Books by Members of the Faculty

In The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood (with Richard Rechtman, Princeton University Press, 2009), Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the School of Social Science, uses ethnographic work on victims of disasters, wars, and persecutions to analyze more broadly the moral significance of trauma, its use as a political resource for reparation, testimony, or proof, and the advent of the victim in the contemporary world.
Galactic Dynamics: Second Edition (Princeton University Press, 2008) by James Binney and Scott Tremaine, Richard Black Professor in the School of Natural Sciences,  is a major revision of the 1987 original, which has become one of the most widely used advanced textbooks on the structure and dynamics of galaxies and other stellar systems, and one of the most cited references in astrophysics.

Pindar Press has just published the first volume of the collected works of Irving Lavin, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies.  Visible Spirit: the Art of Gianlorenzo Bernini (2007), brings his far-reaching publications together to provide a valuable resource to scholars and students and to underscore fundamental themes in the history of art: historicism, the art of commemoration, the relationship between style and meaning, the intelligence of artists -- themes that define the role of the visual arts in human communication.
 A Many-Colored Glass: Reflections on the Place of Life in the Universe (University of Virginia Press, 2007) by Freeman J. Dyson, Professor Emeritus in the School of Natural Sciences, addresses the human and ethical consequences of biotechnology; the place of life in the universe; and the implications of biology for philosophy and religion.

Inspired by S. S. Chern:  A Memorial Volume in Honor of A Great Mathematician (World Scientific Press, 2007) edited by Phillip A. Griffiths, Professor in the School of Mathematics, contains contributions by former colleagues, students, and friends of S. S. Chern (1911-2004), one of the leading differential geometers of the twentieth century and a former Member in the School of Mathematics (1943-46, 1954-55, 1964-65).