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Religion and Economic Development

Amy Reynolds, the author of Free Trade and Faithful Globalization, discusses the impact and implication of trade agreements.

Amy Reynolds | 22 Oct 2015

Hunting with Hemingway: A Recipe Guide

So if you're anything like Ernest Hemingway from 1926 to 1929, you've been traveling the world and taking up some exciting new hobbies: deep sea sportfishing in Cuba and duck hunting in the American Midwest. He chronicled his adventures--how many large fish he caught, how well the hunt went--in letters to friends and family members, collected in The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 3: 1926-1929.

21 Oct 2015

An Interview with Ian McFarland, the new editor of Scottish Journal of Theology

Find out more about the new editor of Scottish Journal of Theology (SJT)  as he offers advice to authors, discusses where he sees the journal progressing and tells us what the most exciting currents...

20 Oct 2015

Cutting the Gordian Interknot

John Suler, the author of Psychology of the Digital Age: Humans Become Electric, on how we might respond to the way our lives have become tangled up in the digital world.

John Suler | 16 Oct 2015

Objectivity and Neutrality

At one point in my book Reconstructing Sociology, I ask readers to consider a question that goes back to Isaiah Berlin. I would like to start by posing it now also to you: Which of the following is the...

Douglas Porpora | 15 Oct 2015

The Puzzle of Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway is cemented in American legend, but behind his terse fiction and complicated personal life lurks an enigmatic man. The publication of his letters offers lovers of his work the chance...

14 Oct 2015

The Cement of Civil Society

Mario Diani, the author of The Cement of Civil Society, answers questions about his book and how to understand social movements and civil society.

13 Oct 2015

How Apparel Made the Atlantic World

Robert DuPlessis, the author of The Material Atlantic, answers questions about the textile industry in the early modern period, the rise of Atlantic trade, and the birth of fashion--they're all connected!

12 Oct 2015

Techno-Utopia of the Deep

Quietly, as yet watched only by a few, a storm is brewing. Seabed mining – the recovery of minerals from the floor of the deep ocean – is passing from the realm of fantasy to that of fact. The International...

Surabhi Ranganathan | 9 Oct 2015

Who Was Adam Smith?

Jerry Evensky, the author of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, clarifies how to read Smith's work not simply as economics, but as a wider piece of social science.

Jerry Evensky | 8 Oct 2015

Traveling with Hemingway

We know you’ve been waiting for it…Volume 3 of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway is almost here! From meeting publishers in New York to sportfishing in Cuba to watching Pamplona’s Running...

7 Oct 2015

Why Write about Colour?

My forthcoming book on Colours and Colour Vision concerns many different aspects of this subject matter: how colours arise, how one might see and experience them, and how they have been used and talked...

Daniel Kernell | 6 Oct 2015