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This list includes some of the many bestselling, prize-winning, and seminal works published by Yale University Press since 1908. Each title is listed under the year in which it was originally published by the Press; the bibliographic information (title, pub date, price, etc.), however, pertains to the most recent edition of the book.

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1968
Political Order in Changing Societies
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1971
Interaction of Color
Revised and Expanded Edition
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1972
The Children of Pride
Selected letters of the family of the Rev. Dr. Charles Colcock Jones from the years 1860-1868; A New, Abridged Edition
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Chosen as one of the five most significant books of 1972 by The New York Times Book Review; Winner of the 1972 Carey Thomas Award given by Publishers Weekly; Winner of the 1973 National Book Award in History; Winner of the 1972 Fletcher Pratt Award of the New York Civil War Round Table
 
A Religious History of the American People
Second Edition
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1973
The Formation of Islamic Art
Revised and Enlarged Edition
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Field Guide
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Included in the Notable Books List for 1973 from the American Library Association
 
1974
Congress
The Electoral Connection, Second Edition
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Winner of the Washington Monthly Political Book Award for 1974

 
1977
The Bonds of Womanhood
"Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835: Second Edition, with a new Preface
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1978
The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination
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The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination
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Life in the English Country House
A Social and Architectural History
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Winner of the 1979 Duff Cooper Memorial Prize; Winner of the 1979 W.H. Smith and Son Annual Literary Award
 
1979
Sexual Harassment of Working Women
A Case of Sex Discrimination
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The Madwoman in the Attic
The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination, Second Edition
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1979 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, National Book Critics Circle
1980 Pulitzer Prize Runner-up, Columbia University
 
1980
Patrons and Painters
A Study in the Relations between Italian Art and Society in the Age of the Baroque, Revised and enlarged edition
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The Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany
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1981
The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake
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Mary Chesnut's Civil War
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Rhyme's Reason
A Guide to English Verse, Third Edition
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Modern Iran
Roots and Results of Revolution, Updated Edition
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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2005
 
 Listed on the New York Times Reading List: Islam and its History
 
1982
The Rise and Decline of Nations
Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities
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Co-winner of the 1983 Gladys M. Kammerer Award given by the American Political Science Association
 
1983
The First Urban Christians
The Social World of the Apostle Paul, Second Edition
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Co-winner of the 1986 annual Award for Excellence given by the American Academy of Religion

Co-winner of the 1984 Biblical Archaeology Review Publication Award
 
The First Urban Christians
The Social World of the Apostle Paul, Second Edition
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Co-winner of the 1986 annual Award for Excellence given by the American Academy of Religion

Co-winner of the 1984 Biblical Archaeology Review Publication Award
 
1984
The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto, 1941-1944
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Winner of a 1984 Kenneth B. Smilen Literary Award in the category of General Nonfiction; Nominated for a 1985 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Holocaust literature; Selected as a Notable Book of 1984 by the American Library Association; Chosen as the outstanding book of 1984 in the humanities, by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers; Selected as "Editor’s Choice", Time
 
Chivalry
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Winner of the 1984 Wolfson Literary Award for History


 
1985
The Treasure Houses of Britain
Five Hundred Years of Private Patronage and Art Collecting
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Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris
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Winner of the College Art Association’s Charles Rufus Morey Prize
Winner of the 1986 Eric Mitchell Prize
 
Jesus Through the Centuries
His Place in the History of Culture
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Winner of the 1986 Annual Logos Bookstores Award
 
Paul Rand
A Designer`s Art
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Winner of the 1987 Florence Prize for Visual Communication from the Universita Internazionale dell’Arte
 
1986
The Shaping of America
A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History, Volume 1: Atlantic America 1492-1800
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Winner of a 1986 Geographic Society of Chicago Publication
 
Monet
Nature into Art
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Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages
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1987
French in Action
A Beginning Course in Language and Culture, Second Edition: Textbook, Part 1
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