Dignity: The Essential Role It Plays in Resolving Conflict
August 30, 2011 16:31 ET | Yale University Press
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Aug. 30, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- This important book is the first to explore the common human desire for dignity and the consequences when dignity is either violated or honored,...
An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science
August 30, 2011 11:39 ET | Yale University Press
On the centenary of the first expeditions to reach the South Pole, a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian of science presents a fascinating and bracing new take on Antarctic exploration NEW...
The Theory That Would Not Die
August 30, 2011 11:00 ET | Yale University Press
In this lively narrative history, noted science writer Sharon Bertsch McGrayne recounts the discovery of Bayes' rule and reveals how this seemingly simple mathematical theorem ignited one of the...
Conversions: Two Family Stories From the Reformation and Modern America
August 29, 2011 15:38 ET | Yale University Press
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Aug. 29, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In this brilliant new book, gifted cultural historian Craig Harline explores the effects of religious conversion on family relation-ships, showing...
Yale University Press Publishes Straight Talk About Cosmetic Surgery
March 30, 2007 10:09 ET | Yale University Press
NEW HAVEN, Conn., March 30, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- This July, Yale University Press will publish STRAIGHT TALK ABOUT COSMETIC SURGERY by Arthur W. Perry, MD, FACS, with a foreword by Michael F....