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In Print

The Subprime Solution: How Today’s Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do about It
Robert J. Shiller, the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics
Princeton University Press, $16.95

Well known for predicting the bursting of the stock market and housing bubbles, economist Shiller provides a concise analysis of how we got into the subprime mortgage mess. He offers a set of “commonsense short-run fixes and deeper long-term improvements” to remedy the situation.

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The Woman’s Heart: An Owner’s Guide
John A. Elefteriades '72, '76MD, the William W. L. Glenn Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Yale School of Medicine; and Teresa Caulin-Glaser
Prometheus Books, $19.95

Heart disease is the number-one killer of women in this country. The authors, both skilled cardiologists, offer a comprehensive, readable, and potentially life-saving owner’s manual.

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Holding Bishops Accountable: How Lawsuits Helped the Catholic Church Confront Clergy Sexual Abuse
Timothy D. Lytton '87, '91JD
Harvard University Press, $35

Albany Law School professor Lytton shows how litigation has helped the victims of clergy sexual abuse, and led to “institutional reforms that make it less likely that the Catholic Church”—and other organizations charged with caring for children—“will ever again facilitate or conceal the crimes of serial pedophiles.”

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House of Wits: An Intimate Portrait of the James Family
Paul Fisher '93PhD
Henry Holt, $35

Novelist Henry, psychologist and philosopher William, and feminist Alice were three of the most famous members of an American dynasty that, writes historian Fisher, was “somewhere between the Alcotts and the Royal Tenenbaums.” He tells the family’s remarkable—and “curiously contemporary”—story.

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More Books by Yale Authors

Sahar Amer 1994PhD
Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures
University of Pennsylvania Press, $55

Jonathan Barnett 1958, 1963MArch; F. Kaid Benfield; Armando Carbonell; Paul Farmer; Shelley Poticha; and Robert Yaro
Smart Growth in a Changing World
American Planning Association Planners Press, $37.95

Nicholas Basbanes
A World of Letters: Yale University Press, 1908–2008
Yale University Press, $26

Steven G. Calabresi 1980, 1983JD, and Christopher S. Yoo
The Unitary Executive: Presidential Power from Washington to Bush
Yale University Press, $60

Jack Child 1960BE
Miniature Messages: The Semiotics and Politics of Latin American Postage Stamps
Duke University Press, $23.95

Mark I. Choate 1994, 2002PhD
Emigrant Nation: The Making of Italy Abroad
Harvard University Press, $45

Natalie Danford 1988, Mary Gaitskill, and John Kulka, editors
Best New American Voices 2009: Fresh Fiction from the Top Writing Programs
Harvest Books/Harcourt, $14

John A. Elefteriades 1972, 1976MD, the William W.L. Glenn Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Yale School of Medicine; and Teresa Caulin-Glaser
The Woman’s Heart: An Owner’s Guide
Prometheus Books, $19.95

Charles D. Ellis 1959
The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs
Penguin Press, $37.50

Stanley Fish 1962PhD
Save the World on Your Own Time
Oxford University Press, $19.95

John Allen Franciscus 1954
The Last Frontier: Puerto Rico and the Caribbean
John Allen Franciscus Publishers, $26.95

Dawn Fulton 1991
Signs of Dissent: Maryse Conde and Postcolonial Criticism
University of Virginia Press, $20

Denise Gigante 1987, editor
The Great Age of the English Essay: An Anthology
Yale University Press, $26

Clifford P. Hackett 1953MA
A Jean Monnet Chronology: Origins of the European Union in the Life of a Founder, 1888-1950
Jean Monnet Council, $39.95

Harry W. Havemeyer 1952
Remembering Murray Murdoch: Yale Hockey 1948-52
Yale Hockey Association, $14.95

Sandy Isenstadt, Assistant Professor of Modern Architecture, and Kishwar Rizvi, editors
Modernism and the Middle East: Architecture and Politics in the Twentieth Century
University of Washington Press, $80

Daphne Lamothe 1990
Inventing the New Negro: Narrative, Culture, and Ethnography
University of Pennsylvania Press, $55

Franklin Levy 1968
Die, Decorator, Die
Phoenix Books, $23.95

Max Page 1988
The City’s End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York’s Destruction
Yale University Press, $37.50

M. William Phelps
Nathan Hale [Class of 1773]: the Life and Death of America’s First Spy
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, $28.95

Mary Hutchings Reed 1976JD
Courting Kathleen Hannigan
Ampersand, $19.95

Diana Selig 1988
Americans All: The Cultural Gifts Movement
Harvard University Press, $49.95

Gerald A. Starr 1972MPH
Penny the One-Eyed Puppy
Vantage Press, $7.95

Steven Stoll 1994PhD
The Great Delusion: A Mad Inventor, Death in the Tropics, and the Utopian Origins of Economic Growth
Hill and Wang/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux,  $24

Joan Wickersham 1978
The Suicide Index: Putting My Father’s Death in Order
Harcourt, $25

Jonathan Reed Winkler 2004PhD
Nexus: Strategic Communications and American Security in World War I
Harvard University Press, $55

Donald Worster 1971PhD
A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir
Oxford University Press, $34.95

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