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Interns Blog: Going Out with a Shake, Wobble, and Bang

On what seemed a rare mild August day, my coworker, Catherine, and I decided to take our sandwiches down to this rather luxurious pier we found just off the Hudson River Greenway. The air felt cool as...

Marie C. | 26 Aug 2011

Interns Blog: A Great Summer at Cambridge University Press

My time here as the publicity and rights and permissions intern has ended, but there is so much more to do and learn that I am certainly sad to be leaving such a wonderful work environment. Read More ?

18 Aug 2011

The Cambridge Book Club discusses The Quest for Mental Health

Depression, PTSD, the efficacy of drug treatments—news on mental health seems to dominate the headlines these days, and with good reason. Read More ?

15 Aug 2011

Interview: Ian Dowbiggin on mental health

Ian Dowbiggin is the author of The Quest for Mental Health (2011), and here he takes a few minutes out of his work to answer our questions.

11 Aug 2011

The Origins of Anti-Pornography Feminism

The singer Rihanna rocketed to the top of the pop charts this spring with her single, S&M, which pays homage to sex accompanied by whips, chains and the intentional infliction of pain.  Having just...

Carolyn Bronstein | 10 Aug 2011

Interns Blog: Solar was Golden

I like to consider myself a methodically drifting reader—wandering book shops and libraries, almost aimlessly scanning book cover after book cover until I find something aesthetically pleasing enough...

Marie C. | 9 Aug 2011

A Q&A with Vito Tazi

Check out this interview with former IMF Fiscal Affairs Department director and Governments Versus Markets author Vito Tanzi on the IMF’s Public Financial Management Blog. Read More ?

4 Aug 2011

Interns Blog: Marie Cummings, College Sales and Marketing

It has come to my attention that not only am I a methodically drifting reader, but I am also a musically-inclined reader. You may be saying to yourself, “How does reading have anything to do with being...

Marie C. | 4 Aug 2011

Top Five Ways to Celebrate Charles Dickens’ 200th Birthday

Charles Dickens, born February 7th, 1812, was an English novelist many of us will recall reading at some point in our high school or college years, and his work continues to inspire generations of writers...

2 Aug 2011

Interns Blog: Nancy Chen, Publicity and Rights & Permissions

My third week as a publicity intern at Cambridge has wrapped and it’s sad to think that I’m almost halfway done with the intern program; let’s breeze over that detail for now. Read More ?

26 Jul 2011

A Day in the Life on Erebus Volcano, Antarctica

Clive Oppenheimer author of Eruptions that Shook the World (now inspiration for a major documentary Into the Inferno by Werner Herzog) and leading volcanologist invites you to spend a day with him and his team atop an active volcano.

Clive Oppenheimer | 25 Jul 2011

Happy Birthday, Ernest Hemingway!

Today, July 21st, would have been Hemingway’s 112th birthday. As Cambridge prepares to publish The Letters of Ernest Hemingway 1907 – 1922 (on sale September 20th), I’ve been thinking about what...

21 Jul 2011