William Shakespeare was born just thirty years after the founding of Cambridge University Press, yet it was another three hundred years before the Press started printing his works. Since then, we have...
Why have medieval archaeologists failed to reflect critically on the sacred? The answer may lie in archaeology’s prevailing intellectual tradition, which promotes a humanist or secular position, even...
This book would probably not have been written if, as a postgraduate, I had not left Cambridge for my first job as assistant lecturer at the University of Geneva, and then, once I had met my (French)...
Randall Abate talks to us about his new book, Climate Change and the Voiceless, and how the law can protect those most vulnerable to the effects of Climate Change.
Let’s start with a simple question. What is your book about? It’s on the question: What is politics? What defines the political sphere? How is politics different from economics, law, morality, religion,...
“Our nation is being torn apart; truth is questioned.” Dr. Fiona Hill, former official at the U.S. National Security Council, in testimony given to the congressional inquiry into presidential impeachment,...
Interview with ‘Cosmic Revolutionary’ Geraint Lewis from CUP Academic on Vimeo. TRANSCRIPT: Geraint Lewis: I’m Geraint Lewis and I’m a professor of astrophysics at the University...
Sister Mary Aloysia Joseph Wright of the English Canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre, Liège; oil painting
German soldier on home leave with his family, 1942.
The world food system on which nearly 8 billion humans depend for their daily sustenance is at risk of disintegrating by the mid-century as global soil and water resources and climate stability fail. I...
2020 Democratic presidential candidates are attacking charter schools, education vouchers, and test-score-based teacher accountability schemes, even backtracking on their past support. Following other...
If you want to understand how it went from being called the “Dead Sea” to the world’s most important “Super Basin”, read the new book Gulf of Mexico Sedimentary Basin: Depositional Evolution...