Yale University Press: 2009 books
by Erwin Chemerinsky, Howard Gillman
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Can free speech coexist with an inclusive campus environment?
Hardly a week goes by without another controversy over free speech on college campuses. On one side, there are increased demands to censor hateful, disrespectful, and bullying expression and to ensure an inclusive and nondiscriminatory...
Knowledge in the Making
Academic Freedom and Free Speech in America's Schools and Universities
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
How free are students and teachers to express unpopular ideas in public schools and universities? Not free enough, Joan DelFattore suggests. Wading without hesitation into some of the most contentious issues of our times, she investigates battles over a wide range of topics that have fractured school...
The Yaquis and the Empire
Violence, Spanish Imperial Power, and Native Resilience in Colonial Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
This important new book on the Yaqui people of the north Mexican state of Sonora examines the history of Yaqui-Spanish interactions from first contact in 1533 through Mexican independence in 1821. The Yaquis and the Empire is the first major publication to deal with the colonial history of the Yaqui...
by James M. Banner Jr., Professor Harold C. Cannon
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
What are the characteristics of a great teacher? What qualities of mind and spirit are necessary to help others acquire the knowledge through which they can understand and live a good life? In this book, James Banner and Harold Cannon draw on many years of experience to set forth the intellectual, moral,...
by Mark Salber Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Conceptions of distance are foundational to historical thought, but Mark Salber Phillips gives the idea new subtlety and meaning. He argues that distance is a matter not just of time and space but also of form, affect, ideology, and understanding. In this exceptionally wide-ranging study, Phillips examines...
Up from Serfdom
My Childhood and Youth in Russia, 1804-1824
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
It was the arbitrary nature of the serfholder’s power that weighed on serfs like Nikitenko, for as they discovered, even the most benevolent patron could turn overnight into an overbearing tyrant. In that respect, serfdom and slavery were the same.”-Peter Kolchin, from the forewordAleksandr Nikitenko,...
First Impressions
A Reader’s Journey to Iconic Places of the American Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
A guide to the history and culture of the American Southwest, as told through early encounters with fifteen iconic sites This unique guide for literate travelers in the American Southwest tells the story of fifteen iconic sites across Arizona, New Mexico, southern Utah, and southern Colorado through...
George I. Sánchez
The Long Fight for Mexican American Integration
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
George I. Sánchez was a reformer, activist, and intellectual, and one of the most influential members of the "Mexican American Generation" (1930–1960). A professor of education at the University of Texas from the beginning of World War II until the early 1970s, Sánchez was an outspoken proponent...
by John Polkinghorne, F.R.S., K.B.E.
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In this captivating book, one of the most highly regarded scientist-theologians of our time explores aspects of the interaction of science and theology. John Polkinghorne defends the place of theology in the university (it is part of the human search for truth) and discusses the role of revelation in...
The Nile Basin
National Determinants of Collective Action
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
The supply and management of fresh water for the world’s billions of inhabitants is likely to be one of the most daunting challenges of the coming century. For countries that share river basins with others, questions of how best to use and protect precious water resources always become entangled in...
Captured by Evil
The Idea of Corruption in Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
One of the most powerful words in the English language, "corruption" is also one of the most troubled concepts in law. According to Laura Underkuffler, it is a concept based on religiously revealed ideas of good and evil. But the notion of corruption defies the ordinary categories by which law defines...
The Not So Common Sense
Differences in How People Judge Social and Political Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In this fascinating interdisciplinary book, Shawn W. Rosenberg challenges two basic assumptions that orient much contemporary social scientific thinking. Offering theory and empirical research, he rejects the classic liberal view that people share a basic common sense” or rationality. At the same...
by Astrid Lindgren
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
These personal diaries kept by Astrid Lindgren, author of the world famous Pippi Longstocking books, chronicle the horrors of World War II. Before she became internationally known for her Pippi Longstocking books, Astrid Lindgren was an aspiring author living in Stockholm with her family at the outbreak...
The Maisky Diaries
Red Ambassador to the Court of St James's, 1932-1943
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
The terror and purges of Stalin’s Russia in the 1930s discouraged Soviet officials from leaving documentary records let alone keeping personal diaries. A remarkable exception is the unique diary assiduously kept by Ivan Maisky, the Soviet ambassador to London between 1932 and 1943. This selection from...