Yale University Press: 2009 books
Into the Black
JPL and the American Space Program, 1976-2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In the decades since the mid-1970s, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has led the quest to explore the farthest reaches of the solar system. JPL spacecraft-Voyager, Magellan, Galileo, the Mars rovers, and others-have brought the planets into close view. JPL satellites and instruments...
Touring Gotham?s Archaeological Past
8 Self-Guided Walking Tours through New York City
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This pocket-sized guidebook takes the reader on eight walking tours to archaeological sites throughout the boroughs of New York City and presents a new way of exploring the city through the rich history that lies buried beneath it. Generously illustrated and replete with maps, the tours are designed...
The Social Life of Coffee
The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century? Why did an entirely new social institution, the coffeehouse, emerge as the primary place for consumption of this new drink? In this lively book, Brian Cowan locates the answers to these questions in the particularly...
by Louis Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Through Creole houses and merchant stores to sugar fields and boiling houses, Jamaica played a leading role in the formation of both the early modern Atlantic world and the British Empire. Architecture and Empire in Jamaica offers the first scholarly analysis of Jamaican architecture in the long 18th...
Almost Home
Maroons between Slavery and Freedom in Jamaica, Nova Scotia, and Sierra Leone
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
The unique story of a small community of escaped slaves who revolted against the British government yet still managed to maneuver and survive against all odds
After being exiled from their native Jamaica in 1795, the Trelawney Town Maroons endured in Nova Scotia and then in Sierra Leone. In...
by Alice Wexler
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
When Phebe Hedges, a woman in East Hampton, New York, walked into the sea in 1806, she made visible the historical experience of a family affected by the dreaded disorder of movement, mind, and mood her neighbors called St.Vitus's dance. Doctors later spoke of Huntington’s chorea, and today it is known...
Ill Composed
Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2015
In the first in-depth study of how gender determined perceptions and experiences of illness in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, Olivia Weisser invites readers into the lives and imaginations of ordinary men and women. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including personal diaries, medical...
Mary P. Follett
Creating Democracy, Transforming Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Mary P. Follett (18681933) brought new dimensions to the theory and practice of management and was one of America’s preeminent thinkers about democracy and social organization. The ideas Follett developed in the early twentieth century continue even today to challenge thinking about business and...
Singing for Freedom
The Hutchinson Family Singers and the Nineteenth-Century Culture of Reform
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In the two decades prior to the Civil War, the Hutchinson Family Singers of New Hampshire became America’s most popular musical act. Out of a Baptist revival upbringing, John, Asa, Judson, and Abby Hutchinson transformed themselves in the 1840s into national icons, taking up the reform issues of their...
All the Trees of the Forest
Israel's Woodlands from the Bible to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
The Land Is Full
Addressing Overpopulation in Israel
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
During the past sixty-eight years, Israel’s population has increased from one to eight million people. Such exponential growth has produced acute environmental and social crises in this tiny country. Alon Tal, one of Israel’s foremost environmentalists, considers the ramifications of the extraordinary...
Ben-Gurion
Father of Modern Israel
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
David Ben-Gurion cast a great shadow during his lifetime, and his legacy continues to be sharply debated to this day. There have been many books written about the life and accomplishments of the Zionist icon and founder of modern Israel, but this new biography by eminent Israeli historian Anita Shapira...
by Gadi Taub
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
My Backyard Jungle
The Adventures of an Urban Wildlife Lover Who Turned His Yard into Habitat and Learned to Live with It
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
For James Barilla and his family, the dream of transforming their Columbia, South Carolina, backyard into a haven for wildlife evoked images of kids catching grasshoppers by day and fireflies at night, of digging up potatoes and picking strawberries. When they signed up with the National Wildlife Federation...