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Massacre : The Life and Death of the Paris Commune of 1871 John M. Merriman Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2014

One of the most dramatic chapters in the history of nineteenth-century Europe, the Commune of 1871 was an eclectic revolutionary government that held power in Paris across eight weeks between 18 March and 28 May. Its brief rule ended in ‘Bloody Week'– the brutal massacre of as many as 15,000 Parisians, and perhaps even more, who perished at the hands of the provisional government's forces. By then, the city's boulevards had been torched and its monuments toppled. More than 40,000 Parisians were investigated, imprisoned or forced into exile – a purging of Parisian society by a conservative national government whose supporters were considerably more horrified by a pile of rubble than the many deaths of the resisters. In this gripping narrative, John Merriman explores the radical and revolutionary roots of the Commune, painting vivid portraits of the Communards – the ordinary workers, famous artists and extraordinary fire-starting women – and their daily lives behind the barricades, and examining the ramifications of the Commune on the role of the state and sovereignty in France and modern Europe. Enthralling, evocative and deeply moving, this narrative account offers a full picture of a defining moment in the evolution of state terror and popular resistance.

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Witness to history : the life of John Wheeler-Bennett Schofield, Victoria New Haven: Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2012

Historian Sir John Wheeler-Bennett (1902–1975) was one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary political observers. Through an ability to make important connections, he became an authority on Germany in the interwar years and was acquainted with all the German hierarchy, including Hitler and Hindenburg. He was one of the last people to interview Trotsky, writing an important analysis of the Brest-Litovsk Treaty between Germany and the Soviet Union in 1917. As King George VI's official biographer, he met and interviewed the major leaders of the postwar period, including Churchill, Coolidge, Truman, and members of the British Royal Family. A teacher at the universities of New York, Virginia, and Arizona, he also briefly supervised young Jack Kennedy's master's thesis at Harvard.This first biography of Wheeler-Bennett will fascinate anyone interested in the great political figures of world history during the twentieth century.

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Hubert Humphrey : The Conscience of the Country Arnold A. Offner Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2018

One of the great liberal politicians of the twentieth century, rediscovered in an important, definitive biography Hubert Humphrey (1911–1978) was one of the great liberal leaders of postwar American politics, yet because he never made it to the Oval Office he has been largely overlooked by biographers. His career encompassed three well-known high points: the civil rights speech at the 1948 Democratic Convention that risked his political future; his shepherding of the 1964 Civil Rights Act through the Senate; and his near victory in the 1968 presidential election, one of the angriest and most divisive in the country’s history. Historian Arnold A. Offner has explored vast troves of archival records to recapture Humphrey’s life, giving us previously unknown details of the vice president’s fractious relationship with Lyndon Johnson, showing how Johnson colluded with Richard Nixon to deny Humphrey the presidency, and describing the most neglected aspect of Humphrey’s career: his major legislative achievements after returning to the Senate in 1970. This definitive biography rediscovers one of America’s great political figures.

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Mob Town : A History of Crime and Disorder in the East End John G Bennett Yale University Press, Yale University Press, [New Haven, CT], 2017

A Captivating History Of A Notorious Neighborhood And The First Book To Reveal Why London's East End Became Synonymous With Lawlessness And Crime Even Before Jack The Ripper Haunted Its Streets For Prey, London's East End Had Earned A Reputation For Immorality, Filth, And Vice. John Bennett, A Writer And Tour Guide Who Has Walked And Researched The Area For More Than Thirty Years, Delves Into Four Centuries Of History To Chronicle The Crimes, Their Perpetrators, And The Circumstances That Made The East End An Ideal Breeding Ground For Illegal Activity. In The Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries, Britain's Industrial Boom Drew Thousands Of Workers To The Area, Leading To Overcrowding And Squalor. But Crime In The Area Flourished Long Past The Victorian Period. Drawing On Original Archival History And Featuring A Fascinating Cast Of Characters Including The Infamous Ripper, Highwayman Dick Turpin, The Kray Brothers, And A Host Of Ordinary Evildoers, This Gripping And Deliciously Unsavory Volume Will Fascinate Londonphiles And True Crime Lovers Alike. John Bennett.

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Sunday Best : 80 Great Books From a Lifetime of Reviews John Carey Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2022

A collection of John Carey's greatest, wisest, and wittiest reviews--amassed over a lifetime of writing In 1977, newly installed as a professor of English at Oxford, John Carey took the position of chief reviewer for the Sunday Times--a job he still retains. In a career spanning more than forty years and upward of 1,000 reviews, Carey has kept abreast of the brightest and best books of the day, distilling his thoughts each week for the entertainment of Sunday readers. Contained in this volume is the cream of that substantial crop: a choice selection of the books that Carey has most cherished. Covering subjects as diverse as the science of laughter, the art of Grayson Perry, the history of madness, and Sylvia Plath's letters--and incorporating earlier writings "Down with Dons" and "Vegetable Gardening"--this is a collection of treats and surprises, suffused with careful thought, wisdom, and enjoyment. The result is a compendium of titles that have stood the test of time, offered with Carey's warmest recommendation.

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Sudan : The Failure and Division of an African State Dr. Richard Cockett Yale University Press (Ignition), Second Edition, 2016

Over the past two decades, the situation in Africa’s largest country, Sudan, has progressively deteriorated: the country is in second position on the Failed States Index, a war in Darfur has claimed hundreds of thousands of deaths, President Bashir has been indicted by the International Criminal Court, a forthcoming referendum on independence for Southern Sudan threatens to split the country violently apart. In this fascinating and immensely readable book, the Africa editor of the __Economist__ gives an absorbing account of Sudan’s descent into failure and what some have called genocide. Drawing on interviews with many of the main players, Richard Cockett explains how and why Sudan has disintegrated, looking in particular at the country’s complex relationship with the wider world. He shows how the United States and Britain were initially complicit in Darfur—but also how a broad coalition of human-rights activists, right-wing Christians, and opponents of slavery succeeded in bringing the issues to prominence in the United States and creating an impetus for change at the highest level.

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The Judaeo-Christian Tradition: Second Edition Jack H. Hexter Yale University Press (New Haven, CT), 2nd ed., New Haven, Connecticut, 1995

J.H. Hexter's classic survey of the historical roots of Judaism and Christianity is now available with a new preface and updated bibliography. The book defines the main components, principal influences, and most significant transformations of ancient Hebrew religious beliefs and then considers those of Christianity, showing how early Christianity arose out of the Judaic heritage. The first part of the book deals with the evolution of ancient Israel down to the end of the sixth century B.C.; the second chronicles the transition from Judaism to Christianity and the struggle of the early Christian communities against the pressures and power of the Roman Empire. Ranging over some 1500 years of ancient history, the book illuminates the cultural and intellectual impact of the Judaeo-Christian tradition. .

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Massacre : The Life and Death of the Paris Commune of 1871 John M. Merriman Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2014

One of the most dramatic chapters in the history of nineteenth-century Europe, the Commune of 1871 was an eclectic revolutionary experiment that held power in Paris across eight weeks between 18 March and 28 May. Its brief rule ended in 'Bloody Week' - the brutal massacre of as many as 15,000 Parisians, and perhaps even more, who perished at the hands of the provisional government's forces. By then, the city's boulevards had been torched and its monuments toppled. More than 40,000 Parisians were investigated, imprisoned or forced into exile - a purging of Parisian society by a conservative national government whose supporters were considerably more horrified by a pile of rubble than the many deaths of the resisters.In this gripping narrative, John Merriman explores the radical and revolutionary roots of the Commune, painting vivid portraits of the Communards - the ordinary workers, famous artists and extraordinary fire-starting women - and their daily lives behind the barricades, and examining the ramifications of the Commune on the role of the state and sovereignty in France and modern Europe. Enthralling, evocative and deeply moving, this narrative account offers a full picture of a defining moment in the evolution of state terror and popular resistance.words : 145629

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Sex, Money and Personal Character in Eighteenth-Century British Politics (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History) Marilyn Morris Yale University Press, The Lewis Walpole in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History, 2015

How, and why, did the Anglo-American world become so obsessed with the private lives and public character of its political leaders? Marilyn Morris finds answers in eighteenth-century Britain, when a long tradition of court intrigue and gossip spread into a much broader and more public political arena with the growth of political parties, extra-parliamentary political activities, and a partisan print culture. The public’s preoccupation with the personal character of the ruling elite paralleled a growing interest in the interior lives of individuals in histories, novels, and the theater. Newspaper reports of the royal family intensified in intimacy and its members became moral exemplars—most often, paradoxically, when they misbehaved. __Ad hominem__ attacks on political leaders became commonplace; politicians of all affiliations continued to assess one another’s characters based on their success and daring with women and money. And newly popular human-interest journalism promoted the illusion that the personal characters of public figures could be read by appearances.

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Napoleon. Vol. 2) - Citizen Emperor. Napoleon in Power, 1799-1815 (2013) Dwyer, Philip G.;Frankreich Kaiser Napoléon I Yale University Press, Napoleon, vol. 2 (of 3), 1. publ. in the United States, 2013

In this second volume of Philip Dwyers authoritative biography on one of historys most enthralling leaders, Napoleon, now 30, takes his position as head of the French state after the 1799 coup. Dwyer explores the young leaders reign, complete with mistakes, wrong turns, and pitfalls, and reveals the great lengths to which Napoleon goes in the effort to fashion his image as legitimate and patriarchal ruler of the new nation. Concealing his defeats, exaggerating his victories, never hesitating to blame others for his own failings, Napoleon is ruthless in his ambition for power. Following Napoleon from Paris to his successful campaigns in Italy and Austria, to the disastrous invasion of Russia, and finally to the war against the Sixth Coalition that would end his reign in Europe, the book looks not only at these events but at the character of the man behind them. Dwyer reveals Napoleons darker sideshis brooding obsessions and propensity for violenceas well as his passionate nature: his loves, his ability to inspire, and his capacity for realizing his visionary ideas. In an insightful analysis of Napoleon as one of the first truly modern politicians, the author discusses how the persuasive and forward-thinking leader skillfully fashioned the image of himself that persists in legends that surround him to this day. 563 pages of narrative, 800 pages in total

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The Image Of Antiquity: Ancient Britain And The Romantic Imagination (the Paul Mellon Centre For Studies In British Art) Sam Smiles New Haven [Conn.]: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, New Haven [Conn.], Connecticut, 1994

Published for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. This book is the first to examine the ways in which 18th- & 19th-century British artists portrayed the archaic past. Sam Smiles argues that ancient Britain was variously seen as a noble epoch of wisdom & patriotism or as a period of savagery & barbarism, & that these representations changed over time to suit current political fashions & changing ideas of national identity.

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Utility (Yale Drama Series) Emily Schwend, Nicholas Wright Yale University Press, The Yale drama series, New Haven, 2017

<DIV>The tenth winner of the Yale Drama Series centers on a young mother dealing with life’s many trials Marking the tenth anniversary of the Yale Drama Series for emerging playwrights, Emily Schwend’s powerful work centers on Amber, a young woman struggling to raise a family in East Texas. Amber is juggling two nearly full-time jobs and three kids. Her on-again, off-again husband Chris is eternally optimistic and charming as hell, but rarely employed. The house is falling apart and Amber has an eight-year-old’s birthday party to plan. Selected from more than 1,600 entries, Schwend’s newest play—produced by the Amoralists Theatre Company at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre in 2016—vividly captures the economic hardships and relationship difficulties faced by so many Americans today. “Utility is a remarkable play: beautifully written and effortlessly powerful,” said contest judge Nicholas Wright. “At every moment the happiness of human lives is put at risk: is there any greater dramatic theme?”</DIV>

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Bisexuality in the Ancient World Eva Cantarella; translated by Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin Yale University Press (New Haven, CT), Yale Nota bene, 2nd ed., New Haven, Connecticut, 2002

I greci e i romani, al di là delle profonde differenze tra le due culture, vivevano i rapporti tra uomini in modo molto diverso da quello in cui lo viviamo noi oggi. Per i greci e i romani (ovviamente, salvo eccezioni) l'omosessualità non era mai una scelta esclusiva. Amare un altro uomo non era un'opzione fuori dalla norma, che esprimeva una diversità. Era "solo" una parte integrante dell'esperienza di vita: era la manifestazione di una pulsione vuoi sentimentale vuoi sessuale che nell'arco dell'esistenza si alternava e talvolta si affiancava all'amore per una donna. Questo brillante saggio, stimolante e pungente, sulla bisessualità a Roma e Atene ne esplora i contorni e ne rilegge le dinamiche più profonde, grazie all'accurato utilizzo delle fonti più diverse (testi giuridici e medici, poesia, letteratura filosofica). Un libro importante e al contempo di gradevolissima lettura: il rituale educativo dell'amore per gli adolescenti in Grecia e lo stupro nell'antica Roma vengono riletti come gli elementi cruciali, per quanto rinnegati, del mondo classico. Una tesi che ancora adesso suscita scalpore.

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Mob Town : A History of Crime and Disorder in the East End John G Bennett New Haven: Yale University Press, Yale University Press, [New Haven, CT], 2017

A Captivating History Of A Notorious Neighborhood And The First Book To Reveal Why London's East End Became Synonymous With Lawlessness And Crime Even Before Jack The Ripper Haunted Its Streets For Prey, London's East End Had Earned A Reputation For Immorality, Filth, And Vice. John Bennett, A Writer And Tour Guide Who Has Walked And Researched The Area For More Than Thirty Years, Delves Into Four Centuries Of History To Chronicle The Crimes, Their Perpetrators, And The Circumstances That Made The East End An Ideal Breeding Ground For Illegal Activity. In The Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries, Britain's Industrial Boom Drew Thousands Of Workers To The Area, Leading To Overcrowding And Squalor. But Crime In The Area Flourished Long Past The Victorian Period. Drawing On Original Archival History And Featuring A Fascinating Cast Of Characters Including The Infamous Ripper, Highwayman Dick Turpin, The Kray Brothers, And A Host Of Ordinary Evildoers, This Gripping And Deliciously Unsavory Volume Will Fascinate Londonphiles And True Crime Lovers Alike. John Bennett.

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Mob Town : A History of Crime and Disorder in the East End John G Bennett Yale University Press, Yale University Press, [New Haven, CT], 2017

A Captivating History Of A Notorious Neighborhood And The First Book To Reveal Why London's East End Became Synonymous With Lawlessness And Crime Even Before Jack The Ripper Haunted Its Streets For Prey, London's East End Had Earned A Reputation For Immorality, Filth, And Vice. John Bennett, A Writer And Tour Guide Who Has Walked And Researched The Area For More Than Thirty Years, Delves Into Four Centuries Of History To Chronicle The Crimes, Their Perpetrators, And The Circumstances That Made The East End An Ideal Breeding Ground For Illegal Activity. In The Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries, Britain's Industrial Boom Drew Thousands Of Workers To The Area, Leading To Overcrowding And Squalor. But Crime In The Area Flourished Long Past The Victorian Period. Drawing On Original Archival History And Featuring A Fascinating Cast Of Characters Including The Infamous Ripper, Highwayman Dick Turpin, The Kray Brothers, And A Host Of Ordinary Evildoers, This Gripping And Deliciously Unsavory Volume Will Fascinate Londonphiles And True Crime Lovers Alike. John Bennett.

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Hitler at Home Despina Stratigakos Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2015

**A revelatory look at the residences of Adolf Hitler, illuminating their powerful role in constructing and promoting the dictator’s private persona both within Germany and abroad** Adolf Hitler’s makeover from rabble-rouser to statesman coincided with a series of dramatic home renovations he undertook during the mid-1930s. This provocative book exposes the dictator’s preoccupation with his private persona, which was shaped by the aesthetic and ideological management of his domestic architecture. Hitler’s bachelor life stirred rumors, and the Nazi regime relied on the dictator’s three dwellings—the Old Chancellery in Berlin, his apartment in Munich, and the Berghof, his mountain home on the Obersalzberg—to foster the myth of the Führer as a morally upstanding and refined man. Author Despina Stratigakos also reveals the previously untold story of Hitler’s interior designer, Gerdy Troost, through newly discovered archival sources. At the height of the Third Reich, media outlets around the world showcased Hitler’s homes to audiences eager for behind-the-scenes stories. After the war, fascination with Hitler’s domestic life continued as soldiers and journalists searched his dwellings for insights into his psychology. The book’s rich illustrations, many previously unpublished, offer readers a rare glimpse into the decisions involved in the making of Hitler’s homes and into the sheer power of the propaganda that influenced how the world saw him.

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Decoding Chomsky : Science and Revolutionary Politics Christopher Knight Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2016

<div>A fresh and fascinating look at the philosophies, politics, and intellectual legacy of one of the twentieth century’s most influential and controversial minds Occupying a pivotal position in postwar thought, Noam Chomsky is both the founder of modern linguistics and the world’s most prominent political dissident. Chris Knight adopts an anthropologist’s perspective on the twin output of this intellectual giant, acclaimed as much for his denunciations of US foreign policy as for his theories about language and mind. Knight explores the social and institutional context of Chomsky’s thinking, showing how the tension between military funding and his role as linchpin of the political left pressured him to establish a disconnect between science on the one hand and politics on the other, deepening a split between mind and body characteristic of Western philosophy since the Enlightenment. Provocative, fearless, and engaging, this remarkable study explains the enigma of one of the greatest intellectuals of our time.</div>

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Georges Seurat : The Art of Vision Michelle Foa New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2015

ix, 235 pages : 26 cm "This revelatory study of Georges Seurat (1859-1891) explores the artist's profound interest in theories of visual perception and analyzes how they influenced his celebrated seascape, urban, and suburban scenes. While Seurat is known for his innovative use of color theory to develop his pointillist technique, this book is the first to underscore the centrality of diverse ideas about vision to his seascapes, figural paintings, and drawings. Michelle Foa highlights the importance of the scientist Hermann von Helmholtz, whose work on the physiology of vision directly shaped the artist's approach. Foa contends that Seurat's body of work constitutes a far-reaching investigation into various modes of visual engagement with the world and into the different states of mind that visual experiences can produce. Foa's analysis also brings to light Seurat's sustained exploration of long-standing and new forms of illusionism in art. Beautifully illustrated with more than 140 paintings and drawings, this book serves as an essential reference on Seurat." -- Publisher's website Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-226) and index Seeing in Series -- Figuring Out Vision -- Seductive Sights -- Sight and Touch in Black and White -- Postscript : the Eiffel Tower as Urban Lighthouse

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Napoleon. Vol.. 2) - Citizen Emperor. Napoleon in Power, 1799-1815 (2013) Dwyer, Philip G.;Frankreich Kaiser Napoléon I Yale University Press, Napoleon, vol. 2 (of 3), 1. publ. in the United States, 2013

In this second volume of Philip Dwyers authoritative biography on one of historys most enthralling leaders, Napoleon, now 30, takes his position as head of the French state after the 1799 coup. Dwyer explores the young leaders reign, complete with mistakes, wrong turns, and pitfalls, and reveals the great lengths to which Napoleon goes in the effort to fashion his image as legitimate and patriarchal ruler of the new nation. Concealing his defeats, exaggerating his victories, never hesitating to blame others for his own failings, Napoleon is ruthless in his ambition for power. Following Napoleon from Paris to his successful campaigns in Italy and Austria, to the disastrous invasion of Russia, and finally to the war against the Sixth Coalition that would end his reign in Europe, the book looks not only at these events but at the character of the man behind them. Dwyer reveals Napoleons darker sideshis brooding obsessions and propensity for violenceas well as his passionate nature: his loves, his ability to inspire, and his capacity for realizing his visionary ideas. In an insightful analysis of Napoleon as one of the first truly modern politicians, the author discusses how the persuasive and forward-thinking leader skillfully fashioned the image of himself that persists in legends that surround him to this day. 563 pages of narrative, 800 pages in total

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The Lair (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) Norman Manea; Oana Sanziana Marian Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2012

Now available for the first time in English, Manea's acclaimed novel of émigrés in America, free yet imprisoned by the past

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Islamic Imperialism - A History Efraim Karsh Yale University Press, 2. rev. ed, New Haven, CT, 2013

From the first Arab-Islamic Empire of the mid-seventh century to the Ottomans, the last great Muslim empire, the story of the Middle East has been the story of the rise and fall of universal empires and, no less important, of imperialist dreams. So argues Efraim Karsh in this highly provocative book. Rejecting the conventional Western interpretation of Middle Eastern history as an offshoot of global power politics, Karsh contends that the region's experience is the culmination of long-existing indigenous trends, passions and patterns of behaviour, and that foremost among these is Islam's millenarian imperial tradition. The author explores the history of Islam's imperialism and the persistence of the Ottoman imperialist dream that outlasted World War I to haunt Islamic and Middle Eastern politics to the present day. September 11 can be seen as simply the latest expression of this dream, and such attacks have little to do with U.S. international behaviour or policy in the Middle East, says Karsh. The House of Islam's war for world mastery is traditional, indeed venerable, and it is a quest that is far from over.

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The Burma Campaign: Disaster into Triumph, 1942-45 (The Yale Library of Military History) McLynn, Frank Yale University Press, 2010

This book, in essence a quadruple biography, tells the story of the four larger-than-life Allied commanders whose lives collided in the Burma campaign, one of the most punishing and protracted military adventures of World War II. Ranging from 1942, when the British suffered the greatest defeat in the history of the Empire, through the crucial battles of Imphal and Kohima ("the Stalingrad of the East"), and on to ultimate victory in 1945, this account is vivid, brutal, and enthralling. Frank McLynn opens a new window on the Burma Campaign, focusing on the interactions and antagonisms of its principal players: William Slim, the brilliant general commanding the British 14th Army; Orde Wingate, the ambitious and idiosyncratic commander of the Chindits, a British force of irregulars; Louis Mountbatten, one of Churchill's favorites, overpromoted to the position of Supreme Commander, S.E. Asia; and Joseph Stilwell ("Vinegar Joe"), a hard-line U.S. general, also a martinet and Anglophobe. McLynn draws careful portraits of each of these men, neglecting neither strengths nor flaws, and shows with new clarity how the plans, designs, and strategies of generals and politicians were translated into a hideous reality for soldiers on the ground.words : 226922

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Jewish Christianity: The Making of the Christianity-Judaism Divide (The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library) Matt Jackson-McCabe, Collins, John Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2020

<DIV>A fresh exploration of the category Jewish Christianity, from its invention in the Enlightenment to contemporary debates For hundreds of years, historians have been asking fundamental questions about the separation of Christianity from Judaism in antiquity. Matt Jackson-McCabe argues provocatively that the concept “Jewish Christianity,” which has been central to scholarly reconstructions, represents an enduring legacy of Christian apologetics. Freethinkers of the English Enlightenment created this category as a means of isolating a distinctly Christian religion from what otherwise appeared to be the Jewish culture of Jesus and the apostles. Tracing the development of this patently modern concept of a Jewish Christianity from its origins to early twenty-first-century scholarship, Jackson-McCabe shows how a category that began as a way to reimagine the apologetic notion of an authoritative “original Christianity” continues to cause problems in the contemporary study of Jewish and Christian antiquity. He draws on promising new approaches to Christianity and Judaism as socially constructed terms of identity to argue that historians would do better to leave the concept of Jewish Christianity behind.</DIV>

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Simplexity: Simplifying Principles For A Complex World Simplexité. English University Press Scholarship Online Berthoz, Alain; Weiss, Giselle New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2012

In This Book A Noted Physiologist And Neuroscientist Introduces The Concept Of Simplexity, The Set Of Solutions Living Organisms Find That Enable Them To Deal With Information And Situations, While Taking Into Account Past Experiences And Anticipating Future Ones. Such Solutions Are New Ways Of Addressing Problems So That Actions May Be Taken More Quickly, More Elegantly, And More Efficiently. In A Sense, The History Of Living Organisms May Be Summed Up By Their Remarkable Ability To Find Solutions That Avoid The World's Complexity By Imposing On It Their Own Rules And Functions. Evolution Has Resolved The Problem Of Complexity Not By Simplifying But By Finding Solutions Whose Processes--though They Can Sometimes Be Complex--allow Us To Act In The Midst Of Complexity And Of Uncertainty. Nature Can Inspire Us By Making Us Realize That Simplification Is Never Simple And Requires Instead That We Choose, Refuse, Connect, And Imagine, In Order To Act In The Best Possible Manner. Such Solutions Are Already Being Applied In Design And Engineering And Are Significant In Biology, Medicine, Economics, And The Behavioral Sciences-- Making The Complex Simplex -- Sketching A Theory Of Simplexity -- Gaze And Empathy -- Attention -- The Brain As Emulator And Creator Of Worlds -- Simplexity In Perception -- The Laws Of Natural Movement -- The Simplex Gesture -- Walking : A Challenge To Complexity -- Simplex Space -- Perceiving, Experiencing, And Imagining Space -- The Spatial Foundations Of Rational Thought. Alain Berthoz ; Translated By Giselle Weiss. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 211-249) And Index.

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Scent : A Natural History of Fragrance Elise Vernon Pearlstine, Lara Call Gastinger Yale University Press, 1, 2022

A fascinating exploration of the natural history of scent and human perceptions of fragrance from the viewpoint of plant and pollinator “An evocative journey that awakens one’s curiosity to an oft-forgotten sense.”—Dana Dunham, Scientific American Plants have long harnessed the chemical characteristics of aromatic compounds to shape the world around them. Frankincense resin from the genus Boswellia seals injured tissues and protects trees from invading pathogens. Jasmine produces a molecule called linalool that attracts pollinating moths with its flowery scent. Tobacco uses a similarly sweet-smelling compound called benzyl acetone to attract pollinators. Only recently in the evolutionary history of plants, however, have humans learned to co-opt their fragrances to seduce, heal, protect, and alter moods themselves. In this wide-ranging and accessible new book, biologist-turned-perfumer Elise Vernon Pearlstine turns our human-centered perception of fragrance on its head and investigates plants' evolutionary reasons for creating aromatic molecules. Delving into themes of spirituality, wealth, power, addiction, royalty, fantasy, and more, Pearlstine uncovers the natural history of aromatic substances and their intersection with human culture and civilization.

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The Chessboard and the Web : Strategies of Connection in a Networked World Anne-Marie Slaughter Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2017

**From a renowned foreign-policy expert, a new paradigm for strategy in the twenty-first century** In 1961, Thomas Schelling’s __The Strategy of Conflict__ used game theory to radically reenvision the U.S.-Soviet relationship and establish the basis of international relations for the rest of the Cold War. Now, Anne-Marie Slaughter—one of __Foreign Policy’__s Top 100 Global Thinkers from 2009 to 2012, and the first woman to serve as director of the State Department Office of Policy Planning—applies network theory to develop a new set of strategies for the post-Cold War world. While chessboard-style competitive relationships still exist—U.S.-Iranian relations, for example—many other situations demand that we look not at individual entities but at their links to one another. We must learn to understand, shape, and build on those connections. Concise and accessible, based on real-world situations, on a lucid understanding of network science, and on a clear taxonomy of strategies, this will be a go-to resource for anyone looking for a new way to think about strategy in politics or business.

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On the Death and Life of Languages (An Editions Odile Jacob Book) Hagege (Hagège), Claude; Gladding, Jody New Haven, CT: Yale University Press ; Paris: Editions Odile Jacob, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2009

Twenty-five languages die each year; at this pace, half the world's five thousand languages will disappear within the next century. In this timely book, Claude Hagège seeks to make clear the magnitude of the cultural loss represented by the crisis of language death. By focusing on the relationship of language to culture and the world of ideas, Hagège shows how languages are themselves crucial repositories of culture; the traditions, proverbs, and knowledge of our ancestors reside in the language we use. His wide-ranging examination covers all continents and language families to uncover not only how languages die, but also how they can be revitalized—for example in the remarkable case of Hebrew. In a striking metaphor, Hagège likens languages to bonfires of social behavior that leave behind sparks even after they die; from these sparks languages can be rekindled and made to live again.

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Theatrum poetarum, or A compleat collection of the poets (1675) : [especially themost eminent, of all ages. The antients distinguish't from the moderns in their several alphabets. With some observations and reflections upon many of them, particularly those of our own nation: together with a prefatory discourse of the poets and poetry in general By George Vernadsky Yale University Press (New Haven, CT), Anglistica & Americana, Hildesheim, 1970

Generally recognized as the standard one-volume history of Russia, this monumental work describes Russia's growth from the times of the nomadic tribes to the present Cold War and examines the social, religious, and cultural as well as the political and economic aspects of Russian civilization.

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Journeys to Heaven and Hell : Tours of the Afterlife in the Early Christian Tradition Bart D. Ehrman Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven [CT], 2022

**A __New York Times__ best-selling scholar's illuminating exploration of the earliest Christian narrated journeys to heaven and hell****"[An] illuminating deep dive . . . An edifying origin story for contemporary Christian conceptions of the afterlife."—__Publishers Weekly__** From classics such as the __Odyssey__ and the __Aeneid__ to fifth-century Christian apocrypha, narratives that described guided tours of the afterlife played a major role in shaping ancient notions of morality and ethics. In this new account, acclaimed author Bart Ehrman contextualizes early Christian narratives of heaven and hell within the broader intellectual and cultural worlds from which they emerged. He examines how fundamental social experiences of the early Christian communities molded the conceptions of the afterlife that eventuated into the accepted doctrines of heaven, hell, and purgatory. Drawing on Greek and Roman epic poetry, early...

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The Weaponisation of Everything : A Field Guide to the New Way of War Mark Galeotti Yale University Press, London, Place of publication not identified, 2022

An engaging guide to the various ways in which war is now waged—and how to adapt to this new reality “This brisk everyman's guide—straight-talking and free of jargon—is a useful tasting menu to a fast moving, constantly evolving set of problems.... A lively reminder that war adapts to technology, that civilians are part of modern conflict whether they like it or not.”—Roger Boyes, The Times “Galeotti's field guide is an admirably clear overview (in his words, ‘quick and opinionated') of a form of conflict which is vague and hard to grasp. Variously described as hybrid, sub-threshold or grey-zone warfare, this is the no man's land between peaceful relations and formal combat.”—Helen Warrell, Financial Times Hybrid War, Grey Zone Warfare, Unrestricted War: today, traditional conflict—fought with guns, bombs, and drones—has become too expensive to wage, too unpopular at home, and too difficult to manage. In an age when America threatens Europe with sanctions, and when China spends billions buying influence abroad, the world is heading for a new era of permanent low-level conflict, often unnoticed, undeclared, and unending. Transnational crime expert Mark Galeotti provides a comprehensive and groundbreaking survey of the new way of war. Ranging across the globe, Galeotti shows how today's conflicts are fought with everything from disinformation and espionage to crime and subversion, leading to instability within countries and a legitimacy crisis across the globe. But rather than suggest that we hope for a return to a bygone era of “stable” warfare, Galeotti details ways of surviving, adapting, and taking advantage of the opportunities presented by this new reality.

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My backyard jungle : the adventures of an urban wildlife lover who turned his yard into habitat and learned to live with it Barilla, James Yale University Press, 2015

For James Barilla and his family, the dream of transforming their Columbia, South Carolina, backyard into a haven for wildlife evoked images of kids catching grasshoppers by day and fireflies at night, of digging up potatoes and picking strawberries. When they signed up with the National Wildlife Federation to certify their yard as a wildlife habitat, it felt like pushing back, in however small a way, against the tide of bad news about vanishing species, changing climate, dying coral reefs. Then the animals started to arrive, and Barilla soon discovered the complexities (and possible mayhem) of merging human with animal habitats. What are the limits of coexistence, he wondered? To find out, Barilla set out across continents to explore cities where populations of bears, monkeys, marmosets, and honeybees live alongside human residents. My Backyard Jungle brings these unique stories together, making Barilla's yard the centerpiece of a meditation on possibilities for coexistence with animals in an increasingly urban world. Not since Gerald Durrell penned My Family and Other Animals have readers encountered a naturalist with such a gift for storytelling and such an open heart toward all things wild.

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My backyard jungle : the adventures of an urban wildlife lover who turned his yard into habitat and learned to live with it Barilla, James, 1967- New Haven: Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven [CT], 2013

For James Barilla and his family, the dream of transforming their Columbia, South Carolina, backyard into a haven for wildlife evoked images of kids catching grasshoppers by day and fireflies at night, of digging up potatoes and picking strawberries. When they signed up with the National Wildlife Federation to certify their yard as a wildlife habitat, it felt like pushing back, in however small a way, against the tide of bad news about vanishing species, changing climate, dying coral reefs. Then the animals started to arrive, and Barilla soon discovered the complexities (and possible mayhem) of merging human with animal habitats. What are the limits of coexistence, he wondered? To find out, Barilla set out across continents to explore cities where populations of bears, monkeys, marmosets, and honeybees live alongside human residents. My Backyard Jungle brings these unique stories together, making Barilla's yard the centerpiece of a meditation on possibilities for coexistence with animals in an increasingly urban world. Not since Gerald Durrell penned My Family and Other Animals have readers encountered a naturalist with such a gift for storytelling and such an open heart toward all things wild.

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Radical Sacrifice Terry Eagleton Yale University Press, 1, 2018

A Trenchant Analysis Of Sacrifice As The Foundation Of The Modern, As Well As The Ancient, Social Order. The Modern Conception Of Sacrifice Is At Once Cast As A Victory Of Self-discipline Over Desire And Condescended To As Destructive And Archaic Abnegation. But Even In The Old Testament, The Dual Natures Of Sacrifice, Embodying Both Ritual Slaughter And Moral Rectitude, Were At Odds. In This Analysis, Terry Eagleton Makes A Compelling Argument That The Idea Of Sacrifice Has Long Been Misunderstood. Pursuing The Complex Lineage Of Sacrifice In A Lyrical Discourse, Eagleton Focuses On The Old And New Testaments, Offering A Virtuosic Analysis Of The Crucifixion, While Drawing Together A Host Of Philosophers, Theologians, And Texts-from Hegel, Nietzsche, And Derrida To The Aeneid And The Wings Of The Dove. Brilliant Meditations On Death And Eros, Shakespeare And St. Paul, Irony And Hybridity Explore The Meaning Of Sacrifice In Modernity, Casting Off Misperceptions Of Barbarity To Reconnect The Radical Idea To Politics And Revolution. Preface -- Radical Sacrifice -- Tragedy And Crucifixion -- Martyrdom And Mortality -- Exchange And Excess -- Kings And Beggars -- Endnotes -- Index. Terry Eagleton. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

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The Weaponisation of Everything : A Field Guide to the New Way of War Mark Galeotti Yale University Press, Place of publication not identified, 2022

An engaging guide to the various ways in which war is now waged—and how to adapt to this new reality “This brisk everyman's guide—straight-talking and free of jargon—is a useful tasting menu to a fast moving, constantly evolving set of problems.... A lively reminder that war adapts to technology, that civilians are part of modern conflict whether they like it or not.”—Roger Boyes, The Times “Galeotti's field guide is an admirably clear overview (in his words, ‘quick and opinionated') of a form of conflict which is vague and hard to grasp. Variously described as hybrid, sub-threshold or grey-zone warfare, this is the no man's land between peaceful relations and formal combat.”—Helen Warrell, Financial Times Hybrid War, Grey Zone Warfare, Unrestricted War: today, traditional conflict—fought with guns, bombs, and drones—has become too expensive to wage, too unpopular at home, and too difficult to manage. In an age when America threatens Europe with sanctions, and when China spends billions buying influence abroad, the world is heading for a new era of permanent low-level conflict, often unnoticed, undeclared, and unending. Transnational crime expert Mark Galeotti provides a comprehensive and groundbreaking survey of the new way of war. Ranging across the globe, Galeotti shows how today's conflicts are fought with everything from disinformation and espionage to crime and subversion, leading to instability within countries and a legitimacy crisis across the globe. But rather than suggest that we hope for a return to a bygone era of “stable” warfare, Galeotti details ways of surviving, adapting, and taking advantage of the opportunities presented by this new reality.

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Culture Terry Eagleton Yale University Press; imusti, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2016

One of our most brilliant minds offers a sweeping intellectual history that argues for the reclamation of culture's value Culture is a defining aspect of what it means to be human. Defining culture and pinpointing its role in our lives is not, however, so straightforward. Terry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, is uniquely poised to take on the challenge. In this keenly analytical and acerbically funny book, he explores how culture and our conceptualizations of it have evolved over the last two centuries—from rarified sphere to humble practices, and from a bulwark against industrialism's encroaches to present-day capitalism's most profitable export. Ranging over art and literature as well as philosophy and anthropology, and major but somewhat'unfashionable'thinkers like Johann Gottfried Herder and Edmund Burke as well as T. S. Eliot, Matthew Arnold, Raymond Williams, and Oscar Wilde, Eagleton provides a cogent overview of culture set firmly in its historical and theoretical contexts, illuminating its collusion with colonialism, nationalism, the decline of religion, and the rise of and rule over the'uncultured'masses. Eagleton also examines culture today, lambasting the commodification and co-option of a force that, properly understood, is a vital means for us to cultivate and enrich our social lives, and can even provide the impetus to transform civil society.

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Hitler at Home Stratigakos, Despina, author New Haven, CT ; London: Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2015

Adolf Hitler's makeover from rabble-rouser to statesman coincided with a series of dramatic home renovations he undertook during the mid-1930s. This provocative book exposes the dictator's preoccupation with his private persona, which was shaped by the aesthetic and ideological management of his domestic architecture. Hitler's bachelor life stirred rumors, and the Nazi regime relied on the dictator's three dwellings—the Old Chancellery in Berlin, his apartment in Munich, and the Berghof, his mountain home on the Obersalzberg—to foster the myth of the FÃ1⁄4hrer as a morally upstanding and refined man. Author Despina Stratigakos also reveals the previously untold story of Hitler's interior designer, Gerdy Troost, through newly discovered archival sources. Â At the height of the Third Reich, media outlets around the world showcased Hitler's homes to audiences eager for behind-the-scenes stories. After the war, fascination with Hitler's domestic life continued as soldiers and journalists searched his dwellings for insights into his psychology. The book's rich illustrations, many previously unpublished, offer readers a rare glimpse into the decisions involved in the making of Hitler's homes and into the sheer power of the propaganda that influenced how the world saw him.

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Massacre : The Life and Death of the Paris Commune of 1871 John M. Merriman Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2014

One of the most dramatic chapters in the history of nineteenth-century Europe, the Commune of 1871 was an eclectic revolutionary government that held power in Paris across eight weeks between 18 March and 28 May. Its brief rule ended in ‘Bloody Week’ – the brutal massacre of as many as 15,000 Parisians, and perhaps even more, who perished at the hands of the provisional government’s forces. By then, the city’s boulevards had been torched and its monuments toppled. More than 40,000 Parisians were investigated, imprisoned or forced into exile – a purging of Parisian society by a conservative national government whose supporters were considerably more horrified by a pile of rubble than the many deaths of the resisters. In this gripping narrative, John Merriman explores the radical and revolutionary roots of the Commune, painting vivid portraits of the Communards – the ordinary workers, famous artists and extraordinary fire-starting women – and their daily lives behind the barricades, and examining the ramifications of the Commune on the role of the state and sovereignty in France and modern Europe. Enthralling, evocative and deeply moving, this narrative account offers a full picture of a defining moment in the evolution of state terror and popular resistance.

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The logic of miracles : making sense of rare, really rare, and impossibly rare events Laszlo Mero; Márton Moldován; David Kramer Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2018

We live in a much more turbulent world than we like to think, but the science we use to analyze economic, financial, and statistical events mostly disregards the world's essentially chaotic nature. We need to get used to the idea that wildly improbable events are actually part of the natural order. The renowned Hungarian mathematician and psychologist László Mérő explains how the wild and mild worlds (which he names Wildovia and Mildovia) coexist, and that different laws apply to each. Even if we live in an ultimately wild universe, he argues, we're better off pretending that it obeys Mildovian laws. Doing so may amount to a self‐fulfilling prophecy and create an island of predictability in a very rough sea. Perched on the ragged border between economics and complexity theory, Mérő proposes to extend the reach of science to subjects previously considered outside its grasp: the unpredictable, unrepeatable, highly improbable events we commonly call "miracles."ISBN : 9780300224153

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The Burma Campaign: Disaster into Triumph, 1942-45 (The Yale Library of Military History) McLynn, Frank Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2011

This history reveals the failures and fortunes of leadership during the WWII campaign into Japanese-occupied Burma: “a thoroughly satisfying experience” (Kirkus). Acclaimed historian Frank McLynn tells the story of four larger-than-life Allied commanders whose lives collided in the Burma campaign, one of the most punishing and protracted military adventures of World War II. This vivid account ranges from Britain’s defeat in 1942 through the crucial battles of Imphal and Kohima—known as "the Stalingrad of the East"—and on to ultimate victory in 1945. Frank McLynn narrative focuses on the interactions and antagonisms of its principal players: William Slim, the brilliant general; Orde Wingate, the idiosyncratic commander of a British force of irregulars; Louis Mountbatten, one of Churchill's favorites, overpromoted to the position of Supreme Commander, S.E. Asia; and Joseph "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell, a hard-line—and openly anlgophobic—U.S. general. With lively portraits of each of these men, McLynn shows how the plans and strategies of generals and politicians were translated into a hideous reality for soldiers on the ground.

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America Dancing : From the Cakewalk to the Moonwalk Megan Pugh New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2015

The history of American dance reflects the nation's tangled culture. Dancers from wildly different backgrounds learned, imitated, and stole from one another. Â Audiences everywhere embraced the result as deeply American. Â Using the stories of tapper Bill'Bojangles'Robinson, Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, ballet and Broadway choreographer Agnes de Mille, choreographer Paul Taylor, and Michael Jackson, Megan Pugh shows how freedom—that nebulous, contested American ideal—emerges as a genre-defining aesthetic. In Pugh's account, ballerinas mingle with slumming thrill-seekers, and hoedowns show up on elite opera house stages. Steps invented by slaves on antebellum plantations captivate the British royalty and the Parisian avant-garde. Dances were better boundary crossers than their dancers, however, and the issues of race and class that haunt everyday life shadow American dance as well. Deftly narrated, America Dancing demonstrates the centrality of dance in American art, life, and identity, taking us to watershed moments when the nation worked out a sense of itself through public movement.

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Journeys to Heaven and Hell : Tours of the Afterlife in the Early Christian Tradition Bart D. Ehrman Yale University Press, 1, 2022

A New York Times best-selling scholar's illuminating exploration of the earliest Christian narrated journeys to heaven and hell “[An] illuminating deep dive . . . An edifying origin story for contemporary Christian conceptions of the afterlife.”—Publishers Weekly From classics such as the Odyssey and the Aeneid to fifth-century Christian apocrypha, narratives that described guided tours of the afterlife played a major role in shaping ancient notions of morality and ethics. In this new account, acclaimed author Bart Ehrman contextualizes early Christian narratives of heaven and hell within the broader intellectual and cultural worlds from which they emerged. He examines how fundamental social experiences of the early Christian communities molded the conceptions of the afterlife that eventuated into the accepted doctrines of heaven, hell, and purgatory. Drawing on Greek and Roman epic poetry, early Jewish writings such as the Book of Watchers, and apocryphal Christian stories including the Acts of Thomas, the Gospel of Nicodemus, and the Apocalypse of Peter, Ehrman demonstrates that ancient tours of the afterlife promoted reflection on matters of ethics, faith, ambition, and life’s meaning, the fruit of which has been codified into Christian belief today.

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The Letters of T. S. Eliot: Volume 6: 1932-1933 (Volume 6) Eliot, T. S. Yale University Press, Faber & Faber Ltd, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2016

**The sixth volume of the personal correspondences of British literary giant T. S. Eliot**The letters of T. S. Eliot collected in this sixth volume were written during the years the Nobel Prize–winning poet, playwright, critic, and essayist called, “the happiest I can ever remember in my life.” Penned in large part during his tour of Depression Era America, these letters reflect Eliot’s resolve to end his torturous eighteen-year marriage to his wife, Vivienne, and offer fascinating descriptions of the author’s encounters with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edmund Wilson, Marianne Moore, and other notable figures.Wörter : 382438

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Rome and Rhetoric: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (The Anthony Hecht Lectures in the Humanities Series) Wills, Garry Yale University Press, The Anthony Hecht Lectures in the Humanities Series, 2011

Renaissance plays and poetry in England were saturated with the formal rhetorical twists that Latin education made familiar to audiences and readers. Yet a formally educated man like Ben Jonson was unable to make these ornaments come to life in his two classical Roman plays. Garry Wills, focusing his attention on Julius Caesar, here demonstrates how Shakespeare so wonderfully made these ancient devices vivid, giving his characters their own personal styles of Roman speech. In four chapters, devoted to four of the play's main characters, Wills shows how Caesar, Brutus, Antony, and Cassius each has his own take on the rhetorical ornaments that Elizabethans learned in school. Shakespeare also makes Rome present and animate by casting his troupe of experienced players to make their strengths shine through the historical facts that Plutarch supplied him with. The result is that the Rome English-speaking people carry about in their minds is the Rome that Shakespeare created for them. And that is even true, Wills affirms, for today's classical scholars with access to the original Roman sources.

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Little Jewel Patrick Modiano; Penny Hueston Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2016

A mesmerizing novel by Nobel Laureate Patrick Modiano, now superbly translated for English-language readers For long standing admirers of Modiano's luminous writing as well as those readers encountering his work for the first time, Little Jewel will be an exciting discovery. Uniquely told by a young female narrator, Little Jewel is the story of a young woman adrift in Paris, imprisoned in an imperfectly remembered past. The city itself is a major character in Modiano's work, and timeless moral ambiguities of the post-Occupation years remain hauntingly unresolved. One day in the corridors of the metro, nineteen-year-old Thérèse glimpses a woman in a yellow coat. Could this be the mother who long ago abandoned her? Is she still alive? Desperate for answers to questions that have tormented her since childhood, Thérèse pursues the mysterious figure on a quest through the streets of Paris. In classic Modiano style, this book explores the elusive nature of memory, the unyielding power of the past, and the deep human need for identity and connection.

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Secular Buddhism : Imagining the Dharma in an Uncertain World Batchelor, Stephen, author YALE; Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2017

An essential collection of Stephen Batchelors most probing and important work on secular Buddhism As the practice of mindfulness permeates mainstream Western culture, more and more people are engaging in a traditional form of Buddhist meditation. However, many of these people have little interest in the religious aspects of Buddhism, and the practice occurs within secular contexts such as hospitals, schools, and the workplace. Is it possible to recover from the Buddhist teachings a vision of human flourishing that is secular rather than religious without compromising the integrity of the tradition? Is there an ethical framework that can underpin and contextualize these practices in a rapidly changing world? In this collected volume of Stephen Batchelors writings on these themes, the author explores the complex implications of Buddhisms secularization. Ranging widelyfrom reincarnation, religious belief, and agnosticism to the role of the arts in Buddhist practicehe offers a detailed picture of contemporary Buddhism and its attempt to find a voice in the modern world.

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Jewish Christianity: The Making of the Christianity-Judaism Divide (The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library) Matt Jackson-McCabe (editor); John Collins (editor) Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2020

This book argues that the concept of Jewish Christianity represents an enduring legacy of Christian apologetics. Freethinkers of the English Enlightenment created the category of Jewish Christianity as a means of isolating a true and distinctly Christian religion from the Jewish culture of Jesus and the apostles. The book shows how a category that began as a way to reimagine the apologetic notion of an authoritative “original Christianity” continues to cause problems in the contemporary study of Jewish and Christian antiquity.

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The Weaponisation of Everything : A Field Guide to the New Way of War Mark Galeotti Yale University Press, 1, 2023

An engaging guide to the various ways in which war is now wagedâand how to adapt to this new reality Â âThis brisk everymanâs guideâstraight-talking and free of jargonâis a useful tasting menu to a fast moving, constantly evolving set of problems. . . . A lively reminder that war adapts to technology, that civilians are part of modern conflict whether they like it or not.ââRoger Boyes, The Times Â âGaleottiâs field guide is an admirably clear overview (in his words, âquick and opinionatedâ) of a form of conflict which is vague and hard to grasp. Variously described as hybrid, sub-threshold or grey-zone warfare, this is the no manâs land between peaceful relations and formal combat.ââHelen Warrell, Financial Times Â Hybrid War, Grey Zone Warfare, Unrestricted War: today, traditional conflictâfought with guns, bombs, and dronesâhas become too expensive to wage, too unpopular at home, and too difficult to manage. In an age when America threatens Europe with sanctions, and when China spends billions buying influence abroad, the world is heading for a new era of permanent low-level conflict, often unnoticed, undeclared, and unending. Â Transnational crime expert Mark Galeotti provides a comprehensive and groundbreaking survey of the new way of war. Ranging across the globe, Galeotti shows how todayâs conflicts are fought with everything from disinformation and espionage to crime and subversion, leading to instability within countries and a legitimacy crisis across the globe. But rather than suggest that we hope for a return to a bygone era of âstableâ warfare, Galeotti details ways of surviving, adapting, and taking advantage of the opportunities presented by this new reality.

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Italian Tales: An Anthology of Contemporary Italian Fiction (Italian Literature and Thought) Massimo Riva (editor) Yale University Press, Italian Literature and Thought, New Haven, CT, 2008

This anthology serves as a literary map to guide readers through the varied geography of contemporary Italian fiction. Massimo Riva has gathered English-language translations of short stories and excerpts from novels that were originally published in Italian between 1975 and 2001. As an expression of a communal contemporary condition, these narratives suggest a new sensibility and a new way of seeing, exploring, and inhabiting the world, in writing. Riva provides a comprehensive introduction to Italian literary trends of the past twenty years. Each selection is preceded by a short introduction and biography of the writer. For English-language readers who are familiar with the work of Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco, this collection presents an opportunity to acquaint themselves with the work of other important contemporary Italian writers of fiction.

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Musical Composition : Craft and Art Alan Belkin Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2018

"This essential introduction to the art and craft of musical compostion is designed to familiarize beginning composers with principles and techniques applicable to a broad range of musical styles, from concert pieces to film scores and video game music. The first of its kind to utilize a style-neutral approach, in addition to presenting the commonly known classical forms, this book offers invaluable general guidance on developing and connecting musical ideas, building to a climax, and other fundamental formal principles. It is designed for both classroom use and independent study."--Back cover.;Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Motive; 2 Phrase; 3 Singing; 4 Playing; 5 Punctuating; 6 Presenting; 7 One-Part Forms; 8 Ternary Form; 9 Binary Form; 10 Variation Form; 11 Contrasting; 12 Connecting; 13 Progressing; 14 Rondo Form; 15 Beginning; 16 Exploring; 17 Returning; 18 Ending; 19 Sonata Form; 20 Refinements; Conclusion: From the Craft to the Art of Composition; Appendix A: Sketching; Appendix B: Presenting Your Piece to the World; Notes; Credits; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X

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Sunday Best : 80 Great Books From a Lifetime of Reviews John Carey Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2022

In 1977, newly installed as a professor of English at Oxford, the author took the position of chief reviewer for the Sunday Times. In a career spanning over 40 years and upwards of 1,000 reviews, the author has kept abreast of the brightest and best books of the day, distilling his thoughts each week for the entertainment of Sunday readers. Contained in this volume is the cream of that substantial crop: a choice selection of the books which the author has most cherished. Covering subjects as diverse as the science of laughter, the art of Grayson Perry, the history of madness, and Sylvia Plath's letters, this is a collection of treats and surprises, suffused with careful thought, wisdom, and enjoyment. The result is a compendium of titles which have stood the test of time, offered with the author's warmest recommendation.

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