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Jack the Ripper : The Forgotten Victims Paul Begg; John G Bennett Yale University Press, First Edition, 2014

The number of women murdered and mutilated by Jack the Ripper is impossible to know, although most researchers now agree on five individuals. These five canonical cases have been examined at length in Ripper literature, but other contemporary murders and attacks bearing strong resemblance to the gruesome Ripper slayings have received scant attention. These unsolved cases are the focus of this intriguing book. The volume devotes separate chapters to a dozen female victims who were attacked during the years of Jack the Ripper’s murder spree. Their terrible storiesa few survived to bear witness, but most died of their woundsilluminate key aspects of the Ripper case and the period: the gangs of London’s Whitechapel district, Victorian prostitutes, the public panic inspired by the crimes and fueled by journalists, medical practices of the day, police procedures and competency, and the probable existence of other serial killers. The book also considers crimes initially attributed to Jack the Ripper in other parts of Britain and the world, notably New York, Jamaica, and Nicaragua. In a final chapter, the drive to find the identity of the Ripper is examined, looking at contemporary and later suspects as well as several important theories, revealing the lengths to which some have gone to claim success in identifying Jack the Ripper.

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Knowledge of Things Human and Divine : Vico's New Science and 'Finnegans Wake' Donald Phillip Verene Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2008

This is the first book to examine in full the interconnections between Giambattista Vico’s new science and James Joyce’s __Finnegans Wake.__ Maintaining that Joyce is the greatest modern interpreter” of Vico, Donald Phillip Verene demonstrates how images from Joyce’s work offer keys to Vico’s philosophy. Verene presents the entire course of Vico’s philosophical thought as it develops in his major works, with Joyce’s words and insights serving as a guide. The book devotes a chapter to each period of Vico’s thought, from his early orations on education to his anti-Cartesian metaphysics and his conception of universal law, culminating in his new science of the history of nations. Verene analyzes Vico’s major works, including all three editions of the __New Science__. The volume also features a detailed chronology of the philosopher’s career, historical illustrations related to his works, and an extensive bibliography of Vico scholarship and all English translations of his writings.

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How Rome Fell : Death of a Superpower Adrian Keith Goldsworthy Yale University Press, 1st Edition, First Edition, PT, 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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Modernism Levenson, Michael Harry Yale University Press, 2014,2007

In This Wide-ranging And Original Account Of Modernism, Michael Levenson Draws On More Than Twenty Years Of Research And A Career-long Fascination With The Movement, Its Participants, And The Period During Which It Thrived. Seeking A More Subtle Understanding Of The Relations Between The Period's Texts And Contexts, He Provides Not Only An Excellent Survey But Also A Significant Reassessment Of Modernism Itself. Spanning Many Decades, Illuminating Individual Achievements And Locating Them Within The Intersecting Histories Of Experiment (symbolism To Surrealism, Naturalism To Expressionism, Futurism To Dadaism), The Book Places The Transformations Of Culture Alongside The Agitations Of Modernity (war, Revolution, Feminism, Psychoanalysis). In This Perspective, Modernism Must Be Understood More Broadly Than Simply In Terms Of Its Provocative Works, Experimental Forms, And Singular Careers. Rather, As Levenson Demonstrates, Modernism Should Be Viewed As The Emergence Of An Adversary Culture Of The New That Depended On Audiences As Well As Artists, Enemies As Well As Supporters. -- Book Description. The Avant-garde In Modernism -- Narrating Modernity: The Novel After Flaubert -- The Modernist Lyric I: From Baudelaire To Eliot -- Drama As Politics, Drama As Ritual -- Modernism In And Out Of War -- The Ends Of Modernism. Michael Levenson. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

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War: An Enquiry (Vices and Virtues) A. C. Grayling Yale University Press (Ignition), Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2017

A renowned philosopher challenges long-held views on just wars, ethical conduct during war, why wars occur, how they alter people and societies, and more For residents of the twenty-first century, a vision of a future without warfare is almost inconceivable. Though wars are terrible and destructive, they also seem unavoidable. In this original and deeply considered book, A. C. Grayling examines, tests, and challenges the concept of war. He proposes that a deeper, more accurate understanding of war may enable us to reduce its frequency, mitigate its horrors, and lessen the burden of its consequences. Grayling explores the long, tragic history of war and how warfare has changed in response to technological advances. He probes much-debated theories concerning the causes of war and considers positive changes that may result from war. How might these results be achieved without violence? In a profoundly wise conclusion, the author envisions “just war theory” in new moral terms, taking into account the lessons of World War II and the Holocaust and laying down ethical principles for going to war and for conduct during war.

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The Chattel Principle: Internal Slave Trades in the Americas (David Brion Davis (Gilder Lehrman)) Walter Johnson; Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition; Gilder Lehrman Center International Conference, 1 Yale University Press, March 8, 2005

<p>This wide-ranging book presents the first comprehensive and comparative account of the slave trade <i>within</i> the nations and colonial systems of the Americas. While most scholarly attention to slavery in the Americas has concentrated on international transatlantic trade, the essays in this volume focus on the slave trades within Brazil, the West Indies, and the Southern states of the United States after the closing of the Atlantic slave trade.</p> <p>The contributors cast new light upon questions that have framed the study of slavery in the Americas for decades. The book investigates such topics as the illegal slave trade in Cuba, the Creole slave revolt in the U.S., and the debate between pro- and antislavery factions over the interstate slave trade in the South. Together, the authors offer fresh and provocative insights into the interrelations of capitalism, sovereignty, and slavery.</p>

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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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The Woman on the Windowsill : A Tale of Mystery in Several Parts : A Tale of Mystery in Several Parts Sylvia Sellers-García Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2020

**A true story of violence, punishment, and a transformative moment in Guatemalan history that****“deftly ranges across Italian iconography, Maya cosmovision, casta paintings, Enlightenment urbanism, conceptions of death, masculinity, gender violence, crime and punishment, and the growth of the state.” (Laura Matthew,**__**Hispanic American Historical Review)**__ On the morning of July 1, 1800, a surveyor and mapmaker named Cayetano Díaz opened the window of his study in Guatemala City to find a horrific sight: a pair of severed breasts. Offering a meticulously researched and evocative account of the quest to find the perpetrator and understand the motives behind such a brutal act, __The Woman on the Windowsill__ pinpoints the last decade of the eighteenth-century as a watershed moment in Guatemalan history, when the nature of justice changed dramatically. Sylvia Sellers‐García reveals how this bizarre and macabre event came with an increased attention to crime that resulted in more forceful policing and reflected important policy decisions not only in Guatemala but throughout the Spanish Empire. This engaging true crime story serves as a backdrop for the broader consideration of the forces shaping Guatemala City at the brink of the modern era.

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Against the Grain : A Deep History of the Earliest States James C. Scott Yale University Press, 1, 2017-08-22

<DIV><B>An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations that contradict the standard narrative</B><BR /><BR /> 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.<BR /><BR /> 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.</DIV>

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Judaism : a way of being Gelernter, David Hillel Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn, 2011

Written for observant and non-observant Jews and anyone interested in religion, this remarkable book by the distinguished scholar David Gelernter seeks to answer the deceptively simple question: What is Judaism really about? Gelernter views Judaism as one of humanity's most profound and sublimely beautiful achievements. But because Judaism is a way of life rather than a formal system of thought, it has been difficult for anyone but a practicing Jew to understand its unique intellectual and spiritual structure. Gelernter explores compelling questions, such as:•How does Judaism's obsession with life on earth versus the world-to-come separate it fundamentally from Christianity and Islam? •Why do Jews believe in God, and how can they after the Holocaust? •What makes Classical Judaism the most important intellectual development in Western history? •Why does Judaism teach that, in the course of the Jewish people's coming-of-age, God moved out of history and into the human mind, abandoning all power but the capacity to talk to each person from inside and thereby to influence events only indirectly?In discussing these and other questions, Gelernter seeks to lay out Jewish beliefs on four basic topics—the sanctity of everyday life; man and God; the meaning of sexuality and family; good, evil, and the nature of God's justice in a cruel world—and to convey a profound and stirring sense of what it means to be Jewish.

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Italian Tales : An Anthology of Contemporary Italian Fiction Riva, Massimo (edit) Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2004

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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Judaism : a way of being David Hillel Gelernter Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2009

Written for observant and non-observant Jews and anyone interested in religion, this remarkable book by the distinguished scholar David Gelernter seeks to answer the deceptively simple question: What is Judaism really about? Gelernter views Judaism as one of humanity’s most profound and sublimely beautiful achievements. But because Judaism is a way of life rather than a formal system of thought, it has been difficult for anyone but a practicing Jew to understand its unique intellectual and spiritual structure. Gelernter explores compelling questions, such as: * How does Judaism’s obsession with life on earth versus the world-to-come separate it fundamentally from Christianity and Islam? * Why do Jews believe in God, and how __can__ they after the Holocaust? * What makes Classical Judaism the most important intellectual development in Western history? * Why does Judaism teach that, in the course of the Jewish people’s coming-of-age, God moved out of history and into the human mind, abandoning all power but the capacity to talk to each person from inside and thereby to influence events only indirectly? In discussing these and other questions, Gelernter seeks to lay out Jewish beliefs on four basic topics—the sanctity of everyday life; man and God; the meaning of sexuality and family; good, evil, and the nature of God’s justice in a cruel world—and to convey a profound and stirring sense of what it means to be Jewish.

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The Power of Hope: A Doctor`s Perspective (Program for Humanities in Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine) Spiro, Howard M. (howard Marget) , 1924- New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1998

In This Book An Eminent Physician Explores How Patients And Caring Doctors Can Help Lessen Suffering When Illness Occurs. Dr. Howard Spiro Urges That Physicians Focus On Their Patients' Feelings Of Pain And Anxiety As Well As On Physical Symptoms. He Also Suggests That Patients And Their Doctors Be Receptive To The Emotional Relief That May Be Obtained From Nature And From Hope. Drawing On His Previous Highly Praised Work On The Doctor-patient Relationship And The Problem Of Pain, Dr. Spiro Tells How People Can Be Helped By A Combination Of Alternative Medicine And Mainstream Medicine - A Treatment Of Mind, Body, And Spirit That Energizes Patients, Strengthens Their Expectations, And Starts Them On The Road To Feeling Better. In Various Forms Of Alternative Medicine, From Meditation To Massage, From Faith Healing To Folk Medicine, From Herbology To Homeopathy, Practitioners Heed Patients' Complaints And Help Them To Help Themselves.--book Jacket. 1. Introduction -- 2. The Placebo Drama -- 3. The Physician -- 4. Pills And Procedures -- 5. The Patient And The Disease: Pharmacology And Faith -- 6. What Placebos Can Do -- 7. Patients And Pain -- 8. Autonomy And Responsibility: Three Patients -- 9. Objections To Placebos -- 10. Alternative Medicine -- 11. Placebos, Alternative Medicine, And Healing -- 12. Why Doctors Don't Like Placebos -- 13. How Placebos May Work -- 14. The Patient-physician Relationship: Loyalty As Guide -- 15. The Promise Of The Placebo. Howard Spiro. Prepared Under The Auspices Of The Program For Humanities In Medicine, Yale University School Of Medicine. Portions Of This Book Previously Appeared In Doctors, Patients, And Placebos (yale University Press, 1986)--t.p. Verso. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 257-278) And Index.

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THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE PRIMER 2000 Longley, Professor Lawrence D., Peirce, Mr. Neal R., Lawrence D. Longley and Neal R. Peirce Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 1999, 1999

The president of the United States is not actually elected by a direct vote of the people but indirectly by means of an electoral college. Yet the operations of our archaic electoral college and the extent of its influence in presidential elections are little understood by most Americans. In this complete and authoritative guide to the electoral college, Lawrence D. Longley and Neal R. Peirce provide essential Information on how the electoral system works -- and sometimes misfires. At its best, the authors reveal, the electoral college distorts campaign strategy and poorly represents the popular will. And at its worst, it can create political and constitutional crises.The book includes detailed accounts of recent elections, including that of 1992 when election of the president by the House of Representatives appeared for a while to be the likely outcome. The authors also offer an imaginative version of election year 2000, during which the astonishing results of an electoral deadlock demonstrate the disastrous failings of the electoral college as a means of electing the people's president. A guide to how the US electoral system works - and sometimes misfires. At its best, the authors reveal, the electoral college distorts campaign strategy and poorly represents the popular will. At its worst, it can create political and constitutional crisis Lawrence D. Longley And Neal R. Peirce. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 229-242) And Index.

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The Lair (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) Marian, Oana Sânziana; Manea, Norman Yale University Press, Margellos world republic of letters book, Tra, 2012

Norman Manea, Romania's most famous contemporary author, twice has survived the grip of totalitarian regimes. No stranger to exile, he mines its complexities and disorientations in this extraordinarily compelling novel, __The Lair__. Exile in the motherland and away from it is the shared plight of his protagonists. Nowhere at home, they move through their lives in a continuous, ever-elusive quest for national and individual identity. Manea's characters seek a place and a voice in America, only to discover that the shackles of their native totalitarian and nationalist ideologies are impossible to break. Manea's themes and narrative approach are intricate: his style fluctuates in correspondence with the instability of his characters' lives, his story is encased within an elaborate network of allusions and paradoxes. Yet in the midst of the novel's overriding disorientation, the author establishes intersections and uncovers the universal. Through the predicaments of his perpetual outsiders, he offers a poignant assessment of the conflicts of the individual in the age of globalization. He writes with unmatched intensity and a unique sensitivity to the human tragicomedy

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How Rome Fell : Death of a Superpower Adrian Keith Goldsworthy Yale University Press, 1st Edition, First Edition, PT, 2009

From the publisher: 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. 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. 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 greater good of the state.Formatting issue: Endnote numbers are not linked to endnote text.

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Britain in the world : highlights from the Yale Center for British Art : in honor of Amy Meyers Yale Center for British Art Staff, Amy R. W. Meyers, Martina Droth, Nathan Flis, Michael Hatt Yale Center for British Art Yale University Press, New Haven, New Haven ; London, 2019

175 pages : 25 cm Britain in the World' presents highlights from the collection of the Yale Center for British Art. Included alongside iconic works-such as George Stubbs's Zebra, Sir Joshua Reynolds's Miss Prue, and J. M. W. Turner's Dort-are diverse and fascinating objects that range from the Tudor period to the present day.0Featuring work by John Constable, William Henry Fox Talbot, Barbara Hepworth, Chris Ofili and Yinka Shonibare, this beautifully illustrated book offers a valuable glimpse into the Center's vast and varied holdings. It also reveals British art as a global phenomenon, shaped and characterized by cultural exchange, exploration, scientific discovery, and, crucially, by the long history of colonialism and empire. This book illustrates the myriad ways in which visible and invisible global connections are present in the visual and material culture of Britain.00Exhibition: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, USA (11.05.2016-31.12.2019) Includes bibliographical references

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How Rome Fell : Death of a Superpower Adrian Keith Goldsworthy Yale University Press, 1st Edition, First Edition, PT, 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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Trade Secrets : Intellectual Piracy and the Origins of American Industrial Power Doron S. Ben-Atar Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2008

During the first decades of America’s existence as a nation, private citizens, voluntary associations, and government officials encouraged the smuggling of European inventions and artisans to the New World. At the same time, the young republic was developing policies that set new standards for protecting industrial innovations. This book traces the evolution of America’s contradictory approach to intellectual property rights from the colonial period to the age of Jackson. During the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries Britain shared technological innovations selectively with its American colonies. It became less willing to do so once America’s fledgling industries grew more competitive. After the Revolution, the leaders of the republic supported the piracy of European technology in order to promote the economic strength and political independence of the new nation. By the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States became a leader among industrializing nations and a major exporter of technology. It erased from national memory its years of piracy and became the world’s foremost advocate of international laws regulating intellectual property.

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Hitler at Home Stratigakos, Despina; Yale University Press, 1st, First Edition, PS, 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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Church, Society, and Religious Change in France, 1580-1730 Joseph Bergin Yale University Press, Illustrated, PT, 2009

The definitive account of the nature of French religious life across the ‘long seventeenth century’ This readable and engaging book by an acclaimed historian is the only wide-ranging synthesis devoted to the French experience of religious change during the period after the wars of religion up to the early Enlightenment. Joseph Bergin provides a clear, up-to-date, and thorough account of the religious history of France in the context of social, institutional, and cultural developments during the so-called long seventeenth century. Bergin argues that the French version of the Catholic Reformation showed a dynamism unrivaled elsewhere in Europe. The traumatic experiences of the wars of religion, the continuing search within France for heresy, and the challenge of Augustinian thought successively energized its attempts at religious change. Bergin highlights the continuing interaction of church and society and shows that while the French experience was clearly allied to its European context, its path was a distinctive one.

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Hitler at Home Despina Stratigakos Yale University Press (Ignition), 1st, First Edition, PS, 2015

A look at Adolf Hitler’s residences and their 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. “Inarguably the powder-keg title of the year.”—Mitchell Owen, Architectural Digest “A fascinating read, which reminds us that in Nazi Germany the architectural and the political can never be disentangled. Like his own confected image, Hitler’s buildings cannot be divorced from their odious political hinterland.”—Roger Moorhouse, Times

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The Chattel Principle: Internal Slave Trades in the Americas (The David Brion Davis Series) Walter Johnson (editor) Yale University Press, The David Brion Davis Series, New Haven, CT, 2008

This wide-ranging book presents the first comprehensive and comparative account of the slave trade within the nations and colonial systems of the Americas. While most scholarly attention to slavery in the Americas has concentrated on international transatlantic trade, the essays in this volume focus on the slave trades within Brazil, the West Indies, and the Southern states of the United States after the closing of the Atlantic slave trade. The contributors cast new light upon questions that have framed the study of slavery in the Americas for decades. The book investigates such topics as the illegal slave trade in Cuba, the Creole slave revolt in the U.S., and the debate between pro- and antislavery factions over the interstate slave trade in the South. Together, the authors offer fresh and provocative insights into the interrelations of capitalism, sovereignty, and slavery.

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Catholics on the Barricades: Poland, France, and "Revolution," 1891-1956 (Yale-Hoover Series on Authoritarian Regimes) Piotr H. Kosicki Hoover Institution, Stanford University ; Yale University Press, The Yale-Hoover Series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War, 1, 2018

This book tells a sweeping story of how Catholics from France and Poland wrestled throughout the first half of the twentieth century with a series of earth-shattering challenges to their worldview: the Industrial Revolution, the displacement of dynastic empires by democratic republics, republicanism’s subsequent collapse between the world wars, occupation and genocide by Nazi Germany, and the birth and expansion of the Soviet Union and its Communist proxy regimes. Faced with the ascendancy of both nationalism and Marxism across Europe, Catholic intellectuals found common ground in the pursuit of a just society on earth. __Catholics on the Barricades__ reconstructs the projects forged across multiple generations, spanning from the 1890s through the 1950s. Declaring Catholic “revolution,” France’s and Poland’s Catholic intellectuals ended up serving twin evils: first exclusionary (or integral) nationalism, and then Stalinism as well. To explain this paradox, __Catholics on the Barricades__ offers a conceptual history of “revolution.” After World War II, anti-fascist bona fides led these intellectuals to give the benefit of the doubt to Communist regimes in Eastern Europe—if not actively involve themselves in those regimes’ construction. In addition to peace and personhood, French and Polish Catholics were united by a shared fear of Germany. Their anti-Germanism built on, and preserved, long-standing anti-Semitism. Catholic “revolution,” then, was poisoned from the outset. And yet, its legacy ultimately inspired a turn to dialogue and solidarity, which—fleeting though it has proven to be—helped to bring down the Iron Curtain.

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Hitler at Home Despina Stratigakos Yale University Press (Ignition), 1st, First Edition, PS, 2015

A look at Adolf Hitler’s residences and their 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. “Inarguably the powder-keg title of the year.”—Mitchell Owen, Architectural Digest “A fascinating read, which reminds us that in Nazi Germany the architectural and the political can never be disentangled. Like his own confected image, Hitler’s buildings cannot be divorced from their odious political hinterland.”—Roger Moorhouse, Times

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Watching, from the edge of extinction [electronic resource] Stearns, Beverly Peterson, 1946-; Stearns, S. C. (Stephen C.), 1946- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 1999., Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1999

<p>in This Book, Beverly And Stephen Stearns Tell The Stories Of People Who Have Worked Directly With Disappearing Species In Europe, Africa, North America, And Oceania. They Are Stories Of Passion And Commitment, Of Competence And Selflessness. They Are Also Stories That Alarm, For Even As Unheralded Heroes Are Working To Reverse What Often Seems To Be A Species' Inevitable March Toward Extinction, Incompetent Or Self-interested Parties Are Often Working Against Them.</p> <h3>publishers Weekly</h3> <p>beautifully Written And Lovingly Illustrated, This Powerful Report On Endangered Species--and On The Efforts Of Conservationists, Scientists And Activists To Save Them--personalizes The Ongoing Saga Of Mass Extinctions Of Animals And Plants Around The Globe. Stephen Stearns, A Zoology Professor In Switzerland, And His Wife, Beverly, A Freelance Journalist, Relate Stories That Are Inspiring, Heartbreaking, Touching, Infuriating. Their Dispatches From The Environmental Frontlines Are Peopled With Unsung Heroes, Like Marine Biologist Aliki Panou, Fiercely Protective In Her Efforts To Save Mediterranean Monk Seals That Hide In Remote Caves In Greek Islands In Order To Avoid Tourists, Fishermen's Nets And Developers' Dynamite; Biologist Jeremy Thomas, Who Since 1983 Has Led A Project To Reintroduce The Spectacular Large Blue Butterfly Into Britain; And Environmentalist Wendy Strahm, Working To Save Hundreds Of Rare Plants And Animal Species Overrun By An Exploding Human Population On The Island Of Mauritius. The Authors Detail Inadvertent Man-made Disasters, Like The Introduction Of The Nile Perch Into Lake Victoria, Which Led To The Extinction Of Hundreds Of Species Of Fish, Jeopardizing Traditional Livelihoods. Yet Much More Often, The Destruction Is Deliberate Or Due To Indifference, Caused By Wanton Habitat Destruction, Poaching, Indiscriminate Hunting And Fishing, The Greed Of Private Interests, And Governmental And Public Disinterest. By Focusing On People Whose Work And Lives Have Been Linked With Disappearing Species, These Survival Tales Summon Readers To Respect The Uniqueness Of Earth's Other Inhabitants. This Important, Often Shocking Report Shows That Loss Of The Planet's Biodiversity--exemplified By The Collapse Of Entire Ecosystems--ultimately Affects Everyone. Drawings And Photos. (apr.)</p>

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Political will and personal belief : the decline and fall of Soviet communism Paul Hollander Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1999

In this unique analysis of the unexpected collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, sociologist Paul Hollander focuses on the human aspects of the country`s demise. Drawing on autobiographical writings and interviews with members of the political elite, the author shows how leaders who experienced a loss of faith in their ideals and an eroding sense of legitimacy fatally undermined the political system they had once upheld.

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Murder in Tombstone : The Forgotten Trial of Wyatt Earp Steven Lubet Yale University Press, 2008

The gunfight at the OK Corral occupies a unique place in American history. Although the event itself lasted less than a minute, it became the basis for countless stories about the Wild West. At the time of the gunfight, however, Wyatt Earp was not universally acclaimed as a hero. Among the people who knew him best in Tombstone, Arizona, many considered him a renegade and murderer. This book tells the nearly unknown story of the prosecution of Wyatt Earp, his brothers, and Doc Holiday following the famous gunfight. To the prosecutors, the Earps and Holiday were wanton killers. According to the defense, the Earps were steadfast heroeswilling to risk their lives on the mean streets of Tombstone for the sake of order. The case against the Earps, with its dueling narratives of brutality and justification, played out themes of betrayal, revenge, and even adultery. Attorney Thomas Fitch, one of the era’s finest advocates, ultimately managedagainst considerable oddsto save Earp from the gallows. But the case could easily have ended in a conviction, and Wyatt Earp would have been hanged or imprisoned, not celebrated as an American icon.

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Rome and Rhetoric: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (The Anthony Hecht Lectures in the Humanities Series) Garry Wills Yale University Press, The Anthony Hecht Lectures in the Humanities, 2017

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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Arabic Second Language Acquisition of Morphosyntax Mohammad T. Alhawary Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2009

<div><div><div><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">While the demand for Arabic classes and preparation programs for Arabic language teachers has increased, there is a notable gap in the field of linguistic research on learning Arabic as a second language. <i>Arabic Second Language Acquisition of Morphosyntax </i>presents a data-driven and systematic analysis of Arabic language acquisition that responds to this growing need.<BR><br> Based on large data samples collected from longitudinal and cross-sectional studies, this book explores a broad range of structures and acquisition issues. It also introduces new and comprehensive research, and it documents the successes and problems that native speakers of other languages, including English, Spanish, French, and Japanese, are likely to encounter in learning Arabic.<BR><br> By integrating previously published findings with new research, the author has created a unified and streamlined resource for teachers, teachers-in-training, linguists, Arabic textbook authors, and second-language acquisition experts.</p></div></div></div>

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How Rome fell : death of a superpower Goldsworthy, Adrian Keith Yale University Press, 1st Edition, First Edition, PT, 2009

Starred Review. At only 40 years of age, British historian Goldsworthys (Caesar) ninth Roman history offers the same high level of scholarship, analysis and lucid prose as the previous eight. After a superb survey of Roman politics and civilization, Goldsworthy begins with the death in A.D. 180 of emperor Marcus Aurelius, whose reign is traditionally viewed as the apex of Roman power. During the disastrous century that followed, emperors rarely ruled more than a few years most were murdered, and civil wars raged, though there was some stability during the reigns of Diocletian and Constantine. Invasions slowly chipped away at the empire until it vanished in A.D. 476 with the abdication of the last Western emperor. Goldsworthy makes sense of 300 years of poorly documented wars, murders and political scheming. Highly opinionated, he presents surviving documents and archeological evidence to back his views such as that Constantine became Christian because Roman leaders traditionally believed that divine help won battles, and the Christian god seemed to Constantine like the front-runner. This richly rewarding work will serve as an introduction to Roman history, but will also provide plenty of depth to satisfy the educated reader.

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Does the New Testament Imitate Homer? : Four Cases From the Acts of the Apostles Dennis Ronald MacDonald Yale University Press, 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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Arabic Second Language Acquisition of Morphosyntax Mohammad T. Alhawary Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2009

While the demand for Arabic classes and preparation programs for Arabic language teachers has increased, there is a notable gap in the field of linguistic research on learning Arabic as a second language. __Arabic Second Language Acquisition of Morphosyntax__ presents a data-driven and systematic analysis of Arabic language acquisition that responds to this growing need. Based on large data samples collected from longitudinal and cross-sectional studies, this book explores a broad range of structures and acquisition issues. It also introduces new and comprehensive research, and it documents the successes and problems that native speakers of other languages, including English, Spanish, French, and Japanese, are likely to encounter in learning Arabic. By integrating previously published findings with new research, the author has created a unified and streamlined resource for teachers, teachers-in-training, linguists, Arabic textbook authors, and second-language acquisition experts.

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Rumphius' Orchids: Orchid Texts from "The Ambonese Herbal" Rumphius, Georgius Everhardus; Beekman, E. M. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2003

A feast for orchid enthusiasts, botanists, historians, and biodiversity researchers alike, Rumphius seventeenth-century study of tropical orchids is now available in English for the first time Rumphius (16271702), founder of Indonesian botanical exploration and one of the greatest naturalists of the seventeenth century, was the first to describe tropical orchids in a Western language. Within the pages of his monumental seven-volume Ambonese Herbal, written in Dutch, he included descriptions of thirty-six species of orchids found on the island of Ambon in eastern Indonesia, plus twelve uncertified ones. His detailed descriptions reflect both the accuracy of a scientist and the sensibility of a poet. This lovely book is the first to gather and translate into English all the sections of Rumphius The Ambonese Herbal devoted to orchids. For each entry, Rumphius describes the plant, names it according to a pre-Linnaean system of nomenclature, gives its locality, and details its medicinal and non-medicinal uses. More than twenty beautiful line drawings accompany the entries. The volume includes ample notes to illuminate the text and an informative introduction that tells the life of Rumphiusa remarkable collector/naturalist who overcame fire, shipwreck, and blindness to produce his masterwork.

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Hitler at Home Despina Stratigakos Yale University Press (Ignition), 1st, First Edition, PS, 2015

A look at Adolf Hitler’s residences and their 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. “Inarguably the powder-keg title of the year.”—Mitchell Owen, Architectural Digest “A fascinating read, which reminds us that in Nazi Germany the architectural and the political can never be disentangled. Like his own confected image, Hitler’s buildings cannot be divorced from their odious political hinterland.”—Roger Moorhouse, Times

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Women Designers in the USA, 1900-2000: Diversity and Difference (Bard Graduate Centre for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design & Culture) Pat Kirkham; Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts Yale University Press ; in association with the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New Haven, CT, Connecticut, December 11, 2000

This stunning book celebrates the many contributions women designers have made to American culture over the past century in such fields as textiles, ceramics, graphics, furniture, interiors, metalwork, fashion, and jewelry. It includes designers from the arts and crafts and modernist movements, Native American and African American cultures, the post-World War II era, craft and "ethnic" revivals in the 1970s and 1980s, and the world of today. Many famous designers are discussed, including Eva Zeisel, Maria Martinez, Ray Eames, Florence Knoll, Edith Head, Clare McCardell, Bonnie Cashin, Elsa Peretti, and April Greiman, as well as less well-known designers. <p>The book features seventeen essays by such eminent scholars as Valerie Steele, Ellen Lupton, Cheryl Buckley, and Edward S. Cooke, Jr. A timeline offers readers a broader context within which to understand the developments discussed in the text, as does Eileen Boris's chapter "Women in the United States, 1900ñ2000: Social Change and Changing Experience." In addition, an essay by Pat Kirkham and Lynne Walker explores such fascinating issues as the differing gendered nature of the various areas of design, training, and education, support networks, "race," class, cultural traditions, and the diverse ways in which women came to be, practiced as, and experienced being designers.</p> <p>The book is the catalogue for an exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center from November 2000 to January 2001.<br> </p> <p><b>About the Author:</b><br> Pat Kirkham is professor in the history of design, decorative arts and culture at the Bard Graduate Center.</p> <p>Published in association with the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts </p>

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Rosenfeld's Lives : Fame, Oblivion, and the Furies of Writing Steven J. Zipperstein Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2009

Born in Chicago in 1918, the prodigiously gifted and erudite Isaac Rosenfeld was anointed a “genius” upon the publication of his “luminescent” novel, Passage from Home and was expected to surpass even his closest friend and rival, Saul Bellow. Yet when felled by a heart attack at the age of thirty-eight, Rosenfeld had published relatively little, his life reduced to a metaphor for literary failure.In this deeply contemplative book, Steven J. Zipperstein seeks to reclaim Rosenfeld's legacy by “opening up” his work. Zipperstein examines for the first time the “small mountain” of unfinished manuscripts the writer left behind, as well as his fiercely candid journals and letters. In the process, Zipperstein unearths a turbulent life that was obsessively grounded in a profound commitment to the ideals of the writing life.Rosenfeld’s Lives is a fascinating exploration of literary genius and aspiration and the paradoxical power of literature to elevate and to enslave. It illuminates the cultural and political tensions of post-war America, Jewish intellectual life of the era, and—most poignantly—the struggle at the heart of any writer’s life. (20090618)

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War: An Enquiry (Vices and Virtues) A. C. Grayling Yale University Press, Vices and Virtues, 1, 2017

**A renowned philosopher challenges long-held views on just wars, ethical conduct during war, why wars occur, how they alter people and societies, and more** For residents of the twenty-first century, a vision of a future without warfare is almost inconceivable. Though wars are terrible and destructive, they also seem unavoidable. In this original and deeply considered book, A. C. Grayling examines, tests, and challenges the concept of war. He proposes that a deeper, more accurate understanding of war may enable us to reduce its frequency, mitigate its horrors, and lessen the burden of its consequences. Grayling explores the long, tragic history of war and how warfare has changed in response to technological advances. He probes much-debated theories concerning the causes of war and considers positive changes that may result from war. How might these results be achieved without violence? In a profoundly wise conclusion, the author envisions “just war theory” in new moral terms, taking into account the lessons of World War II and the Holocaust and laying down ethical principles for going to war and for conduct during war.

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Against the Grain : A Deep History of the Earliest States James C. Scott Yale University Press, 1, 2017-08-22

Review “The most interesting non-fiction read of the year. . . . Urgently recommended, and fun to read as well.”—Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution “Fascinating. . . . Our agrarian-biased view of history, Scott concludes, could use some reworking. Most of the world’s early human populations likely enjoyed semisettled, semiagrarian lives beyond the state’s grasp.”—Suzanne Shablovsky, Science “A contemporary master of the political counter-narrative has produced a book on the origins of civilization – this is, quite simply, a must-read.”—David Wengrow, author of What Makes Civilization? “This is a brilliant, accessible, and highly original account of the origins of sedentism, farming, states, and the relations between agrarian and nomadic communities. It should attract a wider audience than any of Scott’s earlier books.”—J. R. McNeill, co-author of The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945 “A sweeping and provocative look at the 'rise of civilization,' focusing particularly on those parts, peoples, and issues that are normally overlooked in conventional historical narratives.”—Alison Betts, The University of Sydney “Brilliant, sparkling, dissident scholarship. In Scott’s hands, agriculture looks like a terrible choice, states and empires look fragile, ephemeral, and predatory, and the ‘barbarians’ beyond their borders lived in relative freedom and affluence.”—David Christian, Macquarie University, Sydney “This book is fascinating and original, containing a lesson on every page. Brilliant. James Scott is a legend."—Tim Harford, author of Messy and The Undercover Economist Read more About the Author James C. Scott is Sterling Professor of Political Science and codirector of the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University. His previous books include Domination and the Arts of Resistance, Seeing Like a State, and The Art of Not Being Governed.

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Against the Grain : A Deep History of the Earliest States James C. Scott Yale University Press, 1, 2017-08-22

Review “The most interesting non-fiction read of the year. . . . Urgently recommended, and fun to read as well.”—Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution “Fascinating. . . . Our agrarian-biased view of history, Scott concludes, could use some reworking. Most of the world’s early human populations likely enjoyed semisettled, semiagrarian lives beyond the state’s grasp.”—Suzanne Shablovsky, Science “A contemporary master of the political counter-narrative has produced a book on the origins of civilization – this is, quite simply, a must-read.”—David Wengrow, author of What Makes Civilization? “This is a brilliant, accessible, and highly original account of the origins of sedentism, farming, states, and the relations between agrarian and nomadic communities. It should attract a wider audience than any of Scott’s earlier books.”—J. R. McNeill, co-author of The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945 “A sweeping and provocative look at the 'rise of civilization,' focusing particularly on those parts, peoples, and issues that are normally overlooked in conventional historical narratives.”—Alison Betts, The University of Sydney “Brilliant, sparkling, dissident scholarship. In Scott’s hands, agriculture looks like a terrible choice, states and empires look fragile, ephemeral, and predatory, and the ‘barbarians’ beyond their borders lived in relative freedom and affluence.”—David Christian, Macquarie University, Sydney “This book is fascinating and original, containing a lesson on every page. Brilliant. James Scott is a legend."—Tim Harford, author of Messy and The Undercover Economist Read more About the Author James C. Scott is Sterling Professor of Political Science and codirector of the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University. His previous books include Domination and the Arts of Resistance, Seeing Like a State, and The Art of Not Being Governed.

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Belief in God in an Age of Science (The Terry Lectures Series) Polkinghorne, John Charlton New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1998

In This Book, The Author Focuses On The Collegiality Between Science And Theology, Contending That These Intellectual Cousins Are Both Concerned With Interpreted Experience And With The Quest For Truth About Reality. He Argues Eloquently That Scientific And Theological Enquiries Are Parallel. Belief In God In An Age Of Science -- Finding Truth: Science And Religion Compared -- Does God Act In The Physical World? -- The Continuing Dialogue Between Science And Religion -- Critical Realism In Science And Religion -- Mathematical Postscript. John Polkinghorne. The First Four Chapters Are Based On The Terry Lectures, Which The Author Gave At Yale University In Oct. 1996. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

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The Yale Center for British Art : a tribute to the genius of Louis I. Kahn Duncan Robinson; Louis I Kahn; Charles Frederick Schweinfurth Memorial Library Yale Center For British Art / Yale University Press, New Haven, Ct, New Haven, Connecticut, 1997

In this text a former director of the Yale Center presents his personal guide to the building designed by Louis Kahn. From the formal atrium to the galleries, to the offices and study-spaces, the building is shown as a successful, living museum.

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Squeezed: What You Don't Know About Orange Juice (Yale Agrarian Studies Series) Hamilton, Alissa New Haven: Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2009

From The Publisher. Close To Three Quarters Of U.s. Households Buy Orange Juice. Its Popularity Crosses Class, Cultural, Racial, And Regional Divides. Why Do So Many Of Us Drink Orange Juice? How Did It Turn From A Luxury Into A Staple In Just A Few Years? More Important, How Is It That We Don't Know The Real Reasons Behind Oj's Popularity Or Understand The Processes By Which The Juice Is Produced? In This Enlightening Book, Alissa Hamilton Explores The Hidden History Of Orange Juice. She Looks At The Early Forces That Propelled Orange Juice To Prominence, Including A Surplus Of Oranges That Plagued Florida During Most Of The Twentieth Century And The Army's Need To Provide Vitamin C To Troops Overseas During World War Ii. She Tells The Stories Of The Fda's Decision In The Early 1960s To Standardize Orange Juice, And The Juice Equivalent Of The Cola Wars That Followed Between Coca-cola (which Owns Minute Maid) And Pepsi (which Owns Tropicana). Of Particular Interest To Oj Drinkers Will Be The Revelation That Most Orange Juice Comes From Brazil, Not Florida, And That Even Not From Concentrate Orange Juice Is Heated, Stripped Of Flavor, Stored For Up To A Year, And Then Reflavored Before It Is Packaged And Sold. The Book Concludes With A Thought-provoking Discussion Of Why Consumers Have The Right To Know How Their Food Is Produced. The Seeds Of Florida's Sunshine Tree -- The Twentieth-century Squeeze -- The Power Of Promotion -- Introducing The Fda Standard Of Identity -- Capturing The Interest Of The Orange Juice Consumer -- Regulating Knowledge: The Case Of Pasteurized Orange Juice -- Regulating Misleading Orange Juice Labeling -- Regulating Content -- Regulating The Essence Of Orange Juice -- Processed Orange Juice Hits Florida -- Nfc Orange Juice Pours Into The Nation -- The Orange Juice Wars -- Fabricating Fresh -- Moving Beyond The Standard Of Identity -- Pleasing Mrs. Smith -- Where To? -- Orange Juice Speaks Volumes -- The Right Fight. Alissa Hamilton. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [215]-232) And Index.

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Saving Our Environment from Washington: How Congress Grabs Power, Shirks Responsibility, and Shortchanges the People (RN) David Schoenbrod New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2005

Congress empowered the Environmental Protection Agency on the theory that only a national agency that is insulated from accountability to voters could produce the scientifically grounded pollution rules needed to save a careless public from its own filth. In this provocative book, David Schoenbrod explains how his experience as an environmental advocate brought him to this startling realization: letting EPA dictate to the nation is a mistake.Through a series of gripping and illuminating anecdotes from his own career, the author reveals the EPA to be an agency that, under Democrats and Republicans alike, delays good rules, imposes bad ones, and is so big, muscle-bound, and remote that it does unnecessary damage to our society. EPA stays in power, he says, because it enables elected legislators to evade responsibility by hiding behind appointed bureaucrats. The best environmental rulesthose that have done the most goodhave come when Congress had to take responsibility or from states and localities rather than the EPA.With the passion of an authentic environmentalist, Schoenbrod makes a sensible plea for bottom-up” environmental protection now. The responsibility for pollution control belongs not in agencies but in legislatures, and usually not at the federal level but rather closer to home.

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Against the Grain : A Deep History of the Earliest States James C. Scott Yale University Press, 1, 2017-08-22

Review “The most interesting non-fiction read of the year. . . . Urgently recommended, and fun to read as well.”—Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution “Fascinating. . . . Our agrarian-biased view of history, Scott concludes, could use some reworking. Most of the world’s early human populations likely enjoyed semisettled, semiagrarian lives beyond the state’s grasp.”—Suzanne Shablovsky, Science “A contemporary master of the political counter-narrative has produced a book on the origins of civilization – this is, quite simply, a must-read.”—David Wengrow, author of What Makes Civilization? “This is a brilliant, accessible, and highly original account of the origins of sedentism, farming, states, and the relations between agrarian and nomadic communities. It should attract a wider audience than any of Scott’s earlier books.”—J. R. McNeill, co-author of The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945 “A sweeping and provocative look at the 'rise of civilization,' focusing particularly on those parts, peoples, and issues that are normally overlooked in conventional historical narratives.”—Alison Betts, The University of Sydney “Brilliant, sparkling, dissident scholarship. In Scott’s hands, agriculture looks like a terrible choice, states and empires look fragile, ephemeral, and predatory, and the ‘barbarians’ beyond their borders lived in relative freedom and affluence.”—David Christian, Macquarie University, Sydney “This book is fascinating and original, containing a lesson on every page. Brilliant. James Scott is a legend."—Tim Harford, author of Messy and The Undercover Economist Read more About the Author James C. Scott is Sterling Professor of Political Science and codirector of the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University. His previous books include Domination and the Arts of Resistance, Seeing Like a State, and The Art of Not Being Governed.

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Origins of the Bill of Rights (Yale Contemporary Law Series) Leonard W. Levy; Leonard Williams Levy Yale Nota Bene : Yale University Press, Contemporary law series, New Haven, London, 2001, cop. 1999

<p>americans Resorted To Arms In 1775 Not To Establish New Liberties But To Defend Old Ones, Explains Constitutional Historian Leonard W. Levy In This History Of The Origins Of The Bill Of Rights. Unencumbered By A Rigid Class System, An Arbitrary Government, Or A Single Established Church Squelching Dissent, Colonial Americans Understood Freedom In A Far More Comprehensive And Liberal Way Than The English, Levy Shows. He Offers Here A Panoramic View Of The Liberties Secured By The First Ten Amendments To The Constitution - A Penetrating Analysis Of The Background Of The Bill Of Rights And Of Current Legal Understandings Of Each Of Its Provisions.</p><h3>publishers Weekly</h3><p>when Americans Began Drafting A Bill Of Rights Suitable For Their New Republic, They Were Actually Following Longstanding Anglo-american Tradition. In A Well-researched, Though Hardly Pathbreaking, History, Levy (blasphemy, Etc.), Professor Emeritus At The Claremont Graduate School, Devotes Chapters To Important Protections: Freedom Of Speech, Freedom Of Religion, Habeas Corpus, Prohibitions On Bills Of Attainder, Etc. With Each Topic, He Delves Into Its Sources--english Common Law, Enlightenment Philosophy, Colonial State Constitutions--ably Characterizing The Social And Historical Forces That Influenced The Evolution Of Each Right. It's An Academic Approach That's Useful As History Even If It Solves Few Contemporary Problems. Take, For Example, Levy's Discussion Of The Right To Bear Arms. When Ratified, He Notes, The Second Amendment Created An Individual Rather Than A Collective Right. But This Settles The Matter Only If One Believes That Legal And Constitutional History Stopped In 1789. As Recent Constitutional Theorists (e.g., Bruce Ackerman) Have Noted, Law, Including Constitutional Law, Evolves, Effectively Undergoing Amendment Through A Gradual Consensus-building Process Involving Courts, Legislatures And The Public. Indeed, Levy's Own Keen Historical Account Illustrates How Legal Concepts Have Changed Over Time. His Failure To Confront Or Even Acknowledge How This Dynamism Is At Work In Contemporary Debates Renders This Book Ultimately Of Only Academic Interest. (sept.) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.</p>

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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 [CT]: 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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War: An Enquiry (Vices and Virtues) Grayling, A. C. Yale University Press, VICES AND VIRTUES, 1, 2017

**A renowned philosopher challenges long-held views on just wars, ethical conduct during war, why wars occur, how they alter people and societies, and more** For residents of the twenty-first century, a vision of a future without warfare is almost inconceivable. Though wars are terrible and destructive, they also seem unavoidable. In this original and deeply considered book, A. C. Grayling examines, tests, and challenges the concept of war. He proposes that a deeper, more accurate understanding of war may enable us to reduce its frequency, mitigate its horrors, and lessen the burden of its consequences. Grayling explores the long, tragic history of war and how warfare has changed in response to technological advances. He probes much-debated theories concerning the causes of war and considers positive changes that may result from war. How might these results be achieved without violence? In a profoundly wise conclusion, the author envisions “just war theory” in new moral terms, taking into account the lessons of World War II and the Holocaust and laying down ethical principles for going to war and for conduct during war.

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How Rome Fell : Death of a Superpower Goldsworthy, Adrian Keith Yale University Press, 1st Edition, First Edition, PT, 2009

Amazon.com Review Amazon Best of the Month, May 2009: Adrian Goldsworthy's Caesar: Life of a Colossus was a masterly fusion of vivid historical biography and scholarly detail, an impeccably researched work that also succeeded as a compelling read. With How Rome Fell , Goldsworthy's eye turns to the forces that ultimately destroyed the Roman Empire, challenging the traditional assumption that Rome was sacked by ultimately irrepressible foreign armies. Goldsworthy asserts that Rome's foes in the death throes of empire weren't any more formidable than those at its peak, but that the cutthroat nature of its political system fractured and diverted forces better spent maintaining the integrity of provincial borders--it was civil war and paranoia that destroyed the empire from within. Drawing parallels to modern societies might be tempting, but Goldsworthy is interested in Rome and resists foreboding or moralistic tones--even making a point of acknowledging the different dynamics that drive the rise and fall current powers. In just over 400 pages, How Rome Fell speeds the both the casual and Rome-savvy reader through 400 years of tumultuous and world-changing history--it's a worthy successor to the triumph of Caesar .-- Jon Foro From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. At only 40 years of age, British historian Goldsworthy's ( Caesar ) ninth Roman history offers the same high level of scholarship, analysis and lucid prose as the previous eight. After a superb survey of Roman politics and civilization, Goldsworthy begins with the death in A.D. 180 of emperor Marcus Aurelius, whose reign is traditionally viewed as the apex of Roman power. During the disastrous century that followed, emperors rarely ruled more than a few years; most were murdered, and civil wars raged, though there was some stability during the reigns of Diocletian and Constantine. Invasions slowly chipped away at the empire until it vanished in A.D. 476 with the abdication of the last Western emperor. Goldsworthy makes sense of 300 years of poorly documented wars, murders and political scheming. Highly opinionated, he presents surviving documents and archeological evidence to back his views such as that Constantine became Christian because Roman leaders traditionally believed that divine help won battles, and the Christian god seemed to Constantine like the front-runner. This richly rewarding work will serve as an introduction to Roman history, but will also provide plenty of depth to satisfy the educated reader. Illus., maps. (May) Copyright В© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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War: An Enquiry (Vices and Virtues) A. C. Grayling Yale University Press, VICES AND VIRTUES, 1, 2017

**A renowned philosopher challenges long-held views on just wars, ethical conduct during war, why wars occur, how they alter people and societies, and more** For residents of the twenty-first century, a vision of a future without warfare is almost inconceivable. Though wars are terrible and destructive, they also seem unavoidable. In this original and deeply considered book, A. C. Grayling examines, tests, and challenges the concept of war. He proposes that a deeper, more accurate understanding of war may enable us to reduce its frequency, mitigate its horrors, and lessen the burden of its consequences. Grayling explores the long, tragic history of war and how warfare has changed in response to technological advances. He probes much-debated theories concerning the causes of war and considers positive changes that may result from war. How might these results be achieved without violence? In a profoundly wise conclusion, the author envisions “just war theory” in new moral terms, taking into account the lessons of World War II and the Holocaust and laying down ethical principles for going to war and for conduct during war.

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