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In this excerpt, get a peek at the latest from leading Jane Austen scholar John Wiltshire. In The Hidden Jane Austen, he offers new interpretations of Austen's six novels and a new approach to criticism when it comes to one of the most celebrated novelists in the English language.
Understanding The Great War today, a century after it began, remains a challenge for historians. In his general introduction to the three-volume Cambridge History of the First World War, Jay Winter describes the way scholars understand the war as it recedes further into our global past.
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.
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.
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;...
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...
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.
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...
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 ?
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.
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...
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...
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