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Rethinking Aging: Growing Old and Living Well in an Overtreated Society Most of us in this country and the rest of the developed world can expect to live into our 80s. But, warns Hadler, a physician and professor at the University of North Carolina, “aging, dying, and death” have become “targets for the most egregious marketing, disease mongering, medicalization, and overtreatment.” He provides common-sense counsel to help readers avoid “the medicalizing of everyday ailments” and achieve “graceful and successful aging.”
Why Niebuhr Matters Once one of this country’s most prominent public intellectuals, Protestant minister and teacher Reinhold Niebuhr ’14BDiv, ’15MA, is best known today as the most likely author of the Serenity Prayer. But Niebuhr’s powerful views, long in obscurity, are enjoying a renaissance in our time, writes Lemert, a social theorist. As a theologian and activist, Niebuhr lived by his principles, yet exemplified “a political realism that sacrifices neither ideals to mere pragmatism nor politics to bitterness and greed.”
Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy Dilemma While exploring the Beinecke Library’s collection of Gertrude Stein’s papers, Dartmouth English professor Will found something unexpected: “a few yellowing manuscript notebooks” containing Stein’s English translations of the speeches of Philippe Pétain, head of the World War II Vichy regime that collaborated with Hitler in Nazi-occupied France. Why and how did Stein, “the least likely person to write propaganda in support of an authoritarian regime,” decide to make Pétain’s speeches available to Americans? Will gives a fascinating account.
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World In the developed world, annual oil consumption averages 14 barrels per person; in the developing world, the current average is 3 barrels. “How will the world cope when billions of people go from 3 barrels to 6 barrels per person?” asks Yergin. The energy expert addresses where the oil and other forms of energy will come from, and how meeting the energy needs of so many additional consumers can be accomplished without triggering political and environmental catastrophe.
North South East West A past winner of a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant, known for his innovations and skill in printing, Benson is a master photographer. This first monograph of his work showcases 104 landscapes taken during six years of cross-country travels. Some are views of nature; some capture outposts of human culture dwarfed by spans of western land and sky; all demonstrate what Benson calls the “magical act” of creating an image.
Confessions of a Tarot Reader: Practical Advice from This Realm and Beyond In addition to her careers as a celebrated food writer and an EMT, Stern has long moonlighted as a Tarot card reader. In this entertaining examination of each of the 22 cards in the Major Arcana—the “heavy hitters” in the Tarot deck—Stern discusses what she and her clients have learned from the centuries-old mystical practice. Her reading: Tarot can be a kind of do-it-yourself psychoanalysis in which participants “gain insight.”
More Books by Yale Authors Chris Angermann ’73, ’83MFA T. G. Berlincourt ’50, ’53Phd Steven Bilakovics, Postdoctoral Fellow Rodger C. Birt ’85PhD and Marvin R. Nathan Jean-Vincent Blanchard ’96, ’97PhD David W. Blight, Class of 1954 Professor of American History Eva Brann ’56Phd Richard Brookhiser ’77 Andres Duany ’74MArch and Duany Plater–Zyberk & Company Charles Duhigg ’97 James G. Dwyer ’87JD Anne E. Egger ’95 and Anthony Carpi Denise Gigante ’87 Jennifer M. Granholm and Dan Mulhern ’80 Pamela Haag ’95PhD Nortin M. Hadler ’64 Jonathan Lear ’70 Kathryn A. McDermott ’91, ’97PhD Jamie McKenzie ’67 David Mikics ’88PhD William Ian Miller ’80 Timothy Murphy ’72 Miroslav Nincic ’74, ’77PhD William Peace ’60 George S. Pillsbury ’43 and Lori Sturdevant Corey Robin ’92MA, ’99PhD Barry A. Sanders ’70LLB William Steiger ’89MFA and Richard Vine Jane Stern ’71MFA Edmund Stump ’72 Calvin Trillin ’57 Amy Waldman ’91 Garry Wills ’59MA, ’61PhD Kerry Michael Wood ’59
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