Yale University Press: 2009 books
by Ilan Pappe
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Lions and Lambs
Conflict in Weimar and the Creation of Post-Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
A bold new interpretation of Germany’s democratic transformation in the twentieth century, focusing on the generation that shaped the post-Nazi reconstruction Not long after the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust, Germans rebuilt their shattered country and emerged as one of the leading nations...
by Professor Akhil Reed Amar
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Are the deep insights of Hugo Black, William Brennan, and Felix Frankfurter that have defined our cherished Bill of Rights fatally flawed? With meticulous historical scholarship and elegant legal interpretation a leading scholar of Constitutional law boldly answers yes as he explodes conventional wisdom...
The Gift of the Gab
How Eloquence Works
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
We all know eloquence when we hear it. But what exactly is it? And how might we gain more of it for ourselves? This entertaining and, yes, eloquent book illuminates the power of language from a linguistic point of view and provides fascinating insights into the way we use words. David Crystal, a world-renowned...
The Spartan Regime
Its Character, Origins, and Grand Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
An authoritative and refreshingly original consideration of the government and culture of ancient Sparta and her place in Greek history For centuries, ancient Sparta has been glorified in song, fiction, and popular art. Yet the true nature of a civilization described as a combination of democracy and...
by Alice Smuts
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This book is the first comprehensive history of the development of child study during the early part of the twentieth century. Most nineteenth-century scientists deemed children unsuitable subjects for study, and parents were hostile to the idea. But by 1935, the study of the child was a thriving scientific...
by Sissela Bok
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
The Stronghold
How Republicans Captured Congress but Surrendered the White House
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Once the party of presidents, the GOP in recent elections has failed to pull together convincing national majorities. Republicans have lost four of the last six presidential races and lost the popular vote in five of the last six. In their lone victory, the party incumbent won—during wartime—by the...
The Moral Economy of the Peasant
Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 1977
by Leon Aron
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Leon Aron considers the “mystery of the Soviet collapse” and finds answers in the intellectual and moral self-scrutiny of glasnost that brought about a profound shift in values. Reviewing the entire output of the key glasnost outlets in 1987-1991, he elucidates and documents key themes in this national...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Andrei Sakharov (1921–1989), a brilliant physicist and the principal designer of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, later became a human rights activist and—as a result—a source of profound irritation to the Kremlin. This book publishes for the first time ever KGB files on Sakharov that became available...
Dubai
Gilded Cage
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
This revealing portrait of the famously wealthy Persian Gulf city investigates the human cost of its miraculous rise to global prominence.
In less than two decades, Dubai has transformed itself from an obscure territory of the United Arab Emirates into a global center for business, tourism,...
Against War and Empire
Geneva, Britain, and France in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
As Britain and France became more powerful during the eighteenth century, small states such as Geneva could no longer stand militarily against these commercial monarchies. Furthermore, many Genevans felt that they were being drawn into a corrupt commercial world dominated by amoral aristocrats dedicated...
Investment in Blood
The True Cost of Britain's Afghan War
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013