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Happy Birthday, Shakespeare!

William Shakespeare turned 450 this week! Celebrate four and a half centuries of our greatest playwright with this shareable e-card. Read More ?

25 Apr 2014

The Coming Revolution

In the 1960s, Maersk Line’s route towards containerisation took a detour through a promising technology at the time: the unit load. Take a sneak peek at Creating Global Opportunities to learn more.

Henning Morgen, Chris Jephson | 24 Apr 2014

Romeo and Juliet: Love and Death in the Digital Age

To honor the distance we've come and the things that have stayed the same in the 450 years since Shakespeare was born, we've recreated Romeo and Juliet in iMessages and Tweets. Two of the most famous fictional teenagers of the last four hundred years would have fit right in to our digital universe. If only Juliet got service in the Capulet crypt and Romeo had thought to check his phone.

23 Apr 2014

Into the Intro: Urban Ecology

Earth Day 2014 is dedicated to green cities and creating sustainable global community. Urban Ecology explores the environment of our new urban landscapes.

22 Apr 2014

Puzzling through Shakespeare

Challenge yourself to this one-of-a-kind jigsaw puzzle, featuring an array of beautiful covers from our New Cambridge Shakespeare collection. Can you reconstruct the covers of seventeen Shakespeare plays?...

21 Apr 2014

The Industry Behind Turbotax’s Astroturfing

Through the lens of Tax Day, author Edward Walker demonstrates how elite consultants have deployed new technologies to commercialize mass participation on behalf of powerful corporations and interest groups.

Edward T. Walker | 18 Apr 2014

China and the Cosmopolitan First Amendment

By examining Michelle Obama's recent visit to China and the US lawsuit against the Chinese website Baidu, Timothy Zick, author of The Cosmopolitan First Amendment, explores the complexity of free speech outside of the United States.

Timothy Zick | 17 Apr 2014

Is Global Warming Just a Giant Natural Fluctuation?

When estimating voter’s intentions, pollsters know that statements like “40% of the voters support party A”: will nearly always be wrong. However, when qualified with: “19 times out of 20, this...

Shaun Lovejoy | 16 Apr 2014

Ukraine’s Legacy as a Contested Borderland

Alfred Rieber, author of The Struggle for the Eurasian Borderlands, explains why Ukraine's history as a contested borderland continues to shape its politics today.

Alfred Rieber | 15 Apr 2014

A Reader’s Guide to Shakespeare’s Literary Legacy

For the last 450 years, Shakespeare's plays and poems have inspired hundreds of adaptations across all mediums. Even more so, his language pervades popular culture and continues to influence the literature we read and publish today. The following eight books are great examples of works that take their titles and themes from Shakespeare, keeping the legacy of his classic works alive for a new generation of readers.

14 Apr 2014

Succeeding in the Next Decade

The following post is a full transcript of the opening address given by our Chief Executive Peter Phillips, to the 16th Fiesole Collection Development Retreat on 11th April 2014.

Peter Phillips | 11 Apr 2014

The Cambridge Astronomy Saga: Eclipse

If you’re hanging out in the Western Hemisphere around 1am early Tuesday, April 15th, look up! There will be a total lunar eclipse next week, which means that the Earth will pass between the Sun...

11 Apr 2014