Books published by Yale University Press

What can teachers do to inspire their students? In this book, Sam Intrator provides detailed portraits of powerful learning episodes in a high school classroom and suggests numerous practical ideas to help teachers cultivate their own seemingly magical learning moments.

This translation of Ernst Cassirer's "The Logic of the Cultural Sciences" (formerly entitled "The Logic of the Humanities") makes the study available to English readers.

A full-scale account of male gay literature, across cultures, languages, and from ancient times to the present. It includes chapters on significant periods of cultural history, on major writers, and on common themes.

This handbook addresses the performance problems specific to 20th-century music, most of which centre around rhythm and counting. As well explaining the rhythmic complexities in question, the text provides exercises for mastering them.

An account of Cambodian history from World War II up to 1979, focusing on the civil war period and the revolutionary excesses of the Pol Pot regime. Chandler considers why the revolution happened and how it related to Cambodia's earlier history and to other events in Southeast Asia.

Scholars in the area of social action present new theories about this process, fashioning a social psychology of social movements that goes beyond theories currently in use.

"Haggai and Zechariah 1-8, Volume 25B" in the acclaimed "Anchor Bible" part of the Scripture known as the Minor Prophets, were written during a critical period in Israel's history, the momentous return of the Jews from Babylonian exile. This book considers the "Book of Haggai" and the "Book of Zechariah" in a linguistic, and social context.