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Spinoza
Freedom's Messiah
2025 || Paperback || Ian Buruma || Yale University Press
Ian Buruma explores the life and death of Baruch Spinoza, the Enlightenment thinker whose belief in freedom of thought and speech resonates in our own time
The Anti-Enlightenment Tradition
2009 || Hardcover || Zeev Sternhell || Yale University Press
Presents a controversial view of the origins of fascism, locating them in the eighteenth century with the advent of the Anti-Enlightenment, a far earlier date than most historians. This book contends that J G Herder, Edmund Burke, and Joseph de Maistre can be connected to the origins of the Anti-Enlightenment.
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Seapower States
Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and the Conflict That Made the Modern World
2024 || Paperback || Andrew Lambert || Yale University Press
The Proteus Paradox
How Online Games and Virtual Worlds Change Us-And How They Don't
2014 || Hardcover || Nick Yee || Yale University Press
A surprising assessment of the ways that virtual worlds are entangled with human psychology Proteus, the mythical sea god who could alter his appearance at will, embodies one of the promises of online games: the ability to reinvent oneself. Yet inhabitants of virtual worlds rarely achieve this liberty, game researcher Nick Yee contends. Though online games evoke freedom and escapism, Yee shows that virtual spaces perpetuate social norms and stereotypes from the offline world, transform play i...
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Global Crisis
War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
2024 || Paperback || Geoffrey Parker || Yale University Press
The calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were not only unprecedented, they were agonisingly widespread. The author examines first-hand accounts of men and women throughout the world describing what they saw and suffered during a sequence of political, economic and social crises that stretched from 1618 to the 1680s.
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Dickensland
The Curious History of Dickens's London
2024 || Paperback || Lee Jackson || Yale University Press
The intriguing history of Dickens’s London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more than 150 years
Toward Perpetual Peace and Other Writings on Politics, Peace, and History
2006 || Paperback || Immanuel Kant || Yale University Press
Immanuel Kant's views on politics, peace, and history have lost none of their relevance since their publication more than two centuries ago. This volume contains a comprehensive collection of Kant's writings on international relations theory and political philosophy, superbly translated and accompanied by stimulating essays. Pauline Kleingeld provides a lucid introduction to the main themes of the volume, and three essays by distinguished contributors follow: Jeremy Waldron on Kant's theory o...
The Battle for Syria / 2nd edition
International Rivalry in the New Middle East
2020 || Paperback || Christopher Phillips || Yale University Press
An unprecedented analysis of the crucial but underexplored roles the United States and other nations have played in shaping Syria's ongoing civil war"One of the best informed and non-partisan accounts of the Syrian tragedy yet published."-Patrick Cockburn, Independent Syria's brutal, long-lasting civil war is widely viewed as a domestic contest that began in 2011 and only later drew foreign nations into the fray. But in this book Christopher Phillips shows the crucial roles that were played b...
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What the Body Knows
A Guide to the New Science of Our Immune System
2024 || Hardcover || John Trowsdale || Yale University Press
A leading scientist’s guide to the way our immune system protects us—but only most of the time
The Manifesto House
Buildings that Changed the Future of Architecture
2025 || Hardcover || Owen Hopkins || Yale University Press