This blog post is written by Linda K. Hughes, editor of The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Poetry
Fatemah Alzubairi discusses her new book Colonialism, Neo-Colonialism, and Anti-Terrorism Law in the Arab World.
Look in any social psychology textbook and you’ll see that obedience is defined as a form of social influence elicited in response to direct orders. New research on the most (in)famous studies of obedience...
The recent lunar landing of a Chinese rover, called Chang’e-4, has renewed interest in the Chinese space program. Of course, space programs have long been a symbol of national prowess and prestige. Indeed,...
The Fourth Reich: The Specter of Nazism from World War II to the Present is available now. This episode is also available on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher and Spotify. Read More ?
Borderland Memories: Searching for Historical Identity in Post-Mao China Martin T. Fromm is author of Borderland Memories: Searching for Historical Identity in Post-Mao China (Cambridge University...
Do you have a soul? In ancient Greece, answering ‘yes’ to this question would not necessarily imply that you had any strange metaphysical or religious beliefs. This is because, for an ancient Greek,...
Cambridge University Press will publish a fully annotated variorum edition of The Great Gatsby in April 2019. This will be the eighteenth and final volume of the Cambridge Fitzgerald Edition, an editorial...
Todd Timberlake author of Finding our Place in the Solar System discusses the key topic in his new book: The Copernican Revolution. "The Earth really does go around the Sun, but for a long time it was entirely reasonable to believe otherwise. This helps us to see why scientific controversies exist, but also how they are eventually resolved"
Ecologists have fully embraced the study of climate change and grassland ecologists have often led the way in these studies, thanks to the tractability of doing ecological research in such environments, publishing nearly 1000 studies in that time. My colleague, David Gibson, and I decided it was time to take stock of what we have learned, at least for grasslands! This is the first review to focus solely on climate change.
"War and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars" takes a global look at how modern societies imagined childhood as a space of sheltered existence, while at the same time mobilizing their children to help fight their wars and turning them into both victims and actors in the twentieth century's greatest conflicts.
The theme for this year’s Academic Book Week is banned books, a celebration of all things controversial and challenging. To join in the fun, we’ve collected together some of our favourite banned books, along with other titles that discuss them and their authors.