Princeton University Press

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The Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University. Its mission is to disseminate scholarship within academia and society at large.

The press was founded by Whitney Darrow, with the financial support of Charles Scribner, as a printing press to serve the Princeton community in 1905. Its first book was a new 1912 edition of John Witherspoon's Lectures on Moral Philosophy.^[1]

Contents 1 Pulitzer Prizes 2 Nobel Prize-Winning Authors 3 Papers projects 4 Bollingen Series 5 Recent publications 6 Selected titles 7 References 8 External links

[edit] Pulitzer Prizes

Six books from the Princeton University Press have won Pulitzer Prizes.

• Russia Leaves the War by George F. Kennan (1957)
• Banks and Politics in America From the Revolution to the Civil War by Bray Hammond (1958)
• Between War and Peace by Herbert Feis (1961)
• Washington, Village and Capital by Constance McLaughlin Green (1963)
• The Greenback Era by Irwin Unger (1965)
• Machiavelli in Hell by Sebastian de Grazia (1989)

[edit] Nobel Prize-Winning Authors

Princeton University Press has published 23 authors who have won the Nobel Prize for Peace, Physics, Economics, Literature, and Physiology or Medicine.

Nobel Peace Prize:

Woodrow Wilson - 1919

The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, Volumes 1-69 (1966-1994)

Leaders of Men (1889)

Nobel Prize in Physics:

Albert Einstein - 1921

The Meaning of Relativity (1945)

The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volumes 1-10 (1987-2006)

Einstein's Miraculous Year (1998)

Albert Einstein, Mileva Maric: The Love Letters (2000)

Einstein on Politics (2007)

The New Quotable Einstein (2005)

Robert C. Richardson - 1996

Discovering Complexity (1992)

Richard Feynman - 1965

The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (1986)

Chen Ning Yang - 1957

Elementary Particles (1961)

Nobel Prize in Economics:

Clive Granger - 2003

Spectral Analysis of Economic Time Series (1964)

Robert F. Engle - 2003

Anticipating Correlations (2009)

John Forbes Nash - 1994

The Essential John Nash (2001)

Douglas C. North - 1993

Understanding the Process of Economic Change (2005)

William Forsyth Sharpe - 1990

Investors and Markets (2006)

Robert M. Solow - 1987

Work and Welfare (1998)

James Tobin - 1981

The New Economics One Decade Older (1974)

Sir Arthur Lewis - 1979

The Evolution of the International Economic Order (1978)

Milton Friedman - 1976

The Great Contraction, 1929-1933 (1965, Revised 2008)

Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 (1971)

From New Deal Banking Reform to World War II Inflation (1980)

The Theory of the Consumption Function (2008)

Nobel Prize in Literature:

J.M. Coetzee - 2003

The Lives of Animals (2001)

Landscape With Rowers (2005)

Wislawa Szymborska - 1996

Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts (1981)

Shmuel Agnon - 1966

Only Yesterday (2002)

George Seferis - 1963

George Seferis: Collected Poems, 1924-1955 (1982, Revised 1995)

St-John Perse - 1960

Chronique (1961)

Collected Poems (1983)

Eloges and Other Poems (1953)

Seamarks (1958)

Winds (1961)

Two Addresses by St-John Perse: On Poetry (1966)

Birds (1966)

Song for an Equinox (1977)

Letters (1979)

Albert Camus - 1957

Camus at Combat: Writing 1944-1947 (2005)

Luigi Pirandello - 1934

Pirandello's Love Letters to Marta Abba (2004)

Maurice Maeterlinck - 1911

Hothouses: Poems, 1889 (2003)

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine:

Baruch Blumberg - 1976

Hepatitis B: The Hunt for a Killer Virus (2003)

[edit] Papers projects

Multi-volume historical documents projects undertaken by the Press include

• The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein
• The Writings of Henry David Thoreau
• The Papers of Woodrow Wilson (sixty nine volumes)
• The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
• Kierkegaard's Writings

[edit] Bollingen Series

The Princeton University Press Bollingen Series had its beginnings in the Bollingen Foundation, a 1943 project of Paul Mellon's Old Dominion Foundation. From 1945, the foundation had independent status, publishing and providing fellowships and grants in several areas of study including archaeology, poetry, and psychology. The Bollingen Series was given to the university in 1969.

[edit] Recent publications

• Making Democracy work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy by Robert Putnam, with Robert Leonardi and Raffaella Y. Nanetti (1994)
• The History and Geography of Human Genes by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Paolo Menozzi, and Alberto Piazza (1994)
• T. Rex and the Crater of Doom by Walter Alvarez (1997)
• Irrational Exuberance by Robert Shiller (a New York Times bestseller) (2000)
• The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions by William G. Bowen and Derek Bok (2000)
• The Nature of Space and Time by Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose (2000)
• On Bullshit by Harry Frankfurt (a New York Times bestseller) (2005)
• Sharks of the World by Leonard Compagno and Sarah Fowler with illustrations by Marc Dando. Princeton Field Guide series. (2005)
• The Galactic Supermassive Black Hole by Fulvio Melia (2007)
• Cop in the Hood by Peter Moskos (2008)

[edit] Selected titles

• The Meaning of Relativity by Albert Einstein (1922)
• Atomic Energy for Military Purposes by Henry DeWolf Smyth (1945)
• How to Solve It by George Polya (1945)
• The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper (1945)
• The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell (1949)
• The Wilhelm/Baynes translation of the I Ching, Bollingen Series XIX. First copyright 1950, 27th printing 1997.
• Anatomy of Criticism by Northrop Frye (1957)
• Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature by Richard Rorty (1979)
• QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard Feynman (1985)
• The Great Contraction 1929-1933 by Milton Friedman and Anna Jacobson Schwartz (1963) with a new Introduction by Peter Bernstein (2008)

[edit] References

1. ^ A History of Princeton University Press (2002)

[edit] External links

• Princeton University Press website
• Princeton University Press: Albert Einstein Web Page
• Princeton University Press: Bollingen Series

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