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A Hundred Years of Richard Feynman

For the 100th anniversary of Richard Feynman's birth Tony Hey author of The New Quantum Universe 2nd Edition, 2003 looks at the accomplishments and legacy of this infamous physicist as well as his personal and professional history with Richard Feynman

Tony Hey | 11 May 2018

Three-hundred years of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe

2019 marks the tercentenary of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719), a novel that achieved instant popularity in Britain (Defoe wrote a sequel, The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, which appeared...

John Richetti | 8 May 2018

The Montpellier Psalter and ‘Writing the Early Medieval West’

Robed in elegant shades of green and purple, Christ stands holding a gospel book beneath an arch decorated with interlace. Below this portrait, a prayer has been written in a fine Carolingian minuscule,...

Elina Screen, Charles West | 2 May 2018

Hope, Resilience and The Weeping Time

In 1859, more than 400 enslaved people – men, women and 30 babies – from the Butler plantation estates of the Georgia Sea islands were sold on the auction block in Savannah, Georgia. My new book is...

Anne C. Bailey | 29 Apr 2018

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