Rothstein, Robert L. Global Bargaining : UNCTAD and the Quest for a New International Economic Order, Princeton (N.J.), Princeton University Press, 1979, 303 p.

Searching for ourselves Stranger in the Mirror: The Scientific Search for the Self Robert V. Levine (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ; 2016) ISBN: 978-0-691167-916

and we know other couples who pursue careers in different areas of science, or where one half makes the money which softens the rigours of academic life for the other. JA: Any partnership, whether it’s purely scientifi c or personal as well, depends on appreciating and respecting the particular strengths and quirks of the other half. I think that Ol and I have been fortunate in complementing ea...

A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World. By Gregory Clark. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 420. $29.95, cloth

See life at the extremes Extreme Life of the Sea: Stephen R. Palumbi and Anthony R. Palumbi (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ; 2014) ISBN-10: 0691149569

Extreme Life of the Sea is a wonderful book, written in an engaging style by world-renowned marine biologist Stephen Palumbi and his science writer/novelist son, Anthony Palumbi. Between the two of them, they have managed to write a book that presents information in a way that a layman without a marine science background will enjoy, but with enough science to make it a useful text for marine bi...

The Theory of Ecological Communities. Monographs in Population Biology 57, Mark Vellend, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, USA (2016). 248 pp., $49.95, ISBN: 9780691164847 (Hardback), 9781400883790 (eBook)

A productive concept, or “theory” in ecological jargon, trikes just the right balance between abstract universality nd specific applicability. Too abstract, and ecologists will gnore it as too aloof; too specific, and it will not cross ub-disciplinary boundaries and fade away. Darwin’s Thery of Natural Selection fits this bill, as does MacArthur Wilson’s Island Biogeography. Will Vellend’s Theo...

Pure Food. Securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906. James Harvey Young. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1989. xiv, 312 pp. $29.95.