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How I Became a Tree
An exquisite, lovingly crafted meditation on plants, trees, and our place in the natural world, in the tradition of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass and Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek...
Franz Kafka
The Drawings
The first book to publish the entirety of Franz Kafka’s graphic output, including more than 100 newly discovered drawings “The figures he drew stand alone as stories in themselves.”—Lauren Christensen, New...
Gego
Weaving the Space in Between
An authoritative study of Gego, whose distinctive modernist practice sits at the intersection of architecture, design, and the visual arts This important book is the first extended study of the life and work of...
Burning the Big House
The Story of the Irish Country House in a Time of War and Revolution
The gripping story of the tumultuous destruction of the Irish country house, spanning the revolutionary years of 1912 to 1923 During the Irish Revolution nearly three hundred country houses were burned to the...
A Cultural History of the British Empire
A compelling history of British imperial culture, showing how it was adopted and subverted by colonial subjects around the world As the British Empire expanded across the globe, it exported more than troops and...
Force
What It Means to Push and Pull, Slip and Grip, Start and Stop
An eminent engineer and historian tackles one of the most elemental aspects of life: how we experience and utilize physical force “Another gem from a master of technology writing.”—Kirkus Reviews
Black Artists in America
From the Great Depression to Civil Rights
Exploring how artists at midcentury addressed the social issues of their day—from Jacob Lawrence to Elizabeth Catlett, Rose Piper to Charles White This timely book surveys the varied ways in which Black American...
My Egypt Archive
A prominent historian provides an engaging on-the-ground account of the everyday authoritarianism that produced the Arab Spring in Egypt “A visceral and perceptive study of life under autocracy.”—Publishers...
Queens of the Wild
Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe: An Investigation
A concise history of the goddess-like figures who evade both Christian and pagan traditions, from the medieval period to the present day In this riveting account, renowned scholar Ronald Hutton explores the history...
Mothman Apologia
The latest volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets explores love, grief, the opioid epidemic, and coming of age “These poems name the hurt wrought upon the meek that makes the elegy, here, as much an...