Prize news: ‘An Empire of Ice’ by Edward Larson is shortlisted for the 2012 Hessell-Tiltman award
Edward Larson’s acclaimed book on exploration and antarctic science An Empire of Ice has been shortlisted for the coveted Hessell-Tiltman…
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Beyond the Headlines: Yale launches its 2012 Current Affairs Catalogue
Yale’s Current Affairs catalogue is available now to order and download. With many fascinating books available in 2012, today…
Seriously Addictive – A History of Opium: Author article by Thomas Dormandy
Opium: Reality’s Dark Dream by Thomas Dormandy explores the entire history of the world’s most fascinating drug. Dormandy reveals opium’s…
Author Article by Lyric Hale: The New Law of the Sea and the Geopolitics of the Internet
In the next instalment of her regular column, top economic commentator and What’s Next? author Lyric Hale discusses how the growing infrastructure…
Psychoanalyst, biographer and child wellfare advocate Elisabeth Young-Bruehl dies, aged 65
Yale author Elisabeth Young-Bruehl died on Thursday near her home in Toronto, aged 65 . As a biographer Young-Bruehl…
The Roof at the Bottom of the World: New book scales the Transantarctic Mountains
The Roof at the Bottom of the World by Edmund Stump is the first fully-illustrated history of the discovery and…
Yale University Press London launches its Spring / Summer 2012 Seasonal Catalogue
Yale’s Spring / Summer seasonal catalogue is now available now to order and download. Today we take a…
Yale’s London website is shortlisted for the Bookseller’s Futurebook Digital Innovation Awards
Yale University Press London’s website (yalebooks.co.uk), has been nominated for a Futurebook Digital Innovation Award, in the ‘best…
Author Article by Lyric Hale: Minamata Meets Fukushima – Why Japan’s Nuclear Crisis Isn’t Over
In the next instalment of her regular column, top economic commentator and What’s Next? author Lyric Hale discusses the chaotic aftermath of…
Author Article by Lyric Hale: Why China Will Not Surpass the US
In the next instalment of her regular column, top economic commentator and What’s Next? author Lyric Hale debunks the myth, perpetuated…
Michael Hunter wins Samuel Pepys prize for ‘Boyle: Between God and Science’
Historian Michael Hunter has won the 2011 Samuel Pepys Award for his fascinating biography of 17th-century scientist and…
The RSA gets animated over Iain McGilchrist and the ‘divided brain’
In a new animation by Andrew Park and the RSA, renowned psychiatrist and author of The Master and His…
Author article by Peter Forbes: Convergence of the Twain – pattern formation in mimicry and camouflage
In his Warwick Prize-winning book Dazzled and Deceived: Mimicry and Camouflage Peter Forbes tells the fascinating story of mimicry and…
Author Article by Lyric Hale: Climate Change & US Presidential Politics
Last week, top economic commentator Lyric Hale examined the effects of natural disasters on political stability. This week, in…
‘Spider Silk’ longlisted for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books
Spider Silk: Evolution and 400 Million Years of Spinning, Waiting, Snagging, and Mating by Leslie Brunetta and Catherine L. Craig has…