https://press.princeton.edu/booksPrinceton University Press — New BooksWed, 29 Apr 2026 16:37:29 +0000https://press.princeton.edu/isbn/9780691294186https://press.princeton.edu/isbn/9780691294186Between 1935 and 1972, US federal welfare policy did not distinguish between citizens and noncitizens. Noncitizens, including unauthorized immigrants, were eligible for Social Security and unemployment insurance as well as other mean-tested programs. But that changed in the 1970s, when the federal government first barred unauthorized immigrants from virtually all federal welfare programs and loosened confidentiality provisions that prohibited health and welfare officials from sharing information with immigration authorities. In Unauthorized Welfare , Cybelle Fox examines the emergence of federal immigrant status restrictions in American social welfare policy and describes its wide-ranging effects. She shows that, contrary to previous accounts, the roots of today’s anti-immigrant politics are found not in the 1990s, when California’s Proposition 187 banned undocumented immigrants from almost all nonemergency services, but in the 1970s with the new federal constraints. Fox explores the consequences of this restrictive turn in federal welfare policy for undocumented immigrants, their US-citizen family members, and anyone suspected of being in the country without authorization—especially Mexicans and Mexican Americans. She also considers the effects on state and local communities, which were no longer reimbursed for the costs of care they provided to unauthorized immigrants. Over time, federal restrictions increased intergovernmental tensions, contributed to popular nativism, and helped propel the passage of anti-immigrant state and federal initiatives two decades later. With Unauthorized Welfare , Fox sheds new light on the origins of anti-immigrant policies and politics.C, y, b, e, l, l, e, , F, o, xTue, 09 Mar 2027 12:00:00 +0000https://press.princeton.edu/isbn/9780691137278https://press.princeton.edu/isbn/9780691137278Representing a new era in bird identification, The Bird Guide illustrates North America’s spectacular avifauna in unparalleled depth, precision, and beauty. The written accounts provide an unprecedented view of birds, bringing together decades of field expertise with insights drawn from billions of bird observations, photos, sounds, and videos contributed by birders to the Cornell Lab’s eBird project and Macaulay Library. Designed to work with the digital tools that have introduced millions of people to birding, this guide delivers an experience no screen can replicate: side-by-side comparisons of similar species, quick access to key field marks, and detailed facing-page accounts that train the eye and sharpen field identification skills. Covers 818 regularly occurring species and 158 rare visitors across the United States and Canada Features more than 7,000 illustrations covering plumage, age, sex, and subspecies and hundreds of vignettes showing birds in habitat Intuitively designed ID plates and facing-page text allow side-by-side comparison of similar species and provide deep ID context that is impossible to achieve on mobile screens Comprehensive “Sounds” sections offer expert guidance for interpreting vocalizations and separating confusing species Complements the strengths of the Merlin Bird ID app, bridging page and smartphone in a field-ready system for sound ID eBird integration includes global nomenclature, including subspecies, across the guide and Merlin, ensuring ease of identification and data sharing Distribution maps powered by eBird data transform millions of observations into new insights about bird distribution and abundance The Bird Guide brings together a world-class team that fuses decades of unsurpassed field expertise with incomparable artistry. Brian L. Sullivan and Christopher Wood are cofounders of eBird. Tour leading and teaching have made Michael O’Brien a legendary birder, and North America’s premier bird sound expert. Prolific author and international tour leader Steve N. G. Howell’s uncompromising field expertise has shaped modern bird identification. Paired with the artistic mastery of Ian Lewington and Lorenzo Starnini, two of the world’s finest bird illustrators, The Bird Guide is the most comprehensive, beautifully illustrated, and technologically integrated field guide to North American birds ever produced.Brian L. Sullivan, Michael O'Brien, Christopher Wood, Steve N. G. Howell, Ian Lewington, Lorenzo StarniniTue, 09 Mar 2027 12:00:00 +0000https://press.princeton.edu/isbn/9780691284422https://press.princeton.edu/isbn/9780691284422Whether you’re a birder, naturalist, eco-traveler, or ecologist, knowing the surrounding habitat is essential to getting the most out of your time in the field. This authoritative illustrated guide covers every major habitat found in Asia. It presents an easy-to-use system for exploring and enjoying habitats by combining vivid wildlife assemblages with detailed descriptions of vegetation, geology, and climate. Compact, easy to use, and requiring no scientific background, Habitats of Asia redefines how we experience the landscapes in this spectacular region of the world. Features engaging, fact-filled descriptions of 113 major habitats Blends state-of-the-art habitat maps with informative infographics and more than 300 stunning color photos of habitats and their wildlife The incisive text enables anyone to assess and understand habitats anywhere in Asia—quickly and reliably Describes iconic and indicator species of birds, mammals, and plants An ideal travel companion for birders, naturalists, and wildlife enthusiasts A go-to reference for conservationists within the IUCN framework, ecologists, and policymakersIain Campbell, Charley Hesse, Surya Ramachandran, Dale ForbesTue, 02 Mar 2027 12:00:00 +0000https://press.princeton.edu/isbn/9780691267005https://press.princeton.edu/isbn/9780691267005Angola is one of the world’s most sought-after birding destinations, home to a spectacular array of endemic birds and habitats ranging from deserts in the south to grasslands in the north and coastal mangrove forests. Birds of Angola is the essential field guide to this birder’s paradise. It covers every species found in the region and features an authoritative text that describes everything from size and distribution to voice, habitat, and status. Compact and field-friendly, this one-of-a-kind field guide is the ideal travel companion for any Afrotropical birder. Covers more than 1,000 species, including Africa’s most stunning endemic species Features beautiful color plates that depict every distinct plumage and race Concise species accounts highlight key features for easy identification in the field Includes an up-to-date distribution map for each speciesMichael Mills, Nik Borrow, Ron DemeyTue, 02 Mar 2027 12:00:00 +0000https://press.princeton.edu/isbn/9780691257815https://press.princeton.edu/isbn/9780691257815Across universities, labs, NGOs, and public agencies, collaboration has become a compulsory virtue, especially in climate and environmental science. Many such partnerships with Indigenous communities, however, are largely performative, with Indigenous participation merely tokenistic. These collaborations are often rushed by funding cycles, shaped by prestige hierarchies, and organized so that Indigenous expertise is consulted, extracted, or translated into “data,” while scientific agendas stay largely unchanged. In Reimagining Collaboration , social anthropologist Olga Ulturgasheva offers a new analytic and practical model for collaborative climate science: coupling , a deliberate, mediated convergence of distinct knowledge traditions that does not erase difference but uses it to generate new capacities for action. Ulturgasheva emphasizes the importance of the skilled facilitator or “human interface” (often an Indigenous scholar) as a catalyst for the encounter between scientific and Indigenous knowledge. Drawing on fifteen years of fieldwork and close engagement with cross-disciplinary projects, Ulturgasheva—herself a member of the Eveny Indigenous community of Siberia—shows that these collaborations succeed or fail at the level of method: how problems are framed, who gets to define evidence, what counts as proof, and how authority is silently reproduced. She proposes a set of principles, grounded in Eveny concepts of togetherness, sharing, and generative convergence, for designing collaborations that are ethical, scientifically robust, and aligned with the values of decolonization. Olga Ulturgasheva is associate professor in social anthropology in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Manchester. She is the author of Narrating the Future in Siberia and the coeditor of Risky Futures .O, l, g, a, , U, l, t, u, r, g, a, s, h, e, v, aTue, 02 Feb 2027 12:00:00 +0000https://press.princeton.edu/isbn/9780691288871https://press.princeton.edu/isbn/9780691288871Understanding the Digital World has established itself as the essential computer science textbook for nonmajors and a must-read for anyone who wants to know more about computers and communications. It explains how computers are built and how they compute, what programming is, how the Internet and the web work, Python programming, AI and machine learning, the inherent limitations of computers, and much more. Now completely updated, this informative and accessible book covers all facets of the digital world, revealing how computers affect security, privacy, property, and many other vital social, political, and economic issues. Now covers large language models and chatbots like ChatGPT Features timely new discussions of how LLMs are changing how we live and work, including how the use of AI is transforming programming itself Gives updated examples of new technologies like self-driving cars and how they affect us Provides added coverage of data breaches, facial recognition and biometrics, tracking, and other privacy issues Offers expanded coverage of hardware like multiple cores and GPUs Additional historical discussions cover topics such as Leibniz’s work on binary numbers Includes suggestions for further reading and a glossary of technical terms and buzzwordsB, r, i, a, n, , W, ., , K, e, r, n, i, g, h, a, nTue, 12 Jan 2027 12:00:00 +0000https://press.princeton.edu/isbn/9780691294490https://press.princeton.edu/isbn/9780691294490In the 1920s, Hermann Weyl gave a complete classification of the irreducible unitary representations of a compact Lie group G. Around the same time, Fritz Peter and Weyl showed that these irreducible unitary representations are fundamental objects for harmonic analysis on G. If G is instead a noncompact Lie group, such as GL_n(R), the classification of the irreducible unitary G-representations is a much more difficult problem, one that remains open in general. An idea, with its origins in the work of Kostant, Kirillov, and Vogan, is that the set of irreducible unitary G-representations should contain a finite set of “building blocks,” called unipotent representations, related to the set of nilpotent co-adjoint G-orbits. This book proposes a definition and theory of unipotent representations in the case of when G is a complex reductive Lie group, such as GL_n(C). This definition is based on the theory of quantizations of symplectic singularities, especially the geometry of nilpotent co-adjoint orbits and their equivariant covers. The main theorems include a geometric classification of unipotent representations, a calculation of their infinitesimal characters, and a proof of their unitarity in the case of classical groups. Although further obstacles remain, this work paves the way for a general theory of unipotent representations of reductive Lie groups, which should in turn form the basis of the classification of irreducible unitary representations.Ivan Loseu, Dmytro Matvieievskyi, Lucas Mason-BrownTue, 12 Jan 2027 12:00:00 +0000https://press.princeton.edu/isbn/9780691293868https://press.princeton.edu/isbn/9780691293868A Fire in Her Brain examines the porous boundary between the spark of genius and a mind in conflagration in the lives and works of Lucia Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Sylvia Plath, women whose imaginative gifts were also a Cassandrian curse. Penetrating, meticulous, and tender, Jennifer Franklin’s poems capture her subjects’ brimming intellects, ardent keenings, and resilient but ultimately corruptible minds and bodies in elegies (chiefly in epistolary mode) for genius departed or abandoned too soon. Interwoven through the collection are lyrical meditations on Franklin’s own artistic struggles, her battles with life-threatening disease and invisible disabilities, and the difficulties of caring for her disabled daughter. What emerges is a powerful and affecting reflection on the pain and pleasure of devoting a life to making art, the agony of being thwarted in that pursuit, and the sustaining hope that art can provide, especially during times of personal and political upheaval.J, e, n, n, i, f, e, r, , F, r, a, n, k, l, i, nTue, 12 Jan 2027 12:00:00 +0000https://press.princeton.edu/isbn/9780691293530https://press.princeton.edu/isbn/9780691293530Wild Indigo is a remarkable poetic debut—a lyric narrative set on a former slave plantation in rural Louisiana, where love, art, and history exert competing claims. The speaker, a Black painter, has inherited the house from his white grandmother—a bequest that offers solitude and space for his creative work but also forces him to confront the trauma of slavery. His male lover, troubled by the morality of inhabiting such a place, believes the property is deepening his own depression. As the couple reckons with the lover’s mental state, Korey Williams’s poems trace a mounting tension between legacy and refusal, creation and complicity. As the story unfolds, Wild Indigo moves through a variety of poetic forms, from the sonnet to haibun, maintaining at once a powerful narrative momentum and the compression and musicality of lyric. Mixing elements of Southern Gothic and the genre of the artist’s novel, Wild Indigo is written in the tradition of verse narratives such as Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red , Natasha Trethewey’s Bellocq’s Ophelia , and Ciaran Carson’s For All We Know . Dreamy and uneasy, somber and erotic, Wild Indigo asks what it means to make art—and to make a life—on contested ground, where beauty and violence are bound together.K, o, r, e, y, , W, i, l, l, i, a, m, sTue, 12 Jan 2027 12:00:00 +0000https://press.princeton.edu/isbn/9780691250359https://press.princeton.edu/isbn/9780691250359One of the biggest obstacles for disabled birders is knowing which locations will meet their access needs. A Field Guide to Accessible Birding in the United States provides details on more than 200 accessible trails, stationary birding locations, and car birding opportunities, enabling disabled birders to make informed decisions about visiting. Organized by state, each entry addresses a variety of access features, and every location was visited by the author to ensure accuracy and reliability. Whether you’re a wheelchair hiker, a birder living with an injury or chronic illness, or a parent who struggles to find sites where you can easily push a stroller, this guide is your passport to discovering amazing, accessible places to enjoy birds. Nondisabled birders, too, will appreciate this collection of awe-inspiring birding experiences from across the country. In-depth entries share invaluable information on the accessibility of each site, from parking and trail surfaces to benches, bathrooms, guide ropes, blinds, observation platforms, audio tours and loaner equipment, and potential barriers such as steps or gates Highlights spectacular migration experiences and the most accessible places to find specialty birds, from Tufted Puffins and Greater Prairie-Chickens to Bicknell’s Thrush and White-tailed Ptarmigan Uses icons for at-a-glance reference, noting the best season to visit, opportunities for birding by ear, and the availability of car, boat, bike, indoor, and stationary birding Provides a map for every state as well as maps for each location along with stunning photos Tips and suggestions help birders choose the locations that best suit their needs and offers encouragement to try different styles of birding Draws on the author’s lived experience as a disabled birder, perspectives from a variety of birders with disabilities, and best practices from the researchF, r, e, y, a, , M, c, G, r, e, g, o, rTue, 12 Jan 2027 12:00:00 +0000https://press.princeton.edu/isbn/9780691272887https://press.princeton.edu/isbn/9780691272887Think Again is a personal and cutting-edge introduction to philosophy by award-winning teacher and renowned public philosopher John Kaag. The book encourages students to relate to their own lives the important questions raised by philosophy over the millennia. Motivated by the belief that teaching is fundamental to philosophy, the book has been carefully designed and written to be accessible to a wide range of undergraduates at a broad array of schools. Think Again proceeds historically, guiding students from the ancients through to 1900 and the birth of contemporary philosophy. From there, it proceeds thematically, covering topics as diverse as metaphysics and epistemology, philosophy of mind, moral and political philosophy, and philosophical approaches to oppression. It features skillfully selected excerpts of primary texts from philosophy to encourage students’ direct engagement with and close reading of foundational texts. Personal and conversational style Historical and thematic coverage Primary text excerpts Learning objectives Chapter reviews that include a summary, key terms, review questions, and additional readings Three types of boxed features: Historical Context, Writing Philosophically, and Thinking CriticallyJ, o, h, n, , K, a, a, gTue, 12 Jan 2027 12:00:00 +0000https://press.princeton.edu/isbn/9780691267487https://press.princeton.edu/isbn/9780691267487Authoritarian governments are often seen as attacking gender equality. Vladimir Putin, Viktor Orbán, and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan have made well-publicized critiques of feminism. But, as Elin Bjarnegård and Pär Zetterberg show in this book, autocratic regimes are also actively adopting gender-equality reforms, surpassing some democracies in their embrace of such policies. Why have leaders of countries known for violating human rights become unlikely champions of gender equality? Bjarnegård and Zetterberg argue that gender serves as a versatile tool for autocrats seeking to legitimize their rule, deflecting attention from authoritarian practices by promoting policies that seem liberal and even democratic. They call this strategy of political misdirection autocratic genderwashing . Drawing on data from authoritarian governments in countries including Rwanda, Nicaragua, Singapore, and Uganda, Bjarnegård and Zetterberg show how gender equality policies interact with noncoercive authoritarian strategies to claim legitimacy for autocratic rule. They describe autocratic genderwashing as political theater, shining a spotlight on specific reforms and accomplishments—domestic violence legislation, increased numbers of women in parliament, the creation of women’s policy agencies—while leaving authoritarian practices in the dark. Considering the question of whether autocratic genderwashing is successful as a legitimation strategy, Bjarnegård and Zetterberg find that it is more convincing to international audiences than to domestic ones.Elin Bjarnegård, Pär ZetterbergTue, 05 Jan 2027 12:00:00 +0000https://press.princeton.edu/isbn/9780691270401https://press.princeton.edu/isbn/9780691270401When it comes to literary style, the commonplace wisdom of composition classrooms, newsrooms, and editorial offices has long been that less is more. Students are taught that the best prose is that which eschews ornamentation and rhetorical flourish. But what if sometimes more is more? In Praise of Purple Prose playfully and cheekily contests a century worth of convention that rejects the baroque and byzantine as “purple prose,” making the case that fun and joy in language can be as important as concision and comprehension. Part style guide and part manifesto, the book rewrites the rules on writing. Ed Simon encourages writers to embrace the extraordinary, to call upon the classical rhetorical devices, and to relish in the richness of description and the erudition of allusion. He demonstrates that serpentine syntax, eccentric diction, and idiosyncratic punctuation, when used judiciously, can express the complexity of experience, bring out the pleasures of language, and help readers develop a unique voice in a world where AI threatens to make everyone sound alike. To illustrate its arguments, the book features examples of extraordinary prose from dozens of writers, including John Donne, Virginia Woolf, Joan Didion, Salman Rushdie, Marilynne Robison, and Zadie Smith. Playful and provocative, In Praise of Purple Prose will leave readers with a new appreciation for fancy prose and inspire writers to draw on all of the liveliest and most powerful resources of English in their work.E, d, , S, i, m, o, nTue, 05 Jan 2027 12:00:00 +0000https://press.princeton.edu/isbn/9780691247830https://press.princeton.edu/isbn/9780691247830As provost and then president of Princeton University, William G. Bowen (1933–2016) took on the biggest and most complex challenges confronting higher education: cost disease, inclusion, affirmative action, college access, and college completion. Later, as president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, he took his vision for higher education—and the strategies for accomplishing that vision—to a larger arena. Along the way, he wrote a series of influential books, including the widely read The Shape of the River (coauthored with Derek Bok), which documented the success of policies designed to increase racial diversity at elite institutions. In Changing the Game , drawing on deep archival research and hundreds of interviews, Nancy Weiss Malkiel argues that Bowen was the most consequential higher education leader of his generation. Bowen, who became Princeton’s president in 1972 at the age of 38, worked to shore up the university’s financial stability, implement coeducation, and create a more inclusive institution. Breaking through the traditional Ivy League demographics of white, Protestant, and male, he embraced equal access in admissions for women and men and actively sought to enroll Black, Hispanic, and Asian American students. To “increase the intellectual muscle of the faculty,” he used targeted recruiting and enforced higher scholarly standards. In 1988, Bowen moved on to Mellon, where, among many other accomplishments, he developed digital research tools, most notably JSTOR, and promoted racial diversity through the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship. Attacking problems with tenacity, insight, and deep knowledge, Bowen showed the world of higher education how a visionary leader can transform an institution.N, a, n, c, y, , W, e, i, s, s, , M, a, l, k, i, e, lTue, 15 Dec 2026 12:00:00 +0000https://press.princeton.edu/isbn/9780691266459https://press.princeton.edu/isbn/9780691266459The academic field of international relations presents its own history as largely a project of elite white men. And yet women played a prominent role in the creation of this new cross-disciplinary field. In Erased , Patricia Owens shows that, since its beginnings in the early twentieth century, international relations relied on the intellectual labour of women and their expertise on such subjects as empire and colonial administration, anticolonial organising, non-Western powers, and international organisations. Indeed, women were among the leading international thinkers of the era, shaping the development of the field as scholars, journalists, and public intellectuals—and as heterosexual spouses and intimate same-sex partners. Drawing on a wide range of archival sources, and weaving together personal, institutional, and intellectual narratives, Owens documents key moments and locations in the effort to forge international relations as a separate academic discipline in Britain. She finds that women’s ideas and influence were first marginalised and later devalued, ignored, and erased. Examining the roles played by some of the most important women thinkers in the field, including Margery Perham, Merze Tate, Eileen Power, Margaret Cleeve, Coral Bell, and Susan Strange, Owens traces the intellectual and institutional legacies of misogyny and racism. She argues that the creation of international relations was a highly gendered and racialised project that failed to understand plurality on a worldwide scale. Acknowledging this intellectual failure, and recovering the history of women in the field, points to possible sources for its renewal.P, a, t, r, i, c, i, a, , O, w, e, n, sTue, 08 Dec 2026 12:00:00 +0000https://press.princeton.edu/isbn/9780691292755https://press.princeton.edu/isbn/9780691292755When we think of carbon, we might first think of a simple element near the top of the periodic table: symbol C, atomic number 6. Alternatively, we might think of something more tangible—a sooty piece of coal or a sparkling diamond, both made of carbon. Or, as Earth’s temperature continues to rise alarmingly, we might think of the role carbon plays in climate change. Yet carbon’s story begins long ago, far from earthly concerns. In The Sixth Element , astronomers Theodore Snow and Don Brownlee tell the story of carbon from a cosmic perspective—how it was born in the fiery furnaces of stars, what special chemical and physical properties it has, and how it forms the chemical backbone of the planets and all life as we know it. Foundational to every part of our lives, from our bodies to the food, tools, and atmosphere that sustain our existence, carbon is arguably humankind’s most important element. Snow and Brownlee offer readers the ideal introduction to the starry element that made our world possible and shapes our lives. They first discuss carbon’s origin, discovery, and unique ability to bond with other elements and form countless molecules. Next, they reveal carbon’s essential role in the chemical evolution of the universe and the formation and evolution of galaxies, stars, planets, and life, and then, more generally, its technological uses and its influence on Earth’s climate. Bringing readers on a historical, scientific, and cross-disciplinary journey, The Sixth Element illuminates the cosmic wonder that is carbon.Theodore P. Snow, Don BrownleeTue, 08 Dec 2026 12:00:00 +0000https://press.princeton.edu/isbn/9780691245430https://press.princeton.edu/isbn/9780691245430A diverse and growing range of financial institutions and platforms—from PayPal and Venmo to WeChat, Alipay, and the brave new world of stablecoins—has harnessed new technology to disrupt the system of money and payments as we know it. Beyond Banks explains why this disruption holds out the promise of faster, cheaper, more convenient, and more secure payments, but also how it increasingly risks exposing consumers, businesses, and governments to the problem of bad money. Dan Awrey traces the origins of our current bundled system of banking, money, and payments. He explains why the problem of bad money—the result of antiquated and inadequate laws and regulation that fail to establish credible commitments to hold, transfer, or return a customer’s money on demand—requires that policymakers fundamentally rethink their approach toward the design of the laws and institutions at the heart of this system. He presents ways to effectively unbundle banking from money and payments, ensure the credibility of monetary commitments, and promote the stability of this system. Awrey also envisions a more forward-looking role for policymakers in encouraging greater technological experimentation, competition, and innovation in the realm of payments. Beyond Banks sheds critical light on the important but too often dysfunctional relationship among technology, regulation, and money, and lays the foundations for a safer, more nimble, and more inclusive system of money and payments.D, a, n, , A, w, r, e, yTue, 08 Dec 2026 12:00:00 +0000https://press.princeton.edu/isbn/9780691244259https://press.princeton.edu/isbn/9780691244259Augustine believed that slavery is permissible, but to understand why, we must situate him in his late antique Roman intellectual context. Slaves of God provides a major reassessment of this monumental figure in the Western religious and political tradition, tracing the remarkably close connections between Augustine’s understanding of slavery and his broader thought. Augustine is most often read through the lens of Greek philosophy and the theology of Christian writers such as Paul and Ambrose, yet his debt to Roman thought is seldom appreciated. Toni Alimi reminds us that the author of Confessions and City of God was also a Roman citizen and argues that some of the thinkers who most significantly shaped his intellectual development were Romans such as Cicero, Seneca, Lactantius, and Varro—Romans who had much to say about slavery and its relationship to civic life. Alimi shows how Augustine, a keen and influential student of these figures, related chattel slavery and slavery to God, and sheds light on Augustinianism’s complicity in Christianity’s long entanglement with slavery. An illuminating work of scholarship, Slaves of God reveals how slavery was integral to Augustine’s views about law, rule, accountability, and citizenship, and breaks new ground on the topic of slavery in late antique and medieval political thought.T, o, n, i, , A, l, i, m, iTue, 08 Dec 2026 12:00:00 +0000https://press.princeton.edu/isbn/9780691240954https://press.princeton.edu/isbn/9780691240954When John Winkler died in 1990, he left an unpublished manuscript containing a highly original interpretation of the development and meaning of ancient Greek drama. Rehearsals of Manhood makes this groundbreaking work available for the first time, presenting an entirely novel picture of Greek tragedy and a vivid portrait of the cultural poetics of Athenian manhood. Ancient Athens was a military conclave as well as an urban capital, and male citizens were expected to embody the ideal of the Athenian citizen-soldier. Winkler understands Attic drama as a secular manhood ritual, a collaborative aesthetic and civic enterprise focused on the initiation of boys into manhood and the training, testing, and representation of young male warriors. Past efforts to discover the origins and development of Greek tragedy have largely treated drama as a literary genre, isolating it from other Athenian social practices. Winkler returns Greek tragedy to its social context, showing how it was one among many forms of display and performance cultivated by elite males in ancient Greece. The final work of a celebrated classical scholar, Rehearsals of Manhood highlights the civic function of the dramatic festivals at classical Athens as occasions for the examination and representation of boys on the verge of manhood, and offers a fresh explanation of how dramatic performance fit into the social life and gender politics of the Athenian state.John J. Winkler, Kirk Ormand, David M. HalperinTue, 08 Dec 2026 12:00:00 +0000https://press.princeton.edu/isbn/9780691249322https://press.princeton.edu/isbn/9780691249322This book is for anyone in academia who will ever have to give a talk—which is just about everyone in academia. Presenting research is one of the most important tasks academics undertake, but few receive formal training in effective public speaking. In How to Give a Good Academic Talk , Sharon Marcus fills this gap, offering a practical, research-informed guide to an activity that can challenge even seasoned scholars. Marcus, who has given many academic talks in her career—and listened to even more—blends insights from learning and cognitive science, communications, rhetoric, and performance theory with her own seasoned judgment and firsthand observation to provide a pragmatic repertoire of dos and don’ts. Each chapter addresses a central component of successful presentations, illustrated with examples drawn from a wide variety of academic talks, many available online. Marcus’s cross-disciplinary perspective allows her to identify elements that all good academic talks have in common, while remaining attentive to field-specific norms. She defines what an academic talk is and isn’t, and identifies its most important and challenging task: engaging the audience . How to Give a Good Academic Talk covers the beginnings and endings of talks, Q&A sessions, the design and use of slides, delivery, rehearsals, video conferencing platforms—and even offers wardrobe advice. Marcus’s essential guide equips academics to communicate their ideas with confidence, precision, and intellectual generosity.S, h, a, r, o, n, , M, a, r, c, u, sTue, 01 Dec 2026 12:00:00 +0000