Yale University Press

...Anderson, a professor in the Department of Theology at Notre Dame, may have an answer for you. In his book "Sin: A History," published by Yale University Press in September, Anderson explores the roots of sin and atonement. Hint: help the...

In this article: God, Jesus, Barack Obama, and Europe

They didn't invent Muslim anti-Semitism, but they focused it and exploited it, and their rhetoric echoes today. The book comes from Yale University Press - which, it would be a severe understatement to say, did not distinguish itself in...

In this article: Nazism, Family resemblance, Ideology, Yale, and Middle East

...British history. The Gates of Hell: Sir John Franklin's Tragic Quest for the Northwest Passage. By Andrew Lambert. 456 pages. Yale University Press. $32.50. The Arctic Heart of Darkness Anyone in the 1840s who knew the British Arctic...

In this article: Northwest Passage, Times Literary Supplement, John Franklin, Charles Dickens, Iraq War, The Times of London, Peter Stothard, and Tony Blair

...to the line in mid-stream: "'No pawnshops, no pubs,' commented Pevsner in 1959; the modern Saltaire is more relaxed." What the Yale University Press has done in this latest series (it's instructive, and rather shaming, that these books,...

In this article: Nikolaus Pevsner, Enid Blyton, Leeds, and England

... Money was a concern," said Michael Slater, a London-based scholar and author of a new Dickens biography due out Tuesday from Yale University Press. But Dickens also had a nobler motivation. During "the hungry 1840s," rural people...

In this article: Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge, John Leech, Yule log, Coal, Tiny Tim, and The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

...thinking like an elephant. G.A. Bradshaw is a psychologist and author of Elephants on the Edge: What Animals Teach Us About Humanity, Yale University Press. Ed Tick is a practicing psychotherapist specializing in veterans with PTSD and...

In this article: Mental breakdown, Habitat destruction, Poaching, HuffPost, and U.S. Army

Knut Hamsun: Dreamer and Dissenter. By Ingar Sletten Kolloen. Yale University Press; 378 pages; $40 and GBP25. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk KNUT HAMSUN, known as Norway's greatest novelist, was a difficult and destructive person. He...

In this article: Knut Hamsun, Amazon.com, Suicide, Norway, and Germany

...the stratospheric professionalism of two mismatched people whose legacy is unassailable. To order Fred Astaire by Joseph Epstein (Yale University Press) at GBP10 send cheque/PO payable to Express Bookshop to: Fred Astaire Offer, PO Box 200...

In this article: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Top Hat, Rita Hayworth, Oscar, Joseph Epstein, and MGM

...degree, the academic and professional careers of millions of people in the US," Stanovich says in his book, What Intelligence Tests Miss (Yale University Press, 2008). He challenges the "lavish attention" society bestows on such tests,...

In this article: Keith Stanovich, George W. Bush, New Scientist, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Joe Scarborough, UK, US, and University of Plymouth

...newspaper published cartoons in 2005 depicting the Prophet Muhammad, it caused riots around the world and some 200 people were killed. Yale University Press has published a new book about the controversy, called The Cartoons That Shook the...

In this article: Yale University, Prophet Muhammad, Kurt Westergaard, Islam, Karachi, Pakistan, and Middle East