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Suez, Lampedusa, Djibouti City: Border Zones of Globalisation

Examining the winner of 2014's World Press Photo of the Year award, Valeska Huber, author of Channelling Mobilities, explores global mobility and border crossing in the modern world.

Valeska Huber | 3 Jun 2014

More Travellers to the Nile

The land and history of Egypt have fascinated Western visitors since the time of Herodotus, and probably earlier. The Greeks allegedly tried to disguise their reaction to the gigantic remains of Egypt’s past by naming them with diminutives: ‘obeliskos’, a little ‘obelos’, or cooking spit; ‘puramis’, a small cake.

2 Jun 2014

The Case of the Missing Quadrillion

From milliseconds to billions of years the atmosphere is highly variable, but thanks to aircraft, satellites and ice and ocean cores and other proxies, it has been quantified to an unprecedented degree;...

Shaun Lovejoy | 2 Jun 2014

Happy BookExpo America!

We’re taking the day off to attend BEA 2014! Authors, publishers, and book lovers have gathered at New York’s Javits Center for the last few days and we are enjoying the festivities. If you’re...

30 May 2014

Remembering Maya Angelou

The death of Maya Angelou on Wednesday was a tragic loss for the literary community We honor her legacy and her immense contribution to American literature with a selection from the chronology in The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature that traces the important history of African American women's literature in the US and Angelou's integral role in its development.

29 May 2014

Cambridge Honors the Centennial of World War I

This summer, Cambridge University Press honors one hundred years since the Great War. Every Wednesday, we will feature a new post that explores the tragedy, nuance, and legacy of World War I, in everything...

28 May 2014

Behavioral Economics and the Insurance Industry

Howard Kunreuther and Mark Pauly, authors of Insurance and Behavioral Economics, explain consumer behavior and insurer incentives in one of the most misunderstood industries. Read More ?

27 May 2014

Into the Intro: Open Standards in the Digital Age

How did openness become a foundational value for the networks of the twenty-first century? In the age of Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden, we are increasingly focused on "open" digital standards. But what does that mean, and why do we value it? Andrew L. Russell explores these questions in this excerpt from his latest book, Open Standards in the Digital Age.

26 May 2014

Fall Into a Good Book

So I know it's not quite fall yet, but the spring books season is ending, BookExpo America is approaching, and we have a ton of new titles to get excited about. This fall (and summer), Cambridge is your one-stop shop for classical poetry, World War I history, explorations in physics, and political biographies. Take a look at few of the books we're looking forward to...

23 May 2014

Four Things You Should Know about Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby

Marci A. Hamilton has updated her classic constitutional law book, God vs. the Gavel, to discuss the raging debate over contraceptive care and religious freedom. In this interview, she discusses the...

22 May 2014

Get the Facts on Giraffes

Anne Innis Dagg, the author of Giraffe: Biology, Behaviour, and Conservation, reveals some of the exciting new research on giraffes in her latest book.

Anne Innis Dagg | 21 May 2014

Into the Intro: The Systems View of Life

Take a sneak peek at The Systems View of Life, the latest title from Fritjof Capra and Pier Luigi Luisi. In this excerpt from the book's introduction, the authors look at the origin of our connected world and how we understand it.

Pier Luigi Luisi, Fritjof Capra | 20 May 2014