Books published by Yale University Press

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

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 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 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

A gripping account of the Knights Templar, challenging received wisdom to show how these devout medieval knights played a profound role in making modern Britain

A leading film critic on the evolving world of streaming media and its impact on society

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

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.

An intimate portrait illuminating the life and work of Amos Oz, the award-winning Israeli writer and activist

How debates over secrecy and transparency in politics during the eighteenth century shaped modern democracy

Bringing to life the world of Spanish royal tailor Mateo Aguado and his colleagues during the reign of Philip IV, and exploring the distinctive look of the court in seventeenth-century Madrid

A history of the United States' greatest archival project and how it has shaped what we know about the Civil War

A new portrait of Betty Friedan, the author and activist acclaimed as the mother of second-wave feminism

A rich and fascinating account of one of music history's most ancient, varied, and distinctive instruments

A generous selection of poems by a major Victorian writer, a virtuoso of traditional forms who came to be recognized as a uniquely inventive and original voice in modern poetry