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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

Financing Colonial Rule in Asia and Africa

No state can do without taxation. States need to pay for bureaucrats, soldiers, policemen, infrastructure, and the more ambitious ones also pay for schools, hospitals and social security programs. Fiscal...

Ewout Frankema, Anne Booth | 12 Nov 2019

Buzz: Inside the Minds of Thrill-Seekers, Daredevils, and Adrenaline Junkies

Buzz: Inside the Minds of Thrill-Seekers, Daredevils, and Adrenaline Junkies is available now. This episode is also available on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher and Spotify. Read More ?

Ken Carter | 11 Nov 2019

Religion and Brazilian Democracy: Mobilizing the People of God

In August 2014, about seventy evangelical clergy in the Brazilian city of Juiz de Fora gathered for the monthly meeting of the local Council of Pastors. The worship/meeting space was an unadorned hall...

Amy Erica Smith | 10 Nov 2019

Making sense of sustainability transformations across societies.

When UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the recent Climate Action Summit in New York urged countries to “show the way towards a full transformation of economies in line with sustainable development...

Victoria Wibeck, Björn-Ola Linnér | 6 Nov 2019

Should we brace for change? A new era for worldwide abortion law

Once again, pro- and anti-abortion advocates are clashing across the United States. Will reigniting this conflict over defining moral issues spill over to influence abortion policy worldwide? Producing...

Udi Sommer, Aliza Forman-Rabinovici | 5 Nov 2019

Strategic Human Resource Management

The website of GE mentions: “the relentless quest for progress has fueled 130 years of innovation. We believe that our people are our most powerful catalysts for growth and innovation”.  At Google,...

5 Nov 2019

My November 1989 in Berlin

Hope M. Harrison at the Berlin Wall, November 11, 1989.

Hope M. Harrison | 4 Nov 2019

Shakespeare ‘sans frontières’

In a lecture given in 1978 the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges observed that nations tend to choose authors to represent them that do not resemble their national character, citing, as a striking example,...

Margaret Tudeau-Clayton | 1 Nov 2019

Palaeoeconomy Revisited: culture, economy and 21st century archaeological science.

Amy and I wrote Subsistence and Society: New Directions in Economic Archaeology, because the time was right to rethink the topic for two key reasons. Firstly, palaeoeconomics and environmental archaeology,...

Alan Outram, Amy Bogaard | 30 Oct 2019

A History of Ancient Textile Production

The production of textiles is a very ancient human endeavour. In pre-industrial settings, it was a complex and time-consuming craft that must have engaged a large part of the population. The product was...

Sophie Bergerbrant, Serena Sabatini | 30 Oct 2019

The job of being hospitable in Global India

The passion to serve! Endowing and praising indigenous youth with the quality of service, with a predisposition to hospitality and care – is it truly appreciation of a culture, its people and a way...

30 Oct 2019