Yale University Press
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Pirates: A New History, from Vikings to Somali Raiders
$16.99 Add to cartA global account of pirates and their modus operandi, from the Middle Ages to the present day
- Author: Lehr, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0300273339
- Language: English
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The Wounded Storyteller: The Traumatic Tales of E. T. A. Hoffmann
$40.00 Read moreE. T. A. Hoffmann’s classic tales of Gothic horror and fantasy are presented in a new translation accompanying the beguiling drawings of Natalie Frank
“Sumptuous. . . . [Natalie Frank’s] artwork . .- Author: Hoffmann, E. T. a.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 0300263198
- Language: English
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Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disrupter
$27.00 Read moreA new portrait of Betty Friedan, the author and activist acclaimed as the mother of second-wave feminism
Finalist, 2024 National Book Critics Circle Awards in Biography – A New Yorker Best of the Week- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Shteir, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0300220022
- Language: English
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Crush
$20.00 Read moreFinalist for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry–an erotic, powerful collection
“One of the best books of contemporary poetry.”–Victoria Chang, Huffington Post “Vital, immediate, a- Series: Yale Younger Poets
- Author: Siken, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: October 22 2019
- ISBN10: 0300246307
- Language: English
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The Body of the Soul: Stories
$18.00 Add to cartA new collection of stories by the acclaimed Ludmila Ulitskaya, masterfully translated into English
A New Yorker Best of the Week Pick – A Library Journal choice for Best World Literature of 2023 – A- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Ulitskaya, Ludmila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0300270933
- Language: English
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The Voynich Manuscript
$55.00 Add to cartThe first authorized copy of this mysterious, much-speculated-upon, one-of-a-kind, centuries-old puzzle
“For the first time, a complete reproduction [of] The Voynich Manuscript, has been published, fe- Author: Clemens, Raymond
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0300217234
- Language: English
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On Marriage
$27.50 Add to cartA compulsively readable, startling, and philosophically rich book about marriage, from an acclaimed critic and filmmaker
A New Yorker Best of the Week Pick – A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of- Author: Baum, Devorah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 030027193X
- Language: English
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Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence
$26.00 Read moreAn intimate look at Elie Wiesel, author of the seminal Holocaust memoir Night and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, Biography category “An indispensable t- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Berger, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: May 23, 2023
- ISBN10: 0300228988
- Language: English
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Chloe: The Complete Collections
$85.00 Add to cartThe brilliance of the house of Chlo? is on full view in this panorama of catwalk photography, celebrating the brand’s seventy years of collections by leading designers including founder Gaby Aghion, K… [more below]
- Series: Catwalk
- Author: Stoppard, Lou
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 632
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 0300264089
- Language: English
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How I Became a Tree
$16.00 Add to cartAn exquisite, lovingly crafted meditation on plants, trees, and our place in the natural world, in the tradition of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass and Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Cree… [more below]
- Author: Roy, Sumana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 20, 2022
- ISBN10: 0300268149
- Language: English
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That One Should Disdain Hardships: The Teachings of a Roman Stoic
$14.00 Add to cartPerennial wisdom from one of history’s most important but lesser-known Stoic teachers
“He knew that all a philosopher could do was respond well–bravely, boldly, patiently–to what life threw at us. T- Author: Musonius Rufus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0300261543
- Language: English
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The Seven Measures of the World
$28.00 Read moreThe 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0300266278
- 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
$35.00 Read moreThe long history of China’s relationship between stability, diversity, and prosperity, and how its current leadership threatens this delicate balance
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2023 Chinese soci- Author: Huang, Yasheng
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0300266367
- Language: English
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California, a Slave State
$35.00 Add to cartThe untold history of slavery and resistance in California, from the Spanish missions, indentured Native American ranch hands, Indian boarding schools, Black miners, kidnapped Chinese prostitutes, and
- Author: Pfaelzer, Jean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: June 27, 2023
- ISBN10: 0300211643
- Language: English
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On Wars
$40.00 Read moreA history of wars through the ages and across the world, and the irrational calculations that so often lie behind them
Benjamin Franklin once said, “There never was a good war or a bad peace.” But wh- Author: Mann, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 616
- Publish Date: August 08, 2023
- ISBN10: 0300266812
- Language: English
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Women in Intelligence: The Hidden History of Two World Wars
$35.00 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 0300260776
- Language: English
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Murakami: Unfamiliar People–Swelling of Monsterized Human Ego
$45.00 Read moreThis fresh look at artist Takashi Murakami takes on the “monstrous” themes of rampant consumerism, human fallibility, and the perils of life in the digital fast lane, in works from the past decade
On- Author: Allen, Laura W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0300273185
- Language: English
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Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
$24.00 Add to cartAn Economist Best History Book 2017
“History as it should be written.”–Barry Cunliffe, Guardian “Scott hits the nail squarely on the head by exposing the staggering price our ancestors paid for civil- Author: Scott, James C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 24 2018
- ISBN10: 030024021X
- Language: English
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Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs
$18.00 Add to cartAcclaimed cultural critic Greil Marcus tells the story of Bob Dylan through the lens of seven penetrating songs
- Author: Marcus, Greil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0300274106
- Language: English
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The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict
$22.00 Add to cartWhy and how America’s defense strategy must change in light of China’s power and ambition–A Wall Street Journal best book of 2021
“This is a realist’s book, laser-focused on China’s bid for mastery i- Author: Colby, Elbridge A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0300268025
- Language: English
