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May Theme: Life-times

The world comes alive again each spring: the bloom of nature and the return of busy outdoor activities. We’re inviting readers of the Yale University Press list to further explore our offering of titles on biology, nature, and biography to help us celebrate the renewal and span of life throughout the month of May. Graduation […]

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YUP’s Earth Day Book Giveaways!

Follow @yaleSCIbooks In celebration of Earth Day, we thought you’d enjoy a selection of new Yale University Press books covering naturalism, climate change, community activism, environmentalism, natural history, and more. Enter with your Goodreads account for a chance to win My Backyard Jungle: The Adventures of an Urban Wildlife Lover Who Turned His Yard into Habitat […]

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April Theme: The Arts

Broadening our scope from a usual combined celebration of poetry and architecture, timed to national commemorations in the month of April, we’re broadening our focus to include a broader range of the arts, including many new books on the philosophy and history of art, several accompanying traveling exhibitions with the Yale University Press art museum […]

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Announcing the Yale Book of Quotations App

Finding the right words has never been easier. Do you want to learn what political figures, literary scholars or singers have to say about their fields? Do you want to share with your friends and colleagues the inspiration you get from various public figures over the dinner table? Or do you just love words and […]

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Fania Oz-Salzberger Asks: How Can Books Keep Families and Generations Together?

Fania Oz-Salzberger— Jews and Words tells a story, and grinds a few axes, on two of our favourite perennial themes: How did the Jews remain Jews? and, How can books keep families and generations together? We offer our readers a hard yet playful look at our own Jewish identity, as a father and daughter, novelist and historian. We […]

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March Theme: Politics & Current Events

Time for another month-long update on Yale University Press’s latest books covering the vast world of domestic and global politics and current events! Beginning with Jess Bravin‘s The Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay, the topic of prisoner treatment takes center-stage, and Bravin, a Wall Street Journal Supreme Court correspondent who has covered the Guantanamo Bay prison camp […]

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YUP Summer 2013 Publishing Internships

Ever want to work for a busy and industrious publishing house? One of the largest American university presses? Learn all about where books come from? Here’s your chance to learn more and apply for YUP’s Summer Publishing Internships. Please note that the application deadline is Friday, March 15, 2013.  

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February Theme: Backlist History

As we begin our Spring 2013 season of book publishing, we are also taking a look back through our long and more recent histories as a university press, the books we’ve published that continue to carry strong relevance today, authors who have graced our list with several publications, and the annals of books and discourse […]

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YUP’s Spring 2013 Catalog!

Download the PDF of Yale University Press’s Spring 2013 catalog! Another banner season of books is upon us: Yale University Press’s Spring/Summer 2013 catalog, covering new books from February – July 2013 is available for your perusing leisure! Throughout February on the Yale Press Log, we’ll begin the spring season with an in-depth look into […]

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Matisse: In Search of True Painting

Follow @yaleARTbooks The exhibition Matisse: In Search of True Painting explores Matisse’s practice of producing pairs of paintings, and the ways in which this practice influenced his development as artist.  Academically trained, Matisse learned composition and technique by copying older master paintings. This practice was not considered an empty, rote exercise but rather a valuable […]

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