Confucius: Living Together in Harmony
Confucius – or K’ung Fut-zu, as he was called in Chinese – was a philosopher who proposed some…
Little History
Max Planck: Introducing the Quantum
Albert Einstein is a name that most people recognise, but did you know that Albert was a big…
How to Have a Conversation
Have you ever wondered how people learned to have conversations? Why don’t we all speak at the same…
Accents and Social Identity
The way in which someone speaks can tell us a lot about them, or at least we think…
Socrates the Gadfly
‘The wisdom of men is little or nothing’ – Socrates, from Plato’s account of his trial. Yale University…
Speaking on Both Sides of the Atlantic
Yale University Press’ Little Histories collection is a family of books that takes a closer look at some of the…
Leonardo da Vinci, Renaissance Man
Yale University Press’ Little Histories collection is a family of books that takes a closer look at some of the…
Raising a Genius: James and John Stuart Mill
Yale University Press’ Little Histories collection is a family of books that takes a closer look at some of the…
The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
Yale University Press’ Little Histories collection is a family of books that takes a closer look at some of the…
Bismarck: The Iron Chancellor
Yale University Press’ Little Histories collection is a family of books that takes a closer look at some…