Princeton Classics
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Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation
$22.95 Add to cart“[An] extraordinary book.”–Brian Eno – “One of the best books about the U.S.S.R. in its late stage.”–Alexei Navalny, from Patriot: A Memoir – “Not just history, but a pleasure to read, a true work o
- Series: Princeton Classics
- Author: Yurchak, Alexei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0691284482
- Language: English
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The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
$19.95 Add to cartHow only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world history
Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To- Series: Princeton Classics
- Author: Scheidel, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0691271844
- Language: English
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Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas
$24.95 Add to cartAn anthropologist traces the intimate connections between gambling addiction and casino industry design tactics
Recent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played arou- Series: Princeton Classics
- Author: Schüll, Natasha Dow
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0691278288
- Language: English
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God’s Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights
$22.95 Add to cartIn the summer of 1964, the turmoil of the civil rights movement reached its peak in Mississippi, with activists across the political spectrum claiming that God was on their side in the struggle over r
- Series: Princeton Classics #142
- Author: Marsh, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0691266352
- Language: English
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Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play
$17.95 Add to cart“One of the world’s most widely read social scientists” (New York Times) offers his most personal and accessible book–a celebration of how ordinary people can resist oppression and injustice
James Sc- Series: Princeton Classics
- Author: Scott, James C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 069127178X
- Language: English
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Truth and Truthfulness: An Essay in Genealogy
$21.95 Add to cartWhat does it mean to be truthful? What role does truth play in our lives? What do we lose if we reject truthfulness? No philosopher is better suited to answer these questions than Bernard Williams. Wr
- Series: Princeton Classics
- Author: Williams, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0691271763
- Language: English
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The Jews of Islam: Updated Edition
$22.95 Add to cartThis landmark book probes Muslims’ attitudes toward Jews and Judaism as a special case of their view of other religious minorities in predominantly Muslim societies. With authority, sympathy and wit,
- Series: Princeton Classics #11
- Author: Lewis, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 28 2014
- ISBN10: 0691160872
- Language: English
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The Reasons of Love
$16.95 Add to cartFrom the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Bullshit, a profound meditation on how and why we love
In The Reasons of Love, leading moral philosopher and bestselling author Harry Frankfurt a- Series: Princeton Classics #41
- Author: Frankfurt, Harry G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 16 2019
- ISBN10: 0691191476
- Language: English
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Faust I & II, Volume 2: Goethe’s Collected Works – Updated Edition
$18.95 Add to cartOne of the great classics of European literature, Faust is Goethe’s most complex and profound work. To tell the dramatic and tragic story of one man’s pact with the Devil in exchange for knowledge and
- Series: Princeton Classics #5
- Author: Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: April 06 2014
- ISBN10: 0691162298
- Language: English
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The Jews of Islam: Updated Edition
$22.95 Add to cartThis landmark book probes Muslims’ attitudes toward Jews and Judaism as a special case of their view of other religious minorities in predominantly Muslim societies. With authority, sympathy and wit,
- Series: Princeton Classics #11
- Author: Lewis, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 28 2014
- ISBN10: 0691160872
- Language: English
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From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film
$27.95 Add to cartAn essential work of the cinematic history of the Weimar Republic by a leading figure of film criticism
First published in 1947, From Caligari to Hitler remains an undisputed landmark study of the ric- Series: Princeton Classics #43
- Author: Kracauer, Siegfried
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 0691191344
- Language: English
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Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought – Expanded Edition
$24.95 Read morePolitics and Vision is a landmark work by one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century. This is a significantly expanded edition of one of the greatest works of modern political theory. Sheldon
- Series: Princeton Classics #23
- Author: Wolin, Sheldon S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 792
- Publish Date: September 12 2016
- ISBN10: 0691174059
- Language: English
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After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History – Updated Edition
$19.95 Add to cartThe classic and provocative account of how art changed irrevocably with pop art and why traditional aesthetics can’t make sense of contemporary art
A classic of art criticism and philosophy, After the- Series: Princeton Classics
- Author: Danto, Arthur C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 22 2014
- ISBN10: 0691163898
- Language: English
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On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State
$19.95 Add to cartThe modern state, however we conceive of it today, is based on a pattern that emerged in Europe in the period from 1100 to 1600. Inspired by a lifetime of teaching and research, On the Medieval Origin
- Series: Princeton Classics #21
- Author: Strayer, Joseph R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 29 2016
- ISBN10: 0691169330
- Language: English
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The Praise of Folly: Updated Edition
$18.95 Add to cartDesiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) was a Dutch humanist, scholar, and social critic, and one of the most important figures of the Renaissance. The Praise of Folly is perhaps his best-known work. Originall
- Series: Princeton Classics #16
- Author: Erasmus, Desiderius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 09 2015
- ISBN10: 0691165645
- Language: English
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Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism
$22.95 Add to cartThe now-classic exploration of the role of women and the feminine in Buddhist Tantra
The crowning cultural achievement of medieval India, Tantric Buddhism is known in the West primarily for the sexual- Series: Princeton Classics #123
- Author: Shaw, Miranda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0691235597
- Language: English
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Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade – Updated Edition
$17.95 Add to cartNearly a century after it was first published in 1925, Medieval Cities remains one of the most provocative works of medieval history ever written. Here, Henri Pirenne argues that it was not the invasi
- Series: Princeton Classics #8
- Author: Pirenne, Henri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 21 2014
- ISBN10: 0691162395
- Language: English
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The Children of Abraham: Judaism, Christianity, Islam
$19.95 Add to cartF. E. Peters, a scholar without peer in the comparative study of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, revisits his pioneering work. Peters has rethought and thoroughly rewritten his classic The Children
- Series: Princeton Classics #34
- Author: Peters, Francis Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 22 2018
- ISBN10: 0691181039
- Language: English
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The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics
$27.95 Read moreThe Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual discipline but as a worldly art of grappling with issues of daily and urgent human significance. In this classi
- Series: Princeton Classics #33
- Author: Nussbaum, Martha C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: May 22 2018
- ISBN10: 0691181020
- Language: English
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The Coming of the French Revolution
$22.95 Add to cartThe classic book that restored the voices of ordinary people to our understanding of the French Revolution
The Coming of the French Revolution remains essential reading for anyone interested in the or- Series: Princeton Classics #19
- Author: Lefebvre, Georges
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 0691168466
- Language: English
