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Yearly Archives: 2023

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  • 25 Apr 2023
    Dr Susan M Cheyne

    Gibbon Hope – How to conserve the world’s smallest apes

    Get your hands on the latest gibbon book! "Gibbon Conservation in the Anthropocene". All about the smallest apes: gibbons and siamang representing 20 species across 11 countries in Asia.

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  • 25 Apr 2023
    Walter Feinberg

    Educating for Democracy: Preparing for The Office of Citizen

    Educating for Democracy provides a vision for preparing students to become active, competent citizens able to assume the responsibilities of democratic participation. This vision is guided by the idea that “the most important office in a democracy is citizen.

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  • 24 Apr 2023
    Kenneth Mouré

    The Rutabaga Game

    Food shortages were a fact of life throughout Europe during the Second World War, and a daily struggle for most consumers. In France a children’s board game, the “Jeu de rutabaga” (Rutabaga Game, 1942), replicated the adult frustrations in shopping for food. Players rolled two dice to determine which square they would go to, in […]

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  • 24 Apr 2023
    Anne Hyland

    A Genre of Two Halves? Schubert’s String Quartets Reimagined

    ‘Schubert didn’t write many quartets, did he?’ was a question I faced with surprising regularity through the writing of this book. Beyond such Schubertian staples as the ‘Death and the Maiden’, ‘Rosamunde’ and G-major quartets, and the String Quintet in C, my interlocutors were often of the shared opinion that Schubert wrote little else in […]

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  • 24 Apr 2023
    Gary Watt

    Make Making Great Again

    The idea of society as a manufactured construct had a respectable pedigree long before Donald Trump got his hands on it with his grabbing slogan “Make America Great Again”. In 1796, George Washington had expressed the hope in his farewell address to the American people “that the free Constitution, which is the work of your […]

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  • 19 Apr 2023
    Ann C. Colley

    Coleridge and the Geometric Idiom: Walking with Euclid

    On the very day that Cambridge University Press listed my Coleridge and the Geometric Idiom: Walking with Euclid in its “Most Recently Published Books” announcement, I opened an electronic version of in The New York Times (nytimes.com April 7, 2023) and found, to my delight, an opinion guest essay written by the mathematician Sarah B. […]

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  • 18 Apr 2023
    Mikkel Dack

    Purging Nazism from German Society

    For thousands of years, wars have generally ended in the same way: a military invasion is followed by a decisive victory or negotiated ceasefire. Treaties are signed, territories seized, and reparations procured — the invading army leaves. To avoid the same failures of the Treaty of Versailles (1919), the victorious Allied armies took additional measures […]

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  • 14 Apr 2023
    James Gallen

    Transitional Justice and the Historical Abuses of Church and State

    Why does it seem like there is persistent disclosure but also dissatisfaction regarding non-recent violence and how it is addressed? In countries from Australia, to Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, victim-survivors have been advocating for States and Christian churches to address allegations of non-recent violence, including child sexual abuse, forced transfer, […]

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