Yale University Press: 2009 books
by Lucy Riall
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Italian revolutionary leader and popular hero, was among the best-known figures of the nineteenth century. This book seeks to examine his life and the making of his cult, to assess its impact, and understand its surprising success.For thirty years Garibaldi was involved in every...
The Narrow Edge
A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Thousands of ravenous tiny shorebirds race along the water’s edge of Delaware Bay, feasting on pin-sized horseshoe-crab eggs. Fueled by millions of eggs, the migrating red knots fly on. When they arrive at last in their arctic breeding grounds, they will have completed a near-miraculous 9,000-mile...
by Thomas A. Kohut
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Germans of the generation born just before the outbreak of World War I lived through a tumultuous and dramatic century. This book tells the story of their lives and, in so doing, offers a new history of twentieth-century Germany, as experienced and made by ordinary human beings.On the basis of sixty-two...
The Great Plague
A People's History
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
In this intimate history of the extraordinary Black Plague pandemic that swept through the British Isles in 1665, Evelyn Lord focuses on the plague’s effects on smaller towns, where every death was a singular blow affecting the entire community. Lord’s fascinating reconstruction of life during plague...
Faust
A Tragedy, Parts One and Two, Fully Revised
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
A classic of world literature, Goethe’s Faust is a philosophical and poetic drama full of satire, irony, humor, and tragedy. Martin Greenberg re-creates not only the text’s varied meter and rhyme but also its diverse tones and styles—dramatic and lyrical, reflective and farcical, pathetic and coarse,...
Hemlock
A Forest Giant on the Edge
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Just a week after the Kristallnacht terror in 1938, young Luzie Hatch, a German Jew, fled Berlin to resettle in New York. Her rescuer was an American-born cousin and industrialist, Arnold Hatch. Arnold spoke no German, so Luzie quickly became translator, intermediary, and advocate for family left behind....
Einsteins Unfinished Symphony
The Story of a Gamble, Two Black Holes, and a New Age of Astronomy
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
An updated classic that recounts the long hunt for Einstein’s predicted gravitational waves—and celebrates their recent discovery In February 2016, astronomers announced that they had verified the last remaining prediction of Einstein’s general theory of relativity—vibrations in space-time, called...
Connecticut's Indigenous Peoples
What Archaeology, History, and Oral Traditions Teach Us About Their Communities and Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
More than 10,000 years ago, people settled on lands that now lie within the boundaries of the state of Connecticut. Leaving no written records and scarce archaeological remains, these peoples and their communities have remained unknown to all but a few archaeologists and other scholars. This pioneering...
Raising Henry
A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
by Dr. Joseph A. Abboud, M.D., Soo Kim Abboud
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Arthritis is a major cause of joint pain, but there are myriad others. This is the first book to provide everyday readers with a comprehensive guide to musculoskeletal disease and pain, from degenerative arthritis in the elderly to common sports injuries in young athletes.Dr. Joseph A. Abboud and...
by Kelly James Clark
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Scarcely any country in today's world can claim to be free of intolerance. Israel and Palestine, Northern Ireland, the Sudan, the Balkans, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, and the Caucasus are just some of the areas of intractable conflict, apparently inspired or exacerbated by religious differences. Can...
Francis of Assisi
The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Saint
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
A biography of the saint as both mystic and man: “The single best book about Francis now available in English” (Commonweal).
In this towering work, Andre Vauchez draws on the vast body of scholarship on Francis of Assisi, particularly the important research of recent decades, to create...
by Joel S. Baden
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
For well over two centuries the question of the composition of the Pentateuch has been among the most central and hotly debated issues in the field of biblical studies. In this book, Joel Baden presents a fresh and comprehensive argument for the Documentary Hypothesis. Critically engaging both older...