Yale University Press: 2009 books
Processing French
A Psycholinguistic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Processing French presents a groundbreaking empirical study of the processing of morphologically simple and complex French words. Peter Golato's research offers an insightful account of the lexical storage and retrieval of isolated words and words within sentences.Processing French investigates the...
by L. Curtis Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Press coverage of the 1888 mutilation murders attributed to Jack the Ripper was of necessity filled with gaps and silences, for the killer remained unknown and Victorian journalists had little experience reporting serial murders and sex crimes. This engrossing book examines how fourteen London newspapers-dailies...
Strange Bird
The Albatross Press and the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
The first book about the Albatross Press, a Penguin precursor that entered into an uneasy relationship with the Nazi regime to keep Anglo-American literature alive under fascism The Albatross Press was, from its beginnings in 1932, a “strange bird”: a cultural outsider to the Third Reich but an economic...
Jane Austen
A Brief Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Every devoted reader feels that, in some way, they know Jane Austen. But how can we make sense of her extraordinary achievements? At a time when most women received so little formal education and none could obtain a place at university, how did Austen come to write novels that have commanded the attention...
Indecent Exposures
Eadweard Muybridge's "Animal Locomotion" Nudes
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Photographer Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904), often termed the father of the motion picture, presented his iconic Animal Locomotion series in 1887. Produced under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania and encompassing thousands of photographs of humans and animals in motion, the series included...
Tainted Glory in Handel's Messiah
The Unsettling History of the World's Most Beloved Choral Work
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
The Eastern Hemlock, massive and majestic, has played a unique role in structuring northeastern forest environments, from Nova Scotia to Wisconsin and through the Appalachian Mountains to North Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama. A foundation species” influencing all the species in the ecosystem surrounding...
Auschwitz and After
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Written by a member of the French resistance who became an important literary figure in postwar France, this moving memoir of life and death in Auschwitz and the postwar experiences of women survivors has become a key text for Holocaust studies classes. This second edition includes an updated and...
by Leycester Coltman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Rhetoric during and after the Cold War years has painted starkly contrasting portraits of Cuba’s Fidel Castro: an unblemished idealist on the one hand, a ruthless dictator on the other. This insightful book, the most intimate and dispassionate biography of the revolutionary leader to date, shows that...
Gershom Scholem
Master of the Kabbalah
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
A new biography of the seminal twentieth-century historian and thinker who pioneered the study of Jewish mysticism and profoundly influenced the Zionist movement
Gershom Scholem (1897–1982) was perhaps the foremost Jewish intellectual of the twentieth century. Pioneering the study of Jewish...
by Anthony T. Kronman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
The question of what living is for-of what one should care about and why-is the most important question a person can ask. Yet under the influence of the modern research ideal, our colleges and universities have expelled this question from their classrooms, judging it unfit for organized study. In this...
by Dr. Eli Ginzberg
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Academic health centers (AHCs) have played a key role in propelling the United States to world leadership in technological advances in medicine. At the same time, however, many of these urban-based hospitals have largely ignored the medical care of their poor neighbors. Now one of the leading experts...
Free Speech
Ten Principles for a Connected World
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Never in human history was there such a chance for freedom of expression. If we have Internet access, any one of us can publish almost anything we like and potentially reach an audience of millions. Never was there a time when the evils of unlimited speech flowed so easily across frontiers: violent intimidation,...
Flourishing
Why We Need Religion in a Globalized World
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
More than almost anything else, globalization and the great world religions are shaping our lives, affecting everything from the public policies of political leaders and the economic decisions of industry bosses and employees, to university curricula, all the way to the inner longings of our hearts....
The Madwoman in the Attic
The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 1980
This pathbreaking book of feminist criticism is now reissued with a substantial new introduction by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar that reveals the origins of their revolutionary realization in the 1970s that "the personal was the political, the sexual was the textual."
"The classic argument...