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Book publisher. Bringing truth to light for more than one hundred years. Our London office tweets at @yalebooks
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A renowned Buddhist teacher turns to two of the most influential figures in history for guidance on how to face the ethical challenges of our time. Available now!
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American history offers three general strategies of repair and renewal. An article from author Paul Starr in @TheProspect .
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American history offers three general strategies of repair and renewal.
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"In her groundbreaking biography, [Gaffield] has succeeded in the vital mission of offering a faithful account of Dessalines’s life. "—Public Books reviews I Have Avenged America by Julia Gaffield
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“Securing the first permanent, universal, and immediate abolition of slavery was Jean-Jacques Dessalines’s legacy.”
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Author Kenneth Turan on how Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg shaped Hollywood on KCRW.
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Author and film critic Kenneth Turan joins to discuss his new book “Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equation.”
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Why does the past cause so much conflict? That is one of the questions that author James M. Banner asks in The Ever-Changing Past. In this new blog post, Banner explains what events led him to writing this book.
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James M. Banner, Jr.— Save for mathematical and physical constants like the value of pi and the speed of light, few elements of life on earth are changeless. Everything undergoes... READ MORE
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RT @Watandost: As the 4th anniversary of the Taliban takeover approaches, revisiting @AANafgh’s 2025 list of essential reads on the movemen….
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We thought we would start 2025 by asking AAN writers and friends to recommend books about Afghanistan. Their choices are eclectic, ranging across the academic and journalistic, memoirs and fiction,...
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In the past five years, masks have become a topic of debate regarding the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. But there's more history to the face covering and it's controversies. Author Bruno J. Strasser and Thomas Schlich discuss anti mask movements in a new blog.
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Thomas Schlich and Bruno J. Strasser— In May 2024 at the Libertarian National Convention in Washington, DC, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., recalled that, during the pandemic, he was asked whether... READ...
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"It is entirely fitting that Noga Arikha, the French philosopher and historian of ideas, is our guide to Boas’s life and thought."—Angus Smith, @JewishBook.
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A field anthropologist and scholar, Franz Boas essentially created the modern discipline of anthropology about 125 years ago.
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"The letters of this protean figure in American musical theater induced in this reader a pleasurable mixture of nostalgia, voyeurism, and insight." @theartsfuse .
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"Draycott is an effective teacher and researcher about the ancient world."—Steve Donoghue, @OLRReview .
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A new biography of the infamous enemy of Cicero
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"His thrust is political: to examine how assassination functions as an instrument, and how states’ reactions to assassination shape its use." —@Harpers reviews Death to Order.
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"The book traces the fortunes of seven Black families across generations, excavating genealogies and tabulating, with forensic care, the labor extracted and the property lost."—Idrees Kahloon, @WSJ on The Plunder of Black America.
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Six decades of civil-rights efforts haven’t budged it, and the usual prescriptions—including reparations—offer no lasting solutions. Have we been focussing on the wrong things?
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RT @BookReviewsAsia: Today in the ARB: Paul Bromberg reviews “Recasting the Past: The Art of Chinese Bronzes, 1100-1900” by Pengliang Lu @y….
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RT @iamfujimura: To prep for the release of “Art Is: A Journey into the Light” @yalepress this fall, I will be posting and sharing the proc….
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RT @PublicBooks: In a new book about Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Julia Gaffield describes how the Haitian founder challenged injustice and fou….
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RT @OLRReview: Steve Donoghue reviews a new biography of the infamous enemy of Cicero, Fulvia by Jane Draycott, out from @yalepress:. https….
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A new biography of the infamous enemy of Cicero
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We're at the Ecological Society of America's Annual Meeting! Enjoy 30% off our environmental science list through November 13 using code ESA25. Click here for the full list of titles:
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From historian Eric T. Jennings, comes the story of vanilla.
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The Nighttime Butterfly is a dynamic history of life in turn-of-the-century Warsaw through the eyes of a young woman and her Jewish family who converted to Catholicism. #catholicism #history #poland
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Congratulations to author Chloe Wigston Smith, whose book Novels, Needleworks, and Empire: Material Entanglements in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World was announced as a finalist for the Susanne M. Glasscock Book Prize.
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