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Sunday Book Review: November 1, 2026, The Yale University Press Edition

In the Sunday Book Review, Tom Fox considers books that would interest compliance professionals, business executives, or anyone curious about the subject. It could be books about business, compliance, history, leadership, current events, or any other topic that might interest Tom. Today we look at 4 recent releases from the Yale University Press.

  1. The Resilient Society by Markus K. Brunnermeier
  2. Medea: A Life by Edith Hall
  3. Keynes for Our Times by Robert Skidelsky
  4. Robert Oppenheimer: The Sphinx Without a Secret (Jewish Lives) by David Rieff

 

 Resources:

Financial Times/Standard Chartered Business Book of the Year-the shortlist

My first work of general non-fiction is now out: Deluge Before Dawn, the story of the 2025 flood in Kerr County, Texas, which killed 119 people and devastated a county. It is a story of tragedy, heartbreak, survival, and resilience.

It is available on the following sites:

Amazon.com

Stoney Creek Publishing

Barnes and Noble

Texas A&M University Press

Bookshop.org

Google.Books

Walmart

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Sunday Book Review

Sunday Book Review: April 26, 2026, The Yale University Press Edition

In the Sunday Book Review, Tom Fox considers books that would interest compliance professionals, business executives, or anyone curious. It could be books about business, compliance, history, leadership, current events, or anything else that might interest Tom. In this episode, we look at 4 top books recently released by Yale University Press.

  1. Josephine Baker’s Secret War – by Hanna Diamond
  2. Carol King – by Jane Eisner
  3. Philip Roth – by Steven Zipperstein
  4. Storyteller – by Leo Damrosch

To learn about the intersection of Sherlock Holmes and the modern compliance professional, check out my latest book, The Game is Afoot-What Sherlock Holmes Teaches About Risk, Ethics and Investigations on Amazon.com.

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Sunday Book Review: May 7, 2023 – The Yale Press Edition

In the Sunday Book Review, I consider books that would interest the compliance professional, the business executive or anyone who might be curious. It could be books about business, compliance, history, leadership, current events or anything else that might interest me. In today’s edition of the Sunday Book Review, we look at recent releases from the Yale University Press:

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Sunday Book Review: April 30, 2023 – The New Mind Edition

In the Sunday Book Review, I consider books that interest the compliance professional, the business executive, or anyone curious. It could be books about business, compliance, history, leadership, current events, or anything else that might interest me. In today’s edition of the Sunday Book Review, I return to look at some new books which caught my eye in the New Mind edition.

Today, new books from the Yale University Press:

·      Roe by Mary Ziegler

·      Mixed Signals by Uri Gneezy

·      Life by Paul Ehrlich

·      Tragic Mind by Robert Kaplan