In our Q&A with senior editor Lewis Bateman, he reveals what drew him to Elliott Abrams' Tested by Zion and why the controversial topic makes it an important title.
The authors of Too Hot to Touch: The Problem of High-Level Nuclear Waste discuss the problem with America's disposal plans for the dangerous substances on our planet.
There’s a whirlwind of activity both on and offline to celebrate the official bicentennial of Austen’s favorite classic, but here at our humble little blog, we just want to say: Thank you, Ms. Austen. Two hundred years later and your story about a gentleman with not a little pride and a woman with lots of prejudice is still a joy to read.
Our publicist Frances discusses why in a world with so much to read and so little time, Pride & Prejudice is a book worth opening again and again
Elliott Abrams spotlights some of the most important books for understanding the past and current conflicts in the Middle East.
This week on Into the Intro, we’re celebrating Jane Austen and the bicentennial of her beloved classic Pride & Prejudice. Here’s the introduction to the new edited collection The Cambridge Companion to Pride & Prejudice, with all the information on how Jane Austen wrote a novel that we haven’t been able to put down for 200 years.
Go into the Bush White House with this exclusive excerpt from National Security Council adviser Elliott Abrams' new book on American policy in the Middle East.
This week, go Into the Intro of David Wells’ Games and Mathematics for some fun insights on how math elegantly shapes one of our most enduring cultural institutions. If you missed David Wells’ post last Friday about writing the book, be sure to check it out.
The author of Games and Mathematics discusses how he came to recognize the fascinating relationship between the games we play and the math they're built on.
If the consequences were not so terrible, there has always been something faintly comic about the ways in which the powerful respond to those who challenge and defy them. Their indignation, even rage show that they may be the last to give up belief in the myths of power they have woven around themselves. Those they rule, however, may have other ideas. During the past couple of years there has been plenty of evidence for this across the Middle East.
If you read the headlines, you probably think that the last few weeks of tax battles and partisan bickering on Capitol Hill make "Congress" and "problem solving" sound like contradictory ideas. But check out this book to understand why the prevailing assessment of the federal legislature as dysfunctional and paralyzed fails to give Congress enough credit for the strides it actually makes.
Welcome to 2013 at Cambridge University Press! A new year means new books, which means we are very excited.