Books from Princeton University Press
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The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa
By Stephen PrinceHe turns and then , again , runs toward and past the camera , and Kurosawa repeats the reverse - field and crane - down a third time and then , with perfect symmetry , a fourth time . After the fourth setup , however , the dominant ...
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Frederic Remington: The Color of Night
By National Gallery of Art, Nancy K. Anderson, William SharpeRemington's works are well known by most museum goers and beloved by a segment of an even wider public. Clearly written throughout, this book will put him literally in a new light for these and new audiences.
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Thinking About the Presidency: The Primacy of Power
By William G. Howellwhat we claim is true, if presidents really do care so much about power, then why don't we see them pursuing it even more aggressively? Why don't we witness our presidents nearly every night claiming new powers over new policy ...
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World Out of Balance: International Relations and the Challenge of American Primacy
By Stephen G. Brooks, William C. WohlforthCounterbalancing is a constraint to which any leading power must pay heed, for it has the potential to transform the ... As Christopher Layne observes, “[T]he concept of balancing expresses the idea of a counterweight, specifically, ...
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Empire of Words: The Reign of the OED
By John WillinskyHowever, when the classical scholar and master of Balliol College, Benjamin Jowett, became ex-officio chairman of the delegates in 1882, that changed somewhat. Jowett oversaw the drafting of a one-page “Suggestions for Guidance in ...
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Birder's Conservation Handbook: 100 North American Birds at Risk
By Jeffrey V. WellsBirder's Conservation Handbook is the only book of its kind, written specifically to help birders and researchers understand the threats while providing actions to protect birds and their habitats.
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Simple Games: Desirability Relations, Trading, Pseudoweightings
By Alan D. Taylor, William S. ZwickerC. St. J. A. NashWilliams and J. Sheehan . Winnipeg : Utilitas Mathematics . Scott , D. , and Suppes , P. 1958. Foundational aspects of theories of measurement . Journal of Symbolic Logic 23 , 113-128 . Sen , A. K. 1982.
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The U.S. Government and the Vietnam War: Executive and Legislative Roles and Relationships, Part II: 1961-1964
By William Conrad Gibbons... in 1961-62 there were several journalists, notably Neil Sheehan of United Press International, Homer Bigart and later ... They and Browne received the first Louis J. Lyons award from the Nieman Fellows of Harvard University for ...
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Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
By William Eamon1580 UW contiene molti secreti Ricci , Francesco . Giardino di secretti raris- Bologna , ca. 1580 UW sima , utili , & piacevoli Galasso , Mario . Novo recettario ... intito- Milan , 1584 UW lata Thesoro de poveri Mutii , P. M. , detto ...
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Problem Book in Relativity and Gravitation
By William H. Press, Saul A. Teukolsky, Alan P. LightmanAn essential resource for learning about general relativity and much more, from four leading experts Important and useful to every student of relativity, this book is a unique collection of some 475 problems--with solutions--in the fields ...
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Problem Book in Relativity and Gravitation
By Alan P. Lightman"This book is a classic and easily the best way for students learning general relativity to get experience doing problems. A wide variety of topics are covered and extensive solutions are given to the insightfully formulated exercises.
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The Birds of New Jersey: Status and Distribution
By William J. Boyle Jr.During the Breeding Bird Atlas, many more breeding sites were found, primarily in the Kittatinny Valley and Highlands regions of Sussex, Passaic, and northern Morris counties, but the species is still rare as a nester.
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The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World
By William L. SilberVanishing nickels, dimes, and quarters tested the ingenuity of American business. The renewed coin shortage hit supermarkets the hardest during the first half of 1964, according to Clarence Adamy, executive vice president of the ...
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The Corruption Cure: How Citizens and Leaders Can Combat Graft
By Robert I. RotbergSee Charlie J. Hughes, “Reporter's Notebook: Sierra Leone,” http://www.globalinte grity.org/sierraleone. 57. Daniel Jordan Smith, “The Paradoxes of Popular Participation in Corruption in Nigeria,” in Rotberg (ed.), Corruption, 293. 58.
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Carlo Sigonio: The Changing World of the Late Renaissance
By William McCuaigBruto, che in questi studii d'eloquenza è consumato. Oltre che anco il dottissimo Sigonio (come intendo dalle lettere di V. E.) diffende questa medesima opinione, se vi ci aggiunge anco Mons. Mureto et qualch'altro valente Ciceroniano ...
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Social Learning: An Introduction to Mechanisms, Methods, and Models
By Kevin N. Laland, William HoppittValente, T. 2005. Network models and methods for studying the diffusions of innovations. ... Visalberghi, E., and D. Fragaszy. 1995. e behaviour of capuchin monkeys (Cebus paella) with food: e role of social context. Anim. Behav.
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Introduction to the Numerical Solution of Markov Chains
By William J. StewartIn this particular example the links have been constructed so that the nonzero elements can be accessed in a row - wise sense . Thus , the value that is stored in LA ( i ) indicates the position in the real array A at which the next ...
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Wilson, Volume II: The New Freedom
By Arthur S. LinkThe New Freedom Arthur S. Link. it by a strong federal trade commission. Not until the Underwood bill was enacted and the Federal Reserve bill was safely on its way to passage, however, could the President give serious thought to the ...
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Wilson, Volume I: The Road to the White House
By Arthur S. LinkThe Road to the White House Arthur S. Link. Wilson soon, however, revised his opinion of Adams, especially when the professor freed him from the study of institutional development and gave him free rein to develop his own ideas about ...
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F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature
By William J. MaxwellAs Michael Szalay has it, the burnt cork of blackface returned, in “dematerialized” form, in the 1960s writing of Joan Didion, Norman Mailer, William Styron, and John Updike, the hip literature of a “'second skin' meant to hold together ...