Yale University Press: 2009 books
The Structure and Dynamics of Human Ecosystems
Toward a Model for Understanding and Action
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
A landmark book that strives to provide both grand theory and practical application, innovatively describing the structure and dynamics of human ecosystems As the world faces ever more complex and demanding environmental and social challenges, the need for interdisciplinary models and practical guidance...
The Baltimore School of Urban Ecology
Space, Scale, and Time for the Study of Cities
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
The first “urban century” in history has arrived: a majority of the world’s population now resides in cities and their surrounding suburbs. Urban expansion marches on, and the planning and design of future cities requires attention to such diverse issues as human migration, public health, economic...
by Theodore K. Rabb
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
How have artists across the millennia responded to warfare? In this uniquely wide-ranging book, Theodore Rabb blends military history and the history of art to search for the answers. He draws our attention to masterpieces from the ancient world to the twentieth century—paintings, sculpture, ceramics,...
The Progressives' Century
Political Reform, Constitutional Government, and the Modern American State
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
A landmark work on how the Progressive Era redefined the playing field for conservatives and liberals alike. During the 1912 presidential campaign, Progressivism emerged as an alternative to what was then considered an outmoded system of government. A century later, a new generation of conservatives...
by Michael Walzer
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
What kinds of political arrangements enable people from different national, racial, religious, or ethnic groups to live together in peace? In this book one of the most influential political theorists of our time discusses the politics of toleration. Michael Walzer examines five "regimes of toleration"-from...
by Pascal Quignard
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Throughout Pascal Quignard’s distinguished literary career, music has been a recurring obsession. As a musician he organized the International Festival of Baroque Opera and Theatre at Versailles in the early 1990s, and thus was instrumental in the rediscovery of much forgotten classical music. Yet...
Scraps
The Rules of the Game, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
The second volume of Michel Leiris’s hugely influential four-volume autobiographical essay, available to English-language readers in a brilliant and sensitive translation by Lydia Davis One of the most versatile and beloved French intellectuals of the twentieth century, Michel Leiris reconceives the...
by Alberto Manguel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, in France, Alberto Manguel, the acclaimed writer on books and reading, has taken up the subject of libraries. “Libraries,” he says, “have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as...
Poilu
The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Along with millions of other Frenchmen, Louis Barthas, a thirty-five-year-old barrelmaker from a small wine-growing town, was conscripted to fight the Germans in the opening days of World War I. Corporal Barthas spent the next four years in near-ceaseless combat, wherever the French army fought its fiercest...
by Stephen J. Shoemaker
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
For the first time a noted historian of Christianity explores the full story of the emergence and development of the Marian cult in the early Christian centuries. The means by which Mary, mother of Jesus, came to prominence have long remained strangely overlooked despite, or perhaps because of, her centrality...
Clueless in Academe
How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Gerald Graff argues that our schools and colleges make the intellectual life seem more opaque, narrowly specialized, and beyond normal learning capacities than it is or needs to be. Left clueless in the academic world, many students view the life of the mind as a secret society for which only an elite...
by Richard Stoneman
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
Primo Levi
The Matter of a Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
In 1943, twenty-four-year-old Primo Levi had just begun a career in chemistry when, after joining a partisan group, he was captured by the Italian Fascist Militia and deported to Auschwitz. Of the 650 Italian Jews in his transport, he was one of fewer than 25 who survived the eleven months before...
by C. M. Woolgar
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
In this revelatory work of social history, C. M. Woolgar shows that food in late-medieval England was far more complex, varied, and more culturally significant than we imagine today. Drawing on a vast range of sources, he charts how emerging technologies as well as an influx of new flavors and trends...