Star Stories
Constellations and People
ISBN: PB: 9780300305326,
ISBN: HB: 9780300241280,
Yale University Press,
November 2026
208 pp., 20,9x13,9 cm, 34 black&white illus.
208 pp., 20,9x13,9 cm, 34 black&white illus.
Follow an epic animal race, a quest for a disembodied hand, and an emu egg hunt in constellation stories from diverse cultures.
We can see love, betrayal, and friendship in the heavens, if we know where to look. A world expert on cultural understand...
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Goddesses
A History of Love and War
ISBN: HB: 9780300290721,
Yale University Press,
October 2026
304 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 18 black&white illus.
304 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 18 black&white illus.
A groundbreaking history of the ancient goddesses of love and war.
The figure of a goddess who represents both love and war can be found in cultures across the ancient world. These societies were all polytheistic, and all worshipped such deities as...
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Reindeer
A Tale of Nature and Survival in a Changing North
ISBN: HB: 9780300283457,
Yale University Press,
October 2026
256 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 36 black&white illus.
256 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 36 black&white illus.
A global history of human relationships with reindeer, and how wildlife relocation can preserve both reindeer populations and cultural heritage.
Across the Arctic and the boreal north, reindeer populations are dwindling as our ever developing planet...
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Vanilla
The History of an Extraordinary Bean
ISBN: PB: 9780300292169,
ISBN: HB: 9780300264531,
Yale University Press,
October 2026
312 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 18 black&white illus.
312 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 18 black&white illus.
The fascinating and wide-ranging history of vanilla, from the sixteenth century to today.
Vanilla is one of the most expensive of flavorings - so valuable that it was smuggled or stolen by pirates in the early days - and yet it is everywhere. It is...
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Wireheads
An Unnatural History of Technology in the Brain
ISBN: HB: 9780300278880,
Yale University Press,
October 2026
288 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 18 colour illus., 16 black&white illus.
288 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 18 colour illus., 16 black&white illus.
The story of the mavericks and scientists, crackpots and artistic visionaries who imagined a future where machines fuse with our minds.
As humanity and technology become ever more tightly interwoven, "Wireheads" explores the final and most intimate...
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Carousel
An Essay on Seeing
ISBN: PB: 9780300284331,
Yale University Press,
September 2026
176 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm
176 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm
From an award-winning writer, a critical reflection on the human desire to see and be seen.
Carousel opens as a professor begins delivering a lecture to a hot room. Her students have the internet in their pockets, screens on their wrists, seeing in...
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Sniff
A History of Smells
ISBN: HB: 9780300282597,
Yale University Press,
September 2026
384 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 16 black&white illus.
384 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 16 black&white illus.
A remarkable account of the weird and wonderful history of smell.
Across vast periods of time and around the globe, smell has been central to human life. From the incense burned in medieval religious rituals to the use of modern sniffer dogs, smells...
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Utopia for Our Century
A Manifesto of Hope
ISBN: HB: 9780300278088,
Yale University Press,
September 2026
168 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm
168 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm
Inspired by the humanist and Catholic martyr Thomas More, David Albertson and Jason Blakely imagine a new politics of hope.
In Thomas More's "Utopia", a traveler from the New World delivers a shocking message: on a lost island beyond the horizon, p...
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To Arrive Where We Started
Belonging in the Modern World
ISBN: HB: 9780300263626,
Yale University Press,
August 2026
200 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm
200 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm
A sweeping meditation on the human search for home, drawing on the works of philosophers, poets, novelists, scientists, anthropologists, and theologians.
Why do so many people in modern societies feel not at home in their worlds? How have they becom...
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Magic Books
A History of Enchantment in 20 Medieval Manuscripts
ISBN: PB: 9780300297164,
ISBN: HB: 9780300244434,
Yale University Press,
July 2026
368 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 66 colour illus.
368 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 66 colour illus.
A fascinating and highly original history of medieval magic told through twenty key illuminated manuscripts.
Medieval Europe was preoccupied with magic. From the Carolingian Empire to Renaissance Italy and Tudor England, great rulers, religious fig...
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