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This book’s gestation began many years ago in the reading room of the Huntington Library. I spent a week leafing through play manuscripts from the 1790s, trying to figure out how censorship worked. As I skimmed, I couldn’t help but notice the remarkable number of plays which featured a Stage Irishman and/or Irishwoman. I was […]
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When trying to choose the science and the scientists that shaped the 20th century, many think about nuclear energy and the near mythical names of Maria Skłodowska-Curie, Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Albert Einstein, or perhaps about the revolution caused by molecular biology and the almost magical DNA and its 1953 discovery by James Watson and […]
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Why do we need another book about Queen Victoria? The last time I checked, there were over 1,500 entries for the Queen as a subject in WorldCat. Yet on this, the 200th anniversary of Queen Victoria’s birth, I’d like to think that my book clears up some significant misunderstandings about the Queen, particularly on matters […]
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In this video Les Kirkup, author of Experimental Methods for Science and Engineering Students explains the need for students to develop a range of techniques and methods in their journey to becoming successful scientists and engineers .
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Turkey has gone through radical changes since the year 1980, which was marked by a repressive military coup. Rising from the ashes of military authoritarianism in 1983, Turks sought to gradually democratize their polity through the 1980s and the 1990s. The post-coup transition was marked by the legacy of a long wave of urbanization, and […]
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One of the reasons people like science and engineering is because of the joy of discovering things about the world around us. The more scientifically inclined are curious about nature and what surrounds us, and often wonder why things are the way they are. People that are more oriented towards engineering often ask how one […]
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After the clamour of the centenary of the ending of the First World War, how are we best to remember those who died in it? This was the question some were asking at the very first anniversary of the Armistice, and indeed at the Armistice itself. The many who had lost someone felt only the […]
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Alejandro Molina Lara, Gloria García, and Ana Alvarenga, the key protagonists in Solidarity Under Siege, all emigrated to North America. During the 1980s, Salvadoran death squads drove them to El Norte. In the early 1990s, many union activists, like Angel Escobar, were blacklisted from the fishing industry while others fled the tropical deindustrialization that accompanied […]
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