 | In his book "Bound Together," Nayan Chanda explores the history of globalization, noting that the world's peoples have been interconnected since the start of human civilization. |
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. Authors of new books can forward publishers' book descriptions to susan.gonzalez.
This book tells the story of the year -- 1875 to 1876 -- the young novelist Henry James moved to Paris, drawn by his literary idols at the center of the early modern movement in art. Peter Brooks recounts how James largely failed to appreciate or even understand the new artistic developments teeming around him during his Paris sojourn. But living in England 20 years later, James would recall the aesthetic lessons of Paris, and his memories of the radical perspectives opened up by French novelists and painters would help transform James into the writer of his adventurous later fiction, Brooks believes. While in Paris, James met all of the writers he admired and he witnessed the latest development in French painting, Impressionism. Brooks reveals that James largely found the writers disappointing, and he misunderstood the paintings he saw. However, he fell in love in a more ordinary sense with a young Russian aesthete, Paul Zhulovsky. Disillusioned, James returned to England for good, but, Brook maintains, he was eventually changed forever by his memories of Paris.
In this study, Rachel Sherman goes behind the scenes in urban hotels to give a picture of the workers who care for and cater to guests by providing seemingly unlimited personal attention. Drawing on in-depth interviews and extended ethnographic research on a range of hotel jobs including concierge, bellperson and housekeeper, Sherman gives an analysis of what exactly luxury service consists of, how managers organize its production, and how workers and guests negotiate the inequality between them. She finds that workers employ a variety of practices to assert a powerful sense of self, including playing games, comparing themselves to other workers and guests, and forming meaningful and reciprocal relations with guests. Through their contact with hotel staff, guests learn how to behave in the luxury environment and come to see themselves as deserving of luxury consumption, Sherman maintains. These practices, she argues, help make class inequality seem normal, something to be taken for granted.
The Bayeux Tapestry, the world's most famous textile, is a 230-foot-long embroidered panorama depicting the events surrounding the Norman Conquest of 1066. In his book, R. Howard Bloch reveals the history, meaning and allure of the piece, beginning with an account of the event that inspired the tapestry: the bloody Battle of Hastings, in which the Norman William defeated the Anglo-Saxon king, Harold, and laid claim to England under his new title, William the Conqueror. Bloch demonstrates how the artisans who fashioned the Bayeux Tapestry brought to life a moment that changed the course of British culture and history. He shows how every age has cherished the tapestry for different reasons and read new meaning into its enigmatic words and images. Hitler, for example, sent a team to France to study the tapestry, decode its Nordic elements, and, at the end of the war, with Paris under siege, bring the cloth to Berlin. Integrating Norman, Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Byzantine elements, the tapestry ranks with Chartres and the Tower of London as a crowning achievement of medieval Europe. Bloch describes how this piece of art also served as a suture that bound up the wounds of 1066.
This volume, edited by Noël Valis, helps instructors plan courses in literature, foreign language, history, art and other subjects dealing with the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), a national conflict of international significance. The bombing of the Basque town Guernica, the assassination of the poet Federico García Lorca and the defense of Madrid are just some of the events represented in painting, film, fiction, memoir and history produced during the war years and since. In 35 essays, contributors to the volume negotiate the relation between art and history in depictions of the war and its aftermath, exploring how memory is shaped. Key representations of the war, including Picasso's painting "Guernica," Ernest Hemingway's novel "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and Sender's "Réquiem por un campesino español," are covered. In addition the contributors discuss less frequently taught works by Catalan, German, Irish and Latin American novelists, poets and visual artists. The volume concludes with a section of resources for further study and classroom use, including films, music, photography, websites and course syllabi and commentaries.
"Culture in Transition" -- published as a bilingual edition (English and Russian) -- features all of the papers presented at a conference held at Yale in 2003 that explored Russia's cultural landscape and how the relaxing of censorship and decrease in government funding since the collapse of the Soviet Union have impacted the arts in that country. Presenters included poet Evgeny Reyn; theater and film critic and documentary screenwriter Maya Turovskaya; television and radio commentator Nikolai Aleksandrov; art critic Leonid Bazhanov; Chekhov scholar and literary critic Maya Volchkevich; and the late Galina Belaia, then director of the Institute of Russian Philology and History at the Russian State University for the Humanities. "Culture in Transition" is dedicated to the memory of Belaia, who died in 2004. The book includes an introduction by Rita Lipson.
In "Bound Together," Nayan Chanda tells the story of the globalizing history of humankind, encompassing not only economics but medicine, art, faith, food, music, technology and every aspect of the human experience. Chanda answers such questions as: How did the coffee bean, first grown in Ethiopia, find its way to Java and Colombia and finally to Starbucks? How do people living continents apart share the same genes? How did Europeans end up playing the violin with a bow made from Mongolian horsehair? Chanda identifies four types of people who have been the engines of globalization -- traders, adventurers, preachers, and ambitious leaders and their conquering warriors -- and describes how they have woven a web of global connectedness. He also examines how globalization both unites and divides, explains why so many people oppose globalization and outlines the challenges of bringing all people into the fold. Chanda argues that calls to end globalization are nonsensical, noting that its roots are enmeshed in history, and no one is in charge of a process that has defined nearly all of human history.
This revised and updated new edition reflects the most recent progress in the understanding of autism and related conditions, and offers an international perspective on the state of the discipline. Featuring contributions from leading authorities in the clinical and social sciences, the book covers current approaches to definition and diagnosis; prevalence and planning for service delivery; cognitive, genetic and neurobiological features; and pathophysiological mechanisms. There is a new chapter covering communication issues. Interventions -- including pharmacological, behavioral and educational -- are also reviewed, and the final chapter addresses the nature of the fundamental social disturbance that characterizes autism.
In "Upon the Altar of the Nation," Harry Stout reconsiders the Civil War, with a focus on the moral underpinnings of the war between the states. Stout argues that during the war, both the North and the South fell too frequently into acts of grave misconduct, and that, while the right side did win, it won "in spite of itself." Stout draws on an array of Civil War letters, sermons, editorials and battle photographs to reveal how men and women were ensnared in the time's patriotic propaganda and ideological grip, and how these wartime policies continue to echo in debates today.
"Black Scholars on the Line" explores the development of American social science by highlighting the contributions of those scholars who were both students and objects of a segregated society. The book examines how segregation has influenced, and continues to influence, the development of American social thought and social science scholarship. Jonathan Holloway and Ben Keppel present the contributions of 28 black social scientists whose work was published between the rise of the Tuskegee model of higher education and the end of the Black Power era. The intellectuals featured in the book produced scholarship that helped define the contours of the social sciences as they evolved over the course of the 20th century.
In their new book, Art Swersey and Johannes Ledolter demonstrate how the same experimental design methods long used to optimize manufacturing processes can also add value to marketing and service activities such as website design, Internet advertising and direct mail marketing. The authors also make the case that the way that most experimentation is done in business today -- by changing one factor at a time while holding other factors constant -- is highly inefficent and can lead to wrong conclusions. The better method, the authors assert, is to test all factors simultaneously, claiming that doing so not only reduces the time and cost of experimenting but also provides the decision-maker with better information. Swersey and Ledolter demonstrate the benefits of multi-factor experimental design in marketing and services through real-world examples and case studies.
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Yale Books in Brief
Henry James Goes to Paris
Peter Brooks, Sterling Professor of
Comparative Literature and French
(Princeton University Press)
Class Acts: Service and Inequality
in Luxury Hotels
Rachel Sherman, assistant professor
of sociology
(University of California Press)
A Needle in the Right Hand of God: The Norman Conquest of 1066 and the Making and Meaning of the Bayeux Tapestry
R. Howard Bloch, Sterling Professor
of French and director of graduate
studies in French
(Random House Inc.)
Teaching Representations
of the Spanish Civil War
Edited by Noël Valis, professor of Spanish
(Modern Language Association)
Culture in Transition: A Search
for Identity Through the Arts
in Post-Soviet Russia
Edited by Rita Lipson, senior lector
in Slavic languages and literatures
(National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow)
Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers and
Warriors Shaped Globalization
Nayan Chanda, director of publications
at the Yale Center for the Study of
Globalization
(Yale University Press)
Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders (second edition)
Edited by Fred Volkmar, director of
the Yale Child Study Center, the Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry and professor of pediatrics, psychology and psychiatry
(Cambridge University Press)
Upon the Altar of the Nation:
A Moral History of the Civil War
Harry S. Stout, the Jonathan Edwards Professor of American Religious History
(Viking Books)
Black Scholars on the Line:
Race, Social Science and American Thought in the Twentieth Century
Edited by Jonathan Scott Holloway,
professor of history, African-American and American studies, and master of Calhoun College, and Ben Keppel
(University of Notre Dame Press)
Testing 1-2-3: Experimental Design with Applications in Marketing and Service Operations
Art Swersey, professor of operations research at the Yale School of Management, and Johannes Ledolter
(Stanford University Press)
W E E K ' SS T O R I E S
Gift of $10 million to support work of China Law Center
Studies cast new light on problems, treatment of childhood obesity
Bias against overweight youths can have lasting impact
Weight management program shown to cut diabetes risk
Students' summer projects designed to serve city's needs
Tennis center being transformed into state-of-the-art facility
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE NEWS
Yale scientists part of 'dream team' investigating hypertension
New genome technology can identify patients with . . .
Study: Virus has 'bystander' effect
Phyical conditioning shown to improve older drivers' on-road skills
Conference speakers examined the 'ethical dance' . . .
Paul Genecin reappointed as director of YUHS
Postdoc honored with fellowship for research on drug delivery
Architecture School to begin new year in temporary home with talk, exhibit
Exhibit showcases diverse incarnations of Kipling's books
Manuscripts provide window into pre-20th-century Islamic life, learning
Alumni earn Yale Medals for service to their alma mater
Newly renovated Cross Campus Library to open in the fall
Exhibit highlights career of artist who 'probed the nation's ills'
Pilot Pen tournament to bring top-ranked players to Elm City
Ira Millstein is again named 'Corporate Lawyer of the Year'
MacMillan Center awards book prize to French professor Maurice Samuel
In Memoriam: Peter H. Marris
Memorial service for Helen Simpson Culler
Documentary on the creation of Peabody Museum's Torosaurus . . .
Yale Books in Brief
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