 | The Yale Series of Younger Poets competition, the longest-running poetry prize in the nation, this year has culminated in the publication of "The Cuckoo" by Peter Streckfus. |
The following is a list of books recently or soon-to-be published by members of the Yale community. Descriptions are based on material provided by the publishers.
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Selected by The Economist as one of the year's best books, "Recurrent Crisis in Corporate Governance" examines what the authors believe are two crises that have overtaken governance of the American corporation: the loss of competitiveness in the 1980s and the loss of investor trust in financial management in the late 1990s. The book proposes specific changes in conduct to resolve these crises, particularly the separation of the roles of board leadership and management. Pointing out that the typical chief executive officer is also the chair of the board, Paul MacAvoy and lawyer Ira Milstein argue against this arrangement. Rather than advocating immediate reform, the authors suggest incremental change: that companies split the chair and CEO jobs when those who hold those combined posts retire. Among the topics they cover are the collapse of Enron, the ways in which management has gotten "out of control" and the cases of the nine largest companies investigated for fraudulent financial reporting.
Contrary to those who have described the post-September 11 security strategy of the Bush administration as a radical departure from U.S. policy, John Gaddis argues in his new book that there have been similar policy patterns in American history. He notes that Sept. 11 was not the first time a surprise attack shattered American assumptions about national security and reshaped grand strategy. Following a British attack on Washington in 1814, during which the White House and Capitol were burned, the U.S. began a homeland security strategy of unilateralism and preemption that was in place for over a century, Gaddis argues. Likewise, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt devised a new grand strategy of cooperation with allies on an intercontinental scale to defeat authoritarianism, a strategy that defined the American approach throughout World War II and the Cold War. The Bush administration's new grand strategy, maintains Gaddis, has its foundations in the 19th-century tradition of unilateralism, preemption and hegemony, projected this time on a global scale.
This collection of poems celebrates the work of Peter Streckfus, the winner of this year's Yale Series of Younger Poets competition, the longest-running poetry prize in America. Since its inception in 1919, the Yale Series of Younger Poets has published collections of works by winning American poets under the age of 40 who have not yet published a book of poetry. In her foreword to this collection, Louise Glück, the competition's judge and poet laureate of the United States, praises the art of the new Yale Younger Poet for its "nonsense and mystery," its "mesmerizing beauty" and "luminous high-mindedness."
This full-color atlas, with approximately 900 photographs, gives detailed coverage of a wide variety of subject matter in physical anthropology. Designed for students in that field as well as those studying human origins, biological anthropology, primate comparative anatomy, osteology, human evolution and forensic pathology, the book features chapters on "Body Organization," "The Teeth of Primates," "Comparative Anatomy of the Skull," "Postcranial Anatomy," "Craniometry and Osteometry," "Paleopathology and Non-Metric Skeletal Traits" and "Paleoanthropology," among others. Featured in the photographs by William Sacco are Old World and New World monkeys, lemurs, lorises, tarsiers, apes and humans. The book also features photographs and drawings of fossil primates, with emphasis on Miocene forms and human fossils and maps of the localities where fossils have been found. Hochgraf provided the illustrations throughout the text.
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Yale Books in Brief
The Recurrent Crisis in Corporate Governance
Paul W. MacAvoy, the Williams Brothers Professor of Management Studies, and Ira M. Milstein
(Palgrave Macmillan)
Surprise, Security and the American Experience
John L. Gaddis, the Robert A. Lovett Professor of History and Political Science
(Harvard University Press)
The Cuckoo
Peter Streckfus, the Yale Younger Poet Competition winner, with a foreword by Louise Glück, judge of the Yale Press competition
(Yale University Press)
A Photographic Atlas for Physical Anthropology
Paul Whitehead, curatorial affiliate in vertebrate zoology at the Peabody Museum of Natural History, William K. Sacco, photographer at the Peabody Museum, and Susan Hochgraf
(Morton Publishing)
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