@johngerzema and @chris_bailey are loving David Rogers’ The Network is Your Customer. Be sure to check out the excerpt up at 800 CEO READ. @MichaelTakiff is posting to the Huffington Post about lessons from the Oklahoma City bombing for President Obama. @Amanda_Vickery is
We are soon to publish here in North America John Farndon’s Atlas of Oceans: An Ecological Survey of Underwater Life. If the title has not already begun to hint, this book goes under the sea to investigate the biological conditions of marine ecosystems, taking into consideration the climate changes that
In light of the recent bombing in Alexandria, Egyptian banker and writer, Tarek Osman, has been interviewed by the London Times and CNN for his take on the current political situation. Today we have published Egypt on the Brink: From Nasser to Mubarak, in which Osman describes the huge changes
Just to tease everyone a bit more, here is a preview of the lenticular jacket image for our forthcoming book Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, by Andrew Bolton and Harold Koda, published in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art to accompany an exhibition on view at The Met from May
What DID happen to Modernism? Bill Marx weighs in for the Arts Fuse in response to Robert Boyers’ review of Gabriel Josipovici‘s What Ever Happened to Modernism? in The New Republic. Modernism itself is no easy subject to define, which both reviewers point out in their articles, and the book
Michael Takiff appeared last week on MSNBC’s Daily Rundown to talk more about his new presidential biography, A Complicated Man: The Life of Bill Clinton as Told by Those Who Know Him. He discusses the current political issues facing President Obama and makes a few astute comparisons to what President Clinton
The new, Winter 2011 issue of the American Scholar has a selection of entries from our forthcoming book Alfred Kazin’s Journals, edited by Richard M. Cook. As a prominent public intellectual, Kazin’s circle of influence in postwar America was formidable. The letters excerpted in the American Scholar include Kazin’s thoughts
Today celebrities’ lives and activities are scrutinized by their fans, but many have also begun to scrutinize celebrity itself. Reality television has enabled many to become famous for living their lives (or, of course, participating in a wide variety of competitions). The internet has brought us tidbits and news far
Every year, we here at Yale University Press have a bakeoff contest at our holiday party. Categories change from year to year but the one constant is a prize for the Best Book Based on a YUP title. Some highlights in the past have included a cake shaped like an
Well, someone is having the best day ever. After last night’s total lunar eclipse in the Western hemisphere, the moon continues to occupy center stage as tonight’s winter solstice approaches for those of us north of the Equator. Here in New Haven, the sun rose at 7:15am and will quickly