Yale University Press: 2009 books
Making Good Citizens
Education and Civil Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Americans have reason to be concerned about the condition of American democracy at the start of the twenty-first century. Surveys show that civic participation has declined, cynicism about government has increased, and young people have a weak grasp of the principles that underlie our constitutional...
Justice and Empathy
Toward a Constitutional Ideal
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
An impassioned argument for the role of courts as a moral and social agent for change and protecting the vulnerable
The Supreme Court long considered its highest mission to be the protection of individual liberty from intrusion by government, but the court shifted its focus to social and economic...
by Bill Seiter, Ellen Seiter
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
In today's complex media environment, aspiring filmmakers and new media artists are as vulnerable as swimmers in shark-infested waters. This user-friendly guide supplies creative artists with the essential legal concepts needed to swim safely with lawyers, agents, executives, and other experts in intellectual...
Life After Faith
The Case for Secular Humanism
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Although there is no shortage of recent books arguing against religion, few offer a positive alternative—how anyone might live a fulfilling life without the support of religious beliefs. This enlightening book fills the gap. Philip Kitcher constructs an original and persuasive secular perspective,...
by David R. Mayhew
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
What kind of job has America's routinely disparaged legislative body actually done? In The Imprint of Congress, the distinguished congressional scholar David R. Mayhew gives us an insightful historical analysis of the U.S. Congress’s performance from the late eighteenth century to today, exploring...
The Brain
Big Bangs, Behaviors, and Beliefs
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
After several million years of jostling for ecological space, only one survivor from a host of hominid species remains standing: us. Human beings are extraordinary creatures, and it is the unprecedented human brain that makes them so. In this delightfully accessible book, the authors present the first...
by Marysia Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
How does a person learn a second language? In this provocative book, Marysia Johnson proposes a new model of second language acquisition (SLA)-a model that shifts the focus from language competence (the ability to pass a language exam) to language performance (using language competently in real-life...
by Mizuko Ito, Daisuke Okabe, Izumi Tsuji
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
The Crowded Greenhouse
Population, Climate Change, and Creating a Sustainable World
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This book focuses on two critical global issues-rapid population growth and a human-induced climate change. John Firor and Judith Jacobsen summarize the current status of these two issues, show how they are related to one another, and prescribe steps that governments, economies, societies, and individuals...
Making the Case
The Art of the Judicial Opinion
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Writing in the tradition of Karl Llewellyn’s classic The Bramble Bush, Paul Kahn speaks in this book simultaneously to students and scholars. Drawing on thirty years of teaching experience, Kahn introduces students to the deep, narrative structure of the judicial opinion. Learning to read the opinion,...
Impeachment
A Handbook, New Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Charles L. Black Jr.’s classic guide to presidential impeachment, now in an updated edition with new material by Philip Bobbitt
Originally published at the height of the Watergate crisis and reissued in 1998, two months before the second impeachment of a U.S. president, Charles Black’s...
It's Complicated
The Social Lives of Networked Teens
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
What is new about how teenagers communicate through services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? Do social media affect the quality of teens’ lives? In this eye-opening book, youth culture and technology expert danah boyd uncovers some of the major myths regarding teens' use of social media....
The App Generation
How Today's Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination in a Digital World
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
by Patrick J. Deneen
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Has liberalism failed because it has succeeded?
Of the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth century—fascism, communism, and liberalism—only the last remains. This has created a peculiar situation in which liberalism’s proponents tend to forget that it is an ideology and not the...