Yale Press Log: Yale Press authors on nuclear war and black holes

New and Notable

Allawi's "The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace"
Dwyer's "Napoleon: The Path to Power"
Sennett's "The Craftsman"
Shimba's "A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Japan and North-East Asia"
Speth's "The Bridge at the Edge of the World"
Thaler and Sunstein's "Nudge"
Tedeschi and Dahm's "Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light"
Zittrain's "The The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It"

Foreign Affairs, published by the Council of Foreign Relations, asked Lawrence Freedman to choose his five favorite books of the past year about military, science, and technology. He chose Foxbats over Dimona: The Soviets' Nuclear Gamble in the Six-Day War, by Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez as one of the year's best books. Read the entire list here.

This groundbreaking history shatters many assumptions about the Six-Day War of 1967. New research in Soviet archives and testimonies from participants in the Israeli/Egyptian conflict reveal the extent of the Kremlin’s involvement, plans for the use of nuclear weapons in the Mid-East, and willingness to precipitate a global crisis.

Click here to listen to an interview with Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez on the Yale Press Podcast.

And Fred R. Shapiro, editor of The Yale Book of Quotations, corrected the Times on the history of the term "black hole." Read his explanation on the Times Online.