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Yearly Archives: 2022

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  • 7 Jun 2022
    Benjamin Pohl

    Putting the Conqueror in context: the new Cambridge Companion to the Age of William the Conqueror

    This is not a book about William the Conqueror. It is a book about the world into which William was born, in which he grew up, parts of which he conquered, and which he left behind upon his death. This was not the world created by or for William, but the world that created him. […]

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  • 7 Jun 2022
    Armen Ovanessoff, Felippe de Medeiros Oliveira, Nobuiuki Costa Ito, Leandro S. Pongeluppe, Sergio G. Lazzarini

    Private entrepreneurs can elevate public innovations – But they also need better Governments

    There is no shortage of proposals to address society’s most pressing problems—poverty, health, urban infrastructure, climate change, and many others. These propositions often involve single-handed solutions involving either direct governmental action or private outsourcing of key services, with a host of hybrid arrangements in between—such as public-private partnerships or social enterprises mixing financial and social […]

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  • 2 Jun 2022
    Christoph Kalter

    The history of others, or: The historian as a privileged outsider

    In recent years, the combined influence of global history and decolonial movements has reinforced the demand that historians must reflect upon their positionality, including, of course, their relationship with the histories of those they study. But what if there is no clear relationship to reflect on, at least initially? What if, as a German historian, […]

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  • 31 May 2022
    Peter Spearritt, Martin Shanahan, Ruth A. Morgan, Jenny Gregory, Andrea Gaynor, Lionel Frost, Margaret Cook

    Lifeblood: the challenges of managing water and sanitation in Australian cities

    In our new book, Cities in a Sunburnt Country, we consider how Australians have met the challenges posed by the need to provide safe water in the world’s driest inhabited continent and sewerage systems for rapidly growing, sprawling urban centres. In this land of drought and flooding rains, tensions persist between managing problems of too […]

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  • 30 May 2022
    Daniel Wakelin

    Immaterial Texts in Late Medieval England

    Philadelphia, Rosenbach Museum and Library, MS 439/16, f. 74r (detail): John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes. Image courtesy of The Rosenbach, Philadelphia.

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  • 25 May 2022
    Alistair Robinson

    Victorians, Vagrancy and One-way Tickets to Rwanda

    On 14 May Boris Johnson announced that preparations have been made to ship 50 ‘illegal’ immigrants from the UK to Rwanda, a country to which they have no connection. This is a cruel and baffling piece of policy, but it is not without precedent. In the late eighteenth century, Black loyalists who had fought for […]

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  • 25 May 2022
    Emma Whipday, Simon Smith

    Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England

    Peter Brook’s The Empty Space famously begins, I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged.[1] Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England: Actor, […]

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  • 24 May 2022
    Richard Ansorge

    Programming in Parallel with CUDA

    My new book “Programming in Parallel with CUDA – A Practical Guide” was born out of the excitement I feel about computing with GPUs.  I have always had passion for science and computer programming.  I wrote my first program in 1964 for the Cambridge EDSAC II computer using a Fortran like programming language. Since then, […]

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