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Eels: An Exploration, from New Zealand to the Sargasso, of the World’s Most Mysterious Fish “The eel is not an easy fish to like,” admits Prosek, a naturalist, whose paintings of trout have been compared to the work of John James Audubon. But when Prosek began investigating eels, he got a “good feeling” about them. It intensified as he met biologists, eccentric anglers, Maori elders, and others who hold the eel in high esteem. Prosek’s around-the-world travelogue chronicles his infectious fascination.
Badasses: The Legend of Snake, Foo, Dr. Death, and John Madden’s Oakland Raiders “We have a criminal section in every aspect of society, and apparently we have one in the NFL,” said Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Chuck Noll after a particularly vicious battle against the menacing men in black and silver—the Oakland Raiders of the 1970s. In an entertaining football biography, Richmond takes us inside the Badass family: a hard-partying, sometimes gun-toting, tight-knit collective of “castoffs, psychos, and geniuses,” who “played the game with a delicious violence and edge” all the way to a Super Bowl victory in 1977.
The Widower’s Tale When Percy Darling, the long-widowed protagonist of Julia Glass’s fourth novel, agrees to have his barn transformed into a progressive preschool, many changes will follow. Percy, for starters, will need a bathing suit—no more swimming nude in his pond. “I’m glad you’re headed back to the water,” said a saleswoman who helped him select one. The water, in this moving tale of family, late-life love, and even ecoterrorism, is about to get very choppy.
The Twilight of the Bombs: Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons “When the ice broke on the river of history in the final years of the Cold War, the world had lived with nuclear weapons for almost half a century,” writes Rhodes. In the last book of his sweeping four-volume history of atomic weaponry, Rhodes picks up the narrative after the collapse of the Soviet Union and follows it through Iraq, Iran, North Korea, and the other nuclear states, including our own country, as diplomats attempt the elusive task of nuclear disarmament.
Wild West 2.0: How to Protect and Restore Your Online Reputation on the Untamed Social Frontier “Imagine a place where anonymous vandals can spray repugnant graffiti about you or your business without any consequence,” write Fertik and Thompson. Welcome to the Internet. In a book useful to anyone with an online presence, from a Facebooker to a major corporation, the authors, executives in a company called ReputationDefender, offer advice on understanding digital threats, defending against them, and recovering from online damage.
The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother’s Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times According to the celibate, communitarian religious sect known as the Shakers, it was a “gift to be simple.” But when James Chapman left his wife Eunice, kidnapped his children, and joined the group in 1814, the eventual outcome was complicated. “Eunice was a fighter,” writes Woo. Her ensuing battle to reclaim her children helped advance public opinion about women’s rights.
More books by Yale authors
Elizabeth Alexander ’84, Professor of African American Studies, American Studies & English Janet Alling ’64MFA Barbara R. Almond ’63MD Rebecca R. Antoine ’99, editor Arved Ashby ’89MPhil, ’95PhD Edward B. Barbier ’79 William B. Bradshaw ’58Div Mark Chussil ’75 Harold M. Cobb ’43E Paula Marantz Cohen ’75 Richard Conniff ’73 Jonathan A Cook ’04MES and Owen Cylke ’60, ’63LLB, editors Peter D’Epiro ’81PhD Judith Dupré ’08MDiv John A. Elefteriades ’72, ’76MD, Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Yale School of Medicine Margot E. Fassler, Robert Tangeman Professor of Music History and Liturgy, Yale Divinity School Carter Vaughn Findley ’63 Nadine A. George-Graves ’93 Howard Gillette Jr. ’64, ’70 PhD Gary W. Hart ’61Div, ’64LLB Grandpa Hartley ’66PhD Jody Heymann ’81 Charles Hill, Senior Lecturer, International Studies Jeffrey S. Irish ’82, translator, and Tsuneichi Miyamoto Kate Kaynak ’93 Peter Krentz ’75, ’79PhD John K. Lee ’39 J. E. Lendon ’86, ’91PhD Joanna Levin ’90 Candace Lindemann ’98, Edna Davis Giffen, and Mindy Kronenberg David Madden ’61DRA Ken McAdams ’58 Eric Metaxas ’84 Patricia J. Moore-Pastides ’79MPH Eric Naiman ’82JD William Peace ’60 Catherine Price ’01 Hugh Raffles ’99DFES Aziz Rana ’06JD Karin Roffman ’04PhD Neil Rolde ’53 Matthew A. Roman ’09March and Tal Schori ’10MArch, editors Virginia Scharff ’74 and Carolyn Brucken Virginia Scharff ’74 Barnet Schecter ’85 Robert Scholes ’50 and Clifford Wulfman ’82, ’99PhD Charles Seife ’95MS Robert J. Sternberg ’72 Harlow Giles Unger ’53 Jennifer Vanderbes ’96 Cynthia Wachtell ’90, ’90MA Paul F. Wainwright ’74MPhil, ’77PhD Donald H. Werner ’55, editor Joan C. Williams ’74
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