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One of my favorites children’s books was What Do People Do All Day? by Richard Scarry. Repeatedly, I learned how the Busytown tailors, construction workers, and lumbermill employees...
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Religious Studies Reflections
Whether you’re a wine connoisseur or not, you’ve likely had a moment at a party or a dinner where someone poured you a glass and expected that you would know what to do next. Give...
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Psychology
When I was a little girl, bullied by my peers and misunderstood by my teachers, I couldn’t wait to be a grown-up. I dreamed of my future life as a professor, filling my brain with...
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Medicine
On 15 October 2024 I attended the UK premiere of Joy at the Royal Festival Hall — part of the 68th annual British Film Institute gala sponsored by Cunard. Directed by Ben Taylor...
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Medicine
BASIC Essentials is a comprehensive review book for the Anesthesiology BASIC Exam. It is designed to provide a concise and focused review of high-yield and testable facts for the BASIC...
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Philosophy & Religion
Kant’s 1797 essay “On a Supposed Right to Lie from Love of Humanity” has done more than any of his other works to scare students off his moral theory. Interpreters have little...
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Language & Linguistics
To become a better writer, stop imitating published writing—and follow the science If only writers knew the unnecessary effort their texts inflict on hapless readers, they would...
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History & Classics
Most historians of the formative generations of the United States have focused (and still do) on a story of nation building that is centered on the creation of domestic institutions,...
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History & Classics
As the United States recently completed a bitter and divisive national election, Americans find themselves in the middle of the third decade of the twenty-first century searching for...
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History & Classics
Hà Tiên, situated in the western Mekong River Delta and Gulf of Siam littoral not far from Vietnam’s present border with Cambodia, thrived as an entrepôt over much of the eighteenth...
Read MoreWe use images to immortalize precious moments, to document how we see the world and how others should see it, and to construct imaginations of how the world ought to be. In the book Seeing Matters,...
When people hear about artificial intelligence in justice, they often imagine a dystopian future in which a “robot judge” decides cases, replaces lawyers, and turns justice into a cold, automated...
Samantha Ege: The Cambridge Companion to Florence B. Price is the book I needed when I was a student. Cambridge Companions were always my go-to during my studies because they do such a brilliant job at...
This week we are celebrating the release of our brand new edited collection, ‘Language and Justice’. You may already have heard of the academic areas of ‘language and law’ and ‘forensic linguistics’,...
In the 1950s, research on language learning was dominated by behaviourism, which viewed language as a system of linguistic rules and patterns. Learners were encouraged to imitate and memorise words and...
English linguistics is in the middle of a transformation. That’s nothing new. This field has always been quick to adapt, but the current shift may be different in scale. It mirrors the broader digitalization...
A Non-International Armed Conflict (NIAC) is a limited manifestation of the broader concept of armed violence. The factual and legal criteria for determining when a situation of armed violence reaches...
Thirty years ago, I planned to write a book about Elizabeth Bowen, the Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer. With a monograph in mind, I assembled Bowen’s essays and reviews scattered across...
Jubilee Singers of Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, early 1870s. Photograph by James Wallace Black for the American Missionary Association. Library of Congress. The fourth track on Bob Dylan’s...
When is interruption an art form? Short answer: the eighteenth-century novel. Interrupting another speaker gets a bad rap: common charges lodged against listeners who jump the queue maintain that interrupters...
Everyone who discovers a new species nowadays has the right to name it. This name has to conform to rather intricate rules established by international professional associations. These conventions can...
Other than Paul, no writer has had greater influence on the theology of justification than Augustine. In the preface to his Latin works, Martin Luther famously narrated his discovery of the justifying...
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