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The New Moon

Thank you to all of our readers who sent along their lunar photos as part of this summer's "Shoot the Moon" contest! Browse the beautiful submissions below, and don't miss our latest amateur astronomy title The New Moon.

17 Oct 2014

Cricket and Roman Rhetoric

Ayelet Haimson Lushkov, the author of Magistracy and the Historiography of the Roman Republic, offers an inventive look at the concept of leadership in the Roman Republic: through parallels with the 2014 English cricket team.

Ayelet Haimson Lushkov | 16 Oct 2014

The Entrepreneurs We Need

Tim Faley, the author of The Entrepreneurial Arch, explains why we need new entrepreneurs, why a system for building entrepreneurship is missing, and how we can foster one through education.

13 Oct 2014

Leading the discussion – Frankfurt Book Fair 2014

Alastair Horne, Communities And Social Media Manager, reports from Day One of the 2014 Frankfurt Book Fair.

9 Oct 2014

An Interview with Gael McDonald

Gael McDonald, the author of Business Ethics: A Contemporary Approach, discusses the issues raised in her textbook, as well as the plethora of accompanying resources that have been developed to support...

6 Oct 2014

Ben Jonson Goes Digital

The celebrated collection of Ben Jonson's work is now available in digitally. The publishers give you an insight into this colossal undertaking.

29 Sep 2014

A New Way to Think About History

The study of history has changed. Instead of examining centuries and millennia past and studying huge swathes of global history, the discipline has gotten microscopic, rarely tackling more than a few years...

26 Sep 2014

John Baskerville, Type-Founder and Printer

It is strange that there were very few biographical notices of one of the world’s greatest typographer-printers for more than a hundred years after his death. Interest was rekindled in the twentieth century by the 1907 biography by Ralph Straus and Robert K. Dent (printed by Cambridge University Press but published by Chatto and Windus) and Josiah H. Benton’s work, which we have just reissued.

25 Sep 2014

An Interview with Tim Faley

In this video Tim Faley, author of The Entrepreneurial Arch, discusses the concept of ‘the arch’ and how it can help develop entrepreneurial skills. Illustrated with various real-world examples,...

25 Sep 2014

Beckett’s Reading List, Part 2

Those of you who enjoyed the list of books Beckett read in his spare time during Volume 2 will be delighted to know he kept up his voracious reading habits from 1957 to 1965. He was reading everything from classics like Dante to the much-discussed authors of the moment like Pasternak. He didn't enjoy them all, but he certainly had an interesting take.

24 Sep 2014

Foreign Relations Law

Campbell McLachlan, the author of Foreign Relations Law, discusses the policies of foreign relations law in four Commonwealth nations. Read More ?

23 Sep 2014

Into the Intro: Knots and Borromean Rings, Rep-Tiles, and Eight Queens

Explore the paradox of the unexpected hanging in this exclusive excerpt from Knots and Borromean Rings, Rep-Tiles, and Eight Queens, a new collection of Martin Gardner's writing on classic puzzles and games.

22 Sep 2014