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The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Economy America—and much of the developed world—may see itself as “a place in pain,” writes innovation economist Auerswald, but he suggests looking beyond today to “the epochal promise of prosperity that is evident on the horizon.” The book describes entrepreneurial superstars around the planet and the “pathways of action” they are forging to transform economic opportunities.
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures Rereleased for its 15th anniversary, this award-winning book explored the “communication and miscommunication” that took place when a family of Laotian immigrants settled in central California in the 1980s and collided with the American medical system. Required reading at many medical schools, Fadiman’s eloquent lesson in the need for cross-cultural understanding now includes a lengthy afterword with updates on the main players.
American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation “Trees have been so integral to American history that it becomes easy to overlook them,” notes Rutkow, an environmental lawyer and historian. In this examination of how the country’s forests have shaped its development, he looks at the role trees have played in providing lumber, fuel, wood pulp, food, and a way to combat global warming, as well as a timeless “sanctuary for the spirit.”
Cheese for Dummies If you’ve ever been tempted to go beyond Velveeta but were intimidated by the choices at the local fromagerie, these expert cooks and cheesemongers have put together the perfect guide. The book offers a lively introduction to cheeses from around the world, as well as serving tips, recipes, cheese lore, and trivia—such as how to make cheese from the milk of horses, yaks, Balkan donkeys, and moose.
EndBeginning “Sadness has besieged me,” sings this a cappella quartet on its latest CD. But listeners are more likely to experience rhapsody. The quartet performs seven works, most of them composed in the early 1500s, with an intense, pure, yet sonorous sound and a delivery that manages to be both ethereal and profoundly stirring. (The group’s new tenor, not heard on this CD, is Yale grad Steven Caldicott Wilson ’07MusM.)
The Isle of Khería: A Novel “A man, naked in the rising wind, hurls himself into the sea,” writes Cabot in the opening chapter of a lyrical novel about the complicated 40-year friendship between Aidan Allard and Joel Brewster. Aidan, the swimmer, inexplicably drowns. On hearing the news, Joel, a recent widower, feels compelled to leave his quiet farm in Canada and travel to Greece—where this “friend of a saddest past” had been living—to determine whether the death was an accident or a suicide.
More Yale-related works Akhil Reed Amar ’80, ’84JD Kenneth J. Barish ’72 Willis Barnstone ’60PhD (translator) Wycliffe Bennett ’66 and Hazel Bennett David Bergman ’78 P. Sean Brotherton, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Stephen L. Carter ’79JD, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law John Delany ’80PhD Eric Jay Dolin ’88MEM Gerald Elias ’75, ’75MusM Samuel A. Foreman ’95MBA Robert W. Goldsby ’53MFA Stuart P. Green ’88JD Alex Harris ’71 and Edward O. Wilson Jonathan D. Heavey ’11MBA Peter Kaufman ’50 Robert Klitzman ’85 Megan E. O’Neil ’94, ’05PhD Richard Peace ’60E Todd L. Pittinsky ’92 and Roderick M. Kramer (editors) Richard Rhodes ’59 Elihu Rubin ’99 Randolph B. Schiffer ’69 and David L. Nelson Esther Schor ’78, ’85PhD Fred R. Shapiro, Yale Law Librarian; Wolfgang Mieder; and Charles Clay Doyle Steven B. Smith ’90MAH, Associate Master of Branford College (editor) James Gustave Speth ’64, ’69LLB Roger D. Stone ’55 Kim Todd ’92 Harlow G. Unger ’53 Elizabeth E. Wein ’86 Henry Wiencek ’74
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