Following the announcement of her new MSNBC show, starting in February, Melissa Harris-Perry appeared on Comedy Central’s Colbert Report this Monday to discuss her book, Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America, addressing the four common stereotyped characters that shape African American women’s identities and how they affect
Follow @yaleSCIbooks Sarah Underwood— Sometimes, the forgetting of history is accidental and gradual—a lost document, a mistranslation, or the unfortunate lack of a written record in the first place. On other occasions, events do not have to pass into history before they are forgotten. Those are the ones that are
“I like to think of the way people encounter pictures in books—by themselves, in quiet, at length.” —Robert Adams Joshua Chuang, Assistant Curator of Photographs at the Yale University Art Gallery and co-organizer of the traveling retrospective exhibition of the work of Robert Adams, writes on the gallery’s publication history
Follow @yaleSCIbooks Published to coincide with the centenary of the first expeditions to reach the South Pole, An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science, by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson, is a riveting biographical and scientific account of Antarctic exploration, restoring these expeditions’
A little over a month ago, newspapers announced the passing of Lana Peters. Born Svetlana Stalina, Peters was the only daughter of infamous Russian dictator Josef Stalin. After defecting to the United States in 1967, Peters wrote several memoirs about her experience living in the shadow of her father, a
Follow @yaleSCIbooks Sarah Underwood— The ancient philosopher Philolaus believed that the Moon was home to humans fifteen times larger than us as well as much larger animals and plants. He decided on the larger dimensions because the Moon’s days are so much longer than Earth’s. Nearly two and a half
Follow @yaleSCIbooks We’re starting off the New Year by taking a close look at where we are, how we got there, and what we can do to change. This month we’ll be covering new books like Austin Troy’s The Very Hungry City, examining energy and economic sensibilities for cities and
A year-end roundup of books from staff members all around Yale University Press! Field Guide to the Southeast Coast & Gulf of Mexico, by Noble S. Proctor and Patrick J. Lynch This is the perfect book to take with you when you head to the seashore or to give to
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