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We're kicking off the new Cambridge Book Club a few days early with a sneak peek at Shakespeare Beyond Doubt. Dive in to the authorship debate: did William Shakespeare really write the plays attributed to him? Read on to find out...and don't forget to check back on Wednesday and all month long for new Book Club features as we read Shakespeare Beyond Doubt.
Need a recommendation? Catch up on our new titles as marketing associate Adam L. points you to the latest and greatest in Economics.
When “Across the Universe” was transmitted into deep space in 2008, NASA hoped the song’s journey across the universe would bring contact with other beings. The famous Beatles’ tune may have been the first one sent to the aliens, but it’s not the only piece of music influenced by them: musicians from Beethoven to Ella Fitzgerald to Radiohead have all produced acoustic renderings of extraterrestrials.
Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking” as it’s commonly called, has been touted as a great boon to humanity and at the same time, condemned as a great danger. As usual, the reality lies somewhere in...
7 fictional aliens that would make great companions (and a few that should stay lightyears away!)
The NATO-commissioned guide to the changing ways of war and the new threats of a digital world. Should civilian hackers be considered military targets? Should victims of damaging cyber attacks be able to strike back with weapons against the offender?
For the latest installment of the Cambridge Book Club, we talked to Mark Brake, the author of Alien Life Imagined, about writing, Darwinian Martians, and his sci-fi bookshelf.
For far too long (since Plato’s era, to be exact), philosophers have portrayed justice as an abstract, universal ideal instead of being an actual reality. In Justice for Earthlings, leading social justice theorist David Miller proposes a theory that connects social justice to the way societies actually function and the way people actually think about what’s fair.
Welcome to Alien Life Imagined, the newest selection for the Cambridge Book Club! Dive in this week with an excerpt from the book, and check for your discount on this and related titles. Don't forget to check back all month—a Q&A with the author, a slideshow, and a playlist are all coming your way.
On March 26th, the Supreme Court of the United States will hear the arguments in Hollingsworth v. Perry, a case that will determine whether California’s voter initiative to ban gay marriage in the state is constitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment. Here at Cambridge University Press, we rounded up six of our experts on the issue for a virtual roundtable discussion about the case and its impact.
St. Patrick's Day is just around the corner! So we're honoring our favorite March holiday and one of our favorite Irishmen on Into the Intro this week with a preview of Samuel Beckett in Context.
Publicist Rachel E. prepares for what may just be the Year of Comets.
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