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  • 30 Mar 2018
    Lyndon Johnson announcing is intention not to run for re-election
    Kyle Longley

    LBJ’s 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America’s Year of Upheaval

    Author Kyle Longley joins Cambridge University Press Senior Editor Deborah Gershenowitz to discuss his new book, LBJ's 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of Upheaval.

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  • 22 Mar 2018
    Carl F. Ameringer

    The Fix Is In

    Carl F. Ameringer, author of 'US Health Policy and Health Care Delivery: Doctors, Reformers, and Entrepreneurs' discusses why he was moved to write his new book on the status of American healthcare.

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  • 22 Mar 2018
    Huub Ehlhardt, Arthur O. Eger

    On the origin of the LED lamp

    The incandescent lamps was the killer application of the electrification. Just a couple of years ago we decided to say goodbye to this lighting workhorse. A first assumed successor – the CFL – was not embraced by consumers. Nevertheless it pioneered the transition to energy-efficient lighting. And now the LED lamp takes over. This article […]

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  • 21 Mar 2018
    In celebration of the International Day of Forests,
    Grzegorz Mikusiński

    Ecology and Conservation of Forest Birds

    Grzegorz Mikusiński tells us why his book Ecology and Conservation of Forest Birds is so important

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  • 21 Mar 2018
    Will Allen, Kent Messer

    Protecting More with Less: Forest Protection Using the Science of Strategic Conservation

    As a conservation planner, Will is engaged in advancing structured decision making tools able to quantify the benefits of potential conservation investments that result in better project selection and decision making. As a behavioral economist, Kent is engaged in cutting-edge research and outreach efforts related to efficient and effective environmental conservation. Read what they have to say about forest protection using the science of strategic conservation

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  • 19 Mar 2018
    Alice Tranah

    Notes of a Bookseller: Victorian Spring

    About the Cambridge University Press Bookshop Cambridge University Press Bookshop opened in 1992, but the shop itself has been around for a great deal longer and selling books all the while; since 1581, in fact. Passing from hand to hand over the centuries, 1 Trinity Street was taken over in 1846 by Daniel and Alexander […]

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  • 19 Mar 2018

    Edna Longley on The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets

    This blog post features a speech from Edna Longley who was guest speaker at a recent launch for The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets, held at No Alibis bookshop in Belfast.

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  • 16 Mar 2018
    Nikolay Koposov

    Is Poland’s New Memory Law a Case of Holocaust Denial?

    Nikolay Koposov, author of 'Memory Laws, Memory Wars: The Politics of the Past in Europe and Russia,' relates his research to current political controversy in Poland.

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