Yale University Press
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Robert Wedderburn: British Insurrectionary, Jamaican Abolitionist
$28.00 Add to cartThe first-ever biography of the ultra-radical thinker Robert Wedderburn, from his native Jamaica to metropole London, by an award-winning historian
Robert Wedderburn (1762-1834/5) was one of the most- Series: Black Lives
- Author: Hanley, Ryan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0300272359
- Language: English
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Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn’s Comrade
$28.00 Add to cartThe origins and influence of Jim, Mark Twain’s beloved yet polarizing literary figure
Mark Twain’s Jim, introduced in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), is a shrewd, self-aware, and enormously ad- Series: Black Lives
- Author: Fishkin, Shelley Fisher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0300268327
- Language: English
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The Social Biome: How Everyday Communication Connects and Shapes Us
$28.00 Add to cartA deep dive into the importance of daily communication and how we can harness its power to create a better life
We spend much of our waking lives communicating with others. How does each moment of in- Author: Merolla, Andy J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0300272146
- Language: English
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The Magic Books: A History of Enchantment in 20 Medieval Manuscripts
$38.00 Add to cartA fascinating and highly original history of medieval magic told through twenty key illuminated manuscripts
Medieval Europe was preoccupied with magic. From the Carolingian Empire to Renaissance Ital- Author: Lawrence-Mathers, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0300244436
- Language: English
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Vanessa Bell: The Life and Art of a Bloomsbury Radical
$40.00 Add to cartOne of Britain’s most radical and influential artists working in the first decades of the twentieth century, Vanessa Bell was a pioneer for professional women
Vanessa Bell was a leading figure within- Author: Hitchmough, Wendy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0300269218
- Language: English
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The Narrative Brain: The Stories Our Neurons Tell
$35.00 Add to cartAn investigation of the emotional power of narrative that illuminates the relationship between the human brain and the stories we tell
As humans, we think in stories–stories that allow us to feel an- Author: Breithaupt, Fritz Alwin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0300273800
- Language: English
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Turner and Constable: Art, Life, Landscape
$35.00 Add to cartBorn just fourteen months apart, one in London and the other in rural Suffolk, J.M.W. Turner and John Constable went on to change the face of British art.
The two men have routinely been seen as pola- Author: Moorby, Nicola
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0300266480
- Language: English
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Abraham: The First Jew
$30.00 Add to cartThe story of Abraham, the first Jew, portrayed as two lives lived by one person, paralleling the contradictions in Judaism throughout its history
In this new biography of Abraham, Judaism’s foundatio- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Julius, Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0300266804
- Language: English
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The Rivalry Peril: How Great-Power Competition Threatens Peace and Weakens Democracy
$30.00 Add to cartHow the U.S. policy of competition with China is detrimental to democracy, peace, and prosperity–and how a saner approach is possible
For close to a decade, the U.S. government has been preoccupied- Author: Jackson, Van
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0300272898
- Language: English
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Texas: An American History
$35.00 Add to cartAn exploration of the multifaceted characters and complex events that have defined the Lone Star State from its inception through today
When Americans turn on their laptops, play video games, go to c- Author: Johnson, Benjamin Heber
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0300226721
- Language: English
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Women and the Reformations: A Global History
$35.00 Add to cartA compelling, authoritative history of how women shaped the Reformations and transformed religious life across the globe
The Reformations, both Protestant and Catholic, have long been told as stories- Author: Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0300268238
- Language: English
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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 Add to cartA 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
