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William Shakespeare and Cambridge University Press: A History

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...

9 Dec 2019

Sacred Heritage: Monastic Archaeology, Identities, Beliefs

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...

Roberta Gilchrist | 5 Dec 2019

Shakespeare the Stranger, Our Contemporary

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)...

Margaret Tudeau-Clayton | 5 Dec 2019

Author Q&A – Randall Abate

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.

Randall S. Abate | 4 Dec 2019

Arendt on the Political: An Interview with David Arndt

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,...

David Arndt | 29 Nov 2019

Social Polarization: Neither Hopeless nor Inevitable

“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,...

Jon F. Wergin | 27 Nov 2019

Video: Interview with ‘Cosmic Revolutionary’ Geraint Lewis

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...

27 Nov 2019

English Convents in Catholic Europe, c.1600–1800

Sister Mary Aloysia Joseph Wright of the English Canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre, Liège; oil painting

James E. Kelly | 25 Nov 2019

Did the Nazi dictatorship spell the end of privacy?

German soldier on home leave with his family, 1942.

20 Nov 2019

Today’s Food System ‘Unsustainable’

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...

Julian Cribb | 20 Nov 2019

Did Conservatives Transform State Education Policy?

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...

Matt Grossmann | 14 Nov 2019

10 Ways that the Gulf of Mexico “Super Basin” has Reinvented Itself

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...

John W. Snedden | 13 Nov 2019