-Titulo Original : The Work Of The Dead: A Cultural History Of Mortal Remains-Fabricante : Princeton University Pres...

-Titulo Original : Design With Climate: Bioclimatic Approach To Architectural Regionalism - New And Expanded Edition-Fabricante : Princeton University Pres...

-Titulo Original : Capitalism Without Capital: The Rise Of The Intangible Economy-Fabricante : Princeton University Pres...

-Titulo Original : The Hero With A Thousand Faces (Bollingen Series, No. 17)-Fabricante : Princeton University Press-Descripcion Original: Originally written by Campbell in the 40s-- in his pre-Bill Moyers days -- and famous as George Lucas inspiration for Star Wars, this book will likewise inspire any writer or reader in its well considered assertion that while all stories have already been told, this is *not* a bad thing, since the *retelling* is still necessary. And while our own lifes journey must always be ended alone, the travel is undertaken in the company not only of immediate loved ones and primal passion, but of the heroes and heroines -- and myth-cycles -- that have preceded us...

-Titulo Original : The Box: How The Shipping Container Made The World Smaller And The World Economy Bigger-Fabricante : Princeton University Press-Descripcion Original: In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in global trade possible. The Box tells the dramatic story of the containers creation, the decade of struggle before it was widely adopted, and the sweeping economic consequences of the sharp fall in transportation costs that containerization brought about. Published on the fiftieth anniversary of the first container voyage, this is the first comprehensive history of the shipping container. It recounts how the drive and imagination of an iconoclastic entrepreneur, Malcom McLean, turned containerization from an impractical idea into a massive industry that slashed the cost of transporting goods around the world and made the boom in global trade possible. But the container didnt just happen. Its adoption required huge sums of money, both from private investors and from ports that aspired to be on the leading edge of a new technology. It required years of high-stakes bargaining with two of the titans of organized labor, Harry Bridges and Teddy Gleason, as well as delicate negotiations on standards that made it possible for almost any container to travel on any truck or train or ship. Ultimately, it took McLeans success in supplying U.S. forces in Vietnam to persuade the world of the containers potential. Drawing on previously neglected sources, economist Marc Levinson shows how the container transformed economic geography, devastating traditional ports such as New York and London and fueling the growth of previously obscure ones, such as Oakland. By making shipping so cheap that industry could locate factories far from its customers, the container paved the way for Asia to become the worlds workshop and brought consumers a previously unimaginable variety of low-cost products from around the globe. Review Winner of the 2007 Anderson Medal, Society for Nautical Research Winner of the 2007 Bronze Medal in Finance/Investment/Economics, Independent Publisher Book Awards Shortlisted for the 2006 Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Honorable Mention for the 2006 John Lyman Book Award, Science and Technology category, North American Society for Ocean History One of Financial Times (FT ) Best Business Books of 2013 (chosen by guest critic Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft) One of the most significant, yet least noticed, economic developments of the last few decades [was] the transformation of international shipping. . . . The idea of containerization was simple: to move trailer-size loads of goods seamlessly among trucks, trains and ships, without breaking bulk. . . . Along the way, even the most foresighted people made mistakes and lost millions. . . . [A] classic tale of trial and error, and of creative destruction. ---Virginia Postrel, The New York Times Marc Levinsons concern is business history on a grand scale. He tells a moral tale. There are villains ... and there is one larger than life hero: Malcom McLean. . . . Levinson has produced a fascinating exposition of the romance of the steel container. Ill never look at a truck in the same way again. ---Howard Davies, The Times Like much of todays international cargo, Marc Levinsons The Box arrives just in time.. . . It is a tribute to the box itself that far-off places matter so much to us now: It has eased trade, sped up delivery, lowered prices and widened the offering of goods everywhere. Not bad for something so simple and self-contained. ---Tim W. Ferguson, The Wall Street Journal [A] smart, engaging book. . . . Mr. Levinson makes a persuasive case that the container has been woefully underappreciated. . . . [T]he story he tells is that of a classic disruptive technology: the world worked in one fashion before the container came onto the scene, and in a completely different fashion after ...

-Titulo Original : A Students Guide To Python For Physical Modeling: Second Edition-Fabricante : Princeton University Press-Descripcion Original: A fully updated tutorial on the basics of the Python programming language for science studentsPython is a computer programming language that has gained popularity throughout the sciences. This fully updated second edition of A Students Guide to Python for Physical Modeling aims to help you, the student, teach yourself enough of the Python programming language to get started with physical modeling. You will learn how to install an open-source Python programming environment and use it to accomplish many common scientific computing tasks: importing, exporting, and visualizing data; numerical analysis; and simulation. No prior programming experience is assumed.This guide introduces a wide range of useful tools, including: Basic Python programming and scripting Numerical arrays Two- and three-dimensional graphics Animation Monte Carlo simulations Numerical methods, including solving ordinary differential equations Image processing Numerous code samples and exercises with solutions illustrate new ideas as they are introduced. This guide also includes supplemental online resources: code samples, data sets, tutorials, and more. This edition includes new material on symbolic calculations with SymPy, an introduction to Python libraries for data science and machine learning (pandas and sklearn), and a primer on Python classes and object-oriented programming. A new appendix also introduces command line tools and version control with Git. Review Praise for the previous editionAt a brief 160 pages, it is quite possible for a motivated student to complete it in just a few sittings. . . . A fine introduction. American Journal of Physics The text serves as an excellent stepping stone into the world of using Python in computational science for undergraduate students with a strong background in mathematics. Kevin Thielen and Vivienne Tien, Computing in Science & Engineering Kinder and Nelsons engaging introduction to scientific programming in Python is careful and thorough, and focuses on actual essentials. Bread-and-butter concepts and techniques, belonging in every computational scientists toolbox, are presented with well-thought-out examples drawn from daily research practice. This is a clever text, inviting students to take that most important step: to dive right in and start coding. Cornelis Storm, Eindhoven University of Technology Kinder and Nelson have written a friendly and succinct, yet surprisingly comprehensive, introduction to scientific programming in Python. Its written not just for computational scientists, but for anyone who needs to plot and analyze experimental data, numerically solve equations, or learn the basics of programming. Even students who have experience in programming will appreciate the thought-provoking exercises and guidelines for getting the most out of Python. Vinothan N. Manoharan, Harvard University This book is tailor-made for physical scientists beginning to do computation. More than in any other programming book Ive read, the authors are conscientious they anticipate and troubleshoot the areas of confusion readers might encounter. Kinder and Nelson carefully and effectively guide readers toward the goal of formulating a computational problem and solving it. Justin Bois, California Institute of Technology Like patient driving instructors, Kinder and Nelson guide the hands of novice programming students from the get-go, helping them to avoid obstacles and crashes. By the end of the book, students should be racing around confidently like pros, using Python to solve scientific problems of data analysis, modeling, and visualization. A great textbook for a first course in modern scientific programming in any context, and one that Ill be using myself. Garnet Kin-Lic Chan, Princeton University This book covers the basics of Python programming language, with an emphasis on physical modeling. It provides a very useful introduction to Python for...

-Titulo Original : Thinking Clearly With Data A Guide To Quantitative Reasoning And Analysis-Fabricante : Princeton University Press-Descripcion Original: An engaging introduction to data science that emphasizes critical thinking over statistical techniquesAn introduction to data science or statistics shouldn’t involve proving complex theorems or memorizing obscure terms and formulas, but that is exactly what most introductory quantitative textbooks emphasize. In contrast, Thinking Clearly with Data focuses, first and foremost, on critical thinking and conceptual understanding in order to teach students how to be better consumers and analysts of the kinds of quantitative information and arguments that they will encounter throughout their lives.Among much else, the book teaches how to assess whether an observed relationship in data reflects a genuine relationship in the world and, if so, whether it is causal; how to make the most informative comparisons for answering questions; what questions to ask others who are making arguments using quantitative evidence; which statistics are particularly informative or misleading; how quantitative evidence should and shouldn’t influence decision-making; and how to make better decisions by using moral values as well as data. Filled with real-world examples, the book shows how its thinking tools apply to problems in a wide variety of subjects, including elections, civil conflict, crime, terrorism, financial crises, health care, sports, music, and space travel.Above all else, Thinking Clearly with Data demonstrates why, despite the many benefits of our data-driven age, data can never be a substitute for thinking. An ideal textbook for introductory quantitative methods courses in data science, statistics, political science, economics, psychology, sociology, public policy, and other fields Introduces the basic toolkit of data analysis including sampling, hypothesis testing, Bayesian inference, regression, experiments, instrumental variables, differences in differences, and regression discontinuity Uses real-world examples and data from a wide variety of subjects Includes practice questions and data exercises Review “A common phrase one hears in public life is that correlations and causality are the same but different. But how are they the same and how exactly do they differ? Thinking Clearly with Data threads a needle between two advanced subjects by clearly laying out a theory of both. This book is destined to become a classic and, if we are lucky, will be on every social scientist’s shelf.” Scott Cunningham, Baylor University “Witty, erudite, and chock-full of memorable and engaging examples, Thinking Clearly with Data brings core statistical ideas to life. The insights it offers are helpful not only to scholars in search of creative research strategies but also to readers who are simply trying to make sensible everyday decisions on topics from parenting to personal finance.” Donald P. Green, Columbia University “By making thinking the primary focus in teaching data analysis, Thinking Clearly with Data fills a big need.” Dustin Tingley, Harvard University “Whether you are a social scientist engaged in research, an attorney pleading a case, or a patient deciding on a medical treatment, you need to read Thinking Clearly with Data. This timely and useful book for making decisions in the data-rich twenty-first century is one that everyone who thinks about evidence should read.” Lynn Vavreck, University of California, Los Angeles “ Thinking Clearly with Data gives readers the necessary tools to be critical consumers of claims that others make based on data, and even to start making credible claims based on data themselves.” Andy Eggers, University of Chicago “Rather than getting bogged down in the math and statistics underlying the methods, Thinking Clearly with Data walks students through the big ideas of what can be learned from data and flags common mistakes even well-trained data analysts make.” Jonathan Davis, University of Oregon “ Thinking Clearly with Data is one of the most accessible and...

-Titulo Original : The Self-assembling Brain How Neural Networks Grow Smarter-Fabricante : Princeton University Press-Descripcion Original: What neurobiology and artificial intelligence tell us about how the brain builds itself How does a neural network become a brain? While neurobiologists investigate how nature accomplishes this feat, computer scientists interested in artificial intelligence strive to achieve this through technology. The Self-Assembling Brain tells the stories of both fields, exploring the historical and modern approaches taken by the scientists pursuing answers to the quandary: What information is necessary to make an intelligent neural network?As Peter Robin Hiesinger argues, “the information problem” underlies both fields, motivating the questions driving forward the frontiers of research. How does genetic information unfold during the years-long process of human brain development and is there a quicker path to creating human-level artificial intelligence? Is the biological brain just messy hardware, which scientists can improve upon by running learning algorithms on computers? Can AI bypass the evolutionary programming of “grown” networks? Through a series of fictional discussions between researchers across disciplines, complemented by in-depth seminars, Hiesinger explores these tightly linked questions, highlighting the challenges facing scientists, their different disciplinary perspectives and approaches, as well as the common ground shared by those interested in the development of biological brains and AI systems. In the end, Hiesinger contends that the information content of biological and artificial neural networks must unfold in an algorithmic process requiring time and energy. There is no genome and no blueprint that depicts the final product. The self-assembling brain knows no shortcuts.Written for readers interested in advances in neuroscience and artificial intelligence, The Self-Assembling Brain looks at how neural networks grow smarter. Review Hiesinger elegantly moves through a variety of topics, ranging from biological development to AI and ending with a discussion of the advances that deep neural networks have brought to the field of brain-machine interfaces. ---Kamila Maria Jo wik, Science Hiesinger suggests that instead of looking at the brain from an endpoint perspective, we should study how information encoded in the genome is transformed to become the brain as we grow. . . . The Self-Assembling Brain is organized as a series of seminar presentations interspersed with discussions between a robotics engineer, a neuroscientist, a geneticist, and an AI researcher. The thought-provoking conversations help to understand the views and the holes of each field on topics related to the mind, the brain, intelligence, and AI. ---Ben Dickson, TechTalks Review The Self-Assembling Brain considers an interesting and timely topic the relationship between what we know about how biological brains develop and the principles by which artificial intelligence networks are designed. Beginning with a fascinating historical debate, this book takes an ambitious look at a big and important area. I learned many things from new and diverse perspectives, which is exactly what I would expect from a book like this. Kevin J. Mitchell, author of Innate Is the structure of the adult human brain a sufficient model for building artificially intelligent neural networks? Absolutely not is the message of The Self-Assembling Brain. Developmental processes are shown to be central to learning, both in the growth of the brain and continuing through in adult intelligence. This book could be a game changer. Mark Lee, author of How to Grow a Robot This delightful book explores the underappreciated importance of algorithmic growth in understanding how biological systems develop and brains assemble. A significant contribution, The Self-Assembling Brain will interest readers in systems neuroscience, developmental neuroscience, and other areas of developmental biology, as well as computer scientists with an...

-Titulo Original : Rescuing Socrates How The Great Books Changed My Life And Why They Matter For A New Generation-Fabricante : Princeton University Press-Descripcion Original: Review Rescuing Socrates is a warm, appealing narrative of how it feels to be ‘thrust into a conversation’ with fellow students about life’s most ‘serious and unsettling questions.’---Martha Bayles, Wall Street Journal[A] combination memoir and call to arms. . . . Despite those who claim that these are merely works by dead, possibly irrelevant white men, Montas argues that the Great Books approach has a fundamentally democratizing impulse.---John McWhorter, New York TimesThanks to Montas . . . Socrates had a good 2021.---George F. Will, Washington Post[An] earnest defense of the humanities, which is also a personal testament to the power of a liberal education.---Thomas Chatterton Williams, The AtlanticOne can only hope that Rescuing Socrates rescues others as well.---Naomi Schaefer Riley, CommentaryThat’s why the perspective of Roosevelt Montas, author of Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation, is so badly needed. . . . In this part memoir, part call to action, Montas argues that reading great literature and philosophy can make working-class people’s lives more meaningful and that everyone should have the opportunity to read great books.---Liza Featherstone, JacobinMontas. . . weaves a compelling personal narrative together with a forceful argument that reading classic texts, even those originating in predominantly white, Eurocentric cultures, is an important opportunity for underserved students of color to transform themselves and transform the inequitable social structures within which they are embedded---Brian Rosenberg, Chronicle of Higher Education[An] insightful work. . . . Few colleges and universities still require study of Great Books as part of their curricula, but Montas makes a compelling case for the life-changing results of such pedagogy; he notes how, as an emigre from the Dominican Republic, he benefited from the breadth and depth of these approaches. Library JournalBy taking us through his reading and rereading of books over the course of a life, Montas can articulate what is rarely articulated well about great books education.---Jonathan Marks, Washington ExaminerA heartbreakingly honest immigrant tale of displacement, loss, wrenching readjustment and self-discovery, this book also offers a gripping account of how participation in the great conversation over justice, ethics, citizenship and the nature of the good life can subvert hierarchies of privilege, redeem lost souls, open minds and transform lives.---Steve Mintz, Inside Higher EdRescuing Socrates, Roosevelt Montas’s memoir-cum-paean to the classics, is a timely and much-needed book. . . . If administrators and education advocates take the message of Rescuing Socrates to heart, then our students, our schools, and our nation might yet see a brighter future.---Matthew Levey, City JournalMontas convincingly makes the argument that the classics enrich any life pursuit. By doing so, his story should appeal to anyone who cares about education. There is something here to illuminate and inspire.---Nathaniel Grossman, Fordham Institute[An] important book.---Matthew Bianco, Circe Institute A Dominican-born academic tells the story of how the Great Books transformed his life and why they have the power to speak to people of all backgroundsWhat is the value of a liberal education? Traditionally characterized by a rigorous engagement with the classics of Western thought and literature, this approach to education is all but extinct in American universities, replaced by flexible distribution requirements and ever-narrower academic specialization. Many academics attack the very idea of a Western canon as chauvinistic, while the general public increasingly doubts the value of the humanities. In Rescuing Socrates, Dominican-born American academic Roosevelt Montas tells the story of how a liberal education transformed his life, and offers an intimate a...

-Titulo Original : Hate In The Homeland: The New Global Far Right-Fabricante : Princeton University Press-Descripcion Original: Review In her disturbing book Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right, Professor Cynthia Miller-Idriss argues convincingly that “innovative, flexible and youth-driven ideas” are vital in the battle to counter the online transnational recruiting of fascist zealots.---Martin Chilton, The IndependentA timely book that calls for vigilance against extremism in hitherto unexpected corners, online and off. Kirkus ReviewsThis is an incredible book . . . that I found impossible to put down. Miller-Idriss has put it together here; the actors, the methods, and the history. Jason Stanley on TwitterIn Hate in the Homeland Cynthia Miller-Idriss describes how ideas once limited to extremist circles, such as that of a demographic replacement whereby American citizens will be overrun are now promoted by mainstream figures such as Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham of Fox News. The EconomistMiller-Idriss explains [how] the market for hate is thriving.---Eric Spitznagel, New York PostHate in the Homeland locates the issue within a broader analytic context and opens avenues for scholars to develop more fulsome conceptualizations of radicalization and recruitment into far-right extremist ideologies.---Kelsey C. Boismier, Symbolic InteractionsHate in the Homeland is an important contribution to our understandings of the places and spaces in which young people encounter extremist messages. The author does an excellent job of guiding readers through what can be a tricky epistemological terrain, providing a comprehensive, accessible and thoughtful overview of what the far right is, what they believe and the places and spaces they inhabit. The book will undoubtedly prove very useful to scholars working in the field as well as readers unfamiliar with the topic.---Katherine Williams, London School of Economics Review of BooksHate in the Homeland is the best account I have read so far on how extensive the mainstreaming of the far right is.---Katrine Fangen, Norsk sosiologisk tidsskrift A startling look at the unexpected places where violent hate groups recruit young peopleHate crimes. Misinformation and conspiracy theories. Foiled white-supremacist plots. The signs of growing far-right extremism are all around us, and communities across America and around the globe are struggling to understand how so many people are being radicalized and why they are increasingly attracted to violent movements. Hate in the Homeland shows how tomorrows far-right nationalists are being recruited in surprising places, from college campuses and mixed martial arts gyms to clothing stores, online gaming chat rooms, and YouTube cooking channels.Instead of focusing on the how and why of far-right radicalization, Cynthia Miller-Idriss seeks answers in the physical and virtual spaces where hate is cultivated. Where does the far right do its recruiting? When do young people encounter extremist messaging in their everyday lives? Miller-Idriss shows how far-right groups are swelling their ranks and developing their cultural, intellectual, and financial capacities in a variety of mainstream settings. She demonstrates how young people on the margins of our communities are targeted in these settings, and how the path to radicalization is a nuanced process of moving in and out of far-right scenes throughout adolescence and adulthood.Hate in the Homeland is essential for understanding the tactics and underlying ideas of modern far-right extremism. This eye-opening book takes readers into the mainstream places and spaces where todays far right is engaging and ensnaring young people, and reveals innovative strategies we can use to combat extremist radicalization. Review From a foremost expert in the field, Hate in the Homeland is the most sweeping and persuasive account yet of the worldwide threat to democracy posed by the resurgent white power movement and other far-right activists. In examining the spaces and pr...

-Titulo Original : The War On The Uyghurs: Chinas Internal Campaign Against A Muslim Minority (Princeton Studies In Muslim Politics, 78)-Fabricante : Princeton University Press-Descripcion Original: How China is using the US-led war on terror to erase the cultural identity of its Muslim minority in the Xinjiang regionWithin weeks of the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, the Chinese government warned that it faced a serious terrorist threat from its Uyghur ethnic minority, who are largely Muslim. In this explosive book, Sean Roberts reveals how China has been using the US-led global war on terror as international cover for its increasingly brutal suppression of the Uyghurs, and how the wars targeting of an undefined enemy has emboldened states around the globe to persecute ethnic minorities and severely repress domestic opposition in the name of combatting terrorism.Of the eleven million Uyghurs living in China today, more than one million are now being held in so-called reeducation camps, victims of what has become the largest program of mass detention and surveillance in the world. Roberts describes how the Chinese government successfully implicated the Uyghurs in the global terror war despite a complete lack of evidence and branded them as a dangerous terrorist threat with links to al-Qaeda. He argues that the reframing of Uyghur domestic dissent as international terrorism provided justification and inspiration for a systematic campaign to erase Uyghur identity, and that a nominal Uyghur militant threat only emerged after more than a decade of Chinese suppression in the name of counterterrorism which has served to justify further state repression.A gripping and moving account of the humanitarian catastrophe that China does not want you to know about, The War on the Uyghurs draws on Robertss own in-depth interviews with the Uyghurs, enabling their voices to be heard. Review Timely and important. The Times Literary Supplement Harsh Chinese policies have provoked some reactive violence from Uighurs and have driven what is estimated to be tens of thousands of them to join jihadis in Syria. Roberts provides fascinating new details on that relatively marginal phenomenon, revealing that organized Uighur militancy is almost entirely illusory. Beijing’s policy of repressive assimilation has now reached such an intense stage that Roberts labels it cultural genocide. Foreign Affairs Review This is the backstory behind one of the biggest stories in China the incarceration of more than one million Uyghurs in a dystopian network of what are claimed to be reeducation camps. Who the Uyghurs are and how they came to be classified as terrorists is a story authoritatively told by Sean Roberts, who has spent three decades studying the Uyghurs and speaks the language. The publication of The War on the Uyghurs could not be more timely. Barbara Demick, former Beijing bureau chief, Los Angeles Times, author of Nothing to Envy Sean Roberts has done an immense service for all those who need to put headlines about Chinese repression of Uyghurs in recent years in proper context. Describing how the rhetoric and practices of global war on terror since 2001 have led to the mass internment, persecution, and surveillance of the population, Roberts shows that the Chinese campaign has chillingly aimed at nothing less than the destruction of Uyghur identity. This account is masterful, and educational and enraging by turns. Samuel Moyn, author of Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World This book should act as a wake-up call for policymakers worldwide. Armed with the piercing and detailed analysis of the recent past in East Turkistan, and the graphic accounts of the present, no one has any further excuse for failing to grasp the full reality of the human tragedy that is taking place. Roberts demystifies the background, debunks the false excuses of the Chinese state, and presents the reality of the persecution unfolding before our eyes. None of us can afford to look away. Ben Emmerson, QC, former United Nations special rapporteur on counter-terrorism Sophistica...

-Titulo Original : The Fire Is Upon Us James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., And The Debate Over Race In America-Fabricante : Princeton University Press-Descripcion Original: Review Winner of the Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Nonfiction, Oregon Book AwardsShortlisted for the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, Phi Beta Kappa SocietyShortlisted for the MAAH Stone Book Award, Museum of African American HistoryOne of Whoopi Goldbergs Favorite Things, ABC The ViewNew York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceChicago Tribune writer John Warners Book That Will Help You Better Understand the Messed-Up Nature of the WorldOne of The Undefeateds 25 Cant Miss Books of 2019One of The Progressives Favorite Books of 2019One of LitHubs 50 Favorite Books of the YearOne of Inside Higher Eds Books to Give the Educator in Your Life for the HolidaysA great read.---Whoopi Goldberg, The ViewA gripping snapshot of a country riven by injustice yet anxious about radical change. New York Times Book ReviewBoth a dual biography of Buckley and Baldwin and an acute commentary on a great intellectual prizefight. . . . [Nicholas Buccola] deftly guides the reader through the rhetorical and philosophical moves of Baldwin’s speech. . . . The Fire Is Upon Us becomes revelatory in its interpretation of Buckley’s performance. . . . It is tempting to view the Baldwin-Buckley debate as a small victory for the idea of racial equality: Baldwin carried the floor vote 544 to 164. But part of the wisdom of The Fire Is Upon Us is that it leaves the import of the evening open to question.---Thomas Meaney, New York Times Book ReviewRigorous and even-handed. . . . [T]houghtful and generous. . . . The contemporary reader is likely to experience surprise at some of Buckley’s opinions, and to delight at reminders of Baldwin in his heyday.---James Campbell, Wall Street JournalThe Fire Is Upon Us is written for readers on both the left and the right, its prose wonderfully accessible . . . [and it]holds a mirror up to the strident political and racial divisions of the U.S. in 2019. The language may be a little different today from what Baldwin and Buckley used, but the sharp terms of the debate over whether people of color in the United States get to have the American dream remains the same then as now.---Gabrielle Bellot, The AtlanticScintillating.---Robert Tsai, Boston ReviewYou can watch James Baldwin’s historic 1965 debate at the Cambridge Union with William F. Buckley Jr. on YouTube. … Buccola’s book reveals the story behind it. The two men were born just 15 months apart, yet grew up in separate Americas. Buccola provides an exegesis of the lives of both men, and an evaluation of a century-defining debate. The fault lines between Buckley and Baldwin are just as relevant as ever.---Soraya Nadia McDonald, The UndefeatedBaldwin won the debate hands down, but the event itself is mere scaffolding for the more ambitious and interesting book Buccola achieves: a genealogy of how white supremacy­­ and attempts to slay it have stayed at the center of American politics for more than half a century, up to and including our Trumpian present.---Bill V. Mullen, Los Angeles Review of BooksThe Fire Is Upon Us makes a compelling case for why Baldwin and Buckley were who they were and, in doing so, serves as a good starting point for understanding the nature of the present partisan divide.---Aaron Robertson, LitHubNicholas Buccolas The Fire Is upon Us is a riveting, expansive companion text to a historic debate that swept the nation. . . . Following the mens journeys with meticulous detail, Buccolas biographical/historical/political hybrid proffers valuable insights for the current day. Foreword ReviewsA study of two acclaimed American thinkers on opposite sides of the political spectrum that underscores the enormous race and class divisions in 1960s America, many of which still exist today. . . . An elucidating work that makes effective use of comparison and contrast. Kirkus ReviewsThe Fire Is Upon Us . . . sets the context for the epic confrontation, illuminating two vastly different visions of race...

-Titulo Original : Sick Souls, Healthy Minds How William James Can Save Your Life-Fabricante : Princeton University Press-Descripcion Original: Review Finalist for the PROSE Award in Philosophy, Association of American PublishersOne of Next Big Idea Clubs Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of Spring[William] James would have liked this book. [John] Kaag ties James’s ideas directly to the challenges and puzzles of his own life and his readers’ lives. . . . James’s ideas have rippled through the past century more powerfully than those of any other American thinker. Kaag’s little book reminds us why.---James T. Kloppenberg, Washington PostThis short book is an excellent introduction to William James and his philosophy.---John Banville, Literary ReviewCharacteristically elegant. . . . [Kaag] questioned the meaning of life. William James answered.---John Williams, New York Times Book ReviewPithy and exacting. . . . Kaag, who by his own admission is ‘not always entirely sold on life’s value,’ writes with the fervor of on determined to hear life’s higher notes. . . . in these anxiety-inducing times, it may be worth testing the buoyancy of James’s existential life preserver.---Heller McAlpin, Wall Street JournalEarnest, accessible. . . . As [John] Kaag traces [William] James’s intellectual path away from determinism and depression, he both clarifies thorny academic questions and offers dashes of self-help, showing how today’s anxious souls might apply James’s principles and learn how to be not afraid of life. New YorkerKaag writes movingly. . . . This is a tough, honest book that offers no easy answers. . . . Kaag acknowledges that our passage through life is fraught with risks, but those risks always include the chance of happiness.---Ron Charles, Washington Post Book Club[A] lucid and absorbing book.---Andrew Stark, Times Literary SupplementKaags reading of James is as elucidating as readers have come to expect from him. Once again, he writes in a clear, focused, and winningly self-aware style that makes friends of James and himself for anyone who wonders if life is worth living. A book in which Kaag further carves out his niche in philosophy: personal, practical, and crucial. Kirkus Reviews From the celebrated author of American Philosophy: A Love Story and Hiking with Nietzsche, a compelling introduction to the life-affirming philosophy of William JamesIn 1895, William James, the father of American philosophy, delivered a lecture entitled Is Life Worth Living? It was no theoretical question for James, who had contemplated suicide during an existential crisis as a young man a quarter century earlier. Indeed, as John Kaag writes, Jamess entire philosophy, from beginning to end, was geared to save a life, his life and thats why it just might be able to save yours, too. Sick Souls, Healthy Minds is a compelling introduction to Jamess life and thought that shows why the founder of pragmatism and empirical psychology and an inspiration for Alcoholics Anonymous can still speak so directly and profoundly to anyone struggling to make a life worth living.Kaag tells how Jamess experiences as one of what he called the sick-souled, those who think that life might be meaningless, drove him to articulate an ideal of healthy-mindedness an attitude toward life that is open, active, and hopeful, but also realistic about its risks. In fact, all of Jamess pragmatism, resting on the idea that truth should be judged by its practical consequences for our lives, is a response to, and possible antidote for, crises of meaning that threaten to undo many of us at one time or another. Along the way, Kaag also movingly describes how his own life has been endlessly enriched by James.Eloquent, inspiring, and filled with insight, Sick Souls, Healthy Minds may be the smartest and most important self-help book youll ever read. Review Not since Robert Pirsigs Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance have I read such a mesmerizing confluence of personal experience and formal thought as John Kaags American Philosophy:...

-Titulo Original : Sick Souls, Healthy Minds How William James Can Save Your Life-Fabricante : Princeton University Press-Descripcion Original: Review Characteristically elegant. John Williams, New York Times Book Review“James would have liked this book. . . . James’s ideas have rippled through the past century more powerfully than those of any other American thinker. Kaag’s little book reminds us why.” James T. Kloppenberg, Washington Post“An excellent introduction to William James and his philosophy.” John Banville, Literary ReviewPithy and exacting.” Heller McAlpin, Wall Street Journal“[A] lucid and absorbing book.” Andrew Stark, Times Literary Supplement From the author of American Philosophy: A Love Story, a compelling introduction to the life-affirming philosophy of William JamesIn 1895, William James, the father of American philosophy, delivered a lecture entitled “Is Life Worth Living?” It was no theoretical question for James, who had contemplated suicide during an existential crisis as a young man a quarter century earlier. Indeed, as John Kaag writes, “James’s entire philosophy, from beginning to end, was geared to save a life, his life” and that’s why it just might be able to save yours, too. Sick Souls, Healthy Minds is an absorbing introduction to James’s life and thought that shows why the founder of pragmatism and empirical psychology can still speak so directly and profoundly to anyone struggling to make a life worth living. Review Finalist for the PROSE Award in Philosophy, Association of American PublishersOne of Next Big Idea Clubs Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of Spring About the Author John Kaag, the author of American Philosophy: A Love Story and Hiking with Nietzsche, is professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Twitter @JohnKaa...

-Titulo Original : Walden 150th Anniversary Edition (writings Of Henry D. Thoreau, 26)-Fabricante : Princeton University Press-Descripcion Original: Review Walden is a self-help book, perhaps the ultimate self-help book, urging us to show up for our own lives, to have the courage to find our own convictions and to try to live them out. . . . [Thoreau is] a writer of immense humanity, vitality and humor. . . . One hundred fifty years after its publication, Walden also remains a practical, usable manual on how to lead a good, and just life. . . . At its core, Walden is about the project of personal freedom, self-emancipation, which is where all pursuits of freedom must start.---Robert D. Richardson, Smithsonian MagazineEach [volume] is preceded by a substantive, lively and idiosyncratic essay. . . . Together, the essays are a mini-course in Thoreau and the trends he launched in American thought.---Nancy Szokan, Washington Post Book World One of the most influential and compelling books in American literature, Walden is a vivid account of the years that Henry D. Thoreau spent alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond. This edition--introduced by noted American writer John Updike--celebrates the perennial importance of a classic work, originally published in 1854. Much of Waldens material is derived from Thoreaus journals and contains such engaging pieces from the lively Where I Lived, and What I Lived For and Brute Neighbors to the serene Reading and The Pond in the Winter. Other famous sections involve Thoreaus visits with a Canadian woodcutter and with an Irish family, a trip to Concord, and a description of his bean field. This is the complete and authoritative text of Walden--as close to Thoreaus original intention as all available evidence allows. This is the authoritative text of Walden and the ideal presentation of Thoreaus great document of social criticism and dissent. About the Author Henry D. Thoreau(1817-62) was an American author, naturalist, poet, and philosopher. He wrote many essays and books, including Civil Disobedience, Walking, and The Maine Woods, among others. John Updike (1932-2009) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, short story writer, and poet...

-Titulo Original : Honeybee Democracy-Fabricante : Princeton University Press-Descripcion Original: Review One of Financial Times (FT )s Books of the Year in Nonfiction Round-Up in the Science & Environment list for 2010Dr. Seeley is an engaging guide. His enthusiasm and admiration for honeybees is infectious. His accumulated research seems truly masterly, doing for bees what E.O. Wilson did for ants.---Katherine Bouton, New York TimesAlthough the details are complicated, Seeleys explanations are remarkably clear. The text is abundantly illustrated with figures that are cleverly simplified in comparison to how they might appear in scientific journals. For readers who may be less passionate about the particulars of honeybee life, Seeley also reveals parallels between the way swarms make decisions and how the human brain sorts through conflicting neuron signals to reach decisions. He also provides a few pointers on how rules of honeybee democracy may be applied to decision-making in human groups, with minimal dependence on a leader, vigorous competition among a diversity of viewpoints, and a method for determining a majority-based resolution.---May Berenbaum, Times Literary SupplementSeeleys work--extended over years and summarized clearly and engagingly here--is a model of biological research that builds bridges to the social sciences, and to the practical arts of institutional design for humans.---Adrian Vermeule, New Republics The Book[S]plendid.---John Whitfield, Nature[E]ngaging and fascinating. . . . Seeley writes with infectious enthusiasm. . . . Honeybee Democracy offers wonderful testament to his career of careful investigation of a remarkable natural phenomenon. The breadth and depth of the studies reported in it should inspire all students of animal behavior. ScienceTo illustrate bee decision making, Seeley details how swarms choose a new home. Seeley presents his material with charm, and the bees system of house-hunting becomes surprising and awe-inspiring. Science NewsIn Honeybee Democracy, Seeley carefully narrates his many seasons of experiments using plywood next boxes that could be moved and modified at will. He discovered what bees like in a home, how scouts measure the dark interiors of these boxes and most of all, how the swarm votes to decide which nest to occupy. . . . Honeybee Democracy is a brilliant display of science at work, with each experiment explained and illustrated. New Scientist[I]t is a book well worth studying. Within its pages we find out about an important aspect of the life of the honeybee (with some practical implications for beekeepers), how researchers work both in the field and in the laboratory, the objective way in which the experiments are carried out but, most of all, how in the seeking of a new home bees provide us with a model of true democratic behaviour which any group could use to its advantage. Indeed, the last chapter alone, Swarm Starts would make an excellent minibook for anyone who is involved in decision making no matter what position they hold. Beekeepers QuarterlyRather than presenting a dry review of his findings, Seeley intertwines them with his thought processes, anecdotes and generous appraisals of students and fellow scientists. His skill in writing a book with so much science in such simple language is admirable. Even a non-beekeeper can understand what he is trying to convey. The photographs are beautiful and the illustrations elegant.---Zachary Huang, Times Higher EducationThe years most enchanting science book. Financial TimesHoneybee Democracy, by Thomas D. Seeley, will teach you everything you ever wanted to know about one of the worlds most beneficial insects. . . . Seeley, a biologist and beekeeper, presents his excellent understanding of what makes the bees society work for the survival of the species. Washington PostHis argument is seductive. . . . [R]eading Honeybee Democracy is a delightful way to spend an evening. National Post[O]ne cannot help but be inspired by the beauty of Seeleys hyp...

-Titulo Original : The Tyranny Of Metrics-Fabricante : Princeton University Press-Descripcion Original: Review Muller delivers a riposte to bean counters everywhere with this trenchant study of our fixation with performance metrics.--Barbara Kiser, Nature Highly readable.--Luke Johnson, Sunday TimesMany of us have the vague sense that metrics are leading us astray, stripping away context, devaluing subtle human judgment, and rewarding those who know how to play the system. Mullers book crisply explains where this fashion came from, why it can be so counterproductive and why we dont learn. It should be required reading for any manager on the verge of making the Vietnam body count mistake all over again.--Tim Harford, Financial TimesMercilessly exposes the downside of the cult of measurement and managerialism.--The Economist How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens business, medicine, education, government and the quality of our livesToday, organizations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that the path to success is quantifying human performance, publicizing the results, and dividing up the rewards based on the numbers. But in our zeal to instill the evaluation process with scientific rigor, weve gone from measuring performance to fixating on measuring itself and this tyranny of metrics now threatens the quality of our organizations and lives. In this brief, accessible, and powerful book, Jerry Muller uncovers the damage metrics are causing and shows how we can begin to fix the problem. Filled with examples from business, medicine, education, government, and other fields, the book explains why paying for measured performance doesnt work, why surgical scorecards may increase deaths, and much more. But Muller also shows that, when used as a complement to judgment based on personal experience, metrics can be beneficial, and he includes an invaluable checklist of when and how to use them. The result is an essential corrective to a harmful trend that increasingly affects us all. Review “Mercilessly exposes the downside of the cult of measurement and managerialism.” The Economist“Muller delivers a riposte to bean counters everywhere with this trenchant study of our fixation with performance metrics.” Barbara Kiser, Nature “Highly readable.” Luke Johnson, Sunday Times“Many of us have the vague sense that metrics are leading us astray, stripping away context, devaluing subtle human judgment, and rewarding those who know how to play the system. Muller’s book crisply explains where this fashion came from, why it can be so counterproductive and why we don’t learn. It should be required reading for any manager on the verge of making the Vietnam body count mistake all over again.” Tim Harford, Financial Times From the Back Cover In this clear and compelling book, Jerry Muller shows how our attempts to improve organizational outcomes through quantitative measures have metastasized into a culture of gaming and manipulation. Through carefully researched case studies on education, healthcare, and compensation, The Tyranny of Metrics makes a convincing case that we need to restore judgment and ethical considerations at a time when shallow quantification threatens the integrity of our most important institutions.--Rakesh Khurana, Harvard Business School Have you ever wondered why universities make the mistake of hiring presidents with little or no experience in higher education, or why, nine times out of ten, these foreign imports fail? Then read Jerry Mullers new book and you will understand such folly as one more instance of an unhappy, massive trend--abandoning the situated judgment of experienced professionals in favor of the supposedly objective judgment promised (but not delivered) by the magic bullet of metrics: standardized measures and huge data banks touted as generating insight and wisdom all by themselves. Muller dismantles this myth in a brisk and no-nonsense prose that has this reader crying yes, yes at every sentence.--Stanley Fish, aut...

-Titulo Original : The Mushroom At The End Of The World On The Possibility Of Life In Capitalist Ruins-Fabricante : Princeton University Press-Descripcion Original: Review Winner of the 2016 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, Society for Humanistic AnthropologyWinner of the 2016 Gregory Bateson Prize, The Society for Cultural AnthropologyFinalist for the 2016 Northern California Book Awards in General Nonfiction, Northern California Book ReviewersOne of Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2015 in Business and EconomicsOne of Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2015 in ScienceOne of Flavorwire’s 10 Best Books by Academic Publishers in 2015One of Times Higher Education’s Best Books of 2015Highly original. . . . This book brilliantly turns the commerce and ecology of this most rare mushroom into a modern parable of post-industrial survival and environmental renewal.---Peter D Smith, The GuardianThere’s a double meaning to Tsing’s title. The mushroom is at the end of the known world because it’s hard to find, a secret tucked deep in the forest. But she’s also hinting at the end of the world as we know it, given our instinct for extracting as much from the earth as we can. Humanity has never seemed so finely calibrated and rationalized: the seamless journey of a very expensive mushroom from nature to a dinner plate tells this story.---Hua Hsu, New YorkerEvolves into a well-researched and thought-provoking meditation on capitalism, resilience, and survival.---E. Ce Miller, Bustle This was a year of many of books about the Anthropocene--the name now frequently invoked to describe an era of incalculable human impact on geological and ecological conditions. Few of these books are as focused and useful as Tsings, which follows the supply chain of the Matsutake, the most valuable mushroom in the world, through ‘Japanese gourmets, capitalist traders, Hmong jungle fighters, industrial forests, Yi Chinese goat herders, Finnish nature guides, and more. How else to negotiate the conditions--if there are any--for our survival?---Jonathan Sturgeon, FlavorwireA fascinating account of the biology, ecology, genetics and anthropology of the worlds most valued mushroom.---Louise O. Fresco, Times Higher EducationA poetic and remarkably fertile exploration of the relationship between human beings and the natural environment, and what can still be done to stem its rapid deterioration.---Pankaj Mishra, The GuardianA beautiful, humble book. . . . [A]nthropology at its best.---Darwin Bond Graham, East Bay Express[Tsing] writes clearheaded prose with an ear for lyrical phrases. . . . [The Mushroom at the End of the World] is a wonderful meditation on how humans shape and distort the natural landscape, and in return, are shaped and distorted by a wildness of their own making.---Casey Sanchez, Santa Fe New MexicanTsings extraordinary book provides an intimate account of the ecology of the matsutake and the work of the pickers, entrepreneurs and gourmets who bring it into the global economy. As such, The Mushroom at the End of the World is about much more than mushrooms. This is a book, perhaps above all, about the experience of living in precarious times and about life at the edges or in the cracks of the world system of capitalism. . . . A remarkable and elegantly conceived book that well rewards close attention.---John Miller, Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism[An] extraordinary book.---Jim Igoe, American AnthropologistThe publisher can really be congratulated. Rarely can one immerse oneself into an academic work with informative and sensuous pictures and figures that set a pace and allow the reader to explore the senses of smelling, grabbing, searching and walking. Tsings book is not a conclusive analysis of post-capitalist processes but an outline for living sensuously, creatively and freely with each other.---Jenni Molkaken, Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological SocietyThe anthropologist Anna Tsing joins a range of scholars exploring the ongoing devastation of our environment and undoing the old binary of ‘nature and ‘soc...

-Titulo Original : Mostly Harmless Econometrics An Empiricists Companion-Fabricante : Princeton University Press-Descripcion Original: Review Winner of the 2018 (Second) Eugene Fama Prize for Outstanding Contributions to Doctoral Education, University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessA quirky and thought-provoking read for any budding econometrician. . . . Insightful and refreshing.---James Davidson, Times Higher EducationId recommend it to the entire range of empirical economists, from those still in training to those who, like me, have only a hazy memory of statistical theory and stick to our tried and tested methods of estimation. . . . An excellent guide to how to do basic regression/IV/panel data estimation really well. In particular, it demonstrates through many examples how to bring about a happy marriage between ones underlying model and the data which might or might not confirm the researchers hypotheses.---Diane Coyle, Enlightened EconomistThe applied econometric methods emphasized in this book are easy to use and relevant for many areas of contemporary social sciences.---Pavel Stoynov, Zentralblatt MATHThe matter covered in the book is surely of interest to most agricultural economists. Even if it is not a complete overview of existing econometric research methods, it certainly contains a good deal of hands on advice driven by years of experience. European Review of Agricultural EconomicsThis book is an extremely thought-provoking contribution to the literature. It champions a different paradigm to that characterising most econometrics texts and does so with considerable (idiosyncratic) style and grace. Highly recommended!---David Harris and Christopher L. Skeels, Economic Record From Joshua Angrist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, and Jorn-Steffen Pischke, an irreverent guide to the essentials of econometricsThe core methods in todays econometric toolkit are linear regression for statistical control, instrumental variables methods for the analysis of natural experiments, and differences-in-differences methods that exploit policy changes. In the modern experimentalist paradigm, these techniques address clear causal questions such as: Do smaller classes increase learning? Should wife batterers be arrested? How much does education raise wages? Mostly Harmless Econometrics shows how the basic tools of applied econometrics allow the data to speak.In addition to econometric essentials, Mostly Harmless Econometrics covers important new extensions regression-discontinuity designs and quantile regression as well as how to get standard errors right. Joshua Angrist and Jorn-Steffen Pischke explain why fancier econometric techniques are typically unnecessary and even dangerous. The applied econometric methods emphasized in this book are easy to use and relevant for many areas of contemporary social science.An irreverent review of econometric essentialsA focus on tools that applied researchers use mostChapters on regression-discontinuity designs, quantile regression, and standard errorsMany empirical examplesA clear and concise resource with wide applications Review This pathbreaking book is a must-read for any scientist who is interested in formulating and testing hypotheses about the social world. This includes political scientists, sociologists, historians, geographers, and anthropologists. The book is clever and funny, and guides you through the tangle of problems that confront empirical research in social science. I wish I had had it years ago. James Robinson, Harvard UniversityWhat a fascinating and useful book! The application of econometrics in empirical research is as much art as science. What is most distinctive about Mostly Harmless Econometrics relative to other graduate-level econometrics books (besides the colorful prose style!) is that because the authors are longtime practitioners of applied microeconometrics, they speak often and insightfully about the art. I expect its a great thing to work in the same department with Angrist or Pischke and to be able to ask their a...

-Titulo Original : The Great Leveler Violence And The History Of Inequality From The Stone Age To The Twenty-first Century (the Princeton Economic History Of The Western World, 114)-Fabricante : Princeton University Press-Descripcion Original: Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that it never dies peacefully. The Great Leveler is the first book to chart the crucial role of violent shocks in reducing inequality over the full sweep of human history around the world. The “Four Horsemen” of leveling mass-mobilization warfare, transformative revolutions, state collapse, and catastrophic plagues have repeatedly destroyed the fortunes of the rich. Today, the violence that reduced inequality in the past seems to have diminished, and that is a good thing. But it casts serious doubt on the prospects for a more equal future. An essential contribution to the debate about inequality, The Great Leveler provides important new insights about why inequality is so persistent and why it is unlikely to decline anytime soon. Review Shortlisted for the 2017 Cundill History Prize, McGill UniversityShortlisted for the 2017 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Awardstrategybusiness Best Business Book of 2017 in EconomicsOne of The New York Times Deal Book “Business Books Worth Reading” 2017 (chosen by Andrew Sorkin)One of The Wall Street Journal’s What Business Leaders Read in 2017Selected for The HCSS Bookshelf (chosen by Stephan De Spiegeleire) 2017One of BBC History Magazine’s Books of the Year 2017One of the Microsoft Best Business Books of 2017One of Project Syndicate’s Best Reads in 2017 (chosen by Dambisa Moyo)One of the Economist “2017 Books of the Year” in Economics and BusinessOne of Financial Times (FT ) Best Books of 2017: Economics, chosen by Martin WolfOne of The Wall Street Journal’s What Business Leaders Read in 2017, chosen by Mohamed A. El-ErianOne of the CNBC 13 Best Business Books of 2017One of World’s 2017 Books of the Year in “Understanding the World”Medium ’s Books of the Year 2017, chosen by Mark Koyama Review “A superb book.” Steven Pinker, Times Literary Supplement“Walter Scheidel’s The Great Leveler is a smartly argued book…. For anybody who has ever debated issues related to inequality and their broader meaning, this book provides more than just a powerful thought experiment.” Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times“Mr Scheidel’s evidence is so persuasive that readers will find themselves cheering on the Black Death as a boost to median wages.” Janan Ganesh, Financial Times“Sweeping and provocative.” New Yorker“A readable and quirky history of economic inequality from the great apes to the modern day…. It is well worth the read. It is, in a word, gripping.” Victoria Bateman, Times Higher Education“The Great Leveler should set off loud alarm bells…. The range of evidence is breathtaking.” Timur Kuran, Foreign Affairs From the Back Cover If you think youve heard it all about economic inequality, think again. Walter Scheidels analysis of what really reduces inequality is provocative, but he makes the case with reason, evidence, and style.--Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has DeclinedBrilliant, erudite, and chock-full of historical detail, The Great Leveler has a powerful message and asks a big question for the twenty-first century: Can we find a cure for inequality that isnt worse than the disease?--Branko Milanovic, author of Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of GlobalizationThis is the best book on the history of income inequality. And the central message is that most significant reductions in inequality come through violence and destruction. Have a nice day!--Tyler Cowen, author of The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American DreamThis brilliant and thoroughly researched book solves a major paradox in the study of historical inequality. If we accept Thomas Pikett...

-Titulo Original : Narrative Economics How Stories Go Viral And Drive Major Economic Events-Fabricante : Princeton University Press-Descripcion Original: Review “A magisterial account.” Steve Denning, Forbes“Excellent.” Gillian Tett, Financial Times“An eloquent and accessible exposition of a seductive idea.” Tim Jackson, Nature“Shiller’s thorough discussion and many examples are certainly convincing as to the importance of narratives in individual economic decision-making and aggregate economic phenomena.” Sonia Jaffe, Science“A wonderfully enjoyable ride. . . . Shiller’s book is filled with bite-size nuggets . . . that are easily digested and provide illuminating parallels between the virality of diseases and fads and bubbles in asset prices.” Mihir Desai, Times Higher Education From Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller, a groundbreaking account of how stories help drive economic events and why financial panics can spread like epidemic virusesStories people tell about financial confidence or panic, housing booms, or Bitcoin can go viral and powerfully affect economies, but such narratives have traditionally been ignored in economics and finance because they seem anecdotal and unscientific. In this groundbreaking book, Robert Shiller explains why we ignore these stories at our peril and how we can begin to take them seriously. Using a rich array of examples and data, Shiller argues that studying popular stories that influence individual and collective economic behavior what he calls narrative economics may vastly improve our ability to predict, prepare for, and lessen the damage of financial crises and other major economic events. The result is nothing less than a new way to think about the economy, economic change, and economics. In a new preface, Shiller reflects on some of the challenges facing narrative economics, discusses the connection between disease epidemics and economic epidemics, and suggests why epidemiology may hold lessons for fighting economic contagions. About the Author Robert J. Shiller is a Nobel Prize-winning economist and the author of the New York Times bestseller Irrational Exuberance (Princeton), among many other books. He is Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University and a regular contributor to the New York Times. Twitter @RobertJShille...

-Titulo Original : Game Theory An Introduction-Fabricante : Princeton University Press-Descripcion Original: Review The book is enjoyable to read and truly an enrichment in game theory. It is widely well-structured and well-written and mathematically correct. The purpose is given perfectly. I recommend the book for researchers and graduate students who wants to get some insight in the area of game theory.---Sirma Zeynep, Zentralblatt MATHThe book aims to be precise and rigorous, yet accessible and reader-friendly, and, to a great extent, it does hit these apparently conflicting targets. . . . The depth of the book is intermediate, with a conventional, yet clear, style of writing. It will please mainstream economists. . . . It can help advanced undergraduates and also students at honors or masters levels. It can also be used by PhD students seeking a fast, not so mathematized introduction to the field.---Jose Rodriques-Neto, Economic RecordConcise, lucid and highly readable. . . . Describing a textbook as reader-friendly is often something of a platitude, but here one does feel that the author is always on your side. It is a rigorous, precise and accessible account of the subject which will no doubt be an invaluable resource for students of the subject.---David Vaccaro, Mathematical Gazette The definitive introduction to game theoryThis comprehensive textbook introduces readers to the principal ideas and applications of game theory, in a style that combines rigor with accessibility. Steven Tadelis begins with a concise description of rational decision making, and goes on to discuss strategic and extensive form games with complete information, Bayesian games, and extensive form games with imperfect information. He covers a host of topics, including multistage and repeated games, bargaining theory, auctions, rent-seeking games, mechanism design, signaling games, reputation building, and information transmission games. Unlike other books on game theory, this one begins with the idea of rationality and explores its implications for multiperson decision problems through concepts like dominated strategies and rationalizability. Only then does it present the subject of Nash equilibrium and its derivatives.Game Theory is the ideal textbook for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students. Throughout, concepts and methods are explained using real-world examples backed by precise analytic material. The book features many important applications to economics and political science, as well as numerous exercises that focus on how to formalize informal situations and then analyze them.Introduces the core ideas and applications of game theoryCovers static and dynamic games, with complete and incomplete informationFeatures a variety of examples, applications, and exercisesTopics include repeated games, bargaining, auctions, signaling, reputation, and information transmissionIdeal for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate studentsComplete solutions available to teachers and selected solutions available to students Review Steve Tadeliss Game Theory is an ideal textbook for advanced undergraduates, and great preparation for graduate work. It provides a clear, self-contained, and rigorous treatment of all the key concepts, along with interesting applications; it also introduces key technical tools in a straightforward and intuitive way. Drew Fudenberg, Harvard UniversitySteven Tadelis is a leading scholar in applied game theory, and his expertise shines through in this excellent new text. Aimed at intermediate to advanced undergraduates, it presents and discusses the theory remarkably clearly, at both the intuitive and formal levels. One novel feature I like is its serious consideration of the decision theoretic foundations of game theory. Another is its transparent presentation of relatively recent topics and applications, such as reputations in asymmetric information games, legislative bargaining, and cheap talk communication. Steve Matthews, University of PennsylvaniaSteve T...

-Titulo Original : The Tyranny Of Metrics-Fabricante : Princeton University Press-Descripcion Original: Review Finalist for the 2019 Hayek Prize, The Manhattan InstituteEconomic historian Jerry Muller delivers a riposte to bean counters everywhere with this trenchant study of our fixation with performance metrics.---Barbara Kiser, NatureTo his credit, Muller isn’t interested only in documenting the ways in which the metric fixation produces unintended consequences. Beyond that, he wants, first, to work out what causes this high level of dysfunction, and second, to identify ways in which metrics might be used more productively.---Stefan Collini, London Review of BooksFor every quantification, theres a way of gaming it. So argues this timely manifesto against measured accountability. Kirkus ReviewsMany of us have the vague sense that metrics are leading us astray, stripping away context, devaluing subtle human judgement, and rewarding those who know how to play the system. Muller’s book crisply explains where this fashion came from, why it can be so counterproductive and why we don’t learn. It should be required reading for any manager on the verge of making the Vietnam body count mistake all over again.---Tim Harford, Financial TimesA short and highly readable account of the way such management systems are undermining important institutions, such as universities, schools, policing, charities and even companies.---Luke Johnson, Sunday TimesAs Muller says ‘anything that can be measured and rewarded will be gamed.’ Too many people appear oblivious to this basic fact of life. A close reading of Muller’s excellent, if somewhat brief, introduction to the pitfalls of quantitative measurement should set them right.---Edward Chancellor, BreakingviewsThere is also ample evidence, expertly summarised in Jerry Muller’s recent book, The Tyranny of Metrics, that metrics can be counter-productive. The EconomistMuller . . . says that an over-reliance on metrics can lead us to disproportionately value the things that are easiest to measure. These and the many other criticisms of metric fixation the author offers are well argued and will feel all too familiar to teachers and school leaders alike. Shortly after I agreed to review this title, Ofsted’s chief inspector . . . gave a speech explaining how she had recently read the book and how it was influencing her own thinking. Having now had the chance to read it myself, I think we should take this as a positive sign. My hope is that others involved in school accountability, including politicians, have the chance to consider its core message.---James Bowen, Times Education SupplementA timely and important critique of the pervasive tendency to define success in terms of quantifying human performance, accountability and transparency, a trend that has invaded every profession. Paradigm ExplorerJerry Muller’s The Tyranny of Metrics mercilessly exposes the downside of the cult of measurement and managerialism. The EconomistMuller’s book remains an interesting one: short, unpretentious, scholarly, and full of insights. And it provokes the reader into asking further questions.---Pierre Lemieux, RegulationI cannot stress enough how important this book is for all organization studies scholars. If anything, I see it as an act of resistance to the plethora of publications that ‘count’ but are completely uninteresting, unimportant, and unread.---Alexia Panayiotou, OrganizationJerry Z. Muller’s thought-provoking The Tyranny of Metrics raises old post-positivist arguments on the limits of quantitative knowledge by using new theoretical leverages and applying them to original case studies.---Simone Raudino, European Legacy How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens our schools, medical care, businesses, and governmentToday, organizations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that the path to success is quantifying human performance, publicizing the results, and dividing up the rewards based on the numbers. But in our zeal to...

-Titulo Original : The Lives Of Bees The Untold Story Of The Honey Bee In The Wild-Fabricante : Princeton University Press-Descripcion Original: Review Finalist for the PROSE Award in Popular Science and Popular Mathematics, Association of American PublishersCornell University biologist Seeley is one of the most beloved authors in the beekeeping community, and with good reason: his writing elucidates the lives of honeybees with clear science and a sense of joyous discovery. Seeley employs that approach here; even non-keepers will appreciate his bee’s-eye view of life outside managed apiaries.---Gemma Tarlach, DiscoverI was really drawn to Tom Seeley’s The Lives of Bees. He IS the bee keeper’s bee keeper.---Ira Flatow, Science FridayElegantly simple in design, the research is expertly synthesized by Seeley to give us a vivid glimpse of how honeybees live when left to their own devices. . . . It is the most complete picture yet of the honeybee’s natural history. . . . As the biblical Prov­erbs 6:6 notes of the ant, we need to go to the bee, consider its ways and be wise. Seeley has done that better than anyone.---Gene Robinson, NatureSeeley brings us dispatches from the cutting-edge scientific hive-mind exploring the complex behavioral, social, and survival dynamics of bee colonies.---Olivia Rutigliano, LitHubA wealth of information about honeybees based on decades of scientific research. Kirkus[The Lives of Bees] both celebrates and chronicles the natural history of the honey bee.---Barry Silverstein, Foreword ReviewsThis book is a surprise and one heck of a good read.---Scott Shalaway, WV NewsThis is a first class work that should be read by anyone concerned with the alarming decline in pollinators of all taxa, but is especially important for bee keepers and their future as honey producers, and for biologists and landowners anxious to preserve habitat for wild honey bees.---David M. Gascoigne, Travels with BirdsWritten for experts, beekeepers and biology buffs alike. Seeley’s fifth book on bees illuminates why wild honeybees across the planet are thriving while managed colonies are under threat.---Krishna Ramanujan, Cornell ChronicleWilliam Hope narrates this highly informed work with a sharp focus on its scientific language. His clear, frank style helps the listener follow the authors deep dive into the lives of wild honey bees in their natural colonies, as opposed to those raised and kept by beekeepers. . . . This intriguing scientific study . . . elucidates the distinctive methodology of the entomologist and has much to teach. AudioFile MagazineThis gorgeous and noteworthy book provides a very different view of honey bees and how they live in the wild and offers important lessons for saving the world’s managed bee colonies. . . . The Lives of Bees will be highly-prized and often referenced by scientists, beekeepers and students of bees, and will fascinate anyone who wishes to learn more about the lives of these amazing insects.---GrrlScientist, ForbesAn impassioned account of honey bees by one of the most respected ecological bee researchers who is also a master storyteller. This charming, informative, and profusely illustrated book is one to curl up with in an easy chair while sipping honey-laced hot tea.---Stephen L. Buchmann, The Quarterly Review of BiologySeeley who has been enraptured by bees since 1963, presents an authoritative and engaging account of why bees still fascinate him. The book should be of interests to students, educators, and professional biologists.---Norman A. Johnson, Evolution: Education and OutreachA detailed and well-illustrated work that will fascinate both curious scientists and those with a passion for bee keeping. . . . Seeley’s book offers great opportunities to learn about honey bees in the wild . . . a source of inspiration for sustainable beekeeping practices.---Fabrice Requier & Robin M Crewe, Trends in Ecology and EvolutionTells you everything about honeybees that has not been told . . . . The Lives of Bees is well-researched and one of the most authentic works on honeybees. The Wash...