded up more than one hundred Mothers of Conservatism tells the story of 1950s south- thousand Japanese Americans and sent them to in- ern Californian housewives who shaped the grassroots ternment camps. One of those internees was Charles right in the two decades following World War II. Michelle Kikuchi. In thousands of diary pages, he documented Nickerson describes how red-hunting homemakers mo- his experiences in the camps, his resettlement in bilized activist networks, institutions, and political con- Chicago and drafting into the Army on the eve of sciousness in local education battles, and she introduces Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and his postwar life as a a generation of women who developed political styles social worker in New York City. Kikuchi’s diaries bear and practices around their domestic routines. From witness to a watershed era in American race rela- the conservative movement’s origins in the early fifties tions, and expose both the promise and the hypocrisy through the presidential election of 1964, Nickerson of American democracy. documents how women shaped conservatism from the Jim and Jap Crow follows Kikuchi’s personal odys- bottom up, out of the fabric of their daily lives and into sey among fellow Japanese American intellectuals, the agenda of the Republican Party. immigrant activists, Chicago School social scientists, Female activists formed study groups, gave everyday people on Chicago’s South Side, and psy- lectures, published newsletters, hosted public events, chologically scarred veterans in the hospitals of New and opened conservative bookstores, bringing Cold York. The book chronicles a remarkable moment in War geopolitics into their local communities. Fright- America’s history in which interracial alliances chal- ened that communism was infecting the minds of lenged the limits of the elusive democratic ideal, and their children through the public education system, in which the nation was forced to choose between civil these women took it upon themselves to address po- liberty and the fearful politics of racial hysteria. It was tential threats. This sense of duty, ironically, removed an era of world war and the atomic bomb, desegrega- many of them from the house for numerous hours of tion in the military but Jim and Jap Crow elsewhere in the week to perform political work, and their activi- America, and a hopeful progressivism that gave way to ties contributed to a feminine ideal that Nickerson Cold War paranoia. calls the “populist housewife”—a political model of Jim and Jap Crow looks at Kikuchi’s life and diaries womanhood that emphasized common sense, lack of as a lens through which to observe the possibilities, pretension, and spirituality. failures, and key conversations in a dynamic multi- A unique history of the American conservative racial America. movement, Mothers of Conservatism shows how housewives got out of the house and discovered their Matthew M. Briones is assistant professor of American political capital. history and the College at the University of Chicago.

Michelle M. Nickerson is assistant professor of history MAY at Loyola University, Chicago. She is coeditor of Sun- Cloth $39.50S belt Rising: The Politics of Space, Place, and Region. 978-0-691-12948-8 288 pages. 3 halftones. 6 x 9. Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America W illiam Chafe, Gary Gerstle, Linda Gordon, and Julian Zelizer, AMERICAN HISTORY z Series Editors AMERICAN STUDIES

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A NEW HISTORY EXPLORING Foreign Relations U.S. IMMIGRATION IN GLOBAL CONTEXT American Immigration in Global Perspective

Donna R. Gabaccia

“No one has done more than Donna Gabaccia Histories investigating U.S. immigration have often portrayed to develop a global framework for under- America as a domestic melting pot, merging together those standing the history of American immigra- who arrive on its shores. Yet this is not a truly accurate depic- tion. In this book, she brings together her tion of the nation’s complex connections to immigration. earlier work on international migration with Offering a brand-new global history, Foreign Relations takes a comprehensive look at the links between American immigra- a new interest in American foreign relations. tion and U.S. foreign relations. Donna Gabaccia examines The result is a bold, sweeping, and provoca- America’s relationship to immigration and its debates through tive recasting of America’s encounter with the prism of the nation’s changing foreign policy over the past immigrants past and present.” two centuries, and she highlights how these ever-evolving —Gary Gerstle, author of American Crucible: dynamics have influenced the lives of individuals moving to Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century and from the United States. With an emphasis on American immigration during “Gabaccia offers a way for readers to situate the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century industrial U.S. migration history in an international era and the contemporary era of free trade, Gabaccia shows context and to understand how the Ameri- that immigrants were not isolationists who cut ties to their can experience is similar to yet different countries of origin or their families. Instead, their relations from the experience of other migrant- to America were often in flux and dependent on government policies of the time. She cites a wide range of examples, such receiving countries. Putting the history of as how bilateral commercial treaties of the nineteenth century migration in the context of historical global influenced whether family members might receive passage to trends, she gives globalization itself a his- America, how families maintained bonds to their countries tory. A much-needed book from a preemi- of origin through the exchange of letters and goods, and how nent historian.” politics on behalf of the mother country could still be fought —Mae Ngai, author of The Lucky Ones: One from across the ocean. Today, U.S. commercial diplomacy in Family and the Extraordinary Invention of China and NAFTA-era Mexico raises concerns about immi- Chinese America grants once again, and Gabaccia demonstrates that immigration has altered with America’s developing geopolitical position in the world. An innovative history of U.S. immigration, Foreign Relations casts a fresh eye on a compelling and controversial topic.

Donna R. Gabaccia is professor of history and the Rudolph J. Vecoli Chair and Director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota. Her many books include We Are What We Eat and Immigration and American Diversity. APRIL Am erica in the World Cloth $29.95S S ven Beckert and Jeremi Suri, Series Editors 978-0-691-13419-2 296 pages. 2 halftones. 1 1 1 line illus. 3 tables. 5 ⁄2 x 8 ⁄2. AMERICAN HISTORY z WORLD HISTORY

press.princeton.edu History 73 Irish Nationalists A King Travels and the Making of Festive Traditions in the Irish Race Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain Teofilo F. Ruiz Bruce Nelson A King Travels examines the scripting and performance of festivals in Spain between 1327 and 1620, offering This is a book about Irish nationalism and how Irish an unprecedented look at the different types of festi- nationalists developed their own conception of the vals that were held in Iberia during this crucial period Irish race. Bruce Nelson begins with an exploration of of European history. Bridging the gap between the the discourse of race—from the nineteenth-century medieval and early modern eras, TeofiloR uiz focuses belief that “race is everything” to the more recent on the travels and festivities of Philip II, exploring the argument that there are no races. He focuses on how complex relationship between power and ceremony, English observers constructed the “native” and Catho- and offering a vibrant portrait ofS pain’s cultural and lic Irish as uncivilized and savage, and on the racializa- political life. tion of the Irish in the nineteenth century, especially in Ruiz covers a range of festival categories: carnival, Britain and the United States, where Irish immigrants royal entries, tournaments, calendrical and noncalen- were often portrayed in terms that had been applied drical celebrations, autos de fe, and Corpus Christi mainly to enslaved Africans and their descendants. processions. He probes the ritual meanings of these Most of the book focuses on how the Irish created events, paying special attention to the use of colors their own identity—in the context of slavery and aboli- and symbols, and to the power relations articulated tion, empire, and revolution. Since the Irish were a through these festive displays. Ruiz argues that the dispersed people, this process unfolded not only in Ire- fluid and at times subversive character of medieval land, but in the United States, Britain, Australia, South festivals gave way to highly formalized and hierarchical Africa, and other countries. Many nationalists were events reflecting a broader shift in how power was ar- determined to repudiate anything that could interfere ticulated in late medieval and early modern Spain. Yet with the goal of building a united movement aimed Ruiz contends that these festivals, while they sought to at achieving full independence for Ireland. But others, buttress authority and instruct different social orders including men and women who are at the heart of this about hierarchies of power, also served as sites of study, believed that the Irish struggle must create a contestation, dialogue, and resistance. more inclusive sense of Irish nationhood and stand A King Travels sheds new light on Iberian festive for freedom everywhere. Nelson pays close attention traditions and their unique role in the centralizing to this argument within Irish nationalism, and to the state in early modern Castile. ways it resonated with nationalists worldwide, from India to the Caribbean. Teofilo F. Ruiz is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. His many Bruce Nelson is professor emeritus of history at Dart- books include The Terror of History: On the Uncertain- mouth College. He is the author of Divided We Stand: ties of Life in Western Civilization and From Heaven to American Workers and the Struggle for Black Equality Earth: The Reordering of Castilian Society, 1150–1350 (Princeton) and Workers on the Waterfront: Seamen, (both Princeton). Longshoremen, and Unionism in the 1930s. APRIL JUNE Paper $45.00S Cloth $45.00S 978-0-691-15358-2 978-0-691-15312-4 Cloth $75.00S 348 pages. 22 halftones. 6 x 9. 978-0-691-15357-5 HISTORY 368 pages. 4 halftones. 2 maps. 6 x 9. HISTORY 74 History

A COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY OF MANHUNTING IN THE WEST, Manhunts FROM ANCIENT TIMES TO THE PRESENT A Philosophical History

Grégoire Chamayou Translated by Steven Rendall

“From manhunting for sport in the Occi- Touching on issues of power, authority, and domination, dent to the global search for ‘illegal aliens’ Manhunts takes an in-depth look at the hunting of humans in the twenty-first century, this book offers a in the West, from ancient Sparta, through the Middle Ages, history of humans’ preying on other human to the modern practices of chasing undocumented migrants. beings. Applying the rubric of hunting to Incorporating historical events and philosophical reflection, Grégoire Chamayou examines the systematic and organized contemporary debates about illegal migrants, search for individuals and small groups on the run because Chamayou shows that the supposedly newest they have defied authority, committed crimes, seemed dan- hunt refreshes an old motif. A provocative gerous for simply existing, or been categorized as subhuman take on a topic of great currency.” or dispensable. —Jimmy Casas Klausen, University of Chamayou begins in ancient Greece, where young Wisconsin–Madison Spartans hunted and killed Helots (Sparta’s serfs) as an initiation rite, and where Aristotle and other philosophers helped to justify raids to capture and enslave foreigners by creating the concept of natural slaves. He discusses the hunt for heretics in the Middle Ages; New World natives in the early modern period; vagrants, Jews, criminals, and runaway slaves in other eras; and illegal immigrants today. Exploring evolving ideas about the human and the subhuman, what we owe to enemies and people on the margins of society, and the supposed legitimacy of domination, Chamayou shows that the hunting of humans should not be treated ahistorically, and that manhunting has varied as widely in its justifications and aims as in its practices. He investigates the psychology of manhunting, noting that many people, from bounty hunters to Louis XI, have written about the thrill of hunting when the prey is equally intelligent and cunning. An unconventional history on an unconventional subject, Manhunts is an in-depth consideration of the dynamics of an age-old form of violence.

Grégoire Chamayou is a research scholar in philosophy at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris.

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press.princeton.edu History / World History 75 The First Modern Jew The Everlasting Spinoza and the History of an Image Empire The Political Culture of Ancient China Daniel B. Schwartz and Its Imperial Legacy

Pioneering biblical critic, theorist of democracy, and Yuri Pines legendary conflater ofG od and nature, Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) was excommuni- Established in 221 BCE, the Chinese empire lasted for cated by the Sephardic Jews of Amsterdam in 1656 for 2,132 years before being replaced by the Republic of his “horrible heresies” and “monstrous deeds.” Yet, China in 1912. During its two millennia, the empire over the past three centuries, Spinoza’s rupture with endured internal wars, foreign incursions, alien occu- traditional Jewish beliefs and practices has elevated pations, and devastating rebellions—yet fundamental him to a prominent place in genealogies of Jewish mo- institutional, sociopolitical, and cultural features of dernity. The First Modern Jew provides a riveting look at the empire remained intact. The Everlasting Empire how Spinoza went from being one of Judaism’s most traces the roots of the Chinese empire’s exceptional notorious outcasts to one of its most celebrated, if still longevity and unparalleled political durability, and highly controversial, cultural icons, and a powerful and shows how lessons from the imperial past are relevant protean symbol of the first modern secular Jew. for China today. Ranging from Amsterdam to Palestine and back Yuri Pines demonstrates that the empire survived again to Europe, the book chronicles Spinoza’s post- and adjusted to a variety of domestic and external humous odyssey from marginalized heretic to hero, challenges through a peculiar combination of rigid the exemplar of a whole host of Jewish identities, ideological premises and their flexible implementa- including cosmopolitan, nationalist, reformist, and tion. The empire’s major political actors and neighbors rejectionist. Daniel Schwartz shows that in fashioning shared its fundamental ideological principles, such Spinoza into “the first modern Jew,” generations of as unity under a single monarch—hence, even the Jewish intellectuals—German liberals, East European empire’s strongest domestic and foreign foes adopted maskilim, secular Zionists, and Yiddishists—have the system of imperial rule. Yet details of this rule were projected their own dilemmas of identity onto him, constantly negotiated and adjusted. Pines shows how reshaping the Amsterdam thinker in their own image. deep tensions between political actors including the The many afterlives of Spinoza are a kind of looking emperor, the literati, local elites, and rebellious com- glass into the struggles of Jewish writers over where to moners actually enabled the empire’s basic institu- draw the boundaries of Jewishness and whether a sec- tional framework to remain critically vital and adapt- ular Jewish identity is indeed possible. Cumulatively, able to ever-changing sociopolitical circumstances. As these afterlives offer a kaleidoscopic view of modern contemporary China moves toward a new period of Jewish culture—and a vivid history of an obsession prosperity and power in the twenty-first century, Pines with Spinoza that continues to this day. argues that the legacy of the empire may become an increasingly important force in shaping the nation’s Daniel B. Schwartz is assistant professor of history at George Washington University. future trajectory.

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HOW THE RISE OF CHRISTIANITY PROFOUNDLY INFLUENCED THE DEVELOPMENT The Jewish Jesus OF JUDAISM IN LATE ANTIQUITY How Judaism and Christianity Shaped Each Other

Peter Schäfer

“Schäfer’s thought-provoking book chal- In late antiquity, as Christianity emerged from Judaism, it was lenges readers to reimagine the relation- not only the new religion that was being influenced by the old. ship of early Judaism and Christianity and The rise and revolutionary challenge of Christianity also had a the theological matrices in which they profound influence on rabbinic Judaism, which was itself just emerging and, like Christianity, trying to shape its own identity. developed. Must reading for students and In The Jewish Jesus, Peter Schäfer reveals the crucial ways in scholars alike.” which various Jewish heresies, including Christianity, affected —Burton L. Visotzky, Jewish Theological the development of rabbinic Judaism. He even shows that Seminary some of the ideas that the rabbis appropriated from Christian- ity were actually reappropriated Jewish ideas. The result is a “This excellent and important book will be demonstration of a deep mutual influence between the sister seized on eagerly and read with attention. religions, one that calls into question hard and fast distinc- Peter Schäfer makes his argument with great tions between orthodoxy and heresy, and even Judaism and clarity and a formidable command of the Christianity, during the first centuries CE. sources, building his case from close readings Peter Schäfer is the Ronald O. Perelman Professor of Jew- of the texts. The scholarship is impeccable.” ish Studies and professor of religion at Princeton University, —Philip Alexander, professor emeritus, where he directs the Program in Judaic Studies. His books University of Manchester include The Origins of Jewish Mysticism and Jesus in the Talmud (both Princeton). He received a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in 2007.

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press.princeton.edu Philosophy 77 Mere Possibilities When Is True Metaphysical Foundations of Modal Semantics Belief Knowledge?

Robert Stalnaker Richard Foley

It seems reasonable to believe that there might have A woman glances at a broken clock and comes to be- existed things other than those that in fact exist, or lieve it is a quarter past seven. Yet, despite the broken have existed. But how should we understand such clock, it really does happen to be a quarter past seven. claims? Standard semantic theories exploit the Leibniz- Her belief is true, but it isn’t knowledge. This is a clas- ian metaphor of a set of all possible worlds: a proposi- sic illustration of a central problem in epistemology: tion might or must be true if it is true in some or all determining what knowledge requires in addition to possible worlds. The actualist, who believes that noth- true belief. ing exists except what actually exists, prefers to talk of In this provocative book, Richard Foley finds a possible states of the world, or of ways that a world new solution to the problem in the observation that might be. But even the actualist still faces the problem whenever someone has a true belief but not knowl- of explaining what we are talking about when we talk edge, there is some significant aspect of the situation about the domains of other possible worlds. In Mere about which she lacks true beliefs—something im- Possibilities, Robert Stalnaker develops a framework portant that she doesn’t quite “get.” This may seem a for clarifying this problem, and explores a number of modest point but, as Foley shows, it has the potential actualist strategies for solving it. to reorient the theory of knowledge. Whether a true Some philosophers have hypothesized a realm of belief counts as knowledge depends on the impor- individual essences that stand as proxies for all merely tance of the information one does or doesn’t have. possible beings. Others have argued that we are com- This means that questions of knowledge cannot be mitted to the necessary existence of everything that separated from questions about human concerns and does or might exist. In contrast, Mere Possibilities shows values. It also means that, contrary to what is often how we can make sense of ordinary beliefs about what thought, there is no privileged way of coming to know. might and must exist without making counterintuitive Knowledge is a mutt. Proper pedigree is not required. metaphysical commitments. The book also sheds new What matters is that one doesn’t lack important light on the nature of metaphysical theorizing by explor- nearby information. ing the interaction of semantic and metaphysical issues, Challenging some of the central assumptions of the connections between different metaphysical issues, contemporary epistemology, this is an original and and the nature of ontological commitment. important account of knowledge.

Robert Stalnaker is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Pro- Richard Foley is professor of philosophy and vice chan- fessor of Philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of cellor for strategic planning at New York University. He Technology. He is the author of Our Knowledge of the is the author of Intellectual Trust in Oneself and Others, Internal World, Ways a World Might Be, Context and Working Without a Net: A Theory of Egocentric Episte- Content, and Inquiry. mology, and The Theory of Epistemic Rationality.

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AN IN-DEPTH AND ACCESSIBLE INTRODUCTION Logic TO THE HOWS AND WHYS OF LOGIC The Laws of Truth

Nicholas J. J. Smith

“Lots of books aim to provide a first intro- Logic is essential to correct reasoning and also has important duction to symbolic logic. I predict that this theoretical applications in philosophy, computer science, one will be widely adopted throughout the linguistics, and mathematics. This book provides an excep- English-speaking world. One of its unique tionally clear introduction to classical logic, with a unique strengths is that it broaches important approach that emphasizes both the hows and whys of logic. Here Nicholas Smith thoroughly covers the formal tools and philosophical issues that naturally arise in techniques of logic while also imparting a deeper understand- connection with symbolic logic. The book ing of their underlying rationales and broader philosophical thus serves both as an introduction to logic significance. In addition, this is the only introduction to logic itself and to the philosophy of logic.” available today that presents all the major forms of proof— —Stewart Shapiro, editor of The Oxford trees, natural deduction in all its major variants, axiomatic Handbook of Philosophy of Mathematics proofs, and sequent calculus. The book also features numer- and Logic ous exercises, with solutions available on an accompanying website. “Smith’s book combines accessibility with Logic is the ideal textbook for undergraduates and comprehensiveness in a way that I have not graduate students seeking a comprehensive and accessible found in other texts. It is very readable and introduction to the subject. well paced, but does not sacrifice preci- u Provides an essential introduction to classical logic sion. Difficult issues aren’t glossed over or u Emphasizes the how and why of logic skipped, but are introduced at a gentle pace u Covers both formal and philosophical issues for novice logicians. As a teacher of logic, I u Presents all the major forms of proof—from trees to see real benefits in Smith’s approach.” sequent calculus —Jennifer Duke-Yonge, Macquarie u Features numerous exercises, with solutions available at University, Australia www.personal.usyd.edu.au/~njjsmith/lawsoftruth u The ideal textbook for undergraduates and graduate students

Nicholas J. J. Smith is senior lecturer in philosophy at the Uni- versity of Sydney in Australia. He is the author of Vagueness and Degrees of Truth.

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A MAJOR NEW ACCOUNT OF Pursuits of Wisdom THE DIFFERENT WAYS ANCIENT PHILOSOPHERS Six Ways of Life in Ancient Philosophy THOUGHT WE SHOULD LIVE OUR LIVES from Socrates to Plotinus

John M. Cooper

This is a major reinterpretation of ancient philosophy that “This book not only discusses philosophy recovers the long Greek and Roman tradition of philosophy as a way of life, but manifests many of as a complete way of life—and not simply an intellectual the virtues such a life might be hoped to discipline. Distinguished philosopher John Cooper traces embody. There is scarcely an instance in how, for many ancient thinkers, philosophy was not just to be which Cooper’s sureness of grasp, vivacity of studied or even used to solve particular practical problems. expression, or clarity of purpose falters. The Rather, philosophy—not just ethics but even logic and physical book invites a wide readership, and should theory—was literally to be lived. Yet there was great disagree- receive it.” ment about how to live philosophically: philosophy was not —C.D.C. Reeve, University of North one but many, mutually opposed, ways of life. Examining this tradition from its establishment by Socrates in the fifth century Carolina, Chapel Hill BCE through Plotinus in the third century CE and the eclipse of pagan philosophy by Christianity, Pursuits of Wisdom examines six central philosophies of living—Socratic, Aristotelian, Stoic, Epicurean, Skeptic, and the Platonist life of late antiquity. The book describes the shared assumptions that allowed these thinkers to conceive of their philosophies as ways of life, as well as the distinctive ideas that led them to widely different conclusions about the best human life. Clearing up many common misperceptions and simplifications,C ooper explains in detail the Socratic devotion to philosophical discussion about human nature, human life, and human good; the Aristotelian focus on the true place of humans within the total system of the natural world; the Stoic commitment to dutifully accepting Zeus’s plans; the Epicurean pursuit of pleasure through tran- quil activities that exercise perception, thought, and feeling; the Skeptical eschewal of all critical reasoning in forming their beliefs; and, finally, the late Platonist emphasis on spiritual concerns and the eternal realm of Being. Pursuits of Wisdom is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding what the great philosophers of antiquity thought was the true purpose of philosophy—and of life.

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PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS Philosophy of Physics OF THE PHYSICS OF SPACE-TIME Space and Time

Tim Maudlin

“Exceptionally clear and comprehensive, this T his concise book introduces nonphysicists to the core philo- engrossing volume will be extremely useful sophical issues surrounding the nature and structure of space to students. Most introductions to space- and time, and is also an ideal resource for physicists interested in the conceptual foundations of space-time theory. time and relativity are written by physicists, Tim Maudlin’s broad historical overview examines Aristo- but readers interested in a careful examina- telian and Newtonian accounts of space and time, and traces tion of the philosophical foundations of the how Galileo’s conceptions of relativity and space-time led to subject are much better served by starting Einstein’s special and general theories of relativity. Maudlin here. I had fun reading this book.” explains special relativity using a geometrical approach, em- —Sean Carroll, author of From Eternity to phasizing intrinsic space-time structure rather than coordinate Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of systems or references frames. He gives readers enough detail Time about special relativity to solve concrete physical problems while presenting general relativity in a more qualitative way, “Maudlin adroitly guides readers through with an informative discussion of the geometrization of grav- the mathematical, physical, and philosophi- ity, the bending of light, and black holes. Additional topics cal subtleties of Newtonian physics and include the Twins Paradox, the physical aspects of the Lorentz- FitzGerald contraction, the constancy of the speed of light, special and general relativity. The book is time travel, the direction of time, and more. filled with lucid and original observations, and succeeds in presenting material that u Introduces nonphysicists to the philosophical was previously only accessible to those who foundations of space-time theory could stomach significant amounts of differ- u Provides a broad historical overview, from Aristotle to ential geometry. A major contribution.” Einstein —David Wallace, University of Oxford u Explains special relativity geometrically, emphasizing the intrinsic structure of space-time u Covers the Twins Paradox, Galilean relativity, time travel, and more u Requires only basic algebra and no formal knowledge of physics

Tim Maudlin is professor of philosophy at New York Univer- sity. His books include The Metaphysics within Physics and Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity.

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A PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATION Trust and Violence INTO THE CONNECTIONS An Essay on a Modern Relationship BETWEEN TRUST AND VIOLENCE

Jan Philipp Reemtsma

The limiting of violence through state powers is one of the “This is the most exciting work of philosophy central projects of the modern age. Why then have recent that I have read in years. It is brilliant, deep, centuries been so bloody? In Trust and Violence, acclaimed and destined to be a classic. Bringing together German intellectual and public figure Jan PhilippR eemtsma fifteen years of work on violence, modernity, demonstrates that the aim of decreasing and deterring good, and evil, this book should change the violence has gone hand in hand with the misleading idea that way we think about all these concepts.” violence is abnormal and beyond comprehension. We would —Susan Neiman, Einstein Forum be far better off, Reemtsma argues, if we acknowledged the disturbing fact that violence is normal. At the same time, Reemtsma contends that violence cannot be fully understood without delving into the concept of trust. Not in violence, but trust, rests the foundation of true power. Reemtsma makes his case with a wide-ranging history of ideas about violence, from ancient philosophy through Shake- speare and Schiller to Michel Foucault, and by considering specific cases of extreme violence from medieval torture to the Holocaust and beyond. In the midst of this gloomy account of human tendencies, Reemtsma shrewdly observes that even dictators have to sleep at night and cannot rely on violence alone to ensure their safety. These authoritarian leaders must trust others while, by means other than violence, they must convince others to trust them. The history of violence is therefore a history of the peculiar relationship between violence and trust, and a recognition of trust’s crucial place in humanity. A broad and insightful book that touches on philosophy, sociology, and political theory, Trust and Violence sheds new, and at times disquieting, light on two integral aspects of our society.

Jan Philipp Reemtsma is professor of modern German literature at the University of Hamburg and founder and director of the Hamburg Institute of Social Research. Of his many books on literature, history, politics, philosophy, and contemporary society, two have been published in English—More Than a Champion: The Style of Muhammad Ali (Vintage) and In the Cellar (Knopf).

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press.princeton.edu 82 Philosophy / Political Theory On Sacrifice Catholicism and Democracy Moshe Halbertal An Essay in the History of Political Thought

The idea and practice of sacrifice play a profound Emile Perreau-Saussine role in religion, ethics, and politics. In this brief book, Translated by Richard Rex philosopher Moshe Halbertal explores the meaning and implications of sacrifice, developing a theory of sacrifice as an offering and examining the relation- Catholicism and Democracy is a history of Catholic ship between sacrifice, ritual, violence, and love. On political thinking from the French Revolution to the Sacrifice also looks at the place of self-sacrifice within present day. Emile Perreau-Saussine investigates the ethical life and at the complex role of sacrifice as both Church’s response to liberal democracy, a political a noble and destructive political ideal. system for which the Church was utterly unprepared. In the religious domain, Halbertal argues, Looking at leading philosophers and political sacrifice is an offering, a gift given in the context of a theologians—among them Joseph de Maistre, Alexis hierarchical relationship. As such it is vulnerable to de Tocqueville, and Charles Péguy—Perreau-Saussine rejection, a trauma at the root of both ritual and vio- shows how the Church redefined its relationship to the lence. An offering is also an ambiguous gesture torn State in the long wake of the French Revolution. Dis- between a genuine expression of gratitude and love enfranchised by the fall of the monarchy, the Church and an instrument of exchange, a tension that haunts in France at first embraced that most conservative of the practice of sacrifice. ideologies, “ultramontanism” (an emphasis on the In the moral and political domains, sacrifice is central role of the papacy). Catholics whose church tied to the idea of self-transcendence, in which an had lost its national status henceforth looked to the individual sacrifices his or her self-interest for the sake papacy for spiritual authority. Perreau-Saussine argues of higher values and commitments. While self-sacrifice that this move paradoxically combined a fundamen- has great potential moral value, it can also be used tal repudiation of the liberal political order with an to justify the most brutal acts. In his exploration of implicit acknowledgment of one of its core principles, the positive and negative dimensions of self-sacrifice, the autonomy of the Church from the State. However, Halbertal also addresses the role of past sacrifice in as Perreau-Saussine shows, in the context of twentieth- obligating future generations and in creating a bond century totalitarianism, the Catholic Church retrieved for political associations, and considers the function of elements of its Gallican heritage and came to embrace the modern state as a sacrificial community. another liberal (and Gallican) principle, the autonomy of the State from the Church, for the sake of its corol- Moshe Halbertal is the Gruss Professor of Law at lary, freedom of religion. Perreau-Saussine concludes New York University School of Law and professor of that Catholics came to terms with liberal democracy, Jewish thought and philosophy at the Hebrew Univer- though not without abiding concerns about the poten- sity of Jerusalem. tial of that system to compromise freedom of religion MARCH in the pursuit of other goals. Cloth $24.95S 978-0-691-15285-1 Emile Perreau-Saussine (1972–2010) was a lecturer in 1 1 152 pages. 5 ⁄2 x 8 ⁄2. the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge. He was the author of PHILOSOPHY z POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY z Alasdair MacIntyre. JEWISH STUDIES MAY Cloth $45.00S 978-0-691-15394-0 200 pages. 6 x 9. POLITICAL THEORY z RELIGION Political Theory 83 When the State Speaks, In Our Name What Should It Say? The Ethics of Democracy How Democracies Can Protect Expression and Promote Equality Eric Beerbohm

Corey Brettschneider When a government in a democracy acts in our name, are we, as citizens, responsible for those acts? What if How should a liberal democracy respond to hate the government commits a moral crime? The protes- groups and others that oppose the ideal of free and tor’s slogan—“Not in our name!”—testifies to the equal citizenship? The democratic state faces the hard need to separate ourselves from the wrongs of our choice of either protecting the rights of hate groups leaders. Yet the idea that individual citizens might and allowing their views to spread, or banning their bear a special responsibility for political wrongdoing views and violating citizens’ rights to freedoms of is deeply puzzling for ordinary morality and leading expression, association, and religion. Avoiding the theories of democracy. In Our Name explains how familiar yet problematic responses to these issues, citizens may be morally exposed to the failures of political theorist Corey Brettschneider proposes a new their representatives and state institutions, and how approach called value democracy. The theory of value complicity is the professional hazard of democratic democracy argues that the state should protect the citizenship. Confronting the ethical challenges that right to express illiberal beliefs, but the state should citizens are faced with in a self-governing democracy, also engage in democratic persuasion when it speaks Eric Beerbohm proposes institutional remedies for through its various expressive capacities: publicly dealing with them. criticizing, and giving reasons to reject, hate-based or Beerbohm questions prevailing theories of de- other discriminatory viewpoints. mocracy’s failure to account for our dual position as Distinguishing between two kinds of state both citizens and subjects. Showing that the obliga- action—expressive and coercive—Brettschneider tion to participate in the democratic process is even contends that public criticism of viewpoints advocat- greater when we risk serving as accomplices to wrong- ing discrimination based on race, gender, or sexual doing, Beerbohm argues for a distinctive division of orientation should be pursued through the state’s labor between citizens and their representatives that expressive capacities as speaker, educator, and charges lawmakers with the responsibility of incorpo- spender. When the state uses its expressive capacities rating their constituents’ moral principles into their to promote the values of free and equal citizenship, it reasoning about policy. Grappling with the practical engages in democratic persuasion. By using demo- issues of democratic decision making, In Our Name cratic persuasion, the state can both respect rights engages with political science, law, and psychology and counter hateful or discriminatory viewpoints. to envision mechanisms for citizens seeking to avoid Brettschneider extends this analysis from freedom of democratic complicity. expression to the freedoms of religion and association, Eric Beerbohm is assistant professor of government and he shows that value democracy can uphold the and social studies and director of graduate fellowships protection of these freedoms while promoting equality for the Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. for all citizens.

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A PROVOCATIVE NEW VISION OF FREE MARKET CAPITALISM THAT ACHIEVES Free Market Fairness LIBERAL ENDS BY LIBERTARIAN MEANS John Tomasi

“This is one of the very best philosophi- Can libertarians care about social justice? In Free Market Fair- cal treatments of libertarian thought, ever. ness, John Tomasi argues that they can and should. Drawing John Tomasi cements his position as one simultaneously on moral insights from defenders of economic of America’s leading social and political liberty such as F. A. Hayek and advocates of social justice such philosophers.” as John Rawls, Tomasi presents a new theory of liberal justice. This theory, free market fairness, is committed to both limited —Tyler Cowen, author of Creative Destruction government and the material betterment of the poor. Unlike traditional libertarians, Tomasi argues that prop- “This is a terrific book—lively, stimulating, erty rights are best defended not in terms of self-ownership or novel, and important. Written with clarity economic efficiency but as requirements of democratic legiti- and lightness, it is appealingly wide-rang- macy. At the same time, he encourages egalitarians concerned ing, spanning political philosophy, intellec- about social justice to listen more sympathetically to the tual history, and more. It will be widely read claims ordinary citizens make about the importance of private and cited.” economic liberty in their daily lives. In place of the familiar —Jacob T. Levy, McGill University social democratic interpretations of social justice, Tomasi offers a “market democratic” conception of social justice: free market fairness. Tomasi argues that free market fairness, with its twin commitment to economic liberty and a fair distribution of goods and opportunities, is a morally superior account of liberal justice. Free market fairness is also a distinctively American ideal. It extends the notion, prominent in America’s founding period, that protection of property and promotion of real opportunity are indivisible goals. Indeed, according to Tomasi, free market fairness is social justice, American style. Provocative and vigorously argued, Free Market Fairness offers a bold new way of thinking about politics, economics, and justice—one that will challenge readers on both the left and right.

John Tomasi is professor of political science and, by courtesy, of philosophy at Brown University. The founding director of Brown’s Political Theory Project, Tomasi is also a research associate at the Freedom Center at the University of Arizona. He is the author of Liberalism Beyond Justice (Princeton).

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press.princeton.edu Political Theory 85 Rousseau, the Age Philosophic Pride of Enlightenment, Stoicism and Political Thought and Their Legacies from Lipsius to Rousseau Christopher Brooke Robert Wokler Edited by Bryan Garsten, and with an introduction by Christopher Brooke Philosophic Pride is the first full-scale look at the essential place of Stoicism in the foundations of modern political thought. Spanning the period from Robert Wokler was one of the world’s leading experts Justus Lipsius’s Politics in 1589 to Jean-Jacques on Rousseau and the Enlightenment, but some of Rousseau’s Emile in 1762, and concentrating on his best work was published in the form of widely arguments originating from England, France, and the scattered and difficult-to-find essays. This book col- Netherlands, the book considers how political writers lects for the first time a representative selection of his of the period engaged with the ideas of the Roman most important essays on Rousseau and the legacy of and Greek Stoics that they found in works by Cicero, Enlightenment political thought. These essays concern Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius. Christopher many of the great themes of the age, including liberty, Brooke examines key texts in their historical context, equality, and the origins of revolution. But they also paying special attention to the history of classical address a number of less prominent debates, includ- scholarship and the historiography of philosophy. ing those over cosmopolitanism, the nature and social Brooke delves into the persisting tension be- role of music, and the origins of the human sciences tween Stoicism and the tradition of Augustinian anti- in the Enlightenment controversy over the relationship Stoic criticism, which held Stoicism to be a philoso- between humans and the great apes. These essays phy for the proud who denied their fallen condition. also explore Rousseau’s relationships to Rameau, Concentrating on arguments in moral psychology Pufendorf, Voltaire, and Marx; reflect on the work of surrounding the foundations of human sociability and important earlier scholars of the Enlightenment, in- self-love, Philosophic Pride details how the engagement cluding Ernst Cassirer and Isaiah Berlin; and examine with Roman Stoicism shaped early modern political the influence of theE nlightenment on the twentieth philosophy and offers significant new interpretations century. One of the central themes of the book is a of Lipsius and Rousseau together with fresh perspec- defense of the Enlightenment against the common tives on the political thought of Hugo Grotius and charge that it bears responsibility for the Terror of Thomas Hobbes. the French Revolution, the totalitarian regimes of the Philosophic Pride shows how the legacy of the Sto- twentieth century, and the Holocaust. ics played a vital role in European intellectual life in the Robert Wokler (1942–2006) was at the time of his early modern era. death Senior Lecturer in Political Science and in the Directed Studies program at Yale University. He was Christopher Brooke is lecturer in political theory and formerly Reader in the History of Political Thought the history of political thought in the Department of at the University of Manchester. He was the author Politics and International Studies at the University of of Rousseau on Society, Politics, Music and Language Cambridge, where he is a fellow of King’s College. and Rousseau: A Very Short Introduction. He was also the editor or coeditor of many books, including The MAY Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Cloth $45.00S Thought, Diderot: Political Writings, The Enlightenment 978-0-691-15208-0 and Modernity, and Inventing Human Science. 296 pages. 6 x 9. POLITICAL THEORY z PHILOSOPHY MAY Paper $45.00S 978-0-691-14789-5 Cloth $85.00S 978-0-691-14788-8 400 pages. 6 line illus. 6 x 9. POLITICAL THEORY z PHILOSOPHY 86 Political Theory / Sociology A Virtue for Talk at the Brink Courageous Minds Deliberation and Decision during the Cuban Missile Crisis Moderation in French Political Thought, 1748–1830

Aurelian Craiutu David R. Gibson

In October 1962, the fate of the world hung on the Political moderation is the touchstone of democracy, American response to the discovery of Soviet nuclear which could not function without compromise and missile sites in Cuba. That response was informed by bargaining, yet it is one of the most understudied hours of discussions between John F. Kennedy and his concepts in political theory. How can we explain this top advisers. What those advisers did not know was striking paradox? Why do we often underestimate the that President Kennedy was secretly taping their talks, virtue of moderation? Seeking to answer these ques- providing future scholars with a rare inside look at tions, A Virtue for Courageous Minds examines modera- high-level political deliberation in a moment of crisis. tion in modern French political thought and sheds Talk at the Brink is the first book to examine these light on the French Revolution and its legacy. historic audio recordings from a sociological per- Aurelian Craiutu begins with classical thinkers spective. It reveals how conversational practices and who extolled the virtues of a moderate approach to dynamics shaped Kennedy’s perception of the options politics, such as Aristotle and Cicero. He then shows available to him, thereby influencing his decisions and how Montesquieu inaugurated the modern rebirth ultimately the outcome of the crisis. of this tradition by laying the intellectual foundations David Gibson looks not just at the positions taken for moderate government. Craiutu looks at important by Kennedy and his advisers but how those positions figures such as JacquesN ecker, Madame de Staël, were articulated, challenged, revised, and sometimes and Benjamin Constant, not only in the context of ignored. He argues that Kennedy’s decisions arose revolutionary France but throughout Europe. He from the intersection of distant events unfolding in traces how moderation evolves from an individual Cuba, Moscow, and the high seas with the immedi- moral virtue into a set of institutional arrangements ate conversational minutia of turn-taking, storytelling, calculated to protect individual liberty, and he explores argument, and justification.I n particular, Gibson shows the deep affinity between political moderation and how Kennedy’s group told and retold particular stories constitutional complexity. Craiutu demonstrates how again and again, sometimes settling upon a course of moderation navigates between political extremes, and action only after the most frightening consequences he challenges the common notion that moderation is were omitted or actively suppressed. an essentially conservative virtue, stressing instead its Talk at the Brink presents an image of Kennedy’s eclectic nature. response to the Cuban missile crisis that is sharply Drawing on a broad range of writings in political at odds with previous scholarship, and has impor- theory, the history of political thought, philosophy, and tant implications for our understanding of decision law, A Virtue for Courageous Minds reveals how the vir- making, deliberation, social interaction, and histori- tue of political moderation can address the profound cal contingency. complexities of the world today. David R. Gibson is assistant professor of sociology at Aurelian Craiutu is associate professor of political sci- the University of Pennsylvania. ence at Indiana University, Bloomington. His books include Liberalism under Siege: The Political Thought of the French Doctrinaires and (with Jeremy Jennings) Toc- AUGUST queville on America after 1840: Letters and Other Writings. Cloth $35.00S 978-0-691-15131-1 256 pages. 47 line illus. 1 table. 6 x 9. MARCH SOCIOLOGY z POLITICAL SCIENCE z Cloth $49.50S HISTORY 978-0-691-14676-8 336 pages. 6 x 9. POLITICAL THEORY z INTELLECTUAL HISTORY Sociology 87

Climbing the Charts HOW SONGS ACHIEVE COMMERCIAL SUCCESS ON THE RADIO

Gabriel Rossman

Despite the growth of digital media, traditional FM radio “Pop radio has been written about in hun- airplay still remains the essential way for musicians to achieve dreds of books, mainly by musicologists or commercial success. Climbing the Charts examines how songs radio/music executives in their memoirs. rise, or fail to rise, up the radio airplay charts. Looking at the Climbing the Charts adds a much-needed relationships between record labels, tastemakers, and the social scientific perspective on how the public, Gabriel Rossman develops a clear picture of the roles industry operates. Effectively disputing of key players and the gatekeeping mechanisms in the com- many pieces of conventional wisdom about mercial music industry. Along the way, he explores its massive the business, this fascinating and important inequalities, debunks many popular misconceptions about book makes a substantial contribution to the radio stations’ abilities to dictate hits, and shows how a song diffuses throughout the nation to become a massive success. work on innovation and diffusion, and the Contrary to the common belief that Clear Channel sees production of culture.” every sparrow that falls, Rossman demonstrates that corporate —Jennifer C. Lena, author of Banding radio chains neither micromanage the routine decision of Together when to start playing a new single nor make top-down decisions to blacklist such politically inconvenient artists as the Dixie Chicks. Neither do stations imitate either ordinary peers or the so-called kingmaker radio stations who are wrongly believed to be able to make or break a single. Instead, Ross- man shows that hits spread rapidly across radio because they clearly conform to an identifiable style or genre.R adio stations respond to these songs, and major labels put their money behind them through extensive marketing and promotion efforts, including the illegal yet time-honored practice of payoffs known within the industry as payola. Climbing the Charts provides a fresh take on the music industry and a model for understanding the diffusion of innovation.

Gabriel Rossman is assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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A COMPREHENSIVE TEXTBOOK ON THE TOOLS OF MATHEMATICAL SOCIOLOGY Introduction to AND THEIR APPLICATIONS Mathematical Sociology

Phillip Bonacich & Philip Lu

“This book provides a concise and up-to-date Mathematical models and computer simulations of complex introduction to mathematical sociology and social systems have become everyday tools in sociology. Yet social network analysis. It presents a solid until now, students had no up-to-date textbook from which to platform for engaging undergraduates in learn these techniques. Introduction to Mathematical Sociology mathematical approaches to sociological fills this gap, providing undergraduates with a comprehensive, self-contained primer on the mathematical tools and applica- inquiry, and includes Mathematica modules tions that sociologists use to understand social behavior. with which students can explore the proper- Phillip Bonacich and Philip Lu cover all the essential ties and implications of a variety of formal mathematics, including linear algebra, graph theory, set models. I plan on using it in my courses on theory, game theory, and probability. They show how to apply social networks.” these mathematical tools to demography; patterns of power, —Noah E. Friedkin, coauthor of Social influence, and friendship in social networks; Markov chains; Influence Network Theory the evolution and stability of cooperation in human groups; chaotic and complex systems—and more. “A first-rate introduction. The coverage Introduction to Mathematical Sociology also features nu- is exemplary, starting with basic math merous exercises throughout, and is accompanied by easy-to- techniques and progressing to models that use Mathematica-based computer simulations that students incorporate a number of these techniques. can use to examine the effects of changing parameters on model behavior. Chapters on evolutionary game theory, cooperative games, and chaos are significantly u Provides an up-to-date and self-contained introduction innovative, as is the incorporation of simula- to mathematical sociology tions. This book brings mathematics to u Explains essential mathematical tools and their life for students who may entertain doubts applications about the role of math in sociology.” u Includes numerous exercises throughout —Peter Abell, professor emeritus, London u Features easy-to-use computer simulations to help School of Economics and Political Science students master concepts

Phillip Bonacich is professor emeritus of sociology at the Uni- versity of California, Los Angeles. Philip Lu is a PhD candidate in sociology at UCLA.

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ARIEL RUBINSTEIN’S WELL-KNOWN Lecture Notes in LECTURE NOTES ON MICROECONOMICS— Microeconomic Theory NOW FULLY REVISED AND EXPANDED The Economic Agent Second Edition

Ariel Rubinstein

This book presents Ariel Rubinstein’s lecture notes for the first Praise for the first edition: part of his well-known graduate course in microeconomics. Developed during the fifteen years thatR ubinstein taught the “Ariel Rubinstein is one of the most original course at Tel Aviv University, Princeton University, and New and provocative theorists of his generation. York University, these notes provide a critical assessment of These notes, coming from his teaching models of rational economic agents, and are an invaluable of graduate microeconomics, exhibit his supplement to any primary textbook in microeconomic theory. originality and clarity of thought. Students In this fully revised and expanded second edition, Rubin- stein retains the striking originality and deep simplicity that interested in mastering the foundations of characterize his famously engaging style of teaching. He microeconomics will benefit from studying presents these lecture notes with a precision that gets to the these notes in conjunction with one of the core of the material, and he places special emphasis on the more standard texts.” interpretation of key concepts. Rubinstein brings this con- —David M. Kreps, author of A Course in cise book thoroughly up to date, covering topics like modern Microeconomic Theory choice theory and including dozens of original new problems. Written by one of the world’s most respected and provoc- “This book will be a valuable addition to the ative economic theorists, this second edition of Lecture Notes small collection of high-level texts in micro- in Microeconomic Theory is essential reading for students, economics. It is distinguished by Rubin- teachers, and research economists. stein’s characteristic skill in choice of topics and exposition, and by his unique perspec- u Fully revised, expanded, and updated tive on economic theory and game theory. At u Retains the engaging style and method of Rubinstein’s well-known lectures the same time, it will be accessible to a wide u Covers topics like modern choice theory range of students.” u Features numerous original new problems— —Vincent Crawford, University of California, including 21 new review problems San Diego u Solutions manual (available only to teachers)

Ariel Rubinstein is professor of economics at Tel Aviv Univer- sity and New York University. He is the author of Economics and Language and Modeling Bounded Rationality and the coauthor of A Course in Game Theory and Bargaining and Markets.

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press.princeton.edu 90 Economics Macroeconomic Theory THE definitive graduate TEXTBOOK ON MODERN MACROECONOMICS A Dynamic General Equilibrium Approach Second Edition

Michael Wickens

Praise for the first edition: Macroeconomic Theory is the most up-to-date graduate-level macroeconomics textbook available today. This revised second “Wickens’s text provides a tremendous edition emphasizes the general equilibrium character of introduction to modern macroeconomics. macroeconomics to explain effects across the whole economy The coverage of material is thorough. The while taking into account recent research in the field.I t is the perfect resource for economists who need to brush up on the writing is clear and lively. The mathematics latest developments. is sufficiently detailed without being overly Michael Wickens lays out the core ideas of modern technical, and the mathematical appendix macroeconomics and its links with finance.H e presents the helps keep the text largely self-contained. simplest general equilibrium macroeconomic model for a closed Intuition behind key results is provided economy, and then gradually develops a comprehensive model beautifully throughout. Having worked of the open economy. Every important topic is covered, including through the text, students will be well- growth, business cycles, fiscal policy, taxation and debt finance, equipped for a journey toward the macro- current account sustainability, and exchange-rate determination. economics frontier.” There is also an up-to-date account of monetary policy through —David N. DeJong, University of Pittsburgh inflation targeting.W ickens addresses the interrelationships between macroeconomics and modern finance and shows how “This is an innovative graduate textbook that they affect stock, bond, and foreign-exchange markets.I n this edition, he also examines issues raised by the most recent finan- develops much of modern macroeconomics cial crisis and two new chapters explore banks, financial interme- in the framework of stochastic general equi- diation, and unconventional monetary policy, as well as modern librium models. The book is especially good theories of unemployment. There is new material in most other for its integration of macro and finance.” chapters, including macrofinance models and inflation target- —Christopher Pissarides, London School of ing when there are supply shocks. While the mathematics in the Economics and Political Science book is rigorous, the fundamental concepts presented make the text self-contained and easy to use. Accessible, comprehensive, and wide-ranging, Macroeconomic Theory is the standard book on the subject for students and economists.

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The Chosen Few how the jewish people went from farmers to merchants How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70–1492

Maristella Botticini & Zvi Eckstein

In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living “Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein have mostly in the Land of Israel and Mesopotamia. By 1492 the written a remarkably interesting book with Jewish people had become a small group of literate urbanites a new hypothesis about the occupational specializing in crafts, trade, moneylending, and medicine structure of the Jews. The authors adduce in hundreds of places across the Old World, from Seville to serious evidence for their hypothesis, Mangalore. What caused this radical change? The Chosen Few which lays stress on the requirement intro- presents a new answer to this question by applying the lens of duced nearly 2,000 years ago for universal economic analysis to the key facts of fifteen formative centu- male literacy among the Jews—the institu- ries of Jewish history. Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein show that, contrary tion of the bar mitzvah. This is a fascinat- to previous explanations, this transformation was driven not ing and persuasive combination of history by anti-Jewish persecution and legal restrictions, but rather by and economics, worth reading by all, even changes within Judaism itself after 70 CE—most importantly, the unhappy few who like neither history the rise of a new norm that required every Jewish male to read nor economics.” and study the Torah and to send his sons to school. Over the —Stanley Fischer, governor of the Bank next six centuries, those Jews who found the norms of Judaism of Israel too costly to obey converted to other religions, making world Jewry shrink. Later, when urbanization and commercial expan- “This is a mature, original, and significant sion in the newly established Muslim Caliphates increased the new attempt to answer one of the most demand for occupations in which literacy was an advantage, the vexing problems in Jewish and economic Jews found themselves literate in a world of almost universal history. For the general reader it provides an illiteracy. From then forward, almost all Jews entered crafts and trade, and many of them began moving in search of business incisive view of the salient facts of Jewish opportunities, creating a worldwide Diaspora in the process. economic history. For the economic histo- The Chosen Few offers a powerful new explanation of one rian it opens up a challenging new thesis. of the most significant transformations in Jewish history while And for historians of Judaism and religion also providing fresh insights to the growing debate about the it provides a new interpretation of the social social and economic impact of religion. and economic impact of religion.” —Michael Toch, Hebrew University Maristella Botticini is professor of economics, as well as of Jerusalem director and fellow of the Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), at Bocconi University in Milan. Zvi Eckstein is the Mario Henrique Simonson Chair in Labor Economics at Tel Aviv University and professor and dean of the School of Economics at IDC Herzliya in Herzliya, Israel.

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A NEW WAY OF LOOKING AT INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS The Cold War and After FROM A LEADING EXPERT IN THE FIELD History, Theory, and the Logic of International Politics

Marc Trachtenberg

“Marc Trachtenberg is unsurpassed in his What makes for war or for a stable international system? Are ability to combine history and political there general principles that should govern foreign policy? In science, and by bringing together a set of The Cold War and After, Marc Trachtenberg, a leading historian wide-ranging and incisive essays, he has of international relations, explores how historical work can produced a volume that belongs on the throw light on these questions. The essays in this book deal with specific problems—with such matters as nuclear strategy shelves of all serious scholars working in the and U.S.-European relations. But Trachtenberg’s main goal is field. The deep research, probing analysis, to show how in practice a certain type of scholarly work can be and distinctive voice make this book a plea- done. He demonstrates how, in studying international politics, sure to read.” the conceptual and empirical sides of the analysis can be —Robert Jervis, Columbia University made to connect with each other, and how historical, theoretical, and even policy issues can be tied together in an intellec- “This is an outstanding book, engaging tually respectable way. and stimulating from beginning to end. These essays address a wide variety of topics, from theo- Trachtenberg is one of the rare analysts of retical and policy issues such as the question of preventive war international relations with a rich sense of and the problem of international order, to more historical sub- history, and he is one of those rare histori- jects—for example, American policy on Eastern Europe in 1945 ans who can look at public policy without and Franco-American relations during the Nixon-Pompidou period. But in each case the aim is to show how a theoretical harsh partisan blinders. This is exactly the perspective can be brought to bear on the analysis of histori- type of book I wish our political leaders cal issues, and how historical analysis can shed light on basic would read when they contemplate making conceptual problems. important decisions in foreign policy.” —Thomas A. Schwartz, Vanderbilt University Marc Trachtenberg is professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles. His books include A Constructed Peace and The Craft of International History (both Princeton).

Princeton Studies in International History and Politics T homas J. Christensen, G. John Ikenberry, and Marc Trachtenberg, Series Editors

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press.princeton.edu Political Science 93 Reforming the Why Adjudicate? European Union Enforcing Trade Rules in the WTO Realizing the Impossible Christina L. Davis Daniel Finke, Thomas König, Sven-Oliver Proksch & The World Trade Organization (WTO) oversees the George Tsebelis negotiation and enforcement of formal rules governing international trade. Why do countries choose to adjudicate their trade disputes in the WTO rather For decades the European Union tried changing its in- than settling their differences on their own?I n Why stitutions, but achieved only unsatisfying political com- Adjudicate?, Christina Davis investigates the domes- promises and modest, incremental treaty revisions. In tic politics behind the filing of WTO complaints, and late 2009, however, the EU was successfully reformed reveals why formal dispute settlement creates better through the Treaty of Lisbon. This book examines how outcomes for governments and their citizens. political leaders ratified this treaty against all odds and Davis demonstrates that industry lobbying, leg- shows how this victory involved all stages of treaty islative demands, and international politics influence reform negotiations—from the initial proposal to refer- which countries and cases appear before the WTO. endums in several European countries. Democratic checks and balances bias the trade policy The authors emphasize the strategic role of process toward public lawsuits and away from infor- political leadership and domestic politics, and they use mal settlements. Trade officials use legal complaints to state-of-the-art methodology, applying a comprehen- manage domestic politics and defend trade interests. sive data set for actors’ reform preferences. They look WTO dispute settlement enables states and domestic at how political leaders reacted to apparent failures groups to signal resolve more effectively, thereby en- of the process by recreating or changing the rules of hancing the information available to policymakers and the game. While domestic actors played a significant reducing the risk of a trade war. Davis establishes her role in the process, their influence over the outcome argument with data on trade disputes and landmark was limited as leaders ignored negative referendums cases, including the Boeing-Airbus controversy over and plowed ahead with intended reforms. The book’s aircraft subsidies, disagreement over Chinese intellec- empirical analyses shed light on critical episodes: stra- tual property rights, and Japan’s repeated challenges tegic agenda setting during the European Convention, of U.S. steel industry protection. In her analysis of for- the choice of ratification instrument, intergovernmen- eign trade barriers against U.S. exports, Davis explains tal bargaining dynamics, and the reaction of the Ger- why the United States gains better outcomes for cases man Council presidency to the negative referendums taken to formal dispute settlement than for those ne- in France, the Netherlands, and Ireland. gotiated. Case studies of Peru and Vietnam show that legal action can also benefit developing countries. Daniel Finke is assistant professor of political science at the University of Heidelberg. Thomas König is professor Christina L. Davis is associate professor of politics of political science and director of the Research Centre and international affairs at PrincetonU niversity. She is for the Political Economy of Reforms at the University the author of Food Fights over Free Trade: How Interna- of Mannheim. Sven-Oliver Proksch is a research fellow tional Institutions Promote Agricultural Trade Liberaliza- at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research. tion (Princeton). George Tsebelis is the Anatol Rapoport Collegiate Pro- fessor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. JUNE Paper $35.00S AUGUST 978-0-691-15276-9 Paper $35.00S Cloth $80.00S 978-0-691-15393-3 978-0-691-15275-2 Cloth $80.00S 320 pages. 2 halftones. 978-0-691-15392-6 4 line illus. 21 tables. 6 x 9. 248 pages. 34 line illus. 13 tables. 6 x 9. POLITICAL SCIENCE z POLITICAL SCIENCE z INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 94 Political Science Monitoring Democracy Votes, Vetoes, and When International Election Observation Works, the Political Economy and Why It Often Fails of International Judith G. Kelley Trade Agreements

Is international election monitoring a good idea? In Edward D. Mansfield & recent decades, governments and NGOs—in an effort Helen V. Milner to promote democracy, freedom, fairness, and stability throughout the world—have organized teams of Preferential trading arrangements (PTAs) play an observers to monitor elections in a variety of coun- increasingly prominent role in the global political tries. But when more and more organizations join the economy, two notable examples being the European practice without uniform standards, are assessments Union and the North American Free Trade Agreement. reliable? When politicians nonetheless cheat and These agreements foster economic integration among monitors must return to countries even after two de- member states by enhancing their access to one cades of engagement, what is accomplished? Monitor- another’s markets. Yet despite the importance of PTAs ing Democracy argues that the practice of international to international trade and world politics, until now election monitoring is broken, but still worth fixing.B y little attention has been focused on why governments analyzing the evolving interaction between domestic choose to join them and how governments design and international politics, Judith Kelley refutes prevail- them. This book offers valuable new insights into the ing arguments that international efforts cannot curb political economy of PTA formation. Many economists government behavior and that democratization is have argued that the roots of these agreements lie in entirely a domestic process. Yet, she also shows that the promise they hold for improving the welfare of democracy promotion efforts are deficient and that member states. Others have posited that trade agree- outside actors often have no power and sometimes ments are a response to global political conditions. even do harm. Edward Mansfield and Helen Milner argue that do- Analyzing original data on over 600 monitor- mestic politics provide a crucial impetus to the deci- ing missions and 1,300 elections, Kelley grounds her sion by governments to enter trade pacts. Drawing on investigation in solid historical context as well as stud- this argument, they explain why democracies are more ies of long-term developments over several elections likely to enter PTAs than nondemocratic regimes, and in fifteen countries. She pinpoints the weaknesses of why as the number of veto players—interest groups international election monitoring and looks at how with the power to block policy change—increases practitioners and policymakers might help to im- in a prospective member state, the likelihood of the prove them. Demonstrating the power and problems state entering a trade agreement is reduced. The book of transnational actors, Kelley crystallizes the tough provides a novel view of the political foundations of dilemmas that the international community faces in trade agreements. using international election monitoring to promote democracy and liberal values. Edward D. Mansfield is the Hum Rosen Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Judith G. Kelley is associate professor of public policy Helen V. Milner is the B. C. Forbes Professor of Public and political science at Duke University. She is the Affairs at Princeton University. author of Ethnic Politics in Europe: The Power of Norms and Incentives (Princeton). JUNE Paper $29.95S APRIL 978-0-691-13530-4 Paper $35.00S Cloth $60.00S 978-0-691-15278-3 978-0-691-13529-8 Cloth $80.00S 240 pages. 11 line illus. 15 tables. 6 x 9. 978-0-691-15277-6 POLITICAL SCIENCE z 352 pages. 28 line illus. 38 tables. 6 x 9. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS POLITICAL SCIENCE z INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Political Science 95 Local Elections The Reputational and the Politics of Premium Small-Scale Democracy A Theory of Party Identification and Policy Reasoning J. Eric Oliver Paul M. Sniderman & With Shang E. Ha & Zachary Callen Edward H. Stiglitz

Local government is the hidden leviathan of Ameri- can politics: it accounts for nearly a quarter of gross The Reputational Premium presents a new theory of domestic product, it collects nearly as much in taxes party identification, the central concept in the study as the federal government, and its decisions have an of voting. Challenging the traditional idea that voters enormous impact on Americans’ daily lives. Yet politi- identify with a political party out of blind emotional cal scientists have few explanations for how people attachment, this pioneering book explains why party vote in local elections, particularly in the smaller cities, identification in contemporaryA merican politics en- towns, and suburbs where most Americans live. Draw- ables voters to make coherent policy choices. ing on a wide variety of data sources and case studies, Standard approaches to the study of policy-based this book offers the first comprehensive analysis of voting hold that voters choose based on the policy electoral politics in America’s municipalities. positions of the two candidates competing for their Arguing that current explanations of voting be- support. This study demonstrates that candidates can havior are ill suited for most local contests, Eric Oliver get a premium in support from the policy reputations puts forward a new theory that highlights the crucial of their parties. In particular, Paul Sniderman and differences between local, state, and national democra- Edward Stiglitz present a theory of how partisans take cies. Being small in size, limited in power, and largely account of the parties’ policy reputations as a function unbiased in distributing their resources, local govern- of the competing candidates’ policy positions. ments are “managerial democracies” with a distinct style A central implication of this theory of reputation- of electoral politics. Instead of hinging on the partisan- centered choices is that party identification gives can- ship, ideology, and group appeals that define national didates tremendous latitude in their policy positioning. and state elections, local elections are based on the Paradoxically, it is the party supporters who under- custodial performance of civic-oriented leaders and on stand and are in synch with the ideological logic of the their personal connections to voters with similarly deep American party system who open the door to a polar- community ties. Explaining not only the dynamics of ized politics precisely by making the best-informed local elections, Oliver’s findings also upend many long- choices on offer. held assumptions about community power and local Paul M. Sniderman is the Fairleigh S. Dickinson, Jr., governance, including the importance of voter turnout Professor of Public Policy at Stanford University and a and the possibilities for grassroots political change. fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Edward H. Stiglitz holds a PhD in political science J. Eric Oliver is professor of political science at the from Stanford University and is completing a JD at University of Chicago. Shang E. Ha is assistant Stanford Law School. professor of political science at Brooklyn College. Zachary Callen is assistant professor of political sci- JULY ence at Allegheny College. Paper $29.95S 978-0-691-15417-6 JULY Cloth $75.00S Paper $29.95S 978-0-691-15414-5 978-0-691-14356-9 192 pages. 11 line illus. 26 tables. 6 x 9. Cloth $75.00S POLITICAL SCIENCE 978-0-691-14355-2 232 pages. 15 line illus. 14 tables. 6 x 9. POLITICAL SCIENCE 96 Political Science The Politics Building the Judiciary of Precaution Law, Courts, and the Politics of Institutional Development Regulating Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks in Europe and the United States Justin Crowe David Vogel How did the federal judiciary transcend early limitations to become a powerful institution of American The Politics of Precaution examines the politics of governance? How did the Supreme Court move from consumer and environmental risk regulation in the political irrelevance to political centrality? Building the United States and Europe over the last five decades, Judiciary uncovers the causes and consequences of explaining why America and Europe have often regu- judicial institution-building in the United States from lated a wide range of similar risks differently.I t finds the commencement of the new government in 1789 that between 1960 and 1990, American health, safety, through the close of the twentieth century. Explaining and environmental regulations were more stringent, why and how the federal judiciary became an indepen- risk averse, comprehensive, and innovative than those dent, autonomous, and powerful political institution, adopted in Europe. But since around 1990, the book Justin Crowe moves away from the notion that the shows, global regulatory leadership has shifted to judiciary is exceptional in the scheme of American poli- Europe. What explains this striking reversal? tics, illustrating instead how it is subject to the same David Vogel takes an in-depth, comparative look architectonic politics as other political institutions. at European and American policies toward a range of Arguing that judicial institution-building is consumer and environmental risks, including vehicle fundamentally based on a series of contested ques- air pollution, ozone depletion, climate change, beef tions regarding institutional design and delegation, and milk hormones, genetically modified agriculture, Crowe develops a theory to explain why political actors antibiotics in animal feed, pesticides, cosmetic safety, seek to build the judiciary and the conditions under and hazardous substances in electronic products. He which they are successful. He both demonstrates how traces how concerns over such risks—and pressure on the motivations of institution-builders ranged from political leaders to do something about them—have substantive policy to partisan and electoral politics risen among the European public but declined among to judicial performance, and details how reform was Americans. Vogel explores how policymakers in Europe often provoked by substantial changes in the politi- have grown supportive of more stringent regulations cal universe or transformational entrepreneurship by while those in the United States have become sharply political leaders. Embedding case studies of landmark polarized along partisan lines. And as European institution-building episodes within a contextual policymakers have grown more willing to regulate understanding of each era under consideration, Crowe risks on precautionary grounds, increasingly skeptical presents a historically rich narrative that offers analyti- American policymakers have called for higher levels of cally grounded explanations for why judicial institu- scientific certainty before imposing additional regulation-building was pursued, how it was accomplished, tory controls on business. and what—in the broader scheme of American consti- David Vogel is professor at the Haas School of Busi- tutional democracy—it achieved. ness and in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include Justin Crowe is assistant professor of political science The Market for Virtue: The Potential and Limits of Cor- at Williams College. porate Social Responsibility. 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Three Worlds of Relief reannouncing Race, Immigration, and the American Welfare State from the Progressive Era to the New Deal Paths Out of Dixie The Democratization of Authoritarian Enclaves in America’s Deep South, 1944–1972 Cybelle Fox Robert Mickey Three Worlds of Relief examines the role of race and immigration in the development of the American social welfare system by comparing how blacks, The transformation of the American South—from au- Mexicans, and European immigrants were treated by thoritarian to democratic rule—is the most important welfare policies during the Progressive Era and the political development since World War II. It has re- New Deal. Taking readers from the turn of the twenti- sorted voters into parties, remapped presidential elec- eth century to the dark days of the Depression, Cybelle tions, and helped polarize Congress. Most important, Fox finds that, despite rampant nativism, European it is the final step in America’s democratization. Paths immigrants received generous access to social welfare Out of Dixie illuminates this sea change by analyzing programs. The communities in which they lived in- the democratization experiences of Georgia, Missis- vested heavily in relief. Social workers protected them sippi, and South Carolina. from snooping immigration agents, and ensured that Robert Mickey argues that Southern states, from noncitizenship and illegal status did not prevent them the 1890s until the early 1970s, constituted pockets of from receiving the assistance they needed. But that authoritarian rule trapped within and sustained by a same helping hand was not extended to Mexicans federal democracy. These enclaves—devoted to cheap and blacks. Fox reveals, for example, how blacks were agricultural labor and white supremacy—were estab- relegated to racist and degrading public assistance lished by conservative Democrats to protect their ca- programs, while Mexicans who asked for assistance reers and clients. From the abolition of the whites-only were deported with the help of the very social workers Democratic primary in 1944 until the national party they turned to for aid. reforms of the early 1970s, enclaves were battered Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence, Fox and destroyed by a series of democratization pres- paints a riveting portrait of how race, labor, and poli- sures from inside and outside their borders. Drawing tics combined to create three starkly different worlds on archival research, Mickey traces how Deep South of relief. She debunks the myth that white America’s rulers—dissimilar in their internal conflict and political immigrant ancestors pulled themselves up by their institutions—varied in their responses to these chal- bootstraps, unlike immigrants and minorities today. lenges. Ultimately, enclaves differed in their degree Three Worlds of Relief challenges us to reconsider not of violence, incorporation of African Americans, and only the historical record but also the implications of reconciliation of Democrats with the national party. our past on contemporary debates about race, immi- These diverse paths generated political and economic gration, and the American welfare state. legacies that continue to reverberate today.

Cybelle Fox is assistant professor of sociology at the Robert Mickey is associate professor of political sci- University of California, Berkeley. She is the coauthor ence at the University of Michigan. of Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings. Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, I ra Katznelson, Martin Shefter, and Theda Skocpol, Series Editors International, and Comparative Perspectives I ra Katznelson, Martin Shefter, and Theda Skocpol, Series Editors July MAY Paper $35.00S 978-0-691-14963-9 Paper $35.00S 978-0-691-15224-0 Cloth $80.00S 978-0-691-13338-6 Cloth $80.00S 392 pages. 4 halftones. 978-0-691-15223-3 9 line illus. 12 tables. 6 x 9. 368 pages. 1 halftone. 11 line illus. 5 tables. 2 maps. 6 x 9. POLITICAL SCIENCE z AMERICAN HISTORY POLITICAL SCIENCE z SOCIOLOGY 98 Anthropology

AN ANTHROPOLOGIST LOOKS AT THE reannouncing NEW “CRACK COCAINE” OF HIGH-TECH GAMBLING Addiction by Design Machine Gambling in Las Vegas

Natasha Dow Schüll

“A gripping, insightful, and poignant Recent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social analysis of the psychological power of forms of gambling played around roulette wheels and card machine gambling, read through the lens tables to solitary gambling at electronic terminals. Addiction of an extraordinary collection of narratives by Design takes readers into the intriguing world of machine gambling, an increasingly popular and absorbing form of play and theoretical sources. Schüll illuminates that blurs the line between human and machine, compulsion the multiple, intersecting logics of the and control, risk and reward. industry as a sociotechnical assemblage, Drawing on fifteen years of field research in Las Vegas, showing how casino design, gambling anthropologist Natasha Dow Schüll shows how the me- machines, and gamblers are drawn together chanical rhythm of electronic gambling pulls players into a into a kind of integrated circuit aimed at trancelike state they call the “machine zone,” in which daily maximizing the gamblers’ entrainment and worries, social demands, and even bodily awareness fade the industry’s profits.” away. Once in the zone, gambling addicts play not to win —Lucy A. Suchman, author of Human- but simply to keep playing, for as long as possible—even at Machine Reconfigurations the cost of physical and economic exhaustion. In continuous machine play, gamblers seek to lose themselves while the “Addiction by Design is an extremely gambling industry seeks profit. Schüll describes the strategic calculations behind game algorithms and machine ergonom- enlightening ethnographic account of ics, casino architecture and “ambience management,” player a little-studied form of gambling. The tracking and cash access systems—all designed to meet the ethnography is rich and deep, shedding market’s desire for maximum “time on device.” Her account original light on the significance of addiction moves from casino floors into gamblers’ everyday lives, from and gambling in American culture. Schüll gambling industry conventions and Gamblers Anonymous offers a provocative and important study meetings to regulatory debates over whether addiction to of the imperative some people feel to lose gambling machines stems from the consumer, the product, themselves in a machine. The story told in or the interplay between the two. the book is absolutely riveting.” Addiction by Design is a compelling inquiry into the —Emily Martin, author of Bipolar intensifying traffic between people and machines of chance, Expeditions offering clues to some of the broader anxieties and predica- ments of contemporary life.

Natasha Dow Schüll is assistant professor in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology.

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press.princeton.edu Anthropology 99 Pogrom in Gujarat The Black Hole Hindu Nationalism and of Empire Anti-Muslim Violence in India History of a Global Practice of Power

Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi Partha Chatterjee

In 2002, after an altercation between Muslim vendors When Siraj, the ruler of Bengal, overran the British and Hindu travelers at a railway station in the Indian settlement of Calcutta in 1756, he allegedly jailed 146 state of Gujarat, fifty-nineH indu pilgrims were burned European prisoners overnight in a cramped prison. Of to death. The ruling nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party the group, 123 died of suffocation. While this episode blamed Gujarat’s entire Muslim minority for the trag- was never independently confirmed, the story of “the edy and incited fellow Hindus to exact revenge. The black hole of Calcutta” was widely circulated and seen resulting violence left more than one thousand people by the British public as an atrocity committed by sav- dead—most of them Muslims—and tens of thousands age colonial subjects. The Black Hole of Empire follows more displaced from their homes. Parvis Ghassem- the ever-changing representations of this historical Fachandi witnessed the bloodshed up close. In Pogrom event and founding myth of the British Empire in In- in Gujarat, he provides a riveting ethnographic ac- dia, from the eighteenth century to the present. Partha count of collective violence in which the doctrine of Chatterjee explores how a supposed tragedy paved the ahimsa—or nonviolence—and the closely associated ideological foundations for the civilizing force of Brit- practices of vegetarianism became implicated by legiti- ish imperial rule and territorial control in India. mating what they formally disavow. Chatterjee takes a close look at the justifications Ghassem-Fachandi looks at how newspapers, of modern empire by liberal thinkers, international movies, and other media helped to fuel the pogrom. lawyers, and conservative traditionalists, and exam- He shows how the vegetarian sensibilities of Hindus ines the intellectual and political responses of the and the language of sacrifice were manipulated to colonized, including those of Bengali nationalists. The provoke disgust against Muslims and mobilize the two sides of empire’s entwined history are brought aspiring middle classes across caste and class dif- together in the story of the Black Hole memorial: set ferences in the name of Hindu nationalism. Drawing up in Calcutta in 1760, demolished in 1821, restored on his intimate knowledge of Gujarat’s culture and by Lord Curzon in 1902, and removed in 1940 to a ne- politics and the close ties he shared with some of the glected churchyard. Challenging conventional truisms pogrom’s sympathizers, Ghassem-Fachandi offers a of imperial history, nationalist scholarship, and liberal strikingly original interpretation of the different ways in visions of globalization, Chatterjee argues that empire which Hindu proponents of ahimsa became complicit is a necessary and continuing part of the history of the in the very violence they claimed to renounce. modern state. Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi is assistant professor of Partha Chatterjee is professor of anthropology and of anthropology at Rutgers University. He is the editor of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Violence: Ethnographic Encounters. Columbia University; and honorary professor at the MAY Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. His books include The Politics of the Governed. Paper $29.95S 978-0-691-15177-9 MAY Cloth $75.00S 978-0-691-15176-2 Paper $29.95S 344 pages. 20 halftones. 6 x 9. 978-0-691-15201-1 Cloth $80.00S ANTHROPOLOGY z ASIAN STUDIES 978-0-691-15200-4 440 pages. 23 halftones. 5 line illus. 6 x 9. ANTHROPOLOGY z ASIAN STUDIES

Not for sale in South Asia 100 Anthropology Melancholia The New Arab Man of Freedom Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East Social Life in an Indian Township in South Africa

Thomas Blom Hansen Marcia C. Inhorn

Middle Eastern Muslim men have been widely vilified The end of apartheid in 1994 signaled a moment of as terrorists, religious zealots, and brutal oppressors freedom and a promise of a nonracial future. With this of women. The New Arab Man challenges these stereo- promise came an injunction: define yourself as you types with the stories of ordinary Middle Eastern men truly are, as an individual, and as a community. Almost as they struggle to overcome infertility and childless- two decades later it is clear that it was less the future ness through assisted reproduction. than the habits and horizons of anxious life in racially Drawing on two decades of ethnographic research defined enclaves that determined post-apartheid across the Middle East with hundreds of men from freedom. In this book, Thomas Blom Hansen offers a variety of social and religious backgrounds, Marcia an in-depth analysis of the uncertainties, dreams, Inhorn shows how the new Arab man is self-con- and anxieties that have accompanied post-apartheid sciously rethinking the patriarchal masculinity of his freedoms in Chatsworth, a formerly Indian township in forefathers and unseating received wisdoms. This is Durban. Exploring five decades of township life,H an- especially true in childless Middle Eastern marriages sen tells the stories of ordinary Indians whose lives where, contrary to popular belief, infertility is more were racialized and framed by the township, and how common among men than women. Inhorn captures these residents domesticated and inhabited this urban the marital, moral, and material commitments of space and its institutions, during apartheid and after. couples undergoing assisted reproduction, revealing Hansen demonstrates the complex and am- how new technologies are transforming their lives and bivalent nature of ordinary township life. While the religious sensibilities. And she looks at the changing ideology of apartheid was widely rejected, its practical manhood of husbands who undertake transnational institutions, from urban planning to houses, schools, “egg quests”—set against the backdrop of war and and religious spaces, were embraced in order to re- economic uncertainty—out of devotion to the infertile make the community. Hansen describes how the racial wives they love. segmentation of South African society still informs Trenchant and emotionally gripping, The New daily life, notions of race, personhood, morality, and Arab Man traces the emergence of new masculinities religious ethics. He also demonstrates the force of in the Middle East in the era of biotechnology. global religious imaginings that promise a universal and inclusive community amid uncertain lives and Marcia C. Inhorn is the William K. Lanman, Jr., Profes- futures in the post-apartheid nation-state. sor of Anthropology and International Affairs at Yale University. Her many books include Local Babies, Thomas Blom Hansen is professor of anthropology Global Science: Gender, Religion, and In Vitro Fertiliza- and the Reliance-Dhirubhai Ambani Professor of tion in Egypt and Infertility and Patriarchy: The Cultural South Asian Studies at Stanford University, where he also directs the Center for South Asia. His books Politics of Gender and Family Life in Egypt. include The Saffron Wave and Wages of Violence APRIL (both Princeton). Paper $35.00S 978-0-691-14889-2 JUNE Cloth $75.00S Paper $29.95S 978-0-691-14888-5 978-0-691-15296-7 424 pages. 18 halftones. 16 tables. 6 x 9. Cloth $80.00S ANTHROPOLOGY z 978-0-691-15295-0 MIDDLE EAST STUDIES 344 pages. 10 halftones. 2 maps. 6 x 9. ANTHROPOLOGY z AFRICAN STUDIES z ASIAN STUDIES Mathematics 101 Hybrid Dynamical Calculus of Systems Variations and Optimal Modeling, Stability, and Robustness Control Theory A Concise Introduction Rafal Goebel, Ricardo G. Sanfelice & Daniel Liberzon Andrew R. Teel This textbook offers a concise yet rigorous introduc- Hybrid dynamical systems exhibit continuous and tion to calculus of variations and optimal control instantaneous changes, having features of continuous- theory, and is a self-contained resource for graduate time and discrete-time dynamical systems. Filled with students in engineering, applied mathematics, and re- a wealth of examples to illustrate concepts, this book lated subjects. Designed specifically for a one-semes- presents a complete theory of robust asymptotic sta- ter course, the book begins with calculus of variations, bility for hybrid dynamical systems that is applicable to preparing the ground for optimal control. It then gives the design of hybrid control algorithms—algorithms a complete proof of the maximum principle and cov- that feature logic, timers, or combinations of digital ers key topics such as the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman and analog components. theory of dynamic programming and linear-quadratic With the tools of modern mathematical analysis, optimal control. Hybrid Dynamical Systems unifies and generalizes Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control Theory earlier developments in continuous-time and discrete- also traces the historical development of the subject time nonlinear systems. It presents hybrid system and features numerous exercises, notes and refer- versions of the necessary and sufficientL yapunov ences at the end of each chapter, and suggestions for conditions for asymptotic stability, invariance princi- further study. ples, and approximation techniques, and examines the robustness of asymptotic stability, motivated by the u Offers a concise yet rigorous introduction goal of designing robust hybrid control algorithms. u Requires limited background in control theory or This self-contained and classroom-tested book re- advanced mathematics quires standard background in mathematical analysis u Provides a complete proof of the maximum and differential equations or nonlinear systems.I t will principle interest graduate students in engineering as well as u Uses consistent notation in the exposition of students and researchers in control, computer science, classical and modern topics and mathematics. u Traces the historical development of the subject u Solutions manual (available only to teachers) Rafal Goebel is an assistant professor in the De- partment of Mathematics and Statistics at Loyola Daniel Liberzon is associate professor of electrical University, Chicago. Ricardo G. Sanfelice is an as- and computer engineering at the University of Illinois, sistant professor in the Department of Aerospace and Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Switching in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arizona. Systems and Control. Andrew R. Teel is a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University FEBRUARY of California, Santa Barbara. Cloth $75.00S 978-0-691-15187-8 APRIL 256 pages. 63 line illus. 7 x 10. Cloth $79.50S MATHEMATICS z ENGINEERING 978-0-691-15389-6 232 pages. 45 line illus. 6 x 9. MATHEMATICS z ENGINEERING 102 Mathematics Mathematical Analysis Stability and Control of Deterministic and of Large-Scale Stochastic Problems Dynamical Systems in Complex Media A Vector Dissipative Systems Approach Electromagnetics Wassim M. Haddad & G. F. Roach, I. G. Stratis & Sergey G. Nersesov A. N. Yannacopoulos Modern complex large-scale dynamical systems exist in virtually every aspect of science and engineering, Electromagnetic complex media are artificial materials and are associated with a wide variety of physical, that affect the propagation of electromagnetic waves technological, environmental, and social phenomena, in surprising ways not usually seen in nature. Because including aerospace, power, communications, and net- of their wide range of important applications, these work systems, to name just a few. This book develops a materials have been intensely studied over the past general stability analysis and control design framework twenty-five years, mainly from the perspectives of phys- for nonlinear large-scale interconnected dynamical ics and engineering. But a body of rigorous mathemat- systems, and presents the most complete treatment on ical theory has also gradually developed, and this is the vector Lyapunov function methods, vector dissipativity first book to present that theory. theory, and decentralized control architectures. Designed for researchers and advanced graduate Large-scale dynamical systems are strongly students in applied mathematics, electrical engineer- interconnected and consist of interacting subsystems ing, and physics, this book introduces the electro- exchanging matter, energy, or information with the magnetics of complex media through a systematic, environment. The sheer size, or dimensionality, of state-of-the-art account of their mathematical theory. these systems necessitates decentralized analysis and The book combines the study of well-posedness, ho- control system synthesis methods for their analysis mogenization, and controllability of Maxwell equations and design. Written in a theorem-proof format with complemented with constitutive relations describing examples to illustrate new concepts, this book ad- complex media. The book treats deterministic and dresses continuous-time, discrete-time, and hybrid stochastic problems both in the frequency and time large-scale systems. It develops finite-time stability domains. It also covers computational aspects and and finite-time decentralized stabilization, thermo- scattering problems, among other important topics. dynamic modeling, maximum entropy control, and Detailed appendices make the book self-contained in energy-based decentralized control. terms of mathematical prerequisites, and accessible to This book will interest anyone seeking a funda- engineers and physicists as well as mathematicians. mental and comprehensive understanding of large- scale interconnected dynamical systems and control. G. F. Roach is professor emeritus in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Wassim M. Haddad is a professor in the School of Strathclyde. I. G. Stratis is professor in the Depart- Aerospace Engineering and chair of the Flight Me- ment of Mathematics at the National and Kapo- chanics and Control Discipline at Georgia Institute distrian University, Athens. A. N. Yannacopoulos is of Technology. Sergey G. Nersesov is an associate associate professor in the Department of Statistics at professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineer- the Athens University of Economics and Business. ing at Villanova University. Princeton Series in Applied Mathematics I ngrid Daubechies, Weinan E, Jan Karel Lenstra, and Endre Süli, Princeton Series in Applied Mathematics Series Editors I ngrid Daubechies, Weinan E, Jan Karel Lenstra, and Endre Süli, Series Editors MARCH JANUARY Cloth $99.50S 978-0-691-14217-3 Cloth $99.50S 400 pages. 6 x 9. 978-0-691-15346-9 392 pages. 60 line illus. 3 tables. 7 x 10. MATHEMATICS z ENGINEERING z PHYSICS MATHEMATICS z ENGINEERING Mathematics 103

Numerical Methods A RIGOROUS AND COMPREHENSIVE INTRODUCTION TO NUMERICAL ANALYSIS

Anne Greenbaum & Timothy P. Chartier

Numerical Methods provides a clear and concise exploration “This is an excellent introduction to the of standard numerical analysis topics, as well as nontradi- exciting world of numerical analysis. tional ones, including mathematical modeling, Monte Carlo Fulfilling the need for a modern textbook methods, Markov chains, and fractals. Filled with appealing on numerical methods, this volume has a examples that will motivate students, the textbook considers wealth of examples that will keep students modern application areas, such as information retrieval and interested in the material. The mathematics animation, and classical topics from physics and engineering. is completely rigorous and I applaud the Exercises use MATLAB and promote understanding of compu- authors for doing such a marvelous job.” tational results. The book gives instructors the flexibility to emphasize —Michele Benzi, Emory University different aspects—design, analysis, or computer implementa- tion—of numerical algorithms, depending on the background “Filled with polished details and a plethora and interests of students. Designed for upper-division under- of examples and illustrations, this ambitious graduates in mathematics or computer science classes, the and substantial text touches every standard textbook assumes that students have prior knowledge of linear topic of numerical analysis. The authors algebra and calculus, although these topics are reviewed in the have done a huge amount of work and text. Short discussions of the history of numerical methods are produced a major textbook for this subject.” interspersed throughout the chapters. The book also includes —Lloyd N. Trefethen, University of Oxford polynomial interpolation at Chebyshev points, use of the MATLAB package Chebfun, and a section on the fast Fourier transform. Supplementary materials are available online.

u Clear and concise exposition of standard numerical analysis topics u Explores nontraditional topics, such as mathematical modeling and Monte Carlo methods u Covers modern applications, including information retrieval and animation, and classical applications from physics and engineering u Promotes understanding of computational results through MATLAB exercises u Provides flexibility so instructors can emphasize mathematical or applied/computational aspects of numerical methods or a combination u Includes recent results on polynomial interpolation at Chebyshev points and use of the MATLAB package Chebfun u Short discussions of the history of numerical methods APRIL interspersed throughout Cloth $95.00S u Supplementary materials available online 978-0-691-15122-9 Anne Greenbaum is professor of applied mathematics at the 464 pages. 78 halftones. 145 line illus. 7 x 10. University of Washington. She is the author of Iterative Meth- MATHEMATICS z ENGINEERING z ods for Solving Linear Systems. Timothy P. Chartier is associate COMPUTER SCIENCE professor of mathematics at Davidson College. press.princeton.edu 104 Mathematics

WHY NARRATIVE IS ESSENTIAL TO MATHEMATICS Circles Disturbed The Interplay of Mathematics and Narrative

Edited by Apostolos Doxiadis & Barry Mazur

“Circles Disturbed offers a range of pos- Circles Disturbed brings together important thinkers in math- sibilities for how narrative can function in ematics, history, and philosophy to explore the relationship mathematics and how narratives themselves between mathematics and narrative. The book’s title recalls show signs of a mathematical structure. An the last words of the great Greek mathematician Archimedes intelligent, exploratory collection of writings before he was slain by a Roman soldier—“Don’t disturb my circles”—words that seem to refer to two radically different by a distinguished group of contributors.” concerns: that of the practical person living in the concrete —Theodore Porter, University of California, world of reality, and that of the theoretician lost in a world of Los Angeles abstraction. Stories and theorems are, in a sense, the natural languages of these two worlds—stories representing the way “This collection is a pioneering effort to we act and interact, and theorems giving us pure thought, trace the hidden connections between distilled from the hustle and bustle of reality. Yet, though the mathematics and narrative. It succeeds voices of stories and theorems seem totally different, they magnificently, and represents a very share profound connections and similarities. significant contribution that will appeal to A book unlike any other, Circles Disturbed delves into the professional mathematician as well as topics such as the way in which historical and biographi- the general educated reader. The articles are cal narratives shape our understanding of mathematics and written by top authorities in their fields.” mathematicians, the development of “myths of origins” in mathematics, the structure and importance of mathematical —Doron Zeilberger, Rutgers University dreams, the role of storytelling in the formation of mathematical intuitions, the ways mathematics helps us organize the way we think about narrative structure, and much more. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Amir Alex- ander, David Corfield, eterP Galison, Timothy Gowers, Michael Harris, David Herman, Federica La Nave, G.E.R. Lloyd, Uri Margolin, Colin McLarty, Jan Christoph Meister, Arkady Plot- nitsky, and Bernard Teissier.

Apostolos Doxiadis is a writer whose books include Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture and Logicomix. Barry Mazur is the Gerhard Gade University Professor in the Department of Math- ematics at Harvard University. His books include Imagining Numbers and Arithmetic Moduli of Elliptic Curves (Princeton).

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press.princeton.edu Mathematics 105 Fréchet Convolution and Differentiability of Equidistribution Lipschitz Functions Sato-Tate Theorems for and Porous Sets in Finite-Field Mellin Transforms Banach Spaces Nicholas M. Katz

Joram Lindenstrauss, David Preiss Convolution and Equidistribution explores an important & Jaroslav Tišer aspect of number theory—the theory of exponential sums over finite fields and their Mellin transforms— This book makes a significant inroad into the un- from a new, categorical point of view. The book pres- expectedly difficult question of existence ofF réchet ents fundamentally important results and a plethora of derivatives of Lipschitz maps of Banach spaces into examples, opening up new directions in the subject. higher dimensional spaces. Because the question The finite-field Mellin transform (of a function turns out to be closely related to porous sets in Banach on the multiplicative group of a finite field) is defined spaces, it provides a bridge between descriptive set by summing that function against variable multiplica- theory and the classical topic of existence of deriva- tive characters. The basic question considered in the tives of vector-valued Lipschitz functions. The topic book is how the values of the Mellin transform are is relevant to classical analysis and descriptive set distributed (in a probabilistic sense), in cases where theory on Banach spaces. The book opens several new the input function is suitably algebro-geometric. This research directions in this area of geometric nonlinear question is answered by the book’s main theorem, functional analysis. using a mixture of geometric, categorical, and group- The new methods developed here include a game theoretic methods. approach to perturbational variational principles that By providing a new framework for studying Mellin is of independent interest. Detailed explanation of the transforms over finite fields, this book opens up a new underlying ideas and motivation behind the proofs of way for researchers to further explore the subject. the new results on Fréchet differentiability of vector- Nicholas M. Katz is professor of mathematics at valued functions should make these arguments acces- Princeton University. He is the author or coauthor of six sible to a wider audience. The most important special previous titles in the Annals of Mathematics Studies: case of the differentiability results, thatL ipschitz map- Arithmetic Moduli of Elliptic Curves (with Barry Mazur); pings from a Hilbert space into the plane have points Gauss Sums, Kloosterman Sums, and Monodromy Groups; of Fréchet differentiability, is given its own chapter with Exponential Sums and Differential Equations; Rigid Local a proof that is independent of much of the work done Systems; Twisted L-Functions and Monodromy; and Mo- to prove more general results. The book raises several ments, Monodromy, and Perversity. open questions concerning its two main topics. Annals of Mathematics Studies, 180 Phillip A. Griffiths, John N. Mather, and Elias M. Stein, Series Editors Joram Lindenstrauss is professor emeritus of mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. David Preiss MARCH is professor of mathematics at the University of War- Paper $75.00S wick. Jaroslav Tišer is associate professor of mathemat- 978-0-691-15331-5 ics at Czech Technical University in Prague. Cloth $165.00S 978-0-691-15330-8 Annals of Mathematics Studies, 179 212 pages. 6 x 9. Phillip A. Griffiths, JohnN . Mather, and Elias M. Stein, Series Editors MATHEMATICS MARCH Paper $75.00S 978-0-691-15356-8 Cloth $165.00S 978-0-691-15355-1 424 pages. 6 x 9. MATHEMATICS 106 Mathematics Some Problems of The Decomposition Unlikely Intersections of Global in Arithmetic Conformal Invariants and Geometry Spyros Alexakis Umberto Zannier With appendixes by David Masser This book addresses a basic question in differential geometry that was first considered by physicistsS tanley Deser and Adam Schwimmer in 1993 in their study of This book considers the so-called Unlikely Intersec- conformal anomalies. The question concerns confor- tions, a topic that embraces well-known issues, such mally invariant functionals on the space of Riemannian as Lang’s and Manin-Mumford’s, concerning torsion metrics over a given manifold. These functionals act on points in subvarieties of tori or abelian varieties. More a metric by first constructing aR iemannian scalar out generally, the book considers algebraic subgroups that of it, and then integrating this scalar over the manifold. meet a given subvariety in a set of “unlikely” dimen- Suppose this integral remains invariant under confor- sion. The book is an expansion of the Hermann Weyl mal re-scalings of the underlying metric. What informa- Lectures delivered by Umberto Zannier at the Institute tion can one then deduce about the Riemannian scalar? for Advanced Study in Princeton in May 2010. Deser and Schwimmer asserted that the Riemannian The book consists of four chapters and seven scalar must be a linear combination of three obvious brief appendixes, the last six by David Masser. The candidates, each of which clearly satisfies the required first chapter considers multiplicative algebraic groups, property: a local conformal invariant, a divergence of a presenting proofs of several developments, ranging Riemannian vector field, and theC hern-Gauss-Bonnet from the origins to recent results, and discussing integrand. This book provides a proof of this conjecture. many applications and relations with other contexts. The result itself sheds light on the algebraic The second chapter considers an analogue in arithme- structure of conformal anomalies, which appear in tic and several applications of this. The third chapter many settings in theoretical physics. It also clarifies introduces a new method for approaching some of the geometric significance of the renormalized volume these questions, and presents a detailed application of asymptotically hyperbolic Einstein manifolds. The of this (by Masser and the author) to a relative case of methods introduced here make an interesting con- the Manin-Mumford issue. The fourth chapter focuses nection between algebraic properties of local invari- on the André-Oort conjecture (outlining work by Pila). ants—such as the classical Riemannian invariants and the more recently studied conformal invariants—and Umberto Zannier is professor of mathematics at the the study of global invariants, in this case conformally Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa in Pisa, Italy. He is the author of Lecture Notes on Diophantine Analysis invariant integrals. Key tools used to establish this con- and the editor of Diophantine Geometry. nection include the Fefferman-Graham ambient metric and the author’s super divergence formula. Annals of Mathematics Studies, 181 Phillip A. Griffiths, John N. Mather, and Elias M. Stein, Series Editors Spyros Alexakis is assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Toronto. APRIL Paper $75.00S Annals of Mathematics Studies, 182 978-0-691-15371-1 Phillip A. Griffiths, John N. Mather, and Elias M. Stein, Series Editors Cloth $165.00S 978-0-691-15370-4 APRIL 160 pages. 7 x 10. Paper $75.00S MATHEMATICS 978-0-691-15348-3 Cloth $165.00S 978-0-691-15347-6 568 pages. 6 x 9. MATHEMATICS Mathematics / Physics 107 Mumford-Tate The Everett Groups and Domains Interpretation of Their Geometry and Arithmetic Quantum Mechanics Collected Works 1955–1980 with Commentary Mark Green, Phillip A. Griffiths & Matt Kerr Edited by Jeffrey A. Barrett & Peter Byrne Mumford-Tate groups are the fundamental symmetry groups of Hodge theory, a subject which rests at the Hugh Everett III was an American physicist best known center of contemporary complex algebraic geometry. for his many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechan- This book is the first comprehensive exploration of ics, which formed the basis of his PhD thesis at Princeton Mumford-Tate groups and domains. Containing basic University in 1957. Although counterintuitive, Everett’s theory and a wealth of new views and results, it will revolutionary formulation of quantum mechanics offers become an essential resource for graduate students the most direct solution to the infamous quantum mea- and researchers. surement problem—that is, how and why the singular Although Mumford-Tate groups can be defined world of our experience emerges from the multiplicities for general structures, their theory and use to date has of alternatives available in the quantum world. The many- mainly been in the classical case of abelian varieties. worlds interpretation postulates the existence of multiple While the book does examine this area, it focuses on universes. Whenever a measurement-like interaction the nonclassical case. The general theory turns out occurs, the universe branches into relative states, one to be very rich, such as in the unexpected connec- for each possible outcome of the measurement, and tions of finite dimensional and infinite dimensional the world in which we find ourselves is but one of these representation theory of real, semisimple Lie groups. many, but equally real, possibilities. Everett’s challenge to The authors give the complete classification ofH odge the orthodox interpretation of quantum mechanics was representations, a topic that should become a stan- met with scorn from Niels Bohr and other leading physi- dard in the finite-dimensional representation theory of cists, and Everett subsequently abandoned academia to noncompact, real, semisimple Lie groups. They also do military operations research. Today, however, Everett’s indicate that in the future, a connection seems ready formulation of quantum mechanics is widely recognized to be made between Lie groups that admit discrete as one of the most controversial but promising physical series representations and the study of automorphic theories of the last century. cohomology on quotients of Mumford-Tate domains by JeffreyB arrett and Peter Byrne present the long and arithmetic groups. Bringing together complex geom- short versions of Everett’s thesis along with a collec- etry, representation theory, and arithmetic, this book tion of his explanatory writings and correspondence. opens up a fresh perspective on an important subject. These primary source documents, many of them newly discovered and most unpublished until now, reveal how Mark Green is professor of mathematics at the Univer- sity of California, Los Angeles and is Director Emeritus Everett’s thinking evolved from his days as a graduate of the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics. student to his untimely death in 1982. This definitive Phillip A. Griffiths is Professor Emeritus of Mathemat- volume also features Barrett and Byrne’s introductory es- ics and former director at the Institute for Advanced says, notes, and commentary that put Everett’s extraordi- Study in Princeton. Matt Kerr is assistant professor of nary theory into historical and scientific perspective. mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis. Jeffrey A. Barrett is professor of logic and philosophy Annals of Mathematics Studies, 183 of science at the University of California, Irvine. Phillip A. Griffiths, JohnN . Mather, and Elias M. Stein, Series Editors Peter Byrne is an award-winning investigative reporter and science writer. MAY

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A COMPREHENSIVE, MODERN INTRODUCTION Classical TO ELECTROMAGNETISM Electromagnetism in a Nutshell

Anupam Garg

“Classical Electromagnetism in a Nutshell is an This graduate-level physics textbook provides a comprehensive interesting and elegant book, and an excellent treatment of the basic principles and phenomena of classical text for a graduate-level course on the subject. electromagnetism. While many electromagnetism texts use the Garg has a lively, modern writing style that subject to teach mathematical methods of physics, here the will engage today’s graduate students.” emphasis is on the physical ideas themselves. Anupam Garg distinguishes between electromagnetism in vacuum and that in —John D. Stack, University of Illinois, material media, stressing that the core physical questions are Urbana-Champaign different for each.I n vacuum, the focus is on the fundamental content of electromagnetic laws, symmetries, conservation “Garg’s textbook is truly excellent. It goes laws, and the implications for phenomena such as radiation the extra mile to provide physical insight and light. In material media, the focus is on understanding in ways that will enhance students’ under- the response of the media to imposed fields, the attendant standing, and includes rarely seen topics as constitutive relations, and the phenomena encountered in well. I want to compliment the author on different types of media such as dielectrics, ferromagnets, and the obvious care and expertise with which conductors. The text includes applications to many topical he assembled this text. If I were to teach a subjects, such as magnetic levitation, plasmas, laser beams, yearlong graduate-level electromagnetism and synchrotrons. course, I would use this book.” Classical Electromagnetism in a Nutshell is ideal for a yearlong graduate course and features more than 300 problems, —John W. Belcher, Massachusetts Institute with solutions to many of the advanced ones. Key formulas are of Technology given in both SI and Gaussian units along with a discussion of how to convert between them, making the book accessible to adherents of both systems.

u Offers a complete treatment of classical electromagnetism u Emphasizes physical ideas u Separates the treatment of electromagnetism in vacuum and material media u Presents key formulas in both SI and Gaussian units u Covers applications to other areas of physics u Includes more than 300 problems

Anupam Garg is professor of physics and astronomy at North- western University.

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Global Environment THE NEW REVISED EDITION OF A CLASSIC EARTH SCIENCE TEXT W ater, Air, and Geochemical Cycles Second Edition

Elizabeth Kay Berner & Robert A. Berner

This newly revised edition of Global Environment discusses “This book provides a clear, up-to-date sum- the major elements of the geochemical cycles and global mary of geochemical processes across most fluxes found in the atmosphere, land, lakes, rivers, biota, and areas of low-temperature geochemistry, oceans, as well as the human effects on these fluxes.R etaining from the point of view of key geochemical the strengths of the original edition while incorporating the cycles. It is detailed and advanced enough to latest discoveries, this textbook takes an integrated, multidis- be useful for researchers while offering in- ciplinary, and global approach to geochemistry and environ- depth knowledge for advanced students.” mental problems and introduces fundamental concepts of —Michael Krom, University of Leeds meteorology, surficial geology (weathering, erosion, and sedimentation), biogeochemistry, limnology, and oceanography. New concepts and information in this updated edition “Describing water and element cycles within include changes of atmospheric carbon dioxide over geologic a global context, this newly edited and im- time, major advances in the study of chemical weathering of proved textbook contains valuable additional rocks, ocean acidification, and important environmental prob- detail and information but also remains true lems, such as the amelioration of the acid rain problem due to the strengths of its original scope.” to reduction in sulfur deposition, problems with nitrification —James Bishop, University of California, of soils and lakes, and eutrophication of rivers and estuaries. Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National An expanded chapter explores atmospheric chemistry and Laboratory changing climate, with the most up-to-date statistics on CO2, the carbon cycle, other greenhouse gases, and the ozone hole. Only requiring a fundamental understanding in elementary chemistry, yet taking into account extensive and current data, this text is ideal for students in environmental geochemistry, environmental geology, global change, biogeochemistry, water pollution, geochemical cycles, chemical oceanography, and geohydrology, and serves as a valuable reference for researchers working on global geochemical and environmental issues.

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AN ESSENTIAL PRIMER ON ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES AND THEIR Atmosphere, Clouds, IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE CLIMATE SYSTEM and Climate

David Randall

“In this book, one of the leaders of the field The atmosphere is critical to climate change. It can amplify condenses a huge amount of climate theory shifts in the climate system, and also mitigate them. This into a very small space. This is done in an primer offers a short, reader-friendly introduction to these at- informal narrative style with a minimum of mospheric processes and how they work, written by a leading expert on the subject. equations and other hard technical details, Giving readers an overview of key atmospheric processes, but with a serious dedication to construct- David Randall looks at how our climate system receives energy ing a coherent and logical storyline without from the sun and sheds it by emitting infrared radiation back glossing over essentials. I have not seen into space. The atmosphere regulates these radiative energy another book like this.” flows, and also transports energy through weather systems —Adam Sobel, Columbia University such as thunderstorms, monsoons, hurricanes, and winter storms. Randall explains how these processes work, and also “Atmosphere, Clouds, and Climate achieves a how precipitation, cloud formation, and other phase changes good balance between intuitive physical rea- of water strongly influence weather and climate.H e discusses soning and more formal arguments where how atmospheric feedbacks affect climate change, how the necessary. This lucid book gives a tour of large-scale atmospheric circulation works, how predicting the the most important atmospheric processes weather and the climate are fundamentally different challenges, and much more. This is the ideal introduction for students and determining climate.” nonspecialists. No prior experience in atmospheric science is —Tapio Schneider, California Institute needed, only basic college physics. of Technology Authoritative and concise, Atmosphere, Clouds, and Climate features a glossary of terms, suggestions for further Princeton Primers in Climate is a new series of reading, and easy-to-follow explanations of a few key equa- short, authoritative books that explain the state of the art in climate-science research. Written specifi- tions. This accessible primer is the essential introduction cally for students, researchers, and scientifically to atmospheric processes and the vital role they play in our minded general readers looking for succinct and climate system. readable books on this frequently misunderstood subject, these primers reveal the physical workings David Randall is professor of atmospheric science at Colorado of the global climate system with unmatched ac- State University. cessibility and detail. This series is the ideal first place to turn to get the essential facts, presented Princeton Primers in Climate with uncompromising clarity, and to begin further investigation—whether in the classroom or in one’s own reading chair. Available NOw The Global Carbon Cycle by David Archer Climate and the Oceans by Geoffrey K. Vallis The Cryosphere by Shawn J. Marshall may Paper $27.95S 978-0-691-14375-0 Cloth $75.00S 978-0-691-14374-3 288 pages. 19 halftones. 21 line illus. 5 tables. 5 x 8. EARTH SCIENCE z CLIMATE SCIENCE

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Julian Vincent Tony D. Williams

This is a thoroughly revised, updated, and expanded Physiological Adaptations for Breeding in Birds is edition of a classic illustrated introduction to the struc- the most current and comprehensive account of tural materials in natural organisms and what we can research on avian reproduction. It develops two learn from them to improve man-made technology— unique themes: the consideration of female avian from nanotechnology to textiles to architecture. Julian reproductive physiology and ecology, and an empha- Vincent’s book has long been recognized as a standard sis on individual variation in life-history traits. Tony work on the engineering design of biomaterials and is Williams investigates the physiological, metabolic, used by undergraduates, graduates, researchers, and energetic, and hormonal mechanisms that underpin professionals studying biology, zoology, engineering, individual variation in the key female-specific repro- and biologically inspired design. This third edition ductive traits and the trade-offs between these traits incorporates new developments in the field, the most that determine variation in fitness. important of which have been at the molecular level. The core of the book deals with the avian repro- All of the illustrations have been redrawn, the refer- ductive cycle, from seasonal gonadal development, ences have been updated, and a new chapter on biomi- through egg laying and incubation, to chick rearing. metic design has been added. Reproduction is considered in the context of the Vincent emphasizes the mechanical properties annual cycle and through an individual’s entire life of structural biomaterials, their contribution to the history. The book focuses on timing of breeding, clutch lives of organisms, and how these materials differ size, egg size and egg quality, and parental care. It also from man-made ones. He shows how the properties provides a primer on female reproductive physiology of biomaterials are derived from their chemistry and and considers trade-offs and carryover effects between interactions, and how to measure them. Starting with reproduction and other life-history stages. In each proteins and polysaccharides, he shows how skin and chapter, Williams describes individual variation in the hair function, how materials self-assemble, and how trait of interest and the evolutionary context for trait ceramics such as bone and mother-of-pearl can be so variation. He argues that there is only a rudimentary, stiff and tough, despite being made in water in benign and in some cases nonexistent, understanding of the ambient conditions. Finally, he combines these topics physiological mechanisms that underpin individual with an analysis of how the design of biomaterials can variation in the major reproductive life-history traits, be adapted in technology, and presents a series of and that research efforts should refocus on these guidelines for designers. key unresolved problems by incorporating detailed physiological studies into existing long-term popula- Julian Vincent, a biologist with a long-standing interest tion studies, generating a new synthesis of physiology, in engineering, is Honorary Professor of Biomimetics ecology, and evolutionary biology. in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Bath University and Special Professor in the Faculty of the Tony D. Williams is a professor in the Department of Built Environment at Nottingham University. Biological Sciences at Simon Fraser University. He is AUGUST the author of The Penguins.

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THE FIRST BOOK TO ADDRESS The Nature of Nutrition NUTRITION’S COMPLEX ROLE IN BIOLOGY A Unifying Framework from Animal Adaptation to Human Obesity

Stephen J. Simpson & David Raubenheimer

“This outstanding book provides the first Nutrition has long been considered more the domain of comprehensive theoretical framework for medicine and agriculture than of the biological sciences, yet it analyzing the roles of nutrition across a touches and shapes all aspects of the natural world. The need huge swath of fields, from ecology and evo- for nutrients determines whether wild animals thrive, how lution to conservation and human health. populations evolve and decline, and how ecological communities are structured. The Nature of Nutrition is the first book The Nature of Nutrition is creative and to address nutrition’s enormously complex role in biology, scholarly yet approachable. I know of no both at the level of individual organisms and in their broader other book like it.” ecological interactions. —Bernard J. Crespi, Simon Fraser University Stephen Simpson and David Raubenheimer provide a comprehensive theoretical approach to the analysis of nutri- “The Nature of Nutrition covers a vast range tion—the Geometric Framework. They show how it can help of issues, from reproduction, immunology, us to understand the links between nutrition and the biology and toxicology to insect migration, popula- of individual animals, including the physiological mechanisms tion ecology, predator-prey interactions, and that determine the nutritional interactions of the animal with ecosystem functioning, as well as applied its environment, and the consequences of these interactions issues such as conservation biology and hu- in terms of health, immune responses, and lifespan. Simpson man nutritional pathologies. I enjoyed each and Raubenheimer explain how these effects translate into the collective behavior of groups and societies, and in turn and every chapter of this excellent book.” influence food webs and the structure of ecosystems. Then —Kenneth Wilson, Lancaster University they demonstrate how the Geometric Framework can be used to tackle issues in applied nutrition, such as the problem of optimizing diets for livestock and endangered species, and how it can also help to address the epidemic of human obesity and metabolic disease. Drawing on a wealth of examples from slime molds to humans, The Nature of Nutrition has important applications in ecology, evolution, and physiology, and offers promising solutions for human health, conservation, and agriculture.

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Darwinian Agriculture HARNESSING EVOLUTION FOR MORE SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE How Understanding Evolution Can Improve Agriculture

R. Ford Denison

As human populations grow and resources are depleted, “Darwinian Agriculture is a very important agriculture will need to use land, water, and other resources contribution to our understanding of the more efficiently and without sacrificing long-term sustainabil- links between nature and agriculture, and ity. Darwinian Agriculture presents an entirely new approach to to the future of our human race. Denison these challenges, one that draws on the principles of evolution underpins his arguments with an incred- and natural selection. ible wealth of insight and knowledge about R. Ford Denison shows how both biotechnology and tra- plants, animals, physics, chemistry, biology, ditional plant breeding can use Darwinian insights to identify and ecology. The depth and breadth of schol- promising routes for crop genetic improvement and avoid arship embodied in this book is stunning. I costly dead ends. Denison explains why plant traits that have been genetically optimized by individual selection—such as know of nothing else like it.” photosynthesis and drought tolerance—are bad candidates for —Kenneth G. Cassman, University genetic improvement. Traits like plant height and leaf angle, of Nebraska which determine the collective performance of plant communities, offer more room for improvement. Agriculturalists “I found this book to be tremendously inter- can also benefit from more sophisticated comparisons among esting and thought-provoking. Darwinian natural communities and from the study of wild species in the Agriculture should be read by everyone inter- landscapes where they evolved. ested in increasing agricultural production Darwinian Agriculture reveals why it is sometimes better in a sustainable way—from biotechnologists to slow or even reverse evolutionary trends when they are to agronomists, and everyone in between.” inconsistent with our present goals, and how we can glean —Jay A. Rosenheim, University of new ideas from natural selection’s marvelous innovations in California, Davis wild species.

R. Ford Denison is adjunct professor of ecology, evolution, and behavior at the University of Minnesota and taught crop ecology at the University of California, Davis.

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Twitter @ PrincetonUPress Facebook @ PrincetonUniversityPress 120 Author / Title Index Abrajano/Alvarez, 63 Finke et al., 93 Martin, 70 Stability and Control, 102 Across the Board, 52 First Modern Jew, 75 Mathematical Analysis, 102 Stalnaker, 77 Adam, 14 Fitter/Merton, 20 Mathematical Excursions, 41 Stark et al., 68 Addiction by Design, 98 Fletcher, 50 Mathematical Mechanic, 54 Story of Ruins, 66 Afghanistan, 47 Foley, 77 Mathletics, 55 Strategic President, 64 Akçam, 26 Foreign Relations, 72 Maudlin, 80 Structural Biomaterials, 111 Alexakis, 106 Forsdyke, 68 Meaning in Life and Why It Matters, 62 Talk at the Brink, 86 Alexander the Great and His Empire, 60 Fossier, 46 Melancholia of Freedom, 100 Thagard, 58 Allegory, 50 Founder’s Dilemmas, 35 Memphis Under the Ptolemies, 60 Thinking of Others, 62 America’s Mission, 44 Fox, 97 Mere Possibilities, 77 Thompson, 60 Archives of Authority, 69 Fréchet Differentiability, 105 Mickey, 97 Three Worlds of Relief, 97 Ash/Gross, 16 Fredriksen, 4 Monitoring Democracy, 94 Tomasi, 84 Atmosphere, Clouds, and Climate, 110 Free Market Fairness, 84 Mothers of Conservatism, 71 Trachtenberg, 92 Axe and the Oath, 46 Gabaccia, 72 Mumford-Tate Groups & Domains, 107 Trust and Violence, 81 Ayé et al., 22 Garg, 108 Mynott, 59 Tyranny of Guilt, 48 Banks, 52 Gerken, 64 Nahin, 53 Ultimate Book of Saturday Science, 18 Baraz, 69 Ghassem-Fachandi, 99 Nature of Nutrition, 112 Unheavenly Chorus, 33 Barfield, 47 Gibson, 86 Nature’s Compass, 11 Universe in Zero Words, 13 Barrett/Byrne, 107 Global Environment, 109 Neier, 29 Vincent, 111 Beerbohm, 83 Goebel et al., 101 Nelson, 73 Viroli, 61 Berner/Berner, 109 Golden Legend, 51 New Arab Man, 100 Virtue for Courageous Minds, 86 Birds of Aruba, 23 Gould/Gould, 11 New Faces, New Voices, 63 Vogel, 96 Birds of Central Asia, 22 Governing America, 31 Nickerson, 71 Votes, Vetoes & the Political Economy, 94 Birds of India, 20 Gracie, 19 Nomads and Networks, 68 Wardhaugh, 40 Birds of Melanesia, 23 Great Brain Race, 42 Not for Profit, 43 War of the Sexes, 5 Birdscapes, 59 Green et al., 107 Numerical Methods, 103 Wasserman, 35 Black Hole of Empire, 99 Greenbaum/Chartier, 103 Nussbaum, 43 Watkins, 52 Bonacich/Lu, 88 Greene/Cushman, 25 Oil Curse, 34 Wealth of Numbers, 40 Book of Mormon, 6 Grimmett et al., 20 Oliver, 95 When Is True Belief Knowledge?, 77 Borsch, 32 Groysberg, 55 On Sacrifice, 82 When the State Speaks, 83 Botticini/Eckstein, 91 Gutjahr, 6 On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred, 30 Who’s #1?, 12 Boulevard of Broken Dreams, 56 Gutmann/Thompson, 8 Overreach, 38 Whose Culture?, 42 Brain and the Meaning of Life, 58 Haddad/Nersesov, 102 Paradox of Love, 27 Why Adjudicate?, 93 Brennan, 63 Hahn, 41 Paths Out of Dixie, 97 Why Cats Land on Their Feet, 17 Brenner, 49 Halbertal, 82 Perreau-Saussine, 82 Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite, 58 Brettschneider, 83 Hansen, 100 Philosophic Pride, 85 Wickens, 90 Briant, 60 Havil, 15 Philosophy of Physics, 80 Wildavsky, 42 Briones, 71 Headrick, 46 Physiological Adaptations for Breeding, 111 Williams, 111 Brooke, 85 Heilman/Friedman, 50 Pines, 75 Wind from the East, 48 Bruckner, 27, 48 Hochschild et al., 36 Pogrom in Gujarat, 99 Winston, 55 Building the Judiciary, 96 How Enemies Become Friends, 44 Political Philosophy in Public Life, 61 Wokler, 85 Calculus of Variations, 101 How to Be a Better Birder, 21 Politics of Precaution, 96 Wolf, 62 Catholicism and Democracy, 82 How to Build a Habitable Planet, 39 Pons/Service, 65 Wolin, 48 Cells to Civilizations, 10 How to Do Things with Books, 70 Power over Peoples, 46 Written Republic, 69 Chamayou, 74 How to Win an Election, 9 Price, 70 X and the City, 14 Chases and Escapes, 53 Hung, 66 Princeton and the Gothic Revival, 67 Young Turks’ Crime against Humanity, 26 Chasing Stars, 55 Hybrid Dynamical Systems, 101 Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry, 25 Zannier, 106 Chatterjee, 99 I Ching, 7 Pursuits of Wisdom, 79 Zelizer, 31 Chosen Few, 91 In Our Name, 83 Quiggin, 57 Zipes, 24 Cicero, 9 Inhorn, 100 Randall, 110 Zombie Economics, 57 Circles Disturbed, 104 International Human Rights, 29 Reading Obama, 45 Classical Electromagnetism, 108 Introduction to Mathematical Sociology, 88 Rebbe, 50 Climbing the Charts, 87 Invention of Enterprise, 56 Reemtsma, 81 Coen, 10 Irish Nationalists, 73 Reforming the European Union, 93 Cohen, 62 Irrationals, 15 Reitter, 30 Cold War and After, 92 Irresistible Fairy Tale, 24 Reputational Premium, 95 College, 1 James, 28 Richeson, 54 Commemorative Landscape Painting, 67 Jewish Jesus, 76 Rise and Fall of Meter, 70 Convolution and Equidistribution, 105 Jim and Jap Crow, 71 Roach et al., 102 Cooper, 79 Katz, 105 Robert Lehman Collection, 66 Cotingas and Manakins, 22 Keeping Faith at Princeton, 32 Ross, 34 Craiutu, 86 Kelley, 94 Rossman, 87 Creating a New Racial Order, 36 King Travels, 73 Rousseau, the Age of Enlightenment, 85 Crowe, 96 Kirwan/Green, 22 Rubin, 69 Cuno, 42 Kloppenberg, 45 Rubinstein, 89 Darwinian Agriculture, 113 Koeppe et al., 66 Ruiz, 73 Davis, 93 Krupp, 28 Ryan, 37 de Boer et al., 23 Kupchan, 44 Schäfer, 76 de Coursey Clapp, 67 Kurzban, 58 Schlozman et al., 33 de Voragine, 51 Landes et al., 56 Scholten, 66 Decomposition of Global Invariants, 106 Langmuir/Broecker, 39 Schüll, 98 Delbanco, 1 Langville/Meyer, 12 Schwartz, 75 Democracy Index, 64 Lecture Notes in Microeconom. Theory, 89 Seabright, 5 Denison, 113 Lerner, 56 Seasonwein, 67 Dictionary of 20th-C. Communism, 65 Levi, 17, 54 Shiller, 2 Downie, 18 Liberzon, 101 Short History of the Jews, 49 Doxiadis/Mazur, 104 Lindenstrauss et al., 105 Simpson/Raubenheimer, 112 Duelling Idiots, 53 Local Elections, 95 Sin, 4 Dutson, 23 Logic, 78 Slaves Tell Tales, 68 Edwards, 38, 64 Lovitch, 21 Slicing Pizzas, Racing Turtles, 52 Elliptic Tales, 16 Machiavelli’s God, 61 Smith, Tony, 44 Ethics of Voting, 63 Mackenzie, 13 Smith, Richard J., 7 Euler’s Gem, 54 Macroeconomic Theory, 90 Smith, Nicholas J. J., 78 Everett Interpretation, 107 Making of Modern Liberalism, 37 Sniderman/Stiglitz, 95 Everlasting Empire, 75 Manhunts, 74 Some Probs. of Unlikely Intersections, 106 Field Guide to Birds of N. Zealand, 20 Mansfield/Milner, 94 Spirit of Compromise, 8 Finance and the Good Society, 2 Martí/Pettit, 61 Spring Wildflowers of the Northeast, 19 Princeton University Press

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