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Reclaiming the Joy of Eating and Striving for Positive Body Image

“One of the very best things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.”   ~Luciano Pavarotti We are all subject to cultural prescriptions...

Meghan Gillen, Elizabeth Daniels, Charlotte Markey | 6 Mar 2019

Female Leadership and the Curious Puzzle of the Missing Diversity Benefit

In honour of International Women’s Day we hear from Martha Maznevski, Organizational Behavior scholar, and Kanina Blanchard, a former senior executive at Dow Chemical, on the changing role of women in business. Martha and Kanina reflect on their experiences as female leaders, the progress they’ve been part of, and the continued improvements they hope to see.

Martha L. Maznevski, Kanina Blanchard | 5 Mar 2019

Academic Book Week 2019

In this blog post series editors for 'Elements in Publishing and Book Culture' Samantha Rayner and Rebecca Lyons hold a roundtable discussion with their fellow authors and editors on Academic Book Week.

Rebecca E. Lyons, Samantha J. Rayner | 4 Mar 2019

Welcoming the Stranger in Hamlet

Shakespeare scholar Heather Hirschfeld, author of the brand new introduction to the New Cambridge Shakespeare Hamlet (third edition), reflects on what it means for modern audiences to encounter the play for the first time.

Heather Hirschfeld | 4 Mar 2019

Command: The Twenty-First-Century General

What does a 21st century general look like? Cambridge publisher John Haslam and the author of Command: The Twenty-First-Century General Anthony King discuss this vital question and the transformation of military command over the past two decades.

Anthony King | 4 Mar 2019

Rebellious Passage: The Creole Revolt and America’s Coastal Slave Trade

Written with verve and commitment, 'Rebellious Passage' chronicles the first comprehensive history of the ship revolt, its consequences, and its relevance to global modern slavery.

Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie | 4 Mar 2019

Human–Wildlife Interactions: Conflict or Coexistence?

Authors, Beatrice, Jenny and Silvio tell us about how the research emphasis has recently expanded from a focus on conflicts to include the broad spectrum of interactions between people and wildlife that range from negative to neutral to positive.

Silvio Marchini, Jenny A. Glikman, Beatrice Frank | 1 Mar 2019

Marking International Women’s Day: Why it Matters

Managing Director of Academic Publishing, Mandy Hill, reflects on why it is important to mark International Women's Day and why Cambridge University Press are making related content free and accessible throughout March.

Mandy Hill | 1 Mar 2019

Legal Authority Beyond the State – Towards New Insights into International Law

There are now thousands of public and private regulatory bodies which seek to regulate transnational activities consequently forming a disorganised system that is instituted by, and directed towards the interests of, private actors - but why? Patrick Capps and Henrik Palmer Olsen investigate further.

Professor Henrik Palmer Olsen, Professor Patrick Capps | 28 Feb 2019

Plausible and Implausible Stories of Sexual Offences

What makes one crime story convincing and another doubtful, inside and outside the courtroom? I tackle this question in my new book Plausible Crime Stories: The Legal History of Sexual Offences in Mandate...

Dr. Orna Alyagon Darr | 28 Feb 2019

How Theology Shaped Twentieth-Century Philosophy

Certain intellectual schemes make reality come off as thinned out and characterless on its own, prior to what thought or language projects upon it, or as a site of emptiness, arbitrariness, and ruin, prior...

Frank B. Farrell | 27 Feb 2019

In Treaty we Negotiably Trust

“To treat is but to negotiate and to be ‘in treaty’ is but to be in negotiation”. Clive Parry. Cambridge Author, Evangelos Raftopoulos, talks about his new book, 'International Negotiation: A Process of Relational Governance for International Common Interest'.

Evangelos Raftopoulos | 27 Feb 2019