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Second Nature
Brain Science and Human Knowledge
A renowned neuroscientist explains how our brains and bodies give rise to knowledge, creativity, and mental experience Burgeoning advancements in brain science are opening up new perspectives on how we...
The Artist and the Warrior
Military History through the Eyes of the Masters
An illustrated exploration of artists' depictions of war and warriors, from antiquity to modern times How have artists across the millennia responded to warfare? In this uniquely wide-ranging book,...
Unfamiliar Streets
The Photographs of Richard Avedon, Charles Moore, Martha Rosler, and Philip-Lorca diCorcia
City scenes have been chronicled in photographs since the early 1800s, but street photography as traditionally defined has captured a relatively narrow field of these images. Revolutionizing the history of street photography,
The Very Hungry City
Urban Energy Efficiency and the Economic Fate of Cities
An important investigation of the ways that cities consume energy and how energy efficiency will determine which ones thrive in the future As global demand for energy grows and prices rise, a city's...
The Destroyer in the Glass
Winner of the 2015 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize Noah Warren’s brilliant collection of poetry, The Destroyer in the Glass, is the 110th recipient of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, the...
The Bigot
Why Prejudice Persists
Stephen Eric Bronner is a prolific author, activist, and one of America’s leading political thinkers. His new book presents bigotry as a systematic, all-encompassing mindset that has a special affinity for right-wing movements. In...
Astrid Lindgren
The Woman Behind Pippi Longstocking
A powerful biography of the internationally renowned writer who created one of the most enduring characters in children’s literature, Pippi Longstocking“[An] Insightful, elegantly written biography of...
A Schoolmaster's War
Harry Ree, British Agent in the French Resistance
The wartime adventures of the legendary SOE agent Harry Rée, told in his own words“A beautiful collection of writings by schoolmaster-turned-secret agent Harry Rée. . . . Memoirs, postwar broadcasts and...
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vols 3-5
The Rambler
"My other works," Samuel Johnson reputed to have said, "are wine and water; but my Rambler is pure wine." Posterity has come to accept this verdict; yet surprisingly enough, until not the most widely used edition...
The World of Witold Gombrowicz 1904-1969
Catalog of a Centenary Exhibition at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University
Witold Gombrowicz, author of Ferdydurke, Cosmos, Pornografia and The Wedding, remains one of the most influential Polish writers of all time. This catalogue, produced to accompany the 2004...