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Books by Yale authors The Kazdin Method for Parenting the Defiant Child In 2005, the Yale Alumni Magazine asked Carlo Rotella, an award-winning freelance writer, to produce a feature about the parenting techniques of Alan Kazdin, a leading child psychologist. The resulting September/October cover story, "Breaking the Tantrum Cycle," was extremely popular among Yalies with children. And Rotella and Kazdin hit it off. Now they have co-written a book that presents, in much greater detail, "a method for changing your child's behavior that is based on good science." "Parenting is a craft," says Kazdin. This simple and eloquent owner's manual will help any parent do a better job.
Sedaris "Why do we love Sedaris?" asks Kopelson, a professor of English. In his examination of the comic essayist (which happily includes plenty of extended quotations), Kopelson likens David Sedaris to Marcel Proust - but a contemporary Proust, with the gift of brevity and the prose and timing to make a tour de force out of a subject like his ill-fated job as a Christmas elf.
American Angels: Useful Spirits in the Material World In the Bible, angels were awesome creatures with the power to lay waste to whole cities. In the modern United States, God's messengers have been reduced to "mere helpers in ordinary life" - think Clarence in It's A Wonderful Life. Gardella, a scholar of world religions, traces our cultural reshaping of angels and describes how, in America, angels "have retained one consistent characteristic: they have been useful."
Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes from and Why We Need to Get It Back On August 15, 1790, Martha Ballard, a Maine housewife, prepared a meal of "bakt lamb with string beens and cucumbers" for her family. "Everyone at the table knew exactly where the foods came from," writes environmental historian Vileisis. But we long ago "denatured" our senses and lost this knowledge. Vileisis explains how the gap developed, how our ignorance can affect the natural world and human health, and how we can change.
Modernism: The Lure of Heresy - from Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond "Astonish me!" So said ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilev to his choreographers, and that command, like Ezra Pound's dictum "Make it new!" summed up the heart and soul of modernism, the cultural movement that began in the nineteenth century as a revolt against the conventions of art, literature, drama, music, dance, and architecture. Gay offers a guided tour of modernism and its luminaries: Mondrian, Picasso, Proust, Woolf, Eliot, Stravinsky, and Wright, to name a few.
David Plowden: Vanishing Point - Fifty Years of Photography For the last half-century, Plowden has been crisscrossing America on a mission to take black-and-white pictures of what's about to disappear: steam trains, iron bridges, and the rural way of life. The images are reproduced exquisitely in this coffee-table retrospective of the photographer's career. Plowden offers insights into the American character: "what has been lost and maybe what kind of world we are creating."
More books by Yale authors Saleem Ali 1996MES, Editor Carrie Baker 1987 Robert Bruner 1971 and Sean D. Carr Ciaran Buckley 1992 and Chris Ward Stephen Budiansky 1978BS James Campbell 1984 James T. Campbell 1980, Matthew Pratt Guterl, and Robert G. Lee, Editors Muhammad Cohen 1978 Tom Dolby 1998 Francis Dunn 1976, 1985PhD Richard Friedlander 1963, 1967JD Becky Garrison 1992MDiv Becky Garrison 1992MDiv Liesl Geiger 1990, 1994MArch Nina Hachigian 1989 and Mona Sutphen Joel Hafvenstein 1998 Benjamin Harshav, the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature Karey Harwood 1992 Jane Kamensky 1985, 1993PhD Ellen Ernst Kossek 1987PhD and Brenda A. Lautsch Christopher Krentz 1989 James L. Kugel 1967 Bruce B. Lawrence 1972PhD and Aisha Karim, Editors Shannon Sanders McDonald 1992MArch Eric L. Muller 1987JD Steven Nelson 1985 Reverend Peter B. Panagore 1986MDiv Zibby Right 1998, Paige Adams-Geller, and Ashley Borden Christopher Rivers 1989PhD, Editor and Translator Kermit Roosevelt III 1997JD Andrew Steffen 2008MBA, 2008MArch, and Nina Rappaport, Editors Michael G. Sundell 1962PhD Jaime Teevan 1998BS and William Jones Caroline Weber 1998PhD James Q. Whitman, the Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law Reed Whittemore 1941 Richard Dien Winfield 1972, 1977PhD Joseph L. Woolston, MD, 1970, the Albert J. Solnit Professor of Child Psychiatry and Pediatrics; Jean A. Adnopoz 1981MPH, Associate Clinical Professor, Child Study Center; and Steven J. Berkowitz, MD, Assistant Professor, Child Study Center Deborah Yaffe 1987 Ruth Bernard Yeazell 1971PhD, the Chace Family Professor of English E. Kinney Zalesne 1987 and Mark Penn
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