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Irish Literature in Transition, 1980–2020

The sixth and final volume of Irish Literature in Transition examines four decades of contemporary Irish writing and culture; it begins in 1980 and ends now, in 2020. These dates suggest one challenge...

Eric Falci, Paige Reynolds | 17 Mar 2020

A story often buried – What shall we do about the increasing load of species dependent on humans for their existence?

Humans have long known that once a species goes extinct it is gone forever. There is a growing realization that the rate of human-caused extinctions is rising. One aspect of this gloomy picture is that...

Beatrice Van Horne | 17 Mar 2020

Modern Monitoring in Anesthesiology and Perioperative Care

Modern Monitoring in Anesthesiology and Perioperative Care is essentially a manual to help health care providers navigate their way through a seemingly endless array of monitoring devices that promise...

Andrew B. Leibowitz, Suzan Uysal | 16 Mar 2020

Unhinging Islam from the Middle East

Islam is a vital part of Asia’s past and present, as Asia was and is central to Islam. Islam and Asia argues that the existence of an intra-Asian space of interaction allowed for multidirectional influences...

Chiara Formichi | 13 Mar 2020

GATT: A Despised Do-Gooding Organization

The World Trade Organization has always had more critics than champions.  These days, the charges that are made against the WTO include that it has overstepped its authority, that it impedes the ability...

Francine McKenzie | 12 Mar 2020

Call to invest 20% of global arms budget in ‘food for peace’

  Investing one fifth of the global arms budgets in a new world food system will end hunger everywhere – but also greatly increase prospects for world peace. “At present humanity invests around...

Julian Cribb | 12 Mar 2020

Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana

Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana is available now. This episode is also available on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher and Spotify. Read More ?

Ariela J. Gross, Alejandro de la Fuente | 11 Mar 2020

Dialect and the making of modern China, then and now

In the summer of 2019, the city of Hong Kong erupted in a sustained, large-scale protest movement that has continued unabated to this day. Sparked by a deeply unpopular extradition bill that would have...

Gina Anne Tam | 11 Mar 2020

The Business Case for Purposeful Business

Capitalism is in crisis. The consensus among politicians, citizens, and even executives themselves is that business just isn’t working for ordinary people. It serves to enrich the elites – fat-cat...

Alex Edmans | 9 Mar 2020

Why Many Young People Don’t Vote – And How to Fix That

Voter turnout among young Americans has been dismal since 18-year-olds earned the right to vote with the passage of the 26th amendment in 1971. Even in 2018—a high water mark for youth voting—a full...

John B. Holbein, D. Sunshine Hillygus | 9 Mar 2020

Did U.S. attacks on ISIS open a Pandora’s box?

In October 2019, Turkey launched operation “Peace Spring” in north-east Syria.  The operation aimed at driving the Kurdish YPG out of the area to create a twenty mile-wide “safe zone” to resettle...

Milena Sterio, Michael P. Scharf | 9 Mar 2020

Irish Literature in Transition, 1940–1980

Irish Literature in Transition is a new series that tracks the the evolution of Irish writing from 1700 to the present, and I’m the editor of volume 5, which covers the four decades between 1940 and...

Eve Patten | 6 Mar 2020