Yale University Press
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The Business of Killing Indians: Scalp Warfare and the Violent Conquest of North America
$35.00 Add to cartHow colonial conquest was driven by state-sponsored, profit-driven campaigns to murder and mutilate Indian peoples in North America
From the mid-1600s through the late 1800s, states sponsored scalp b- Series: The Lamar Western History
- Author: Kiser, William S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0300275285
- Language: English
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Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead
$43.75 Add to cartA leading economist explores the global rise of the U.S. dollar and shows why its future stability is far from assured
Our Dollar, Your Problem argues that America’s currency might not have reached to- Author: Rogoff, Kenneth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0300275315
- Language: English
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Ruth Asawa: Retrospective
$65.00 Add to cartA landmark survey of the wide-ranging practice of one of the twentieth century’s most innovative artists
Best known for her sinuous looped-wire sculptures, Ruth Asawa (1926-2013) used everyday materi- Author: Bishop, Janet
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0300278853
- Language: English
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Epic of the Earth: Reading Homer’s Iliad in the Fight for a Dying World
$30.00 Add to cartAn urgent study of Homer’s Iliad, exposing the beginnings of the ecological disaster we now face and facilitating our understanding of its history
The roots of today’s environmental catastrophe run d- Author: Hall, Edith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0300275587
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of the East: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline
$24.00 Add to cartThe long history of China’s relationship between stability, diversity, and prosperity, and how its current leadership threatens this delicate balance
“Riveting.”–Tunku Varadarajan, Wall Street Journa- Author: Huang, Yasheng
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0300281935
- Language: English
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Personhood: The New Civil War Over Reproduction
$35.00 Add to cartThe next phase of the war over reproduction in America
What’s next for the battle over abortion? Mary Ziegler argues that simply undoing Roe v. Wade has never been the endpoint for the antiabortion m- Author: Ziegler, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 0300273045
- Language: English
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King Dollar: The Past and Future of the World’s Dominant Currency
$35.00 Add to cartAn award-winning economic journalist on why the US dollar is positioned to maintain global primacy–and what that means for America and the world
Prophecies that the dollar will lose its status as th- Author: Blustein, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0300270968
- Language: English
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Georgia O’Keeffe: The Late Work
$65.00 Add to cartAn unprecedented examination of the underexplored late work of the iconic American modernist
“Griffin’s study of O’Keeffe’s later works is a revelation, opening new dimensions of this iconic American- Author: Griffin, Randall C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0300273304
- Language: English
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Oliver Cromwell: Commander in Chief
$35.00 Add to cartThe second volume in an acclaimed biography of Oliver Cromwell, from the capture of Charles I to the expulsion of the Long Parliament
In 1647, the Parliamentarians were divided. They had won the firs- Author: Hutton, Ronald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 300278942
- Language: English
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Robert Wedderburn: British Insurrectionary, Jamaican Abolitionist
$28.00 Add to cartThe first-ever biography of the ultra-radical thinker Robert Wedderburn, from his native Jamaica to metropole London, by an award-winning historian
Robert Wedderburn (1762-1834/5) was one of the most- Series: Black Lives
- Author: Hanley, Ryan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0300272359
- Language: English
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Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn’s Comrade
$28.00 Add to cartThe origins and influence of Jim, Mark Twain’s beloved yet polarizing literary figure
Mark Twain’s Jim, introduced in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), is a shrewd, self-aware, and enormously ad- Series: Black Lives
- Author: Fishkin, Shelley Fisher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0300268327
- Language: English
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The Social Biome: How Everyday Communication Connects and Shapes Us
$28.00 Add to cartA deep dive into the importance of daily communication and how we can harness its power to create a better life
We spend much of our waking lives communicating with others. How does each moment of in- Author: Merolla, Andy J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0300272146
- Language: English
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The Magic Books: A History of Enchantment in 20 Medieval Manuscripts
$38.00 Add to cartA fascinating and highly original history of medieval magic told through twenty key illuminated manuscripts
Medieval Europe was preoccupied with magic. From the Carolingian Empire to Renaissance Ital- Author: Lawrence-Mathers, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0300244436
- Language: English
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Vanessa Bell: The Life and Art of a Bloomsbury Radical
$40.00 Add to cartOne of Britain’s most radical and influential artists working in the first decades of the twentieth century, Vanessa Bell was a pioneer for professional women
Vanessa Bell was a leading figure within- Author: Hitchmough, Wendy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0300269218
- Language: English
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The Narrative Brain: The Stories Our Neurons Tell
$35.00 Add to cartAn investigation of the emotional power of narrative that illuminates the relationship between the human brain and the stories we tell
As humans, we think in stories–stories that allow us to feel an- Author: Breithaupt, Fritz Alwin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0300273800
- Language: English
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Turner and Constable: Art, Life, Landscape
$35.00 Add to cartBorn just fourteen months apart, one in London and the other in rural Suffolk, J.M.W. Turner and John Constable went on to change the face of British art.
The two men have routinely been seen as pola- Author: Moorby, Nicola
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0300266480
- Language: English
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Abraham: The First Jew
$30.00 Add to cartThe story of Abraham, the first Jew, portrayed as two lives lived by one person, paralleling the contradictions in Judaism throughout its history
In this new biography of Abraham, Judaism’s foundatio- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Julius, Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0300266804
- Language: English
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The Rivalry Peril: How Great-Power Competition Threatens Peace and Weakens Democracy
$30.00 Add to cartHow the U.S. policy of competition with China is detrimental to democracy, peace, and prosperity–and how a saner approach is possible
For close to a decade, the U.S. government has been preoccupied- Author: Jackson, Van
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0300272898
- Language: English
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Texas: An American History
$35.00 Add to cartAn exploration of the multifaceted characters and complex events that have defined the Lone Star State from its inception through today
When Americans turn on their laptops, play video games, go to c- Author: Johnson, Benjamin Heber
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0300226721
- Language: English
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Women and the Reformations: A Global History
$35.00 Add to cartA compelling, authoritative history of how women shaped the Reformations and transformed religious life across the globe
The Reformations, both Protestant and Catholic, have long been told as stories- Author: Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0300268238
- Language: English
