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Wireless AI

In the era of Internet of Things (IoT), billions of smart devices, household appliances, smart phones, sensors, vehicles are connected by radio frequency signals. With the ubiquitous deployment of wireless...

K. J. Ray Liu, Beibei Wang | 20 Sep 2019

Why write an entire book about numbers?

In the century preceding the French Revolution advanced mathematics began to play a role in ordinary affairs. If you wanted to find the position of a ship at sea, design fortifications or price annuities,...

T. W. Körner | 16 Sep 2019

Entertaining the Royals

Why should one mind performances at court in Shakespeare’s time? Do we really need a book on the subject? So much has been written about the Elizabethan theatre industry’s connection with the public...

John Mucciolo, Sophie Chiari | 16 Sep 2019

Transcendence for an Age of Immanence: Re-Reading Romanticism and its Religious Thought

The fundamental concern of Romanticism, which brought about its inception, determined its development, and set its end, was the need to create a new language for religion. One of the main motivations behind...

12 Sep 2019

Modern Irish Theatre: A Women’s Tradition

In October 2015 Ireland’s National Theatre announced its commemorative ‘Waking the Nation’ programme. The intention was to ‘interrogate rather than celebrate’ the 1916 Easter Rising, yet women...

Shonagh Hill | 12 Sep 2019

Thomas Hardy and the Creative Process

Thomas Hardy fully understood, from early on in his career, that the production of a novel, or short story, took place both in the realm of artistic creation and in the literary marketplace.  He eventually...

Richard Nemesvari | 10 Sep 2019

Individuality and history in the ‘age of iron’: Flodoard of Rheims

The decades following the demise of the Carolingian Empire in 888 were traditionally seen as a downward spiral of political fragmentation and cultural stagnation: a ‘mind-the-gap’ period between the...

Edward Roberts | 6 Sep 2019

Lear on Screen: a vision of our times

Shakespeare on Screen: King Lear is the most recent volume in the Cambridge University Press Shakespeare on Screen series, which provides in-depth analyses of how Shakespeare’s work has been adapted...

Victoria Bladen, Sarah Hatchuel, Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin | 5 Sep 2019

Why do you want to study India’s State-run Media

‘Why do you want to study India’s State-run Media?’ This question was frequently posed to me by my friends and fellow academics. For some broadcasting if not passé, is quite a mouthful, and hard...

Dr. Sanjay Asthana | 5 Sep 2019

Indonesia’s Experiment with Specialised Courts

Since the end of authoritarian rule under Suharto in 1998 Indonesia has experience two decades of law reform, which has had a huge effect on the courts. Melissa Crouch investigates these reforms below.

Melissa Crouch | 1 Sep 2019

Universal Semantic Syntax: A Semiotactic Approach

In our book Universal Semantic Syntax we provide an introduction into a unique theory of syntax, which is based on the idea that syntax is part of semantics. This theory takes a radical different approach...

Hetty Geerdink-Verkoren, Egbert Fortuin | 30 Aug 2019

A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects

A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects is available now. This episode is also available on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher and Spotify.   Read More ?

Claudy Op den Kamp | 28 Aug 2019