Yale University Press: 2009 books
Digital World War
Islamists, Extremists, and the Fight for Cyber Supremacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
The role of social media in the events of the Arab Spring and its aftermath in the Muslim world has stimulated much debate, yet little in the way of useful insight. Now Haroon Ullah, a scholar and diplomat with deep knowledge of politics and societies in the Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast...
Initiative to Stop the Violence
Sadat's Assassins and the Renunciation of Political Violence
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Formerly one of the largest and most militant Islamic organizations in the Middle East, Egypt’s al-Gama‘ah al-Islamiyah is believed to have played an instrumental role in numerous acts of global terrorism, including the assassination of President Anwar Sadat and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing....
The Devil Within
Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the era of the Reformation, thousands of Europeans were thought to be possessed by demons. In response to their horrifying symptoms—violent convulsions, displays of preternatural strength, vomiting of foreign objects, displaying contempt for sacred objects,...
by Ashraf H. A. Rushdy
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
After observing the varying reactions to the 1998 death of James Byrd Jr. in Texas, called a lynching by some, denied by others, Ashraf Rushdy determined that to comprehend this event he needed to understand the long history of lynching in the United States. In this meticulously researched and accessibly...
Holy Rus'
The Rebirth of Orthodoxy in the New Russia
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
A fascinating, vivid, and on-the-ground account of Russian Orthodoxy’s resurgence A bold experiment is taking place in Russia. After a century of being scarred by militant, atheistic communism, the Orthodox Church has become Russia’s largest and most significant nongovernmental organization. As it...
Louis
The French Prince Who Invaded England
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
In 1215 a group of English barons, dissatisfied with the weak and despicable King John, decided that they needed a new monarch. They wanted a strong, experienced man, of royal blood, and they found him on the other side of the Channel: astonishingly, the most attractive candidate for the crown of England...
by Prof. Glenn Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Glenn Richardson provides the first history in more than four decades of a major Tudor event: an extraordinary international gathering of Renaissance rulers unparalleled in its opulence, pageantry, controversy, and mystery.
by J. J. Scarisbrick
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Henry VIII's forceful personality dominated his age and continues to fascinate our own. In few other reigns have there been developments of such magnitude—in politics, foreign relations, religion, and society—that have so radically affected succeeding generations. Above all the English Reformation...
by David Crouch
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
Jewish Life in Small-Town America
A History
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In this book, Lee Shai Weissbach offers the first comprehensive portrait of small-town Jewish life in America. Exploring the history of communities of 100 to 1000 Jews, the book focuses on the years from the mid-nineteenth century to World War II. Weissbach examines the dynamics of 490 communities across...
Biblical Truths
The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
A leading biblical scholar’s landmark work challenges the historical realism that has dominated the discipline for more than two centuries How can a modern person, informed by science and history, continue to recite the traditional creeds and confessions of the Christian church? What does the Bible...
by Willie James Jennings
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
by John Polkinghorne
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Just as gendered, cultural, and geographical perspectives have illuminated and advanced theological thought, the contributions of twentieth-century science have much to offer theology. In his latest book, physicist-theologian John Polkinghorne, renowned as one of the world’s foremost thinkers on science...
Gouverneur Morris
An Independent Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
A plainspoken, racy patrician who distrusted democracy but opposed slavery and championed freedom for all minorities, an important player in the American Revolution, later an astute critic of the French Revolution, Gouverneur Morris remains an enigma among the founding generation. This comprehensive,...