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Lip Service: Smiles in Life, Death, Trust, Lies, Work, Memory, Sex, and Politics “Brides do it; teasers do it; even educated geezers do it,” notes LaFrance. They smile, and in this wide-ranging work, the experimental social psychologist explores the “science of smiles,” including those practiced by infants before birth—it’s not gas—and the grins now being carefully integrated into robot faces. LaFrance gives us an entertaining examination of why smiles are “social acts with consequences.”
American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era Fifty years ago, when this country marked the centennial of the Civil War, “the national temper and mythology still preferred a story of the mutual valor of the Blue and Gray” as the conflict’s defining narrative. For the sesquicentennial, historian Blight mines the work of four notable writers of the Civil Rights period—Yale professor Robert Penn Warren, historian Bruce Catton, literary critic Edmund Wilson, and essayist James Baldwin—to show how their insights into the central role of slavery and emancipation helped reshape thinking about the war.
Why Jane Austen? As anyone with an eye on popular culture may have noticed, “Jane-O-Mania”—the veneration of all things Austen—has taken hold of the book and movie world with a vengeance. But too often lost, says Austen expert Brownstein, is what makes Jane “a great writer, delightful to read.” In a combination of memoir, cultural analysis, and literary criticism, Brownstein details the perennial appeals and the overlooked depths of an author who “writes fiction, but she doesn’t lie.”
Journey of the Universe “The great discovery of contemporary science is that the universe is not simply a place, but a story,” and Tucker and Swimme offer a provocative reading of this nearly 14-billion-year-old epic. They combine insights from cosmology, evolution, and the humanistic traditions into a hopeful narrative that sees in the current “vast destruction”—which is hardly the first—the seed of a “moment of profound creativity” and renewal.
The Magician King The magician heroes of Grossman’s last bestseller are back, with four spell-weavers now installed as kings and queens of Fillory, the storybook-kingdom-made-real that they rescued from evil in the first installment. “Everything was easy. Nothing was hard,” says the narrator. But after a couple of years of the good life, protagonist Quentin Coldwater is bored. “Maybe a change would do us good,” he suggests. There’s a quest in the wind, of course—one that will do good by readers of this page-turning fantasy for adults.
What It Is Like to Go to War “The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn’t teach me how to deal with killing,” writes Marlantes, who served in the highland jungle of Vietnam as a young lieutenant. Marlantes weaves gut-wrenching accounts of his military service and the story of his subsequent decades of self-examination—including a search through various religions and reading of classic writers from Homer to Jung—into a powerful guidebook for warriors struggling with the spiritual aftermath of combat.
More Books by Yale Authors Jack M. Balkin ’94MAH, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment Thomas F. Banchoff ’86 Willis Barnstone ’60PhD Richard Brookhiser ’77 Katerina Clark ’71PhD, Professor of Comparative Literature and of Slavic Languages and Literatures John R. Cooper ’57, ’62PhD Eric Drott ’01PhD Charles Eisenstein ’89 Gerald Elias ’75, ’75MusM Cara Eliot ’73, ’74MFA Richard A. Epstein ’68LLB Holly Finn ’90 Samuel Fleischacker ’82, ’89PhD Denise Gigante ’87 David D. Hall ’60, ’64PhD Emil Henry ’51 Stephanie H. Jed ’76, ’82PhD Jill Kargman ’95, Sadie Kargman, and Christine Davenier Angela Barron McBride ’64MSN Edie Meidav ’88 William Ian Miller ’72, ’75PhD, ’80JD Ann Morning ’90 Dan Mulhern ’80 and Jennifer M. Granholm Roger J. Porter ’59, ’67PhD Jesse Rhines ’83 Robert Riche ’47 Dorothy Roberts ’77 Patricia Meyer Spacks ’50 Chandler Tedholm ’73 Philip Thibodeau ’93 Harlow Giles Unger ’53 Scott Wallace ’77 Ivy G. Wilson ’98, ’99MPhil Stacy Ellen Wolf ’83 Charles Young ’53
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