PUP acquires world rights to Jim Al-Khalili’s An Exploration of Time February 26, 2024 Princeton University Press is thrilled to have acquired world rights, including audio, Jim Al-Khalili’s An Exploration of Time, which will be the outcome of a major international research project, The Arrow of Time, led by Al-Khalili in collaboration with leading theoretical physicists and philosophers of physics. Read More
Princeton University Press acquires World rights to We See Things They’ll Never See September 25, 2023 Rebecca Brennan, Senior Editor for Social Sciences in Europe, has acquired World rights to We See Things They’ll Never See: Love, Hope and Neurodiversity by Dr. Chantelle Jessica Lewis & Professor Jason Arday. Read More
PUP acquires World rights to Marion Turner’s Why We Read Fiction August 16, 2023 Princeton University Press has acquired World rights, including Audio, to Marion Turner’s newest book, Why We Read Fiction. Read More
Princeton University Press acquires AI for the Public Good by Verity Harding October 28, 2022 Science Publisher Ingrid Gnerlich has acquired World rights to AI for the Public Good by Verity Harding. Coming at a critical juncture in the development of AI, Harding’s book argues that society must act with clear purpose and intentionality to ensure that artificial intelligence (AI) serves the public good now and in the future. Read More
PUP signs Eddie R. Cole’s education history, Black Ideas August 19, 2022 Princeton University Press is thrilled to announce the recent signing of Eddie R. Cole’s Black Ideas, a history of American higher education as told through the Black intellectuals who shaped it. Read More
PUP acquires World English rights to Claudia de Rham’s The Beauty of Falling October 18, 2021 PUP has acquired World English rights, including audio, to The Beauty of Falling by theoretical physicist Claudia de Rham. From Newton’s notion of gravitational force to Einstein’s theory of relativity, to the speculative frontiers of contemporary physics, The Beauty of Falling paints a vivid portrait of what we know and still do not know about gravity. Read More
PUP acquires Barbara Chase‑Riboud’s I Always Knew October 07, 2021 Princeton University Press is honored to announce that we have acquired World English rights to I Always Knew: A Memoir, a collection of letters written by internationally renowned author and artist Barbara Chase-Riboud. The book will be co-published with the Pulitzer Foundation. Read More
PUP to publish Jhumpa Lahiri’s Translating Myself and Others, essays on literary translation September 13, 2021 Executive Editor Anne Savarese at Princeton University Press has acquired North American, UK, and Commonwealth rights, including audio, to Jhumpa Lahiri’s Translating Myself and Others, a collection of essays on translation, self-translation, and writing across languages. Read More
PUP acquires World English rights to Bénédicte Savoy’s Africa’s Struggle for Its Art May 28, 2021 Michelle Komie, Publisher for Art, Architecture, and Urban History, has acquired World English rights, including audio, to Africa’s Struggle for Its Art: History of a Post-Colonial Defeat by art historian Bénédicte Savoy. Read More
PUP acquires Patterns, Predictions, and Actions May 19, 2021 Editor for Neuroscience and Computer Science Hallie Stebbins has acquired Patterns, Predictions, and Actions, a graduate-level introductory machine learning textbook by Moritz Hardt and Benjamin Recht. Read More
PUP acquires Musa al‑Gharbi’s We Have Never Been Woke May 05, 2021 Executive Editor Meagan Levinson has acquired World rights, including audio, to We Have Never Been Woke: Social Justice Discourse, Inequality, and the Rise of a New Elite by sociologist Musa al‑Gharbi. Read More
PUP acquires Dan-el Padilla Peralta’s A People’s History of Ancient Rome March 15, 2021 PUP has acquired World rights, including ebook and audio, to A People’s History of Ancient Rome by Princeton professor Dan-el Padilla Peralta. Read More
Announcing the Unearthing the Past Series December 15, 2020 We’re excited to announce Unearthing the Past, a new series of books written by archaeologists and ancient historians who bring the most up to date findings from the field to scholarly and non-specialist readers alike. Read More
PUP acquires Robert D. Richardson’s Three Roads Back: How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives November 11, 2020 Executive Editor Anne Savarese has acquired World English rights, including Audio, to Three Roads Back: How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives by the late biographer Robert D. Richardson. Read More
PUP acquires Ruha Benjamin’s Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want November 09, 2020 Executive Editor Megan Levinson has acquired World English rights, including audio, to Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want by author, scholar, and activist Ruha Benjamin Read More