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A Mingled Yarn
Chronicle of a Troubled Family
“The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.” –All’s Well That Ends Well Here is a vivid account of the climate of emotions that can—and in this case did—cause severe...
Arab Politics
The Search for Legitimacy
The first systematic comparative analysis of political behavior throughout the entire Arab world, from Morocco to Kuwait. In an attempt to explain why the Arab world remains in ferment, Hudson discusses such crucial factors...
Models of Thought
Volume I
Nobel Laureate Herbert A. Simon has in the past quarter century been in the front line of the information-processing revolution; in fact, to a remarkable extent his and his colleagues’ contributions have written the history...
The Reformation in the Cities
The Appeal of Protestantism to Sixteenth-Century Germany and Switzerland
“A bold synthesis of intellectual and social history which explains the appeal of Protestantism to the German and Swiss cities, the media of its communication, and the means of its establishment.”—Religious Studies Review
One Way to Reconstruct the Scene
Richard Hugo has selected William Virgil Davis's One Way to Reconstruct the Scene as the 1979 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. In his foreword to the volume Hugo says: ...
Ledgers and Prices
Early Mesopotamian Merchant Accounts
Trade and economic life of the Ur III period (2112-2004 B.C.E.) is here revealed through a study of documents in cuneiform, the remains of a complex Mesopotamian bureaucracy that meticulously recorded many of its activities.
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More
Volume 3, Part II, Latin Poems
Congress and the Bureaucracy
A Theory of Influence
“[An] excellent book …Arnold seeks to examine the interactions between members of the House of Representatives and members of the upper bureaucracy in respect to the geographical allocation of federal expenditures….The...
Flaubert and Kafka
Studies in Psychopoetic Structure
Although their styles appear remarkably different, Flaubert and Kafka share a common identification with the writing process itself. “I am a human pen,” wrote Flaubert; “I am nothing but literature,” declared Kafka. This...
Clean Coal/Dirty Air
or How the Clean Air Act Became a Multibillion-Dollar Bail-Out for High-Sulfur Coal Producers
A pioneering study of dynamics of politics and technocracy that generated mistaken policies that still haunt environmental law today.