Books from Princeton University Press

  • Social Choice with Partial Knowledge of Treatment Response
    By Charles F. Manski

    Ellsberg contemplated how a person would choose when required to draw a ball from one of two urns , each containing balls of two colors , say red and blue . The person is told the composition of balls in one urn but has no knowledge of ...

  • William Blake and the Age of Aquarius
    By Stephen F. Eisenman, Mark Crosby, Elizabeth Ferrell

    13 Hercules Buildings.15 One of the books he illustrated at about this time was John Gabriel Stedman's abolitionist The Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (1796). Johnson's office at 72 St.

  • The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 21: Index, Vols. 1-20
    By Thomas Jefferson

    Clarkson, Peter: petition from, 5: 349 Clarkson, Samuel: letter to cited, 17: 4.18m Clarkson, William: marriage to Catherine Floyd, 6: 335n classic revival. See neo-classicism Claudian, 20: 635n Claverack, N.Y.: giant bones found at, ...

  • The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement series
    By Thomas Jefferson, J. Jefferson Looney

    ... 265, 323, 325n, 440, 519, 543 Clark, George Rogers, 580n Clark, James: petition to General Assembly, 253–4 Clark (Clarke), William: identified, 1:511n; as Lewis's executor, 110, 166 Clarke, Adam: The Holy Bible, 356–7 Clarkson, ...

  • The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1: 1760 - 1776
    By Thomas Jefferson

    Abbreviations for publishers of the several newspapers of this name, frequently published concurrently, include the following: c & D (Clarkson & Davis), D & H (Dixon & Hunter), D & N (Dixon & Nicolson), P & D (Purdie & Dixon).

  • The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 40: 4 March to 10 July 1803
    By Thomas Jefferson

    Clarkson MS (ViU); in a clerk's hand, signed by all, with hand-drawn facsimile seals be- side Henderson signatures; attested by John Nicholas, clerk, as recorded in “Al- bemarle February Court 1804,” noting that the indenture of bargain ...

  • On Understanding Japanese Religion
    By Joseph Mitsuo Kitagawa

    Maitreya also came to be associated with mountain worship , an old feature of indigenous Japanese religions . For example , Mount Yoshino — known then as Kimbu - sen in Yamato province and considered a sacred mountain from ancient times ...

  • The Mythic Image
    By Joseph Campbell, Marie-Jeanne Abadie

    deep , and next , ascending the cosmic mountain to its peak . For in the view of the old Sumerian astronomical observers , the universe was neither flat nor a sphere , but in the form of a great mountain rising in stages from an ...

  • Jazz Age Jews
    By Michael Alexander

    ... 96–98, 101–2, 103–4, 111, 113 Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, 97, 99–100 “Sadie Salome,” 145 Salter, Mike (pseud. ... 182, 212n.9 synagogues, 6, 82,214n.7 Taft, William Howard, 81 “Take Me Out to the Ball Game,” 55 talis, 176–77, ...

  • Physiological Ecology: How Animals Process Energy, Nutrients, and Toxins
    By William H. Karasov, Carlos Martínez del Rio

    After introducing primary concepts, the authors review the chemical ecology of food, and then discuss how animals digest and process food.

  • Lesson Plan: An Agenda for Change in American Higher Education
    By William G. Bowen, Michael S. McPherson

    89 The admonitions of both Kerr and Gardner. 88 Kerr, The Uses of the University, p. 137. 89John W. Gardner, “Uncritical Lovers, Unloving Critics,” commencement address given 69 PRESSINg NATIONAL NEEdS.

  • Higher Education in the Digital Age: Updated Edition
    By William G. Bowen

    Gardner. I AM HONORED to have been invited to comment on Bill Bowen's first Tanner Lecture. The lecture is witty, insightful, authoritative. I had the privilege of reading the lecture in draft form and I can assure you that it contains ...

  • Producing Public Television, Producing Public Culture
    By Barry Dornfeld

    ... of television — Cooke , Clark , Bronowski , Cameron — telling us about other continents " ( Bolton 1992 ) . The format persists as one of the recognizable aesthetic forms on public television.21 This generic convention raises two ...

  • A Guide to the Birds of Colombia
    By William L. Brown, Steven L. Hilty

    The primary purpose of the work is to enable observers to identify the birds of the region, but it also provides detailed species accounts and will serve as an important handbook and reference volume.

  • Going Abroad: European Travel in Nineteenth-Century American Culture
    By William W. Stowe

    These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.

  • The Star and the Stripes: A History of the Foreign Policies of American Jews
    By Michael N. Barnett

    Scott and Cavanaugh, introduction to The Blackwell Companion to Political Theology, 1. Their definition touches on Carl Schmitt's formulation that “all significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological ...

  • Supernovae and Nucleosynthesis: An Investigation of the History of Matter, from the Big Bang to the Present
    By David Arnett, William David Arnett

    [ 659 ] Wagoner , R. V. , Fowler , W. A. , and Hoyle , F. 1967. Ap . J. 148 , 3 . ... [ 668 ] Wasserburg , G. J. , Busso , M. , Gallino , R. , and Raiteri , C. M. 1994. Ap . J. 424 , 412 . ... [ 684 ] Wilson , J. R. 1971.

  • The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 15: Opus Maximum
    By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    With this volume, The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, begun forty years ago under the sponsorship of the Bollingen Foundation and the editorship of the late Kathleen Coburn, is now complete.

  • The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 1: Lectures, 1795: On Politics and Religion
    By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    Coleridge began in 1795 a series of public lectures. This volume includes all the printed and manuscript versions of the Bristol lectures in chronological sequence.

  • The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 14: Table Talk
    By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    THis is the first fully annotated edition of a work that long remained more popular in the United Kingdom than any of the works in prose published by Coleridge himself.