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Schooling Across the Globe: What We Have Learned from 60 Years of Mathematics and Science International Assessments

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William H. Schmidt | 17 Dec 2018

Knowing What Knowing Is

Do you know what knowledge is? Before you reply, ponder for a moment the Gettier problem. It’s a puzzle. It’s a challenge. It was a moment; now it’s a tradition. It’s a centrepiece of contemporary...

Stephen Hetherington | 11 Dec 2018

Looking at AIDS History

In the ‘International Atlas of AIDS’, the last AIDS atlas to be written and published in 2008, the editors decided to include a chapter on the ‘social repercussions’ of AIDS. Photographs of ACT...

Lukas Engelmann | 6 Dec 2018

The Violence of Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Violence

The authors of Texts and Violence in the Roman World explain why ancient history is still quite relevant in today's current climate.

Monica R. Gale, J.H.D. Scourfield | 6 Dec 2018

The Naturalistic Fallacy

In October 2018 ITV’s ‘Good Morning Britain’ ran a debate entitled ‘Do People Hate Vegans?’. In November the vegan activist group Direct Action Everywhere staged a protest at a Brighton steakhouse,...

Dr Neil Sinclair | 5 Dec 2018

Principles of Thermodynamics

Thermodynamics is a theory which establishes the relationship between the physical quantities that characterise the macroscopic properties of a system. In our book, Principles of Thermodynamics, thermodynamics...

Sylvain D. Brechet, Jean-Philippe Ansermet | 5 Dec 2018

What do you understand?

Einstein once remarked, “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” Expressions like these are increasingly common. Saturated with social media and soundbites, many lament modern life’s flood...

Kareem Khalifa | 4 Dec 2018

More than a Commentator

Can you really be famous for explaining someone else’s ideas? Speaking as a historian of philosophy I can tell you the answer is: not really. But one man who just about managed it was Ibn Rushd, often...

Peter Adamson | 4 Dec 2018

The Need has Never Been Greater!: The Cambridge Handbook of Organizational Community Engagement and Outreach

When browsing through the pages of the handbook or stumbling across an abstract on the book online, one might wonder why we decided to write and organize this volume at this time. The answer is pretty simple. It is needed!

Joseph A. Allen, Roni Reiter-Palmon | 3 Dec 2018

Immigration Matters

Immigration is, needless to say, a very hot topic in today’s charged political climate. Still, little attention has been paid in the popular press to immigration of highly educated technological professionals....

Daniel J. McCarthy | 3 Dec 2018
Tiberiu Harko | 29 Nov 2018

The European Court of Human Rights and Russia: Quo Vadis?

There is an ongoing crisis in the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) regarding the relations between Russia and Strasbourg. In 2015, The Russian Constitutional Court decided that the implementation...

Lauri Mälksoo | 22 Nov 2018