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What does it mean to be human? Professor Colin Renfrew and Dr Paul G. Bahn, editors of The Cambridge World Prehistory, look at how radiocarbon dating is affecting the future of our history.
Cambridge's publicity team visits The Hemingway Collection to see a handful of his famed letters.
With Summer Stargazing at its end, take a look at some of the latest entries in our astrophotography contest. There's still time to send in your photos before September 15!
Dr Robin Hesketh, author of Introduction to Cancer Biology, looks at the impact of genetic sequencing on finding a cure for leukaemia.
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.
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