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Here in New Haven, we’re just pretending spring has actually come. 

New this month:

Religion in the University by Nicholas Wolterstorff

From one of the world’s leading philosophers, this is a powerful defense of religion’s role within the modern university

Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom by Robert Louis Wilken

From one of the leading historians of Christianity comes this sweeping reassessment of religious freedom, from the church fathers to John Locke

Alfred Stieglitz: Taking Pictures, Making Painters by Phyllis Rose

A fascinating biography of a revolutionary American artist ripe for rediscovery as a photographer and champion of other artists

Standing for Reason: The University in a Dogmatic Age by John Sexton

A powerful case for the importance of universities as an antidote to the “secular dogmatism” that increasingly infects political discourse

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Coming this month to your TBR lists:

A Natural History of Beer by Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall

A celebration of beer—its science, its history, and its impact on human culture

The Shape of a Life: One Mathematician's Search for the Universe's Hidden Geometry by Shing-Tung Yau and Steve Nadis

A Fields medalist recounts his lifelong transnational effort to uncover the geometric shape—the Calabi-Yau manifold—that may store the hidden dimensions of our universe

Hot Protestants: A History of Puritanism in England and America by Michael P. Winship

An innovative and compelling study of puritanism that follows the full sweep of the movement’s history in England and America

Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures by Adina Hoffman

A vibrant portrait of one of the most accomplished and prolific American screenwriters, by an award-winning biographer and essayist

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Yale University Press offers highly competitive internship opportunities for those interested in publishing in a variety of areas: Acquisitions Editorial, Art Workshop, Intellectual Property/Administration, Marketing, Manuscript Editorial, New Business Development, Production/Design, Publicity and Sales.

We are now accepting applications to our summer internship program! 

Gain valuable publishing experience this summer in the city with the best pizza in the United States

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Happy New Year! Start off 2019 with a look at these new books.

Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution—and Why America Might Miss It by Susan Crawford

Susan Crawford reveals how the corporations that control U.S. cable and Internet access use their tremendous lobbying power to prevent competition, and how some municipalities are fighting to bring the next tech revolution to their communities.

The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread by Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall

Written for a political era riven by “fake news,” “alternative facts,” and disputes over the validity of everything from climate change to the size of inauguration crowds, The Misinformation Age shows convincingly that what you believe depends on who you know.

Broken Bargain: Bankers, Bailouts, and the Struggle to Tame Wall Street by Kathleen Day:

A history of major financial crises—and how taxpayers have been left with the bill

Ganges: The Many Pasts of an Indian River by Sudipta Sen:

A sweeping, interdisciplinary history of the world’s third-largest river, a potent symbol across South Asia and the Hindu diaspora

Happy reading!

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New this November:

The Empire of the Eagle: An Illustrated Natural History by Mike Unwin and David Tipling

A lavishly illustrated celebration of each of the world’s sixty-eight currently recognized eagle species in all their magnificence and beguiling diversity

The Story of Greece and Rome by Tony Spawforth

The extraordinary story of the intermingled civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, spanning more than six millennia from the late Bronze Age to the seventh century

Money and Government: The Past and Future of Economics by Robert Skidelsky

A critical examination of economics' past and future, and how it needs to change, by one of the most eminent political economists of our time

The First Soldier: Hitler as Military Leader by  Stephen G. Fritz

A leading expert reexamines history to offer a stunningly original portrait of Hitler as a competent military commander and strategist

What are you reading this month?

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For vampire safety this Halloween season, consult expert Nick Groom aka the “Prof of Goth,” author of The Vampire: A New History

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Professor Kent Greenfield says corporations are entitled to some of the same rights as people - and in return corporations need to act like responsible citizens in our democracy 

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Insight from 2018 Nobel Prize winner William D. Nordhaus on the economics of climate change

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Wishing all of the students starting off their semester many beautiful sunny reading-under-a-tree days. What’s one more book added to your reading list? ; )

The Secret World: A History of Intelligence by Christopher Andrew

The first-ever detailed, comprehensive history of intelligence, from Moses and Sun Tzu to the present day

Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art by Susan Napier

The story of filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki's life and work, including his significant impact on Japan and the world

Inadvertent by Karl Ove Knausgaard

The second book in the Why I Write series provides generous insight into the creative process of the award-winning Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard

City Unseen: New Visions of an Urban Planet  by Karen C. Seto and Meredith Reba

Stunning satellite images of one hundred cities show our urbanizing planet in a new light to reveal the fragile relationship between humanity and Earth

What are you reading this month?

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Harvard? Never heard of her

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Trolling Harvard, 10/10

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Our summer style is reading poetry on the patio, what is yours? Here are our summer book selections to take your mind on an adventure:

Sundays in August by Patrick Modiano: From beloved storyteller and Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano, a masterful and gripping crime novel set in picturesque Nice on the French Riviera

Journeying by Claudio Magris: A writer for whom the journey has always mattered reinvents the very form itself in this inviting collection of in-the-moment impressions of his journeys

Utility by Emily Schwend - Winner of the Yale Drama Series:  A powerful work centering on a young woman struggling to raise a family in East Texas. Selected from more than 1,600 entries, this play vividly captures the economic hardships and relationship difficulties faced by so many today.

We Play a Game by Duy Doan - Winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets: A collection of surprising, unsettling meditations on childhood, culture, desire, and history that jointly explore the Vietnamese-American experience, 

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Poetry Is Making A Big Comeback In The U.S., Survey Results Reveal

The National Endowment for the Arts says that since its last survey period in 2012, the number of U.S. adults reading poetry had nearly doubled. And the agency says social media may be responsible.

Finally some good news!

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Opinion | The North’s Jim Crow

“Quality of life” laws passed in the early 1900s to enforce racial segregation are still doing that today.

A timely look into the history of white people selectively using the law as a means of segregation from Andrew Kahrl, author of Free the Beaches

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In honor of #harveymilkday

"The intersections of [Harvey's] identities as a Jew and a gay reinforced his awareness of the injustices suffered by all who were other."—Lillian Faderman, Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death

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Looking back on this podcast with Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council and author of Losing an Enemy: Obama, Iran, and the Triumph of Diplomacy.

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“Here are the four basic traits of fabulousness that are the basis of this book: (1) Fabulousness does not take a lot of money. You can achieve creative brilliance with very few resources; (2) It’s an aesthetic that requires high levels of creativity, imagination, and originality, but there is no blueprint for fabulousness; (3) Fabulousness is dangerous, political, confrontational, risky, and largely (but certainly not only) practiced by queer, trans, and transfeminine people of color and other marginalized groups; and (4) Finally, it’s about making a spectacle of yourself not merely to be seen but because your body is constantly suppressed and undervalued.”—madison moore, Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric

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“Everyday life in every way bears the stigmata of class. Who lives longest and who dies soonest, who goes to jail and who is free, who is healthy and who sickly, who learns and who lives in ignorance, who gets bailed out and who goes under, who pursues happiness and who goes off to fight and die, who lives with rooms to spare and who six to a room, who breathes clean air and drinks clean water and who is poisoned, whose children thrive and whose barely survive, who looks to the future and who lives moment to moment, who is secure and who in peril, who rules and who obeys?”—Steve Fraser, Class Matters: The Strange Career of an American Delusion