Yale University Press
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Van Gogh and the End of Nature
$45.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking reassessment that foregrounds Van Gogh’s profound engagement with the industrial age while making his work newly relevant for our world today
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) is most oft- Author: Lobel, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 030027436X
- Language: English
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What Nails It
$20.00 Add to cartFrom a celebrated critic, a heartfelt and adventurous reflection on the art of writing about art
“Essential for fans of Marcus and fruitful reading for anyone reflecting on the mysteries of art.”–Ki- Series: Why I Write
- Author: Marcus, Greil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0300272456
- Language: English
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Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World
$35.00 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0300273770
- Language: English
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Tattoos: The Untold History of a Modern Art
$35.00 Add to cartThe true history of tattoo as both art and profession in the West
There is a pervasive stereotype of tattoo culture as relating to an underworld of scoundrels, sailors, and ne’er-do-wells, yet it has- Author: Lodder, Matt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0300269390
- Language: English
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Yield: The Journal of an Artist
$20.00 Read moreNamed by the New Yorker as one of the best books of 2022, this posthumously published work serves as the fourth and final volume in Anne Truitt’s remarkable series of journals
“Anne Truitt’s Yield has- Author: Truitt, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0300276842
- Language: English
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Battleground: 10 Conflicts That Explain the New Middle East
$28.00 Read moreThe essential guide to geopolitics in the modern Middle East
The Middle East is in crisis. The shocking events of the war in Gaza have rocked the entire region. More than a decade ago, the Arab Sprin- Author: Phillips, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0300263422
- Language: English
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100 Dresses: The Costume Institute / The Metropolitan Museum of Art
$24.95 Read moreAn irresistible look into more than 300 years of fashion through an exquisite collection of designer dresses
What woman can resist imagining herself in a beautiful designer dress? Here, for the first- Author: Koda, Harold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 26 2010
- ISBN10: 0300166559
- Language: English
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Arms and Influence
$20.00 Add to cart“This is a brilliant and hardheaded book. It will frighten those who prefer not to dwell on the unthinkable and infuriate those who have taken refuge in stereotypes and moral attitudinizing.”–Gordon … [more below]
- Series: Veritas Paperbacks
- Author: Schelling, Thomas C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0300246749
- Language: English
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The Iceman Cometh
$13.95 Read moreEugene O’Neill’s darkest and most nihilistic play, with a foreword by Harold Bloom
“We live and die, in the spirit, in solitude, and the true strength of Iceman is its intense dramatic exemplificatio- Author: O’Neill, Eugene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0300117434
- Language: English
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Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair
$26.00 Add to cartAn insightful new biography of the central figure in the Dreyfus Affair, focused on the man himself and based on newly accessible documents
On January 5, 1895, Captain Alfred Dreyfus’s cries of innoc- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Samuels, Maurice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0300254008
- Language: English
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The Herbal Year: Folklore, History and Remedies
$26.00 Add to cartAn enchanting, beautifully illustrated guide to seasonal plants–showing the long history of herbal remedies and their uses today
“[A] charming almanac. . . . Hart-Davies, a writer and botanical illus- Author: Hart-Davies, Christina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0300265867
- Language: English
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Yale and Slavery: A History
$35.00 Add to cartA comprehensive look at how slavery and resistance to it have shaped Yale University
Award-winning historian David W. Blight, with the Yale and Slavery Research Project, answers the call to investiga- Author: Blight, David W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0300273843
- Language: English
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Make It Modern: A History of Art in the 20th Century
$50.00 Read moreA fascinating journey through Western art from the 1910s to the 1960s, charting how artists wrestled with the headlong changes of a turbulent and conflict-ridden world
From the chaos of the First Wor- Author: Taylor, Brandon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 0300253656
- Language: English
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Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World’s First Author
$22.00 Add to cartThe complete poems of the priestess Enheduana, the world’s first known author, newly translated from the original Sumerian
“Helle’s translation feels urgent, incandescent, stripped of academic claddi- Author: Helle, Sophus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0300276761
- Language: English
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Where We Stand
$20.00 Add to cartThe instant bestseller from Djamila Ribeiro that sparked a major Black feminist movement in Brazil
In a society shaped by the legacies of enslavement, white supremacy, and sexism, who has the right t- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Ribeiro, Djamila
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0300269641
- Language: English
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The Seven Measures of the World
$18.00 Add to cartThe 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0300280114
- Language: English
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The Story of Drawing: An Alternative History of Art
$35.00 Add to cartDrawing is at the heart of human creativity. The most democratic form of art-making, it requires nothing more than a plain surface and a stub of pencil, a piece of chalk or an inky brush. Our prehisto… [more below]
- Author: Owens, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0300260474
- Language: English
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The World Atlas of Public Art
$50.00 Add to cartEssential reading for anyone interested in art, community, and the built environment
“An around-the-world glimpse into how artists reimagine the places, spaces, landscapes, streets, and skies we shar- Author: Wasserman, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0300272588
- Language: English
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Africa’s Fashion Diaspora
$45.00 Add to cartOne of the first books to examine the wide breadth of the African Diaspora and its influence on international fashion.
Tracing the local and global impact of Black Diasporic designers, Africa’s Fashi- Author: Way, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0300270739
- Language: English
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Attacking the Elites: What Critics Get Wrong–And Right–About America’s Leading Universities
$28.00 Read moreA former Harvard president reflects on how elite universities are responding to critiques from the left and the right, and how they can do better
“People have lost faith, trust and confidence [in high- Author: Bok, Derek
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 27, 2024
- ISBN10: 0300273606
- Language: English
