Thomas J. Allen and Rory P. O'Shea, editors of Building Technology Transfer within Research Universities, suggest six strategies for research universities striving to live up to a profitable commercial model.
Humanities Commissioning Editor Linda Bree, interviews Martin Paul Eve, author of Open Access and the Humanities. Martin has been an expert witness before the UK House of Commons Select Committee BIS...
The law of occupation—a concept popular since Roman times—offers a finders-keepers approach to claiming property. Andrew Fitzmaurice, the author of Sovereignty, Property and Empire, 1500–2000, explores the historical concepts of occupation and ownership to expose the injustices of empire.
Nobel laureate Leon Cooper has dedicated his career to pioneering modern science and today’s culture. With the publication of his new collection, Science and Human Experience, Cooper tackles new...
As Benedict Cumberbatch takes on the big-screen role of Alan Turing in The Imitation Game, you can learn more about the brilliant, complex, tragic computing genius that is Turing in this excerpt from his mother's classic biography.
Elizabeth Heath, the author of Wine, Sugar, and the Making of Modern France, sheds light on the way Guadeloupean workers in the sugarmills and citizens of Aude reliant on the region's wine changed the nature of French citizenship and colonization.
In this, the first of three posts, T. W. Körner, author of Calculus for the Ambitious (2014) sheds light on the life of Joseph Fourier - a mathematician and physicist who got caught-up in the French Revolution, and managed to help found modern Egyptology.
As a functioning member of American society, you have surely been inundated with talks of government and elections in the last few months. So in honor of this political occasion, we sat down with Professor & Cambridge University Press author Marc Landy and got answers to all your Political Science questions, particularly regarding academia and his acclaimed textbook, American Government, co-written with Professor Sidney M. Milkis.
Since the 1950s, it has been known that atmosphere undergoes a drastic change in behaviour at around one week. In modern terms, for shorter periods, successive fluctuations tend to reinforce each other...
Donald J. Lisio, the author of British Naval Supremacy and Anglo-American Antagonisms, 1914–1930, tells the unknown story of First Sea Lord David Beatty's takeover of the 1927 Geneva Naval Arms Control Conference and the crises that followed.
Julius Ruiz, the author of The 'Red Terror' and the Spanish Civil War, discusses the complicated reaction incited by the Spanish version of his book.
The authors behind A Practitioner’s Guide to Stochastic Frontier Analysis Using STATA take you inside a powerful new tool and important analytical method.