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Open Access and the Humanities

Open access (OA) – the idea that digital copies of peer-reviewed research should be available to readers without them having to pay, while also giving readers greater re-use rights – is not going...

Martin Paul Eve | 18 Oct 2019

What is Restoration poetry?

What does the term ‘Restoration poetry’ bring to mind? The earl of Rochester’s scurrilous lyrics? Political satire, such as Dryden’s Annus Mirabilis, Absalom and Achitophel, or The Hind and the...

Gillian Wright | 18 Oct 2019

Risk of food wars rising

Ours is the Age of Food. Food is a central obsession in all cultures, nations, the media and society. There is a rising danger of ‘food wars’ – conflicts over food, land and water – as the world...

Julian Cribb | 14 Oct 2019

The ‘why’ and ‘how’ of specific treatment of suicide risk

In parallel with an increase in the development and implementation of local and national suicide prevention actions, rates of suicide unfortunately increase in many parts of the world, including the USA....

Kees van Heeringen | 9 Oct 2019

Chemical Kinetics in Combustion and Reactive Flows: Modeling Tools and Applications

The book accumulates more than a 40-year experience of the authors’  research in the field  of chemical non-equilibrium effects in combustion and reactive flows and includes our theoretical...

V. I. Naoumov, A. V. Demin, A. L. Abdullin, V. G. Krioukov | 9 Oct 2019

The Persistence of Reciprocity in International Humanitarian Law

Back in early May of this year, several news outlets in the United States reported that the Trump administration was in the process of pardoning several US service personnel accused and convicted of war crimes. Bryan Peeler investigates from a Humanitarian Law angle.

Bryan Peeler | 9 Oct 2019

New Model of Helix Slow-Wave Structures

An essential component in the helix travelling-wave tubes (TWTs) used, among other things, for satellite communications and electronic counter-measures, is the helix slow-wave structure. This structure...

Richard G. Carter | 9 Oct 2019

Energy Transfers in Fluid Flows

Understanding turbulence is an important and challenging problem with a million dollar prize money on it.  We illustrate the complexity of a turbulent flow using an example.  Consider coffee being mixed...

9 Oct 2019

Why we wrote Climate Mathematics

In recent decades, a typical undergraduate university student enrolled in an atmospheric, oceanographic, or climate science major might take about six mathematics and computing courses. This mathematics...

Richard CJ Somerville, Samuel S P Shen | 7 Oct 2019

Money, Marriage, and Murder in Early Modern England

I decided to write Women of Fortune when I discovered that Grace Bennet, widow of a rich mortgage and loan banker and mother of the Countess of Salisbury, had been murdered by the local butcher in 1694. ...

Linda Levy Peck | 4 Oct 2019

ASEAN consumer law harmonisation: trends and prospects

The ten states now comprising the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have collectively become a major part of the world economy, bringing together over 600 million people including a growing middle...

Luke Nottage, Jeannie Paterson, Justin Malbon, Caron Beaton-Wells | 4 Oct 2019

The Afterlife of Shakespeare’s Sonnets

Lovers swoon at Shakespeare’s Sonnets – or so we’re told. That’s why lists proliferate of ‘Shakespeare’s Most Romantic Sonnets’, and why Valentine’s Day produces so many novelty pink-and-red...

Jane Kingsley-Smith | 3 Oct 2019