Yale University Press: 2009 books
The Second Arab Awakening
And the Battle for Pluralism
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
This important book is not about immediate events or policies or responses to the Arab Spring. Instead, it takes a long, judicious view of political change in the Arab world, beginning with the first Awakening in the nineteenth century and extending into future decades when—if the dream is realized—a...
by Elliot W. Eisner
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Although the arts are often thought to be closer to the rim of education than to its core, they are, surprisingly, critically important means for developing complex and subtle aspects of the mind, argues Elliot Eisner in this engrossing book. In it he describes how various forms of thinking are evoked,...
by Edward S. Greenberg, Leon Grunberg, Sarah Moore
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
This timely book investigates the experiences of employees at all levels of Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) during a ten-year period of dramatic organizational change. As Boeing transformed itself, workers and managers contended with repeated downsizing, shifting corporate culture, new roles for women,...
Grave New World
The End of Globalization, the Return of History
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
A controversial look at the end of globalization and what it means for prosperity, peace, and the global economic order Globalization, long considered the best route to economic prosperity, is not inevitable. An approach built on the principles of free trade and, since the 1980s, open capital markets,...
The Rise and Decline of Nations
Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
The years since World War II have seen rapid shifts in the relative positions of different countries and regions. Leading political economist Mancur Olson offers a new and compelling theory to explain these shifts in fortune and then tests his theory against evidence from many periods of history and...
The Resurgence of the West
How a Transatlantic Union Can Prevent War and Restore the United States and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
After two centuries of ascent, the United States finds itself in economic decline. Some advise America to cure its woes alone. But the road to isolation leads inevitably to the end of U.S. leadership in the international system, warns Richard Rosecrance in this bold and novel book. Instead, Rosecrance...
by James Gustave Speth
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This book will change the way we understand the future of our planet. It is both alarming and hopeful. James Gustave Speth, renowned as a visionary environmentalist leader, warns that in spite of all the international negotiations and agreements of the past two decades, efforts to protect Earth’s environment...
The Taliban Revival
Violence and Extremism on the Pakistan-Afghanistan Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
In autumn 2001, U.S. and NATO troops were deployed to Afghanistan to unseat the Taliban rulers, repressive Islamic fundamentalists who had lent active support to Osama bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda jihadists. The NATO forces defeated and dismantled the Taliban government, scattering its remnants across the...
Is Entrepreneurship Dead?
The Truth About Startups in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
It’s become an article of faith that American entrepreneurship is in trouble. The problems are many: lack of capital, too few entrepreneurial immigrants, excessive regulation, an aging population, slowing population growth, and rising student debt. But while experts across the country debate the...
by Torben Iversen, Frances Rosenbluth
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
by Parker MacDonald Shipton
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Off Center
The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
The Republicans who run American government today have defied the normal laws of political gravity. They have ruled with the slimmest of majorities and yet have transformed the nation’s governing priorities. They have strayed dramatically from the moderate middle of public opinion and yet have faced...
Building Cross-Cultural Competence
How to Create Wealth from Conflicting Values
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Cross-cultural competence is a skill that has become increasingly essential for the managers in multinational companies. For other business people, this kind of competence may spell the difference between surviving and perishing in the new global economy. This book focuses on the dilemmas of these managers...
by Ian Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
When do governments merit our allegiance, and when should they be denied it? Ian Shapiro investigates this most enduring of political dilemmas in this innovative and engaging book.Shapiro discusses the different answers that have been proposed by the major political theorists in the utilitarian, Marxist,...