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God Is Not One: The Eight Rival
Religions That Run the World—and Why Their Differences Matter The common view that all religions are fundamentally the same is, says Boston University religion professor Prothero, “dangerous, disrespectful, and untrue.” Prothero offers a look at the very different core beliefs of the world’s major religions and notes that “tolerance and respect are empty virtues until we actually know something about whomever it is we are supposed to be tolerating or respecting.” The Accidents of Style: Good
Advice on How Not to Write BadlyCharles Harrington Elster ’81 “When a sentence hits an icy patch and skids off the road into a tree, I call it an accident of style,” says Elster, a writer and grammar maven. In a useful book for writers, he presents 350 “accidents,” among them every day and everyday and who and whom, and unequivocably—wait, that’s unequivocally—prescribes the best solutions. How Pleasure Works: The New
Science of Why We Like What We Like “Pleasure is deep,” writes Bloom. In this elegant and insightful examination of why food, sex, art, collectibles, sports, and things bring transcendent joy, the psychologist invokes essentialism: the idea that “things have an underlying reality or true nature that one cannot observe directly.” Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The
Epic History of the Fur Trade in America Historian James Truslow Adams remarked that “the Bible and the beaver” kept the Pilgrims financially and spiritually solvent in the early days of the Plymouth colony. Other writers have tackled the role of religion; Dolin offers an entertaining look at “a cast of characters beyond the scope of a Hollywood epic” and the critical importance of the fur trade in the evolution of the United States. Farm In a beautiful book for youngsters, illustrator and writer Cooper follows the life of a midwestern farm from spring planting to autumn harvest. The quirky watercolors evoke the sights, sounds, and smells of rural life. Cooper’s words are simple, graceful, and friendly to beginning readers, and will be a pleasure for the adults reading this gentle book. Entangling Alliances: Foreign War
Brides and American Soldiers in the Twentieth Century When twentieth-century American soldiers returned from combat overseas, many brought home more than battle wounds and souvenirs. Historian Zeiger explores the often uneasy development of intercultural marriages that took place against the backdrop of a long-held American “anxiety about ‘getting into bed’ with other countries.” Property Outlaws: How Squatters,
Pirates, and Protesters Improve the Law of Ownership From land squatters to album remixers to activists who subvert patent laws in order to make cheap AIDS drugs, people have long reacted to “unacceptable” conditions by refusing to obey restrictive property laws. In this history, legal scholars Peñalver and Katyal examine how Robin Hoods, past and present, have “played a powerful role as catalysts for needed legal reform.”
Ian Ayres ’81BA, ’86JD, William K.
Townsend Professor of Law, Yale Law School; Professor, School of Management Marion Belanger
’90MFA Mara Lee Bernstein
’95JD Amy Bourret ’87JD Yomi Braester
’98PhD Matthew J. Bruccoli
’53 Henry Clay Childs
’62 Henry Clay Childs
’62 Ken Chen ’05JD Robin Cody ’65,
’70MAT Brian Conn ’98 Garin Cycholl
’89MDiv Leo Damrosch ’63 James C. Duffus ’49 Charles R. Epp ’83 Joseph Gibson ’83,
’87JD Julia Glass ’78 Joy Gordon ’93PhD Matthew N. Green
’04PhD Ben Greenman ’90 Irene
Finel-Honigman '73PhD Philip Avery
Johnson ’63 Gilbert M. Joseph
’78PhD, Farnam Professor of History & International Studies, editor Jessica Francis
Kane ’93 Joshua Kendall ’81 Ian Shapiro ’83PhD,
’87JD, Sterling Professor of Political Science Lee Kravitz ’75 Charles B. Lansing
’04PhD Ellen Leopold
’71MArch Joanne S. Lessner
’87 David Lummis ’82 G. Jeffrey
MacDonald ’00MDiv James G. March
’53PhD Marisa Matarazzo
’99 Wendy Moffat
’81MPhil, ’85PhD Abigail Pogrebin
’87 Deborah L. Rhode
’77JD Frances Rosenbluth,
Damon Wells Professor of Political Science Aidan Donnelley
Rowley ’00 Jennifer Prah
Ruger, Associate Professor, Yale School of Public Health Peggy Samuels ’81 Haun Saussy ’90PhD,
Bird White Housum Professor of Comparative Literature, editor David
Schimmelpenninck van der Oye ’98PhD Dennis Shasha ’77,
editor Bahira Sherif-Trask
’81 Hampton Sides ’84 David H. Smith
’64BDiv, Director, Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, editor John Smolenski ’95 Judith Stein ’68PhD Robert Burns
Stepto, Professor of African American Studies, American Studies, and English Steve J. Stern
’76MPhil, ’79PhD Matt Stewart ’01 Daniel Tobey ’03JD Angus Trumble,
Curator of Paintings and Sculpture, Yale Center for British Art Monique Truong
’90BA Khristaan D.
Villela ’90 and Mary Ellen Miller ’81PhD, editors Cynthia Wachtell
’90MA Edward J. Watts
’02PhD Geoffrey Wawro
’92PhD Christopher S.
Wood, Professor, History of Art
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