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Is there really such thing as an ethical consumer?

Do I order the grass-fed beef or the cheaper burger? Do I pay a little extra for a hybrid car? Should I install solar panels on my home? In theory, we’d all liked to do what’s best for the...

3 Aug 2010

The paradox in defining the City of Angels

The New York Journal of Books looks at the authors of Los Angeles to attempt to define America’s new second city: is it a palm-shaded paradise with great weather or a vapid silicone desert of asphalt? Read More ?

28 Jul 2010

How to Help the Congo Toward Democracy

Will democratic elections aid Congo in quest for a pathway to peace? Author Séverine Autesserre blames the failure of peace-building in Congo on the national-level “election fetish” of international...

27 Jul 2010

Immigration in Arizona: is the Federal or State government in the right?

In today's Cambridge Blog post, Anna O. Law tackles the legality of the Obama Administration's lawsuit against the State of Arizona.

Anna O. Law | 27 Jul 2010

A Q&A with Patricia Palao, promotions designer

This week we met with one of our in-house designers, Patricia Palao.  Here she explains her role as an in-house designer and what sort of things she designs for Cambridge and what she has learned during...

16 Jul 2010

Norman Maclean discusses the potential looming Silent Summer

It has been called the “Domesday book of British wildlife” – Silent Summer, compiled by 40 of Britain’s leading scientists, provides a complete picture of the state of the Britain...

13 Jul 2010

The view from Cape Town

World Cup Soccer: A unique African experience FRIDAY 2 July 2010 | Africa Hey all, did you know we have an office in Cape Town, South Africa? Well, now you do. And like yours truly, they’re stoked about...

2 Jul 2010

Cyber-Bullying and Legal Liability in Today’s Schools

Today’s technology affords the ability to tease, harass, and threaten an unlimited number of people with unprecedented speed and anonymity – and the results can be devastating for anyone on the receiving...

Shaheen Shariff | 28 Jun 2010

Taking a Page from… The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Los Angeles

Kevin McNamara, editor of the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Los Angeles, will be speaking tonight at Skylight Books in L.A. (or Hell-Lay as LA Weekly’s Michael Simmons calls...

24 Jun 2010

Book Launch for the Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA: Thursday, June 24 (7:30 p.m.): Kevin McNamara, editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Los Angeles, will be speaking at Skylight Books with phenomenal fellow contributors...

23 Jun 2010

Ranking Environmental Disasters + An Excerpt from The Ecology of Oil

In Saturday’s New York Times, Justin Gillis spoke with several scholars – including Cambridge authors Don Worster (co-editor of our Environmental History series) and Ted Steinberg – on the subject...

Myrna I. Santiago | 21 Jun 2010

Welcome to our lovely new interns!

The twenty interns for the Cambridge University Press Summer 2010 Internship Program began our first week with an orientation meeting with Benjamin Jeremiah, the Employment Manager.  He gave us an overview...

Rebecca Y. | 18 Jun 2010