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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

Celebrating Bloomsday and Irish Culture Worldwide

Happy Bloomsday 2010! For the uninitiated, Bloomsday is a celebration of James Joyce’s magnum opus Ulysses, a novel in which the events all take place over the course of one day:  June 16th. From Dublin...

Bruce Bradley | 16 Jun 2010

Watch Online – Colleen Sheehan on Glenn Beck: James Madison and The Spirit of Republican Self-Government

The fourth President of the United States, James Madison is known for being the “Father of the Constitution,” author of over a third of the Federalist Papers, and a true believer in the idea and ideal...

14 Jun 2010

Gender Representation in Politics

This week, Democratic and Republican women won some major primary elections here in the States.  [Insert ‘go team’ comment here – without sounding flippant or bringing back the feminist movement...

Jennifer L. Lawless | 11 Jun 2010

After Deadline on the Dictionary

Word nerd alert!  The New York Times announces the 50 Most Frequently Looked-up Words of 2010.  Check out Philip Corbett’s observations on 50 Fancy Words… Read More ?

9 Jun 2010