"Rarely does a field guide of this caliber debut as its country's first. Birds of Chile offers not just perfect field-portability, beautiful and accurate artwork with facing text, and clarity and conciseness throughout: it presents...

In "Richard Wagner, Fritz Lang and the Nibelungen: The Dramaturgy of Disavowal", untersucht der Autor David J. Levin das komplexe Verhältnis zwischen Richard Wagners Opernzyklus "Der Ring des Nibelungen" und Fritz Langs zweiteiliger...

"Driving the Soviets Up the Wall: Soviet-East German Relations, 1953-1961" von Hope M. Harrison ist eine detaillierte Studie der diplomatischen Beziehungen zwischen der Sowjetunion und Ostdeutschland während einer kritischen Phase des...

"Olav Velthuis has built a graceful, sturdy bridge across a torrent: the turbulent flow of art markets. On one side we have the supposition that art and money follow incompatible principles; on the other, the claim that markets reduce...

"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 Mind in Exile: Thomas Mann in Princeton" von Stanley Corngold ist eine detaillierte Untersuchung der Jahre, die der berühmte deutsche Schriftsteller Thomas Mann im amerikanischen Exil in Princeton verbrachte. Das Buch beleuchtet die...

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...