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Raphael Cohen-Almagor
Every few years, hope briefly returns to the Middle East. Negotiators meet behind closed doors, world leaders speak of a historic opportunity, and commentators predict that peace may finally be within reach. Then the talks collapse, violence resumes, and another generation grows up believing that the conflict is simply irresolvable. Must it always be this […]
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Jeremy J. Smith
Many years ago I developed an amateur interest in British ecclesiastical history, brought about particularly by reading on holiday Diarmaid MacCulloch’s astonishing biography of Thomas Cranmer (1996); and I thought it would be fascinating to link this interest with my professional work in English historical linguistics and philology, thus contributing to what David Crystal and […]
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Ryoma Sato
Speed matters. Have you ever felt frustrated because an AI system was too slow to respond? If the waiting time were cut in half, the experience would feel much less stressful. Quality matters too. Have you ever felt frustrated because an AI system gave you a wrong answer? If an AI system made only half […]
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Catherine Herfeld
Scientific theories have long appeared as polished systems of ideas, presented through equations, models, and textbook explanations. This holds especially for economics. Yet behind every theory there usually lies a rich history of intellectual debate, sometimes accompanied by considerable confusion and disagreement. Conversations on Rational Choice offers readers an opportunity to explore not only the technical and […]
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Sally J. Cornelison
Italian Renaissance painter, author, architect, and poet Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) is best known for his multi-volume Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (1st ed. 1550, 2nd ed. 1568), the first artist biographies to be published and a multi-volume book that is considered a foundation for the modern discipline of art history. By […]
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Frances L. Ramos
In 2000, while working in the rare books collection of Mexico’s National Library, I encountered something that caught me off guard. As I flipped through the card catalogue of the Fondo Reservado, I noticed a remarkable increase in commemorative sermons printed during the first two decades of the eighteenth century. Printers in New Spain produced […]
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Maurits den Hollander
A society’s true measure of success is its capacity to deal with failure. In the mid–seventeenth century, this is just what we can observe in the city of Amsterdam, at the time one of the world’s prime commercial hubs. In the early modern Dutch Republic, a set of legal, cultural, and institutional innovations resulted in […]
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Tore Rye Andersen
The cover of The Anthropocene and Literature features a photo from an abandoned house in the ghost town of Kolmanskop in Namibia. The former mining town was established in the early twentieth century when Namibia was still a German colony, and it was abandoned only fifty years later, when the diamond mines were depleted. With […]
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Raphael Cohen-Almagor
Every few years, hope briefly returns to the Middle East. Negotiators meet behind closed doors, world leaders speak of a historic opportunity, and commentators predict that peace may finally be within reach. Then the talks collapse, violence resumes, and another generation grows up believing that the conflict is simply irresolvable. Must it always be this […]
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Jeremy J. Smith
Many years ago I developed an amateur interest in British ecclesiastical history, brought about particularly by reading on holiday Diarmaid MacCulloch’s astonishing biography of Thomas Cranmer (1996); and I thought it would be fascinating to link this interest with my professional work in English historical linguistics and philology, thus contributing to what David Crystal and […]
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Ryoma Sato
Speed matters. Have you ever felt frustrated because an AI system was too slow to respond? If the waiting time were cut in half, the experience would feel much less stressful. Quality matters too. Have you ever felt frustrated because an AI system gave you a wrong answer? If an AI system made only half […]
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Catherine Herfeld
Scientific theories have long appeared as polished systems of ideas, presented through equations, models, and textbook explanations. This holds especially for economics. Yet behind every theory there usually lies a rich history of intellectual debate, sometimes accompanied by considerable confusion and disagreement. Conversations on Rational Choice offers readers an opportunity to explore not only the technical and […]
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Sally J. Cornelison
Italian Renaissance painter, author, architect, and poet Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) is best known for his multi-volume Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (1st ed. 1550, 2nd ed. 1568), the first artist biographies to be published and a multi-volume book that is considered a foundation for the modern discipline of art history. By […]
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Frances L. Ramos
In 2000, while working in the rare books collection of Mexico’s National Library, I encountered something that caught me off guard. As I flipped through the card catalogue of the Fondo Reservado, I noticed a remarkable increase in commemorative sermons printed during the first two decades of the eighteenth century. Printers in New Spain produced […]
Read More
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Maurits den Hollander
A society’s true measure of success is its capacity to deal with failure. In the mid–seventeenth century, this is just what we can observe in the city of Amsterdam, at the time one of the world’s prime commercial hubs. In the early modern Dutch Republic, a set of legal, cultural, and institutional innovations resulted in […]
Read More
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Tore Rye Andersen
The cover of The Anthropocene and Literature features a photo from an abandoned house in the ghost town of Kolmanskop in Namibia. The former mining town was established in the early twentieth century when Namibia was still a German colony, and it was abandoned only fifty years later, when the diamond mines were depleted. With […]
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