Books published by Yale University Press

The first full-length biography of civil rights hero and congressman John Lewis

An award-winning historian reconstructs the life of Francis of Assisi and his medieval world, uncovering the man behind the myths

The long history of the racial wealth gap in America told through the stories of six Black families who struggled to build wealth over multiple generations

Kenneth 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

A major new history of Saudi Arabia, from its eighteenth-century origins to the present day

A monograph on one of the leading figures of German Expressionism, Erich Heckel and on artistic exchange in wartime Europe.

A celebration of Peter Eisenman’s illustrious career as architect, thinker, author, and educator

A major new biography of Maria Theresa, the formidable Habsburg Empress

A striking collection of French tapestries, from the 1940s to today, from the collection of the Mobilier nationale, Paris

An engaging guide to the waterways of Rome and their role in shaping the city’s culture, history, and landscape

An expansive look at the contemporary artists confronting, challenging, and reimagining R. Buckminster Fuller’s techno-utopianism to envision sustainable futures

A human history of one of the planet’s most iconic lakes, and the civilizations that surrounded its shores

A social psychologist reveals how to nudge local cultures toward positive structural change by moving people from individual action to collective action

An evocative voyage through the Carpathian mountain range and its threatened landscape, peoples, and history

This book will be a major survey of one of the most famous artist couples namely Hans (Jean) Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp, two of the most important artists of the 20th-century avant-garde.

Essential reading for anyone interested in art, community, and the built environment

Experience the world of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius and the tremendous challenges he faced and overcame, with the help of Stoic philosophy

A revealing exploration of how prescient nineteenth-century artists, writers, and scientists began to sound the alarm on climate crisis

The first volume of a groundbreaking two-part commentary on the book of Genesis by leading biblical scholar Ronald Hendel

A thrilling new biography of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky—composer of some of the world’s most popular orchestral and theatrical music

A history of the postal system that once connected the Ottoman Empire

A gripping new history of London during the Blackout—revealing the violent crime that spread across the capital under the cover of darkness