Yale University Press
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Crush: Twentieth Anniversary Edition Volume 99
$30.00 Read moreThe twentieth-anniversary edition of the influential first poetry collection by Richard Siken
Since winning the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition, Crush has become a modern classic. This- Series: Yale Younger Poets
- Author: Siken, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0300278578
- Language: English
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James Baldwin: The Life Album
$28.00 Add to cartAn intimate portrait of James Baldwin, offering a new understanding of his life and works as seen through his close relationships and private life
James Baldwin (1924-1987) was a pivotal figure of th- Series: Black Lives
- Author: Zaborowska, Magdalena J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0300262205
- Language: English
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Phocion: Good Citizen in a Divided Democracy
$28.00 Add to cartThomas R. Martin recounts the unmatched political and military career of Phocion of Athens, and his tragic downfall
“Elegant and enlightening.”–Dominic Green, Wall Street Journal Phocion (402-318 BC- Series: Ancient Lives
- Author: Martin, Thomas R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0300256639
- Language: English
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Expressionists: Kandinsky, Munter and the Blue Rider
$60.00 Add to cartA crucial introduction to the origins of the German Expressionist movement and the influential Blue Rider group, focusing on their relationships and transcultural interests
Founded in Munich in the 1- Author: Sidlina, Natalia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0300278330
- Language: English
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The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made
$30.00 Add to cartThe long history of the racial wealth gap in America told through the stories of seven Black families who struggled to build wealth over multiple generations
Wealth is central to the American pursuit- Author: Schermerhorn, Calvin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 030025895X
- Language: English
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Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equation
$30.00 Add to cartKenneth Turan brings to life the extraordinary partnership of Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg and their role in creating the film industry as we know it
One was a tough junkman’s son, the other a- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Turan, Kenneth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0300254490
- Language: English
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There Is a Deep Brooding in Arkansas: The Rape Trials That Sustained Jim Crow, and the People Who Fought It, from Thurgood Marshall to Maya Angelou
$35.00 Add to cartA sweeping study of sexual assault trials in the Jim Crow South, detailing the racial and economic inequities of rape law and the resistance of ordinary women
In the early years of the twentieth cent- Author: Stern, Scott W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0300273576
- Language: English
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The Tainos: Rise and Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus
$27.00 Read moreFrom a noted archeologist/anthropologist, the story of the Tainos–the first people Columbus encountered when he arrived in the Americas–from their earliest days to their rapid decline after European… [more below]
- Author: Rouse, Irving
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 28 1993
- ISBN10: 0300056966
- Language: English
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How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower
$26.95 Read moreA major new history of the fall of the Roman Empire, by the prizewinning author of Caesar
In AD 200, the Roman Empire seemed unassailable, its vast territory accounting for most of the known world. B- Author: Goldsworthy, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: September 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0300164262
- Language: English
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Change the Wallpaper: Transforming Cultural Patterns to Build More Just Communities
$28.00 Add to cartA social psychologist reveals how to nudge local cultures toward positive structural change by moving people from individual action to collective action
How can ordinary people fight for social justi- Author: Dasgupta, Nilanjana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0300270224
- Language: English
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Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire
$35.00 Add to cartHistorian Sarah E. Bond retells the traditional story of Ancient Rome, revealing how groups of ancient workers unified, connected, and protested as they helped build an empire
From plebeians refusing- Author: Bond, Sarah E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0300273142
- Language: English
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Dangerous Learning: The South’s Long War on Black Literacy
$35.00 Add to cartThe enduring legacy of the nineteenth-century struggle for Black literacy in the American South
Few have ever valued literacy as much as the enslaved Black people of the American South. For them, it- Author: Black, Derek W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0300272820
- Language: English
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Women in Intelligence: The Hidden History of Two World Wars
$22.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking history of women in British intelligence, revealing their pivotal role across the first half of the twentieth century
From the twentieth century onward, women took on an extraordinar- Author: Fry, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0300279310
- Language: English
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The Origins of Victory: How Disruptive Military Innovation Determines the Fates of Great Powers
$25.00 Add to cartHow the character of war is changing and how militaries can successfully adapt to meet the challenge
This book by military strategist Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr., is the definitive take on the race fo- Author: Krepinevich, Andrew F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 568
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0300280092
- Language: English
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Black Artists in America: From the Great Depression to Civil Rights
$40.00 Add to cartExploring how artists at midcentury addressed the social issues of their day–from Jacob Lawrence to Elizabeth Catlett, Rose Piper to Charles White
This timely book surveys the varied ways in which B- Author: Lovelle Jenkins, Earnestine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0300260903
- Language: English
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A Little History of the World
$25.00 Add to cartA special edition of the international bestseller that is “sumptuously illustrated. . . . Perfect for reading to alert and curious children, but it’s even better as a secret pleasure, read alone, with… [more below]
- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Gombrich, E. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: October 22 2013
- ISBN10: 0300197187
- Language: English
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The Many Lives of Anne Frank
$30.00 Add to cartA revealing biography of Anne Frank, exploring both her life and the impact of her extraordinary diary
“Trenchant. . . . An essential look at the diarist’s legacy.”–Publishers Weekly In this innovat- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Franklin, Ruth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: January 27 2025
- ISBN10: 300248121
- Language: English
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Under Cover of Darkness: Murders in Blackout London
$30.00 Add to cartA gripping new history of London during the Blackout–revealing the violent crime that spread across the capital under the cover of darkness
Fear was the unacknowledged spectre haunting the streets o- Author: Bell, Amy Helen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 300270054
- Language: English
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Amy Sherald: American Sublime
$50.00 Add to cartAmy Sherald’s work, life, and significance for American art, as revealed in her powerful figurative paintings of Black subjects
Bringing together nearly all of her artwork to date, this lavishly illu- Author: Roberts, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0300279388
- Language: English
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The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told about Business Is Wrong
$35.00 Add to cartA radical reappraisal of the nature and activities of business–what it is for and how it works
“A characteristically acerbic analysis of the archetypal organisational unit of capitalism.”–Andrew Hil- Author: Kay, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 030028019X
- Language: English
