Books published by Yale University Press

This text examines a new birth of freedom.

Why do citizens in pluralist democracies disagree collectively about the very values they agree on individually? This text highlights the inescapable conflicts of rights and values at the heart of democratic politics.

A refutation of recent criticisms of More which have questioned his motivation and accused him of persecution of heretics and sexual repression, this work argues, through a close study of his 5 major works, that the style of his polemics was normal for his time.

Discusses the current US health care crisis and alternative proposals, including the Clinton administration's. Drawing on wide medical and business experience, the study suggests implementing a new federal policy at state and local levels, which best understand their area's needs.

Liberal education has been attacked by the far-right since it began. Government and journalism have pressed for a curriculum that focuses on Western culture. The left wants to adopt a more multicultural education. This book argues against both, and asks for a return to free thinking.

This work places the economy and study of economics in a broad social and historical perspective. It explores the history of the discipline, the history of the modern economy, different perspectives on the market economy, and the relations between economic matters and questions of human nature.

Asking if the popular tendancy to define the self in psychological language derived from (Freudian) "truths", or whether American culture invents and promotes psychological identities, this text shows the ways Americans imagine "innerness" and how emotions have been shaped by the mass-media.

Examining the interactions between patients and doctors, this book aims to show how physicians' focus on physical complaints often fails to address patients' underlying concerns and also reinforces the societal problems that cause or aggravate these maladies.

An historically-based discussion on the merits or otherwise of English as the official language of the United States, which lays out the background of the case for the protection of minority languages and that for "one language, one nation" in the light of the English Language Amendment.

In this volume, a group of scholars discuss a variety of approaches to urban school reform.

When does the law permit you to change your mind and reverse a decision you have made? This study considers the general principles and legal rules that bear on this question. Farnsworth discusses deficiences in the law, and suggests ways to eliminate anomalies and correct shortcomings.

An exploration of the personalities and perspectives of the men and women who are part of the adult heterosexual pornography industry. Their stories, as told to the author, reveal the inner workings of "the industry" and the fantasies and motivations of its participants.

Intended to help teachers and teacher trainers develop an understanding of French discourse, this book is devoted to informing teachers-in-training, as well as experienced teachers, about methods for teaching grammar. It also describes the grammatical features of the French language in its social context.

This work applies public choice theory to perennial questions of constitutional law, legislative interpretation, and administrative law. It argues that in many cases public choice theory's reach has exceeded its grasp, but in others public choice insights have not been pursued far enough.

The ways in which people respond to sickness differ from society to society. In this book, the author examines how Western and non-Western cultures influence the definition, experience and treatment of sickness.

How has the end of the Cold War affected America's intelligence agencies? When are aggressive clandestine operations justifiable? Should the US engage in more aggressive economic espionage? These are a few of the issues examined in this study of strategic intelligence.

Reflecting on Goethe's statement that he was a pantheist in science, a polytheist in art and a monotheist in ethics, Pelikan analyzes Goethe's character "Faust" and his development as a theologian. Pelikan is the author of "The Christian Tradition" and "Through the Centuries".

"American artist James Castle inhabited a world of utter quiet, where the mundane became miraculous. Born to a family of homesteaders in the mountains of central Idaho in 1899, he was deaf from an early age. Perhaps not coincidentally, he developed an extraordinary visual and spatial memory. This gave him a dictionary of images of his home, farm, and valley that he replicated and manipulated for the rest of his life in a series of extraordinary soot and saliva drawings. Castle's particular environment and experience gave him access to other, more surprising sources for his art. His parents ran the local post office and store, which supplied an array of images from burgeoning early twentieth century print culture. He collected scrap paper and cardboard, which he cut up and stitched together into farm animals, furniture, and clothing. Castle spent several years at a school for the deaf, where he picked up only the rudiments of language. But he used his knowledge of letters, words, and multiple alphabets-some of his own devising-to create an arresting range of enigmatic text-based drawings. In this book, author John Beardsley delves into Castle's work as an expression of his acute capacity for remembering, managing, and improvising on visual information. Castle's work will be presented as if moving through a series of environments: inside, outside, landscape, figure, book. This allows us to imagine the visual and spatial world Castle inhabited. This publication will also be the first to include a definitive biography of the artist"--]cProvided by publisher.

How vagrancy, as legal and imaginative category, shaped the role of policing in colonialism, racial formation, and resource distribution

A fresh treatment of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, revealing the close ties between Mussolini and Hitler and their regimes From 1934 until 1944 Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that deeply affected both countries. While Germany is generally regarded as the senior power, Christian Goeschel demonstrates just how much history has underrepresented Mussolini's influence on his German ally. In this highly readable book, Goeschel, a scholar of twentieth-century Germany and Italy, revisits all of Mussolini and Hitler's key meetings and asks how these meetings constructed a powerful image of a strong Fascist-Nazi relationship that still resonates with the general public. His portrait of Mussolini draws on sources ranging beyond political history to reveal a leader who, at times, shaped Hitler's decisions and was not the gullible buffoon he's often portrayed as. The first comprehensive study of the Mussolini-Hitler relationship, this book is a must-read for scholars and anyone interested in the history of European fascism, World War II, or political leadership.

An original look at how literary characters can transcend their books to guide our lives, by one of the world's most eminent bibliophiles

An illuminating exploration of the Bible and many of our most contentious contemporary issues

A bold and authoritative maritime history of World War II which takes a fully international perspective and challenges our existing understanding

This revelatory new translation of Job by one of the world's leading biblical scholars will reshape the way we read this canonical text