
A Little History of… Independence Day
Yale’s Little Histories are a family of books that explore the history of the world’s most remarkable people,…
Yale’s Little Histories are a family of books that explore the history of the world’s most remarkable people,…
If you had to draw up a list of philosophers you’d least like to get stuck next to…
How could humans have committed all those atrocities that characterised the Holocaust? Were they all monsters and sadists,…
On this day in 1872, a boy was born in Wales who would later grow up to pose…
‘Passionate, profound, intense and dominating’, was how Bertrand Russell described the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. If you had found…
‘The wisdom of men is little or nothing’ – Socrates, from Plato’s account of his trial. Yale University…
Yale University Press’ Little Histories collection is a family of books that takes a closer look at some of the…
Yale’s Little History books take a closer look at some of the most significant events, ideas, discoveries and people throughout history. As…
Yale University Press’ Little Histories collection is a family of books that takes a closer look at some of the…
Nigel Warburton’s A Little History of Philosophy is fast gaining critical acclaim (a recent review by the Guardian’s Julian Baggini said that…
Nigel Warburton’s engaging book A Little History of Philosophy (published this month) introduces the great thinkers in Western…