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Yearly Archives: 2014

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  • 9 Oct 2014

    Leading the discussion – Frankfurt Book Fair 2014

    Alastair Horne, Communities And Social Media Manager, reports from Day One of the 2014 Frankfurt Book Fair.

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  • 6 Oct 2014

    An Interview with Gael McDonald

    Gael McDonald, the author of Business Ethics: A Contemporary Approach, discusses the issues raised in her textbook, as well as the plethora of accompanying resources that have been developed to support students and teachers alike.

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  • 29 Sep 2014

    Ben Jonson Goes Digital

    The celebrated collection of Ben Jonson's work is now available in digitally. The publishers give you an insight into this colossal undertaking.

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  • 26 Sep 2014

    A New Way to Think About History

    The study of history has changed. Instead of examining centuries and millennia past and studying huge swathes of global history, the discipline has gotten microscopic, rarely tackling more than a few years or decades at a time. The change has more dire implications than you’d think: Winston Churchill’s maxim that “the longer you look back […]

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  • 25 Sep 2014

    John Baskerville, Type-Founder and Printer

    It is strange that there were very few biographical notices of one of the world’s greatest typographer-printers for more than a hundred years after his death. Interest was rekindled in the twentieth century by the 1907 biography by Ralph Straus and Robert K. Dent (printed by Cambridge University Press but published by Chatto and Windus) and Josiah H. Benton’s work, which we have just reissued.

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  • 25 Sep 2014

    An Interview with Tim Faley

    In this video Tim Faley, author of The Entrepreneurial Arch, discusses the concept of ‘the arch’ and how it can help develop entrepreneurial skills. Illustrated with various real-world examples, this structured and concise book will appeal to students, as well as to practitioners looking to develop their entrepreneurial skills.

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  • 24 Sep 2014

    Beckett’s Reading List, Part 2

    Those of you who enjoyed the list of books Beckett read in his spare time during Volume 2 will be delighted to know he kept up his voracious reading habits from 1957 to 1965. He was reading everything from classics like Dante to the much-discussed authors of the moment like Pasternak. He didn't enjoy them all, but he certainly had an interesting take.

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  • 23 Sep 2014

    Foreign Relations Law

    Campbell McLachlan, the author of Foreign Relations Law, discusses the policies of foreign relations law in four Commonwealth nations.

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