Books published by Yale University Press

This study of a school choice plan in St Louis, Missouri - which allowed black students to attend suburban schools - reveals the ugliness and beauty of race relations. It describes the resistance of suburban white educators and the courage of the black students who crossed the colour line.

This collection of writings offers a discussion among leading thinkers about the points at which rhetoric and religion illuminate and challenge each other. The contributors are theorists and critics in rhetoric, theology and religion, and they address a variety of problems and periods.

The explosion of information brought about by advances in genetic research brings welcome scientific knowledge, but it also raises complex and troubling issues concerning privacy and confidentiality. This volume provides a comprehensive exploration of these ethical, legal and social issues.

A series of fictionalized vignettes of daily life as experienced by ordinary individuals in the USA. Each takes place in a year from 1901 to 1969, and each is followed by a short dialogue in which the author argues with an interlocutor over why he has chosen to develop a scenario in that year.

A comparative history of three revolutions in the Americas is provided by this work: the American Revolution in 1776; the 1791 slave revolt in the French colony that became Haiti; and the prolonged Spanish American struggle for independence that ended 50 years later.

This work on the history of constitutional theory suggests that in recent years, new political and interdisciplinary perspectives have undermined the tenets of legal liberalism, and that liberal law professors have enlisted other disciplines in an attempt to legitimize their beliefs.

This study advocates a method of helping patients with a combination of alternative and mainstream medicine - a treatment of mind, body, and spirit that energizes patients. Spiro encourages physicians to talk and listen to their patients, and to employ alternative approaches.

This text addresses the conundrum of environmental regulation by tracing its source to the competing characterizations of regulatory legitimacy that have accompanied the growth of the American state.

This selection of poetry is accompanied by an introduction by George Bradley, the 1986 winner of the annual Younger Poets contest. The book is divided into two sections: "The Early Years", presenting the first 31 winners of the contest and "The Modern Series", displaying work by US poets.

This exploration of the nature of cyberspace and increasing virtualization of everyday life argues that electronic neighbourhoods should be less important to us than our geophysical neighbourhoods, speaking in favour of civic networking.

What is the healthiest diet for an infant? What constitutes a nutritious school lunch? - this text, written by doctors, dieticians, nurses and social workers, answers such questions. It presents information and guidelines about childhood nutrition and includes recipes from famous chefs.

Examines variations in minority and majority educational patterns. This book also assesses underlying causes and offers recommendations for increasing the rate of minority educational progress.

Wellesley College was unique in its commitment to an exclusively female faculty, and has educated women such as Katharine Lee Bates and Hillary Clinton. This book is a narrative history of the first generation of Wellesley professors.

An investigation of how average citizens in the US and Japan think about and judge various kinds of wrong-doing, how they determine who is responsible when things go wrong and how they prefer to punish offenders. The authors compare both individual and cultural reactions of the two countries.

This volume was the winner of the 1994 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.

An exploration of the dynamics and consequences of campaign finance in the US. This account comments on issues such as the regulating of such funding under the post-Watergate legislation of 1974, and argues that the US system of financing has become institutionalized since then.

Provides practical guidelines for workers who must make decisions about how best to help an abused or neglected child. There are 35 cases of abuse or neglect, which have come to the attention of the courts and caseworkers, discussed in the book. They are typical of the USA as a whole.

Global warming could cause profound disruption of natural ecosystems. This book discusses the consequences of global warming for ecosystems. The authors describe the responses of animals and plants to previous climate changes and the interactions between various environmental components.

University education has been the subject of vigorous debate since its advent. In this book the author reflects on the character and aims of the university, assessing its guiding principles, its practical functions and its role in society.

A group of practitioners, researchers and policy makers provide an overview of the family support programmes that emerged in the 1980s in response to the changing needs of families. The authors chronicle past problems and accomplishments and offer specific recommendations for the future.

This study describes the causes of acid rain, ozone depletion and global warming and the evidence for the recent acceleration of each of these phenomena. The study also provides practical and long-range suggestions for controlling these and other forms of atmospheric deterioration.

Presents a fundamental reconsideration of modern American administrative law, which, says Edley, is largely a failure. He discusses why and how this is so and argues that courts should abandon their guiding principle of applying legal doctrines to control the discretion of unelected bureaucrats.

An intellectual and cultural history of America's evolving status as a world power in the 20th century. It addresses questions such as why the United States assumed a pre-eminent world role after World War II, and why its role has declined since the Vietnam War.

Chronicles recent Indian history, from the unsettled conditions that preceded the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to the Hindu revival that followed the assassination of her son Rajiv. The text explores the political and economic changes in India between 1982 and 1994.

This collection of writings highlights some of the work being done in the USA and abroad to make communicative competence an attainable goal. The contributors examine what has come to be known as communicative language teaching, or CLT, from the perspectives of teachers and teacher educators.

Presents empirical evidence that the equilibrium theory of policy dynamics fits the facts of environmental policy change and explains how stable policies can unravel in discontinuous change. This book is useful for professionals, activists, and students concerned with promoting or resisting change in environmental and natural resources policies.