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.
Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy To Innovate, Create Value, and Build a Competitive Advantage
Daniel C. Esty, the Hillhouse Professor
of Environmental Law and Policy,
and Andrew S. Winston, director of the
Corporate Environmental Strategy Project at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
(Yale University Press)
"Green to Gold" explores what every executive must know to manage the environmental challenges facing society and business. Based on the authors' experience and hundreds of interviews with corporate leaders around the world, the book shows how companies generate lasting value -- cutting costs, reducing risk, increasing revenues and creating strong brands -- by building environmental thinking into their business strategies. Daniel Esty and Andrew Winston provide how-to advice and concrete examples from companies such as BP, Toyota, IKEA and Nike that are achieving both environmental and business success. The authors show how these cutting-edge companies are establishing an "eco-advantage" in the marketplace as traditional elements of competitive differentiation fade in importance. In addition to highlighting successful strategies, the authors also make plain what does not work by describing why environmental initiatives sometimes fail despite the best intentions.
The Art of Drawing (Chinese translation)
Bernard Chaet, professor emeritus
at the School of Art
(Harcourt)
Bernard Chaet's "The Art of Drawing," now in its third edition, has been published in Chinese. The edition includes reproductions of 40 drawings by Yale College undergraduates and 70 drawings by students at the School of Art. The book is considered a primary source for faculty across the globe who teach drawing. The third edition focuses on the latest developments in the author's drawing classes, which began at the School of Art in 1951. Student examples cover three decades and the beginning of Chaet's fourth decade of teaching.
The Papers of Benjamin Franklin,
Volume 38
Edited by Ellen R. Cohn, editor of
The Papers of Benjamin Franklin
and senior research scholar in history
(Yale University Press)
This latest volume in the series covers the five-month period ending Jan. 20, 1783, when Britain signed preliminary articles of peace with France and Spain, and Britain and the United States declared a cessation of hostilities, effectively ending the American Revolution. Most of the volume deals with the deliberations that brought about this turn of events. Benjamin Franklin had worked since the previous April to negotiate a peace treaty, employing his diplomatic skills so as to mollify both the British and the French. For the final rounds of negotiations, conducted in the fall of 1782, he was joined by John Adams, John Jay and Henry Laurens. On Nov. 30, the Americans signed a preliminary peace treaty with Britain that would take effect when Britain, France and Spain signed treaties of their own.
The Great Risk Shift: The Assault on American Jobs, Families, Health Care and Retirement and How You Can Fight Back
Jacob S. Hacker, professor of political science and resident fellow of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies
(Oxford University Press)
In "The Great Risk Shift," Jacob Hacker argues that the two great pillars of economic security -- the family and the workplace -- guarantee far less security than they once did. His book documents how American economic security has eroded and what individuals can do to reinstate it. The final leg of economic support -- the public and private benefits that workers and families get when economic disaster strikes -- has dangerously eroded as political leaders and corporations increasingly cut back protections in health care, income security and retirement pensions, Hacker says. He advocates an "insurance and opportunity society" that would safeguard economic security and expand economic opportunity, ensuring that all Americans have the basic financial security they need to reach for and achieve the American Dream.
Through Other Continents:
American Literature Across
Deep Time
Wai Chee Dimock, the William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies
(Princeton University Press)
In "Through Other Continents," Wai Chee Dimock explores American liteature as a subset of world literature. Inspired by an unorthodox archive -- ranging from epic traditions in Akkadian and Sanskrit to folk art, paintings by Veronese and Tiepolo, and the music of the Grateful Dead -- Dimock constructs a long history of the world, which she calls "deep time." The civilizations of Mesopotamia, India, Egypt, China and West Africa, Dimock claims, leave their mark on American literature, which looks dramatically different when it is removed from a strictly national or English-language context. Key authors such as Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Ezra Pound, Robert Lowell, Gary Snyder, Leslie Silko, Gloria Naylor and Gerald Vizenor are transformed in this light. Emerson emerges as a translator of Islamic culture; Henry James' novels become long-distance kin to "Gilgamesh"; and Black English loses its ungrammaticalness when reclassified as a Creole tongue, meshing the input from Africa, Europe and the Americas. Dimock argues that American literature is answerable not to the nation-state, but to the human species as a whole.
Another Cosmopolitanism
Seyla Benhabib, the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy
(Oxford University Press )
In "Another Cosmopolitanism," Seyla Benhabib explores the conflict between the need for cosmopolitan norms of universal justice to govern an increasingly global civil society and people's democratic ideals and practices. The book -- which includes exchanges with the political philosophers Jeremy Waldron, Bonnie Honig and Will Kymlicka -- expands upon Benhabib's Tanner Lectures at the University of California at Berkeley. Benhabib argues that the inevitable tensions between commitments to universal human rights and to sovereign self-determination can be renegotiated continuously to yield another cosmopolitanism, one that is progressively embraced, not imposed.
What's Toxic, What's Not
Gary Ginsberg, lecturer in epidemiology and public health at the School of Medicine, and Brian Toal
(Berkley Press)
This new paperback is a comprehensive guide to harmful toxins that are found in homes, neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, foods and consumer products. Gary Ginsberg and Brian Toal, both experts on toxins, separate myth from reality and provide scenarios and real-life examples -- including important warning signs -- that show how to identify problems and what to do about them. The book features question-and-answer segments, charts to help assess risk and a special homebuyer's guide.
Gay Marriage: For Better or Worse? What We've Learned from the Evidence
William N. Eskridge Jr., the John
A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence at
the Law School, and Darren R. Spedale
(Oxford University Press)
Drawing on 17 years of data and experience with same-sex marriage in Scandinavia (in the form of registered partnerships), "Gay Marriage" is the first book to present empirical evidence about the effects of same-sex marriage on society. William Eskridge Jr. and Darren Spedale find that the evidence refutes claims that allowing gays to marry will undermine the institution of marriage, and say, in fact, that the institution of marriage may indeed benefit from the legalization of gay marriage. The authors also refute conservative arguments in America that gay marriage harms the well-being of the nation's children. The book features detailed accounts of the effects of registered partnerships in Scandinavia, illustrating the lives of some of the people who have formed such partnerships.
Men: Evolutionary and Life History
Richard G. Bribiescas, associate professor of anthropology
(Harvard University Press)
In "Men: Evolutionary and Life History," Richard Bribiescas explores the reasons for some of the risks of being male: they die younger than women, are more prone to disease and account for 85% of violent crime. A graph of relative risk of death in human males shows that mortality is high immediately following birth, falls during childhood, then exhibits a distinct rise between the ages of 15 and 35 -- primarily the result of accidents, violence and risky behaviors. Richard Bribiescas presents a new approach to understanding the human male by drawing upon life history and evolutionary theory, describing human male physiology and how it applies to contemporary health issues such as prostate cancer, testosterone replacement theory and the development of a male contraceptive.
The Invention of Evening: Perception and Time in Romantic Poetry
Christopher R. Miller, associate professor of English
(Cambridge University Press)
Christopher Miller explores the fascination of Romantic poets with the time of evening, the threshold between day and night, in this new book. The tradition of evening poetry runs from the idyllic settings of Virgil to the urban twilights of T.S. Eliot, and flourished in the works of Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats, Miller demonstrates. In fresh readings of familiar Romantic poems, Miller shows how evening settings enabled poets to represent the passage of time and to associate it with subtle movements of thought and perception. The book is the first detailed study of how the theme of evening became central to Romantic lyric poetry.
The Crisis of Action in
Nineteenth-Century Literature
Stefanie Markovits, assistant professor
of English
(Ohio State University Press)
While the 19th century is viewed as an active age -- the age of colonial expansion, revolutions, the building of railroads and a time of great exploration, a "crisis of action" can be observed in the literature of the period, Stefanie Markovits claims in this new work. Markovits maps out this conflict by focusing on four writers: William Wordsworth, Arthur Hugh Clough, George Eliot and Henry James. Each chapter of her book offers a case study that demonstrates how specific historical contingencies -- including reaction to the French Revolution, laissez-faire economic practices, changes in religious and scientific beliefs and shifts in women's roles -- made people in the period hypersensitive to the status of action and its literary co-relative, plot. In the writings she considers, Markovits shows how perceptions of characters come not from what they do, but from what they cannot do.
T H I S
W E E K ' SS T O R I E S
Study reveals more effective approach to curbing HIV spread
DeVane Lectures to ask: Are sustainability and capitalism compatible?
Celebrating the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
Former deputy secretary of U.N. to be visiting fellow this spring
ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIPS
Elefteriades is named as Glenn Professor
Salem will hold the Lampman Professorship
Tsai is designated as Robert Young Professor
Udelsman appointed to William Carmalt Chair
Streamlined office . . . aims to enhance postdoctoral experience
Global Village Shelters to be on exhibit at the Divinity School
Play shows 'humanity behind the statistics' of AIDS epidemic
Beinecke Library exhibit explores impact of world fairs
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE NEWS
Team maps gene for nicotine dependence to chromosome 5
Expanded Medicare benefit increased early diagnosis . . .
Grant supports work to eliminate disparities in . . .
Study: Estrogen curbs appetite in same way as the hormone leptin
Research shows impact of racial discrimination in . . .
'Graying' of group health insurance demographic may strain . . .
Report: Swedish massage helps osteoarthritis of knee
Coca-Prados gets inside-view of pharmaceutical industry at Pfizer
'Marat/Sade' offers audiences 'a full-scale theatrical assault . . .'
Rudd Center awards Golden Apples for innovative ideas to battle obesity
New exhibit at Jonathan Edwards College features portraits, drawings . . .
Memorial in honor of Ellen Hudson Graham
Conductor to present series on 'Reflections on Bach'
Yale trustee's Vietnam memorial wins award
Yale Books in Brief
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