Two recent issues of Scientific American highlighted a number of Yale University Press science books in a competitive field of publications. Both G. A. Bradshaw’s Elephants on the Edge and John Wargo’s Green Intelligence were singled out as notable non-fiction selections in the magazine’s December round-up. This month, Saleem H.
Dr. Richard Frank— Sometimes, miracles happen in the real world of fighting cancer. In this vignette from my practice, just published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, I relate how a man with pancreatic cancer, literally on death's door, somehow found another to walk through… Richard C. Frank, M.D., is director of
Each year, Fred Shapiro, editor of The Yale Book of Quotations, compiles a list of memorable quotations from the past twelve months. An entertaining mix of political missteps, slick advertising lingo, and plain old nonsense, his 2009 list adds some levity and perspective to the year in review. Recently, Shapiro
As the year—and the decade—draw to a close, the critical desire to sort out the era’s best and worst appears near-impossible to resist. While the Press has certainly enjoyed its share of cheers and jeers throughout its history, one pleasant surprise this year has been the resurgence in interest in
At the close of the UN Summit on Climate Change, diplomats may have left Copenhagen frustrated by the slow pace of progress, but as Yale professor of environmental policy, risk analysis, and political science John Wargo writes in his new book, Green Intelligence, the keys to environmental safety often begin
Dr. Richard Frank— Cancer is a medical condition that affects the human body (and other species). Scientists can break it down into its component molecular parts, the DNA and proteins that go awry. Oncologists can categorize it by type and stage and list the treatments for each condition. These are
The Schott's Vocab blog on the New York Times website has posted a fascinating interview with Claude Hagège, author of On the Death and Life of Languages, which YUP recently published in a new English translation. When asked about languages challenging English's global dominance, Hagège makes two particularly fascinating points
Since Yale University Press acquired the esteemed Anchor Bible series in 2007, our friends at Logos Bible Software have been hard at work keeping the series up-to-date for the 21st-century reader. Having already integrated the 84-volume Anchor Yale Bible and its accompanying 6-volume Dictionary into their leading biblical software, the
Technology and writing have been inextricably linked since the days of the scribes; however, during the past year, the connections appeared to become more and more explicit. Plenty of ink—both e- and otherwise—was spilled this year over the Kindle, the Nook, and the rise of Twitter in an effort to
Last week’s announcement that Dubai World, a corporation owned by the government of the Arab Emirate known for its palm tree-shaped housing developments, would restructure $26 billion in debt sent shockwaves through the financial world. Today, Dubai stocks continued to fall precipitously, indicating that the worst may not yet be