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Disappearing Forests, Law, and Environmental Fears

Before Covid-19 threw our global systems into chaos, an intense and urgent public debate focused on several other international concerns. In 2020, data from Brazil’s national space research institute,...

Omer Aloni | 30 Jun 2021

Technological Internationalism

Visions of a world organization armed with its own air force, imposing international law and order through high-tech aeroplanes, may sound like a science-fiction fantasy, straight from the books of H.G....

Waqar H. Zaidi | 30 Jun 2021

Music, Wellness, and Aging: Defining, Directing, and Celebrating Life

The intersection of music, wellness, and aging is understood as an integrated whole that not only reflects and speaks to our being but also to the transcendent concepts that define and direct us in life’s...

Scott F. Madey, Dean D. VonDras | 29 Jun 2021

Nature’s wars

What do honey bees and staghorn ferns have in common? At first glance, not a lot. Yet they are both ‘eusocial’ organisms. They live in colonies where different individuals performing separate...

Andrew Travers | 28 Jun 2021

Staging the Raj: The Dramatic Performances Act and Anti-Colonial Theater

Shortly after William Shakespeare’s famous words, “all the world’s a stage,” were uttered in the opening performance of As You Like It in the new Globe theater, the Red Dragon set sail to found...

Leila Neti | 24 Jun 2021

International Criminal Court Increasing its Focus on the Asia-Pacific

Government data suggests that at least 8663 thousand people (possibly triple that number) have been killed by police and other groups in the Philippines during President Duterte’s so-called “war...

Emma Palmer | 24 Jun 2021

Can there be an external peace without inner peace?

This book examines a wide variety of psychological perspectives on peace and presents a new conceptualization of peace by focusing on its underlying components. A force lives perpetually and persists...

Sayyed Mohsen Fatemi | 24 Jun 2021

Anachronism(s) in the history of mathematics

Debate concerning anachronism has long vexed historical interpretation. Forms of anachronism are often declared the greatest failure, almost a moral sin, that a historian can commit. Yet, many have spoken...

Niccolò Guicciardini | 24 Jun 2021

In the footsteps of Leibniz: Learning by Computing

This book focuses on the shaping of the lifting surfaces to give an aircraft the desired performance. Skills in shaping for performance can be built by hands-on experience in real aerodynamic design...

Arthur Rizzi, Jesper Oppelstrup | 23 Jun 2021

Three Lessons for Human Health Research after the COVID-19 Pandemic

Many governments claim that the way out of the COVID-19 pandemic is through vaccines. But this can only be partly true because of two inherently complicated and confounding factors: (i) the endless ingenuity...

Graeme T Laurie | 23 Jun 2021

COVID-19’s Aftermath – A Looming Eviction Crisis?

Perhaps surprisingly, the COVID-19 crisis had a broadly positive short-term impact on housing and homelessness problems and on tenant security. The urgent need from a public health perspective to get...

Rachael Walsh | 21 Jun 2021

Should the rich pay higher fines?

What if fines could be adjusted not only to the severity of the offense, but also to the income of the offender? What if the rich pay a higher fine than the poor for the same offense? This is not just...

Michael Faure, Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko | 18 Jun 2021