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6 unusual facts about Yale University Press


Bob Gilmore

He is best known for his books on American music - Harry Partch: a biography (Yale University Press, 1998) and Ben Johnston: Maximum Clarity and other writings on music (University of Illinois Press, 2006), both of which were recipients of the Deems Taylor Award from ASCAP.

Grigore Gafencu

In 1947 he was invited by Yale University Press to the United States for a series of conferences; at that time, he lectured at New York University.

New Sculpture

Body Doubles: Sculpture in Britain, 1877–1905. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004.

Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

The centre supports a publication programme through Yale University Press and co-ordinates its activities with the sister institution, the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven.

Tim Judah

Judah is also the author of the prizewinning The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia, published in 1997 by Yale University Press.

William Bell Clark

He wrote several biographies of American naval captains, including John Barry (1745-1803), Nicholas Biddle (naval officer), Lambert Wickes, and John Young (naval officer) during the American Revolution, which were published by prominent academic presses, such as the Yale University Press and Louisiana State University Press.


Augustina Stridsberg

John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, Yale University Press (1999), pgs.

Boston and Albany Railroad

Stilgoe, John R., Metropolitan Corridor: Railroads and the American Scene, Yale University Press, New Haven and London 1983, pages 223-243.

Council for National Security

Anonymous proxy servers through which Thai internet users could access a blocked webpage were also blocked, as were websites from BBC 1, BBC 2, CNN, Yahoo News, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The Age, Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, and Yale University Press containing articles about King Bhumibol Adulyadej.

Dean L. May

Included in Maris A. Vinovskis, Education, Society and Economic Opportunity (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995), pp.

Miscellaneous Babylonian Inscriptions

It was first published by Yale University Press in the United States and deals with commentary and translations of twelve cuneiform, Sumerian myths and texts discovered by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology excavations at the temple library at Nippur.

Romain Gary

Ajar, Émile (Romain Gary), Hocus Bogus, Yale University Press, 2010, 224p, ISBN 978-0-300-14976-0 (translation of Pseudo by David Bellos, includes The Life and Death of Émile Ajar)

Roman Czerniawski

John Cecil Masterman, The Double-Cross System in the War of 1939-1945, Yale University Press, 1972.

The Encyclopedia of New York City

Historian and Columbia University professor Kenneth T. Jackson edited this work that combines informative and interesting information about New York City into one volume, first published in 1995 by the New-York Historical Society and Yale University Press.

The Future of the Internet

The Future Of The Internet is a book published in 2008 by Yale University Press and authored by Jonathan Zittrain.

Too Much To Know

Too Much To Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age (Yale University Press, 2010) is a bestselling book by American author Ann M. Blair.


see also

1977 in archaeology

Mark Nathan Cohen - The Food Crisis in Prehistory: Overpopulation and the Origins of Agriculture (New Haven: Yale University Press)

Agnes von Mansfeld-Eisleben

Ozment, Steven, The Age of Reform 1250–1550, An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986, ISBN 9780300027600

Anne Norton

Her challenges to mainstream political science have earned her a leadership role in the Internet-based movement to reform political science that has named itself "Perestroika" (Kristen Monroe, Perestroika: The Raucous Rebellion in Political Science, Yale University Press, 2005).

Benjamin Ivry

Mon Docteur, Le Vin (My Doctor, Wine) by Gaston Derys with Watercolors by Raoul Dufy, translated by Benjamin Ivry, 2003, Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-10133-3

Bentvueghels

Haskell, Francis, Patrons and Painters: Art and Society in Baroque Italy, Yale University Press, 1980.

Demobilisation of the British Armed Forces after the Second World War

Alan Allport, Demobbed: Coming Home After the Second World War, Yale University Press, 2009, ISBN 0-300-14043-6

Dumas Malone

He was a Director of the Harvard University Press and served as editor of the original Dictionary of American Biography. His first contribution to historical scholarship was a still authoritative biography of the American political commentator and educator Thomas Cooper (Yale University Press, 1926).

Dumnorix

Adrian Goldsworthy, Caesar: Life of a Colossus, (Yale University Press, 2006) ISBN 0-300-12048-6

Eberhard Taubert

Max Weinreich : Hitler's Professors: The Part of Scholarship in Germany's Crimes Against the Jewish People, Publisher: Yale University Press; 2nd edition, 1999, ISBN 0300053878

Eglinton Tournament of 1839

# Girouard, Mark The Return to Camelot: Chivalry and the English Gentleman Yale University Press, 1981.

Evolutionary theory and the political left

Singer, P., (1999) Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution, and Cooperation, New Haven and London, Yale University Press.

Frances Balfour

Brockington, Grace, Lecturer in History of Art, University of Bristol, Above the Battlefield: Modernism and the Peace Movement in Britain, 1900–1918, Yale University Press, (08/03/2011) – 244 pages, ISBN 978-0-300-15195-4

Future of American Democracy Foundation

Board members include Jonathan Brent, Editorial Director of Yale University Press; Norton Garfinkle, former Chairman of the George Washington University Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies; Thomas E. Mann of the Brookings Institution; Norman J. Ornstein, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research; Hugh Price, formerly president of the National Urban League; Alan Wolfe of Boston College; and Ruth A. Wooden.

K. Lee Scott

His hymns are published in eight hymnals, including A New Hymnal for Colleges and Schools (Yale University Press), Voices United (The United Church of Canada) and With One Voice (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America).

Langum Prizes

2002 (Legal History): Lawrence M. Friedman, American Law in the 20th Century (Yale University Press)

Mark Hallett

'The Business of Criticism: the Press and the Royal Academy Exhibition in Eighteenth-Century London' in David Solkin (ed.) Art on the line: the Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780-1836, Yale University Press, 2001.

Morebath

An account of life in Morebath in the 16th century can be read in The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village by Eamon Duffy (published in 2001 by Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-09185-0).

Reedy Creek Improvement District

Richard Foglesong (2001), Married to the Mouse: Walt Disney World and Orlando, Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-08707-1, ISBN 0-300-09828-6

Religion in ancient Rome

MacMullen, R., Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries, Yale University Press, 1997.

St Lythans burial chamber

Mark Nathan Cohen, The Food Crisis in Prehistory: Overpopulation and the Origins of Agriculture. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1977) ISBN 0-300-02016-3.

Susan Solomon

The Coldest March: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition, Yale University Press, 2002 ISBN 0-300-09921-5 - Depicts the tale of Captain Robert Falcon Scott's failed 1912 Antarctic expedition, specifically applying the comparison of modern meteorological data with that recorded by Scott's expedition in an attempt to shed new light on the reasons for the demise of Scott's polar party.

Svetlana Alpers

Tiepolo and the Pictorial Intelligence, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1994 (with Michael Baxandall)

William H. Hinton

A critique of Edward Friedman, Paul G. Pickowicz, Mark Selden, Chinese Village, Socialist State, Yale University Press 1991, ISBN 0-300-05428-9.

William Hechler

Victoria Clark: Allies for Armageddon: The Rise of Christian Zionism. Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007 ISBN 978-0-300-11698-4