Princeton University Press

09/12/2025

Listen to the Ideas Podcast with Michael Cook and New Books Network host Morteza Hajizadeh. Discover the history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet Muḥammad to the birth of the modern era.

https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/ideas-podcast-a-history-of-the-muslim-world

09/12/2025

Celebrating the artistry of bird photography from around the globe, the Bird Photographer of the Year is the leading international bird photography competition, and this gorgeous, large-format book showcases the best images from the contest—some of the most spectacular bird photographs ever taken.

The Collection 10 volume features more than 250 of the best photographs selected from a record 33,000-plus entries submitted for the tenth anniversary of the competition, including all the winning and short-listed pictures.

Bird Photographer of the Year: Collection 10 publishes 30 September. Preorder yours: https://hubs.ly/Q03HZPYs0

09/12/2025

09/12/2025

In One Man’s Freedom, Nicholas Buccola tells the compelling story of Barry Goldwater and Martin Luther King Jr.'s dramatic decade-long debate over the meaning of an all-important American ideal.

Available October 7. Learn more and preorder yours: https://hubs.ly/Q03HZxx70

09/12/2025

In advance of its global publication on 16 September, How Progress Ends by Carl Benedikt Frey has been reviewed in the Financial Times by Tej Parikh, who says, “The present moment underscores the relevance of Frey’s writing… How Progress Ends is, therefore, an essential warning for the new era.”

Read the full review here (£):

A compelling study of the role of the state and free markets throughout history is a timely warning on industrial policy today

09/11/2025

Calder-isms is a collection of fascinating, irreverent, and often profound quotations from the influential modern American sculptor Alexander Calder (1898–1976), who is most famous for his invention of what his friend Marcel Duchamp dubbed the “mobile.” Often suspended from ceilings, these sculptures feature abstract elements, frequently painted in bold colors, that move and balance in changing harmony. Calder’s art was dynamic, unconventional, and filled with vitality—qualities also displayed by his words, which combine the wisdom of a philosopher with the ingenuity of a true original.

Taken from interviews, writings, and other sources, the quotations in Calder-isms offer memorable insights into Calder’s life, mind, and, above all, art.

Calder-isms arrives September 16. Learn more and preorder yours: https://hubs.ly/Q03J0VRW0

No More Rulers

09/11/2025

An annotated guide to the work of the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, teacher, and pioneer of creative nonfiction.

Noel Rubinton's Looking for a Story: A Complete Guide to the Writings of John McPhee is out now. Learn more and enjoy a free sample: https://hubs.ly/Q03HZTNc0

John McPhee has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1965 and has written more than thirty acclaimed books that began on the magazine’s pages. But few readers know or fully appreciate the true breadth of his writing. Looking for a Story is a complete reader’s guide to McPhee’s vast published work, documenting much rarely seen or connected with McPhee, including remarkable early writing for Time magazine published without his name.

In chronicling McPhee’s career where he broke ground applying devices long associated with fiction to the literature of fact, Noel Rubinton gives insights into McPhee’s techniques, choice of subjects, and research methods, shedding light on how McPhee turns complicated subjects like geology into compelling stories. Beyond detailing more than seventy years of McPhee’s writing, Rubinton recounts McPhee’s half century as a Princeton University writing professor, a little known part of his legacy. McPhee inspired generations of students who wrote hundreds of books of their own, also catalogued here.

With an incisive foreword by New Yorker staff writer and former McPhee student Peter Hessler, Looking for a Story also includes extensive annotated listings of articles about McPhee, reviews of his books, and interviews, readings, and speeches. Whether you are already an admirer of McPhee or new to his writings, this book provides an invaluable road map to his rich body of work.

09/11/2025

The new edition of Saskia Sassen's The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo is now available!

The Global City reorients the way we think about how cities shape and are shaped by globalization and provides lessons for the future.

Learn more: https://hubs.ly/Q03HZ57R0

09/11/2025

How resistance to extraction shaped Indigenous demands for autonomy, integration, or assimilation.

The Long Shadow of Extraction by Christopher L. Carter is out now. Learn more: https://hubs.ly/Q03HQ7q30

From the onset of colonialism, Indigenous communities have faced seizure of their land, labor, and resources by non-Indigenous actors. In The Long Shadow of Extraction, Christopher Carter argues that the native groups’ resistance to extraction took distinct forms, and that this variation explains why some communities demanded autonomy while others demanded integration or assimilation. Countering existing scholarship that assumes a universal demand for autonomy, Carter shows that some Indigenous communities in fact refused government offers to recognize their local political authority and longstanding economic institutions.

Carter’s groundbreaking account of Indigenous resistance has important implications for understanding not only the historical emergence of autonomy but variations in identity-based mobilization in multiethnic democracies.

09/11/2025

An accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the concepts and tools of theoretical ecology.

Ryan Chisholm's Theoretical Ecology: Concepts and Models with R is now available. Learn more: https://hubs.ly/Q03HPXGy0

Theoretical ecology explores the mechanisms that structure ecological communities using a variety of mathematical and computational tools. Theoretical Ecology shows you how to translate ecological problems into mechanistic models using both mathematics and the programming language R. The book teaches key concepts and core quantitative skills while also devoting significant attention to the reasons for building mathematical ecological models. Why do species populations fluctuate over time and space? How do multiple species coexist? What forces drive nutrient and carbon cycles? Does higher species diversity lead to higher biomass? Each chapter in this incisive and informative book is motivated by questions like these, and every chapter includes boxes that delve into mathematical details and provide coding examples in R.

• Focuses on mathematical and computational methods while also drawing on conceptual and graphical approaches, and explores how the various approaches complement one another
• Teaches students the skills they need to implement and analyze ecological models in R
• Covers topics ranging from single-species, competition, and predator–prey models to community ecology, island biogeography, and nutrient-flux models
• Provides exercises of gradated difficulty at the end of every chapter
• Ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate classrooms and for independent study
• Includes a road map for class planning and self-study

09/11/2025

09/11/2025

David Woodman’s The First King of England is a “persuasive account. . . . A vital portrait of tenth-century kingship in action,” says ‪History Today.

Learn more about Æthelstan and this brilliant book: https://hubs.ly/Q03HL7MP0