Yale University Press
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Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: Along the Seine
$45.00 Read moreAn examination of the innovative portrayals of industry and leisure created by five avant-garde artists working at Asni鑽es in the late nineteenth century
From 1881 to 1890, Vincent van Gogh, George- Author: Gerritse, Bregje
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 0300269765
- Language: English
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A Field Guide to Cape Cod: Including Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard, Block Island, and Eastern Long Island
$30.00 Add to cartA richly illustrated full-color guide to the unique plants, wildlife, and environments of Cape Cod and the other nearby “Outer Lands” that face the Atlantic Ocean
“A true gift to anyone who loves the- Author: Lynch, Patrick J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 08 2019
- ISBN10: 0300226152
- Language: English
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Playing Indian
$18.00 Read morePhilip J. Deloria’s classic exploration of white America’s drive to “play Indian,” from the Boston Tea Party to the New Age
“[A] brilliant book. . . . This book reminds us that at least one question… [more below]- Series: Yale Historical Publications
- Author: Deloria, Philip J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0300264844
- Language: English
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Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism
$20.00 Add to cartWhy originalism is a flawed, incoherent, and dangerously ideological method of constitutional interpretation
“Chemerinsky . . . offers a concise, point-by-point refutation of the theory [of originalis- Author: Chemerinsky, Erwin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0300273983
- Language: English
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The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting: How a Bunch of Rabble-Rousers, Outsiders, and Ne’er-Do-Wells Concocted Creative Nonfiction
$35.00 Read moreAn account of the emergence of creative nonfiction, written by the “godfather” of the genre
“When [Gutkind] stops to look back on his own evolving perspective . . . [and] reflects upon his writing car- Author: Gutkind, Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0300251157
- Language: English
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Why the Museum Matters
$26.00 Read moreA powerful reflection on the universal art museum, considering the values critical to its history and anticipating its evolving place in our cultural future
Art museums have played a vital role in ou- Series: Why X Matters
- Author: Weiss, Daniel H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 29, 2022
- ISBN10: 0300259352
- Language: English
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The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power
$26.00 Read moreA moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedy
“Spare, elegant and poignant. . . . If there is a single contemporary book that should be press- Author: Kaplan, Robert D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0300263864
- Language: English
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Julius Caesar
$8.95 Read moreThe Annotated Shakespeare series enables readers to fully understand and enjoy the plays of the world’s greatest dramatist
The first tragedy to be played in the new Globe Theatre, Julius Caesar is se- Series: Annotated Shakespeare
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0300108095
- Language: English
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The Devotional Qur’an: Beloved Surahs and Verses
$26.00 Read moreA beautifully curated and translated collection of the Qur’anic surahs and verses that are most cherished and memorized by Muslims the world over
Muslim devotional practices vary greatly over time an- Author: Toorawa, Shawkat M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0300271948
- Language: English
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The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
$22.00 Read moreNational Bestseller
Winner of the 2023 National Book Award in Nonfiction – Finalist for the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Award in History – Winner of 2024 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Nonfiction – Win- Series: The Henry Roe Cloud American Indians and Modernity
- Author: Blackhawk, Ned
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 616
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0300276672
- Language: English
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Mies Van Der Rohe: An Architect in His Time
$75.00 Add to cartA landmark survey, offering a nuanced and deeply researched account of the career and life of the iconic modern architect
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) was a German-born American architect and- Author: Neumann, Dietrich
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0300246234
- Language: English
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Why Empires Fall: Rome, America, and the Future of the West
$18.00 Read moreA new perspective on parallels between ancient Rome and the modern world, and what comes next
“[A] provocative short book . . . with a novel twist.”–The Economist Over the last three centuries, the- Author: Heather, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0300280084
- Language: English
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Tchaikovsky’s Empire: A New Life of Russia’s Greatest Composer
$35.00 Add to cartA thrilling new biography of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky–composer of some of the world’s most popular orchestral and theatrical music
Tchaikovsky is famous for all the wrong reasons. Portrayed as a hop- Author: Morrison, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 030019210X
- Language: English
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Spice: The 16th-Century Contest That Shaped the Modern World
$25.00 Read moreThe 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 0300267479
- Language: English
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Catullus: Selected Poems
$26.00 Add to cartA vivid and musical rendering of the poetry of Catullus, whose passionate verses have captivated readers for centuries
In the fourteenth century, a manuscript surfaced in Verona that had been lost fo- Author: Catullus, Gaius Valerius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0300275293
- Language: English
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The Brothers Grimm: A Biography
$35.00 Read moreThe first English-language biography in over fifty years to tell the full, vibrant story of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, known to history as the Brothers Grimm
“Magisterial.”–Kirkus Reviews More than tw- Author: Schmiesing, Ann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0300221754
- Language: English
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Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money
$40.00 Add to cartA unique illustrated exploration of the development of finance that combines data from every part of the world and covers five thousand years of history
From the emergence of money in the ancient wor- Author: Wojcik, Dariusz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0300253052
- Language: English
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Written in Water: The Ephemeral Life of the Classic in Art
$40.00 Add to cartA deeply personal yet broadly relevant exploration of the ephemeral life of the classic in art, from the eighteenth century to our own day
Is there such a thing as a timeless classic? More than a dec- Author: Gurstein, Rochelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 0300215487
- Language: English
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Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America’s Political Crisis
$40.00 Add to cartThe long-developing cultural divisions beneath our present political crisis
Liberal democracy in America has always contained contradictions–most notably, a noble but abstract commitment to freedom,- Author: Hunter, James Davison
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0300274378
- Language: English
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Glorious Lessons: John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution
$30.00 Add to cartThe complicated life and legacy of John Trumbull, whose paintings portrayed both the struggle and the principles that distinguished America’s founding moment
“Nuanced, engaging and incisive.”–Stephen- Author: Brookhiser, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 0300259700
- Language: English
