Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism

Princeton University Press, March 2020 By Anne Case, the Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Emeritus, and Angus Deaton, the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs, Emeritus, and professor of economics Continue Reading →

Statistical Foundations of Data Science

Chapman and Hall/CRC, August 2020By Jianqing Fan, the Frederick L. Moore, Class of 1918, Professor in Finance, and professor of operations research and financial engineering; Runze Li, Eberly Family Chair, Pennsylvania State University; Cun-Hui Zhang, Continue Reading →

The Little Book of Cosmology

Princeton University Press, April 2020By Lyman Page, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Physics Written by one of the world’s leading experimental cosmologists, this short but deeply insightful book describes what scientists are Continue Reading →

Einstein in Bohemia

Princeton University Press, February 2020By Michael Gordin, the Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History In the spring of 1911, Albert Einstein moved with his wife and two sons to Prague, the capital of Bohemia, Continue Reading →

Life Magazine and the Power of Photography

Yale University Press, April 2020By Katherine Bussard, the Peter C. Bunnell Curator of Photography, Princeton University Art Museum, and Kristen Gresh, the Estrellita and Yousuf Karsh Senior Curator of Photographs at the Museum of Fine Continue Reading →

Degenerative Realism: Novel and Nation in Twenty- First-Century France

Columbia University Press, June 2020 By Christy Wampole, associate professor of French and Italian A new strain of realism has emerged in France. The novels that embody it represent diverse fears — immigration and demographic Continue Reading →