An important reassessment of the later career and life of a beloved baroque artist
A sweeping history of premodern architecture told through the material of stone
A definitive history of mescaline that explores its mind-altering effects across cultures, from ancient America to Western modernity
A powerful and counterintuitive argument that we should welcome the current slowdown—of population growth, economies, and technological innovation
A searing novel that excavates the human collateral damage wrought by the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine
A brilliant telling of the history of the common seaman in the age of sail, and his role in Britain's trade, exploration, and warfare
"This paperback edition does not contain the appendixes included in the hardcover edition. All appendixes can be found at yalebooks.com/american-genocide-appendix." --Title page verso.
An extensively revised edition of Tim Jeal's classic biography published to mark the bicentenary of the great explorer
A brilliant, semiautobiographical satirical novel from one of the foremost figures in twentieth-century Polish literature, now in a new English translation
This work takes readers on a tour of American landscapes past and present, showing how surroundings reflect important changes in culture. The book examines the new vernacular landscape of trailers, parking lots, roads and shopping malls.