Books published by Yale University Press

Hitler saw himself as a 'philosopher-leader', and astonishingly gained the support of many intellectuals of his time. In this book, the author explores Hitler's relationship with philosophers - those who supported his rise to power and those whose lives were wrecked by his regime.

A major new biography of James McNeill Whistler, one of most complex, intriguing, and important of America's artists

Learn to Write the Hebrew Script presents a new and innovative approach to learning the Hebrew script.

Reveals how, from even before the Reformation, the Tudors sought to sustain and enhance their authority by representing themselves to their people through the media of building, print, art, material culture and speech.

From the leading Wellington historian, a fascinating reassessment of the Duke's most famous victory and his role in the turbulent politics after Waterloo

The first book about Albatross Press, a Penguin precursor that entered into an uneasy relationship with the Nazi regime to keep Anglo-American literature alive under fascism

A new and chilling study of lethal human exploitation in the Soviet forced labor camps, one of the pillars of Stalinist terror

Based on interviews with participants and research in Soviet archives, this work reveals how the American atomic monopoly affected Stalin's foreign policy, the role of espionage in the evolution of the bomb, and the relationship between Soviet nuclear scientists and the country's leaders.

The idea that military strength is virtually synonymous with security is deeply entrenched and widely held. This title considers the practical problems of the transition from military-based security arrangements to "economic peacekeeping", and the effects of demilitarized security on economic development and prosperity.

The final decade of the old order in imperial Russia was a time of both crisis and possibility, an uncertain time that inspired an often desperate search for meaning. This book explores how journalists and other writers in St Petersburg described and interpreted the troubled years between the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917.

Reading the King James Bible alongside Tyndale's Bible, the Geneva Bible, and the original Hebrew and Greek texts, the author highlights how the translators and editors improved upon - or, in some cases, diminished - the earlier versions.

Together, Cranach's paintings and Luther's powerful oratory created a force field that transformed Germany, Europe, and ultimately the Western world

Acclaimed and celebrated in the Arab world for its vivid portrait of Iraq, this heartbreaking novel confronts the war-torn nation's horrifying recent history

In less than a century, the accepted picture of the universe transformed from a stagnant place, comprised entirely of our own Milky Way galaxy, to a realm inhabited by billions of individual galaxies, hurtling away from one another. In this title, the author describes his principal observations and conclusions.

Examines America's unprecedented power within the international arenas of politics, economics, demographics, education, science, and culture.

Internationally known as a concert pianist and highly respected as a piano teacher, Boris Berman here offers an exploration of both piano technique and music interpretation.

Addressing essential questions about the Christian tradition, "Credo" stands as an independent reference work devoted to the subject of what creeds and confessions are and what their role in history has been.

The human story of what the Russian Revolution meant to ordinary people has rarely been told. This volume gives voice to the experiences, thoughts and feelings of the Russian people - as expressed in their own words during the vast political, social and economic upheavals of 1917.

An interpretation of Balanchine's ballets, a portrait of the intelligentsia that gathered around his enterprise and a history of the author's involvement with Balanchine's dances over a period of 40 years.

Love - unconditional, selfless, unchanging, sincere, and totally accepting - is worshipped today as the West's only universal religion. To challenge it is one of our few remaining taboos. The author does just that, dissecting our resilient ruling ideas of love and showing how they are the product of a long and powerful cultural heritage.

The phrase "Cold War" was coined by George Orwell in 1945 to describe the impact of the atomic bomb on world politics. Far more than merely a straightforward history of the Cold War, this book presents an account of politics and decision making at the highest levels of Soviet power.

Presents an analysis of Jonathan Edwards' theological position. This book includes a study of his life and the intellectual issues in the America of his time, and examines the problem of free will in connection with Leibniz, Locke, and Hume.

This is Frederick Douglass's account of his life in bondage as a slave and his triumph over oppression, originally published in 1845. This edition includes a chronology of Douglass's life, an introduction by a Douglass scholar, historical notes, and reader responses to the 1845 edition.

Poems and woodcuts by the Russian painter portray in child-like images the constant transformations that shape our world.

Featuring extended analyses of the author's most cherished poets - Shakespeare, Whitman, and Crane - as well as inspired appreciations of Emerson, Tennyson, Browning, Yeats, Ashbery, and others, this title adapts his classic work "The Anxiety of Influence" to show us what great literature is, how it comes to be, and why it matters.

A study of the Irish peerage and its role in the establishment of English control over Ireland. It examines the resident peerage as an aggregate of 91 families, not simply 311 individuals, and demonstrates how a reconstituted peerage of mixed faith and ethnicity assimilated the established Catholic aristocracy.

An original analysis of the war between the two opposing sides of Italy's national character

A spirited biography of Philip Roth's notorious novel, from the outrage it sparked to its impact on Roth to its legacy some forty years later

An entirely new portrait of Keats, rich with insights into the torments of his life and the imaginative sources of his works

Suitable for physicists and scholars, this title includes descriptions of the then-known particle universe and its nascent conceptual framework that allow readers to glimpse the foundations of the field from the perspective of one of its most distinguished contributors. It also provides an update, detailing advances in quantum field theory.