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  • 30 Jul 2020
    Lockdown Lectures

    Join us for Lockdown Lectures: a Series of Author Q&As on Remote Teaching

    We asked the authors of some of our most popular textbooks to take part in a series of Facebook Live webinars about teaching remotely.

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  • 29 Jul 2020
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    Janis Sarra, Cheryl Wade

    Black (Economic) Lives Matter: Confronting Systemic Racism and Exploitation

    The media is currently replete with American corporations signalling that they are going to pursue diversity on their corporate boards, in the C-suite, and among their employees. Some have made statements about addressing systemic racism as it relates to their relationships with consumers, employees, and the communities in which they do business. These declarations may […]

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  • 24 Jul 2020
    Jeffrey J. Lockman, Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda

    The Cambridge Handbook of Infant Development

    When we decided to serve as Editors of the forthcoming Cambridge Handbook of Infant Development, we did not want to assemble just a traditional handbook volume.  Sure, we wanted to gather together many of the world’s leading experts on infant development and have them review current findings and foundational theory in their research area.  And […]

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  • 23 Jul 2020
    Lukas Erne, Devani Singh

    Bel-vedére: Tracing Early Modern Authorship

    To those familiar with the Shakespeare-laden shelves of modern bookshops, it may come as a surprise to learn of the existence of Bel-vedére, or The Garden of the Muses. Published in 1600, it is no doubt the only early modern book containing a significant amount of verse by Shakespeare that has not been edited since […]

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  • 23 Jul 2020

    Too Many Police, Too Many Jails

    As Black Lives Matter brings millions together in the mission to end state-sanctioned violence and anti-Black racism, we want to highlight some of the work we’ve published – or will publish – that supports this movement. This piece is the first in what will be an ongoing series, each one dedicated to a separate issue […]

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  • 22 Jul 2020
    Florian Coulmas

    Loneliness, Helping Hands, TRUTH: One hundred voices on Covid-19

    Until December 2019, I was in Nanjing, some five hundred kilometres from Wuhan where the first cases of the new lung disease were then discovered. When things unfolded in January, I initially felt a sense of having escaped a potentially fatal danger by a hair’s breadth; only to realize a bit later that this wasn’t […]

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  • 21 Jul 2020
    Janina Grabs

    The stories behind your cup of coffee – are standards selling sustainability short?

    For many academics, the workday begins with a cup of coffee. Next time you fill up the machine – possibly still bleary-eyed – take a closer look at the coffee package: can you see a sustainability label such as Rainforest Alliance’s frog or Fairtrade’s little figurine? Have you ever wondered what stands behind those sustainability […]

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  • 21 Jul 2020
    Joanna Collicutt

    COVID, Crisis and the Nature of Religion

    What is the nature of human religiosity? For much of the 19th and 20th centuries, psychologists treated this area of human life as a disposition – something Gordon Allport termed a ‘sentiment’.[1] It was conceived as a kind of personality trait along which people varied: some are more religious than others. Personality traits can be […]

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