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Yearly Archives: 2015

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  • 2 Jul 2015

    A Radical Holiday

    As part of our Independence Day series, we're offering an excerpt from Radicals in America on how the Fourth of July poses a radical duality present throughout revolutionary movements in American history.

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  • 1 Jul 2015
    William Rorabaugh

    Summer of Love, San Francisco, 1967

    It's July, and with Independence Day right around the corner, we're dedicating a week of posts to the latest scholarship on American history, liberation, and revolution. To kick things off, William Rorabaugh offers an excerpt from his latest book, American Hippies.

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  • 30 Jun 2015
    Lynne Kelly

    Knowledge and Power in Prehistoric Societies

    From the moment I first saw the enigmatic Scottish carved stone balls, I was intrigued. Although many purposes had been suggested for their purpose during the Neolithic, none had included the possibility that they were memory devices. Yet their size, designs and archaeological contexts matched the pattern of such objects that I had found in […]

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  • 29 Jun 2015
    Spanish Cortijo. Photo: Graeme Churchard via Creative Commons.
    Ronald Batchelor

    Word Order: Keep your Spanish House in Order

    Ronald Batchelor, author of A Reference Grammar of Spanish, explores the grammatical differences between English and Spanish.

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  • 24 Jun 2015
    Simon Palfrey

    Critical Style

    Simon Palfrey, the author of Shakespeare’s Possible Worlds, offers up a new model for appreciating Shakespeare's world--both the world he creates and the real one his writing reflects.

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  • 23 Jun 2015
    David F. Lancy

    Playing with Knives

    How often do we discourage our children from handling dangerous objects--things like matches and knives? Are we protecting them, or failing to let them learn valuable lessons about the world we live in? David F. Lancy, the author of The Anthropology of Childhood, breaks down these questions from an anthropological stance.

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  • 22 Jun 2015
    Valentin Bellassen

    Three Keys to Effective GHG Emissions Monitoring in a Broader Climate Agreement

    Valentin Bellassen, author of Accounting for Carbon: Monitoring, Reporting and Verifying Emissions in the Climate Economy (2015), explores the requirements for the MRV of countries’ emissions and considers how this can be successfully extended to cover emerging and developing countries.

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  • 19 Jun 2015
    Yellowlees Douglas

    So Much Time, So Much Money—Such Unsatisfactory Results

    Yellowlees Douglas, author of The Reader's Brain: How Neuroscience Can Make You a Better Writer (2015), explores how the teaching of writing is leaving some people ill-prepared for the workplace.

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