Yale University Press
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A Little History of Religion
$15.00 Add to cartA rich and inclusive history of belief, from humanity’s earliest days to our own times
Religion is distinctly human. We can’t help wondering about where we come from and why we are here. Did some all- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Holloway, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0300283229
- Language: English
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A Little History of Science
$15.00 Add to cartA lively and engaging introduction to the progress of science over the ages
Science is key to understanding the infinite distances of space, the tiniest living organisms body and the history of our p- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Bynum, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0300283210
- Language: English
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I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti’s Fight for Freedom
$35.00 Add to cartA moving and humane portrait of the abolitionist revolutionary Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who led Haiti’s fight for independence from French colonial rule
“My name has become a horror to all those who- Author: Gaffield, Julia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 0300255470
- Language: English
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A Little History of Literature
$15.00 Add to cartA vibrant guide to the world of literature, from dramatic plays to engrossing novels
Literature has inspired every civilisation, from Greek myth to today’s graphic novels. John Sutherland, who has re- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Sutherland, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0300283415
- Language: English
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A Little History of Psychology
$15.00 Add to cartA rich and engaging guide to psychology, the science devoted to understanding human nature
Psychology is the science devoted to understanding human nature. Its practitioners have long sought to under- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Hayes, Nicky
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0300282621
- Language: English
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Joseph Smith: The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet
$35.00 Add to cartFrom an award-winning biographer, a riveting and deeply researched portrait of Mormonism’s charismatic founder
Joseph Smith Jr. (1805-1844) was one of the most successful and controversial religious- Author: Turner, John G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 0300255160
- Language: English
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The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
$22.00 Add to cart“A feminist classic.”–Judith Shulevitz, New York Times Book Review
“A pivotal book, one of those after which we will never think the same again.”–Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Washington Post Book World A p- Series: Veritas Paperbacks
- Author: Gilbert, Sandra M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 744
- Publish Date: March 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0300246722
- Language: English
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Empty Spaces
$26.00 Add to cartA hypnotic and mystifying exploration of land and legacy, investigating what it means to be an intergenerational, Indigenous survivor of Residential Schools
“A singular, incantatory work. . . . The bo- Author: Abel, Jordan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0300275544
- Language: English
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Cross Purposes: Christianity’s Broken Bargain with Democracy
$27.50 Add to cartWhy the crisis of Christianity has become a crisis for democracy
What happens to American democracy if Christianity is no longer able, or no longer willing, to perform the functions on which our cons- Author: Rauch, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0300273541
- Language: English
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The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968
$24.00 Read moreThe unknown story of the election that set the tone for today’s fractured politics
A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2023: Politics “The book is a delightful demolition of the many political myths th- Author: Nichter, Luke a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0300280130
- Language: English
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Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey: A Biography
$20.00 Add to cartA worldwide exploration of the history, purpose, and inescapable influence of the Iliad and the Odyssey that will inspire readers to think anew about Homer’s work
No one knows whether Homer was a rea- Author: Manguel, Alberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0300272472
- Language: English
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Buddhism: A Journey Through History
$40.00 Add to cartOne of the world’s leading scholars of Buddhism presents the story of its dramatic journey across the globe, from 2,500 years ago to the present day
Over the course of twenty-five centuries, Buddhism- Author: Lopez, Donald S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0300234260
- Language: English
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The Dark Path: The Structure of War and the Rise of the West
$40.00 Add to cartFrom an esteemed military historian, a sweeping history of the revolutions in war-fighting that have shaped the modern world
Heraclitus wrote that “war is the father of all,” and it has formed much o- Author: Murray, Williamson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0300270682
- Language: English
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Ballerina
$18.00 Add to cartA critically acclaimed #1 bestseller in France–a novel of art, desire, and time lost and regained, from Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano
“Pithy and introspective. . . . Modiano delivers wondrous im- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Modiano, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0300278195
- Language: English
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The Tempest
$8.95 Add to cartThe Annotated Shakespeare series enables readers to fully understand and enjoy the plays of the world’s greatest dramatist
Shakespeare’s valedictory play is also one of his most poetical and magical.- Series: Annotated Shakespeare
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 20 2006
- ISBN10: 0300108168
- Language: English
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The Performer: Art, Life, Politics
$30.00 Read moreAn acclaimed sociologist’s exploration of the connections among performances in life, art, and politics
“A thought-provoking, essayistic and touchingly personal exploration of the ethics and aestheti- Author: Sennett, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0300272901
- Language: English
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Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650
$28.00 Add to cartA lively, expansive history of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and the momentous changes they set in motion
This fast-paced survey of Western civilization’s transition from the Middle Ages t- Author: Eire, Carlos M. N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 920
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0300240031
- Language: English
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Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
$37.00 Read moreA extraordinary work, decades in the making: the first atlas to illustrate the entire scope of the transatlantic slave trade
Winner of the Association of American Publishers’ 2010 R.R. Hawkins Award a- Series: The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
- Author: Eltis, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 16 2015
- ISBN10: 0300212542
- Language: English
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The No-State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto
$30.00 Read moreA provocative manifesto, arguing for a new understanding of the Jews’ peoplehood
“A self-consciously radical statement that is both astute and joyous.”–Kirkus Reviews Today there are two seemingly- Author: Boyarin, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0300251289
- Language: English
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Invisibility: The History and Science of How Not to Be Seen
$30.00 Read moreA lively exploration of how invisibility has gone from science fiction to fact
“The science of invisibility remains largely theoretical and abstract. It is in the literature that the field comes aliv- Author: Gbur, Gregory J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0300250428
- Language: English
