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153 Mathematics 155 Audiobooks 156 Subrights Information 157 International Rights 158 Best of the Backlist 162 Index 164 Order Information Princeton University Press 6 Oxford Street, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1TR United Kingdom 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540-5237 United States International Edition Princeton University Press autumn 2021 autumn autumn Cover image: Cubism—Landsat Style: startling red patches sprout from an agricultural landscape that looks almost like a Cubist painting. The fields in this part of eastern Kazakhstan follow the contours of the land—long and narrow in mountain valleys, and large and rectangular over the plains. 2021 Landsat imagery courtesy of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and U.S. Geological Survey. Contents 1 Featured Books 43 Zone Books 46 Featured Nature 55 Paperbacks 90 Art 94 Architecture 95 Literature 100 Poetry 102 Media Studies 104 Education 106 History 115 Ancient History 116 Jewish Studies 118 Religion 119 Philosophy 125 Political Science 132 Middle East Studies 133 Sociology 138 Anthropology 139 Psychology 141 Economics 144 Nature 148 Biology 151 Earth Science 152 Physics 153 Mathematics 155 Audiobooks 156 Subrights Information 157 International Rights 158 Best of the Backlist 162 Index 164 Order Information Featured Books 2 Featured Books Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern Mary Beard From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 years What does the face of power look like? Who gets a simple repetition of stable, blandly conservative commemorated in art and why? And how do we react images of imperial men and women, Twelve Caesars is to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book Mary an unexpected tale of changing identities, clueless or Beard tells the story of how portraits of the rich, deliberate misidentifications, fakes, and often ambiva- powerful, and famous in the western world have been lent representations of authority. shaped by the image of Roman emperors, especially the “Twelve Caesars,” from the ruthless Julius Caesar Mary Beard is one of the world’s leading classicists and to the fly-torturing Domitian. Twelve Caesars asks why cultural commentators. She is professor of classics at these murderous autocrats have loomed so large in the University of Cambridge and the author of bestsell- art from antiquity and the Renaissance to today, when ing and award-winning books. Twitter @wmarybeard hapless leaders are still caricatured as Neros fiddling while Rome burns. Beginning with the importance of imperial portraits “As this book triumphantly demonstrates, there is no in Roman politics, this richly illustrated book offers a one on the face of the planet better qualified than tour through 2,000 years of art and cultural history, Mary Beard to guide us through the great hall of presenting a fresh look at works by artists from mirrors, labyrinthine and treacherous as it is, that Memling and Mantegna to the nineteenth-century separates us from the Twelve Caesars.” American sculptor Edmonia Lewis, as well as by —Tom Holland, author of Rubicon: The Last Years of generations of weavers, cabinetmakers, silversmiths, the Roman Republic printers, and ceramicists. Rather than a story of Published in association with the Center for Advanced The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Bollingen Series XXXV: 60 Washington, DC September ebook 9780691225869 Audiobook 9780691231822 9780691222363 Hardback $35.00 | £30.00 Art | Classics 384 pages. 242 color + 18 b/w illus. 165 × 241 mm. Featured Books 3 Top left: Marcantonio Raimondi, ‘Vespasian’ from the Twelve Caesars series, c. 1500–1534 (plate 91 taken from vol. 3 of the later 16th-century album Speculum romanae magnificentia), engraving, 17 × 15 cm (sheet), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, inv. 41.72(3.91). Rogers Fund, transferred from the Library. Top right: Peter Paul Rubens, Germanicus and Agrippina, c. 1614, oil on panel, 66.4 × 57 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, inv. 1963.8.1. Andrew W. Mellon Fund. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. Bottom: Hieronymus Francken II and Jan Brueghel the Elder, The Archdukes Albert and Isabella Visiting the Collection of Pierre Roose, c. 1621–23, oil on panel, 94 × 123.2 cm, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, inv. 37.2010. 4 Featured Books Career & Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity Claudia Goldin A renowned economic historian traces women’s journey to close the gender wage gap and sheds new light on the continued struggle to achieve equity between couples at home A century ago, it was a given that a woman with a disproportionately more for long hours and weekend college degree had to choose between having a career work, and how this perpetuates disparities between and a family. Today, there are more female college women and men. Goldin demonstrates how the era graduates than ever before, and more women want of covid-19 has severely hindered women’s advance- to have a career and family, yet challenges persist at ment, yet how the growth of remote and flexible work work and at home. This book traces how generations may be the pandemic’s silver lining. of women have responded to the problem of balancing career and family as the twentieth century experi- Antidiscrimination laws and unbiased managers, while enced a sea change in gender equality, revealing why valuable, are not enough. Career & Family explains true equity for dual career couples remains frustrat- why we must make fundamental changes to the way ingly out of reach. we work and how we value caregiving if we are ever to achieve gender equality and couple equity. Drawing on decades of her own groundbreaking research, Claudia Goldin provides a fresh, in-depth Claudia Goldin is the Henry Lee Professor of look at the diverse experiences of college-educated Economics at Harvard University. Her books include women from the 1900s to today, examining the aspi- Women Working Longer, The Race between Education rations they formed—and the barriers they faced—in and Technology, The Defining Moment, and Under- terms of career, job, marriage, and children. She standing the Gender Gap. She lives in Cambridge, shows how many professions are “greedy,” paying Massachusetts. Twitter @PikaGoldin October ebook 9780691226736 9780691201788 Hardback $27.95 | £22.00 Economics | Women’s Studies 328 pages. 22 b/w illus. 1 table. 156 × 235 mm. Featured Books 5 An Interview with Claudia Goldin Why is a historical perspective especially when there are childcare needs at home. important for understanding women’s And when couple equity is thrown out the window, efforts to have a career and a family? gender equality generally goes with it, except among same-sex unions. The desire among college-graduate women for career and family has been long in the making. That How has the pandemic affected the aspiration has been brewing, changing, emerging, and amount of caregiving mothers provide morphing through several key phases of our history. compared to fathers? We can best understand these developments by examining the five groups of college-graduate women covid-19 has magnified the issues raised in this book. born since the late nineteenth century, each of whose At no point in the history of this nation has the work trajectory was informed by that of the group before it. of women been more important to the economy and, therefore, at no point has the increased burden of childcare due to the closing of schools and daycare What is “greedy work”? been more important. The number of hours all Work is “greedy” when earnings per hour increase parents have spent in childcare probably doubled just with the number of hours worked or when specific after March 2020 and the burden has been greater hours are worked. The team member who comes in for mothers, particularly single moms. Reducing on weekends, works evenings, and jumps the highest the costs of caring for children, even when school will get an ever-bigger reward. Greedy work means becomes full-time again, is another way to even the that, given social norms and expectations, couple gender playing field. equity will be jettisoned for increased family income, A Century of Five Groups of College-Graduate Women 6 Featured Books The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality Kathryn Paige Harden A provocative and timely case for how the science of genetics can help create a more just and equal society In recent years, scientists like Kathryn Paige Harden Kathryn Paige Harden is professor of clinical have shown that DNA makes us different, in our psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, where personalities and in our health—and in ways that she is director of the Developmental Behavior Genet- matter for educational and economic success in our ics Lab and codirector of the Texas Twin Project. She current society. lives in Austin. Twitter @kph3k In The Genetic Lottery, Harden introduces readers to the latest genetic science, dismantling dangerous ideas about racial superiority and challenging us to grapple “This brilliant book is without a doubt the very best with what equality really means in a world where exposition on our genes, how they influence quite people are born different. Weaving together personal literally everything about us, and why this means stories with scientific evidence, Harden shows why our we should care more, not less, about the societal refusal to recognize the power of DNA perpetuates structures in which we live.” the myth of meritocracy, and argues that we must —Angela Duckworth, author of Grit acknowledge the role of genetic luck if we are ever to create a fair society. Reclaiming genetic science from the legacy of eugen- ics, this groundbreaking book offers a bold new vision of society where everyone thrives, regardless of how one fares in the genetic lottery.
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