News and reviews for Kiernan’s Blood and Soil
October 5, 2007
Reviewers are finding Ben Kiernan’s newest book, Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur, to be an engaging look at an important and… READ MORE
Category: History
Russia’s Defense Ministry confirms Soviet sorties over Dimona in 1967
August 29, 2007
Last Friday the Jerusalem Post published an article citing a recent statement made by chief spokesman of Russia’s Air Force, Colonel Aleksandr Drobyshevsky, who publicly acknowledged a major historical detail… READ MORE
Show Notes for Episode 8 (July 2007) of the Yale Press Podcast
July 26, 2007
Posted by Chris Gondek, Producer/Host of the Yale Press Podcast. One of the reasons I have been asked to write up these show notes is to give listeners a behind… READ MORE
Yale Press Podcast, Episode 8
Episode 8 of the Yale Press Podcast is now available. In Episode 8, Chris Gondek speaks with (1) Michael Makovsky about Winston Churchill’s views on Zionism, (2) Tennant Bagley about… READ MORE
Yale loves summer reading –new titles added to our Online Sale
July 6, 2007
We’ve just launched our Best of Summer Reading site at Yale University Press! Our new page features a host of titles perfect to slip right in your beach bag as… READ MORE
Show Notes for the June 2007 Episode of the Yale Press Podcast
June 19, 2007
Posted by Chris Gondek, Producer/Host of the Yale Press Podcast. It must be summer. I’ve spent the better part of an hour trying to figure out how to start these… READ MORE
Show Notes for Episode 5, “Our World”
April 1, 2007
Posted by Chris Gondek, Producer/Host of the Yale Press Podcast Although it should not come as a surprise, I am a bit of a news junkie. It would be hard… READ MORE
Show Notes for Episode 4, “America”
February 21, 2007
Posted by Chris Gondek, Producer/Host of the Yale Press Podcast Episode 4 turned out to be a theme show, and I say turned out because I don’t believe there was… READ MORE
Show Notes for Episode 3, Yale Press Podcast
January 29, 2007
Posted by Chris Gondek, Producer/Host of the Yale Press Podcast The famous baseball manager, Casey Stengell, once said that “There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had… READ MORE
Caesar Hailed Again
January 3, 2007
Steve Coates reviewed Adrian Goldsworthy’s biography of Caesar in Sunday’s New York Times Book Review. Says Coates: The dramatic trajectory of [Caesar’s] life, with its bloody denouement, well suits Goldworthy’s… READ MORE
Writing a History of Ignorance