Bøker utgitt av Yale University Press

This survey of the history of conflict finds that fully democratic nations have never made war on other democracies. Using case studies ranging through history from ancient Athens to modern America, the author analyzes instances in which democracies have confronted each other with military force.

In the USA, minorities such as blacks, Latinos and gays demand a school curriculum that recognizes their identity. Others insist education should instil a common American identity. The author indicates the underlying issues and shows how schools can promote both national and cultural identities.

A collection of essays by anthropologists that cover a range of visual representation, from Balinese television to computer software manuals. Contributors discuss the anthropology of art, ritual, media and communication, the study of landscape, the history of anthropology, and art practice.

An analysis of the autonomy and leverage of modern professional groups - medicine, law, university teaching, engineering - in the US and Europe. Finding that each group has experienced a decline in its power, it considers the implications for professionals and those they serve.

In this text, the author, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, muses on various aspects of biochemistry, explaining the chemical basis for many biological phenomena.

Explores the role of aggression in severe personality disorders and in normal and perverse sexuality, integrating new developments in psycholanalytic theory with findings from clinical work with severely regressed patients.

A guide for anyone pondering a career in medicine or a related health profession. It contains the advice of more than 70 medical and health professionals, from nurses to biomedical researchers, who describe how and why they made their career choices and what the journey has been like.

In this text, six leading philosophers - Karl-Otto Apel, Robert Brandom, Karsten Harries, Martha Nussbaum, Barry Stroud and Allen Wood - consider the nature of philosophy. They all seem to agree that philosophy seeks to uncover hidden concepts and expose them to critical scrutiny.

The American anticommunist movement has been viewed as a product of right-wing hysteria that deeply scarred American society and institutions. This book restores the struggle against communism to its place in American life.

A discussion of the many-faceted relationship between aesthetic theory and architecture. It analyzes the relationship between buildings and designs, explores the notion of "architectural experience", and covers modern architecture's aim to deepen the connection between usefulness and design.

The architecture of Warwickshire possesses a picturesque elegance that is wonderfully represented in this newly updated guide. 120 colour illus.

Illuminates modernism through little-known but striking works by Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and others who revived the 'closet drama' - plays written largely for private reading - as a means of exploring forbidden sexualities.

How did the United States come to have its distinctive workplace-based health insurance system? This book explores the history of health insurance in the US from its roots in the 19th-century sickness funds offered by industrial employers and labour unions to the rise of group plans such as Blue Cross Blue Shield in the mid-twentieth century.

Exploring the myths through which poets such as Geoffrey Whitney, William Shakespeare, and John Milton understood the nature of their art, the author shows how they invented archaic origins for a different kind of writing. He shows how the poets' search for a beginning drew them to rework fables about Orpheus, Philomena, and Circe.

This unique Russian-language textbook draws on printed mass media, and especially up-to-date Internet media sources, to introduce intermediate and advanced students to varied aspects of modern Russian life.

Joan DelFattore traces the evolution of school-prayer battles in the US from the early 1800s, when children could be beaten for refusing to read the King James Bible, to current disputes over having prayers before school football games.

Barbara Mujica provides an introduction to the volume in English, placing early modern Spanish women's writing within the broader context of Europe of the time. The remaining text is in Spanish, and for each of the selections Mujica offers an introduction with biographical and critical information.

Ned Rorem, composer and writer, is both a gifted memoirist and an acerbic cultural commentator. This anthology of his musings on music, people and life surveys the full range of his literary achievement and reflects the evolution of his sensibilities.

In this collection of critical writings, Gordon Rogoff tells the story of live theatre in America over the last 40 years of the 20th century. He explores the topics of acting, directing, playwriting, Shakespeare productions, opera and theatre criticism.

An educational, religious and cultural history exploring the college life of Jews at Yale University from the first Jewish graduate in 1809 to the beginning of the 21st century. It draws comparisons with the Jewish experience at other elite colleges and draws on interviews and references.

A collection of letters written by Henry McBride, who became a towering figure in art criticism during a long career beginning in 1913. In the letters, McBride describes some of the most important events and personalities of 20th-century modernism.

In this work, Courtney Jung argues that when ethnic and racial identities are politically fluid and heterogeneous, as she finds they are in South Africa, ethnic and racial politics will not undermine the peaceful and democratic potential of the government.

In this collection, a dozen scholars of international affairs consider the 20th century's recurring failure to construct a peaceful and stable international order in the wake of war. They reflect on the difficulties faced by governments as they sought to secure a world order.

Arguing why biblical justice - not merely ethical/legal justice - should be applied to matters concerning the poor, the oppressed and the marginalized, the author of this text suggests that everyone is responsible for these people, since they are involved in a covenant with God.

An examination of the controversies surrounding environmental cancer. The authors draw on surveys by cancer researchers and environmental activists to reveal differences between the two groups' viewpoints. They examine these opposing views and document how they are reflected in the media.