Networking Communicating with Bodies and Machines in the Nineteenth Century

An interdisciplinary study that traces contemporary notions of "the web" to their origins long before the Internet came into being. This compelling new interdisciplinary study investigates the scientific and cultural roots of contemporary conceptions of t...

 Ove Arup Master Builder of the Twentieth Century

In 1946, Ove Arup, a leading engineer of the twentieth century, founded a firm of consulting engineers that brought to fruition such iconic structures as the Sydney Opera House, the Olympic Village in Beijing, London's Millennium Bridge, the Beaubourg Cen...

 Samuelsonian Economics and the Twenty-First Century

This volume illuminates and critically assesses Paul A. Samuelson's voluminous and groundbreaking contributions to the field of economics. The volume includes contributions from eminent scholars, including 6 Nobel Laureates, covering the extraordinary dep...

 Lectures on Resolution of Singularities

Princeton University Press is proud to nave published the Annals of Mathematics Studies since 1940. One or the oldest and most respected series in science publishing, it has included many or the most important and influential mathematical works or the twe...

 Babylon to voyager and beyond A history of planetary astronomy

Babylon to Voyager and Beyond covers planetary research from the time of the Babylonians and Ancient Greeks through those of Kepler, Galileo and Newton to the modern era of space exploration. It outlines the key observational discoveries and theoretical d...

 On the Origin of Phyla

Owing its inspiration and title to On the Origin of Species, James W. Valentine's ambitious book synthesizes and applies the vast treasury of theory and research collected in the century and a half since Darwin's time. By investigating the origins of life...