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Strange New Worlds: The Search for Alien Planets and Life Beyond Our Solar System About a thousand years ago, Chinese scholar Teng Mu described as “unreasonable” the notion that “there are no other skies and no other earths” in all the cosmos. Astronomers have vindicated Mu, recently discovering a plethora of other planets. In this readable account, astrophysicist Jayawardhana shows how researchers have used the “physics of light and gravity” to find the signatures of “strange new worlds.”
The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory, and Why Outsiders Thrive after High School High school can be hell, particularly for “the cafeteria fringe,” as Robbins dubs the kids who are not members of the in-crowd. Her book follows a year in the lives of seven students, typifying various points on the social spectrum. Through these profiles, and interviews with hundreds of others from students to psychologists, she explores the “cause and consequence of the gut-wrenching social landscape.” Her conclusion: after graduation, the last often become first.
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris In the 1830s, a remarkable group of Americans, including painter Samuel Morse ’10, medical student Oliver Wendell Holmes, and educator Emma Willard, headed across the Atlantic for the City of Light. “They were ambitious to excel in work that mattered greatly to them, and they saw time in Paris, the experience of Paris, as essential to achieving that dream,” writes McCullough, who follows these and other nineteenth-century intellectual sojourners. “They were to … bring back more, of infinite value to themselves and to their country, than they yet knew.” Morse, for example, returned with the idea for the telegraph.
The Greatest Game Ever Pitched: Juan Marichal, Warren Spahn, and the Pitching Duel of the Century “Hitting is timing,” said legendary pitcher Warren Spahn. “Pitching is upsetting timing.” On July 2, 1963, Spahn, then 42, faced off against a 25-year-old fireballer named Juan Marichal. Over the course of 16 innings, the two pitchers kept hitters completely off stride, throwing scoreless ball. Sportswriter Kaplan tells the stories of the two Hall of Famers and their duel, which he calls “the best-pitched game in baseball history.”
The Anti-Romantic Child: A Story of Unexpected Joy For the Romantic poet William Wordsworth, childhood was a time when “the earth, and every common sight … did seem apparelled in celestial light.” When Wordsworth scholar Gilman had her first child, she looked forward to witnessing that period of delight in ordinary things. But there was something far from ordinary about Benj. Intellectually precocious but socially impaired, he responded to life in ways she couldn’t relate to. This moving memoir traces Gilman’s journey to appreciation and, eventually, joy.
Habeas Corpus After 9/11: Confronting America’s New Global Detention System The U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay was merely “an island in an archipelago … of a larger prison system designed to operate outside the law,” writes Hafetz. Prisons including Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan and secret CIA jails throughout the world were part of a system developed after September 11 by the Bush administration in which “prisoners could be held indefinitely … without charge and without a meaningful hearing.” Hafetz shows how lawyers challenged it.
More books by Yale authors Stuart A. Banner '85 Cathleen Blood '87 and Kim Todd '92 and Samantha Parent Walravens, Harold Bloom '56PhD Sterling Professor of Humanities Martin Boykan '53Musm Joseph Braude '96 Debra R. Comer '86PhD and Gina Vega Kenneth M. Davidson '67 LLM Victor E. Ferrall, Jr. '58, '60LLB Mike F. Foster '58 Howard S. Friedman '72 and Leslie R. Martin '44 Andrew Gerle '94 Julie Hubbert '96PhD Selby C. Jacobs '61, '72MPH John Jagger '54PhD Paul W.Kahn '77PhD, '80JD Gray Kochhar-Lindgren'82 and Bent SØrensen Charles Landesman '59PhD Ernest Lockridge '61, '64Phd Mary S.Mazzacane '47MusB James Mellon '64 Hannah Nordhaus '90 Juliana Ochs '02 Robert Dale Parker '80PhD Stephen Partridge '81 and Leonard Cassuto Daniel D. Perlmutter '56 and Robert L. Rothstein William F. Quillian '43PhD Ron Rosenbaum '68 Elizabeth N. Saunders '07PhD Robert J. Shiller '82MAH and Randall S. Kroszner, Professor of Economics Sharon J. Smith - attending Margaret Smith '91 Paul E. Stepansky '78 and David W. Stepansky Jomo Kwame Sundaram '73 Bryant F. Tolles, Jr '62 Amor Towles '87 Celia Scher Wagner '77 Keith Wailoo '84 Lawrence Warner '91 Nicholas Fox Weber '72 Jonathan Weinberg '78 and Barbara Buhler Lynes Jennifer B. Wriggins '80 and Martha Chamallas
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