Yale University Press: 2009 books
Hospitality and Islam
Welcoming in God's Name
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Considering its prominent role in many faith traditions, surprisingly little has been written about hospitality within the context of religion, particularly Islam. In her new book, Mona Siddiqui, a well-known media commentator, makes the first major contribution to the understanding of hospitality both...
The Danube
A Journey Upriver from the Black Sea to the Black Forest
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
The magnificent Danube both cuts across and connects central Europe, flowing through and alongside ten countries: Romania, Ukraine, Moldova, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria, and Germany. Travelling its full length from east to west, against the river’s flow, Nick Thorpe embarks...
The Message and the Book
Sacred Texts of the World's Religions
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Grand in its sweep, this survey of the sacred writings of the major religions of the world offers a thoughtful introduction to the ideas and beliefs upon which great faiths are built. Under the expert guidance of John Bowker, a religious scholar and author of international stature, readers explore the...
by Nancy Ellen Abrams, Joel R. Primack
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
by John Locke, Ian Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Among the most influential writings in the history of Western political thought, John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration remain vital to political debates today, more than three centuries after they were written. The complete texts appear in this volume, accompanied...
by John Polkinghorne
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
by Immanuel Kant
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Immanuel Kant’s Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals isone of the most important texts in the history of ethics. In it Kant searches for the supreme principle of morality and argues for a conception of the moral life that has made this work a continuing source of controversy and an object of...
Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
With an Updated Translation, Introduction, and Notes
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Now in a new, affordable edition with updated notes, a superbly readable translation of Kant’s classic work
This work, one of the most important texts in the history of ethics, presents Immanuel Kant’s conception of moral self-government based on pure reason. It has been a source of controversy...
War and the World
Military Power and the Fate of Continents, 1450-2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In this brilliant history of warfare, Jeremy Black is the first to approach the entire modern era from a comprehensive global perspective. He provides a wide-ranging account of the nature, purpose, and experience of war over the past half-millennium and argues the importance of viewing the rise of European...
by Daniel J. Solove
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Voyaging in Strange Seas
The Great Revolution in Science
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
In 1492 Columbus set out across the Atlantic; in 1776 American colonists declared their independence. Between these two events old authorities collapsed—Luther’s Reformation divided churches, and various discoveries revealed the ignorance of the ancient Greeks and Romans. A new, empirical worldview...
Project Puffin
The Improbable Quest to Bring a Beloved Seabird Back to Egg Rock
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Project Puffin is the inspiringstory of how a beloved seabird was restored to long-abandoned nesting colonies off the Maine coast. As a young ornithology instructor at the Hog Island Audubon Camp, Dr. Stephen W. Kress learned that puffins had nested on nearby islands until extirpated by hunters in the...
Natural Encounters
Biking, Hiking, and Birding Through the Seasons
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
A twelve-month excursion through nature’s seasons as recounted by a lifetime naturalist
In this “personal encyclopedia of nature’s seasons,” lifetime naturalist Bruce Beehler reflects on his three decades of encountering nature in Washington, D.C. The author takes the reader on a year-long...