Books published by Yale University Press

A series of essays that aim to elucidate how the unconscious awareness of self and gender we develop from earliest infancy continues to shape both our experiences as men and women and the patterns of inequality and difference that permeate our society and culture.

In this text Denis Donoghue presents an account of his engagement with the works of T.S. Eliot. Whether writing about Eliot's poetry or confronting the poet's often contentious prose, Donoghue demonstrates what it means to read and to hear a master of the language.

The public journalism movement emerged after the 1988 presidential election as a countermeasure against eroding trust in the news media. This volume recalls the history of the movement and explains how its innovations offer an opportunity to revitalise the press and improve civic life.

Can men mother? Can women be breadwinners? This is an investigation of single fathers, married baby boom mothers, and heterosexual egalitarian couples and their children, to discover how family relationships can flourish without gender as the central organizing mechanism.

Michael Walzer is widely regarded as one of the world's leading political theorists. This book brings together some of Walzer's important work to provide a wide-ranging survey of his thinking and the vision that underlies his responses to contemporary political debates. It also includes a essay on human rights.

A discussion of the production, circulation and use of books in early Christianity. This book covers areas such as the relation between oral tradition and written materials, books' transcription, publication and dissemination, and how Christian libraries were formed and how they were used.

Presents more than 300 poems written by 65 different poets, all translated into modern English. The book covers the three watersheds in Chinese poetry - the early years before civil war, the Taiwan phase from the 1950s to the 1970s, and finally the post-1970s with the avant-garde movement.

The first comprehensive collection of the shorter poems since the Variorum minor poems of the 40s. Cloth edition ($55.) not seen by R&R. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

A history of policies and programmes for the education of three-to-five-year-olds in the USA. This book also traces efforts to make pre-school education a part of the American public school system and shows why these efforts have been rejected, despite evidence of pre-school benefit.

Sensitive new translations of Akhmatova's great long poems that document both intense personal suffering and cataclysmic national tragedy