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Can My Princeton Press book be turned into a Best Selling T-Shirt? (Environmental and Urban Economics)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:59:00 GMT

Seth Ditchik of Princeton University Press has created a novel new product. He took my forthcoming social capital during the U.S Civil War book (joint with Dora L. Costa) 's text and fed it through http://wordle.net/. Here is the output based on the Word Count analysis of our Forthcoming Book . Who knew that tabulating words could create such art? For those enterprising young business...

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Waseda University opens campus in Second Life (Asiajin)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:33:11 GMT

On Tuesday, one of Japan’s most renowned universities, Waseda Daigaku, opened a virtual campus in Second Life. Waseda aims at making it easier for their students to cooperate with those from Princeton University, which has opened a campus on an island in Second Life last year. Waseda says it wants to explore the possibilities of conducting [...]

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The challenge of a national security that is fundamentally flawed (Sisyphus)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:34:00 GMT

Andrew J. Bacevich graduated from West Point in 1969 and served in Vietnam in 1970 and 1971. He continued in the military retiring as a Colonel in the early 1990’s. He earned his Ph.D from Princeton University in the history of American Diplomacy and has taught at West Point, John Hopkins University and Boston University. His son followed his career path into the military...

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Young, Single, and Spiritual (Red Orbit )

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:00:24 GMT

By Cohen, Aaron M Can traditional religions reach out to the MySpace generation? "Unless religious leaders take younger adults more seriously, the future of American religion is in doubt," warns Princeton University sociology professor Robert Wuthnow in his new book, After the Baby Boomers: How Twenty- and Thirty-Somethings Are Shaping the Future of American Religion.

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Transformers 2 Pictures Show GASP A Robot! [Transformers 2] (Jalopnik)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:36:30 GMT

Another day of filming Transformers 2 has unveiled some key insights. The first is that Transformers 2 will feature robots; in this particular case, a sort of smaller, dragon-like Transformer who feeds on whomever is inside that vehicle. Given that most of the scenes filmed at Princeton University have featured the Saturn Astra , one could make an assumption that the vehicle pictured...

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Gift of $100 million to transform energy and environment research at Princeton (Nanotechnology News from Nanowerk)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:01:45 GMT

Gerhard R. (Gerry) Andlinger, an alumnus and noted international business executive, has made a gift to Princeton University to accelerate research on effective and sustainable solutions to problems of energy and the environment.

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Who is looking out for the children? (Some Have Hats)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:33:49 GMT

Once again, nobody. According to Jeffrey Satinover, M. D., a psychiatrist and member of the Department of Politics at Princeton University, there is no more important reason to prohibit same-sex marriage than the effects it would have on children. And...

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Princeton University plans to announce $100M gift, report says (The Star-Ledger)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:51:03 GMT

Princeton University is preparing to announce one of its largest gifts ever: $100 million to establish an engineering center to study energy and the environment, focusing on climate change, according to a report in the Philadelphia Inquirer. The report said...

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Princeton gets a $100 million gift (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:01:00 GMT

Princeton University plans to announce a $100 million gift today that will establish a major new engineering center to tackle the issues of energy and the environment, with a strong focus on climate change.

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Great Apes are People, Infants Aren't (Magic Valley Mormon)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:25:00 GMT

Recall Peter Singer , the Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University? He who argues that, "Simply killing an infant is never equivalent to killing a person", and that perfectly healthy, normal infants can be killed if their parents want to? Well, despite those troubling stances, he is probably more known for his animal rights activism - particularly that of great apes. He has written...

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Philosophers Writing on Wittgenstein: Sympathetic but Critical? (Leiter Reports: A Group Blog)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:47:00 GMT

John Hyman (Oxford), in a quite positive review of Michael Forster's book Wittgenstein on the Arbitrariness of Grammar (Princeton University Press, 2004), makes an observation that may be somewhat uncharitable but probably resonates with many of us who are not...

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Princeton will soon offer Kindle edition textbooks (Gadgets 2008)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:23:55 GMT

Princeton University has become the latest to announce that they have plans to begin offering Kindle editions of their textbooks. Joining other universities such as Yale, Oxford, and UC Berkeley the Princeton textbooks will be available beginning in the fall semester. While there was not any mention of the pricing for the Kindle edition books, the nice part here is that...

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Princeton will soon offer Kindle edition textbooks (Gadgets Blog News)

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:45:46 GMT

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Princeton will soon offer Kindle edition textbooks (Its Electronica)

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:29:33 GMT

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Princeton will soon offer Kindle edition textbooks (Gadgets News)

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:22:08 GMT

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Princeton will soon offer Kindle edition textbooks (Gadgetell)

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:16:14 GMT

Section: Gadgets / Other , Lifestyle , Miscellaneous Princeton University has become the latest to announce that they have plans to begin offering Kindle editions of their textbooks. Joining other universities such as Yale, Oxford, and UC Berkeley the Princeton textbooks will be available beginning in the fall semester. While there was not any mention of the pricing for...

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Princeton will soon offer Kindle edition textbooks (Best New Technology)

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:02:29 GMT

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Princeton will soon offer Kindle edition textbooks (Gadgets Future)

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:01:44 GMT

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The Pill is an outdated method of contraception, says expert (Re-issue) (Thaindian News)

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:34:20 GMT

London, June 29 (ANI): The contraceptive pill is outdated and results in unwanted pregnancies and abortions because women in the UK don’t use it correctly, a Brit expert has said. Professor James Trussell, of Princeton University, New Jersey, said that nearly one in 12 women who takes the Pill stands to become pregnant each year by [...]

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Everyman Links for June 29, 2008 (Dave Burke)

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:12:49 GMT

Tipping Point for e-Books? Princeton University will be publishing Kindle-editions of its textbooks this fall, joining Yale, Oxford and Berkeley in supporting the Kindle. That's great news for trees everywhere. My interest in the Kindle has ticked-up lately. I very much appreciated Seth Goldin's recent review of the Kindle. Interesting observations include, "It's for women and women...

Source : Dave Burke (subscribe)