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What makes an expert?

In days of 8-bit computers, one would sometimes encounter individuals who knew everything about a particular device or piece of software. Single programmers wrote entire applications or games, and some...

Ian Thompson | 26 Feb 2018

The (Microwave) View from the South Pole

All-sky map of the temperature fluctuations in the CMB, known as the temperature anisotropy, as measured by the Planck satellite. The color scale corresponds to characteristic temperature fluctuations...

22 Feb 2018

On the origin of products

In the first of a series of blog posts, Huub Ehlhardt, co-author of On the Origin of Products, asks: ‘Can product development be considered as an evolutionary process?'

Huub Ehlhardt, Arthur O. Eger | 21 Feb 2018

If You’re English, Vote for Brexit

That England (and Wales) voted Leave in the Brexit referendum of 2016, and that Scotland (and Northern Ireland) voted Remain is now a fact of political life. People resident in these different parts of...

David McCrone, Frank Bechhofer | 20 Feb 2018

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, 1929-1931

In this conversation between Linda Bree of Cambridge University Press and The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, 1929-1931 editor Sandra Spanier, the two discuss the fourth volume of the series, including letters on the censorship of A Farewell to Arms, how the author coped with his rise to fame, and more.

12 Feb 2018

An Introduction to Youth Movements and Elections in Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe has witnessed a remarkable rise of nonviolent youth movements in the early 2000s. The Serbian youtsh movement Otpor mobilized thousands of young people against the incumbent government and...

Olena Nikolayenko | 6 Feb 2018

A Tribute to Peter L. Montgomery

Peter L. Montgomery's contributions to computational number theory had a direct impact on our day-to-day information security life. In their new book, Joppe W. Bos and Arjen K. Lenstra elaborate on Montgomery's lasting impact.

Joppe W. Bos, Arjen K. Lenstra | 5 Feb 2018

Notes of a Bookseller: A Century of the Women’s Vote

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 | 2 Feb 2018

Of Kerner, King and the Great Uprising: Fifty Years Later

How should we respond to the golden anniversaries of the publication of the Kerner Commission’s Report (March 1968) and the greatest wave of racial unrest in American history which followed Martin Luther...

Peter B. Levy | 31 Jan 2018

Celebrity Hemingway Interview Series: Joey Richter of Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party

"He would be amused by any portrayal of himself. It means people people remember him. People give a hoot. People care. Which is why we did this whole series." Joey Richter talks about his experiences playing a young Ernest Hemingway in Edgar Allan Poe's Murder Mystery Dinner Party.

Diana Rissetto | 30 Jan 2018

Empowering Leadership of Tomorrow

Ryszard Praszkier, researcher at the University of Warsaw and author/co-author to works including Social Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, explores the theories and practices behind empowering teams through creativity, outlined in his new book Empowering Leadership of Tomorrow.

Ryszard Praszkier | 26 Jan 2018

Workplace Harassment and The Supreme Court

Joseph A. Seiner, author of The Supreme Court's New Workplace, on the procedural rulings of the highest in the land and how it affects workplace harassment claims in the US.

Joseph A. Seiner | 25 Jan 2018