Yale University Press: 2009 books
by Mr. Allen Forte, Richard Lalli, Gary Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In the twenties, thirties, and forties, now-legendary American songwriters and lyricists created a repertoire of popular songs, songs that have captured the hearts of generations of music lovers. George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Hoagy Carmichael and many others,...
The American Paradox
Spiritual Hunger in an Age of Plenty
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
For Americans entering the twenty-first century, it is the best of times and the worst of times. Material wealth is at record levels, yet disturbing social problems reflect a deep spiritual poverty. In this compelling book, well-known social psychologist David G. Myers asks how this paradox has come...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
When it was published twenty-five years ago, Catharine MacKinnon’s pathbreaking work Sexual Harassment of Working Women had a major impact on the development of sexual harassment law. The U.S. Supreme Court accepted her theory of sexual harassment in 1986. Here MacKinnon collaborates with eminent authorities...
Forgetting
Myths, Perils and Compensations
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
In his highly praised book The Nostalgia Factory, renowned memory scholar Douwe Draaisma explored the puzzling logic of memory in later life with humor and deep insight. In this compelling new book he turns to the “miracle” of forgetting. Far from being a defect that may indicate Alzheimer’s or...
by Lauren F. Winner
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
by Thomas Brown, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Myths about Attention Deficit Disorder/Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder(ADD/ADHD) abound. This disorder frequently goes unrecognized, and even when diagnosed may be inadequately treated. In this up-to-date and clearly written book, a leading expert offers a new way of understanding ADD. Drawing...
by Kris Lane
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
by Stephen R. Kellert
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Human health and well-being are inextricably linked to nature; our connection to the natural world is part of our biological inheritance. In this engaging book, a pioneer in the field of biophilia—the study of human beings' inherent affinity for nature—sets forth the first full account of nature's...
Restless Secularism
Modernism and the Religious Inheritance
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
A scholarly and deeply sensitive study that explores how religion and secularism are tightly interwoven in the major works of modernist literature Matthew Mutter provides a broad survey of modernist literature, examining key works against a background of philosophy, theology, intellectual and social...
Whose Freud?
The Place of Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
One hundred years after the publication of The Interpretation of Dreams, Freud remains the most frequently cited author of our culture-and one of the most controversial. To some he is the presiding genius of modernity, to others the author of its symptomatic illnesses. The current position of psychoanalysis...
Toxic Bodies
Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of DES
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
In 1941 the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of diethylstilbestrol (DES), the first synthetic chemical to be marketed as an estrogen and one of the first to be identified as a hormone disruptor—a chemical that mimics hormones. Although researchers knew that DES caused cancer and disrupted...
Fatal Flaws
How a Misfolded Protein Baffled Scientists and Changed the Way We Look at the Brain
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Discovered and identified as the cause of mad cow disease only three decades ago, the prion is a protein molecule that, when misshapen in the brain, becomes fatal. Novel and controversial, prions have provoked a scientific revolution. They challenge the very foundations of biology: A disease-causing...
The Great Manchurian Plague of 1910-1911
The Geopolitics of an Epidemic Disease
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
When plague broke out in Manchuria in 1910 as a result of transmission from marmots to humans, it struck a region struggling with the introduction of Western medicine, as well as with the interactions of three different national powers: Chinese, Japanese, and Russian. In this fascinating case history,...
Minds Make Societies
How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
A watershed book that masterfully integrates insights from evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and more to explore the development and workings of human societies
“There is no good reason why human societies should not be described and explained with the same precision...