Books published by Yale University Press

A concise history of how American law has shaped-and been shaped by-the experience of contagion

In this third Why I Write volume, Eileen Myles addresses the social, political, and aesthetic conditions that shape their work

A stunning reexamination of one of the essential tenets of Christian belief from one of the most provocative and admired writers on religion today

A collection of inspiring essays by the photographer Robert Adams, who advocates the meaningfulness of art in a disillusioned society

The captivating story of Tudor dress, its construction and symbolism, and the people who made and wore it

A new history of English trade and empire-revealing how a tightly woven community of merchants was the true origin of globalized Britain

An intimate, accessible history of British intellectual development across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, through the story of one family

A radical rethinking of how to make distressed urban neighborhoods more livable while preserving the residents' ability to live there

A major new biography of Huldrych Zwingli-the warrior preacher who shaped the early Reformation

Investigating the rich architecture of post-Mao China and its broad cultural impact

New commissioned work by an important American contemporary artist using a multidisciplinary approach to examine issues of race and identity

A wide-ranging retrospective that reveals a master printer's own photographs to be technically brilliant work of remarkable breadth and complexity

A revealing and gripping investigation into how social media platforms police what we post online--and the large societal impact of these decisions

A close look at Man Ray's interwar portraiture, as well as the friendships between the photographer and his subjects: the international avant garde in Paris

A study of two exhibitions that took place five years apart in the same building in Brussels city-centre

"I want my clothes to make you smile!"-Patrick Kelly