Robin Grier, the co-author of The Long Process of Development, takes a close look at how history and economic development are inextricably linked.
What were the first large (i.e. non-microscopic) animals to evolve on Earth? We don’t know the answer to this question for certain, but one shrewd guess is that they were a bit like some of today’s...
Author Christine Hemingway explores the topic of responsibility, and introduces us to the Corporate Social Entrepreneur.
Lynn Ann Watson, the co-editor of Clinical Perspectives on Autobiographical Memory, explores the power of memory, particularly for those suffering from PTSD.
What is an animal? Silly question, surely? Everybody knows what an animal is – don’t they? If you look at the two creatures in the image to the left, you’ll see one that’s an animal and one that’s...
Moshe Milevsky, author of King William's Tontine (2015), looks back to 17th Century finance for 21st Century economic solutions.
Today is ‘May The Fourth’ – a day that excites millions of fans of the Star Wars franchise worldwide, and plays on the film’s famous ‘May the force be with you’ line....
Author Ron Batchelor explores French language and the tricky topic of word order.
Cambridge Companions to Management is an essential resource for academics, graduate students and reflective business practitioners seeking cutting-edge perspectives on managing people in organizations. In...
Sven-Oliver Proksch and Jonathan B. Slapin, the authors of The Politics of Parliamentary Debate, compare the systems of debate that keep governments from the US to Germany to New Zealand considering different points of view.
At the American Philosophical Association’s Pacific Division Meeting this month, we got to sit down with six Cambridge authors to discuss their latest studies in philosophy. You can hear about everything...
I found the panchayat, or Indian village council, by accident and by luck. Trained as a historian of Britain, I had been working on a study of British trade unions and arbitration during the nineteenth...