Yale University Press: 2009 books
by Steve Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Wall Street: no other place on earth is so singularly identified with money and the power of money. And no other American institution has inspired such deep moral, cultural, and political ambivalence. Is the Street an unbreachable bulwark defending commercial order? Or is it a center of mad ambition? This...
Trade Secrets
Intellectual Piracy and the Origins of American Industrial Power
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
During the first decades of America’s existence as a nation, private citizens, voluntary associations, and government officials encouraged the smuggling of European inventions and artisans to the New World. At the same time, the young republic was developing policies that set new standards for protecting...
Europe Didn't Work
Why We Left and How to Get the Best from Brexit
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
A timely and provocative account of why the euro has failed and why, as a result, the Union will unravel
Examining key economic indicators and assessing the situation across Europe, two British journalists assess why the euro has failed—and what will happen when the European Union completely...
by Benjamin L. Carp
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
by Eric Hobsbawm
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
by Jan-Werner Muller
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
This book is the first major account of political thought in twentieth-century Europe, both West and East, to appear since the end of the Cold War. Skillfully blending intellectual, political, and cultural history, Jan-Werner Müller elucidates the ideas that shaped the period of ideological extremes...
Imagining Zion
Dreams, Designs, and Realities in a Century of Jewish Settlement
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This timely book tells the fascinating story of how Zionists colonizers planned and established nearly 700 agricultural settlements, towns, and cities from the 1880s to the present. This extraordinary activity of planners, architects, social scientists, military personnel, politicians, and settlers is...
Culture Crash
The Killing of the Creative Class
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Change is no stranger to us in the twenty-first century. We must constantly adjust to an evolving world, to transformation and innovation. But for many thousands of creative artists, a torrent of recent changes has made it all but impossible to earn a living. A persistent economic recession, social...
Hard Times
Inequality, Recession, Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
2008 was a watershed year for global finance. The banking system was eventually pulled back from the brink, but the world was saddled with the worst slump since the 1930s Depression, and millions were left unemployed. While numerous books have addressed the financial crisis, very little has been written...
by Josh Ozersky
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
What do Americans think of when they think of the hamburger? A robust, succulent spheroid of fresh ground beef, the birthright of red-blooded citizens? Or a Styrofoam-shrouded Big Mac, mass-produced to industrial specifications and served by wage slaves to an obese, brainwashed population? Is it cooking...
Burn Out
The Endgame for Fossil Fuels
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
An energy revolution is under way with far-reaching consequences for nations, companies, and the way we address climate change
Low oil prices are sending shockwaves through the global economy, and longtime industry observer Dieter Helm explains how this and other shifts are the harbingers of...
Randomistas
How Radical Researchers Are Changing Our World
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
A fascinating account of how radical researchers have used experiments to overturn conventional wisdom and shaped life as we know it
Experiments have consistently been used in the hard sciences, but in recent decades social scientists have adopted the practice. Randomized trials have been used...
Bourgeois Nightmares
Suburbia, 1870-1930
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2005
The quintessential American suburbs, with their gracious single-family homes, large green lawns, and leaf-shaded streets, reflected not only residents’ dreams but nightmares, not only hopes but fears: fear of others, of racial minorities and lowincome groups, fear of themselves, fear of the market,...