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The Rosetta Stone is a famous stone artefact that was found in Rosetta in 1799 with inscriptions written on it in three different languages: Ancient Egyptian, Demotic and Ancient Greek. Given that Ancient...
How many witches did the Spanish Inquisition burn in Mexico? My name is Martin Nesvig and my new book The Women Who Threw Corn: Witchcraft and Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Mexico discusses witchcraft...
Compared with [J. S. Bach’s] six sonatas for violin without accompaniment these violoncello solos are light and unpretending. Nevertheless, they are interesting, because they are Bach’s. The first...
After nearly thirty years working as an addiction psychiatrist with people with drug related problems, I have met many young people experiencing often severe challenges including dependence and associated...
Since the end of World War II, the vow of ‘Never Again’ has been repeated by state leaders, international organisations, diplomats and activists worldwide. The famous phrase appears on genocide memorials...
Nebulae are those star nurseries familiar through the fabulous Hubble images like the one above. Languages are also born – indeed every language is reborn, quite literally in the nursery. In my...
On our book’s cover stands a small church. Coloured in a blue that suggests the haze of a summer’s day, it is set against a yellow landscape dotted with vines. We chose this image partly for its aesthetic...
In the advisory opinion of July 25, 2025, Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) took a bold step to declare that human rights law is the most relevant...
November 5, 2017, marked a century since the U.S. Supreme Court decided the famous Buchanan v. Warley case, striking down racial zoning in the United States. With more than 100 years of land use practices...
In People v. The Court, I argue that American democracy is broken and that the Supreme Court’s constitutional doctrine is a key factor contributing to democratic decay. The book charts a path for revolutionary...
This book has been fun and also somewhat liberating to write. To explain this we have to tell the story of how the book came about. We are all corpus linguists, i.e. we use specialist software to study...
Third edition of Seminars in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is a major revision which was long overdue given that the second edition was published 20 years ago. That was around the same time I started...
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