 | "Paul Mellon's Legacy: A Passion for British Art" accompanies an exhibition with the same name at the Yale Center for British Art. The book features essays and an illustrated catalog. |
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. Melvin Lewis’ “Child and Adolescent Psychiatry” has been
the standard work in the field for 15 years. Now in its fourth edition, this
volume is under the editorial direction of Andrés Martin and Fred Volkmar,
two of Lewis’ colleagues at the Yale Child Study Center. The textbook
emphasizes the relationship between basic science and clinical research and
integrates scientific principles with the realities of drug interactions. This
edition has been reorganized and updated, with new contributing authors. The
new structure incorporates economics, diversity and a focus on evidence-based
practice. Numerous new chapters include genetics, research methodology and
statistics, and the continuum of care and location-specific interventions.
A companion website provides access to the complete, fully searchable text. This book analyzes Internet-related computer-mediated-communication (CMC)
in languages other than English. The volume collects 18 new articles on facets
of language and Internet use, all of which revolve around the central topics
of writing systems; the structure and features of local languages and how they
affect Internet use; code switching between multiple languages; gender issues;
public policy issues and more. The scope of languages discussed includes non-native
English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Greek, Spanish, Japanese, Thai and Portuguese. Three decades ago, federal policymakers embarked on a general strategy of
deregulation. In the electricity, gas delivery and telecommunications industries,
this strategy called for restructuring to separate production from transmission
and distribution, followed by elimination of price controls. The expected results
were lower prices and increased quality, reliability and scope of services.
In his new book, Paul MacAvoy assesses the results and concludes that deregulation
has failed to achieve any of these goals in any industries. He shows that what
exists now is only partial deregulation, a mixture of oligopoly structure with
direct price control. He explores why this system leads to volatile and high
prices, reduced investment and low profitability, and describes what policy
actions can be implemented to address these problems. Published in association with the Yale Center for British Art and the Royal
Academy of Arts, “Paul Mellon’s Legacy: A Passion for British Art” accompanies
an exhibition with the same title at the Yale gallery. The book and exhibition
celebrate the centenary of the birth of Mellon, a Yale alumnus and renowned
collector of British art. Five essays examine Mellon’s collecting activity,
as well as his role in creating both the Yale Center for British Art and the
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in London as gifts to his alma
mater. An illustrated catalog showcases 148 paintings, watercolors, drawings,
prints, sculpture, rare books and manuscript material in the collection of
the Yale Center for British Art, including major works by Thomas Gainsborough,
Joshua Reynolds, George Stubbs, John Constable and J.M.W. Turner. This catalog celebrates the centenary of the birth of Yale alumnus and art
collector Paul Mellon, who assembled one of the world’s greatest collections
of British drawings and watercolors. The book features 88 watercolors from
the 50,000 works of art on paper with which Mellon endowed the Yale Center
for British Art. The selection spans the emergence of watercolor painting in
the mid-18th century to its apogee in the mid-19th century. The images showcase
both landscape and figurative works by some of the principal artists working
in the medium, including Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Rowlandson, William Blake
and J.M.W. Turner. This book highlights the principles underlying molecular medicine as related
to neurology. Designed for graduate and M.D.-Ph.D. students, as well as for
clinical fellows and researchers in the neurosciences and other biomedical
sciences, the book presents principles and disease examples relevant to molecular
neurology. It also reflects the concepts and advances in the field. According
to Waxman, neurology is evolving into a molecular discipline that, over time,
will also become increasingly treatment-oriented. In “Education’s End,” Anthony Kronman explores why colleges
and universities have expelled the question of “What is living for?” from
their classrooms, judging it unfit for organized study. He calls for the restoration
of “life’s most important question” to an honored place in
higher education. Kronman contrasts an earlier era in American education, when
the question of the meaning of life was at the center of instruction, with
the current day, when this question has been largely abandoned by college and
university teachers, he maintains. In particular, teachers of humanities have
lost confidence in their authority to explore that question with students,
Kronman says, arguing that the question has been lost sight of in an era dominated
by political correctness. Yet, Kronman says, there is a longing among teachers
as well as students to engage questions of ultimate meaning, and he urges a
revival of the humanities’ lost tradition of studying the meaning of
life through the careful but critical reading of great works of literary and
philosophical imagination. In her 10th volume of poetry, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former U.S.
Poet Laureate Louise Glück retells the myth of Persephone in 18 poems
that both stand alone and function as a narrative sequence. The book takes
its name from a small crater in Italy, believed by ancient Romans to be the
opening of the earth’s crust that provided a path to the underworld.
The poems in “Averno” explore such human experiences as grief,
loneliness, aging, anguish and death. “Blood and Soil” is the first global history of genocide and extermination
from ancient times. In his new book, Ben Kiernan examines outbreaks of mass
violence from the classical era to the present, focusing on worldwide colonial
exterminations and 20th-century case studies, including the Armenian genocide,
the Nazi Holocaust, Stalin’s mass murders, and the Cambodian and Rwandan
genocides. He identifies connections, patterns and features that in nearly
every case gave early warning of the catastrophe to come: racism or religious
prejudice, territorial expansionism, and cults of antiquity and agrarianism.
Using extensive primary and secondary sources in a variety of languages, “Blood
and Soil” shows how the phenomenon of genocide transcends political labels.
Kiernan urges that the world heed the historical evidence with its telltale
signs for predicting and preventing future genocides. Husband-and-wife Lemaster and Julia Carlyle, two minor characters in Stephen
Carter’s best-selling first novel “The Emperor of Ocean Park,” are
the central characters in the law professor’s second work of fiction, “New
England White.” Lemaster, a university president, and Julia, a divinity
school dean, are African Americans living in “the heart of whiteness” in
the New England university town of Elm Harbor. Lemaster is an old friend of
the president of the United States. When the couple drives home one snowy night,
they happen upon the corpse of Julia’s former lover Kellen Zant, a brilliant
economist. The murder cracks the veneer that has hidden the racial complications
of the town’s past, the secrets of a prominent family and the most hidden
bastions of African-American political influence. The mystery deepens as Julia
closes in on the politically earth-shattering motive behind the murder. In a humorous way, Dr. Anish Sheth and Josh Richman reveal what one can learn
about health and well-being by studying what’s in the toilet bowl. A “floater,” they
point out, is probably due to a buildup of gas. Other descriptive phrases used
to describe human waste include “The Log Jam,” “The Glass
Shard,” “The Deja Poo” and “The Hanging Chad.” The
book includes over 60 euphemisms for “number 2,” as well as trivia
and unusual case histories. The book, notes the publisher, is “the ultimate
bathroom reader.” This introduction explains how modernism emerged, how it is defined and how
it developed in different forms and genres. Pericles Lewis offers students
a survey of literature and art in England, Ireland and Europe at the beginning
of the 20th century. He also provides an overview of criticial thought on modernism
and its continuing influence on the arts today, reflecting the interests of
current scholarship in the social and cultural contexts of modernism. The comparative
perspective on Anglo-American and European modernism shows how European movements
have influenced the development of English-language modernism. The book is
illustrated with works of art and features suggestions for further study.
T H I S
Yale Books in Brief
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: A Comprehensive Textbook
Edited by Andrés Martin, associate professor at the Yale Child Study
Center; Fred Volkmar, director of the Yale Child Study Center, the Harris Professor
of Child Psychiatry and professor of pediatrics, psychology and psychiatry;
and Melvin Lewis, professor emeritus and senior researcher at the Yale Child
Study Center
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins)
The Multilingual Internet: Language, Culture and Communication Online
Edited by Brenda Danet, research affiliate in anthropology
(Oxford University Press)
The Unsustainable Costs of Partial Deregulation
Paul W. MacAvoy, the Williams Brothers Professor Emeritus of Management Studies
at the Yale School of Management
(Yale University Press)
Paul Mellon’s Legacy: A Passion for British Art
Jules D. Prown, the Paul Mellon Professor Emeritus of the History of Art; Brian
Allen, director of the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art; and John Baskett,
Duncan Robinson and William Reese
(Yale University Press)
Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection
Matthew Hargraves, research associate in the Department of Paintings and
Sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art, with an introduction by Scott
Wilcox, curator of prints and drawings, Yale Center for British Art
(Yale University Press)
Molecular Neurology
(Elsevier Academic Press)
Education’s End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the
Meaning of Life
Anthony T. Kronman, Sterling Professor of Law
(Yale University Press)
Averno: Poems
Louise Glück, professor (adjunct) of English and the Ronsenkranz Writer-in-Residence
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur
Ben Kiernan, the A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History and professor of international and area studies
(Yale University Press)
New England White
Stephen L. Carter, the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law
(Alfred A. Knopf)
What’s Your Poo Telling You?
Dr. Anish Sheth, clinical fellow in internal medicine (digestive diseases) and Josh Richman
(Chronicle Books)
The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism
Pericles Lewis, professor of English and comparative literature and director
of graduate studies in comparative literature
(Cambridge University Press)
W E E K ' SS T O R I E S
Yale team achieves major advances in quantum computers
Yale poll reveals growing concern about global warming
‘Incredible India@60’: Yale hosts panels on nation’s future . . .
Parents' Weekend
Special language tours offered during Parents’ Weekend
Yale endowment earns 28% return in 2006-2007
Study sheds new light on genetic differences in humans
Emilie Townes is named to associate dean at the Divinity School
Faculty members win fellowships for use of technology in curricula
Conference to honor legacy of Israeli poet
Festival invites public to enjoy area artists’ creative offerings
Evolution of ‘the city beautiful’ is focus of new exhibition
Noted theologians to give public talks during Convocation
Yale singers will bring Beinecke manuscript to musical life . . .
Winners of Graduate School’s Wilbur Cross Medals to present talks
Global experts gather to discuss ways to curb poverty . . .
‘Summer Heat’
Yale Press acquires the renowned Anchor Bible Series from Doubleday
Jane Savage named director of best practices
New digital mammography van hits the streets to provide screenings
Manuscripts and Archives hosts an introduction to its resources, services
Yale Books in Brief
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