Yale University Press: 2009 books
Time No Longer
Americans After the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Americans cherish their national myths, some of which predate the country’s founding. But the time for illusions, nostalgia, and grand ambition abroad has gone by, Patrick Smith observes in this original book. Americans are now faced with a choice between a mythical idea of themselves, their nation,...
by Steven L. Maskin, M.D., Pamela Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This clear, accessible book combines detailed medical information with expert treatment advice for the estimated twenty million Americans who suffer from dry eye syndrome. Dr. Steven L. Maskin, an ophthalmologist who has been caring for dry eye patients for more than fifteen years, explains exactly what...
Healing Wounds, Healthy Skin
A Practical Guide for Patients with Chronic Wounds
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
The Strike That Changed New York
Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
On May 9, 1968, junior high school teacher Fred Nauman received a letter that would change the history of New York City. It informed him that he had been fired from his job. Eighteen other educators in the Ocean HillBrownsville area of Brooklyn received similar letters that day. The dismissed educators...
by Ann M. Blair
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Fortunes of History
Historical Inquiry from Herder to Huizinga
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In Fortunes of History Donald R. Kelley offers an authoritative examination of historical writing during the long nineteenth century”-the years from the French Revolution to those just after the First World War. He provides a comprehensive analysis of the theories and practices of British, French,...
by Jonathan Zittrain
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity-and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation-and...
A Golden Weed
Tobacco and Environment in the Piedmont South
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Drew A. Swanson has written an “environmental” history about a crop of great historical and economic significance: American tobacco. A preferred agricultural product for much of the South, the tobacco plant would ultimately degrade the land that nurtured it, but as the author provocatively argues,...
The Watchman in Pieces
Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Spanning nearly 500 years of cultural and social history, this book examines the ways that literature and surveillance have developed together, as kindred modern practices. As ideas about personhood—what constitutes a self—have changed over time, so too have ideas about how to represent, shape, or...
Before L.A.
Race, Space, and Municipal Power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
by James Boyle
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
In this enlightening book James Boyle describes what he calls the range wars of the information age-today’s heated battles over intellectual property. Boyle argues that just as every informed citizen needs to know at least something about the environment or civil rights, every citizen should also understand...
Mindful Tech
How to Bring Balance to Our Digital Lives
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
From email to smart phones, and from social media to Google searches, digital technologies have transformed the way we learn, entertain ourselves, socialize, and work. Despite their usefulness, these technologies have often led to information overload, stress, and distraction. In recent years many of...
by Professor Bruce Ackerman, Professor James S. Fishkin
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Bruce Ackerman and James Fishkin argue that Americans can revitalize their democracy and break the cycle of cynical media manipulation that is crippling public life. They propose a new national holiday-Deliberation Day-for each presidential election year. On this day people throughout the country will...
Home Rule
Households, Manhood, and National Expansion on the Eighteenth-Century Kentucky Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
On America’s western frontier, myths of prosperity concealed the brutal conditions endured by women, slaves, orphans, and the poor. As poverty and unrest took root in eighteenth-century Kentucky, western lawmakers championed ideas about whiteness, manhood, and patriarchal authority to help stabilize...