Books published by Yale University Press

This translation of four of Plato's dialogues brings these classic texts alive for modern readers. Allen introduces and comments on the dialogues in an accessible way, inviting the reader to re-examine the issues Plato continually raises in his works.

In this work two theorists of international relations analyze the strategies designed to avoid international conflict. Using a combination of game theory, statistical analysis and case histories, the authors evaluate the conditions that promote negotiation, the status quo and war.

This volume draws on research on bird species and their habitats to explain how basic principles of bird ecology and landscape ecology can help us protect and restore the diversity of North American birds. This edition includes reviews of literature that has appeared since the first edition.

Born in Galicia, possessed of little education and less money, Eduardo Barreiros (1919-1992) rose to become a successful entrepreneur and one of Spain's prominent industrialists. This biography recounts Barreiros' origins as a car mechanic, his success in the motor industry, and his little-known role as a motor industry founder in 1980s Cuba.

This volume tells the story of Calvinism's origins, expansion and impact across Europe, from the upheavals of the early Reformation to the end of the 17th century.

This biography of Edward the Confessor, first published in 1970, aims to rescue the image of the King from what the author sees as myth and bogus scholarship. Disentangling fact from legend, the text recreates the final years of the Anglo-Danish monarchy and examines England before the Normans.

In this comprehensive study, a specialist and scholar of African affairs argues that the current crisis in African development can be traced directly to European colonial rule, which left the continent with a "singularly difficult legacy", unique in modern history.

A comprehensive study of Bedouin law, including oral, pre-modern law. It shows how a nomadic desert-dwelling society provides for its own law and order in the traditional absence of any centralized authority or enforcement agency to protect it.

A biography of a pioneering child analyst.

The reign of Queen Anne was a period of significant progress for the country, but the Queen has received little credit for these achievements. This biography seeks to shatter the image of a weak and ineffective monarch and establish her as a personality of integrity and invincible stubbornness.

A new approach to the foundations of single variable calculus, based on the introductory course taught at Caltech

American public opinion about World War II was manipulated both by wartime images that citizens were allowed to see and by the images that were suppressed. This book tells of how this occurred, and offers visual essays with photographs from the army's censored files.

The life and legacy of one of Mohammad's closest confidants and Islam's patron saint: Ali ibn Abi Talib

Selections from the "Pandemic Files" published by The Yale Review, the preeminent journal of literature and ideas

A lavishly illustrated selection of highlights from the Art Institute of Chicago's extraordinary collection of the arts of Africa

Bringing together works from the past 20 years, this book introduces readers to multidisciplinary Belgian artist Maarten Vanden Eynde

"Fourteenth century Europe was an era of the expansion of city life, with the blossoming of urban industries, the bolstering of municipal governments, and new opportunities for dynamic exchanges among bustling communities of locals and visiting traders. The burghers who spearheaded such developments were discerning consumers of novel artistic and literary forms. One particularly popular new genre aimed at amusing and inspiring this newly assertive urban class was the illuminated World Chronicle, or Weltchroniken. These handmade books, produced in Bavaria and Austria in the late Middle Ages, compiled biblical stories, ancient myths, political stories from the past, and historical legends in a rhyming vernacular narrative. The stories were adorned with dynamic and richly varied cycles of illustrations that made characters and events from the past tangible and relevant to the medieval present and introduced iconographies and modes of conceptualizing history that might startle modern eyes - Cain, for instance, is depicted as a fashionable dandy of the fifteenth century and celebrated in the text as a founder of cities despite his wrongdoings. The children of Adam and Eve come off as entrepreneurs of city industry, while the story of Moses references Christian-Jewish contacts and European conceptions of Africans, and the story of the Judgement of Paris plays out as a prelude to a jousting tournament. Because they were typically read by members of the lower nobility and high-ranking burghers, the World Chronicles offer insight into the interests of people removed from elite social circles; this less-established audience also allowed artists to innovate and experiment with styles and media. Nina Rowe focuses on a remarkable cluster of twenty-four illuminated World Chronicles that were produced circa 1330-1430 in the Bavarian and Austrian region, where the genre enjoyed the greatest popularity. In seven elegantly-written and beautifully illustrated chapters, Rowe takes a cross-disciplinary approach, considering textual, pictorial, and material evidence in relation to social history to examine the relationship between illuminated World Chronicles and the tastes and preoccupations of urban audiences in an era of growing city life. As she incisively shows, the often spontaneous, playful, or cynical nature of these books complicates traditional conceptions of the long fourteenth century in Europe as a calamitous epoch or an age preoccupied with Christian piety. Through discussion of religious dissent and Christian European conceptions of an interactions with Jews and Africans, Rowe further complicates the standard narratives of the European Middles Ages as homogenously white, Christian, and spiritually obedient. By exploring little known art historical and literary evidence that reveals experiences that could be optimistic or ambitious and separate from the dictates of the church, The Illuminated World Chronicle enriches the story of medieval German art by bringing attention to artworks and attitudes long sidelined in scholarship"--

A major new assessment of the "vanished kingdom" of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth-one which recognizes its achievements before its destruction

"When Jan van Eyck (c. 1390-1441) completed the revolutionary Ghent Altarpiece in 1432, it was unprecedented in European visual culture. His novel visual strategies, including lifelike detail, not only helped make painting the defining medium of Western art, they also ushered in new ways of seeing the world. This highly original book explores Van Eyck's pivotal work, as well as panels by Rogier van der Weyden and their followers, to understand how viewers came to appreciate a world depicted in two dimensions. Through careful examination of primary documents, Noa Turel reveals that paintings were consistently described as au vif: made not 'from life' but 'into life.' Animation, not representation, drove Van Eyck and his contemporaries. Turel's interpretation reverses the commonly held belief that these artists were inspired by the era's burgeoning empiricism, proposing instead that their 'living pictures' helped create the conditions for empiricism. Illustrated with exquisite fifteenth-century paintings, this volume asserts these works' key role in shaping, rather than simply mirroring, the early modern world." --Publisher's website and inside front flap of dustjacket.

A trenchant look at how the coronavirus reveals the dangerous fault lines of contemporary society

A groundbreaking analysis of one of the most significant collections of African art in the United States

A rich, provocative, and lyrical study of one of Germany's most important, world-famous, and imaginative writer

A wide-ranging study of the painted panorama's influence on art, photography, and film

The untold story of the greatest library of the Renaissance and its creator Hernando Colon