Publishing for the Next 100 Years
Christie Henry
President, Princeton University Press
Christie Henry pulls back the curtain on university press publishing. We discuss her extraordinary career, why universities have presses, and the unique role they play in the world.
INTERVIEWED ON: December 11th, 2024
Books discussed:
The Oldest Living Things in the World by Rachel Sussman
The Oldest Living Things in the World is an epic journey through time and space. Over the past decade, artist Rachel Sussman has researched, worked with biologists, and traveled the world to photograph continuously living organisms that are 2,000 years old and older. Spanning from Antarctica to Greenland, the Mojave Desert to the Australian Outback, the result is a stunning and unique visual collection of ancient organisms unlike anything that has been created in the arts or sciences before, insightfully and accessibly narrated by Sussman along the way.
The Chicago Manual of Style, 18th Edition by The University of Chicago Press Editorial Staff
The venerable, time-tested guide to style, usage, and grammar—an indispensable reference informing the editorial canon with sound, definitive advice. Now in its 18th edition! More than 1.75 million copies sold!
AI Snake Oil by Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor
From two of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI, what you need to know about AI--and how to defend yourself against bogus AI claims and products.
The Essential Einstein
The Essential Einstein: Scientific Writings presents Einstein's most important physics papers, spanning his groundbreaking contributions to statistical mechanics, quantum theory, and relativity as well as his ambitious yet ultimately unrealized attempts at a general unified field theory. This incisive collection contains works that profoundly influenced the trajectory of modern science.
