• Charles Kupchan at New America Foundation

    Updated: 2010-05-29 01:04:24
    As we head into Memorial Day weekend to honor our fallen soldiers, it's also useful to remember that peace can and does break out, and adversaries can and do become allies.  Charles Kupchan was at the New America Foundation earlier this week to talk about How Enemies Become Friends, which ...

  • A terrific review of The Great Brain Race in The National

    Updated: 2010-05-29 01:04:21
    As Ben Wildavsky recounts in his book The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities are Reshaping the World, dramatic shifts in the scholarly gravitational field have taken place throughout history. The latest such major reorientation came in the wake of the Second World War, when the ...

  • PUP author Chandra Mukerji receives Honorable Mention, 2010 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book

    Updated: 2010-05-29 01:04:20
    Another Princeton University Press author honored by the Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association this year is Chandra Mukerji, whose Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi received and Honorable Mention, 2010 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book.  We would like to offer her ...

  • Climate Change Debate at Science Magazine

    Updated: 2010-05-29 01:04:19
    I hope you will check out this neat debate taking place at Science magazine. In a first for them, they are offering a preview of a print review on their web site and hosting a debate with the author and the authors of the books reviewed (unfortunately none of Princeton's ...

  • The Universe not expands

    Updated: 2010-05-28 14:10:28
    I have a blog against the expansion of the universe, with arguments that show this is impossible. ...

  • BEA 2010: The takeaway

    Updated: 2010-05-27 21:51:16
    Thanks to Jason Boog @ GalleyCat for drawing our attention to the BEA tweet of the day. Harold Underdown, Children's Book Editor, tweeted these immortal words yesterday: "After two hours of pushing through the crowds at #bea10, I have reached a simple conclusion: print book publishing is far from dead." 'Nuff said. For more ...

  • Stop by our Booth Today at BookExpo and See What is New

    Updated: 2010-05-27 21:51:15
    BookExpo America , the publishing industry's meeting place is in full swing at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York.  Get your good walking shoes on, and stop by our exhibit booth (No. 3726).  Many new and forthcoming titles to check out including; Zombie Economics How Dead Ideas Still Walk ...

  • Congratulations, Marion Fourcade, Winner of the 2010 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book

    Updated: 2010-05-27 21:51:14
    Many congratulations to Princeton University Press author Marion Fourcade, whose Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain, and France, 1890s to 1900s recently won the 2010 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book! The award is presented by the Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association, ...

  • Moby Awards for the Best and Worst Book Trailers

    Updated: 2010-05-27 21:51:12
    Before you send that congratulatory email our way, we didn't make the list.  I know.  It's a cryin' shame that such PUP hits like Delete and Scroogenomics weren't destined for eternal book trailer glory but perhaps it's a blessing that we weren't instantly christened with snark, either. You be the judge ...

  • Be the First to Check Out Two New Science Catalogs

    Updated: 2010-05-27 04:34:25
    Check out new and forthcoming titles in our birds & natural history catalog and in the new biology catalog. The Biology 2010-2011 catalog includes titles on behavior, ecology, evolution, mathematical biology, ocean science and general interest. Find the biology catalog online here: http://bit.ly/cAcrJH Our new Birds & Natural History catalog covers the globe ...

  • PUP Friends, Hockey Rivals — Friendly Bet Leaves Editor Wearing Orange and Black!

    Updated: 2010-05-27 04:34:24
    Some good-natured gambling has been occurring on the grounds of Princeton University Press.  Many American sports enthusiasts often forget the passion of hockey fans, so to celebrate the 2010 NHL playoffs, religion/anthropology editor and Montreal Canadiens fanatic Fred Appel made yours truly (me!, Director of Publicity) and die-hard Philadelphia Flyers fan a non-monetary ...

  • Congratulations to Matthew Hindman, winner of the 2009 Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communications Policy Research

    Updated: 2010-05-27 04:34:23
    We would like to congratulate Princeton University Press author Matthew Hindman for winning the 2009 Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communications Policy Research presented by the Donald McGannon Communications Research Center! According to this announcement, Hindman’s book The Myth of Digital ...

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  • X-ray Discovery Points to Location of Missing Matter

    Updated: 2010-05-11 06:00:00
    At a distance of about 400 million light years from Earth, a massive "wall" of galaxies stretching tens of millions of light years.

  • "Survivor" Black Holes May Be Mid-Sized

    Updated: 2010-04-29 06:00:00
    This composite image of M82 shows Chandra X-ray Observatory data in blue, optical data from Hubble in green and orange, and infrared data from Spitzer in red.

  • Einstein's Theory Fights off Challengers

    Updated: 2010-04-14 06:00:00
    Two different teams have reported using Chandra observations of galaxy clusters to study the properties of gravity on cosmic scales and test Einstein's theory of General Relativity.

  • Cosmic Variance Discover Magazine

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    Log In Subscribe Give a Gift Archives Customer Service SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Blogs Cosmic Variance Mark Mark Trodden is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy and co-Director of the Center for Particle Cosmology at the University of Pennsylvania He is a theoretical physicist , working on particle physics and gravity and , in particular , on the roles they play in the evolution and structure of the universe . When asked for a short phrase to describe his research area , he says he is a particle cosmologist His first attempt at blogging can be seen at Orange Quark Posts by Mark Home Page Email : trodden at cosmicvariance.com Cosmic Variance is a group blog by people who , coincidentally or not , all happen to be physicists and : astrophysicists Daniel Holz JoAnne Hewett John Conway Julianne Dalcanton Mark Trodden Risa Wechsler Sean Carroll Our day and night jobs notwithstanding , the blog is about whatever we find interesting science , to be sure , but also arts , politics , culture , technology , academia , and miscellaneous trivia . We have similar outlooks on many things ,

  • Winds of Change: How Black Holes May Shape Galaxies

    Updated: 2010-03-03 05:00:00
    This is a composite image of NGC 1068, one of the nearest and brightest galaxies containing a rapidly growing supermassive black hole.

  • Quasar Pair Captured in Galaxy Collision

    Updated: 2010-02-03 05:00:00
    This composite image shows the effects of two galaxies caught in the act of merging.

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