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To celebrate the exciting launch of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson Online, we’re hosting a Mad Libs contest! Each Thursday until the end of February we’ll be posting a new...
Margaret Scammell, author of Consumer Democracy, discusses why salesmanship is inscribed in competitive democracy--and why political marketing, for better or worse, is here to stay in politics.
Daniel Roux, a contributor to The Cambridge Companion to Nelson Mandela (forthcoming February), reflects on the power and volatility of Mandela's life story.
In honor of the 500th anniversary of Machiavelli’s The Prince, Waller Newell (author of Tyranny: A New Interpretation) participated in a conference last fall hosted by the Program on Constitutional...
“Who am I?” If Google’s autocomplete is any indication, it’s not one of the questions we commonly ask online (unlike other existential questions like “What is the meaning of life?” or “What...
Christopher Bigsby, the author of Viewing America, reveals how the television dramas we love—from Breaking Bad to Battlestar Galactica—have come to reflect modern America.
The Internet is forging new industries—and putting some old business models at risk. Irene C. L. Ng, the author of Creating New Markets in the Digital Economy: Value & Worth, discusses how new markets will be created in the future.
Ever wondered what the life of a book looks like from a publisher's perspective? Or how the books you read get from the author's laptop to your bookstore (or Amazon cart)? Senior commissioning editor Linda Bree discusses the beginning of a book's life in the editorial process at Cambridge University Press.
Failure and the American Writer examines failure as a fundamental and complex human experience, imperative to the US national identity and embedded in our most celebrated literature. Check out an exclusive excerpt from this exciting new study of American classics like Moby Dick and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Following on last week's meditation on the emergence of African Studies as an academic field, the author of Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival reveals the curious effect that studying African history and culture has on the discipline itself. Catch up with Part One of Dr. Peterson's post here.
Archaeologist Patricia McAnany, the author of Living with the Ancestors, explains why the ancient Maya buried their dead within family homes.
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