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This Earth Day 2018, the next generation of conservation needs to embrace another type of science

In nearly every article about Earth Day, whether it is about water scarcity in South Africa or algal blooms in Great Lakes, the same traditional message is underscored: embrace environmental science and...

Will Allen, Kent Messer | 16 Apr 2018

Esther Szekeres on triangle inequalities

Esther Klein (later Esther Szekeres) famously observed that five points in the plane with no three in line must contain the vertices of a convex quadrilateral. Similarly, nine points in the plane with...

David Eppstein | 13 Apr 2018

LBJ’s 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America’s Year of Upheaval

Author Kyle Longley joins Cambridge University Press Senior Editor Deborah Gershenowitz to discuss his new book, LBJ's 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of Upheaval.

Kyle Longley | 30 Mar 2018

The Fix Is In

Carl F. Ameringer, author of 'US Health Policy and Health Care Delivery: Doctors, Reformers, and Entrepreneurs' discusses why he was moved to write his new book on the status of American healthcare.

Carl F. Ameringer | 22 Mar 2018

On the origin of the LED lamp

The incandescent lamps was the killer application of the electrification. Just a couple of years ago we decided to say goodbye to this lighting workhorse. A first assumed successor – the CFL –...

Huub Ehlhardt, Arthur O. Eger | 22 Mar 2018

Ecology and Conservation of Forest Birds

Grzegorz Mikusiński tells us why his book Ecology and Conservation of Forest Birds is so important

Grzegorz Mikusiński | 21 Mar 2018

Protecting More with Less: Forest Protection Using the Science of Strategic Conservation

As a conservation planner, Will is engaged in advancing structured decision making tools able to quantify the benefits of potential conservation investments that result in better project selection and decision making. As a behavioral economist, Kent is engaged in cutting-edge research and outreach efforts related to efficient and effective environmental conservation. Read what they have to say about forest protection using the science of strategic conservation

Will Allen, Kent Messer | 21 Mar 2018

Notes of a Bookseller: Victorian Spring

About the Cambridge University Press Bookshop Cambridge University Press Bookshop opened in 1992, but the shop itself has been around for a great deal longer and selling books all the while; since 1581,...

Alice Tranah | 19 Mar 2018

Edna Longley on The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets

This blog post features a speech from Edna Longley who was guest speaker at a recent launch for The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets, held at No Alibis bookshop in Belfast.

19 Mar 2018

Is Poland’s New Memory Law a Case of Holocaust Denial?

Nikolay Koposov, author of 'Memory Laws, Memory Wars: The Politics of the Past in Europe and Russia,' relates his research to current political controversy in Poland.

Nikolay Koposov | 16 Mar 2018

On the origin of the smartphone

In his fourth instalment, Huub Ehlhardt, co-author of On the Origin of Products, discusses the origins of the smartphone.

Huub Ehlhardt, Arthur O. Eger | 15 Mar 2018

On Software for Automorphic forms and L-functions for the group GL(n,R)

Author Kevin Broughan details what led him to write GL(n)pack, software which goes with Dorian Goldfeld's 'Automorphic forms and L-functions for the group GL(n,R)', and what makes this work different from other texts on the topic.

Kevin Broughan | 13 Mar 2018