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The new third edition of Chinese Tea shares the ancient culture of Chinese tea, the trade, tradition, literature, philosophy, and ceremony associated with tea in China and its popularization around the world.
Our library marketing associate traveled to Illinois, where she visited the birthplace and home of a young boy named Ernest Hemingway. To celebrate the upcoming release of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Vol. 2, she gives us an inside peek at the place where it all began.
Why was the philosopher Avicenna so influential? Peter Adamson considers this in light of of his new edited volume Interpreting Avicenna: Critical Essays', published in July 2013.
Summer Stargazing is almost over, but your career as an amateur astronomer is just beginning! Here at Cambridge, we have a dedicated team of editors and marketers working on our amateur astronomy titles, and we’ve asked them to highlight a few titles that will keep the learning and excitement going.
It is hard to know what authors from the past had in mind when they wrote the words that we still pore over today. This is, of course, in part because it is hard to know what anyone "has in mind," and because it is hard to know what importance–if any–the intention of an author has for the ultimate meaning of a text.
Michael Huffman, the author of The Monkeys of Stormy Mountain, describes what led him to become a primatologist, his experience researching macaques in Japan, and the surprising primate behavior he studies.
Robin A. Beck, an archaeologist at the University of Michigan, is part of a research team that discovered Fort San Juan—originally established by the Spanish—in the Appalachians. It is now the oldest known European settlement in the interior of what is now the United States and predates by almost 20 years the lost English colony of Roanoke.
For thousands of years, human beings have wondered if we are alone in the universe. Only recently have we developed the technology to investigate by exploring the far reaches of space for signs of life. In an excerpt from this fall's Life Beyond Earth, join the search for what—or who—might be out there.
The authors of our bestselling telescope guide Turn Left at Orion offer their expert perspectives on where to get the right telescope, what features to look for, and how to use it.
Today marks the 68th anniversary of the end of World War II, when Japan surrendered to the United States. Hatsue Shinohara, the author of US International Lawyers in the Interwar Years, discusses a forgotten crusade to abolish war, and how international law has worked to avoid major wars for the last six decades.
Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, DC recently hosted Ron Collins and David Skover for a reading and signing of their new book, On Dissent: Its Meaning in America. In the video of the...
Edward Snowden is still holed up in Russia. Bradley Manning has just dodged a charge of "aiding the enemy." And in America, the debate over secret programs that track phone calls, scan emails, and collect the digital details of American citizens is far from over. Gary Chartier, the author of Anarchy and Legal Order, discusses the problem with power in the age of government surveillance.
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