Yale University Press
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Churchill’s Citadel: Chartwell and the Gatherings Before the Storm
$20.00 Add to cartA major new history of Churchill in the 1930s, showing how his meetings at Chartwell, his country home, strengthened his fight against the Nazis
In the 1930s, amidst an impending crisis in Europe, Wi- Author: Carter, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0300284926
- Language: English
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Art Is: A Journey Into the Light
$30.00 Add to cartFrom a widely celebrated artist, this dazzling book takes readers on a profound journey into the heart of creativity
When Makoto Fujimura painted as a child, he felt a mysterious electrical charge pa- Author: Fujimura, Makoto
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0300273657
- Language: English
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Becoming Irish American: The Making and Remaking of a People from Roanoke to JFK
$22.00 Add to cartThe origins and evolution of Irish American identity, from colonial times through the twentieth century
“Subtly provocative. . . . [Meagher] traces the making and remaking of Irish America through se- Author: Meagher, Timothy J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0300281978
- Language: English
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Philip Roth: Stung by Life
$28.00 Add to cartA landmark biography of one of our most prominent chroniclers of American life
In this groundbreaking literary biography, Steven J. Zipperstein captures the complex life and astonishing work of Phili- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Zipperstein, Steven J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0300251556
- Language: English
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Vanilla: The History of an Extraordinary Bean
$30.00 Add to cartThe fascinating and wide-ranging history of vanilla, from the sixteenth century to today
Vanilla is one of the most expensive of flavorings–so valuable that it was smuggled or stolen by pirates in t- Author: Jennings, Eric T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 0300264534
- Language: English
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The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie
$22.00 Add to cartFrom a renowned biologist and best-selling author, a whole new way of looking at living organisms: reading them as documents describing ancient worlds
A Financial Times Best Book of 2024: Science – Na- Author: Dawkins, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0300286279
- Language: English
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We Computers: A Ghazal Novel
$20.00 Add to cartA multilayered exploration of poetry, authorship, and digital intelligence by “a writer of immense poetic power” (The Guardian)
“Many paths cross in Ismailov’s beautiful new work–poetry, history and- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Ismailov, Hamid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 030027274X
- Language: English
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Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World
$18.00 Add to cartFrom a pioneer in the field of complexity science and chaos theory, a plan for solving the world’s most pressing problems
“Farmer convincingly argues that by using big data and today’s more powerful c- Author: Farmer, J. Doyne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 0300283326
- Language: English
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Choose Wisely: Rationality, Ethics, and the Art of Decision-Making
$32.50 Add to cartA leading psychologist and philosopher challenge the shortcomings of rational choice theory–and propose a new framework for understanding decision-making
For many decision scientists, their starting- Author: Schwartz, Barry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0300283997
- Language: English
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Ambigrammia: Between Creation and Discovery
$40.00 Add to cartOn the history and creation of ambigrams, by a pioneer of the practice
“Spellbinding and truly one-of-a-kind. . . . This is an absolute delight.”–Publishers Weekly (starred review) In the 1960s and- Author: Hofstadter, Douglas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 0300275439
- Language: English
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Letters in Exile: Transnational Journeys of a Harlem Renaissance Writer
$38.00 Add to cartA collection of private correspondence from one of the Harlem Renaissance’s brightest and most radical voices
The Jamaican-born, queer author Claude McKay (1890-1948) was a central figure of the Harl- Author: McKay, Claude
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0300276478
- Language: English
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Perpetua: The Woman, the Martyr
$28.00 Add to cartAn intimate and human portrait of Perpetua, a third-century woman author who was idealized as a Christian martyr
On March 7, 203, in the monumental amphitheater at Carthage, Vibia Perpetua was one of- Series: Ancient Lives
- Author: Ruden, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0300273711
- Language: English
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Christianity and the Qur’an: The Rise of Islam in Christian Arabia
$30.00 Add to cartA leading Qur’anic scholar’s revisionary account of how Islam emerged in dialogue with Christian traditions
Challenging the dominant narrative about the history of the Qur’an and the emergence of Isl- Author: Reynolds, Gabriel Said
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0300281757
- Language: English
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Horace: Poet on a Volcano
$28.00 Add to cartA biography of Horace, one of the most popular poets from antiquity, revealing the little-known man behind his famous lines
“Peter Stothard is a master of modern writing about ancient Rome, of vividl- Series: Ancient Lives
- Author: Stothard, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0300256582
- Language: English
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Anger, Fear, Domination: Dark Passions and the Power of Political Speech
$28.00 Add to cartA renowned political theorist offers a road map to the dark forces that threaten democracy
Liberalism orients itself around the idea of self-interest tempered by reason, with the addition of civicall- Author: Galston, William a.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 030028229X
- Language: English
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Alchemy: An Illustrated History of Elixirs, Experiments, and the Birth of Modern Science
$40.00 Add to cartFlush with hundreds of illustrations, this book revisits the histories of chemistry, medicine, ideas, and culture through the lens of alchemy
The craft of alchemy has intrigued and mystified people s- Author: Ball, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0300280874
- Language: English
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Demosthenes: Democracy’s Defender
$28.00 Add to cartThe tragic story of ancient Greece’s last democratic leader and his doomed fight to save Athens from Macedonian domination
In the spring of 340 BCE, news arrived that Philip of Macedon had seized a t- Series: Ancient Lives
- Author: Romm, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 0300269382
- Language: English
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The Buddha: Biography of a Myth
$28.00 Add to cartFrom one of the world’s leading Buddhist scholars, a deeply researched and unprecedented portrait of the Buddha
Like Jesus and Muhammad, the Buddha is one of the most significant figures in history.- Author: Lopez, Donald S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0300234279
- Language: English
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Spice: The 16th-Century Contest That Shaped the Modern World
$20.00 Add to cartThe story of the sixteenth-century’s epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific
Spices drove the early modern world econo- Author: Crowley, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0300281129
- Language: English
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All Things Are Full of Gods: The Mysteries of Mind and Life
$22.00 Add to cartA world-renowned philosopher’s genre-defying exploration of the mystery of consciousness
“[A] masterpiece. . . . The most thorough and rigorous account of the nature of reality to be published in a ce- Author: Hart, David Bentley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0300285493
- Language: English
