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The following is a list of books published recently by members of the Yale community. Descriptions are based on material provided by the publishers.
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Between 1960 and 1980 various administrations attempted to deal with a rising tide of illicit drug use that was unprecedented in U.S. history. This book provides a close look at the politics and bureaucracy of drug control policy during those years, showing how they changed and how much current federal drug-control policies owe to those earlier efforts. Dr. David Musto and Pamela Korsmeyer base their analysis on a collection of 5,000 pages of White House documents from the period, all of which are included on a searchable CD-ROM that accompanies the book.
Supervisors from psychiatry, psychology and social work focus on supervision at a time when briefer hospital stays, the symptom-focused approach to mental illness, a growing choice of medications and managed care are some of the issues confronting them and those they supervise.
The Supreme Court's intervention in the 2000 election will shape American law and democracy long after George W. Bush has left the White House. This book brings together a wide range of preeminent legal scholars who address the larger questions raised by the Supreme Court's actions. Contributors, representing a broad political spectrum, include Bruce Ackerman, Jack Balkin, Guido Calabresi, Steven Calabresi, Owen Fiss, Charles Fried, Robert Post, Margaret Jane Radin, Jeffrey Rosen, Jed Rubenfeld, Cass Sunstein, Laurence Tribe and Mark Tushnet.
"Children and Nature" incorporates research from cognitive science, developmental psychology, ecology, education, environmental studies, evolutionary psychology, political science, primatology, psychiatry and social psychology. The authors examine the evolutionary significance of nature during childhood; the formation of children's conceptions, values and sympathies toward the natural world; how contact with nature affects children's physical and mental development; and the educational and political consequences of the weakened childhood experience of nature in modern society.
Shortly before noon on Oct. 28, 1728, General Yue Zhongqi, the most powerful military and civilian official in northwest China, was en route to his headquarters. Suddenly, out of the crowd, a stranger ran toward Yue and passed him an envelope -- an envelope containing details of a treasonous plot to overthrow the Manchu government. This story of a conspiracy against the Qing dynasty in 1728 is a tale of intrigue and an exploration of what it means to rule and be ruled.
A central figure in the reconception of early Christian history over the last three decades, Wayne A. Meeks offers here a selection of his most influential writings on the New Testament and early Christianity. His essays illustrate recent changes in the thinking about the early Christian movement and pose questions regarding the history of this period. Meeks explores a range of topics, from the figure of the androgyne in antiquity to the matter of God's reliability, from Paul's ethical rhetoric to New Testament pictures of Christianity's separation from Jewish communities.
With an interdisciplinary approach to German political and social theory, "Confronting Mass Democracy and Industrial Technology" provides insight into the thought of many of the most influential intellectual figures of the 20th century. Its essays detail the manner in which a wide range of German intellectuals grappled with the ramifications and implications of democracy, technology, knowledge and control from the late Kaisserreich to the Weimar Republic, and from the Third Reich and the Federal Republic through recently unified Germany. Yale contributors include McCormick, Seyla Benhabib and Steven B. Smith.
Undoing the familiar notion of the Middle Ages as a period of religious persecution and intellectual stagnation, María Menocal offers a portrait of a medieval culture where literature, science and tolerance flourished for 500 years. The story begins as a young prince in exile -- the last heir to an Islamic dynasty -- founds a new kingdom on the Iberian peninsula: al-Andalus. Combining the best of what Muslim, Jewish and Christian cultures had to offer, al-Andalus and its successors influenced the rest of Europe in dramatic ways. The glory of the Andalusian kingdoms endured until the Renaissance, when Christian monarchs forcibly converted, executed or expelled non-Catholics from Spain.
"The Russia Hand" is a memoir about war and peace in the post-cold war world by former President Bill Clinton's friend, adviser and deputy secretary of state. Strobe Talbott, whose expertise was the former Soviet Union, offers insight into the inner workings of both foreign policy-making and diplomacy over the past 10 years. The book reveals the play of personalities and the closed-door meetings that shaped some of the most crucial events of the modern world, from NATO expansion, missile defense and the Balkan wars to coping with Russia's near-meltdown in the wake of the Asian financial crisis. Dominated by Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin, "The Russia Hand" also sheds new light on Vladimir Putin, as well as the altered landscape after Sept. 11.
For fans of Provence, here is an affectionate history of the neighboring Ardeche region and its emblematic village. Balazuc is a tiny medieval village carved from a limestone cliff that towers over the Ardeche River in south-central France. Its dramatic landscape and Mediterranean climate make it a popular destination for summer visitors, but for its residents over the centuries life in Balazuc has been harsh. At times Balazuc has prospered, most notably through the cultivation of silkworms, and now through tourists. A story of resilience, this book is also a love letter from an acclaimed historian who, with his family, has made Balazuc -- a place that is both universal and irreducibly French -- his adopted home.
T H I S
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The Quest for Drug Control:
Politics and Federal Policy in a
Period of Increasing Substance Abuse, 19601980
Dr. David F. Musto, Professor of Child
Psychiatry and of the History of Medicine,
and Pamela Korsmeyer
(Yale University Press, 2002)
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy:
The Supervisory Process
Edited by Dr. Rosemary M. Balsam,
Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
(International Universities Press, Inc., 2001)
Bush v. Gore: The Question
of Legitimacy
Edited by Bruce Ackerman, Sterling
Professor of Law and Political Science
(Yale University Press, 2002)
Children and Nature: Psychological, Sociocultural, and Evolutionary
Investigations
Co-edited by Stephen Kellert,
the Tweedy/Ordway Professor of Social
Ecology, and Peter H. Kahn Jr.
(MIT Press, 2002)
Treason by the Book
Jonathan D. Spence, Sterling Professor
of History
(Penguin, paperback, 2002)
In Search of the Early Christians: Selected Essays
Wayne A. Meeks, the Woolsey Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies; edited by Allen R. Hilton, assistant professor of New
Testament, and H. Gregory Snyder
(Yale University Press, 2002)
Confronting Mass Democracy
and Industrial Technology:
Political and Social Theory
from Nietzsche to Habermas
Edited by John P. McCormick, Assistant Professor of Political Science
(Duke University Press, 2002)
The Ornament of the World:
How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance
in Medieval Spain
María Rosa Menocal, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
(Little, Brown, 2002)
The Russia Hand: A Memoir
of Presidential Diplomacy
Strobe Talbott, Director of the Center
for the Study of Globalization
(Random House, 2002)
The Stones of Balazuc:
A French Village in Time
John Merriman, the Charles Seymour
Professor of History
(W.W. Norton, 2002)
W E E K ' SS T O R I E S
Harold Attridge appointed as Divinity School dean
F&ES Dean Speth honored with Blue Planet Prize
Official accolades
Arjun Appadurai joins faculty as the Lanman Jr. Professor
W. Mark Saltzman to teach as Goizueta Foundation Professor
John Mayes II is appointed the director of Yale Procurement
MEDICAL SCHOOL NEWSGrant to fund stem cell research on Parkinson's disease
In Senate testimony, Yale pediatrician stresses the importance of . . .
Needle exchange programs offering health services reduce illness . . .
Woolston named new chief of child psychiatry
Yale SOM survey finds CEOs remain confident in auditors
YSN-affiliated practice offers care for women
Beinecke exhibit features photos of literary notables
OBITUARIESR.W.B. Lewis: Pulitzer Prize-winning literary scholar and critic
Dr. Albert J. Solnit: Pioneering child psychiatrist
Charles Bockelman: Physicist and Deputy Provost
Randolph C. Miller: Expert on Christian education
Meredith Pullin Crawford: Psychologist and former Yale researcher
The World in the City
Witt will coach women's ice hockey team this year
Yale now boasts eight certified HR professionals
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