Yale University Press: 2009 books
by Barbara Seyda
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
The winner of the 2015 Yale Drama Series playwriting competition was selected by Nicholas Wright, former Associate Director of London’s Royal Court. Barbara Seyda’s stunningly theatrical Celia, a Slave is a vivid tableau of interviews with the dead that interweaves oral histories with official archival...
by Jen Silverman
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
In this darkly comic exploration of loss, intimacy, and motherhood, three women are joined by a baby who never lived. Morgan, in her middle years, is the grieving mother of a stillborn child. Elena, the failed midwife, burdened by guilt, is considering a career change. Dolores, eighteen, is pregnant...
by Mr. Sean Singer
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This year’s winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is Sean Singer’s Discography. Playful, experimental, jazz-influenced, the poems in this book delight in sound and approach the more abstract pleasures of music. Singer takes as his subjects music, jazz figures, and historical events....
by Katherine Larson
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Katherine Larson is the winner of the 2010 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. With Radial Symmetry, she has created a transcendent body of poems that flourish in the liminal spaces that separate scientific inquiry from empathic knowledge, astute observation from sublime witness. Larson's inventive...
by Mr. Davis McCombs
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This year’s winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is Davis McCombs’s Ultima Thule, which was acclaimed as a book of exploration, of searching regard.... a grave, attentive holding of a light” by the contest judge, the distinguished poet W. S. Merwin. The poems are set above and...
A Question of Balance
Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
As scientific and observational evidence on global warming piles up every day, questions of economic policy in this central environmental topic have taken center stage. But as author and prominent Yale economist William Nordhaus observes, the issues involved in understanding global warming and slowing...
by Jeffrey Sweet
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
The art and craft of playwriting as explored in candid conversations with some of the most important contemporary dramatists Edward Albee, Lanford Wilson, Lynn Nottage, A. R. Gurney, and a host of other major creative voices of the theater discuss the art of playwriting, from inspiration to production,...
Ruth
A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
In recent years, students, scholars, and lay readers of the Bible have been increasingly drawn to the book of Ruth. Delving deeply into the complicated nature of its characters’ relationships, Jeremy Schipper encourages readers to consider the roles that categories of difference involving gender, disability,...
Ezekiel 38-48
A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
A fresh interpretation of the final major sections of the Hebrew book of Ezekiel, chapters 38-48
Stephen L. Cook offers an accessible translation and interpretation of the final sections of Ezekiel. These chapters, the most challenging texts of scripture, describe the end-time assault of Gog...
Aristocratic Vice
The Attack on Duelling, Suicide, Adultery, and Gambling in Eighteenth-Century England
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Aristocratic Vice examines the outrage against—and attempts to end—the four vices associated with the aristocracy in eighteenth-century England: duelling, suicide, adultery, and gambling. Each of the four, it was commonly believed, owed its origin to pride. Many felt the law did not go far enough...
The Winds of Freedom
Addressing Challenges to the University
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
As president of Stanford University, Gerhard Casper established a reputation as a tireless, forward-thinking advocate for higher education. His speeches, renowned for their intelligence, humanity, wit, and courage, confront head-on the most pressing concerns facing our nation’s universities. From...
Beyond the University
Why Liberal Education Matters
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Contentious debates over the benefits—or drawbacks—of a liberal education are as old as America itself. From Benjamin Franklin to the Internet pundits, critics of higher education have attacked its irrelevance and elitism—often calling for more vocational instruction. Thomas Jefferson, by contrast,...
Standing for Reason
The University in a Dogmatic Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
A powerful case for the importance of universities as an antidote to the “secular dogmatism” that increasingly infects political discourse
John Sexton argues that over six decades, a “secular dogmatism,” impenetrable by dialogue or reason, has come to dominate political discourse in America....
The Western Paradox
A Conservation Reader
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This book is the fascinating record of DeVoto’s crusade to save the West from itself. . . . His arguments, insights, and passion are as relevant and urgent today as they were when he first put them on paper.”-Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., from the Foreword Bernard DeVoto (1897-1955) was, according...