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  • 29 Dec 2025
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    Raymond Hickey

    An Introduction to the New Cambridge History of the English Language

    The New Cambridge History of the English Language represents a second edition of the original Cambridge history published in the 1990s. Much has happened in English historical linguistics in the last three decades and so it was felt that a new history should reflect these shifts in research evident in current historical studies. Specifically, the […]

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  • 23 Dec 2025
    E. K. Myerson

    The Desire for Syria in Medieval England

    On Friday 9 June 1458, a pirate ship swerved and fired on two Bristolian trading boats as they passed the coast of Malta, on their return from the Levant. I found the event transcribed in a legal document. I could see the inky vessels with their lost signatures, the Katherine Sturmy and the Marie, trapped […]

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  • 23 Dec 2025
    Luis de la Peña, Ana María Cetto

    Quantum Mechanics at 100: A Triumph That Still Leaves Fundamental Questions in the Air

    As the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology 2025 marks one hundred years of modern, quantum mechanics this reflection invites readers to look beyond the theory’s extraordinary successes and to consider how we understand, teach, and carry it forward into its next century. When the United Nations proclaimed 2025 the International Year of Quantum […]

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  • 23 Dec 2025
    Mary Tone Rodgers, Jon Moen

    Bailouts: Do They Benefit Us All, or Just a Narrow Few?

    When financial crises strike, rescues and bailouts of distressed firms spark a familiar question: who really benefits? That same reservation arose long before the Federal Reserve, our lender of last resort, was founded. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when the United States had no central bank, J. P. Morgan—not a public institution—was […]

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  • 22 Dec 2025
    William R. Pinch

    A madness ate into all the Army, and they turned against their officers. The Ressaldar, in Rudyard Kipling, Kim (1901)

    With these words Rudyard Kipling explained the Indian revolt against the British in 1857. Nearly a century after Kipling’s novel was published, Edward Said would draw attention to the necessary tendentiousness of Kipling’s depiction. Naturally the British would insist on an imperial understanding of the rebellion as a product of Indian madness (and how better […]

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  • 22 Dec 2025
    Christopher W. Churchill

    A modern scientific revolution: quasars and how they changed our science of the cosmos

    Imagine a time when our best images of the universe were black and white photos. This is the year 1960. Forget about galaxy evolution theory, we didn’t even have mature ideas on how they came to exist. We had no idea how the universe evolved, nor how old it might be. As championed by Sir […]

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  • 22 Dec 2025
    Patricia H. Werhane, David J. Bevan

    “Moral Imagination in the 21st Century: Individuals and Organizations”

    Moral imagination is a well-developed concept in business ethics, and one that is closely associated with Patricia Werhane, whose much-cited 1999 textbook argued that ethical failures often arise not from ill intent but from a failure to re-perceive situations, stakeholders, and systems beyond taken-for-granted mental models. What role should Moral Imagination play in managerial and corporate decision-making? It should expand […]

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  • 18 Dec 2025
    Samuel Gartland, Robin Osborne

    Reassessing the Peloponnesian War

    In the early summer of 431 BCE, villages and farms in Attica were abandoned as people moved into Athens. They were fleeing the advance of one of the largest armies ever assembled in ancient Greece. At its head marched the Spartans, supported by a formidable array of allies. The Athenians crowded behind the city’s Long […]

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