ISBN: HB: 9780300246292,
Yale University Press,
January 2021
400 pp.,
23.5x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus., 48 black&white illus.
In the early medieval West, from North Africa to the British Isles, pigs were a crucial part of agriculture and culture. In this fascinating book, Jamie Kreiner examines how this ubiquitous species was integrated into early medieval ecologies and tra...
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...
ISBN: PB: 9780913516317,
Yale University Press,
October 2020
224 pp.,
24.8x17.1 cm, 148 black&white illus.
This volume presents a new look at prehistoric settlement patterns in the Upper Huallaga Basin, Peru, from the Preceramic to the Late Intermediate Period. Though the political climate precluded investigations in this area after the 1960s, Matsumoto i...
ISBN: HB: 9780300250022,
Yale University Press,
September 2020
352 pp.,
23.4x15.2 cm, 24 colour illus.
From Leonardo da Vinci and John Dee to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved the frontiers of knowledge. Nonetheless, in our current age of specialization, polymaths are often remembered for only one part of their varied achievements....
ISBN: HB: 9780300245912,
Yale University Press,
June 2020
320 pp.,
23.4x15.2 cm, 47 black&white illus.
Offering a bold new understanding of who we are, where we came from, and where we are going, noted ecologist Mark Bertness argues that human beings and their civilization are the products of the same self-organization, evolutionary adaptation, and na...
ISBN: PB: 9780300251524,
ISBN: HB: 9780300235777,
Yale University Press,
April 2020
480 pp.,
22.9x15.2 cm, 28 colour illus.
What did it mean to be 'civilized' in Early Modern England?
Keith Thomas's seminal studies "Religion and the Decline of Magic", "Man and the Natural World", and "The Ends of Life", explored the beliefs, values and social practices of the years bet...
ISBN: PB: 9780300253740,
Yale University Press,
April 2020
264 pp.,
23.5x17.5 cm, 200 colour illus.
This fascinating and enlightening study of the tie-on pocket combines materiality and gender to provide new insight into the social history of women's everyday lives – from duchesses and country gentry to prostitutes and washerwomen – and to explore...
ISBN: HB: 9780300246872,
Yale University Press,
January 2020
120 pp.,
30.5x22.9 cm, 40 colour illus.
Recognizing the second lives of historical African artworks when they enter museum collections and addressing them in dialogue with the works of six established and emerging African artists, this book represents how today's practitioners are reformul...
ISBN: HB: 9780300243994,
Yale University Press,
January 2020
280 pp.,
21x14 cm, 8 black&white illus.
Why are so many humans religious? Why do we daydream, imagine, and hope? Philosophers, theologians, social scientists, and historians have offered explanations for centuries, but their accounts often ignore or even avoid human evolution. Evolutionary...
ISBN: PB: 9780300251630,
Yale University Press,
December 2019
656 pp.,
19.7x12.7 cm, 26 colour illus., 4 maps
This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances. Tracing this process to the origins of...