Yale University Press
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Yale and Slavery: A History
$35.00 Add to cartA comprehensive look at how slavery and resistance to it have shaped Yale University
Award-winning historian David W. Blight, with the Yale and Slavery Research Project, answers the call to investiga- Author: Blight, David W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0300273843
- Language: English
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Make It Modern: A History of Art in the 20th Century
$50.00 Read moreA fascinating journey through Western art from the 1910s to the 1960s, charting how artists wrestled with the headlong changes of a turbulent and conflict-ridden world
From the chaos of the First Wor- Author: Taylor, Brandon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 0300253656
- Language: English
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Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World’s First Author
$22.00 Add to cartThe complete poems of the priestess Enheduana, the world’s first known author, newly translated from the original Sumerian
“Helle’s translation feels urgent, incandescent, stripped of academic claddi- Author: Helle, Sophus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0300276761
- Language: English
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Where We Stand
$20.00 Add to cartThe instant bestseller from Djamila Ribeiro that sparked a major Black feminist movement in Brazil
In a society shaped by the legacies of enslavement, white supremacy, and sexism, who has the right t- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Ribeiro, Djamila
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0300269641
- Language: English
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The Seven Measures of the World
$18.00 Add to cartThe fascinating stories behind the essential seven units of measurement that allow us to understand the physical world
“Entertaining popular science and a literate tale of why things are as they are.”- Author: Martin, Piero
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0300280114
- Language: English
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The Story of Drawing: An Alternative History of Art
$35.00 Add to cartDrawing is at the heart of human creativity. The most democratic form of art-making, it requires nothing more than a plain surface and a stub of pencil, a piece of chalk or an inky brush. Our prehisto… [more below]
- Author: Owens, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0300260474
- Language: English
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The World Atlas of Public Art
$50.00 Add to cartEssential reading for anyone interested in art, community, and the built environment
“An around-the-world glimpse into how artists reimagine the places, spaces, landscapes, streets, and skies we shar- Author: Wasserman, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0300272588
- Language: English
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Africa’s Fashion Diaspora
$45.00 Add to cartOne of the first books to examine the wide breadth of the African Diaspora and its influence on international fashion.
Tracing the local and global impact of Black Diasporic designers, Africa’s Fashi- Author: Way, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0300270739
- Language: English
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Attacking the Elites: What Critics Get Wrong–And Right–About America’s Leading Universities
$28.00 Read moreA former Harvard president reflects on how elite universities are responding to critiques from the left and the right, and how they can do better
“People have lost faith, trust and confidence [in high- Author: Bok, Derek
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 27, 2024
- ISBN10: 0300273606
- Language: English
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Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind
$20.00 Add to cart“Fascinating.”–Thomas W. Hodgkinson, The Guardian
“Richly detailed and frequently illuminating.”–Rhys Blakely, Times (UK) “Excellent.”–Clare Bucknell, New Yorker A New Yorker Best of the Week Pic- Author: Jay, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0300276095
- Language: English
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How Democratic Is the American Constitution?
$21.00 Read moreA Washington Post Book World Best Seller
“Robert A. Dahl . . . is about as covered in honors as a scholar can be. . . . He knows what he is talking about. And he thinks that the Constitution has somet- Series: Castle Lectures in Ethics, Politics, & Economics (Hardcover)
- Author: Dahl, Robert A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 10 2003
- ISBN10: 0300095244
- Language: English
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Dollars for Life: The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Fall of the Republican Establishment
$35.00 Read moreA new understanding of the slow drift to extremes in American politics that shows how the anti-abortion movement remade the Republican Party
“A timely and expert guide to one of today’s most hot-butto- Author: Ziegler, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 0300260148
- Language: English
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American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to Covid-19
$13.00 Read moreA concise history of how American law has shaped–and been shaped by–the experience of contagion, “taking us from the smallpox outbreaks of the colonies to COVID-19. . . . The conclusion [Witt] arriv… [more below]
- Author: Witt, John Fabian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0300261519
- Language: English
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Dollars for Life: The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Fall of the Republican Establishment
$24.00 Read moreA new understanding of the slow drift to extremes in American politics that shows how the anti-abortion movement remade the Republican Party
“A timely and expert guide to one of today’s most hot-butto- Author: Ziegler, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: January 23, 2024
- ISBN10: 0300274181
- Language: English
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Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death
$16.00 Read moreA lively and engaging biography of the first openly gay man elected to public office in the United States, a man fiercely committed to protecting all minorities
Harvey Milk–eloquent, charismatic, an- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Faderman, Lillian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0300248555
- Language: English
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Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan
$30.00 Read moreA captivating biography of one of the world’s greatest adventurers, the itinerant Mughal Princess Gulbadan, based on her long-forgotten memoir
“Finally, a serious consideration of Gulbadan’s achievem- Author: Lal, Ruby
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0300251270
- Language: English
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Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice
$65.00 Read moreAn authoritative and comprehensive celebration of the life and work of one of the most prominent artists of the Venetian Renaissance
Meticulously researched and luxuriously illustrated, this volume o- Author: Humfrey, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0300254474
- Language: English
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Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas
$26.95 Add to cartThe first part of a sweeping two-volume history of the devastation brought to bear on Indian nations by U.S. expansion
“An elegant, organized narrative of the United States’ dispossession of Native la- Author: Ostler, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 0300255365
- Language: English
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The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss
$20.00 Add to cartFrom one of the most revered scholars of religion, an incisive explanation of how the word “God” functions in the world’s great faiths
“Hart marshals powerful historical evidence and philosophical arg- Author: Hart, David Bentley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: September 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0300209355
- Language: English
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For the Freedom of Zion: The Great Revolt of Jews Against Romans, 66-74 CE
$37.50 Read moreA definitive account of the great revolt of Jews against Rome and the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple
“Deeply impressive. . . . Essential for all future discussions of the subject.”–Barry Strauss- Author: Rogers, Guy MacLean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 744
- Publish Date: January 04, 2022
- ISBN10: 030024813X
- Language: English
