Books published by Yale University Press

Insightful and interdisciplinary, this book considers the movement of people around the world and how contemporary artists contribute to our understanding of it

A celebration of the stunning collection of artworks donated in honor of the creation of The Menil Drawing Institute

A detailed look at a genre that combines virtuoso printmaking techniques, sophisticated imagery, and engaging, playful poetry

Catalog of an exhibition held at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, October 25, 2019-January 12, 2020.

An aesthetic and social history of art and dance in mid-20th-century New York interpreted by contemporary artist Nick Mauss

The recent work of Belgian abstract artist Yves Zurstrassen is explored in depth in this handsome volume, designed in close collaboration with the artist himself

The story of India's exuberantly colored textiles that made their mark on design, technology, and trade around the world

A comprehensive look at an important member of the artistic vanguard of late 19th- and early 20th-century Europe

A fresh, comprehensive, and critical look at the California gold rush through the lens of the daguerreotype camera

A sweeping history of Los Angeles told through the lens of the many marginalized groups--from hobos to taggers--that have used the city's walls as a channel for communication

A radically new cosmological view from a groundbreaking neuroscientist placing the human brain at the center of humanity's universe

An award-winning historian presents an emotional history of Jewish refugees biding their time in Portugal as they attempt to escape Nazi Europe

A groundbreaking study of the role of Muslims in eighteenth-century France

A dramatic account of the fateful year leading to the ultimate crisis of the Roman Republic and the rise of Caesar's autocracy

Why we cannot truly implement human rights unless we also recognize human responsibilities

A compelling argument that the Internet of things threatens human rights and security and that suggests policy prescriptions to protect our future

This timely and original study transforms our understanding of the relationship between art and economics

A revelatory account of the complex and evolving relationship of Renaissance architects to classical antiquity

A comprehensive case for a fresh literary approach to the New Testament

A groundbreaking investigation of early Christ groups in the ancient Mediterranean that reshapes the perception of Christian associations in the first three centuries of the Common Era

A fresh translation of The New Science, with detailed footnotes that will help both the scholar and the new reader navigate Vico's masterpiece

A fast-moving, musically astute portrait of arguably the greatest composer of American popular music. Irving Berlin (1888-1989) has been called-by George Gershwin, among others-the greatest songwriter of the golden age of the American popular song. "Berlin has no place in American music," legendary composer Jerome Kern wrote; "he is American music." In a career that spanned an astonishing nine decades, Berlin wrote some fifteen hundred tunes, including "Alexander's Ragtime Band," "God Bless America," and "White Christmas." From ragtime to the rock era, Berlin's work has endured in the very fiber of American national identity. Exploring the intertwining of Berlin's life with the life of New York City, noted biographer James Kaplan offers a visceral narrative of Berlin as self-made man and witty, wily, tough Jewish immigrant. This fast-paced, musically opinionated biography uncovers Berlin's unique brilliance as a composer of music and lyrics. Masterfully written and psychologically penetrating, Kaplan's book underscores Berlin's continued relevance in American popular culture.

The remote, rugged, rough country of North West Ulster possesses buildings as varied as its landscape. This volume shows that from its earliest centuries survive monuments of the Celtic church, in particular the sculptured cross slabs, high crosses and round towers, and medieval tower houses.