Books published by Yale University Press

This fresh look at artist Takashi Murakami takes on the “monstrous” themes of rampant consumerism, human fallibility, and the perils of life in the digital fast lane, in works from the past decade

A vibrant, diverse history of Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples in the age of Romanticism

A searing testament to poetry's power to define and defy injustice, from iconic writer-activist Serhiy Zhadan

A groundbreaking exhibition catalogue of Native, First Nations, Metis, and Inuit photography from the nineteenth century to the present day

A landmark publication on the drawings of one of the giants of the Italian Renaissance

This lavishly illustrated exploration of fashion designer Gaby Aghion's life, career, and legacy at the French fashion house Chloé features seventy years of clothing and designs along with recollections from designers Karl Lagerfeld, Stella McCartney, and others.

"A stunning exploration of the vital links between Claude Monet's Impressionism and the time technologies that helped define modernity in the nineteenth century. Monet's Minutes is a revelatory account charting the relationship between the works of Claude Monet (1840-1926)-founder of French Impressionism and one of the world's best-known painters-and the modern experience of time. Andrâe Dombrowski illuminates Monet's celebration of instantaneity in the context of the late nineteenth-century time technologies that underwrote it. Monet's version of Impressionism demonstrated an acute awareness of the particularly modern pressures of time, but until now scholars have not examined the histories and technologies of time and timekeeping that informed Impressionism's major stylistic shifts. Arguing that the fascination with instantaneity rejected the dulling cultures of newly routinized and standardized time, Monet's Minutes traces the evolution of Monet's art to what were then seismic shifts in the shape of time itself. In each chapter, Dombrowski focuses on the connections between a set of Monet's works and a specific technology or experience of time, while providing the voices of period critics responding to Impressionism. Grounded in exceptional research and analyses, this book offers new interpretations of key works by Monet and a fresh perspective on late nineteenth-century art, society, and modern temporality"--

Robert Frank's and Todd Webb's parallel 1955 projects to photograph America are considered in the context of mid-twentieth-century American culture

This no-holds-barred narrative of the failure of conservation in northern New England's forests envisions a wilder, more equitable, lower-carbon future for forest-dependent communities

A powerful and inspiring biography of Merze Tate, a trailblazing Black woman scholar and intrepid world traveler

An expansive new study that explores the wide breadth of Italian painting in the fifteenth century

An illuminating biography reconstructing the life and legacy of a unique king in world history and the most famous emperor in South Asian history

An engaging introduction to the cutting-edge discipline of experience design for students and practitioners in creative fields, including architecture, product design, gaming, exhibition design, and performance

An incisive account of the Arctic convoys, and the essential role Bletchley Park and Special Intelligence played in Allied success

Birds, hormones, and extraordinary behavior: The story of the tiny but mighty golden-collared manakin of Panama

A compelling new history of the EU and the people who sought to shape and challenge it—from Maastricht to today

An absurdist comedy and fifteenth winner of the Yale Drama Prize, exploring family, religion, identity, desire, and beauty in Korean American culture

Michael Haas sensitively records the experiences of the composers who fled the Nazis, escaping Hitler's Germany to make new lives across the globe. Haas traces the distinctive contribution these composers made to the twentieth-century soundscape?and offers a moving record of the incalculable effects of war on culture.

An original and provocative exploration of the relationship between contemporary art, politics, and activism

A compelling and innovative exploration of how animals shaped the birth of natural history and its ecological afterlives

How democracies compete with autocracies to bias international order in their favor--and why democracies are losing

A fresh look at the world's water crises, and the existing and emerging solutions that can be used to solve them

An elegant consideration of the Surrealist movement as a global phenomenon and why the movement continues to resonate

The tragic life of Julian, the last non-Christian emperor of Rome, by award-winning author Philip Freeman

The daring, mischievous micro-essays of award-winning French humorist Éric Chevillard, published in English for the first time

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

A journey guided by science that explores the universe, the earth, and the story of life

An account of the emergence of creative nonfiction, written by the “godfather” of the genre

An epic account of how a new world order under Tamerlane was born out of the decline of the Mongol Empire

After the death of Stalin, the Soviet Union underwent profound changes as the communist project was rejuvenated. Robert Hornsby details this remarkable era of Soviet history, in which mass repression was reined in, cultural restrictions slackened, new connections with the outside world proliferated, and the Cold War reached its peak.