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Storied Stone
Reframing the Philadelphia Museum of Art's South Indian Temple Hall
A behind-the-scenes history of the sixteenth-century South Indian temple hall installation in the Philadelphia Museum of ArtStoried Stone weaves together memories and scholarship to illuminate the...
Marie-Antoinette
The Making of a French Queen
A new look which fundamentally overturns our understanding of this famously "out of touch" queen“Presents [Marie-Antoinette] as much more than a symbol whose meaning is in the eye of her beholder . . ....
A Natural History of Beer
A celebration of beer—its science, its history, and its impact on human culture “Curatorial eminences Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall serve up a potent scientific brew. . . . A marvellous paean to the pint, and...
The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 1
Volume 1: January 6, 1706 through December 31, 1734
This is the first volume to come from a great scholarly undertaking, the assembly and editing of Benjamin Franklin's complete writings and correspondence. Sponsored jointly by the American Philosophical Society and Yale...
Crush
The 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets competition: a powerful, confessional, erotic collection Finalist for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry "Siken writes about...
A Field Guide to North Atlantic Wildlife
Marine Mammals, Seabirds, Fish, and Other Sea Life
"Wherever one goes along the New England coast . . . Yale’s Field Guide to North Atlantic Wildlife will be an indispensable companion."—Michael Kenney, Boston Sunday Globe"A great...
Clueless in Academe
How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind
An eminent scholar and educator looks at the academic world from a crucial perspective for teachers—the perspective of those who don’t get it Gerald Graff argues that our schools and colleges make...
How Pol Pot Came to Power
Colonialism, Nationalism, and Communism in Cambodia, 1930–1975
Second Edition
How did Pol Pot, a tyrant comparable to Hitler and Stalin in his brutality and contempt for human life, rise to power? This authoritative book explores what happened in Cambodia from 1930 to 1975, tracing the origins and...
Peter the Great
A Biography
The definitive short biography of the enigmatic Peter the Great Peter the Great (1672–1725), tsar of Russia for forty-three years, was a dramatic, appealing, and unconventional character. This book...
Empire
The Russian Empire and Its Rivals
How does one empire differ from another? Why do empires rise and fall? What has made empires flourish in some eras and regions of the world but not in others? In this broad and ambitious book, Dominic Lieven explores the...