Yale Bulletin and Calendar

August 26, 2005|Volume 34, Number 1

Yale Books in Brief

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.

Whose Bible Is It?: A History of the Scriptures Through the Ages
Jaroslav Pelikan, Sterling Professor Emeritus of History
(Viking)

In "Whose Bible Is It?" historian Jaroslav Pelikan traces the world's most known and read book from its earliest incarnation to its modern existence in various iterations, translations and languages. From the earliest Hebrew texts and the Bible's appearance in Greek, then Latin, Pelikan explores the canonization of different bibles and why certain books were adopted by certain religions and sects, as well as the development of the printing press, the translation into modern languages and the varying schools of critical scholarship.

Poets of the Civil War
Edited by J.D. McClatchy, editor of The Yale Review and professor (adjunct) of English
(Library of America)

This anthology traces the advent, progress and legacy of the Civil War as revealed in the works of such famous poets as Whitman, Melville, Whittier and Dickinson, as well as by lesser or unknown poets whose voices illustrate the conflicting views of the era -- Northerners and Southerners, combatants on both sides of the war, and others. McClatchy comments on some of the 33 poets he selected for the volume, which includes Whitman's elegy for the assassinated President Lincoln, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd."

Information Systems Research: Relevant Theory and Informed Practice
Edited by Bonnie Kaplan, lecturer in medical informatics, Duane P. Truex III, David Wastell, A. Trevor Wood-Harper and Janice I. DeGross
(Kluwer)

This book comprises the edited proceedings of the Working Group 8.2 of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP 8.2) conference on "Relevant Theory and Informed Practice: Looking Forward from a 20-Year Perspective on IS Research," which was chaired by the authors in Manchester, England, in 2004. The volume includes 33 full research papers providing views and reflections on the information systems discipline, followed by papers featuring interpretive studies, action research, theoretical perspectives, and methods and politics of information systems development.

T H I SW E E K ' SS T O R I E S

Margaret Grey is named dean of School of Nursing

Benson to step down as dean of School of Art after this year

Team discovers new planet in the outer solar system

Grant will fund center for study of nervous system

Study: Alligator eggs show effect of oxygen on development

Yale Librarian Prochaska appointed to a second term

New master's program prepares nurses for leadership roles

Exhibit explores the 18th-century 'worlds' of Francis Wheatley

Private portrait miniatures showcase the faces of public figures

Gallery hosting festive open house . . .

Architecture gallery to feature traveling art show 'Ant Farm'

Sterling Library launches new academic year with two exhibits

Researchers create powerful tool for decoding gene functions

Galapagos tortoises more diverse than once believed, say scientists

Team identifies 'signatures' of protons in water

'Canary Database' shows animals offer health warnings for humans

Team digitally reconstructs long-extinct 'Lamp Shell'

'Gene trapping' reveals how flower development is controlled

Discovery may aid development of treatment for melanoma

Drinking alcohol may lower risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

Lyme disease prevention program launched in Connecticut

For 35 students, summer was a time of service in New Haven

IN MEMORIAM

John Ostrom: He revolutionized field of paleontology

Robert Abelson: Psychologist was adviser to presidential candidates

Greer Allen: University printer was inspiration to School of Art students