Because we are firm believers that every day is art museum day, we are particularly excited that tomorrow, Saturday, May 18 is Art Museum Day. Tomorrow, approximately 180 art institutions nationwide will offer gratis entry or reduced admission rates, discounts on memberships, and other special programming, events, and deals. This is the fourth annual Art Museum […]
Follow @yaleSCIbooks In The Value of Species, Edward L. McCord both celebrates the immense breadth of life forms found on earth—from the rainforests and oceans to the prairies and deserts—and defends its value in the face of ever-more-urgent environment threats to biodiversity. Drawing on concepts from philosophy, law, and ethics in addition to biology, McCord […]
Magellan shows today’s leaders the value of making a well-researched bold prediction, and then sticking to the plan no matter what happens. Patrick J. Murphy and Ray W. Coye’s Mutiny and Its Bounty: Leadership Lessons from the Age of Discovery explores how great seafaring captains like Columbus and Magellan not only quelled mutinies but also built upon such incidents […]
For the May 13 centennial of Joseph Pulitzer Jr.’s birth, Marjorie B. Cohn, author of Classic Modern, the first biography of Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. to focus on his art collecting—arguably his greatest passion—and his role in bringing modernism to the American Midwest, writes here about one of the pleasures of writing the biography of a man whose life ended only […]
Read William Casey King’s “Three Things All Ambitious People Should Know” on the Wall Street Journal‘s “Speakeasy” blog! In credo of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” there seems an implicit acknowledgement of ambition–should one’s desires take you so far. This picture in American life is particularly central to our own understanding of national […]
Columbus shows today’s leaders how to use communication skill to spirit people to the edge of success and failure, and then use mutiny as a force to carry them over the line to success. Patrick J. Murphy and Ray W. Coye’s Mutiny and Its Bounty: Leadership Lessons from the Age of Discovery explores how great seafaring captains like […]
The researcher Alfred Kinsey came to London in 1955 “looking for sex,” according to Frank Mort’s Capital Affairs: London and the Making of the Permissive Society, and he was surprised at what he found. The amount of commercial sex on public display on the streets astounded him. Close to the fashionable shopping districts, “Soho was […]
Follow @yaleARTbooks The moment has finally arrived—YUP is now on Pinterest! Yes, we know it took us a while but we here now and can’t wait to share all the fantastic books and artwork that we are up to our elbows in over here at the office! To inaugurate our presence on Pinterest, we are […]
The world comes alive again each spring: the bloom of nature and the return of busy outdoor activities. We’re inviting readers of the Yale University Press list to further explore our offering of titles on biology, nature, and biography to help us celebrate the renewal and span of life throughout the month of May. Graduation […]
Follow @MHarrisPerry Follow @MHPShow “Citizenship is more than an individual exchange of freedoms for rights,” writes Melissa V. Harris-Perry, professor, writer and television host, in Sister Citizen. “It is also membership in a body politic, a nation, and a community.” In Sister Citizen, now available in paperback, Harris-Perry looks at what it means for black […]
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