YaleNews Books in Brief 2014

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Martina Droth, Jason Edwards, and Michael Hatt

(Yale University Press)

Linda C. Mayes and Stephen Lassonde

(Yale University Press)

Carmen Albendea, Ian McClure, Anikó Bezur, Jens Stenger, and John Marciari

(Yale University Press)

Dr. Chirag R. Parikh, associate professor of medicine, and Dr. Charuhas V. Thakar

(Springer)

Benjamin Harshav, professor emeritus of comparative literature

(Yale University Press)

Edited by Ian Shapiro, Sterling Professor of Political Science, and Jane E. Calvert

(Yale University Press)

Edited by James F. Leckman, Catherine Panter-Brick, and Rima Salah

(The MIT Press)

Adam Tooze, the Barton M. Biggs Professor of History

(Viking Books)

Kathryn Marie Dudley, professor of anthropology and American studies

(University of Chicago Press)

Karen Guzman, senior communications writer at the Yale School of Management

(Fiction Attic Press)

Edited by Francesca Trivellato, the Frederick W. Hilles Professor of History

(Oxford University Press)

Anders Winroth, the Forst Family Professor of History

(Princeton University Press)

Leslie Jamison, doctoral candidate in English literature

(Graywolf Press)

John Hollander; foreword by J. D. McClatchy, adjunct professor of English

(Yale University Press)

Andrew B. McGowan, president and dean of the Berkeley Divinity School

(Baker Academic)

Annabel Patterson, Sterling Professor Emeritus of English

(Yale University Press)

Ellen R. Cohn, senior research scholar in the Department of History

(Yale University Press)

Jo Handelsman, the Frederick Phineas Rose Professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

(Oxford University Press)

Robert P. Morgan, professor emeritus of music

(Cambridge University Press)

Robert C. Post, dean of Yale Law School

(Harvard University Press)

Scott Wilcox, chief curator of art collections at the Yale Center for British Art

(Yale University Press)

Brian Kane, assistant professor of music

(Oxford University Press)

Elisabeth Fairman, senior curator of rare books and manuscripts

(Yale University Press)

R. John Williams, assistant professor of English

(Yale University Press)

Sally M. Promey, professor of American studies and of religion and visual culture

(Yale University Press)

Vesla M. Weaver, assistant professor of African-American studies

(University of Chicago Press)

Günter P. Wagner, the Alison Richard Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

(Princeton University Press)

Stephen J. Davis, professor of religious studies

(Yale University Press)

Susan G. Clark, the Cullman Adjunct Professor of Wildlife Ecology & Policy

(University of Chicago Press)

David Scott Kastan, the George M. Bodman Professor of English Literature

(Oxford University Press)

Amy Kundrat, associate director of new media at the Yale School of Management

(Globe Pequot Press)

Alexander Welsh, the Emily Sanford Professor Emeritus of English Literature

(Yale University Press)

David Bromwich, Sterling Professor of English

(Princeton University Press)

David Bromwich, Sterling Professor of English

(Harvard University Press)

Lawrence Manley, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English

(Yale University Press)

Ian Shapiro, Sterling Professor of Political Science

(Yale University Press)

Peter H. Schuck, the Simeon E. Baldwin Professor Emeritus of Law

(Princeton University Press)

Patrick J. Lynch, senior digital officer, Office of Public Affairs & Communications

Rachel Dempsey, student at Yale Law School

(New York University Press)

John J. Collins, the Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation

(Oxford University Press)

Sarah Lewis, writer/curator at the School of Art

(Simon & Schuster)

J. D. McClatchy, adjunct professor of English and editor of The Yale Review

(Knopf)

Elena L. Grigorenko, the Emily Fraser Beede Professor of Developmental Disabilities

(Cambridge University Press)

Thomas E. Brown, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry

(Jossey-Bass)

David Brion Davis, Sterling Professor of History, Emeritus

(Knopf)

John Demos, the Samuel Knight Professor Emeritus of History

(Knopf)

Shyam Sunder, the James L. Frank Professor of Accounting, Economics, & Finance

(Routledge)

Michael A. Norko, associate professor of psychiatry

(Fordham University Press)

Vasileios Marinis, assistant professor of Christian art and architecture

(Cambridge University Press)

Diana E. E. Kleiner, the Dunham Professor of History of Art and Classics

(Yale University Press)

Amy Chua, the John M. Duff Jr. Professor of Law, and
Jed Rubenfeld, the Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law

(Penguin Press)

Joel Baden, associate professor of Old Testament

(HarperOne)

David W. Blight, the Class of 1954 Professor of American History

(Yale University Press)

Stephen Roach, senior lecturer at the Yale School of Management

(Yale University Press)

Mark Lazenby, assistant professor of nursing and
Ruth McCorkle, the Florence Wald Professor of Nursing

(Oxford University Press)