Books

The Guide to PAMIR: Theory and Use of Parameterized Adaptive Multidimensional Integration Routines (2012), by Stephen L. Adler, Professor Emeritus in the School of Natural Sciences, has been published by World Scientific Publishing Company. The book...

Harvard University Press has published Volume 6, Books 28–39, of The Histories by Polybius (Loeb Classical Library, 2012), edited by Christian Habicht, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies, and F. W. Walbank and translated by W. R...

In Empires in Collision in Late Antiquity (Brandeis University Press, 2012), Glen W. Bowersock, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies, examines political developments in the Arabian Peninsula on the eve of the rise of Islam...

Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the School of Social Science, has edited A Companion to Moral Anthropology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012). It represents the first comprehensive and collective effort to bring together the various currents...

Dumbarton Oaks has published How to Defeat the Saracens by William of Adam in a new translation and critical edition (2012) by Giles Constable, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies. How to Defeat the Saracens presents a five...

Angelos Chaniotis, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, has edited Unveiling Emotions: Sources and Methods for the Study of Emotions in the Greek World (Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012). The volume presents the first results of research...

Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the School of Social Science, has authored Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History of the Present (University of California Press, 2011), which draws on case materials from France, South Africa, Venezuela...

In The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood (with Richard Rechtman, Princeton University Press, 2009), Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the School of Social Science, uses ethnographic work on victims of...

Galactic Dynamics (second edition, Princeton University Press, 2008) by James Binney and Scott Tremaine, Richard Black Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, is a major revision of the 1987 original, which has become one of the most widely...

Pindar Press has just published the first volume of the collected works of Irving Lavin, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies. Visible Spirit: the Art of Gianlorenzi Bernini (2007), brings his far-reaching publications together to...