Posts by Yale University Press

Excerpt and Free Material from Giving Voice to Values

If you’re reading up on business practices, or even preparing for next semester’s leadership seminars, now is the time to start looking at Mary C. Gentile’s Giving Voice to Values. The questions she raises in her book (and on this blog): How do we motivate ethical decisions in business practices,

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Nigel Warburton on How E.H. Gombrich Inspired A Little History of Philosophy

As we are soon to publish A Little History of Philosophy, a lively and accessible introduction to Western philosophy and its thinkers, author Nigel Warburton reflects on his first encounter with the works of the eminent art historian, Ernst Gombrich, who wrote the bestselling A Little History of the World,

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Boys Will Be Boys—So They’re All the Same?

Follow @yaleSCIbooks Everyone has to grow up sometime. The always accompanying question is: how? From birth, we are set on different developmental paths, most outwardly distinguished by gender. But somehow this idea seems overly simplified to explain individual experience. Boys will be boys; girls will be girls, but does that

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Goodreads Giveaway: A Little History of Philosophy

We hope you’re enjoying our discussions and interview for Nigel Warburton‘s new book, A Little History of Philosophy. We’ll hear more from the author later this week, but in the meantime, our newest Goodreads giveaway for 10 copies of the book is just waiting for you to enter and win!

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Mary Gentile’s Talks at the Carnegie Council, “Giving Voice to Values”

Giving Voice to Values author, Mary C. Gentile, wrote in last week about the current approaches and practices in ethical leadership, and what that means for business educators and their curricula. Earlier this year, she spoke at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, presenting the ideas and topics

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Melissa Harris-Perry Talks with Yale Press About Sister Citizen

You’ve read her column in The Nation, seen her guest hosting the Rachel Maddow Show, even found her at our office; now, the week before the publication of Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America, we sit down with Melissa Harris-Perry to ask a few key questions about

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9/11 Victims Embrace Dignity

Follow @yaleSCIbooks For nearly two decades Donna Hicks, Ph.D. has been in the field of international conflict resolution facilitating dialogue between communities in conflict in the Middle East, Sri Lanka, Colombia, Cuba, and Northern Ireland. She was a consultant to the BBC where she co-facilitated a television series, Facing the

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100 Shoes Fashion Week Giveaway Contest

Following last year’s publication of 100 Dresses, the Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art will soon publish 100 Shoes, an exclusive look at one hundred fabulous shoes from their renowned collection. Edited by Costume Institute Curator in Charge, Harold Koda, with an introduction by actress Sarah Jessica Parker,

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Mary C. Gentile on Ethical Leadership: Asking the Wrong Questions

Mary C. Gentile, Ph.D., author of Giving Voice to Values and developer of the GVV curriculum at Babson College, writes on the current state of business education and proposes how a change in perspective can be used to fill the missing gaps facing the integration of ethical messages with business

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3@2 Interview: Peggy and Murray Schwartz on the Dance of Pearl Primus

In our newest 3@2 Interview, we asked Peggy and Murray Schwartz, professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and professor at Emerson College respectively, about their intimate knowledge of legendary dancer, Pearl Primus (1919-1994).  A noted anthropologist in her tireless studies of Afro-Caribbean cultures and folklores and her pioneering

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