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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12.99 GBP
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20.00 GBP
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Shanghai
The Story of China's Most Dynamic City
ISBN: HB: 9780300270631,
Yale University Press,
June 2026
352 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 25 colour illus., 3 maps
352 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 25 colour illus., 3 maps
A comprehensive new history of Shanghai, revealing its vital place in Chinese history and politics across the centuries.
Home to 25 million people, Shanghai is the most populous and wealthiest city in China. A meeting point between China and the wi...
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25.00 GBP
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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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10.99 GBP
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Capri
Historical Sketches
ISBN: HB: 9789190021798,
Yale University Press,
Stolpe Publishing,
April 2026
264 pp., 24,0x19,5 cm, 100 colour and black&white illus.
264 pp., 24,0x19,5 cm, 100 colour and black&white illus.
Capri is famous for its magical beauty but also fabled for the many fascinating personalities who journeyed there. In Roman antiquity, the island was an imperial residence, which later fell into a Sleeping Beauty slumber given its inaccessibility. Wh...
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30.00 GBP
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Walking Europe's Last Wilderness
A Journey through the Carpathian Mountains
ISBN: PB: 9780300286915,
ISBN: HB: 9780300253542,
Yale University Press,
March 2026
400 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 15 colour illus., 5 maps
400 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 15 colour illus., 5 maps
An evocative voyage through the Carpathian mountain range and its threatened landscape, peoples, and history.
The Carpathian Mountains of Poland, Slovakia, Romania, and Ukraine are Europe's last true wilderness. A landscape of great spruce and beec...
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12.99 GBP
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20.00 GBP
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Enchanting Lives of Others
A Novel
ISBN: HB: 9780300281651,
Yale University Press,
February 2026
448 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm
448 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm
A celebration of the beguiling power of literature, from one of the world's greatest storytellers.
At the Pigeon Book Club, a circle of readers gathers for exhilarating meetings to discuss literature. The only requirements for entry are an all-encom...
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16.99 GBP
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Arabesques
New Stories
ISBN: PB: 9780300284348,
Yale University Press,
February 2026
120 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm
120 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm
From an acclaimed Ukrainian author, snapshots of a city haunted by war.
The women, men, and children in Serhiy Zhadan's new collection of stories testify to the dignity of daily life in the war-battered Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. Through a series o...
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Notes to a Black Woman
ISBN: PB: 9780300270297,
Yale University Press,
February 2026
248 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm
248 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm
The extraordinary testimony of a daring Caribbean writer-activist, determined to expose injustice and defend the dignity of migrant workers.
In the 1960s, hundreds of women traveled from French colonies in the West Indies to become domestic workers...
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15.00 GBP
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Dead Sea
A 10,000-Year History
ISBN: PB: 9780300286878,
Yale University Press,
January 2026
320 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 24 black&white illus., 4 maps
320 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 24 black&white illus., 4 maps
A human history of one of the planet's most iconic lakes, and the civilizations that surrounded its shores.
The Dead Sea is a place of many contradictions. Hot springs around the lake are famed for their healing properties, though its own waters ar...
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12.99 GBP
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Montevideo
A Novel
ISBN: HB: 9780300284836,
Yale University Press,
January 2026
208 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm
208 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm
The award-winning newest novel by Spain's premier writer - a metafictional meditation on the limits and possibilities of literature.
The narrator of "Montevideo" is an itinerant writer and erstwhile drug pusher in the throes of a personal and liter...
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14.99 GBP
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