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For more information, send e-mail to [email protected] ACentury in Books Princeton University Press 1905–2005 princeton university press princeton and oxford Copyright © by Princeton University Press Daniel Kevles essay copyright © by Daniel Kevles Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to Permissions, Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press, William Street, Princeton, New Jersey, In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, Market Place, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX SY All Rights Reserved ISBN: ---X Printed on acid-free paper. pup.princeton.edu Printed in the United States of America Contents Chronological List of Books vii Introduction xiii Walter Lippincott books, 1920–1943 1 Fragments of Modernity 13 Michael Wood books, 1943–1950 19 P. J. Conkwright and Book Design 33 books, 1950–1955 37 History, Politics, and Culture 43 Anthony Grafton books, 1956–1963 51 Economics at the Center of the Mathematical Universe 65 Sylvia Nasar books, 1963–1974 71 Bollingen Series, 1943–2002 85 books, 1975–1987 91 Albert Einstein: Relativity, War, and Fame 115 Daniel J. Kevles books, 1987–1996 125 Mathematics and Science 137 Robert M. May books, 1996–2002 147 Acknowledgments 159 Index of Books by Subject 161 Chronological List of Books Note on the illustrations: The descriptions of the one hundred books are illustrated by images from the books themselves. Where possible, the original jacket or cover front is depicted. In some instances, the illustration represents the jacket or cover of a later edition, or the title page of the original or a later edition. The Constitution and What It Means Today, by Edward S. Corwin () The Meaning of Relativity, by Albert Einstein () Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade, by Henri Pirenne () The American Revolution Considered as a Social Movement, by J. Franklin Jameson () Modern Architecture, by Frank Lloyd Wright () The Classical Groups: Their Invariants and Representations, by Hermann Weyl () And Still the Waters Run: The Betrayal of the Five Civilized Tribes, by Angie Debo () The Consistency of the Axiom of Choice and of the Generalized Continuum-Hypothesis with the Axioms of Set Theory, by Kurt Gödel () Twelve Who Ruled: The Committee of Public Safety during the Terror, by R. R. Palmer () Finite Dimensional Vector Spaces, by Paul R. Halmos () Topics in Topology, by Solomon Lefschetz () The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer, by Erwin Panofsky () Makers of Modern Strategy: Military Thought from Machiavelli to Hitler, edited by Edward Mead Earle, with the collaboration of Gordon A. Craig and Felix Gilbert () Introduction to Mathematical Logic, by Alonzo Church () vii Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern () The Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field, by Jacques Hadamard () How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method, by George Pólya () The Open Society and Its Enemies, by Karl R. Popper () Atomic Energy for Military Purposes: The Official Report on the Development of the Atomic Bomb under the Auspices of the United States Government, ‒, by Henry De Wolf Smyth () Theory of Lie Groups, by Claude Chevalley () From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film, by Siegfried Kracauer () The Coming of the French Revolution, by Georges Lefebvre () The Dehumanization of Art, and Notes on the Novel, by José Ortega y Gasset () The Idea of a Theater: A Study of Ten Plays, by Francis Fergusson () The American Soldier: Combat and Its Aftermath, by Samuel A. Stouffer et al. () The Papers of Thomas Jefferson,(‒) Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist, by Walter Kaufmann () Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, by James Bennett Pritchard () Morphogenesis: An Essay on Development, by John Tyler Bonner () Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, by Erich Auerbach () The Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance: Civic Humanism and Republican Liberty in an Age of Classicism and Tyranny, by Hans Baron () viii Chronological List of Books Homological Algebra, by Henri Cartan and Samuel Eilenberg () Soviet-American Relations, ‒, Volume 1: Russia Leaves the War, by George F. Kennan () Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays, by Northrop Frye () Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War, by Bray Hammond () The King’s Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology, by Ernst H. Kantorowicz () The Society of Captives: A Study of a Maximum Security Prison, by Gresham M. Sykes () The Edge of Objectivity: An Essay in the History of Scientific Ideas, by Charles Coulston Gillispie () The Concept of Jacksonian Democracy: New York as a Test Case, by Lee Benson () Lord and Peasant in Russia: From the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century, by Jerome Blum () Washington: Village and Capital, ‒, by Constance McLaughlin Green () The Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the United States, by Fritz Machlup () Linear Programming and Extensions, by George B. Dantzig () A Monetary History of the United States, ‒, by Milton Friedman and Anna Jacobson Schwartz () Morse Theory, by J. Milnor () The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations, by Gabriel A. Almond and Sidney Verba () Spectral Analysis of Economic Time Series, by C.W.J. Granger, in association with M. Hatanaka () Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, edited by Alex Preminger () Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought, by George C. Williams () The Theory of Island Biogeography, by Robert H. MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson () Chronological List of Books ix Singular Integrals and Differentiability Properties of Functions, by Elias M. Stein () On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State, by Joseph R. Strayer () Marxism and Form: Twentieth-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature, by Fredric Jameson () Stability and Complexity in Model Ecosystems, by Robert M. May () Stable and Random Motions in Dynamical Systems: With Special Emphasis on Celestial Mechanics, by Jürgen Moser () Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah, ‒, by Gershom Gerhard Scholem () The Mythic Image, by Joseph Campbell () The Freud/Jung Letters: The Correspondence between Sigmund Freud and C. G. Jung, edited by William McGuire () C. P. Cavafy: Collected Poems, translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard () Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany, and Italy in the Decade after World War I, by Charles S. Maier () The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition, by J.G.A. Pocock () Dostoevsky: The Seeds of Revolt, ‒, by Joseph Frank () Perception and Misperception in International Politics, by Robert Jervis () A Guide to the Birds of Panama: With Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Honduras, by Robert S. Ridgely and John A. Gwynne, Jr. () The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph, by Albert O. Hirschman () A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing, by Elaine Showalter () Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, by Richard Rorty () Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Bali, by Clifford Geertz () x Chronological List of Books Rome: Profile of a City, ‒, by Richard Krautheimer () Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems, by Wislawa Szymborska () After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy, by Robert O. Keohane () QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter, by Richard P. Feynman () Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life, by Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer () Theology and the Scientific Imagination from the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century, by Amos Funkenstein () Ecology and Evolution of Darwin’s Finches, by Peter R. Grant () A Guide to the Birds of Colombia, by Steven L. Hilty and William L. Brown () Galactic Dynamics, by James Binney and Scott Tremaine () The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein (‒) The Political Economy of International Relations, by Robert Gilpin () Painting as an Art, by Richard Wollheim () A Course in Microeconomic Theory, by David M. Kreps () Prehistoric Textiles: The Development of Cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages with Special Reference to the Aegean, by E.J.W. Barber () Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film, by Carol J. Clover () Principles of Physical Cosmology, by P.J.E. Peebles () Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy, by Robert Putnam, with Robert Leonardi and Rafaella Nanetti () The History and Geography of Human Genes, by L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Paolo Menozzi, and Alberto Piazza () Chronological List of Books xi Time Series Analysis, by James D. Hamilton () Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research, by Gary King, Robert O. Keohane, and Sidney Verba () The Nature of Space and Time, by Stephen Hawking and Roger