Yale University Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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August WilsonYale UniversityHappy birthday to the playwright August Wilson, born #OTD in 1945. Wilson had a fruitful relationship with the Yale Rep throughout his career. Watch the cast of the 2016 production of "Seven Guitars" read his 1985 poem "Home," dedicated to the theater: https://t.co/jupC0gBqsK
Paperback, 2005
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Kingdom of Characters (Pulitzer Prize Finalist): The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
Jing TsuYale UniversityYale cultural historian and literary scholar Jing Tsu was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the general nonfiction category for her book “Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern.” #Yale https://t.co/p188CrSI0m
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Protecting the Ballot: How First-Wave Democracies Ended Electoral Corruption
Isabela MaresYale UniversityPolitical scientist Isabela Mares discusses her book, “Protecting the Ballot: How First-Wave Democracies Ended Electoral Corruption," which examines the incentives that led politicians to pass electoral reforms in first-wave democracies. #Yale https://t.co/EiidC7j6TD
Paperback, 2022
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos
Travis ZadehYale UniversityIn his new book, “Wonders and Rarities," Yale’s Travis Zadeh examines a seminal 13th-century work of natural history and cosmology. #Yale https://t.co/jgjwvbZaEc
Paperback, 2025
$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Earth: Its Birth and Growth
Minoru OzimaYale UniversityOver the next five years, Yale geophysicist Jun Korenaga will be part of a scientific project funded by @NASA to study the origin and early development of the Earth’s moon. #Yale https://t.co/B4BMFgcP23
Paperback, 2012
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Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice
Paul AnastasYale UniversityCongrats to Prof. Paul Anastas of @YaleEnvironment & @YaleSPH, who has won the 2021 Volvo Environment Prize, one of the world’s most respected environmental prizes. Anastas is known as the “father of green chemistry.” https://t.co/cqFT63mrpC https://t.co/3BSDwOGcrU
Paperback, 2000
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China: The Race to Market: What China's Transformation Means for Business, Markets and the New World Order
Jonathan StoryYale UniversityJonathan Spence “approached China as if writing a detective story, deciphering for Western readers one of the world’s largest, most populous and complex countries” via @washingtonpost https://t.co/Dvx18NEPrO
Paperback, 2003
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Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years
Joy HarjoYale UniversityJoy Harjo has been named the winner of Yale’s 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry for her book "Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years." More about @JoyHarjo's contributions to poetry: https://t.co/pbfG9GwQyi @yalelibrary @BeineckeLibrary #Yale https://t.co/Go21GiRzFn
Hardcover, 2022
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Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most
Miroslav VolfYale UniversityIn the breakout best-seller “Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most,” three Yale scholars of religion and philosophy wrestle with life’s big questions. Read more from @YaleDivSchool here: https://t.co/KPHsQLwO9r #Yale https://t.co/2UibLgUpKM
Paperback, 2025
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and MR Hyde: And Other Tales of Terror
Robert Louis StevensonYale University#OTD 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson published "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." @BeineckeLibrary’s Edwin J. Beinecke Collection of Stevenson is the world's largest such collection and includes this early draft manuscript fraction: https://t.co/N1d124AHe0 #Yale https://t.co/DtUX1vHANt
Paperback, 2003
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