Books published by Yale University Press

Addressing essential questions about the Christian tradition, "Credo" stands as an independent reference work devoted to the subject of what creeds and confessions are and what their role in history has been.

The human story of what the Russian Revolution meant to ordinary people has rarely been told. This volume gives voice to the experiences, thoughts and feelings of the Russian people - as expressed in their own words during the vast political, social and economic upheavals of 1917.

An interpretation of Balanchine's ballets, a portrait of the intelligentsia that gathered around his enterprise and a history of the author's involvement with Balanchine's dances over a period of 40 years.

Love - unconditional, selfless, unchanging, sincere, and totally accepting - is worshipped today as the West's only universal religion. To challenge it is one of our few remaining taboos. The author does just that, dissecting our resilient ruling ideas of love and showing how they are the product of a long and powerful cultural heritage.

The phrase "Cold War" was coined by George Orwell in 1945 to describe the impact of the atomic bomb on world politics. Far more than merely a straightforward history of the Cold War, this book presents an account of politics and decision making at the highest levels of Soviet power.

Presents an analysis of Jonathan Edwards' theological position. This book includes a study of his life and the intellectual issues in the America of his time, and examines the problem of free will in connection with Leibniz, Locke, and Hume.

This is Frederick Douglass's account of his life in bondage as a slave and his triumph over oppression, originally published in 1845. This edition includes a chronology of Douglass's life, an introduction by a Douglass scholar, historical notes, and reader responses to the 1845 edition.

Poems and woodcuts by the Russian painter portray in child-like images the constant transformations that shape our world.

Featuring extended analyses of the author's most cherished poets - Shakespeare, Whitman, and Crane - as well as inspired appreciations of Emerson, Tennyson, Browning, Yeats, Ashbery, and others, this title adapts his classic work "The Anxiety of Influence" to show us what great literature is, how it comes to be, and why it matters.

A study of the Irish peerage and its role in the establishment of English control over Ireland. It examines the resident peerage as an aggregate of 91 families, not simply 311 individuals, and demonstrates how a reconstituted peerage of mixed faith and ethnicity assimilated the established Catholic aristocracy.

An original analysis of the war between the two opposing sides of Italy's national character

A spirited biography of Philip Roth's notorious novel, from the outrage it sparked to its impact on Roth to its legacy some forty years later

An entirely new portrait of Keats, rich with insights into the torments of his life and the imaginative sources of his works

Suitable for physicists and scholars, this title includes descriptions of the then-known particle universe and its nascent conceptual framework that allow readers to glimpse the foundations of the field from the perspective of one of its most distinguished contributors. It also provides an update, detailing advances in quantum field theory.

Who was the historical Merlin?

What really happened in the early days of the American nation? How was it possible for white settlers to march across the entire continent, inexorably claiming Native American lands for themselves? Who made it happen, and why? This book tells America's story from a fresh perspective, chronicling the adventures of our forefathers.

Seven million Americans suffer from chronic or slow-healing wounds - this number includes people with diabetes, dementia, paralysis, spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, and, poor circulation, as well as the elderly and those with reduced mobility. This title provides patients and caregivers with what they need to know on the subject.

Explains why Jews did or did not convert to Protestantism. This book humanizes various stories, sets them in the context of Berlin's evolving society, and connects them to the broad sweep of European history.

Raises perplexing questions about World War II. This work argues for World War II's central place in the history of the twentieth century, addressing the war's most persistent enigmas.

Touching upon some of the most controversial issues in American politics and law, including slavery, inheritance, international development, and climate change, this title offers a view of property and freedom and enriches our understanding of democratic society.

Through explorations of the evolution of military outsourcing, the privatization of diplomacy, our dysfunctional homeland security apparatus, and the slow death of the US Agency for International Development, this title shows that the requisite public-sector expertise to implement foreign policy no longer exists.

An account of Arizona's Rim Country War of the 1880s - what others have called "The Pleasant Valley War". It explores a web of conflict involving Mormons, Texas cowboys, New Mexican sheepherders, Jewish merchants, and mixed-blood ranchers. It offers a fresh perspective on Western violence, Western identity, and American cultural history.

Galileo (1564-1642) is one of the most important and controversial figures in the history of science. Tackling Galileo as astronomer, engineer and author, the author places him at the centre of Renaissance culture. He traces Galileo through his early rebellious years onwards.

Tells the complete history of women readers and the controversies their reading has inspired since the beginning of the written word. This volume travels from the Cro-Magnon cave to the digital bookstores of our time, exploring how and what women have read through the ages and across cultures and civilizations.

The production of Wagner's operas is fiercely debated. This book evokes the - often scandalous - great productions that have left their mark not only on our understanding of Wagner but on modern theatre as a whole. It concludes with a critique of the iconoclastic interpretations by Patrice Chereau, Ruth Berghaus, and Hans-Jurgen Syberberg.

Offers a set of principles for determining when one may reasonably refuse rights of participation. The author defends this theory through real-world examples, ranging from the far-right British Nationalist Party to Turkey's Islamist Welfare Party to America's Democratic Party during Reconstruction.

Using simple but rigorously defined mathematical models, this title explores monetary control in a simple exchange economy.

An unbarred account of life in post-occupation Iraq and an assessment of the nation's prospects for the future

In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, cultural, economic, and political changes, as well as increased geographic mobility, placed strains upon British society. This book presents the historical study of female friendship and alliance for the early modern period.

Features stories of plots, sham plots, and the citizen-informers who discovered them are at the centre of author's study of the turbulent decade following the Revolution of 1688.