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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.
Sarah Conly, author of Against Autonomy: Justifying Coercive Paternalism, offers her expert opinion to our Book Club debate by arguing that paternalism isn't as bad as we tend to think.
Whether we’re awed by a magic act, frightened by a ghost story, or impressed by a mind-reader, there’s nothing unusual about believing in unusual things. For centuries, mesmerists, mediums, and psychics have fueled a fascination with the paranormal and inspired belief in things that seem impossible. Extraordinary Beliefs: A Historical Approach to a Psychological Problem probes a question as perplexing as the incidents themselves: why do people believe in extraordinary phenomena? Go Into the Intro to find out.
Dean Anthony Gratton discusses the implications of our virtual communities and how global connectedness is changing the way we live.
Six contributors to the new book Paternalism: Theory and Practice join us in a roundtable discussion to explain what paternalism really means and how it is affecting our lives. Should other people be allowed to make decisions for us, even when those choices are in our best interest? Join the conversation.
The question of responsibility for the June 1967 war remains as controversial today as it was in 1967. Yet as a lasting peace agreement seems ever more elusive—especially in the wake of renewed hostilities—a new book sheds much-needed insight on the legal basis for the war
Former National Security adviser to President George W. Bush shares the details of working in the West Wing.
This month's Cambridge Book Club pick is all about ethical issues associated with paternalism. Should other people, like government officials, be able to infringe on our rights to choose the way we eat, work, socialize, spend, live, and die? Learn more with this exclusive excerpt.
This week on Into the Intro, we're giving you a sneak peek at Wall Street Values, the book that outlines Wall Street's changing business model and explains why it is a threat to the American economy.
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