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Yale University Press’ Little Histories collection is a family of books that takes a closer look at some of the…
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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…
An extract from ‘Building Seagram’ by Phyllis Lambert
The Seagram building rises over New York’s Park Avenue, seeming to float above the street with perfect lines…
Yale University Press Director John Donatich on the Margellos World Republic of Letters
Continuing the English-language publishing success of Greek poet Kiki Dimoula’s new volume of poetry, The Brazen Plagiarist, Yale University Press…
‘Becoming’ Reinhard Heydrich: Extract from ‘Hitler’s Hangman’ by Robert Gerwarth
Hitler’s Hangman: The Life of Heydrich (out now in paperback) is a chilling biography of the head of Nazi Germany’s terror…
A Visit to Lady Liberty: Extract from ‘The Statue of Liberty’ by Edward Berenson
In The Statue of Liberty: A Transatlantic Story, cultural historian Edward Berenson explores the statue’s creation, its changing meaning…
Michael Hunter wins Samuel Pepys prize for ‘Boyle: Between God and Science’
Historian Michael Hunter has won the 2011 Samuel Pepys Award for his fascinating biography of 17th-century scientist and…