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The Future of the Internet—and How
to Stop It Apple CEO Steve Jobs has launched two revolutionary products, one 30 years after the other. The Apple II computer exemplified what Oxford Internet scholar Jonathan Zittrain calls the generative era—“it invited people to play with it.” The iPhone represents the opposite end of the technological spectrum: it is “sterile” and “preprogrammed.” Zittrain argues that the Internet is on the same trajectory and explores strategies that will preserve innovation while addressing security and privacy concerns.
The Stork’s Nest: Life and Love in
the Russian Countryside In 1997, Williams, a Denverite who had lived in Moscow for several years heading the World Wildlife Fund’s first office in Russia, took on an even tougher assignment. At the suggestion of naturalist and nature photographer Igor Shpilenok, she headed to the remote Bryansk Forest, where she and Igor, who eventually became her husband, directed a nature reserve. (She took a year off for her Yale degree.) This charming love story is rich with the rhythms of the Russian wilderness, the people who live there, and the challenges of preserving the natural world.
The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy
and 82 Days That Inspired America “In 1968, America was a wounded nation,” writes Clarke in this poignant and revealing book. That March, Bobby Kennedy, though still haunted by his brother’s assassination, took up the challenge of healing the wounds inflicted by Vietnam and racial conflict. Clarke chronicles the twists and turns of a remarkable campaign—the story of the gutsy speech Kennedy delivered in Indianapolis to announce the assassination of Martin Luther King is particularly well told—from start to tragic finish.
Note by Note: A Celebration of the
Piano Lesson< “Even now, in a time when very little current popular music involves an actual person playing an actual piano—even now, parents want their children to have piano lessons,” writes Tunstall, a lifelong teacher and performer. Indeed, even children, for all the inevitable complaining, want them. In a memoir that draws on the learning curve of a teacher and her students, including “Three Blind Mice,” “Fool on the Hill,” and, of course, “Fur Elise,” Tunstall shows why this “arcane ritual" endures.
Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists,
Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children’s Literature American publishers have been producing books for children for at least the last three centuries, and over that time span, parents and preachers, critics and teachers have debated what constitutes appropriate reading material for kids. Marcus, a literary historian, traces the development of the genre from the “first children’s book of American origin”—the late-seventeenth-century New England Primer, which was designed to “[teach] young people their letters and [set] them on the path to the good Christian life”—to the Harry Potter series.
Can’t Remember What I Forgot: The
Good News from the Front Lines of Memory Research Uncertainty about whether her father had Alzheimer’s disease when he died—and fears that she might follow the same path—compelled Halpern to meet with memory researchers trying to understand and possibly prevent age-related memory decline. The result is a fascinating, often hopeful journey that highlights cutting-edge science and pharmacology and exposes memory “boosters” who might be high-tech snake-oil salesmen.
More Books by Yale Authors Charles Atkins, Lecturer in Psychiatry at the School of Medicine Josh Barkan 1991 Boris Berman, Professor of
Piano, School of Music Richard Bradley 1986 Louis Daniel Brodsky 1963 Richard Brookhiser 1977 Robert A. Burton 1962 Susan G. Clark, the Joseph
F. Cullman III Adjunct Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Policy Studies, Yale
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies William Sloane Coffin 1949,
1956BD Matthew Connelly 1998PhD Elisha Cooper 1993 Frances F. Dunwell 1984MEM Don Elliott 1979 Nicole Eustace 1994 Jack Fuller 1973JD William M. Gould 1958MD Nortin M. Hadler 1964 Debra W. Haffner 1979MPH Philip B. Heymann 1954 Mandi Isaacs Jackson
2007PhD Jim Kaplan 1966 and Bill
Chuck Ruth Mazo Karras 1979, 1985PhD; E. Ann Matter 1976PhD; and Joel Kaye, editors Robert E. Kravetz, editor Jeffrey Lewis 1966 Stuart W. Little 1944 Leonard S. Marcus 1972 Richard Meyer 1988 and
Anthony W. Lee Dana Milbank 1990 John Warne Monroe 2002PhD Walter N. Morrisson 1950 Mario L. Mozzillo 1960JD Julius Novick 1966DFA Sherwin B. Nuland 1955MD Ed Park 1992 David S. Patterson 1959 Nathaniel Rich 2002 Sarah Ruden, Visiting
Scholar, Divinity School, Translator J. Kevin Sheehan 1983 Stephen Skowronek, the
Pelatiah Perit Professor of Political and Social Science Joseph C. Smith Jr. 1988
and Tara Ross James Gustave Speth 1964,
1969LLB, Dean, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Carll Tucker 1973 Gregg Vanourek 2000MBA and
Christopher Gergen Elliot Weinbaum 1994 and
Jonathan A. Supovitz, editors Mina Yang 2001PhD Carl Zimmer 1987 Rachel Zucker 1994 and
Arielle Greenbert, editors
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