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ECONOMICS FOR THE COMMON GOOD

Jean Tirole
- Princeton University Press
- 30 Avril 2019
- 9780691192253
From the Nobel Prize-winning economist, a bold new agenda for the role of economics in society

When Jean Tirole won the Nobel Prize in Economics, he suddenly found himself being stopped in the street by strangers and asked to comment on current events far from his own research. His transformation from academic economist to public intellectual prompted him to reflect more deeply on the role economists and their discipline play in society. The result is Economics for the Common Good, a passionate manifesto for a world in which economics can help us improve the shared lot of societies and humanity as a whole. To show how, Tirole shares his insights on a broad range of questions affecting our everyday lives and the future of our society, including global warming, unemployment, the post-2008 global financial order, the euro crisis, the digital revolution, innovation, and the proper balance between the free market and regulation. Compelling and accessible, Economics for the Common Good sets a new agenda for the role of economics in society.
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HOW TO FOCUS - A MONASTIC GUIDE FOR AN AGE OF DISTRACTION

John Cassian
- Princeton University Press
- 9 Janvier 2024
- 9780691208084
How you can learn to focus like a monk without living like one

Distraction isn't a new problem. We're also not the first to complain about how hard it is to concentrate. Early Christian monks beat us to it. They had given up everything to focus on God, yet they still struggled to keep the demons of distraction at bay. But rather than surrender to the meandering of their minds, they developed powerful strategies to improve their attention and engagement. How to Focus is an inviting collection of their strikingly relatable insights and advice-frank, funny, sympathetic, and psychologically sophisticated.

This wisdom is drawn from John Cassian's fifth-century CE Collationes, one of the most influential manuals for monks from late antiquity. The Collationes follow Cassian and his friend Germanus as they travel around Egypt, asking a series of sage monks how they can make their minds stronger. In response, these monks offer a range of techniques for increasing focus, including setting goals, training the body, managing the memory, using mantras, taking breaks, consulting others-and, most of all, being honest about yourself. As Cassian and Germanus eventually realize, we can't escape distraction-but we can learn how to confront it and, eventually, to concentrate.

Featuring an engaging new translation by Jamie Kreiner and the original Latin on facing pages, How to Focus can help even the least monkish of us to train our attention on what matters most.
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GOBSMACKED! ; THE BRITISH INVASION OF AMERICAN ENGLISH

Ben Yagoda
- Princeton University Press
- 24 Septembre 2024
- 9780691262291
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TRANSLATING MYSELF AND OTHERS

Jhumpa Lahiri
- Princeton University Press
- 7 Novembre 2023
- 9780691238616
Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by an award-winning writer and literary translator

Translating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as well as a writer in two languages.

With subtlety and emotional immediacy, Lahiri draws on Ovid's myth of Echo and Narcissus to explore the distinction between writing and translating, and provides a close reading of passages from Aristotle's Poetics to talk more broadly about writing, desire, and freedom. She traces the theme of translation in Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks and takes up the question of Italo Calvino's popularity as a translated author. Lahiri considers the unique challenge of translating her own work from Italian to English, the question "Why Italian?," and the singular pleasures of translating contemporary and ancient writers.

Featuring essays originally written in Italian and published in English for the first time, as well as essays written in English, Translating Myself and Others brings together Lahiri's most lyrical and eloquently observed meditations on the translator's art as a sublime act of both linguistic and personal metamorphosis.
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HOW TO CARE ABOUT ANIMALS - AN ANCIENT GUIDE TO CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL

Collectif
- Princeton University Press
- 10 Octobre 2023
- 9780691240435
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HOW TO TELL A STORY - AN ANCIENT GUIDE TO THE ART OF STORYTELLING FOR WRITERS AND READERS

Aristotle
- Princeton University Press
- 10 Mai 2022
- 9780691205274
An inviting and highly readable new translation of Aristotle's complete Poetics-the first and best introduction to the art of writing and understanding stories

Aristotle's Poetics is the most important book ever written for writers and readers of stories-whether novels, short fiction, plays, screenplays, or nonfiction. Aristotle was the first to identify the keys to plot, character, audience perception, tragic pleasure, and dozens of other critical points of good storytelling. Despite being written more than 2,000 years ago, the Poetics remains essential reading for anyone who wants to learn how to write a captivating story-or understand how such stories work and achieve their psychological effects. Yet for all its influence, the Poetics is too little read because it comes down to us in a form that is often difficult to follow, and even the best translations are geared more to specialists than to general readers who simply want to grasp Aristotle's profound and practical insights. In How to Tell a Story, Philip Freeman presents the most readable translation of the Poetics yet produced, making this indispensable handbook more accessible, engaging, and useful than ever before.

In addition to its inviting and reliable translation, a commentary on each section, and the original Greek on facing pages, this edition of the Poetics features unique bullet points, chapter headings, and section numbers to help guide readers through Aristotle's unmatched introduction to the art of writing and reading stories.
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ELEMENTS OF VISUAL GRAMMAR - A DESIGNER''S GUIDE FOR WRITERS, SCHOLARS, AND PROFESSIONALS

Angela Riechers
- Princeton University Press
- 6 Février 2024
- 9780691231228
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THE TWO-MILE TIME MACHINE ; ICE CORES, ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE, AND OUR FUTURE - REVISED EDITION

Richard B. Alley
- Princeton University Press
- 26 Octobre 2014
- 9780691160832
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PERIOD ; THE REAL STORY OF MENSTRUATION

Kate Clancy
- Princeton University Press
- 19 Novembre 2024
- 9780691264592
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LITTLE BOOK OF DINOSAURS

Rhys Charles
- Princeton University Press
- 22 Octobre 2024
- 9780691259895
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COLOR IN NATURE

Justin Marshall, Thomas Cronin, Sonke Johnsen
- Princeton University Press
- 12 Novembre 2024
- 9780691258614
A marvelously illustrated guide to color in the natural world

Recent years have seen tremendous strides in the fields of vision, visual ecology, and our own multilayered experience of color in life and the world. These advances have been driven by astonishing discoveries in neuroscience and evolutionary biology as well as psychology and design. This beautifully illustrated book unlocks nature's colorful purpose, revealing how creatures see color as well as shedding light on the important part that it plays in animal behavior, from reproduction and communication to aggression and defense. Color in Nature also places the human experience and uses of color in the context of all the colors around us, both in the natural world and in the world that we humans create for our own pleasure and purpose. A wide-ranging survey of a vibrant and compelling topic, Color in Nature will open your eyes to new ways of perceiving the world.

Features a wealth of stunning color illustrations

Explains what color is and how it happens

Covers the physics, genetics, chemistry, physiology, and psychology of animal color perception

Discusses colors humans don't see or rarely use

Sheds light on the evolution of colors for mating, hunting, fighting, deceiving, and hiding

Provides insights into color blindness, bio-inspired colors, and people's appreciation for art and design
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HOW TO LOSE YOURSELF ; AN ANCIENT GUIDE TO LETTING GO

Collectif
- Princeton University Press
- 28 Janvier 2025
- 9780691252636
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EUROPE WITHOUT BORDERS ; A HISTORY

Isaac Stanley-Becker
- Princeton University Press
- 14 Janvier 2025
- 9780691261768
The contested creation of free movement-for people and goods-in the Schengen area of Europe

Europe is a place of free movement among nations-or is it? The Schengen area, established in 1985 and today encompassing twenty-nine European countries, allows people, goods, and capital to cross borders without restraint. Schengen transformed European life, advancing both a democratic project of transnational citizenship and a neoliberal project of international free trade. But the right of free movement always excluded non-Europeans, especially migrants of color from former colonies of the Schengen states. In Europe without Borders, Isaac Stanley-Becker explores the contested creation of free movement in Schengen, from treatymaking at European summits and disputes in international courts to the street protests of undocumented immigrants who claimed free movement as a human right.

Schengen laid the groundwork for the making of a single market and the founding of the European Union. Yet its emergence is one of the great untold stories of modern European history, one hidden in archives long embargoed. Stanley-Becker is among the first to have access to records of the treatymaking-such as letters between France's Francois Mitterrand and West Germany's Helmut Kohl-and Europe without Borders offers a pathbreaking account of Schengen's creation. Stanley-Becker argues that Schengen gave a humanist cast to a market paradigm; but even in pairing the border crossing of human beings with the principles of free-market exchange, this vision of free movement was hedged by alarm about foreign migrants. Meanwhile, these migrants-the sans-papiers-saw in the promise of a borderless Europe only a neocolonial enterprise.
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THE STUDY ; THE INNER LIFE OF RENAISSANCE LIBRARIES

Andrew Hui
- Princeton University Press
- 28 Janvier 2025
- 9780691243320
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HOW THE WEST BECAME ANTISEMITIC

Ivan G. Marcus
- Princeton University Press
- 11 Juin 2024
- 9780691258201
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The collected papers of albert einstein : the berlin years - writings, 1918-1921 : volume 7, english translation

Albert Einstein
- Princeton University Press
- 8 Août 2002
- 9780691057187
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IRAN - RISING

Amin Saikal
- Princeton University Press
- 15 Janvier 2019
- 9780691175478
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WORLD ACCORDING TO PHYSICS

Jim Al-Khalili
- Princeton University Press
- 10 Mars 2020
- 9780691182308
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COGS AND MONSTERS - WHAT ECONOMICS IS, AND WHAT IT SHOULD BE

Diane Coyle
- Princeton University Press
- 11 Avril 2023
- 9780691231044
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THE AFRICAN REVOLUTION ; A HISTORY OF THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY

Richard Reid
- Princeton University Press
- 28 Janvier 2025
- 9780691187099
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THE MYSTERY OF THE INVISIBLE HAND - A HENRY SPEARMAN MYSTERY

Marshall Jevons
- Princeton University Press
- 6 Septembre 2016
- 9780691173085
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HOW TO WIN AN ARGUMENT - AN ANCIENT GUIDE TO THE ART OF PERSUASION

Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Princeton University Press
- 14 Octobre 2016
- 9780691164335
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CAREER AND FAMILY - WOMEN''S CENTURY-LONG JOURNEY TOWARD EQUITY

Claudia Goldin
- Princeton University Press
- 12 Octobre 2021
- 9780691201788
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GOLD, SILVER, AND BRONZE - METAL SCULPTURE OF THE ROMAN BAROQUE

Jennifer Montagu
- Princeton University Press
- 15 Août 2023
- 9780691252780
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