Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour

Authors: Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History and a former visiting research scientist at Princeton; Michael Strauss, Princeton professor of astrophysical sciences; and J. Richard Gott, Continue Reading →

Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies: A Comprehensive Introduction

Authors: Arvind Narayanan, Princeton assistant professor of computer science; Joseph Bonneau, postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University; Edward Felten, Princeton Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs; Andrew Miller, assistant professor at the Continue Reading →

Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea

Author: Mitchell Duneier, Princeton Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016 On March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in a closed Continue Reading →

The Euro and the Battle of Ideas

Authors: Markus Brunnermeier, Princeton Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Economics; Harold James, Princeton Claude and Lore Kelly Professor in European Studies; and Jean-Pierre Landau, associate professor of economics at SciencesPo, Paris Publisher: Princeton University Press, Continue Reading →

The China Challenge: Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power

Author: Thomas J. Christensen, Princeton William P. Boswell Professor of World Politics of Peace and War Publisher: W.W. Norton, Paperback, 2016 Many see China as a rival superpower to the United States and imagine the Continue Reading →

Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria

Author: Chika Okeke-Agulu, Princeton associate professor of art and archaeology and African American studies Publisher: Duke University Press, 2016 Written by one of the foremost scholars of African art and featuring 129 color images, Postcolonial Continue Reading →