Yale University Press: 2009 books
by Joshua M. Glasser
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
No skeletons were rattling in his closet, Thomas Eagleton assured George McGovern's political director. But only eighteen days later—after a series of damaging public revelations and feverish behind-the-scenes maneuverings—McGovern rescinded his endorsement of his Democratic vice-presidential running...
Dirty Old London
The Victorian Fight Against Filth
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with "night soil," graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this intimately visceral book, Lee Jackson guides us through...
Who's Teaching Your Children?
Why the Teacher Crisis Is Worse Than You Think and What Can Be Done About It
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Many of the problems afflicting American education are the result of a critical shortage of qualified teachers in the classrooms. The teacher crisis is surprisingly resistant to current reforms and is getting worse. This important book reveals the causes underlying the crisis and offers concrete, affordable...
Fragile Empire
How Russia Fell In and Out of Love with Vladimir Putin
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
“A beautifully written and very lively study of Russia that argues that the political order created by Vladimir Putin is stagnating” (Financial Times).
From Kaliningrad on the Baltic to the Russian Far East, journalist Ben Judah has traveled throughout Russia and the former Soviet republics,...
The End of Europe
Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Once the world’s bastion of liberal, democratic values, Europe is now having to confront demons it thought it had laid to rest. The old pathologies of anti-Semitism, populist nationalism, and territorial aggression are threatening to tear the European postwar consensus apart. In riveting dispatches...
by Mona Siddiqui
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Prophet or messiah, the figure of Jesus serves as both the bridge and the barrier between Christianity and Islam. In this accessible and revelatory book, Muslim scholar and popular commentator Mona Siddiqui explores the theological links between the two religions, showing how Islamic thought has approached...
The Mongols and the Islamic World
From Conquest to Conversion
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
An epic historical consideration of the Mongol conquest of Western Asia and the spread of Islam during the years of non-Muslim rule The Mongol conquest of the Islamic world began in the early thirteenth century when Genghis Khan and his warriors overran Central Asia and devastated much of Iran. Distinguished...
by George McKenna
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In this absorbing book, George McKenna ranges across the entire panorama of American history to track the development of American patriotism. That patriotism-shaped by Reformation Protestantism and imbued with the American Puritan belief in a providential errand”-has evolved over 350 years and influenced...
Religious Pluralism in America
The Contentious History of a Founding Ideal
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Religious toleration is enshrined as an ideal in our Constitution, but religious diversity has had a complicated history in the United States. Although Americans have taken justifiable pride in the rich array of religious faiths that help define our nation, for two centuries we have been grappling with...
Enlightenment's Frontier
The Scottish Highlands and the Origins of Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Enlightenment’s Frontier is the first book to investigate the environmental roots of the Scottish Enlightenment. What was the place of the natural world in Adam Smith’s famous defense of free trade? Fredrik Albritton Jonsson recovers the forgotten networks of improvers and natural historians that...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This important and welcome volume is the first English-language anthology of writings on Latin American modern art of the twentieth century. The book includes some fifty seminal essays and documents-including statements, interviews, and manifestoes by artists-that encompass the broad diversity of this...
The Kreutzer Sonata Variations
Lev Tolstoy's Novella and Counterstories by Sofiya Tolstaya and Lev Lvovich Tolstoy
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
A work unprecedented in world literature, this unique volume contains a new translation of Lev Tolstoy’s controversial novella The Kreutzer Sonata, which was initially banned by Russian censors. In addition, available to English readers for the first time is a fascinating and previously neglected constellation...
Lillian Hellman
An Imperious Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Glamorous, talented, audacious—Lillian Hellman knew everyone, did everything, had been everywhere. By the age of twenty-nine she had written The Children’s Hour, the first of four hit Broadway plays, and soon she was considered a member of America’s first rank of dramatists, a position she maintained...
Hitler's Berlin
Abused City
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
From his first visit to Berlin in 1916, Hitler was preoccupied and fascinated by Germany's great capital city. In this vivid and entirely new account of Hitler's relationship with Berlin, Thomas Friedrich explores how Hitler identified with the city, how his political aspirations were reflected in architectural...