Review of Daniel Bell and Wang Pei, Just Hierarchy: Why Social Hierarchies Matter in China and the Rest of the World, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. Drawing on a lifetime of research and writing on this period, the emeritus professor of classics and ancient history gives a brilliant overview of the Augustan age, and recommends what to read to better understand the adopted son of Julius Caesar, who found Rome in brick and left it in marble. Next time you look at your cute pooch, remember its DNA is the same as that of a wolf. Because of this, it is best to contact us first, before preparing and submitting a full manuscript proposal. 215-233 . He recommends the best books on birds and birdwatching. What drives people’s passion for birds and birdwatching? Unit 2702, NUO Centre No doubt we’ve all grown up hearing aphorisms, but perhaps we take their importance for granted. Andrew Hui, the author of the first full book on the theory of the aphorism, guides us through the history of the short philosophical saying from Heraclitus to Nietzsche and beyond. published most by this publisher. Technology has made the ‘selfie’ a ubiquitous form of social currency. the politics of secularism in international relations princeton studies in international history and politics Nov 11, 2020 Posted By Barbara Cartland Media Publishing TEXT ID 8109e0d5a Online PDF Ebook Epub Library privatized in the west this secularist assumption ignores the contestation surrounding the category of the secular in international politics the politics of secularism in Anthropologist and Afghanistan expert Thomas Barfield gives a panoramic view of Afghanistan, from founding dynasties  to the failed central Asian states of today. 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Maria Loh, author of Still Lives: Death, Desire, and the Portrait of the Old Master, talks to Five Books about the curated self. The distinguished British economist, Diane Coyle, recommends this year’s best economics books. Princeton university press Publisher - 305 works / 122 ebooks. You can also find guidelines below regarding what to include in your proposal. Renaissance means may have been very different, but celebrity artists in Medici Florence dealt with many of the issues relating to identity and authorship that we grapple with today. Oxfordshire, OX20 1TR We publish at least two new interviews per week. What challenges does our current reality of information overload pose for democracy? x … from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology and a Certificate in Women’s Studies from the University of Michigan. From a book about applying game theory to public policy to an account of how modern management practices were first developed on slave plantations, it’s been another good year for interesting and accessible economics books. Not in Library. Purdue University Press is dedicated to publishing works for both specialized and general readers. MIT’s Andrew W Lo introduces some of the best books on finance and explains how it can change the world for the better. José Castelló, author of the delightful field guide, Canids of the World: Wolves, Wild Dogs, Foxes, Jackals, Coyotes, and Their Relatives recommends some of the best books to read on dogs and other canids. Princeton, New Jersey 08540 Prospective Authors. Prospective Authors Trinity University Press. The Prospective Authors submission page and upload: 1) Your completed Prospective Author’s form 2) Your prospectus or proposal 3) Cover letter. 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Just to be clear: even though they are recommending books by other authors, it's their own work that has led us to request the interview in the first place, so if you're buying books please buy theirs! Of further interest is the following: Nathaniel Burt, "The Princeton Novel: 1920-1978" in the Princeton University Library Chronicle XL, 3 (Spring, 1979) pp. Pp. We've published books on our people and neighborhoods, our institutions, our sports teams, our parks, and through our cookbooks, on our food. He chooses five books that explore who we fundamentally are, as human beings, and how that will determine the shape of a successful capitalism. Our authors hail from around the world, and our books address crucial contemporary social and environmental issues. The University of Michigan Press’s academic and regional publishing programs boast all the virtues of traditional not-for-profit scholarly publishing: commitment to selectivity, integrity of vetting processes, and a rigorous approach to sustainability. For prospective Duke University Press authors, these pages offer insight into our publishing interests, our editorial team, and our guidelines for submitting your project for consideration. Beijing 100016, P.R. How do we even start thinking about these questions? Australian economist John Quiggin, author of Economics in Two Lessons, recommends books for learning about economics, all accessible to the general reader, and tries to dispel some of the myths about what it is professional economists do. Phone: +86 10 8457 8802 They were known as the Ghana, Mali and Songhai Empires. Not in Library. He picks the best books on Afghanistan. When did interest in the dark side of celebrity become mainstream? This site has an archive of more than one thousand interviews, or five thousand book recommendations. The University of Akron Press seeks manuscripts of interest to our readers. Andrew Robinson, author of a biography of Albert Einstein, picks and talks through the five best Albert Einstein books and discusses the life and times of the ‘unique genius.’. For Authors and Prospective Authors. 1. The author of Britain’s Spiders, Lawrence Bee, recommends all the books you need to become an amateur arachnologist. Princeton University Press authors who have done interviews with us include Nobel prize-winning economist Robert Shiller (huge thank you also to Carol Copeland, Professor Shiller's administrative assistant, for making sure this amazing interview happened) and theoretical physicist and science communicator Jim Al Khalili. You can learn more about our publishing programs across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences by clicking on individual editors’ photos below. We ask experts to recommend the five best books in their subject and explain their selection in an interview. You don’t have to be a professional arachnologist to study and get excited about spiders—nor do you need to travel away from home. wide selection of people at the press beyond the subject area editor, including marketing, sales, publicity, foreign rights, and production. Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales not only revolutionized English poetry—they’re also extremely funny and moving. Over a century later, we know much more, but not enough to do more than guess at what happened at the moment of the Big Bang and immediately after. Cambridge professor Diane Coyle talks us through her selection of the best economics books of 2018. The unexamined life is not worth living; nature loves to hide; you can’t step in the same river twice. A beneficially mutual relationship is premised on both author and publisher being a good fit with one another. Gisela holds an A.B. UNC Press publishes nonfiction books for academic and general audiences. Gillen D’Arcy Wood, Professor of Environmental Humanities and English at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, explains who the Romantic poets were and recommends five of the greatest Romantic poems. Before coming to Duke University Press in 2010, she served as the Associate Director for the Barnard Center for Research on Women. The Greek historian and general Thucydides wanted his History of the Peloponnesian War “to be a possession for all time.” In that, he’s been remarkably successful, with his name still echoing in the corridors of power. “The letters map out the whole of the theory of 20th-century physics but include all the conflict and personal life, the head-scratching.”. A number of books offer excellent advice for revising dissertations, including From Dissertation to Book, 2nd edition, by William Germano (University of Chicago Press, 2013), and Revising Your Dissertation: Advice from Leading Editors, updated edition, edited by Beth Luey (University of California Press, 2007). At Baylor University Press, the bar for acquisitions is set high. Here, Shakespeare scholar Scott Newstok talks us through books that help us learn more about Shakespeare’s sonnets, from the best introduction to the poems for students through to their afterlife and recent creative interpretations. Oxford Professor Marion Turner, who has written the first full-length biography of Chaucer in a generation, tells us about the extraordinary man who wrote them and why we should all read the Canterbury Tales. Some 40 authors are listed, along with the items concerning that author which were displayed at the exhibition. 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