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Yearly Archives: 2016

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  • 28 Sep 2016
    Bert A. Spector

    Let’s Not Waste a Great Opportunity

    With six weeks remaining until the U.S. Presidential Election, the race is locked in a virtual deadlock.  That fact, in and of itself, is pretty remarkable given that a woman is as likely to be the next president as a man.  I understand that readers in countries such as the UK and Germany will not find that […]

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  • 28 Sep 2016
    Mark Philip Bradley

    A Journey through the History of Human Rights with Mark Philip Bradley

    Mark Philip Bradley shares with us an interactive timeline detailing unforgettable events in the Human Rights movement.

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  • 28 Sep 2016

    Channel your inner Beckett

    In the run up to the fourth and final volume in The Letters of Samuel Beckett series publishing, we've got 4 e-cards you can share featuring famous Beckett quotes

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  • 26 Sep 2016

    New book trailer for The Letters of Samuel Beckett

    In this book trailer editor George Craig reads some of Beckett's letters taken from the fourth and final volume in the series, 'The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1966 - 1989'.

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  • 23 Sep 2016
    Trolls, Psychology
    John Suler

    The Trouble with Trolls

    Cambridge author John Suler explores ‘trolls’ in his new book Psychology of the Digital Age.

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  • 22 Sep 2016
    Robert Scott

    Time is precious — optimize your approach to learning general relativity

    Robert B. Scott, author of A Student's Manual for A First Course in General Relativity, 2016 considers the personal and professional reasons for writing his book and the best aspects of solutions manuals, offering advice on solving problems and getting the best out of the many resources available for learning general relativity

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  • 21 Sep 2016
    Andrew Smith

    Some thoughts on assembling a creature: editing The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein.

    Assembling The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein raised some interesting questions at the developmental stage about the type of coverage that students would find helpful. Frankenstein is a novel that is taught in a variety of contexts and courses, including modules on Romanticism, the Gothic, science fiction and gender studies, amongst many others.  It is also […]

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  • 20 Sep 2016
    Andrew Goudie, Heather Viles

    Sculpting the Earth

    Landscapes of the Anthropocene So it seems that the Anthropocene is really here and the Holocene is over. Humans have significantly altered the surface of the Earth. Geologists in the Working Group on the Anthropocene reported to the International Geological Congress in Cape Town at the end of August 2016 that there is now clear […]

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