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Musical Composition : Craft and Art Belkin, Alan 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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Islamism : What It Means for the Middle East and the World Tarek Osman; OverDrive, Inc Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2016

**An incisive analysis of Islamist movements in the Middle East** A political, social, and cultural battle is currently raging in the Middle East. On one side are the Islamists, those who believe Islam should be the region’s primary identity. In opposition are nationalists, secularists, royal families, military establishments, and others who view Islamism as a serious threat to national security, historical identity, and a cohesive society. This provocative, vitally important work explores the development of the largest, most influential Islamic groups in the Middle East over the past century. Tarek Osman examines why political Islam managed to win successive elections and how Islamist groups in various nations have responded after ascending to power. He dissects the alliances that have formed among Islamist factions and against them, addressing the important issues of Islamism’s compatibility with modernity, with the region’s experiences in the twentieth century, and its impact on social contracts and minorities. He explains what Salafism means, its evolution, and connections to jihadist groups in the Middle East. Osman speculates on what the Islamists’ prospects for the future will mean for the region and the rest of the world.

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Scent : A Natural History of Fragrance Elise Vernon Pearlstine; Lara Call Gastinger Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 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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Scent : A Natural History of Fragrance Elise Vernon Pearlstine; Lara Call Gastinger Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 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, Plants have long harnessed the chemical characteristics of aromatic compounds to shape the world around them. Frankincense resin from the genus 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 Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815–1860 Calvin Schermerhorn Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2015

Calvin Schermerhorn’s provocative study views the development of modern American capitalism through the window of the nineteenth-century interstate slave trade. This eye-opening history follows money and ships as well as enslaved human beings to demonstrate how slavery was a national business supported by far-flung monetary and credit systems reaching across the Atlantic Ocean. The author details the anatomy of slave supply chains and the chains of credit and commodities that intersected with them in virtually every corner of the pre–Civil War United States, and explores how an institution that destroyed lives and families contributed greatly to the growth of the expanding republic’s capitalist economy.

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What We Live For, What We Die For: Selected Poems (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) Serhiy Zhadan; Virlana Tkacz; Wanda Phipps; Bob Holman Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2019

<DIV><B>An introduction to an original poetic voice from eastern Ukraine with deep roots in the unique cultural landscape of post-Soviet devastation</B><BR /><BR /> “Everyone can find something, if they only look carefully,” reads one of the memorable lines from this first collection of poems in English by the world†‘renowned Ukrainian author Serhiy Zhadan. These robust and accessible narrative poems feature gutsy portraits of life on wartorn and poverty-ravaged streets, where children tally the number of local deaths, where mothers live with low expectations, and where romance lives like a remote memory. In the tradition of Tom Waits, Charles Bukowski, and William S. Burroughs, Zhadan creates a new poetics of loss, a daily crusade of testimonial, a final witness of abandoned lives in a claustrophobic universe where “every year there’s less and less air.” Yet despite the grimness of these portraits, Zhadan’s poems are familiar and enchanting, lit by the magic of everyday detail, leaving readers with a sense of hope, knowing that the will of a people “will never let it be / like it was before.”</DIV>

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Alexander to Constantine: Archaeology of the Land of the Bible, Volume III (The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library) Amihay Mazar, Eric M. Meyers, Ephraim Stern, Mark A. Chancey Yale University Press, The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library, 2012

Drawing On The Most Recent, Groundbreaking Archaeological Research, Eric M. Meyers And Mark A. Chancey Re-narrate The History Of Ancient Palestine In This Richly Illustrated And Expertly Integrated Book. Spanning From The Conquest Of Alexander The Great In The Fourth Century Bce Until The Reign Of The Roman Emperor Constantine In The Fourth Century Ce, They Synthesize Archaeological Evidence With Ancient Literary Sources (including The Bible) To Offer A Sustained Overview Of The Tumultuous Intellectual And Religious Changes That Impacted World History During The Greco-roman Period. The Authors Demonstrate How The Transformation Of The Ancient Near East Under The Influence Of The Greeks And Then The Romans Led To Foundational Changes In Both The Material And Intellectual Worlds Of The Levant. Palestine's Subjection To Hellenistic Kingdoms, Its Rule By The Hasmonean And Herodian Dynasties, The Two Disastrous Jewish Revolts Against Rome, And Its Full Incorporation Into The Roman Empire Provide A Background For The Emergence Of Christianity. The Authors Observe In The Archaeological Record How Judaism And Christianity Were Virtually Undistinguishable For Centuries, Until The Rise Of Imperial Christianity With Emperor Constantine. The Only Book-length Overview Available That Focuses On The Archaeology Of Palestine In This Period, This Comprehensive And Powerfully Illuminating Work Sheds New Light On The Lands Of The Bible. -- Publisher's Description. The Persian Period And The Transition To Hellenism -- The Advent Of Hellenism Under The Greek Kingdoms And The Hasmoneans (332-37 B.c.e.) -- Herod The Great And The Introduction Of Roman Architecture -- Khirbet Qumran And The Dead Sea Scrolls -- From Herod To The Great Revolt -- The Great Revolt And The Bar Kokhba Rebellion -- The Emergence Of Christianity -- Early Judaism And The Rise Of The Synagogue -- The Archaeology Of Paganism -- The Growth Of Greco-roman Culture And The Case Of Sepphoris -- After Constantine : Beyond The Roman Period. Eric M. Meyers, Mark A. Chancey. The First Two Volumes Of This Title Were Pubhlised As Part Of The Series, Anchor Bible Reference Library. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 297-348) And Indexes.

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

<DIV><B>One of the great liberal politicians of the twentieth century, rediscovered in an important, definitive biography</B><BR /><BR /> 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.<BR /> <BR /> 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.</DIV>

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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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The unitary executive : presidential power from Washington to Bush Steven G. Calabresi; Christopher S. Yoo Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2008

<p>This book is the first to undertake a detailed historical and legal examination of presidential power and the theory of the unitary executive. This theory-that the Constitution gives the president the power to remove and control all policy-making subordinates in the executive branch-has been the subject of heated debate since the Reagan years. To determine whether the Constitution creates a strongly unitary executive, Steven G. Calabresi and Christopher S. Yoo look at the actual practice of all forty-three presidential administrations, from George Washington to George W. Bush. They argue that all presidents have been committed proponents of the theory of the unitary executive, and they explore the meaning and implications of this finding.</p>

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

<DIV><B>One of the great liberal politicians of the twentieth century, rediscovered in an important, definitive biography</B><BR /><BR /> 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.<BR /> <BR /> 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.</DIV>

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

Translated by David Kramer, Márton Moldován 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.”

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Roman Woodworking Roger Bradley Ulrich Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven [CT], 2007

This book presents an authoritative and detailed survey of the art of woodworking in the ancient Roman world. Illustrated with over 200 line drawings and photographs, Roman Woodworking covers topics such as the training and guild memberships of Roman carpenters, woodworking tools and techniques, the role of timber in construction and the availability of trees, and interior woodwork and furniture making. It also includes an extensive glossary of fully defined terms.This comprehensive book displays the accomplishment of the Roman woodworkers and their high skill and knowledge of materials and tools. Ulrich helps bring to light the importance of wooden projects and structures in Roman daily life and provides a wealth of information not only for classicists but also for those interested in the history of technology and the history of woodworking.ISBN : 9780300103410

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Congress's Constitution : Legislative Authority and the Separation of Powers Chafetz, Joshua Aaron Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2017

Political institutions in the public sphere -- The role of Congress -- The power of the purse -- The personnel power -- Contempt of Congress -- The freedom of speech or debate -- Internal discipline -- Cameral rules -- Conclusion : toward a normative evaluation.;"Congress is widely supposed to be the least effective branch of the federal government. But as Josh Chafetz shows in this boldly original analysis, Congress in fact has numerous powerful tools at its disposal in its conflicts with the other branches. These tools include the power of the purse, the contempt power, freedom of speech and debate, and more. Drawing extensively on the historical development of Anglo-American legislatures from the seventeenth century to the present, Chafetz concludes that these tools are all means by which Congress and its members battle for public support. When Congress uses them to engage successfully with the public, it increases its power vis-à-vis the other branches; when it does not, it loses power. This groundbreaking take on the separation of powers will be of interest to both legal scholars and political scientists."--Publisher website.

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Against the Grain : A Deep History of the Earliest States James C. Scott Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2017

An Economist Best History Book 2017 “History as it should be written.”—Barry Cunliffe, Guardian “Scott hits the nail squarely on the head by exposing the staggering price our ancestors paid for civilization and political order.”—Walter Scheidel, Financial Times Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of today's states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle down and form agricultural villages, towns, and states, which made possible civilization, law, public order, and a presumably secure way of living. But archaeological and historical evidence challenges this narrative. The first agrarian states, says James C. Scott, were born of accumulations of domestications: first fire, then plants, livestock, subjects of the state, captives, and finally women in the patriarchal family—all of which can be viewed as a way of gaining control over reproduction. Scott explores why we avoided sedentism and plow agriculture, the advantages of mobile subsistence, the unforeseeable disease epidemics arising from crowding plants, animals, and grain, and why all early states are based on millets and cereal grains and unfree labor. He also discusses the “barbarians” who long evaded state control, as a way of understanding continuing tension between states and nonsubject peoples.

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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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Against the Grain : A Deep History of the Earliest States James C. Scott Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2017

An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations that contradict the standard narrative. Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of today's states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle down and form agricultural villages, towns, and states, which made possible civilization, law, public order, and a presumably secure way of living. But archaeological and historical evidence challenges this narrative. The first agrarian states, says James C. Scott, were born of accumulations of domestications: first fire, then plants, livestock, subjects of the state, captives, and finally women in the patriarchal family--all of which can be viewed as a way of gaining control over reproduction. Scott explores why we avoided sedentism and plow agriculture, the advantages of mobile subsistence, the unforeseeable disease epidemics arising from crowding plants, animals, and grain, and why all early states are based on millets and cereal grains and unfree labor. He also discusses the "barbarians" who long evaded state control, as a way of understanding continuing tension between states and nonsubject peoples.

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Congress's Constitution : Legislative Authority and the Separation of Powers Chafetz, Joshua Aaron Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2017

Political institutions in the public sphere -- The role of Congress -- The power of the purse -- The personnel power -- Contempt of Congress -- The freedom of speech or debate -- Internal discipline -- Cameral rules -- Conclusion : toward a normative evaluation.;"Congress is widely supposed to be the least effective branch of the federal government. But as Josh Chafetz shows in this boldly original analysis, Congress in fact has numerous powerful tools at its disposal in its conflicts with the other branches. These tools include the power of the purse, the contempt power, freedom of speech and debate, and more. Drawing extensively on the historical development of Anglo-American legislatures from the seventeenth century to the present, Chafetz concludes that these tools are all means by which Congress and its members battle for public support. When Congress uses them to engage successfully with the public, it increases its power vis-à-vis the other branches; when it does not, it loses power. This groundbreaking take on the separation of powers will be of interest to both legal scholars and political scientists."--Publisher website.

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Radical Sacrifice Terry Eagleton Yale University Press, 1, 20180430

**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.

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Against the grain : a deep history of the earliest states Scott, James C., author New Haven : Yale University Press, Yale agrarian studies series, Connecticut, 2017

xvii, 312 pages : 22 cm, An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations that contradict the standard narrative. Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of today's states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle down and form agricultural villages, towns, and states, which made possible civilization, law, public order, and a presumably secure way of living. But archaeological and historical evidence challenges this narrative. The first agrarian states, says James C. Scott, were born of accumulations of domestications: first fire, then plants, livestock, subjects of the state, captives, and finally women in the patriarchal family--all of which can be viewed as a way of gaining control over reproduction. Scott explores why we avoided sedentism and plow agriculture, the advantages of mobile subsistence, the unforeseeable disease epidemics arising from crowding plants, animals, and grain, and why all early states are based on millets and cereal grains and unfree labor. He also discusses the \"barbarians\" who long evaded state control, as a way of understanding continuing tension between states and nonsubject peoples, Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-300) and index, A narrative in tatters : what I didn't know -- The domestication of fire, plants, animals, and... us -- Landscaping the world : the domus complex -- Zoonoses : a perfect epidemiological storm -- Agro-ecology of the early state -- Population control : bondage and war -- Fragility of the early state : collapse as disassembly -- The golden age of the barbarians

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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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Do Not Be Afraid!: How to Find Freedom From Fear K. A. Schneider [Schneider, K. A.] McFarland, 1997

In this provocative challenge to prevailing views of New Testament sources, Dennis R. MacDonald argues that the origins of passages in the book of Acts are to be found not in early Christian legends but in the epics of Homer. MacDonald focuses on four passages in the book of Acts, examines their potential parallels in the Iliad, and concludes that the author of Acts composed them using famous scenes in Homer's work as a model. Tracing the influence of passages from the Iliad on subsequent ancient literature, MacDonald shows how the story generated a vibrant, mimetic literary tradition long before Luke composed the Acts. Luke could have expected educated readers to recognize his transformation of these tales and to see that the Christian God and heroes were superior to Homeric gods and heroes. Building upon and extending the analytic methods of his earlier book, The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark, MacDonald opens an original and promising appreciation not only of Acts but also of the composition of early Christian narrative in general."In this original, carefully argued book MacDonald offers a radical thesis, locating the book of Acts squarely in the ancient Greek literary tradition."-William Hansen, Indiana University <p>Author Biography: Dennis R. MacDonald is John Wesley Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins, Claremont School of Theology, and director of the Institute of Antiquity and Christianity, Claremont Graduate University.</p>

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Elections as instruments of democracy : majoritarian and proportional visions G. Bingham Powell, Jr Yale Univeristy Press; Yale University Press, Renaissance in Europe Ser, New Haven, CT, 2000

In this book, a leading scholar of comparative politics explores elections as instruments of democracy. Focusing on elections in twenty democracies over the past quarter century, G. Bingham Powell, Jr., examines the differences between two great visions of democracy—the <i>majoritarian vision</i>, in which citizens use the election process to choose decisively between two competing teams of policymakers, providing the winner with the concentrated power to make public policy; and the <i>proportional influence vision</i>, in which citizens use elections to choose political agents to represent their views in postelection bargaining, thereby dispersing power. Powell asks crucial questions for modern democracies: Which vision best serves as an instrument of democracy? What are the reasons and conditions under which each vision succeeds or fails? <p>Careful analyses of more than 150 democratic elections show that each vision succeeds fairly well on its own terms in responsively linking election outcomes to policymaker selection, although advantages and limitations must be traded off. However, Powell concludes, the proportional influence vision and its designs enjoy a clear advantage in creating policy congruence between citizens and their policymakers--a finding that should give pause to those who are attracted to the idea of the decisive election as a direct tool for citizen control.<br> </p> <p><b>About the Author:</b><br> G. Bingham Powell, Jr., is professor of political science at the University of Rochester.</p>

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Modern life & modern subjects : British art in the early twentieth century Tickner, Professor Lisa, Tickner, Lisa Yale University Press; Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, Connecticut, 2000

In May 1914 the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London opened its exhibition of Twentieth-Century Art. The catalogue identified four main strands in modern painting but included a fifth group of Jewish artists, hung in the Small Gallery. In this illuminating book art historian Lisa Tickner takes a fresh look at the work of artists from each of these strands. In a series of innovative case studies, combining analysis with substantial new research, she examines the artists radical approaches to the process of painting and their resources in the defining conditions of modern life. Tickner discusses Walter Sickerts Camden Town Murder and LAffaire de Camden Town in the context of tabloid crime. Augustus Johns Lyric Fantasy is seen as rooted in, but also as qualifying, the Edwardian fascination with gypsies and tramping while memorializing Johns dead wife, Ida. The studies for Wyndham Lewiss lost Kermesse are connected to popular dance and to his sense of the "wild body." Vanessa Bells Studland Beach is related to the emergence of the beach as a social and psychic space and to childhood summers in St. Ives drawn on by her sister, Virginia Woolf, in To the Lighthouse. And David Bombergs In the Hold, along with Mark Gertlers Jewish Family, is shown to emerge from contemporary debates surrounding Jewish art and the possibility of a secular, urban, Yiddish culture. In an extended Afterword, Tickner considers the interplay between modernism and modernity in British art before 1914. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

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Diamonds : An Early History of the King of Gems Jack Ogden Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2018

<DIV><B>A lavishly illustrated, in-depth early history covering two thousand years of diamond jewelry and commerce, from the Indian mines to European merchants, courts, and workshops</B><BR /><BR /> This richly illustrated history of diamonds illuminates myriad facets of the “king of gems,” including a cast of larger-than-life characters such as Alexander the Great, the Mughal emperor Jahangir, and East India Company adventurers. It’s an in-depth study tracing the story of diamonds from their early mining and trade more than two thousand years ago to the 1700s, when Brazil displaced India as the world’s primary diamond supplier.<BR /><BR /> Jack Ogden, a historian and gemologist specializing in ancient gems and jewelry, describes the early history of diamond jewelry, the development of diamond cutting, and how diamonds were assessed and valued. The book includes more than one hundred captivating images, from close-up full-color photographs of historic diamond-set jewelry (some previously unpublished), to photomicrographs of individual gems and illustrations of medieval manuscripts, as well as diagrams depicting historical methods of cutting and polishing diamonds.</DIV>

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Diamonds : An Early History of the King of Gems Jack Ogden Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2018

<DIV><B>A lavishly illustrated, in-depth early history covering two thousand years of diamond jewelry and commerce, from the Indian mines to European merchants, courts, and workshops</B><BR /><BR /> This richly illustrated history of diamonds illuminates myriad facets of the “king of gems,” including a cast of larger-than-life characters such as Alexander the Great, the Mughal emperor Jahangir, and East India Company adventurers. It’s an in-depth study tracing the story of diamonds from their early mining and trade more than two thousand years ago to the 1700s, when Brazil displaced India as the world’s primary diamond supplier.<BR /><BR /> Jack Ogden, a historian and gemologist specializing in ancient gems and jewelry, describes the early history of diamond jewelry, the development of diamond cutting, and how diamonds were assessed and valued. The book includes more than one hundred captivating images, from close-up full-color photographs of historic diamond-set jewelry (some previously unpublished), to photomicrographs of individual gems and illustrations of medieval manuscripts, as well as diagrams depicting historical methods of cutting and polishing diamonds.</DIV>

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In the cause of true education : Henry Barnard and nineteenth-century school reform Edith Nye MacMullen, 1929- YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS: NEW HAVEN, CT, New Haven, Connecticut, 1991

The educator Henry Barnard (1811-1900) is scarcely remembered today, yet he was the major intellecual force behind 19th-century school reform in America, This biography is a full-scale study of his life and achievements.

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Scent : A Natural History of Fragrance Elise Vernon Pearlstine; Lara Call Gastinger Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 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, Plants have long harnessed the chemical characteristics of aromatic compounds to shape the world around them. Frankincense resin from the genus 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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Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700-1830 (Studies in British Art) John Styles; Amanda Vickery; Linzy Brekke; Hannah Grieg; Amy H. Henderson; Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor; Bernard L. Herman; Karen Lipsedge; Kate Retford; Robert St. George; Ann Smart Martin; Claire Walsh; Jonathan White Yale University Press; The Yale Center for British Art; The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art; Distributed by Yale University Press, Studies in British art, 17, New Haven CT London New Haven [Conn.] ; London, ©2006

<p>Between 1700 and 1830, men and women in the English-speaking territories framing the Atlantic gained unprecedented access to material things. The British Atlantic was an empire of goods, held together not just by political authority and a common language, but by a shared material culture nourished by constant flows of commodities. Diets expanded to include exotic luxuries such as tea and sugar, the fruits of mercantile and colonial expansion. Homes were furnished with novel goods, like clocks and earthenware teapots, the products of British industrial ingenuity. This groundbreaking book compares these developments in Britain and North America, bringing together a multi-disciplinary group of scholars to consider basic questions about women, men, and objects in these regions. In asking who did the shopping, how things were used, and why they became the subject of political dispute, the essays show the profound significance of everyday objects in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.</p>

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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, The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library, 2020

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.

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

**An exuberant history of American dance, told through the lives of virtuoso performers who have defined the art** The history of American dance reflects the nation’s tangled culture. Dancers from wildly different backgrounds learned, imitated, and stole from one another. Audiences everywhere embraced the result as deeply American. 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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Simplexity: Simplifying Principles for a Complex World' Alain Berthoz; Giselle Weiss 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.

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Does the New Testament Imitate Homer? : Four Cases From the Acts of the Apostles Dennis Ronald MacDonald [MacDonald, Dennis Ronald] Conn. : Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2003

In this provocative challenge to prevailing views of New Testament sources, Dennis R. MacDonald argues that the origins of passages in the book of Acts are to be found not in early Christian legends but in the epics of Homer. MacDonald focuses on four passages in the book of Acts, examines their potential parallels in the Iliad, and concludes that the author of Acts composed them using famous scenes in Homer's work as a model. Tracing the influence of passages from the Iliad on subsequent ancient literature, MacDonald shows how the story generated a vibrant, mimetic literary tradition long before Luke composed the Acts. Luke could have expected educated readers to recognize his transformation of these tales and to see that the Christian God and heroes were superior to Homeric gods and heroes. Building upon and extending the analytic methods of his earlier book, The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark, MacDonald opens an original and promising appreciation not only of Acts but also of the composition of early Christian narrative in general."In this original, carefully argued book MacDonald offers a radical thesis, locating the book of Acts squarely in the ancient Greek literary tradition."-William Hansen, Indiana University <p>Author Biography: Dennis R. MacDonald is John Wesley Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins, Claremont School of Theology, and director of the Institute of Antiquity and Christianity, Claremont Graduate University.</p>

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Aristotle's theory of the will Anthony John Patrick Kenny Yale University Press (New Haven, CT), New Haven, Connecticut, 1979

Voluntariness And Involuntariness -- Human Agency In The Eudemian Ethics -- Voluntariness And Desire In The Eudemian Ethics -- Forece And Involuntariness In The Nicomachean Ethics -- Forece And Involuntariness In The Eudemian Ethics -- Voluntariness, Knowledge And Error In The Ethics -- The Nature Of Prohairesis -- Virtue And Purposive Choice In The Aristotelian Ethics -- Reason, Desire And Choice In The Aristotelian Ethics -- Choice, Virtue And Wisdom In The Aristotelian Ethics -- Practical Technical And Ethical Syllogisms -- Technical Reasoning I: The Initial Premise -- Technical Reasoning Ii: From Premise To Conclusion -- Ethical Reasoning -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index Of Aristotelian Passages -- Index Of Modern Authurs -- Index Of Subjects. Anthony Kenny. Includes Indexes. Bibliography: P. [172]-173.

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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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On being human : why mind matters Kagan, Jerome Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2016

**A revered psychologist invites us to re-examine our thinking about controversial contemporary issues, from the genetic basis for behaviors to the functions of education** In this thought-provoking book, psychologist Jerome Kagan urges readers to sally forth from their usual comfort zones. He ponders a series of important nodes of debate while challenging us to examine what we know and why we know it. Most critically he presents an elegant argument for functions of mind that cannot be replaced with sentences about brains while acknowledging that mind emerges from brain activity. Kagan relies on the evidence to argue that thoughts and emotions are distinct from their biological and genetic bases. In separate chapters he deals with the meaning of words, kinds of knowing, the powerful influence of social class, the functions of education, emotion, morality, and other issues. And without fail he sheds light on these ideas while remaining honest to their complexity. Thoughtful and eloquent, Kagan’s __On Being Human__ places him firmly in the tradition of Renaissance essayist Michel de Montaigne, whose appealing blend of intellectual insight, personal storytelling, and careful judgment has attracted readers for centuries.

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What We Live For, What We Die For: Selected Poems (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) Serhiy Zhadan; Virlana Tkacz; Bob Holman Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2019

<DIV><B>An introduction to an original poetic voice from eastern Ukraine with deep roots in the unique cultural landscape of post-Soviet devastation</B><BR /><BR /> “Everyone can find something, if they only look carefully,” reads one of the memorable lines from this first collection of poems in English by the world†‘renowned Ukrainian author Serhiy Zhadan. These robust and accessible narrative poems feature gutsy portraits of life on wartorn and poverty-ravaged streets, where children tally the number of local deaths, where mothers live with low expectations, and where romance lives like a remote memory. In the tradition of Tom Waits, Charles Bukowski, and William S. Burroughs, Zhadan creates a new poetics of loss, a daily crusade of testimonial, a final witness of abandoned lives in a claustrophobic universe where “every year there’s less and less air.” Yet despite the grimness of these portraits, Zhadan’s poems are familiar and enchanting, lit by the magic of everyday detail, leaving readers with a sense of hope, knowing that the will of a people “will never let it be / like it was before.”</DIV>

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Enraged : Why Violent Times Need Ancient Greek Myths Anhalt, Emily Katz;Euripides;Euripides.;Homer;Homer.;Sophocles Yale University Press, 2018

An examination of remedies for violent rage rediscovered in ancient Greek myths Millennia ago, Greek myths exposed the dangers of violent rage and the need for empathy and self-restraint. Homers Iliad , Euripides Hecuba , and Sophocles Ajax show that anger and vengeance destroy perpetrators and victims alike. Composed before and during the ancient Greeks groundbreaking movement away from autocracy toward more inclusive political participation, these stories offer guidelines for modern efforts to create and maintain civil societies. Emily Katz Anhalt reveals how these three masterworks of classical Greek literature can teach us, as they taught the ancient Greeks, to recognize violent revenge as a marker of illogical thinking and poor leadership. These time-honored texts emphasize the costs of our dangerous penchant for glorifying violent rage and those who would indulge in it. By promoting compassion, rational thought, and debate, Greek myths help to arm us against the tyrants we might serve and the tyrants we might become.

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Learning to Forget : Schooling and Family Life in New Haven?s Working Class, 1870-1940 Stephen Lassonde New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2005

This book offers an insightful view of the complex relations between home and school in the working-class immigrant Italian community of New Haven, Connecticut. Through the lenses of history, sociology, and education, Learning to Forget presents a highly readable account of cross-generational experiences during the period from 1870 to 1940, chronicling one generation's suspicions toward public education and another's need to assimilate. Through careful research Lassonde finds that not all working class parents were enthusiastic supporters of education. Not only did the time and energy spent in school restrict children's potential financial contributions to the family, but attitudes that children encountered in school often ran counter to the family's traditional values. Legally mandated education and child labour laws eventually resolved these conflicts, but not without considerable reluctance and resistance. "As original and enlightening a piece of historical work as I have read in the field of education in many years." John Modell, Brown University

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Against the Grain : A Deep History of the Earliest States James C. Scott Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2017

An Economist Best History Book 2017 “History as it should be written.”—Barry Cunliffe, Guardian “Scott hits the nail squarely on the head by exposing the staggering price our ancestors paid for civilization and political order.”—Walter Scheidel, Financial Times Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of today's states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle down and form agricultural villages, towns, and states, which made possible civilization, law, public order, and a presumably secure way of living. But archaeological and historical evidence challenges this narrative. The first agrarian states, says James C. Scott, were born of accumulations of domestications: first fire, then plants, livestock, subjects of the state, captives, and finally women in the patriarchal family—all of which can be viewed as a way of gaining control over reproduction. Scott explores why we avoided sedentism and plow agriculture, the advantages of mobile subsistence, the unforeseeable disease epidemics arising from crowding plants, animals, and grain, and why all early states are based on millets and cereal grains and unfree labor. He also discusses the “barbarians” who long evaded state control, as a way of understanding continuing tension between states and nonsubject peoples.

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Radical Sacrifice Terry Eagleton Yale University Press, 1, 20180430

**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.

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Islamism: what it means to the Middle East and the world Osman, Tarek; Yale University Press, 1, US, 2016

A political, social, and cultural battle is currently raging in the Middle East. On one side are the Islamists, those who believe Islam should be the region’s primary identity. In opposition are nationalists, secularists, royal families, military establishments, and others who view Islamism as a serious threat to national security, historical identity, and a cohesive society. This provocative, vitally important work explores the development of the largest, most influential Islamic groups in the Middle East over the past century. Tarek Osman examines why political Islam managed to win successive elections and how Islamist groups in various nations have responded after ascending to power. He dissects the alliances that have formed among Islamist factions and against them, addressing the important issues of Islamism’s compatibility with modernity, with the region’s experiences in the twentieth century, and its impact on social contracts and minorities. He explains what Salafism means, its evolution, and connections to jihadist groups in the Middle East. Osman speculates on what the Islamists’ prospects for the future will mean for the region and the rest of the world. (Publisher).;The Islamists' coming to power -- Halal money, Halal regimes -- The Salafists, from cultural salons to Jihadists' battlefields -- The Islamists' fall from power -- The secularists' predicament -- The minorities' fears -- The Gulf's view of Islamism -- Turkish Islamism as a model for the Arab world -- Iranian Islamism as a model for the Arab world -- Islamism and the West -- The dilemmas of Islamist thinking now.

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

<div><B>An essential collection of Stephen Batchelor’s most probing and important work on secular Buddhism</B><BR><br> 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?<BR> <BR> In this collected volume of Stephen Batchelor’s writings on these themes, he explores the complex implications of Buddhism’s secularization. Ranging widely—from reincarnation, religious belief, and agnosticism to the role of the arts in Buddhist practice—he offers a detailed picture of contemporary Buddhism and its attempt to find a voice in the modern world.</div>

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9780300174830.pdf Meyers, Eric M.;Chancey, Mark A.; Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2012

The definitive book on the archaeology of Palestine from Alexander the Great's conquest to Constantine's reign Drawing on the most recent, groundbreaking archaeological research, Eric M. Meyers and Mark A. Chancey re-narrate the history of ancient Palestine in this richly illustrated and expertly integrated book. Spanning from the conquest of Alexander the Great in the fourth century BCE until the reign of the Roman emperor Constantine in the fourth century CE, they synthesize archaeological evidence with ancient literary sources (including the Bible) to offer a sustained overview of the tumultuous intellectual and religious changes that impacted world history during the Greco-Roman period. The authors demonstrate how the transformation of the ancient Near East under the influence of the Greeks and then the Romans led to foundational changes in both the material and intellectual worlds of the Levant. Palestine's subjection to Hellenistic kingdoms, its rule by the Hasmonean and Herodian dynasties, the two disastrous Jewish revolts against Rome, and its full incorporation into the Roman Empire provide a background for the emergence of Christianity. The authors observe in the archaeological record how Judaism and Christianity were virtually undistinguishable for centuries, until the rise of imperial Christianity with Emperor Constantine. The only book-length overview available that focuses on the archaeology of Palestine in this period, this comprehensive and powerfully illuminating work sheds new light on the lands of the Bible.

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Wartime Notebooks: France, 1940-1944 (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) Andrzej Bobkowski, Grażyna Drabik, Laura Engelstein Yale University Press, The Margellos World Republic of Letters, New Haven, CT, 2018

A Polish Writer's Experience Of Wartime France, A Cosmopolitan Outsider's Perspective On Politics, Culture, And Life Under Duress When The Aspiring Young Writer Andrzej Bobkowski, A Self-styled Cosmopolitan Pole, Found Himself Caught In Occupied France In 1940, He Recorded His Reflections On Culture, Politics, History, And Everyday Life. Published After The War, His Notebooks Offer An Outsider's Perspective On The Hardships And Ironies Of The Occupation. In The Face Of War, Bobkowski Celebrates The Value Of Freedom And Human Life Through The Evocation--in A Daringly Untragic Mode--of Ordinary Existence, The Taste Of Simple Food, The Beauty Of The French Countryside. Resisting Intellectual Abstractions, His Notes Exude A Young Man's Pleasure In Physical Movement--miles Clocked On Country Roads And Parisian Streets On His Trusty Bike--and They Reveal The Emergence Of An Original Literary Voice. Bobkowski Was Recognized In His Homeland As A Master Of Modern Polish Prose Only After Communism Ended. He Remains To Be Discovered In The English-speaking World.-- Andrzej Bobkowski ; Translated From The Polish By Grażyna Drabik And Laura Engelstein. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

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How Rome Fell : Death of a Superpower Adrian Keith Goldsworthy Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2009

A major new history of the fall of the Roman Empire, by the prizewinning author of Caesar In AD 200, the Roman Empire seemed unassailable, its vast territory accounting for most of the known world. By the end of the fifth century, Roman rule had vanished in western Europe and much of northern Africa, and only a shrunken Eastern Empire remained. In his account of the fall of the Roman Empire, prizewinning author Adrian Goldsworthy examines the painful centuries of the superpowers decline. Bringing history to life through the stories of the men, women, heroes, and villains involved, the author uncovers surprising lessons about the rise and fall of great nations. This was a period of remarkable personalities, from the philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius to emperors like Diocletian, who portrayed themselves as tough, even brutal, soldiers. It was a time of revolutionary ideas, especially in religion, as Christianity went from persecuted sect to the religion of state and emperors. Goldsworthy pays particular attention to the willingness of Roman soldiers to fight and kill each other. Ultimately, this is the story of how an empire without a serious rival rotted from within, its rulers and institutions putting short-term ambition and personal survival over the wider good of the state.

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nexusstc/Watching, from the Edge of Extinction/5e1ec4e826a2710dd66b7cd75ad4839b.pdf

Watching, from the Edge of Extinction Professor Beverly Peterson Stearns, Professor Stephen C. Stearns Yale University Press, New Haven ; London, 2000

Annotation In this mesmerizing series of interviews with dedicated people who work to save endangered species throughout the world, an alarming truth emerges: the obstacles of human politics, greed, corruption, folly, and hypocrisy can present as much danger to a species' survival as biological causes. The dramatic lessons of this book shed new light on the problems of declining species and offer hope that we may yet change their fate

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Restraining Great Powers : Soft Balancing From Empires to the Global Era Thazha V. Paul Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2018

How subtler forms of balance-of-power politics can help states achieve their goals against aggressive powers without wars or arms races At the end of the Cold War, the United States emerged as the world’s most powerful state, and then used that power to initiate wars against smaller countries in the Middle East and South Asia. According to balance-of-power theory—the bedrock of realism in international relations—other states should have joined together militarily to counterbalance the U.S.’s rising power. Yet they did not. Nor have they united to oppose Chinese aggression in the South China Sea or Russian offensives along its Western border. This does not mean balance-of-power politics is dead, argues renowned international relations scholar T.V. Paul, but that it has taken a different form. Rather than employ familiar strategies such as active military alliances and arms buildups, leading powers have engaged in “soft balancing,” which seeks to restrain threatening powers through the use of international institutions, informal alignments, and economic sanctions. Paul places the evolution of balancing behavior in historical perspective from the post-Napoleonic era to today’s globalized world. T. V. Paul is the James McGill Professor of International Relations at McGill University. He has authored or edited eighteen books, including The Warrior State and The Tradition of Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons. He served as president of the International Studies Association (ISA) during 2016–2017. Paul lives in Montreal, Canada.

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Monastic visions : wall paintings in the Monastery of St. Antony at the Red Sea edited by Elizabeth S. Bolman; photography by Patrick Godeau American Research Center in Egypt ; Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, Connecticut, 2002

An ancient church in the Coptic Monastery of St. Antony at the Red Sea contains a unique cycle of thirteenth-century wall paintings. They constitute by far the most complete and best-preserved iconographic program of Christian paintings to come from medieval Egypt. Ignored for centuries because they were covered with soot and overpainting, these compelling images have recently undergone conservation. <p>This beautiful book reproduces the cleaned paintings for the first time. It also describes and analyzes their amalgam of Coptic (Egyptian Christian), Byzantine, and Arab styles and motifs as well as the religious culture to which they belong. In 1996, funded by the United States Agency for International Development and at the request of the Monastery of St. Antony, the Antiquities Development Project of the American Research Center in Egypt began the conservation of the paintings in the church. The paintings revealed by the conservators are of extremely high quality, both stylistically and conceptually. While rooted in the Christian tradition of Egypt, they also reveal explicit connections with Byzantine and Islamic art of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Some newly discovered paintings can even be dated back to the sixth or seventh century.</p> <p>The authors of this book-who include art historians, conservators, historians, an archaeologist, and an anthropologist-discuss the significance of these revelations and place the church and the paintings within the artistic and historical traditions of both Coptic Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean region in the Middle Ages.</p> <p>Author Biography: Elizabeth S. Bolman is assistant professor of medieval art history at Temple University. The other contributors are Luigi De Cesaris, Mark Easton, Gawdat Gabra, Patrick Godeau, Sidney H. Griffith, Michael Jones, Adriano Luzi, William Lyster, Father Maximous El-Anthony, Elizabeth E. Oram, Birger A. Pearson, Robert K. Vincent., Jr., and Tim Vivian.</p> <p>Published in association with American Research Center in Egypt, Inc. </p>

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

**An exuberant history of American dance, told through the lives of virtuoso performers who have defined the art** The history of American dance reflects the nation’s tangled culture. Dancers from wildly different backgrounds learned, imitated, and stole from one another. Audiences everywhere embraced the result as deeply American. 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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