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Beethoven: The Ninth Symphony

Revised Edition

David Benjamin Levy

Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, a masterpiece that has influenced virtually every Western composer since its premiere, has become associated with the marking of momentous public occasions. In 1989, Chinese students played its...

December 11, 2003, Paper, $26.00

Bach: The Mass in B Minor

The Great Catholic Mass

George B. Stauffer

In this book George B. Stauffer explores the music and complex history of Bach’s last and possibly greatest masterpiece. Stauffer examines the B-Minor Mass in greater detail than ever before, demonstrating for the first time...

December 11, 2003, Paper, $34.00

The Presence of the Word

Some Prolegomena for Cultural and Religious History

Walter J. Ong

This provocative exploration of the nature and history of the word in some of its social, psychological, literary, phenomenological, and religious dimensions argues that the word is initially aural and in the last analysis...

September 10, 1967, Paper, $37.00

Intelligence of Apes and Other Rational Beings

Duane M. Rumbaugh and David A. Washburn

A new way to look at the mysteries of the animal mind What is animal intelligence? In what ways is it similar to human intelligence? Many behavioral scientists have realized that animals can be rational,...

August 11, 2003, Cloth, $66.00

Hermeneutics as Politics

Second Edition

Stanley Rosen; With a Foreword by Robert B. Pippin

Hermeneutics as Politics, perhaps the most important critique of post-modern thought ever written, is here reissued in a special fifteenth anniversary edition. In a new foreword, Robert B. Pippin argues that the book...

March 11, 2003, Paper, $26.00

Famous Americans

Loren Goodman; Foreword by W. S. Merwin

This year’s winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is Loren Goodman’s Famous Americans. Hilarious, eclectic, and bizarre, this collection takes the reader on a rollercoaster of a ride...

March 11, 2003, Paper, $16.00

The Yale Guide to Careers in Medicine and the Health Professions

Pathways to Medicine in the 21st Century

Edited by Robert Donaldson, Kathleen Lundgren, and Howard Spiro

Can I become a doctor? Should I? How can I find out? What is it like to be in medical school? What other careers in the health field might be right for me? What are the satisfactions and pitfalls of a career in medicine?...

April 10, 2003, Paper, $47.00

A Touch of the Poet and More Stately Mansions

Eugene O´Neill; Edited and introduced by Martha Gilman Bower

A Touch of the Poet and More Stately Mansions are regarded as two of Eugene O’Neill’s finest plays. Companion pieces, linked by characters and themes, they form part of a projected series of eleven...

February 9, 2004, Paper, $55.00

Jerry Herman

Poet of the Showtune

Stephen Citron

The first in-depth biography of the celebrated composer/lyricist who created Hello, Dolly!, Mame, and La Cage aux Folles This revealing and comprehensive book tells the full story of...

August 11, 2004, Cloth, $66.00

The Quiet Revolution

Central Banking Goes Modern

Alan S. Blinder; Foreword by Robert J. Shiller

Although little noticed, the face of central banking has changed significantly over the past ten to fifteen years, says the author of this enlightening book. Alan S. Blinder, a former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve...

March 11, 2004, Cloth, $65.00

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