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The office of the Union for Democratic Control, 1959. Photograph by Cyril M. Bernard. Courtesy of Miriam Bernard and Hull University Archives
The photograph above, taken in May 1941, shows meadows near Bemerton, Wiltshire (UK), with a girl named Alison sitting on a plank bridge across a stream. Several features would immediately catch...
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743–1819) held a position of unparalleled importance in the so-called “golden age” of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century European intellectual history. As...
What kind of scholar do you want to be? Nobody ever asked me this question in the formative years of my academic career. Yet, I believe that it is one of the most important questions an academic should...
Between the time of the Second World War and the present day there has been a steady stream of cultural interest in Nazism, World War II, the Holocaust, and the aftermath of these events. Novels like...
Scholars have looked to various possible explanations of our world, from the spiritual realm to physical nature, as well as internally to ourselves. As a species, our intellectual life over time seems...
This is a new edition of a book originally published 10 years ago. This is a major revision that updates data supporting the view that psychiatry has been susceptible to fads and fallacies, and that in...
We are frequently asked “Sexual serial killing is such a hideous subject, so why on earth did you decide to invest so much time and effort investigating it?” “Don’t you need to have nerves of...
Civil war is among the most destructive forces in the modern world. Its toll is felt in the innumerable human lives lost, the infrastructure and economic assets decimated, the social services like...
Which emotion or mood states help creative thinking? And which emotion or mood states hurt it? These were the questions addressed by the first generation of research on creativity and emotions starting...
You do not necessarily have to follow online cats on social media to read the book, but if you do, you might have come across one or the other cat-inspired linguistic process before or have perhaps found...
In February 1825, Mary Shelley approached a member of parliament with a modest proposal. “I have often wished to be present at a debate in the House of Commons,” the author of Frankenstein wrote to...
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