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Paolo Heywood
‘You have to understand the context’ is perhaps one of the most common intellectual reflexes of our time. Historians insist on historical context, literary critics on textual context, psychologists on environmental context. Across the humanities and social sciences, we’ve become thoroughly contextualist in our thinking. Yet we rarely pause to ask where this commitment came […]
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Jean Muteba Rahier, Jemima Pierre
The world is currently experiencing a period of intense convulsion, where the structures of race and white supremacy have moved to the very center of global cultural politics. In 2023, the police killing of Nahel Merzouk in France sparked weeks of protests that many viewed as a tipping point for Black and Brown populations relegated […]
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Geoffrey T. Wodtke, Xiang Zhou
If you’ve ever spent any time with kids, you probably know the drill: “Why are leaves green?” “How does the microwave make food hot?” “Why is snow cold?” “How do airplanes stay in the sky?” Our own kids can turn the simplest observations into an unending chain of hows and whys. And while these moments […]
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Giancarlo Calvanese Strinati
Purpose of the book: This book provides an advanced and detailed, yet pedagogical, account of the theoretical formal-ism that describes quantum many-body systems departing from equilibrium under quite generalconditions. It deals specifically with the contour Green’s functions formalism, which is a generaland versatile framework that can be applied to finite and extended quantum many-body systems,whether […]
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David Ragazzoni, Sandrine Baume
As liberal democracies around the world are increasingly under pressure, facing the converging challenges of populism, technocracy, and widespread disaffection, the writings of Hans Kelsen offer compelling resources for our exceptionally unsettling times. Arguably the greatest jurist of the 20th century, he wrote in an age of single-party dictatorships and witnessed the downfall of constitutional governments […]
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Penny Roberts
On 10 May 1570, at the chateau of Dieppe in Normandy, a cloth-merchant was interrogated about the contents of a basket he was carrying, including thirty notes and letters ‘concealed in a bed of straw under cheeses’. This chance interception piqued my curiosity about the wider context of this episode, from where and to where, […]
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Caleb Bernacchio, Robert Couch
Because business ethics sits at the intersection of multiple disciplines, the field often suffers from an abundance of disconnected perspectives. A unified account of the moral purpose of markets and firms is still lacking, making it difficult to navigate the competing moral demands that economic actors encounter in professional life. In our new book, Human […]
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Harry Munt
In the mid-tenth century ce, two Muslim scholars were having a chat in Baghdad. One of them, called Ibn al-Jiʿābī, was well known to contemporaries as a fairly prolific author and historian, even if none of his works survive today. While these two scholars were chatting, a group of Shiʿa approached them and handed Ibn […]
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Paolo Heywood
‘You have to understand the context’ is perhaps one of the most common intellectual reflexes of our time. Historians insist on historical context, literary critics on textual context, psychologists on environmental context. Across the humanities and social sciences, we’ve become thoroughly contextualist in our thinking. Yet we rarely pause to ask where this commitment came […]
Read More
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Jean Muteba Rahier, Jemima Pierre
The world is currently experiencing a period of intense convulsion, where the structures of race and white supremacy have moved to the very center of global cultural politics. In 2023, the police killing of Nahel Merzouk in France sparked weeks of protests that many viewed as a tipping point for Black and Brown populations relegated […]
Read More
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Geoffrey T. Wodtke, Xiang Zhou
If you’ve ever spent any time with kids, you probably know the drill: “Why are leaves green?” “How does the microwave make food hot?” “Why is snow cold?” “How do airplanes stay in the sky?” Our own kids can turn the simplest observations into an unending chain of hows and whys. And while these moments […]
Read More
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Giancarlo Calvanese Strinati
Purpose of the book: This book provides an advanced and detailed, yet pedagogical, account of the theoretical formal-ism that describes quantum many-body systems departing from equilibrium under quite generalconditions. It deals specifically with the contour Green’s functions formalism, which is a generaland versatile framework that can be applied to finite and extended quantum many-body systems,whether […]
Read More
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David Ragazzoni, Sandrine Baume
As liberal democracies around the world are increasingly under pressure, facing the converging challenges of populism, technocracy, and widespread disaffection, the writings of Hans Kelsen offer compelling resources for our exceptionally unsettling times. Arguably the greatest jurist of the 20th century, he wrote in an age of single-party dictatorships and witnessed the downfall of constitutional governments […]
Read More
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Penny Roberts
On 10 May 1570, at the chateau of Dieppe in Normandy, a cloth-merchant was interrogated about the contents of a basket he was carrying, including thirty notes and letters ‘concealed in a bed of straw under cheeses’. This chance interception piqued my curiosity about the wider context of this episode, from where and to where, […]
Read More
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Caleb Bernacchio, Robert Couch
Because business ethics sits at the intersection of multiple disciplines, the field often suffers from an abundance of disconnected perspectives. A unified account of the moral purpose of markets and firms is still lacking, making it difficult to navigate the competing moral demands that economic actors encounter in professional life. In our new book, Human […]
Read More
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Harry Munt
In the mid-tenth century ce, two Muslim scholars were having a chat in Baghdad. One of them, called Ibn al-Jiʿābī, was well known to contemporaries as a fairly prolific author and historian, even if none of his works survive today. While these two scholars were chatting, a group of Shiʿa approached them and handed Ibn […]
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