YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Surveys the schemes, patterns and forms of English verse, and illustrates each variation with an original and witty self-descriptive example. In this fourth edition, the authors offer a personal take on why the book has played such an important role in the education of young poets and student scholars.

A fast-paced, character-filled history that brings the unique American saga to life for readers of all ages

The extraordinary history of news and its dissemination, from medieval pilgrim tales to the birth of the newspaper

An accessible synthesis of the prescient best seller exploring seventeenth-century catastrophe and the impact of climate change

Covering the history of art, from Paleolithic cave painting onwards, this book provides foundational guidance to the basic character and techniques of the different art forms, to the various genres of painting in the western tradition, and to the techniques of sculpture as they have been practised over several millenia and across cultures.

Originally published: 2014, as Hard times: the divisive toll of the economic slump.