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The Rule of Law in Anxious Times

Undocumented migrants die in deserts, in winter snowdrifts and in turbulent seas. Authoritarian populist leaders jail political opponents, attack the judicial branch of government, and silence independent...

Stephen J Toope | 27 Apr 2023

Gibbon Hope – How to conserve the world’s smallest apes

Get your hands on the latest gibbon book! “Gibbon Conservation in the Anthropocene“. All about the smallest apes: gibbons and siamang representing 20 species across 11 countries in Asia. Hylobatids...

Dr Susan M Cheyne | 25 Apr 2023

Educating for Democracy: Preparing for The Office of Citizen

Educating for Democracy provides a vision for preparing students to become active, competent citizens able to assume the responsibilities of democratic participation. This vision is guided by the...

Walter Feinberg | 25 Apr 2023

The Rutabaga Game

Food shortages were a fact of life throughout Europe during the Second World War, and a daily struggle for most consumers. In France a children’s board game, the “Jeu de rutabaga” (Rutabaga Game,...

Kenneth Mouré | 24 Apr 2023

A Genre of Two Halves? Schubert’s String Quartets Reimagined

‘Schubert didn’t write many quartets, did he?’ was a question I faced with surprising regularity through the writing of this book. Beyond such Schubertian staples as the ‘Death and the Maiden’,...

Anne Hyland | 24 Apr 2023

Make Making Great Again

The idea of society as a manufactured construct had a respectable pedigree long before Donald Trump got his hands on it with his grabbing slogan “Make America Great Again”. In 1796, George Washington...

Gary Watt | 24 Apr 2023

Coleridge and the Geometric Idiom: Walking with Euclid

On the very day that Cambridge University Press listed my Coleridge and the Geometric Idiom: Walking with Euclid in its “Most Recently Published Books” announcement, I opened an electronic version...

Ann C. Colley | 19 Apr 2023

Purging Nazism from German Society

For thousands of years, wars have generally ended in the same way: a military invasion is followed by a decisive victory or negotiated ceasefire. Treaties are signed, territories seized, and reparations...

Mikkel Dack | 18 Apr 2023

Transitional Justice and the Historical Abuses of Church and State

Why does it seem like there is persistent disclosure but also dissatisfaction regarding non-recent violence and how it is addressed? In countries from Australia, to Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom,...

James Gallen | 14 Apr 2023

We Are All Migrants

I had done twenty-odd discussion events around my book in East Germany, but this was something else. “If they start disturbing, or if things turn violent, just push the red button and the police will...

Jan Plamper | 13 Apr 2023

The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique Book Culture

Have you ever wondered how ancient data management worked? How ancient authors of books that we would term encyclopedic managed their data, for example? Truth is, we don’t know. No ancient author bothered...

Monika Amsler | 12 Apr 2023

Textbook on Health Systems in Low and Middle Income Countries: Transitioning from What to How?

How did the idea come about? It is widely known that well-performing health systems are critical for advancing universal health coverage (UHC), enhancing global health security, and achieving health-related...

Meesha Iqbal, Katherine D. Rouleau, Sameen Siddiqi, Awad Mataria | 12 Apr 2023