What is a painting? An application of coloured pigments to a flat surface, be it a wall, a canvas, or a panel. My book poses this question in historical perspective, to ask: what was a Renaissance...
Markets are everywhere—in our communities, workplaces, and even our personal lives—shaping society in important and often unnoticed ways. For many, markets are viewed as the solution to society’s...
We live in the times of profound pessimism about the future. Where have the hope and optimism go? And how is Europe, and its political leaders, trying to create new grounds for optimism? In Europe, the...
As a transplant surgeon and an advocate for pediatric healthcare education, I’m thrilled to share my latest five-part series of books designed to guide children and their families through the liver...
When I first embarked on writing and illustrating books for children, I had one simple goal: to make complex medical concepts accessible, relatable, and less intimidating for young patients and their...
According to Thomas Aquinas, knowledge of first causes is the most fundamental kind of knowledge. Since a cause is an explanation – a reason why something is — to say things have no cause...
This is an urban age. The concept of “world cities” and the cross-border networks that animate them inspired a wave of interdisciplinary research. Megaregions like New York, Lagos, Mexico City, and...
Kant’s 1797 essay “On a Supposed Right to Lie from Love of Humanity” has done more than any of his other works to scare students off his moral theory. Interpreters have little time for it. They...
One of the most significant legacies of Greek and Roman antiquity is the vast body of scientific and technical writings which, copied and transmitted across the centuries, has exerted a profound influence...
For the last two thousand years and more, the story of Noah and the flood in the book of Genesis has been thought of as an historical account of what happened around 2,500 BCE, some 1,500 years after...
Branding, personal branding, corporate branding; everyone must brand themselves today in order to be seen and to take part in the continual construction of their identity in the spaces in which they exist...
We have seen a relatively rapid progress of the energy transition in recent years, with increased adoption of wind and solar power, electrification of heating and transport as well as an amplification...