10183 títulos para "Princeton University Press"

Five New World Primates

Terborgh, John

Launching a new series, Monographs in Behavior and Ecology, this work is an intensive study of five species of New World monkeys--all omnivores with a diet of fruit and small prey. Notwithstanding their common diet, they differ widely in group size, social system, ranging patterns, and degree of ter...

School of Love

Richmond, H. M.

Challenging the view of Shelley, Arnold, and Eliot that there has been a decline in human sensibility in the later history of European culture, H. M. Richmond demonstrates that the history of the love lyric, at least, reveals a progressive enrichment of human awareness. His original combination of t...

What Drives Third World City Growth?

Kelley, Allen C. / Burley, Nancy

The book shows that earlier studies exaggerated the effects of rural land scarcity, foreign capital inflows, and population growth on Third World urbanization. More critical were imbalances of productivity advance across sectors and terms of trade between primary products and manufactures.Originally...

The Russian Revolution, Volume II

Chamberlin, William Henry

This book is a richly detailed account of the Russian Revolution from the fall of the Tsar in March 1917 to the introduction of the New Economic Policy in March 1921. The author draws on interviews and on other kinds of now unavailable documents to produce a work that remains a unique view of early...

Pass It On

Hadas, Rachel

The poems in Rachel Hadas's new book are united by a common preoccupation with passage--passage variously construed. In Section I, the four seasons are glimpsed in turn through the lenses of several types of personal associations, especially parenthood. As spring gives way to fall and winter, separa...

The Continuous Wave

Aitken, Hugh G.J.

Hugh Aitken describes a critical period in the history of radio, when continuous wave technology first made reliable long-distance wireless communication possible and opened up opportunities for broadcasting voice and music.Originally published in 1985.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest pr...

Political Theory

Brecht, Arnold

In this distinguished work Arnold Brecht, who served under more than a dozen German Chancellors and whose work in defense of democracy received recognition by the Adenauer government in 1953, surveys the philosophical and scientific foundations of political theory in the twentieth century. His wide-...

The Montgolfier Brothers and the Invention of Aviation 1783-1784

Gillispie, Charles Coulston

This vividly illustrated book introduces the reader to the brothers Montgolfier, who launched the first hotair balloon in Annonay, France on 4 June 1783.Originally published in 1983.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-prin...

Penelope's Renown

Katz, Marylin A.

Noted for her contradictory words and actions, Penelope has been a problematic character for critics of the Odyssey, many of whom turn to psychological explanations to account for her behavior. In a fresh approach to the problem, Marylin Katz links Penelope closely with the strategies that govern th...

Allegories of Love

Wilson, Diana de Armas

In the work he considered his masterpiece, Persiles and Sigismunda, Cervantes finally explores the reality of woman--an abstraction largely idealized in his earlier writing. Traditional critics have perpetuated this disembodied ideal woman: "Every Man," claimed the translators of the 1706 Don Quixot...

Walker Evans

Alpers, Svetlana

Social Conventions

Marmor, Andrei

Social conventions are those arbitrary rules and norms governing the countless behaviors all of us engage in every day without necessarily thinking about them, from shaking hands when greeting someone to driving on the right side of the road. In this book, Andrei Marmor offers a pathbreaking and com...