Yale University Press: 2009 books
North Korea's Hidden Revolution
How the Information Underground Is Transforming a Closed Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The story of North Korea's information underground and how it inspires people to seek better lives beyond their country’s borders One of the least understood countries in the world, North Korea has long been known for its repressive regime. Yet it is far from being an impenetrable black box. Media...
Breaking White Supremacy
Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
This magisterial follow-up to The New Abolition, a Grawemeyer Award winner, tells the crucial second chapter in the black social gospel’s history.
The civil rights movement was one of the most searing developments in modern American history. It abounded with noble visions, resounded with...
Against the Grain
A Deep History of the Earliest States
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 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...
The Master and His Emissary
The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
A new edition of the bestselling classic – published with a special introduction to mark its 10th anniversary
This pioneering account sets out to understand the structure of the human brain – the place where mind meets matter. Until recently, the left hemisphere of our brain has been seen...
by Peter R. Mansoor
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This compelling book presents an unparalleled record of what happened after U.S. forces seized Baghdad in the spring of 2003. Army Colonel Peter R. Mansoor, the on-the-ground commander of the 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division-the Ready First Combat Team”-describes his brigade’s first year in Iraq,...
by Susan Jacoby
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Baseball, first dubbed the “national pastime” in print in 1856, is the country’s most tradition-bound sport. Despite remaining popular and profitable into the twenty-first century, the game is losing young fans, among African Americans and women as well as white men. Furthermore, baseball’s...
The Age of Catastrophe
A History of the West 19141945
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Characterized by global war, political revolution and national crises, the period between 1914 and 1945 was one of the most horrifying eras in the history of the West. A noted scholar of modern German history, Heinrich August Winkler examines how and why Germany so radically broke with the normative...
by Dale B. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
In this engaging introduction to the New Testament, Professor Dale B. Martin presents a historical study of the origins of Christianity by analyzing the literature of the earliest Christian movements. Focusing mainly on the New Testament, he also considers nonbiblical Christian writings of the era.Martin...
Secular Buddhism
Imagining the Dharma in an Uncertain World
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
An essential collection of Stephen Batchelor’s most probing and important work on secular Buddhism As the practice of mindfulness permeates mainstream Western culture, more and more people are engaging in a traditional form of Buddhist meditation. However, many of these people have little interest...
American Dharma
Buddhism Beyond Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
The past couple of decades have witnessed Buddhist communities both continuing the modernization of Buddhism and questioning some of its limitations. In this fascinating portrait of a rapidly changing religious landscape, Ann Gleig illuminates the aspirations and struggles of younger North American...
by Charles Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
Social Democracy in the Making
Political and Religious Roots of European Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
An expansive and ambitious intellectual history of democratic socialism from one of the world’s leading intellectual historians and social ethicists
The fallout from twenty years of neoliberal economic globalism has sparked a surge of interest in the old idea of democratic socialism—a democracy...
Sun Chief
The Autobiography of a Hopi Indian, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013
Downtown
Its Rise and Fall, 1880-1950
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Written by one of this country’s foremost urban historians, Downtown is the first history of what was once viewed as the heart of the American city. It tells the fascinating story of how downtown-and the way Americans thought about downtown-changed over time. By showing how businessmen and property...