"Kissing Architecture" von Sylvia Lavin ist eine Sammlung von Essays, die die Beziehung zwischen Architektur und anderen kreativen Disziplinen wie Kunst und Design untersucht. Lavin argumentiert, dass Architektur nicht isoliert...

"The Two-Mile Time Machine takes a story that has been much discussed in the press and revitalizes it with the author's infectious enthusiasm and with background information on the history of ice core drilling. It provides an excellent...

Classical Chinese: A Basic Reader: Texts, Glossaries, Analyses: A Basic Reader in Three Volumes (The Princeton Language Program: Modern Chinese, 12)

"Fossil-fuel carbon is our dangerous treasure. David Archer brilliantly and lucidly provides the essential background on Earth's carbon cycle that we need to make wise decisions about future use."--Richard B. Alley, Pennsylvania State...

"The Challenger at Sea: A Ship That Revolutionized Earth Science" von Kenneth J. Hsu ist ein faszinierendes Buch über die Expedition der HMS Challenger im 19. Jahrhundert, die als Geburtsstunde der modernen Meereswissenschaft gilt. Das...

In 1858, Charles Darwin was forty-nine years old, a gentleman scientist living quietly at Down House in the Kent countryside. He was not yet a focus of debate; his "big book on species" still lay on his desk as a manuscript. For more...

The description for this book, The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature, will be forthcoming. von Miner, Earl;Morrell, Robert E.;Odagiri, Hiroko;

What does the path taken by a ray of light share with the trajectory of a thrown baseball and the curve of a wheat stalk bending in the breeze? Each is the subject of a different study yet all are optimal shapes; light rays minimize...