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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 48m

Tomorrow (October 16th) at 6:15 pm BST, join the How To Academy in welcoming @davidedmonds100.bsky.social, in conversation with Robin Ince, to discuss his book, Death in a Shallow Pond, and explore the complexity of Peter Singer's influential philosophical idea.

Learn more: buff.ly/7ewXPdh

Death in a Shallow Pond: A Philosopher, a Drowning Child, and Strangers in Need by David Edmonds

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 6h

Enjoy 70% off thousands of featured books during the annual sale, including The I Ching: A Biography by Richard J. Smith.

Discover how the I Ching became one of the most widely read and influential books in the world.

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 8h

What is the physical basis of death? Can we manipulate cellular rules to avoid it? What does death mean for a machine? Is immortality possible? What does it mean for language, thought, or information to die? My new book @princetonupress.bsky.social is coming soon. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 10h

Read an excerpt of @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social’s new book Police Against the Movement at @myhnn.bsky.social:

Sanitizing the Civil Rights Movement

Contrary to the story being told in textbooks, media, and museums, the police were not neutral bystanders.

www.hnn.us

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 11h

Congratulations to @okaysteve.bsky.social, who will be delivering a sold-out lecture next week, Oct 21 at 6:30 pm EDT, as a part of Lectures on Tap! We're looking forward to this great event and hearing him discuss his remarkable book, How to Change a Memory.

Learn about his book: hubs.ly/Q03NBmj60

How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past by Steve Ramirez

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 11h

" @miriamudel.bsky.social's abundant gifts as an author, her exhaustive research, and elegant writing elevate her book above its subject matter.” Read the full review of Modern Jewish Worldmaking for @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social here: www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/modern-...

Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children's Literature

Children’s literature is never a peripheral segment of culture.

www.jewishbookcouncil.org

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 12h

Tomorrow (Oct 15) at 6:00pm EDT, join @philaathenaeum.bsky.social in welcoming Mary Anne Hunting and Kevin D. Murphy, authors of Women Architects at Work, for a discussion of their book and the role of women architects in the development of Modernism in Pennsylvania.

Register here: buff.ly/X1RjKqg

Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism by Mary Anne Hunting and Kevin D. Murphy

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A.S. Paglayan @aspaglayan.bsky.social · 12h

I'm deeply grateful to the American Educational Studies Association for recognizing my book with a Critics' Choice Book Award. @princetonupress.bsky.social @aesatalk.bsky.social

Check out "Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education" here: www.amazon.com/Raised-Obey-...

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Princeton Audio @princetonaudio.bsky.social · 12h

Incisive & urgent, @lkatfield.bsky.social's Furious Minds tells the story of the thinkers of the New Right—& their powerful assault on American freedoms, values, & ideals.⁠
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The #audiobook, read by the author herself, arrives November 4. Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/audio/...

#ListenUP

Audiobook cover of Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right by Laura K. Field, read by the author

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 13h

In Legacies of British Rule, Matthew Lange explores the relationship between colonial pluralism and nationalist civil war in former British colonies.

Now available, explore a free sample of this insightful book: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Legacies of British Rule: Colonialism, Statehood, and Nationalist Civil War by Matthew Lange

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 13h

Read an excerpt of Allison Daminger’s What’s On Her Mind at @behscientist.bsky.social:

The Cognitive Contradictions That Shape Who Runs the Household - by Allison Daminger - Behavioral Scientist

There’s a puzzling inconsistency in the way couples deploy their skills at work and at home.

behavioralscientist.org

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 14h

Shipping within the US, Canada, Latin America, Asia, or Australia?

Find a selection of our delightful ISMs books, published in association with No More Rulers, at 70% off!

Browse the list of books on sale here: press.princeton.edu/sale/annual-...

#ISMs #ReadUP

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 14h

The first biography of an extraordinary woman and architect who left her mark on world capitals and reshaped modern design.

Despina Stratigakos and Elana Shapira's Finding Ella Briggs is now available (4 Nov UK pub): press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

#EllaBriggs #Biography #Architecture

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 15h

Elusive Cures author @nicolecrust.bsky.social discussed her new book at a recent Penn Libraries talk:

Psychology professor discusses new book, neurological research at Penn Libraries talk

During the event, Rust discussed a new method for researchers to change their processes and successfully discover cures to brain conditions.

www.thedp.com

Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 15h

An authoritative guide to Jewish studies, reflecting the latest research in a diverse and flourishing field.

The Princeton Companion to Jewish Studies, edited by Leora Batnitzky, Eve Krakowski, and Steven Weitzman, is out now (9 Dec UK pub).

Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

The Princeton Companion to Jewish Studies, edited by Leora Batnitzky, Eve Krakowski, and Steven Weitzman

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David Lay Williams @laywilliams.bsky.social · 16h

New review of "The Greatest of All Plagues" from Sally Scholz (Villanova). "Readers...will find much to appreciate in Williams’s book. In addition to reading canonical thinkers through the lens of inequality, Williams provides a valuable resource...rooted in the great books of western philosophy."

David Lay Williams. The Greatest of All Plagues. How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx. Princeton University Press, Princeton (NJ) 2024. xv, 403 pp. $35.00; £30.00. (E-bo...

David Lay Williams. The Greatest of All Plagues. How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx. Princeton University Press, Princeton (NJ) 2024. xv, 403 pp. 24.50; £21.00.)

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 16h

A captivating history of diplomacy—and an urgent reminder of why we need to revive its lost arts to survive in a dangerous era of great power competition.

A. Wess Mitchell's Great Power Diplomacy is now available in North America (9 Dec UK pub): press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

#History

Great Power Diplomacy: The Skill of Statecraft from Attila the Hun to Kissinger by A. Wess Mitchell

Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 16h

Tomorrow (October 15th) at 5:30 pm PDT, please join @cwclub.bsky.social in welcoming Nicholas Buccola for a discussion of his book, One Man's Freedom!

Buy tickets for this in-person event here: www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2025-...

One Man’s Freedom: Goldwater, King, and the Struggle over an American Ideal by Nicholas Buccola

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 17h

Congratulations to Anthony Abraham Jack, whose book Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price was selected as a Winner of the @aesatalk.bsky.social's Critics' Choice Book Award!

Learn more about this timely work here: hubs.ly/Q03MyM-Y0

Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price by Anthony Abraham Jack

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Benjamin H. Bradlow @bhbradlow.bsky.social · 18h

Looking forward to this!

Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 18h

In The Invention of the Future, Bruno Carvalho lays out “a history . . . of humanity’s belief in progress and a better future as demonstrated in the spread of urbanization.” Read the full review in Kirkus:

THE INVENTION OF THE FUTURE | Kirkus Reviews

A history as well as a philosophical examination of humanity’s belief in progress and a better future as demonstrated in the spread of urbanization.

www.kirkusreviews.com

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 18h

In The Invention of the Future, Bruno Carvalho lays out “a history . . . of humanity’s belief in progress and a better future as demonstrated in the spread of urbanization.” Read the full review in Kirkus:

THE INVENTION OF THE FUTURE | Kirkus Reviews

A history as well as a philosophical examination of humanity’s belief in progress and a better future as demonstrated in the spread of urbanization.

www.kirkusreviews.com

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 18h

In A Woman Is Responsible for Everything, Debra Kaplan and Elisheva Carlebach provide a groundbreaking look at the integral role of women in early modern Jewish communal life.

Out now in North America (9 Dec UK pub): press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

A Woman Is Responsible for Everything: Jewish Women in Early Modern Europe by Debra Kaplan and Elisheva Carlebach

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 19h

How modern Yiddish children’s literature gave expression to emerging forms of Jewish identity.

Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children's Literature by @miriamudel.bsky.social is out now in North America (9 Dec UK pub).

Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 19h

Next week, Oct 17-19, see Shari Rabin, author of The Jewish South, at the Southern Jewish Historical Society's 49th Annual Convention in New Orleans! Shari will speak on the 18th at 2:45pm and the 19th at 10:15am CDT

See the full list of speakers and register for the conference here buff.ly/UFZA0p9

The Jewish South: An American History by Shari Rabin

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 1d

A great ep! Love a dive into a slightly under-valued historical figure.

Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 25d

Listen to @davidwoodman45.bsky.social explain why Æthelstan deserves more recognition as a founding figure of England on Gone Medieval podcast for @history-hit.bsky.social shows.acast.com/gone-medieva....

Æthelstan: The Birth of England | Gone Medieval

From long-lost Viking ships to kings buried in unexpected places; from murders and power politics, to myths, religion, the lives of ordinary people: Gone Medieval is History Hit’s podcast dedicated…

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