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...
Tu Phuong Nguyen This book investigates the paradoxical effects of law on the survival strategies of Vietnamese workers and residents who are caught to live and work in uncertain and sometimes desperate...
The inspiration for this blog, the fourth in a series drawing on contributions to the festschrift Law and Legacy in Medical Jurisprudence: Essays in Honour of Graeme Laurie published by Cambridge University...
It is commonly known that our brain abilities, including reasoning, memory, imagination, and attention, are shaped by the social world. We absorb ways of thinking, behaving, and learning through exposure...
The Middle East region has lost in 2022 one of its most inspirational and dedicated thinkers to the quest of freedom, liberal democracy, and individual rights, Shaykh Jawdat Said (1931-2022). Jawdat...
Tausha Haight, her five children and her mother were all shot to death in January 2023 by her husband, whom she had filed for divorce from just weeks earlier, and who had been investigated for child...
The impetus for us editing this volume came from two sources. One was the sense that Elizabeth Webby’s The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature (2001), a fine work for its era, needed updating,...
For four decades now, historians have lamented intelligence as the “missing dimension” of diplomatic history and international relations, the lack of relevance afforded “long-term intelligence experience...
“What is there new to say about nineteenth-century Haydn and Mozart reception?” a musically-inclined friend asked me, with a glint in his eye, when I mentioned my book a few years ago. I started...
This blog is the third in a series of five posts that reflect on contributions made to the festschrift Law and Legacy in Medical Jurisprudence: Essays in Honour of Graeme Laurie, published by Cambridge...