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Yearly Archives: 2021

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  • 3 Aug 2021
    Geoffrey Parker

    The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare

    In every bookshop in the English-speaking world, works on military history occupy at least half of the shelves devoted to ‘History’. I helped to create two of...

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  • 2 Aug 2021
    Neville M. Jadeja

    How to Read an EEG

    “Do epileptologists just make things up?” remarked one of my trainees after seeing me read an EEG, obviously completely exasperated looking at a screen full of squiggly lines! EEGs are indeed daunting to look at, but easy to read once you understand the “the method to my madness”. At least, that’s what I would like […]

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  • 30 Jul 2021
    Christopher Raymond

    Rapid changes in earth’s vital signs draws attention to the importance of changing senses of place

    Unprecedented surges in climate-related disasters coupled with rapid biodiversity loss, technological transformations and contestation associated with mobility and migration and post-national territorial claims are forcing all humans to question our security in the world.

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  • 30 Jul 2021
    Mark Fathi Massoud

    Shari‘a, Inshallah

    Muslims around the world have recently celebrated Eid al-Adha, one of the holiest times of the year. The holiday commemorates the Prophet Abraham’s calling to surrender his beloved son to God (who provided Abraham with a lamb to sacrifice instead), and it offers Muslims an opportunity to reflect on serving God by practicing shari‘a. Widely […]

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  • 30 Jul 2021
    Jonathan Ellis, Angus Cleghorn

    Pulling it all together: Elizabeth Bishop in Context

    In May 1975 Elizabeth Bishop replied to a letter from a complete stranger called Miss Pierson asking her a series of questions about how both to write and understand poetry. Bishop kept up a lifelong correspondence with numerous friends and fellow poets, including Marianne Moore, Robert Lowell and May Swenson, but she didn’t usually reply […]

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  • 30 Jul 2021
    Matt McDonald

    Climate Change and Security: Whose Security?

    Climate Change: The Heat is On In the lead up to CoP26 talks in Glasgow in November 2021, we’ve seen plenty of international attention on climate change. This attention is influenced by a few different factors. First, the talks themselves are the most important since 2015, when the Paris Agreement was signed. As part of […]

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  • 29 Jul 2021
    Gregory Radick, M.J.S. Hodge, Roger M. White

    Darwin’s Argument by Analogy

    No scientific thinker is more globally famous than Charles Darwin. Yet among scholars there is much debate about how, exactly, the argument which made Darwin famous – his argument for evolution by natural selection, set out in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species – is supposed to work. At the heart of Darwin’s […]

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  • 29 Jul 2021
    Bright Nkrumah

    Seeking the right to food: Food Activism in South Africa

    How does one ask his government to give him food? Since antiquity, different social groups and classes have used different strategies to express their discontent against rulers who are unable or unwilling to design and implement social programmes which could improve their living conditions. These range from complex strategies of ousting unpopular rulers and toyi-toying, […]

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