Our year in books: Highlights from 2018
‘Tis the season to be cosy! Winter has arrived and what could be better than curling up with…
Yale University Press
Yale History Highlights 2014
Spanning some eleven millennia, the new Yale University Press History Catalogue brings together new and bestselling books that…
Dangerous Books Around the World
Books have always had the power to make authorities rather uncomfortable. Sometimes it’s because the novel makes the…
Genius and Tragedy: The Life of Alan Turing
History is rife with examples of persecuted scientists—think Rhazes, Galileo, and Servetus, for starters—but it would be a…
The Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt
How could humans have committed all those atrocities that characterised the Holocaust? Were they all monsters and sadists,…
Happy Vesak Day!
Yale University Press’ Little Histories collection is a family of books that takes a closer look at some of the…
Bertrand Russell: Is the Present King of France Bald?
On this day in 1872, a boy was born in Wales who would later grow up to pose…
The Philosopher’s Stone
If you could turn your aluminium Coca-Cola can into gold, would you? You probably would, but if everybody could do it,…
Alfred Wegener: A Shifting World
There are few things more rewarding than completing a difficult jigsaw puzzle. Alfred Wegener was a prominent scientist and…
Confucius: Living Together in Harmony
Confucius – or K’ung Fut-zu, as he was called in Chinese – was a philosopher who proposed some…
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…
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…
Thomas Hobbes: ‘Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short’
Yale’s Little History books take a closer look at some of the most significant events, ideas, discoveries and people throughout history. As…
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…