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Let’s conduct a little experiment. When I say “fantasy,” what immediately comes to mind? Do you think of fearsome dragons, fair maidens, ambitious quests, valiant (and sometimes not-so) kings, and all-knowing fairies? Or do you imagine a certain hobbit trying to destroy a certain ring? Perhaps a certain wizard with a certain lightning-shaped scar on his forehead?
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named Cambridge author Judea Pearl the winner of the 2011 ACM A.M. Turing Award, a prestigious honor widely considered to be computing’s equivalent...
Is that Laurence Olivier or Captain Jack Sparrow? David Crystal’s audio archive explores how Shakespeare’s words originally sounded. Read More ?
Engineering is still largely perceived as a male-dominated field, but women have pioneered groundbreaking inventions and structures since the early nineteenth century. To conclude our Women in Science series in honor of Women’s History Month, test your knowledge of famous women engineers here.
On March 16, 2012, Dharun Ravi, the former Rutgers University student accused of spying on his roommate Tyler Clementi, was found guilty of privacy invasion, tampering with evidence, and bias intimidation. News headlines around the world were quick to praise the jury verdict, celebrating the decision as a symbol for an end to cyberbullying.
‘A man of genius, simple, warm, sincere’, wrote the American poet James Russell Lowell (1819-91) about Charles Dickens: ‘He left a world grown kindlier than he came’. We know that Dickens was...
Celebrating Women’s History Month, Cambridge continues its “Women in Science” series today in a discussion with three of the Press’ science editors: Ada Brunstein, Laura Clark, and Katrina Halliday.
In the baseball game of the law, judges have been famously compared to umpires: impartial observers who apply a set of pre-existing rules onto a specific circumstance. But every so often a judge comes...
Ray Ryan is Senior Commissioning Editor of English and American Literature at Cambridge University Press, and the editor of Irish Essays. For more on the book, check out the Cambridge Book Club. How...
As March is Women’s History Month, Cambridge University Press is proud to launch its “Women in Science” series. For the inaugural post, we asked Dr. Barbara Gabrys, co-author of How to Succeed as a Scientist, to offer her advice on how to cultivate a successful, rewarding career.
It might have been a bit colder than a bookstore, even one with its air conditioning cranked all the way up, but anyone attending Clive Oppenheimer’s recent book signings would have experienced some remarkable scenery.
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