Books

On Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

On Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Columbia University Press, April 2023 Susan Wolfson, Professor of English Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) made a pioneering and durably influential argument for women’s equality. Emerging from the turbulent decade…
The Little Book of Exoplanets

The Little Book of Exoplanets

Princeton University Press, July 2023 Joshua Winn, Professor of Astrophysical Sciences For centuries, people have speculated about the possibility of planets orbiting distant stars, but only since the 1990s has technology allowed astronomers to detect…
How We Age: The Science of Longevity

How We Age: The Science of Longevity

Princeton University Press, November 2023 Coleen T. Murphy, James A. Elkins Jr. Professor in the Life Sciences; Professor of Molecular Biology and Director, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics All of us would like to live…
Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization

Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization

Yale University Press, May 2023 Harold James, Claude and Lore Kelly Professor in European Studies, Professor of History and International Affairs The eminent economic historian Harold James presents a new perspective on financial crises, dividing…
The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America

The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America

Harper Collins, August 2023 Kathryn Edin, William Church Osborn Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs; Director, Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing Timothy Nelson, Lecturer in Sociology…
Nuclear Ghost: Atomic Livelihoods in Fukushima’s Gray Zone

Nuclear Ghost: Atomic Livelihoods in Fukushima’s Gray Zone

University of California Press, April 2023 Ryo Morimoto, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Richard Stockton Bicentennial Preceptor “There is a nuclear ghost in Minamisōma.” This is how one resident describes a mysterious experience following the 2011…