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History of Art

Object Biographies Collaborative Approaches to Ancient Mediterranean Art

North Hopkins John, Kielt Costello Sarah, Davis Paul R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300250879, Yale University Press, November 2020
240 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 92 colour and black&white illus.

This innovative presentation of ancient objects in the Menil Collection offers a new model for understanding works from antiquity that lack archaeological context. Editors John North Hopkins, Sarah Kielt Costello, and Paul R. Davis with 11 additional...

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Anthropology

America

Lakota America A New History of Indigenous Power

Hamalainen Pekka

ISBN: PB: 9780300255256, ISBN: HB: 9780300215953, Yale University Press, November 2020
544 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 54 black&white illus.

This first complete account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty?first century. Pekka Hنmنlنinen explores the Lakotas' roots as marginal hunter?gatherers and reveals how the...

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Contemporary Art

Lin May Saeed Arrival of the Animals

Wiesenberger Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780300250862, Yale University Press, November 2020
144 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 50 colour illus.

German artist Lin May Saeed (b. 1973) grapples with the complex entanglements of humans and animals. Her work centers on the nonhuman animal and revisits, revises, or outright invents stories of animal subjugation, liberation, and harmonious cohabita...

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Contemporary Art

Maarten Vanden Eynde Digging up the Future

Gregos Katerina

ISBN: HB: 9780300253962, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, November 2020
224 pp., 27.9x22.5 cm, 200 colour illus.

Belgian artist Maarten Vanden Eynde (b. 1977) has established a research-based practice, which spans diverse social, economic, environmental, and anthropological perspectives. His work covers some of the most important subjects of our time from extra...

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Business & Economics

Marginal Revolutionaries How Austrian Economists Fought the War of Ideas

Wasserman Janek

ISBN: PB: 9780300255409, ISBN: HB: 9780300228229, Yale University Press, November 2020
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

The Austrian School of Economics – a movement that has had a vast impact on economics, politics, and society, especially among the American right – is poorly understood by supporters and detractors alike. Defining themselves in opposition to the main...

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History of Art

Marking Time Objects, People, and Their Lives, 1500-1800

Town Edward, McShane Angela

ISBN: HB: 9780300254105, Yale University Press, November 2020
512 pp., 26.4x20 cm, 460 illus.

The period from 1500 to 1800 in England was one of extraordinary social transformations, many having to do with the way time itself was understood, measured, and recorded. Through a focused exploration of an extensive private collection of fine and d...

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Jewish Studies

Judaism

Nahmanides Law and Mysticism

Halbertal Moshe, Tabak Daniel

ISBN: HB: 9780300140910, Yale University Press, October 2020
464 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Rabbi Moses b. Nahman (1194-1270), known in English as Nahmanides, was the greatest Talmudic scholar of the thirteenth century and one of the deepest and most original biblical interpreters. Beyond his monumental scholastic achievements, Nahmanides w...

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America

Nature Shock Getting Lost in America

Coleman Jon T.

ISBN: HB: 9780300227147, Yale University Press, October 2020
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

The human species has a propensity for getting lost. The American people, inhabiting a mental landscape shaped by their attempts to plant roots and to break free, are no exception. In this engaging book, environmental historian Jon Coleman bypasses t...

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Philosophy

On Order St. Augustine's Cassiciacum Dialogues, Volume 3

Foley Michael P.

ISBN: HB: 9780300238532, Yale University Press, October 2020
352 pp., 21x14 cm

The first four works written by St. Augustine of Hippo after his conversion to Christianity are dialogues that have influenced prominent thinkers from Boethius to Bernard Lonergan. Usually called the "Cassiciacum dialogues", these four works are of a...

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Political Science

Open World How America Can Win the Contest for Twenty-First-Century Order

Lissner Rebecca, Rapp-Hooper Mira

ISBN: HB: 9780300250329, Yale University Press, October 2020
216 pp., 21.6x14 cm

This ambitious and incisive book presents a new vision for American foreign policy and international order at a time of historic upheaval. The United States global leadership crisis is not a passing shock created by the Trump presidency or COVID-19,...

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