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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Robert Oppenheimer
The Sphinx Without a Secret
ISBN: HB: 9780300180466,
Yale University Press,
November 2026
288 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
288 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
An original perspective on the father of the atomic bomb, shedding new light on Oppenheimer's personality and psychology.
Both to his contemporaries and to posterity J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) has gone down in history as the "father" of the a...
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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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Nature's Apothecary
ISBN: PB: 9781851246694,
Bodleian Library Publishing,
July 2026
288 pp., 21,0x16,1 cm, 110 colour illus.
288 pp., 21,0x16,1 cm, 110 colour illus.
Beautifully illustrated throughout, this book shows the social, cultural and historical importance of plants and their role in both formal and folk medicine.
Herbs have been used for centuries to cure all manner of ailments. They were especially imp...
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Ultimate Atlas
Logbook of Spaceship Earth
ISBN: HB: 9783037785928,
Lars Muller Publishers,
June 2026
160 pp., 24,4x16,5 cm, 63 black&white illus.
160 pp., 24,4x16,5 cm, 63 black&white illus.
With "Ultimate Atlas", Theo Deutinger architect, designer and author of the acclaimed "Handbook of Tyranny" illustrates the basic data of Earth and its inhabitants to create a total portrait of the planet. How can we keep track of everything that hap...
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Little History of Mathematics
New Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780300286984,
ISBN: HB: 9780300273731,
Yale University Press,
May 2026
304 pp., 19,8x12,8 cm, 40 black&white illus.
304 pp., 19,8x12,8 cm, 40 black&white illus.
A lively, accessible history of mathematics throughout the ages and across the globe.
Mathematics is fundamental to our daily lives. Science, computing, economics - all aspects of modern life rely on some kind of maths. But how did our ancestors th...
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In Praise of Floods
The Untamed River and the Life It Brings
ISBN: PB: 9780300292305,
ISBN: HB: 9780300278491,
Yale University Press,
May 2026
248 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 48 black&white illus.
248 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 48 black&white illus.
James C. Scott reframes rivers as alive and dynamic, revealing the consequences of treating them as resources for our profit.
Rivers, on a long view, are alive. They are born; they change; they shift their channels; they forge new routes to the sea...
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Tuberous Worlds
Vegetal Politics and More-Than-Human Relations
ISBN: HB: 9780300281774,
Yale University Press,
April 2026
368 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 21 black&white illus.
368 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 21 black&white illus.
A fascinating examination of "tuberous associations" - the economies, politics, and ecologies enabled by human-tuber interactions.
The world is much more tuberous than most people know. From the millions of smallholder peasants cultivating tuber pl...
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Man Who Made Plants Write
ISBN: HB: 9780300278408,
Yale University Press,
March 2026
144 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm
144 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm
An internationally celebrated poet and critic translates Jagadish Chandra Bose's revolutionary writings on plant sentience and communication.
Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858-1937) was a Bengali scientist and polymath who developed a theory of plant comm...
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Most Crooked River in the World
The Waters of the Kankakee and the Nature of Time
ISBN: HB: 9780300265804,
Yale University Press,
March 2026
312 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 11 black&white illus.
312 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 11 black&white illus.
An imaginative history of the Kankakee River, told in reverse chronological order, that examines the ecological losses caused as people transformed the river and its wetlands.
The Kankakee River, whose waters gathered west of present-day South Bend,...
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