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- Einstein Gravity in a Nutshell Anthony Zee
Einstein Gravity in a Nutshell Anthony Zee
- Zee, A
- Princeton University Press
- 888
- 2013
This unique textbook provides an accessible introduction to Einstein's general theory of relativity, a subject of breathtaking beauty and supreme importance in physics. With...
- The Battle of Bretton Woods - B. Steil
The Battle of Bretton Woods - B. Steil
- Benn Steil
- anglické
- Princeton University Press
- 464
- 2013
When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for 'a new Bretton Woods' to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political...
- The Kingdom of Fungi - J. Petersen
The Kingdom of Fungi - J. Petersen
- Petersen, Jens H
- Princeton University Press
- 256
- 2013
The fungi realm has been called the "hidden kingdom," a mysterious world populated by microscopic spores, gigantic mushrooms and toadstools, and a host of other multicellular...
- Life Exposed - A. Petryna
Life Exposed - A. Petryna
- Adriana Petryna
- anglické
- Princeton University Press
- 312
- 2013
On April 26, 1986, Unit Four of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in then Soviet Ukraine. More than 3.5 million people in Ukraine alone, not to mention many citizens of...
- No Enchanted Palace - M. Mazower
No Enchanted Palace - M. Mazower
- Mazower, Mark
- anglické
- Princeton University Press
- 248
- 2013
No Enchanted Palace traces the origins and early development of the United Nations, one of the most influential yet perhaps least understood organizations active in the world...
- Picasso and Truth - T. Clark
Picasso and Truth - T. Clark
- Clark, T. J
- Princeton University Press
- 352
- 2013
Picasso and Truth offers a breathtaking and original new look at the most significant artist of the modern era. From Pablo Picasso's early The Blue Room to the later Guernica,...
- Pterosaurs - M. Witton
Pterosaurs - M. Witton
- Mark P Witton
- anglické
- Princeton University Press
- 304
- 2013
For 150 million years, the skies didn't belong to birds--they belonged to the pterosaurs. These flying reptiles, which include the pterodactyls, shared the world with the...
- Karl Marx
Karl Marx
- Berlin, Isaiah
- anglické
- Princeton University Press
- 352
- 2013
Isaiah Berlin's intellectual biography of Karl Marx has long been recognized as one of the best concise accounts of the life and thought of the man who had, in Berlin's words,...
- Primates of th - F. Desbordes, R. Martin, J. Petter
Primates of th - F. Desbordes, R. Martin, J. Petter
- Petter, Jean-Jacques
- anglické
- Princeton University Press
- 192
- 2013
The essential illustrated guide to the world's primates This stunningly illustrated guide to the world's primates covers nearly 300 species, from the feather-light and...
- A Mathematics Course for Poli W. Moore, D. Siegel
A Mathematics Course for Poli W. Moore, D. Siegel
- Moore, Will H.;Siegel, David A
- Princeton University Press
- 456
- 2013
Political science and sociology increasingly rely on mathematical modeling and sophisticated data analysis, and many graduate programs in these fields now require students to...
- Pursuits of Wisdom - J. Cooper
Pursuits of Wisdom - J. Cooper
- Cooper, John M
- Princeton University Press
- 456
- 2013
This is a major reinterpretation of ancient philosophy that recovers the long Greek and Roman tradition of philosophy as a complete way of life - and not simply an intellectual...
- What W. H. Auden Can Do for You - A. Mccall Smith
What W. H. Auden Can Do for You - A. Mccall Smith
- McCall Smith, Alexander
- Princeton University Press
- 152
- 2013
Bestselling novelist Alexander McCall Smith's charming account of how the poet W. H. Auden has helped guide his life--and how he might guide yours, too When facing a moral...
- England's Rare Mosses and Liverworts R. Porley
England's Rare Mosses and Liverworts R. Porley
- Porley, Ron D
- Princeton University Press
- 232
- 2013
This is the first book to cover England's rare and threatened mosses and liverworts, collectively known as bryophytes. As a group, they are the most ancient land plants and...
- Finance and the Good Society - R. Shiller
Finance and the Good Society - R. Shiller
- Shiller, Robert J
- Princeton University Press
- 312
- 2013
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...
- Tracks and Signs of the Animals and Bird - L. Olsen
Tracks and Signs of the Animals and Bird - L. Olsen
- Olsen, Lars-Henrik
- Princeton University Press
- 272
- 2013
This beautifully illustrated field guide enables you to easily identify the tracks and signs left by a wide variety of mammal and bird species found in Britain and Europe,...
- Kafka - The Decisive Year V1
Kafka - The Decisive Year V1
- Stach, Reiner
- anglické
- Princeton University Press
- 624
- 2013
This is the acclaimed central volume of the definitive biography of Franz Kafka. Reiner Stach spent more than a decade working with over four thousand pages of journals,...
- The Price of Rights - Martin Ruhs
The Price of Rights - Martin Ruhs
- Ruhs, Martin
- Princeton University Press
- 272
- 2013
Many low-income countries and development organizations are calling for greater liberalization of labor immigration policies in high-income countries. At the same time, human...
- Passions and the Interests
Passions and the Interests
- Hirschman, Albert O
- Princeton University Press
- 192
- 2013
In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that...
- No Joke
No Joke
- Wisse, Ruth R
- Princeton University Press
- 292
- 2013
Why the genius of Jewish humor runs risks as well as rewards Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the...
- Worldly Philosopher
Worldly Philosopher
- Adelman, Jeremy
- Princeton University Press
- 760
- 2013
Worldly Philosopher chronicles the times and writings of Albert O. Hirschman, one of the twentieth century's most original and provocative thinkers. In this gripping biography,...
- Art of the Deal - Horowitz Noah
Art of the Deal - Horowitz Noah
- Horowitz, Noah
- anglické
- Princeton University Press
- 384
- 2013
Art today is defined by its relationship to money as never before. Prices have been driven to unprecedented heights, conventional boundaries within the art world have...
- Paleoclimate
Paleoclimate
- Bender, Michael L
- Princeton University Press
- 320
- 2013
Earth's climate has undergone dramatic changes over the geologic timescale. At one extreme, Earth has been glaciated to the equator for periods that may have lasted millions of...