 | Yale historian Lillian Guerra explores the subject of Cuban national identity in her book "The Myth of José Martí." Pictured here is the cover for the recently published book. |
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.
"Learning to Forget" explores the complex relations between home and school in the working-class Italian community of New Haven. It chronicles one generation's suspicions toward public education and another's need to assimilate. Lassonde shows how not all working-class parents were enthusiastic supporters of education: the time spent in school might restrict children's potential financial contributions to the family and the attitudes children encountered in school sometimes contradicted the family's traditional values. While legally mandated education and child labor laws resolved the issue over whether children went to school or worked, some parents remained reluctant or resisted such change.
In "Parent Management Training," Alan Kazdin discusses the conceptual and empirical bases of parent management training (PMT) as applied to children and adolescents with oppositional, aggressive and antisocial behavior. The book's first half provides background to PMT, detailing the clinical application of treatment with concrete examples and identifying what can be done to enhance the effects of treatment. The second half of the book is a PMT treatment manual that details the practical application of the therapy and contains handouts, charts and aids for both therapists and parents.
The dangers and potential benefits of the increasing role of electronic media in the lives of children and adults is explored in
"Imagination and Play in the Electronic Age." The Singers, whose work has demonstrated the importance of make-believe in children's play and the benefits of particular kinds of children's television programs, explore the impact television, video games and computers have on creativity and development. Their book ultimately offers an optimistic view of the cognitive and moral potential created by electronic media.
In "Leave No Child Behind," Dr. James Comer, whose Yale-based School Development Program has improved low-performing schools around the nation, explains how, in his view, America got off course in education and offers suggestions for improvement. Using his 35-year-old School Development Program as a model, Comer urges teachers, policy makers and parents to work toward creating a new school environment. Comer demonstrates that children from all backgrounds can learn at a high level, adopt positive behavioral attitudes and prepare for a fulfilling adult life if they learn in schools that provide adequate support for their complete development. The focus, he argues, should not be simply better test scores but on blending academic, social and personal components.
Chosen recently as the best book of the year on international environmental policy and politics by the International Studies Association, "Governing Through Markets" was researched and written by Benjamin Cashore in collaboration with two of his former students. The book assesses the decade-long, multi-million-dollar effort by non-governmental organizations to transform global environmental governance by embracing marketplace incentives, rather than governments, in their efforts to promote sustainable forestry practices. The authors developed a framework designed to trace the competition for legitimacy between the Forest Stewardship Council certification program, which has widespread support from many of the world's leading environment groups, and alternative programs initiated by industry and forest owner associations. They uncovered significant differences across several industrialized nations both in support for forest certification programs and in what was required of companies to be recognized as environmentally and socially responsible. Their analysis, the authors argue, points to the need to conduct systematic research into the effects of different approaches in improving forest ecosystem structure and function, and the communities who depend on them.
"The Myth of José Martí" traces the origins of Cubans' struggles for political and social identity from Cuba's last war of independence in 1895 to the consolidation of U.S. neocolonial hegemony in 1921. The Yale historian argues that political violence and competing interpretations of the "social unity" proposed by Cuba's revolutionary patriot, José Martí, reveal conflicting visions of the nation. But for all factions, Guerra says, the image of Martí became the principal means by which Cubans attacked, policed and discredited one another to preserve their own vision over others'. Guerra demonstrates how these competing visions and battles for control of the state came to define Cuban politics throughout the 20th century.
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Yale Books in Brief
Learning to Forget: Schooling and Family Life in New Haven's Working Class, 1870-1940
Stephen Lassonde, dean of Calhoun
College and lecturer in history
(Yale University Press)
Parent Management Training:
Treatment for Oppositional,
Aggressive, and Antisocial Behavior in Children and Adolescents
Alan E. Kazdin, the John M. Musser
Professor of Psychology, director of
the Child Study Center and director
of the Yale Child Conduct Clinic
(Oxford University Press)
Imagination and Play
in the Electronic Age
Dorothy G. Singer, senior research
scientist in psychology, and Jerome
L. Singer, professor emeritus of psychology and at the Child Study Center; both
co-directors of the Family Television Research and Consultation Center
(Harvard University Press)
Leave No Child Behind: Preparing Today's Youth for Tomorrow's World
Dr. James P. Comer, the Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry, associate dean of the Child Study Center and
associate dean of student affairs at
the School of Medicine
(Yale University Press)
Governing Through Markets:
Forest Certification and the
Emergence of Non-state Authority
Benjamin Cashore, associate professor at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and in political science,
Graeme Auld and Deanna Newsom
(Yale University Press)
The Myth of José Martí: Conflicting Nationalisms in Early Twentieth-
Century Cuba
Lillian Guerra, assistant professor of history
(University of North Carolina Press)
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Noted Japanese filmmaker Aoyama Shinji to screen, discuss works
Workshop offers information about grants for bioscience ventures
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Yale Books in Brief
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