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The Cambridge Companion to Baseball Book Launch

Pregame for opening day at The Cambridge Companion to Baseball book launch this Thursday evening at Borders Columbus Circle. Game time is 7 pm. BYO peanuts and Cracker Jacks. Read More ?

30 Mar 2011

Rank Professionalism

Legal education reform is crucial to the project of promoting “the possibility of justice.” And reformers of the profession have long focused on changing the nature and culture of law school to create more public-minded professionals.

Scott L. Cummings | 30 Mar 2011

Green new deals, ecological scarcity, and the lessons of history

  The history of natural resource use and development, from the Agricultural Transition 12,000 years ago to the present, suggests that humankind has had to surmount successive scarcity problems:  From...

Edward B. Barbier | 28 Mar 2011

Physics Fridays with Fuchs: The Quantum is Alive and Well

Every Friday during the month of March, This Side of the Pond will feature correspondence drawn from Coming of Age With Quantum Information: Notes on a Paulian Idea, a collection of more than 500 letters...

25 Mar 2011

Bancroft Prize Winner: Freedom Bound by Christopher Tomlins

Christopher Tomlins has published two other books with the Press, The State and the Unions and Law, Labor and Ideology in the Early American Republic, and is the coeditor of The Cambridge History of Law...

25 Mar 2011

The New York Times Endorses John Kerry’s Infrastructure Bank

Using today’s prime editorial space to endorse the bipartisan backed BUILD Act, the New York Times called the bill – presented last week by Senators Kerry, Hutchinson, and Warner and created under...

21 Mar 2011

Physics Fridays with Fuchs: A Wonderful New Slant On the Story

Every Friday during the month of March, This Side of the Pond will feature correspondence drawn from Coming of Age With Quantum Information: Notes on a Paulian Idea, a collection of more than 500 letters...

18 Mar 2011

Show Us Your March Madness!

It’s time for the Big Dance.  For the next three weeks, March Madness will sweep the nation, and fans nationwide are gearing up for sleepless nights, office bracket pools, and campus-wide rallies—all...

15 Mar 2011

Physics Fridays with Fuchs: Honesty from an Experimentalist?

Every Friday during the month of March, This Side of the Pond will feature correspondence drawn from Coming of Age With Quantum Information: Notes on a Paulian Idea, a collection of more than 500 letters...

11 Mar 2011

Capitalism, For and Against: An Introduction to a Feminist Debate

While political philosophy and feminist theory have rarely examined in detail how capitalism affects the lives of women, the recently published Capitalism, For and Against: A Feminist Debate sees authors...

Nancy Holmstrom, Ann Cudd | 8 Mar 2011

Financial Times on Ebner’s Ordinary Violence in Mussolini’s Italy

Tony Barber calls Michael Ebner’s Ordinary Violence in Mussolini’s Italy an “excellent study of the Mussolini era” that “gives a convincing account, based on much original...

7 Mar 2011

Physics Fridays with Fuchs: Jazz, Quantum Entanglement, and a Lunchtime Buffet

Every Friday during the month of March, This Side of the Pond will feature correspondence drawn from Coming of Age With Quantum Information: Notes on a Paulian Idea, a collection of more than 500 letters...

4 Mar 2011