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Here’s an interesting thing. Many professors despise the idea that technology drives history. “Technological determinism,” they say, is a cardinal intellectual mistake like belief in the tooth fairy....
The Israeli economy is characterized by extremes: fast growth, sophisticated technological development, large defense spending as well as poverty and inequality. The discovery of very large gas reserves...
100 years ago, Cambridge published a book that transformed the study of mathematics and laid the foundations for the computer age. The Principia Mathematica is the most famous work ever published on the...
Roger Williams (1603-1683) is the first person profiled in Radicals in Their Own Time, and he exemplifies the qualities that define a radical. Williams moved from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony...
Last Friday The Globe and Mail included Allan Hutchinson’s Is Eating People Wrong in their weekly round-up of books worth a look, calling it “fascinating, learned and anecdotally rich.”...
Scott H. Ainsworth and Thad E. Hall discuss the way abortion policy works today and how Democrats and Republicans can treat it going forward.
Cambridge titles abound in recent FiveBooks interviews over on The Browser! Let’s see if you can match the books Professor James Dunkerly and statistician Andrew Gelman picked as the best in Latin...
Be on the lookout for more from Michael on This Side of the Pond in the coming weeks! Michael A. Lawrence is the author of Radicals in Their Own Time: Four Hundred Years of Struggle for Liberty and Equal...
Not one, but two Toby E. Huff titles have been singled out as “fascinating” books in recent news items. Huff’s The Rise of Early Modern Science (2003) recieved the distinction in an...
For big-time college sports, late December is more than the season of holiday basketball tournaments and the start of myriad football bowl games. It’s also the time for making tax-deductible gifts...
Most readers are familiar with William Wordsworth, easily recognizable as a Romantic ‘nature’ poet who wrote about daffodils and long walks in the Lake District, as well as a few ballads about the...
NPR’s Robert Siegel talks to math writer Julie Rehmeyer about Principia Mathematica, a landmark work in mathematical logic written by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell and published by...
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