Yale University Press: 2009 books
Restless Valley
Revolution, Murder, and Intrigue in the Heart of Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
This award-winning foreign correspondent’s vivid account of Central Asia’s recent history “reads like a novel but is the stuff of hard-won journalism” (Gary Shteyngart, author of Absurdistan).
Here are the stories of two revolutions, a massacre of unarmed civilians, a civil war, a drug-smuggling...
No Freedom without Regulation
The Hidden Lesson of the Subprime Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Almost everyone who follows politics or economics agrees on one thing: more regulation means less freedom. Joseph William Singer, one of the world’s most respected experts on property law, explains why this understanding of regulation is simply wrong. While analysts as ideologically divided as Alan...
The Soul of the First Amendment
Why Freedom of Speech Matters
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
A lively and controversial overview by the nation’s most celebrated First Amendment lawyer of the unique protections for freedom of speech in America The right of Americans to voice their beliefs without government approval or oversight is protected under what may well be the most honored and least...
by Charles Black Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 1998
" In a classic guide to presidential impeachment, Charles L. Black clarifies the issues and questions that surround this controversial subject. With a new foreword by constitutional expert Akhil Reed Amar, this authoritative book is essential reading for every concerned citizen. "The best...
Presidents? Secrets
The Use and Abuse of Hidden Power
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
How presidents use secrecy to protect the nation, foster diplomacy, and gain power
Ever since the nation’s most important secret meeting—the Constitutional Convention—presidents have struggled to balance open, accountable government with necessary secrecy in military affairs and negotiations....
by Ms. Edina Becirevic
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
In this scholarly yet intensely personal history, author Edina Becirevic explores the widespread ethnic cleansing that occurred in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992 through 1995, war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Serbs against Bosnian Muslims that fully meet the criteria for genocide...
The Savage Shore
Extraordinary Stories of Survival and Tragedy from the Early Voyages of Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
For centuries before the arrival in Australia of Captain Cook and the so-called First Fleet in 1788, intrepid seafaring explorers had been searching, with varied results, for the fabled “Great Southland.” In this enthralling history of early discovery, Graham Seal offers breathtaking tales of shipwrecks,...
The Crimean Nexus
Putin's War and the Clash of Civilizations
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
How the West sleepwalked into another Cold War A native of Yalta, Constantine Pleshakov is intimately familiar with Crimea’s ethnic tensions and complex political history. Now, he offers a much-needed look at one of the most urgent flash points in current international relations: the first occupation...
by Behlul (Behlul) Ozkan (Ozkan)
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
How does a people move from tribal and religiously based understandings of society to a concept of the modern nation-state? This book examines the complex and pivotal case of Turkey. Tracing the shifting valences of vatan (Arabic for “birthplace” or “homeland”) from the Ottoman period—when...
by Denis Mack Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Giuseppe Mazzini was one of the leading figures in the political history of nineteenth-century Europe. A vigorous proponent of nationalism, pre-eminent figure in the struggle for Italian independence and unity, and fascinating personality, his ideas were influential throughout Europe. Yet successive...
Dictators Without Borders
Power and Money in Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
A penetrating look into the unrecognized and unregulated links between autocratic regimes in Central Asia and centers of power and wealth throughout the West Weak, corrupt, and politically unstable, the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan are dismissed as isolated...
Dominion from Sea to Sea
Pacific Ascendancy and American Power
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
America is the first world power to inhabit an immense land mass open at both ends to the world’s two largest oceans—the Atlantic and the Pacific. This gives America a great competitive advantage often overlooked by Atlanticists, whose focus remains overwhelmingly fixed on America’s relationship...
by David W. Orr
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
A leading environmental thinker takes a hard look at the obstacles and possibilities on the long road to sustainability This gripping, deeply thoughtful book considers future of civilization in the light of what we know about climate change and related threats. David Orr, an award-winning, internationally...
If Mayors Ruled the World
Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013