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What makes someone a heretic? In the canon law of the Roman Catholic Church, heresy is ‘the obstinate denial or obstinate doubt after the reception of baptism of some truth which is to be believed by...
In a fractured world, we can mostly agree that medical progress is valuable, and that achieving it is a worthwhile social goal. But beyond that, there are different and conflicting visions of what exactly...
When we think about politics today, we tend to think about speeches, soundbites, social media posts, or rolling news. Books can seem almost incidental: slow, old-fashioned, and increasingly marginal....
Beyond the northern, leafy outskirts of Nairobi lies the peri-urban terrain of Kiambu County – a dormitory suburb of Nairobi, home to impoverished towns where unemployed youth gather, and where smallholders...
How is it that any child, anywhere, can acquire any of the world’s estimated 6,000 languages, in a matter of only a few years? This mystery has long intrigued scholars as well as those who take care...
Subject of the book The book is about systems of random variables, that is, sets of random vari-ables ordered in two ways: by their contents (the questions the variables answer) and by their contexts...
When people imagine a courtroom, they tend to picture a judge in robes, wooden benches, towering shelves of paper files and a sense of solemn formality. But that world is already dissolving. Across the...
Those who watched the televised images of COP30 in November 2025 could not have missed the striking presence of Indigenous peoples in the Brazilian city of Belém. They were there to insist that their...
“Your cattle are public enemies now,” a state veterinary scientist tells Homer Bannon, an aging cattle rancher in Larry McMurtry’s 1961 novel Horsemen, Pass By, shortly before he compels Homer to...
We’ve all received what used to be called a “left-handed compliment,” a comment or judgement that seems positive on the surface, but holds a thinly veiled insult. Parisian composer Louise Farrenc...
The New Cambridge History of the English Language represents a second edition of the original Cambridge history published in the 1990s. Much has happened in English historical linguistics in the last...
On Friday 9 June 1458, a pirate ship swerved and fired on two Bristolian trading boats as they passed the coast of Malta, on their return from the Levant. I found the event transcribed in a legal document....
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