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As the crisis in Syria approaches a boiling point and the US determines its response, Brien Hallett, the author of Declaring War, looks back at the 2001 inception of the War on Terror and the complicated system of powers and authorizations that launched "the perpetual war."
What is the difference between weather and climate, and why are we beginning to see changes in both? Shaun Lovejoy has the answers.
In an attempt to dismiss vain frivolity, many often sneer at the gaudy pretentiousness of the fashion world and its paraphernalia. Yet, those who are in the know know that fashion has little to do with the intentionally unrealistic realm of haute couture. Fashion is the art of making the artificial look natural. Ars latet arte sua or “skill is concealed by means of its own skill”, as the poet Ovid put it in his Metamorphoses.
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.
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