yale autumn & winter 2008 YALE CELEBRATES 100 YEARS OF PUBLISHING A World of Letters Yale University Press, 1908–2008 Nicholas A. Basbanes Yale University Press celebrates its hundredth birthday in autumn 2008 and to mark this anniversary publishes A World of Letters. The Press has published over 8,000 volumes during the years, including many bestsellers and prize-winners, in- volving a host of colourful authors, editors, sales and marketing teams, directors, board members and others. In this highly engaging volume Nicholas Basbanes, one of the most accomplished writers on books and letters, presents a revealing chronicle of the Press’s first 100 years and looks forward to the initiatives that will propel it into a second century of ambitious and innovative publishing. Nicholas Basbanes is the author of A Gentle Madness, A Splendor of Letters and the bestselling Every Book Its Reader. November 224 pp. 197x127mm. 20 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-11598-7 £16.00 Subject Page This catalogue contains details of all Yale books scheduled for publication between July 2008 and February 2009. ■ Art/Architecture/Photography 10, 11, 31–61, 73 Trade orders from UK, Continental Europe, ■ Literature/Biography 20, 23, 62, 63, 74, 76 Africa, The Middle East, India, Pakistan, China and S.E. 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YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS • 47 BEDFORD SQUARE • LONDON WC1B 3DP tel: 020 7079 4900 fax: 020 7079 4901 e-mail: [email protected] www.yalebooks.co.uk Autumn 2008 Catalogue:Spring 2008 Catalogue 25/4/08 11:39 Page 1 Fashion 1 The first in-depth study of the gothic influence on fashion, this gorgeous book features designers from Alexander McQueen to Yohji Yamamoto Main picture: Untitled. Stern magazine, 2005. Photograph courtesy Eugenio Recuenco. Gothic Dark Glamour Valerie Steele and Jennifer Park From its origins in the eighteenth-century literature of terror to its contemporary manifestations in vampire fiction, cinema and art, the gothic has embraced the powers of horror and the erotic macabre. ‘Gothic’ is an epithet with a strange history—evoking images of death, destruction and decay. Ironically, its negative connotations have made the gothic an ideal symbol of rebellion for a wide range of cultural outsiders. Popularly associated with black-clad teenagers and rock musicians, gothic fashion encompasses not only subcultural styles (from old-school goth to cyber-goth and beyond) but also high fashion by such designers Valerie Steele is director and chief as Alexander McQueen, John Galliano of Christian Dior, Rick Owens, curator of The Museum at the Olivier Theyskens and Yohji Yamamoto. Fashion photographers, such Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), as Sean Ellis and Eugenio Recuenco, have also drawn on the visual where Jennifer Park is coordinator of vocabulary of the gothic to convey narratives of dark glamour. As the special projects. Steele is also editor- in-chief of Fashion Theory: The text and lavish illustrations in this book suggest, gothic fashion has Journal of Dress, Body & Culture. deep cultural roots that give it an enduring potency. October 192 pp. 380x230mm. 100 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-13694-4 £19.99* Published in association with The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology Autumn 2008 Catalogue:Spring 2008 Catalogue 25/4/08 15:23 Page 2 2 Economics A deft critique of global finance by one of the world’s leading financial commentators Fixing Global Finance Martin Wolf “It is neither desirable nor feasible The globalisation of finance should have brought substantial benefits. for the US to be the world’s In practice it brought a series of devastating currency and banking dominant borrower forever. Indeed it crises in the 1980s and 1990s, particularly in the developing world. is absurd for the world economy’s The failure of advanced countries and of the IMF to rescue the stability to depend on the willingness damaged economies of Asia, Russia or Brazil taught those countries, of the world’s richest consumers to and the emerging Chinese giant, an overwhelming lesson: never again. borrow ever more.”—Martin Wolf Emerging economies ceased importing capital, but by keeping their “Wolf’s informed, stimulating, exchange rates down, running huge current account surpluses, recycling incisive commentary combines capital inflows and accumulating enormous foreign currency reserves, professional mastery, accessible they began to export it on a vast scale. Since several advanced countries analysis and vigorous prose.” also ran large current account surpluses, to which the oil exporters —Richard Roberts, Professor of added their own massive contributions in the mid-2000s, the US Contemporary History, University emerged as the spender and borrower of last resort. of London The US is the world’s most creditworthy borrower. But as its external Martin Wolf is a leading economic and deficit exploded, so did the domestic borrowing of US households, financial journalist. Since 1996 he has stimulated by rising house prices. The result was the subprime been chief economics commentator of mortgage crisis of 2007. the Financial Times, having been chief economics leader writer from 1987–96. The challenge ahead is to promote a financial system that makes fast- He is the author of the bestselling growing emerging economies comfortable as large-scale net importers of Why Globalization Works. foreign capital. The key is to acknowledge that, in a world of adjustable currencies, international lending must be denominated in the currency of borrowers, not just in that of a few dominant advanced economies. Only by tackling imbalances in the international financial system is there a chance of global financial stability. January 224 pp. 234x156mm. ISBN 978-0-300-14277-8 £18.99* Translation rights: Felicity Bryan Agency Autumn 2008 Catalogue:Spring 2008 Catalogue 9/5/08 12:05 Page 3 History 3 E. H. Gombrich’s best-selling world history for the curious of all ages, now available in paperback Availabletime forin paperbackthe first “Brilliant, irresistible: a wonderful surprise.” —Philip Pullman E. H. GOMBRICH “Gombrich opens with the most magical definition of history I have ever read . Tolerance, reason A Little History of the World and humanity . suffuse every page.” —Amanda Vickery, The Guardian Translated by Caroline Mustill “there will be many generations of future Illustrated by Clifford Harper historians who will attribute to it their lifelong passion for history—and for truth.” —Lisa Jardine, The Times In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited to attempt a “I am going to buy ten copies of this book and history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he give it to my ten favourite children . this is a completed the task in an intense six weeks, and Eine kurze book which teaches what it is to be civilised by Weltgeschichte für junge Leser was published in Vienna to its very tone, which is one of gentleness, immediate success, and is now available in twenty-five curiosity and erudition.” languages across the world. —A. N. Wilson, Times Literary Supplement In forty concise chapters, Gombrich tells the story of man “retains an irresistible, boyish energy and from the stone age to the atomic bomb. In between emerges a enthusiasm . Here, in this little book are answers colourful picture of wars and conquests, grand works of art, to many of the questions you never dared to ask.” and the spread and limitations of science. This is a text —Margaret Drabble, New Statesman dominated not by dates and facts, but by the sweep of mankind’s experience across the centuries, a guide to “A magical work.”—John Banville, The Irish Times humanity’s achievements and an acute witness to its frailties. “a delight for all ages. The pages sparkle with the learned author’s wit and wisdom—and reading them, one feels as if Gombrich, one of the greatest ever art historians, is guiding one through time September with a grandfatherly gleam in his eye.” 304 pp. 216x138mm. 40 b/w illus. —Ben Schott, The Observer Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14332-4 £6.99* Translation rights: DuMont Verlag, Cologne Autumn 2008 Catalogue:Spring 2008 Catalogue 25/4/08 11:39 Page 4 4 History How the astronauts’ first pictures of our planet—small, beautiful and unique in space—transformed our ideas about the Earth Earthrise How Man First Saw the Earth Robert Poole Earthrise tells the remarkable story of the first photographs of Earth from space and the totally unexpected impact of those images.