 | This is the cover of Dolores Hayden's new book "Building Suburbia." |
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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In "Building Suburbia," Dolores Hayden explores the design and development of the suburbs over two centuries, how they came into being and where they are headed. Among other topics, she explores the interplay of natural and built environments, the antagonisms between real-estate developers and suburban residents, and the "hidden" role of the federal government, and she emphasizes the benefit of preserving and rejuvenating existing neighborhoods, claiming that "[t]o preserve, renovate and infill the suburban neighborhoods of the past can make the suburban city more egalitarian and sustainable."
This book presents for the first time a comprehensive collection of Mark Chagall's public statements on art and culture, shedding light on his art and his mental world. It also reveals the travails and achievements of his life as a Jew in the 20th-century and his perennial concerns with Jewish identity and destiny, Yiddish literature and the state of Israel. Harshav's annotations and introductions of Chagall texts convey the changing cultural contexts of the famous French artist's life. The book also features a translation by Harshav and his wife, Barbara Harshav (lecturer in comparative literature), of the first book about the artist's work, the 1918 "The Art of Marc Chagall."
"Credo" surveys the history of the principal creeds and confessions of all branches of the Christian Church; delves into the meaning and function of creeds; explores how they relate to Christian institutions, worship and service; and probes the issues and controversies that spawn new creeds. The book is the introductory volume to the four-volume set "Creeds & Confessions of Faith in the Christian Tradition," edited by Jaroslav Pelikan and Valerie Hotchkiss, which assembles the principal creeds and confessions of the Christian Church all over the globe -- from biblical times to the present -- and places them in their historical and theological context.
The sixth edition of "The Cancer Chemotherapy Handbook" is a comprehensive guide on the care and chemotherapeutic treatment of cancer patients. The compact guide encompasses all major chemotherapeutic agents and combinations as well as investigational and newly approved drugs. The new edition includes more than 75 new drug regiments in addition to a new chapter on medication safety. Dr. David Fisher and M. Tish Knobf wrote the handbook in conjunction with Henry J. Durivage of the Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Nancy J. Beaulieu, an oncology clinical pharmacy specialist at Yale-New Haven Hospital.
In this book, Walter Goffart traces for the first time how collections of maps for history -- maps whose sole purpose was to illustrate some historical moment or scene -- came into being, and how they differed from earlier atlases helpful to readers of history.
Goffart sets out in alternating, paired chapters both milestones in the origins of historical atlases and individual maps illustrating historical scenes. He focuses especially on maps depicting the medieval period, and documents how mapping for history and changing historical understandings of the Middle Ages were closely linked. The book also features a detailed catalog of historical maps and atlases produced from 1570 to 1870; the catalog lists more than 700 items from 60 collections around the world.
In this volume, Number 102 in the Yale French Studies series, writers and scholars from a wide variety of disciplines explore the extent to which Belgium's literary and visual culture reflects distinctly Belgian ways of dealing with the past -- examining the question "What is the relationship between memory, identity and culture in a recently federalized nation?" This question, scholars believe, is particularly pressing since Belgium has reconstituted itself politically and must deal with the prospect that it might itself become a memory.
T H I S
Yale Books in Brief
Building Suburbia: Green Fields
and Urban Growth, 1820-2000
Dolores Hayden, professor of architecture, urbanism and American studies
(Pantheon Books)
Mark Chagall on Art and Culture
Edited by Benjamin Harshav, the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Professor of Hebrew Languages and Literatures and professor of comparative literature
(Stanford University Press)
Credo
Jaroslav Pelikan, Sterling Professor of History Emeritus
(Yale University Press)
The Cancer Chemotherapy Handbook
Dr. David S. Fischer, clinical professor of medicine, and M. Tish Knobf, R.N., associate professor of oncology nursing
(Mosby, an imprint of Elsevier Science)
Historical Atlases: The First Three Hundred Years, 1570-1870
Walter Goffart, senior research scholar and lecturer in history
(University of Chicago Press)
Yale French Studies: Belgian Memories
Edited by Catherine Labio, assistant professor of comparative literature and assistant professor and director of undergraduate studies in French
(Yale University Press)
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