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Book publisher. Bringing truth to light for more than one hundred years. Our London office tweets at @yalebooks

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Remember our 50% off sale (which includes free shipping) is on through May 17th!  All print editions published before May 1st, 2024 have been marked down with code Y24SAVE50 at checkout. Valid for all readers in the US and Canada. #bookstagram #books #booksale
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He's being recognized more and more, so read up on #FrederickDouglass and the amazing job he's done
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The Rediscovery of America by Ned Blackhawk, a sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America Forthcoming in Spring 2023:
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We are pleased to announce a winner in the 2020 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. @CPhillipsPoet has chosen @DesireeCBailey ’s manuscript, What Noise Against the Cane. It will be available in April 2021!
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"Sebastián Mazzuca formulates a powerful new conceptual apparatus and develops sophisticated and historically grounded explanations of state development in nineteenth-century Latin America."—James Mahoney on Latecomer State Formation by @SLMazzuca
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Congratulations to Ned Blackhawk, winner of the 2023 National Book Award in Nonfiction for The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History!  #NBAwards @nationalbook
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Congratulations to @yanyi___ , chosen by Carl Phillips as the 2018 Yale Series of Younger Poets winner for The Year of Blue Water.
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"This book is a sweeping analysis of state formation in Latin America." —Ruth Berins Collier reviews Latecomer State Formation by @SLMazzuca in @PolStudiesAssoc
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Susan Napier on Hayao Miyazaki: "Can we live ethically in a cursed world? And if so, how? Princess Mononoke offers two related possible solutions. The first is simply to 'Live!'... The second is 'to see with eyes unclouded'." @parisreview
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Local bookstores are going to need all of us in the coming weeks. Let's show them some love. Retweet this and tag your favorite local bookstore by Sunday and we’ll randomly chose 25 to receive a $25 gift card to the independent bookstore of your choice. RULES⬇️
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We are incredibly excited to see that Lisa Brooks has won a Bancroft Prize for her book Our Beloved Kin, a compelling and original recovery of Native American resistance and adaptation to colonial America. Congratulations to Lisa!
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Renowned classicist Edith Hall turns to ancient Greek tragedies for wisdom to understand the damage and pain caused by suicide and how to prevent it. Facing Down the Furies: Ancestral Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me will be available in Spring 2024. #jacketreveal
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@tressiemcphd Just about to dive into our Scrooge McDuck gold vault.
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Finally, we can post our super long title/subtitles. For example: The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy #280charcters Oh, look, we still have some room to sp
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Congratulations to @JoyHarjo , author of Catching the Light @yalepress , who was awarded the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from The National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics 🎉📚
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@stoolpresidente This statement is factually correct.
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"Meticulously researched and richly documented, this is an intriguing look at a little-known aspect of the Revolutionary War." @PublishersWkly on The Great New York Fire of 1776 by Benjamin L. Carp @bencarp
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Mark Polizzotti: "Modiano’s writing is conveyed with a simplicity that cuts straight to the hearts of readers... And the translation of that simplicity requires as much thought, invention, and revision as the author put into the original." @parisreview
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Yale University Press
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Huge congratulations to Louise Glück on winning the Nobel Prize for Literature! It was an honor to work with her when she judged the Yale Series of Younger Poets from 2003-2010, and she remains a writer-in-residence here at @Yale . We are all so thrilled for her!
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"Ignorance: A Global History explores the myriad ways in which 'not-knowing' affects our lives, sometimes for good, sometimes for ill..."—Michael Dirda, @washingtonpost reviews Ignorance by Peter Burke
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The results are in! Duy Doan is the winner of the 2017 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition for We Play a Game
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Yale University Press
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Author Hasan Abbas and his book spotted out in the wild.
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Mehdi Hasan
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Bumped into my friend Professor Hasan Abbas ( @Watandost ) in Barnes & Noble where I got him to take a picture in front of his new book ‘The Prophet’s Heir: The Life of Ali ibn Abi Talib.’
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Even in the 1700s, Book Clubs Were Really About Drinking & Socializing: @atlasobscura on "The Social Lives of Books"
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Yale University Press
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How to read Chinese ceramics: an interview with @MetMuseum curator Denise Patry Leidy http://t.co/j9bUOhFKbF http://t.co/yrSC0QXsz7
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In this episode of the Yale University Press podcast, we talk with award-winning classicist @edithmayhall about the therapeutic benefits of reading greek tragedy, and more. #podcast #therapy #classics #mentalhealth
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Yale University Press
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Congratulations to @JoyHarjo , who will receive the 2022 Academy of American Poets Leadership Award next month. We will proudly publish Joy's "Catching the Light," based on her 2021 Windham Campbell lecture this Fall.
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Our sincerest congratulations to @ProfMSinha for winning the @SHEARites ’16 Best Book Prize for “The Slave’s Cause”—beyond deserved #SHEAR17
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Yale University Press
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. @katyperry read @philosophybites ' "The @LittleHistoryof Philosophy" and she liked it. 🎶📖🏖️👒
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Yale University Press
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Here's a cat to improve your Monday:
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“The book of Exodus is a pivotal book… Leon Kass’s remarkable commentary provides insights on every page, from which to learn and with which to wrestle.” @LawLiberty
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Yale University Press
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@papermagazine We're doing fine. We hardly ever think about it. We definitely don't stay up at night wondering what could have been.
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Yale University Press
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Our newest employee just fell asleep on the job!
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Time will tell if the Cuban anti-viral drug Interferon Alpha 2b is the wonder-drug for COVID-19, but the history of how Cuba got here makes for fascinating reading. From @HelenYaffe
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Yale University Press
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"No other artist has inspired my own devotion to a career in image making more than he did." read an excerpt from Kerry James Marshall's preface to Sarah Kelly Oehler's Charles White: A Retrospective @parisreview
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"Juneteenth functions as a holiday to remember freedom delayed. It also challenges the idea of freedom as an event. Rather, it is a movement, a process that unfolds over time and requires perpetual action to sustain it." @DrSoyica
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A brutally funny, carnivalesque novel about love, death, and survival, from the Czech Republic’s greatest living author A Sensitive Person: A Novel by Jachym Topol, translated by @alexjzucker
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"This is a show worthy of Michelangelo’s art, which is all you need to know." go check it out at @metmuseum though Feb 12, 2018.
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Yale University Press
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@Alyssa_Milano We can certainly get you a bulk discount!
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"'George Washington' is a masterpiece, a concise, fluidly written and well-grounded biography," says @SteveForbesCEO
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From the book Andy Warhol / Ai Weiwei: an interview with @aiww by Eric Shiner…
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2018 #NobelPrize winner William Nordhaus explains why climate change is an economic problem.
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Yale University Press
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. @martinwolf_ recommends Trade Wars Are Class Wars by @M_C_Klein & @michaelxpettis and What's Wrong with Economics? by @RSkidelsky for your summer reading list on @FinancialTimes
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"Yonatan Adler posits a convincing thesis, tightly and compellingly argued, that widespread observance of Pentateuchal legislation by Judeans—or what we now call Judaism— emerged no earlier than the Hellenistic period." —David Armstrong, @ChristianCent
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@kellywisecup offers a sweeping account of early Native American literatures in Assembled for Use, by examining Indigenous compilations. #WHA2021
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"According to Merriam-Webster 'a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power' is not a populist; that leader is a 'demagogue.'" @greggcantrell
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Yale University Press
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Happy International Women's Day! Our reading list will bring you up to speed on the struggle for women's rights.
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Yale University Press
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"I don't much like the word 'inspiring,' but damned if I can think of a more suitable word for this book." @insidehighered @mathyawp
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Yale University Press
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Happy Halloween! Is anyone dressing up as scary punctuation this year?
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". @sejr_historian 's use of innovative research... cast[s] light on an area that may forever change how American history is discussed." Read @thenewmexican 's review of They Were Her Property here:
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Yale University Press
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The wait is over! The Voynich Manuscript is out today!
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Yale University Press
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It's #InternationalWomensDay and what better way to celebrate than with books! Here's @econeditor with a favorite by Rebecca Solnit and @rebeccasnedeker from @ucpress . Stay tuned for more from us and other UPs #IWD2019 #WomanUp #ReadUP
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@zeynep 's book "Twitter and Tear Gas" is one of @POLITICOMag 's Politico 50's best book they've read this year.
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"In Chemerinsky’s view, the basic mission of the federal courts is not to settle disputes among litigants, but to interpret and enforce the US Constitution, while safeguarding it from the will of political majorities." @nybooks
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On this Monday, we're remembering the words of Frederick Douglass.
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That time the Goddess of Pop had the best reply ever
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15 books for understanding the Russia-Ukraine crisis:
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@shambolus Wait, is @dril David Bentley Hart?!
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Don't miss the memorial for the late activist and politician Tom Hayden, author of "Hell No," tonight at 4 p.m. at UCLA's Royce Hall.
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Maura Flannery, author of In the Herbarium, writes an educational resource “How to Read an Herbarium Specimen” for The Plant Humanities Lab @JSTOR @DumbartonOaks @flannerm
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We're at the @SHEARites Annual Meeting this week. Check out our #SHEAR2021 virtual exhibit here:
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We've got exciting news for you on Monday morning. Spoiler alert: it's the winner of the 2017 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition!
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Yale University Press
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Congratulations to @ProfMSinha !
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Congratulations to Manisha Sinha, winner of the 2017 Frederick Douglass Book Prize for her book "The Slave's Cause":
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A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America from scholar Ned Blackhawk (Western Shoshone)
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For #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth , The Rediscovery of America by Ned Blackhawk has been included on a variety of reading lists, including at Yale School of Public Health, LaGuardia Community College Library ( @lagcclibrary ), and Indigenous Peoples' Celebration Committee Book Club
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The complete poems of the priestess Enheduana, the world’s first known author, newly translated from the original Sumerian by @SophusHelle
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The Yale Drama Series is seeking submissions for its 2024 playwriting competition! The winning play will be selected by the series’ current judge, Jeremy O. Harris. (Manuscripts must be submitted no later than August 15th, 2023.) #yaledramaseries
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Ruth Yeazell @Yale ponders imitation in her @nybooks review of Elizabeth Prettejohn's "Modern Painters, Old Masters"
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Sessions’ defense of his honor in the Senate has a long history in Washington, as Hamilton could attest to. @jbf1755
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Here are some of Nabokov's butterfly illustrations to get you in the mood for spring.
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"How do I begin to repair my relationship with land that I’ve been dispossessed from?" asks @jordoisdead in an original piece for @yalepress . His book, Empty Spaces, is available now at !
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@BostonReview is hosting a free, virtual event with @samuelmoyn , author of Liberalism Against Itself on November 14th, 7pm EST! Registration required.
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In light of “the 2020 election and its aftermath,” @rickhasen discusses legal steps that can “narrow opportunities for interference–can make antidemocratic attempts much less likely to succeed.” @TheAtlantic
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Yale University Press
4 years
Comic strips will never be the same after you read this column by Ivan Brunetti, author of Cartooning @parisreview
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Yale University Press
11 months
Last call to discover the Epic of Gilgamesh and the poems of the world’s first known author through the translations of @SophusHelle , now 50% off through June 23, 2023 using code Y23SUMMER (see full terms here, )!
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"Blackhawk’s book is one of the first salvos in trying to remedy this situation. . . .placing Natives in their rightful position, front and center in the American experience.” — @columbiatribune reviews The Rediscovery of America by Ned Blackhawk
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We're pleased to announce a winner in the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition!
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Dogs + books 👌celebrating #NationalPuppyDay with this perfect office pup
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"A small, Caribbean island, underdeveloped by centuries of colonialism and imperialism, and subject to punitive, extraterritorial sanctions by the United States for 60 years, have so much to offer the world." @HelenYaffe on Cuba and coronavirus @Newsweek
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Yale University Press
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You should read @SumanaSiliguri 's "How I Became a Tree" this summer. @lithub
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Open the world's most mysterious manuscript—the Voynich. Who will crack the code? @BeineckeLibrary @DebHarkness
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Yale University Press
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Congratulations to Nobel Prize–winner Patrick Modiano! We are proud to be publishing a collection of his novellas. http://t.co/S49mPqI3mh
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Yale University Press
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"Inside the long, strange story of organized crime taking over the former Soviet Union—and how Russia tamed it only to unleash it on the West." @MarkGaleotti tells @VICE "How Putin's Russia Became Mafia Heaven"
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Yale University Press
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Read about writer, Robert Walser in @PoetryFound . Walser's first biography to appear in English, “Clairvoyant of the Small” is out!
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Just gonna leave this here.
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Do you have any books that you've been wanting to grab from our website, but just haven't had the chance? Starting May 6th, all print books with U.S. publication dates prior to May 1st, 2024 are 50% off (with free shipping) using code Y24SAVE50. Get your shopping carts ready!
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. @WEEMSCarrie shares her favorite books in an excerpt of "Unpacking My Library" over at @parisreview
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