Yale University Press: 2009 books
Dispatches from Planet 3
Thirty-Two (Brief) Tales on the Solar System, the Milky Way, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
An award-winning science writer presents a captivating collection of cosmological essays for the armchair astronomer
The galaxy, the multiverse, and the history of astronomy are explored in this engaging compilation of cosmological “tales” by multiple award†‘winning science writer Marcia...
The Global Spread of Fertility Decline
Population, Fear, and Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
The world's population has grown by five billion people over the past century, an astounding 300 percent increase. Yet it is actually the decline in family size and population growth that is the issue attracting greatest concern in many countries. This eye-opening book looks at demographic trends...
Asian America
A Primary Source Reader
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
An essential collection that brings together the core primary texts of the Asian American experience in one volume An essential volume for the growing academic discipline of Asian American studies, this collection of core primary texts draws from a wide range of fields, from law to visual culture to...
by Bassam Tibi
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Despite the intense media focus on Muslims and their religion since the tragedy of 9/11, few Western scholars or policymakers today have a clear idea of the distinctions between Islam and the politically based fundamentalist movement known as Islamism. In this important and illuminating book, Bassam...
by Donald Green, Bradley Palmquist, Eric Schickler
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In this, the first major treatment of party identification in twenty years, three political scientists assert that identification with political parties still powerfully determines how citizens look at politics and cast their ballots. Challenging prevailing views, they build a case for the continuing...
Out of the East
Spices and the Medieval Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
The demand for spices in medieval Europe was extravagant and was reflected in the pursuit of fashion, the formation of taste, and the growth of luxury trade. It inspired geographical and commercial exploration ,as traders pursued such common spices as pepper and cinnamon and rarer aromatic products,...
Charter of the United Nations
Together with Scholarly Commentaries and Essential Historical Documents
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Although no one had ever followed North American monarch butterflies on their annual southward journey to Mexico and California, in the 1990s there were well-accepted assumptions about the nature and form of the migration. But to Robert Michael Pyle, a naturalist with long experience in monarch conservation,...
by Thomas Hobbes, Ian Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
Responsible Parties
Saving Democracy from Itself
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
How popular democracy has paradoxically eroded trust in political systems worldwide, and how to restore confidence in democratic politics
In recent decades, democracies across the world have adopted measures to increase popular involvement in political decisions. Parties have turned to primaries...
Freedom's Debtors
British Antislavery in Sierra Leone in the Age of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
A history of the abolition of the British slave trade in Sierra Leone and how the British used its success to justify colonialism in Africa
British anti-slavery, widely seen as a great sacrifice of economic and political capital on the altar of humanitarianism, was in fact profitable, militarily...
Learning Policy
When State Education Reform Works
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Education reformers and policymakers argue that improved students’ learning requires stronger academic standards, stiffer state tests, and accountability for students’ scores. Yet these efforts seem not to be succeeding in many states. The authors of this important book argue that effective state...
Urban Rage
The Revolt of the Excluded
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
A timely and incisive examination of contemporary urban unrest that explains why riots will continue until citizens are equally treated and politically included
In the past few decades, urban riots have erupted in democracies across the world. While high profile politicians often react by...
According to Our Hearts
Rhinelander v. Rhinelander and the Law of the Multiracial Family
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
This landmark book looks at what it means to be a multiracial couple in the United States today. According to Our Hearts begins with a look back at a 1925 case in which a two-month marriage ends with a man suing his wife for misrepresentation of her race, and shows how our society has yet to come to...
California Dreaming
Reforming Mathematics Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This compelling book tells the history of the past two decades of efforts to reform mathematics education in California. That history is a contentious one, full of such fervor and heat that participants and observers often refer to the math wars.” Suzanne M. Wilson considers the many perspectives...