Yale University Press
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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
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The Holy Innocents
$18.00 Add to cartA shattering tale of oppression and resistance during Franco’s dictatorship, by a beloved Spanish novelist
“A ferocious story.”–The Guardian “[Delibes] is a master of compression, using the art of om- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Delibes, Miguel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0300275137
- Language: English
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Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and His Books
$22.00 Add to cartA compelling intellectual biography of Stalin told through his personal library
“[A] fascinating new study.”–Michael O’Donnell, Wall Street Journal In this engaging life of the twentieth century’s- Author: Roberts, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0300281137
- Language: English
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Equality Is a Struggle: Bulletins from the Front Line, 2021-2025
$28.00 Add to cartAn acclaimed economist’s observations on four years of events that have shaped the world
In this new volume drawn from his columns for the French newspaper Le Monde, renowned economist Thomas Piketty- Author: Piketty, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0300282753
- Language: English
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Carole King: She Made the Earth Move
$28.00 Add to cartJane Eisner traces the professional accomplishments and personal challenges of pop icon Carole King, exploring her unique contribution to American music
Carole King’s extraordinary career has defined- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Eisner, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0300259468
- Language: English
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Republic and Empire: Crisis, Revolution, and America’s Early Independence
$35.00 Add to cartA fresh look at the American Revolution as a major global event
At the time of the American Revolution (1765-83), the British Empire had colonies in India, Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific, Canada,- Author: Burnard, Trevor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0300280181
- Language: English
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Mixed Signals: How Incentives Really Work
$20.00 Add to cartAn informative and entertaining account of how actions send signals that shape behaviors and how to design better incentives for better results in our life, our work, and our world
“Getting [an] incen- Author: Gneezy, Uri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0300276745
- Language: English
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Death to Order: A Modern History of Assassination
$35.00 Add to cartA deeply researched history of assassination in the modern world, from Franz Ferdinand to Osama bin Laden
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Leon Trotsky, Reinhard Heydrich, Mahatma Gandhi, John F. Kennedy, M- Author: Ball, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 0300258046
- Language: English
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A Little Book of Language
$15.00 Read moreA lively journey through the story of language, from an infant’s first word to the languages of the internet
Language never leaves you alone. It’s there in your head, helping you think. It’s there to- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Crystal, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0300283237
- Language: English
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A Popular History of IDI Amin’s Uganda
$35.00 Add to cartHow Africa’s most notorious tyrant made his oppressive regime seem both necessary and patriotic
Idi Amin ruled Uganda between 1971 and 1979, inflicting tremendous violence on the people of the count- Author: Peterson, Derek R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 0300278381
- Language: English
