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The Music Modernization Act and Modern Music

After much hard work and years of lawsuits and other complaints, the United States Congress seems destined finally to update music’s copyright law. The Music Modernization Act passed unanimously in the...

Derek Miller | 3 Oct 2018

Mutiny and the British Pacific

I can still remember the first time I heard about Pitcairn Island. I was a young child, not even a teenager, when I found an old Book Club edition of Nordhoff and Hall’s fictional trilogy detailing the...

Tillman W. Nechtman | 2 Oct 2018

Species Conservation: Lessons from Islands

Until recently one of the most intensively managed bird species in the world, having been reduced to around 12 individuals in the 1990s. In 2007 it was the only species globally to be down-listed from Critically Endangered to Endangered; an excellent illustration as to how work on islands is providing positive conservation success stories and lessons for parrot recovery projects internationally.

Jamie Copsey | 26 Sep 2018

Remembering the Armistice in America

On November 11 2018, nations around the world will commemorate the centenary of the end of World War One, remembering the armistice that concluded the first truly global war and the deadliest and costliest...

Mark Whalan | 26 Sep 2018

The Politics of Fighting Child Sex Trafficking in the United States

Very few issues win bipartisan support in today’s political climate. But child sex trafficking is one. Earlier this year, Congress passed two laws that allow states to criminally prosecute internet service...

Carrie N. Baker | 25 Sep 2018

In memory of Emil Wolf, 1922-2018

On June 2, 2018, the optics world lost one of its great scientists, as Emil Wolf passed away at the age of 95. He left as his legacy not only an incredible body of work, including over 300 papers and classic...

Gregory J. Gbur | 25 Sep 2018

Indonesia’s National Awakening: Physicians, Nationalism, and Cosmopolitanism in the Dutch East Indies

In Indonesia, 20 May is National Awakening Day (Hari Kebangkitan Nasional). It commemorates the founding of the first nationalist association in the Dutch East Indies. On this day in 1908, retired physician...

Hans Pols | 24 Sep 2018

Terrorism and Literature

Like so much else in life, this collection began by accident. I had been working for some years on a book about terrorism and unspeakability (now forthcoming from Routledge) when I had a conversation with...

Peter C. Herman | 17 Sep 2018

The Importance of Feeling Authentic on Antidepressants

Author of Depression and the Self, Tamara Kayali Browne, discusses whether we can really feel like 'ourselves' while taking anti-depressants.

Tamara Kayali Browne | 13 Sep 2018

The Fed and Lehman Brothers: Setting the Record Straight on a Financial Disaster

Ahead of the ten year anniversary of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy that helped kickstart a global financial crisis, The Fed and Lehman Brothers: Setting the Record Straight on a Financial Disaster author Laurence M. Ball joins Cambridge University Press Senior Marketing Executive Ellena Moriarty to discuss the mistakes made that allowed it to happen and what we've learned in the ensuing decade.

Laurence M. Ball | 12 Sep 2018

Making homework social…

What is Perusall and why should teachers be excited about using it?   Perusall is a social reading platform to help students get prepared for class. What that means is that in Perusall, class reading...

12 Sep 2018

Animals and Literature Now

Why study animals and literature now? Animal narratives appear around the globe from time immemorial: in our earliest creation myths and the texts that underpin the world’s major religions, in literature...

Molly Hand | 11 Sep 2018