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Yearly Archives: 2014

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  • 19 Dec 2014

    Happy Holidays from fifteeneightyfour!

    We’re taking a few weeks off this year to celebrate the holidays. Check back in 2015 for some exciting new content! Happy New Year!

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  • 18 Dec 2014
    Stefan Wrbka

    European Consumer Access to Justice Revisited

    Stefan Wrbka, the author of European Consumer Access to Justice Revisited, examines EU consumer law and the complex strategy of the European Consumer Agenda.

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  • 16 Dec 2014
    David P. Forsythe

    U.S. Torture is Headline News Again

    David P. Forsythe, the author of The Politics of Prisoner Abuse, responds to the recently revealed information about CIA abuses in the War on Terror.

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  • 11 Dec 2014
    David Krugler

    U.S. Police and Courts during the Year of Racial Violence

    David Krugler, the author of 1919, The Year of Racial Violence, examines the legacy of racial violence in America that has culminated in debates and riots over the Eric Garner and Michael Brown cases. Racial relations almost 100 years ago offer new insight.

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  • 10 Dec 2014
    mer de glace
    T. W. Körner

    Joseph Fourier: Heat Radiation and finding new answers

    In this, the third and final part of author T. W Korner's exploration of Joseph Fourier's work, we look at how his work complemented that of John Tyndall when it came to answering new questions about planet Earth.

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  • 9 Dec 2014
    Maartje Abbenhuis

    The Present as History

    E. H. Carr famously said that the creation of history is embedded in the ‘reciprocity between the past and present’ (What is History. 1962). Obviously, all history is shaped by the historians who create it. When we write the past, we are also writing the present. We are the history we create. What appears on […]

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  • 8 Dec 2014

    The Forme of Cury: A Medieval Cookbook

    One of the oldest surviving English-language cookbooks, this fascinating work was originally compiled in the late fourteenth century by the master cooks at the court of Richard II. It contains nearly 200 recipes for the preparation of everyday dishes as well as elaborate banquets.

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  • 8 Dec 2014
    HMS Agamemnon laying Atlantic telegraph cable in 1858
    T. W. Körner

    Joseph Fourier: Breaking new ground

    In this, the second of three posts by T. W. Körner, author of Calculus for the Ambitious (2014) explores Joseph Fourier's ground-breaking work.

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