Alfred Dreyfus
The Man at the Center of the Affair
ISBN: PB: 9780300281804,
ISBN: HB: 9780300254006,
Yale University Press,
May 2025
224 pp., 21,6x14,6 cm, 9 black&white illus.
224 pp., 21,6x14,6 cm, 9 black&white illus.
An insightful new biography of the central figure in the Dreyfus Affair, focused on the man himself and based on newly accessible documents.
On January 5, 1895, Captain Alfred Dreyfus's cries of innocence were drowned out by a mob shouting "Death t...
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Elie Wiesel
Confronting the Silence
ISBN: PB: 9780300281835,
ISBN: HB: 9780300228984,
Yale University Press,
May 2025
360 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
360 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
An intimate look at Elie Wiesel, author of the seminal Holocaust memoir Night and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, Biography category.
As an orphaned survivor and witness to Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel (1...
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Horace
Poet on a Volcano
ISBN: HB: 9780300256581,
Yale University Press,
May 2025
328 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 1 black&white illus.
328 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 1 black&white illus.
A biography of Horace, one of the most popular poets from antiquity, revealing the little-known man behind his famous lines.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 BCE) wrote some of ancient Rome's greatest poetry, melding languages and cultures with youth...
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How to Read African Textiles
ISBN: PB: 9781588397911,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
May 2025
168 pp., 26,6x20,3 cm, 125 colour illus.
168 pp., 26,6x20,3 cm, 125 colour illus.
Across the African continent, handwoven cloth and clothing have historically been labor-intensive creations deeply embedded in local and regional value systems. These fabrics could be endlessly adapted to communal and individual needs, variously serv...
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Spinoza
Freedom's Messiah
ISBN: PB: 9780300281866,
ISBN: HB: 9780300248920,
Yale University Press,
April 2025
216 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
216 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Ian Buruma explores the life and death of Baruch Spinoza, the Enlightenment thinker whose belief in freedom of thought and speech resonates in our own time.
Baruch (Benedictus) Spinoza (1632-1677) was a radical free thinker who led a life guided by...
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Vergil
The Poet's Life
ISBN: PB: 9780300282009,
ISBN: HB: 9780300256611,
Yale University Press,
April 2025
200 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 1 black&white illus.
200 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 1 black&white illus.
A biography of Vergil, Rome's greatest poet, by the acclaimed translator of the Aeneid.
The "Aeneid" stands as a towering work of Classical Roman literature and a gripping dramatization of the best and worst of human nature. In the process of creat...
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Abraham
The First Jew
ISBN: HB: 9780300266801,
Yale University Press,
March 2025
392 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
392 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
The story of Abraham, the first Jew, portrayed as two lives lived by one person, paralleling the contradictions in Judaism throughout its history.
In this new biography of Abraham, Judaism's foundational figure, Anthony Julius offers an account of...
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Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg
The Whole Equation
ISBN: HB: 9780300254495,
Yale University Press,
March 2025
392 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 13 black&white illus.
392 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 13 black&white illus.
Kenneth Turan brings to life the extraordinary partnership of Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg and their role in creating the film industry as we know it.
One was a tough junkman's son, the other a cosseted mama's boy, but they dreamed the same m...
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Julian
Rome's Last Pagan Emperor
ISBN: PB: 9780300281873,
ISBN: HB: 9780300256642,
Yale University Press,
February 2025
168 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 1 black&white illus.
168 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 1 black&white illus.
The tragic life of Julian, the last non-Christian emperor of Rome, by award-winning author Philip Freeman.
Flavius Claudius Julianus, or Julian the Apostate, ruled Rome as sole emperor for just a year and a half, from 361 to 363, but during that ti...
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Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Becoming the Messiah
ISBN: HB: 9780300222623,
Yale University Press,
January 2025
320 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 13 black&white illus.
320 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 13 black&white illus.
The life and thought of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, one of the most influential – and controversial – rabbis in modern Judaism.
The Chabad-Lubavitch movement, one of the world's best-known Hasidic groups, is driven by the belief that we are on the...
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