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Tying the Knot

Has getting married these days become a secular matter rather than a religious one? The latest figures released by the Office for National Statistics would certainly suggest so. In 2018, barely a fifth...

Rebecca Probert | 20 Sep 2021

Correlation vs causation and the “associated” gene

Nowadays it is common to come across media reports about scientific studies reporting statistical associations between particular genes or other sites on DNA and particular conditions, including diseases...

Kostas Kampourakis | 20 Sep 2021

Surviving Climate Chaos: How to be a responsible aid agency

Surviving Climate Chaos is being published into a new world of lethal fires, floods and record-breaking temperatures, as well as frantic international negotiations before CoP 26 in Glasgow. This is while...

Julian Caldecott | 17 Sep 2021

The Epistemology of Reading and Interpretation

One of these days my book The Epistemology of Reading and Interpretation will appear. I am, of course, pleased with this beautifully covered outcome of a couple of years hard work! The book grew out...

René van Woudenberg | 17 Sep 2021

Making Dinosaur a Household Word

Nowadays it’s regularly remarked that people think all prehistoric animals are dinosaurs. The flying Pteranodon? Dinosaur. The aquatic Ichthyosaurus? Dinosaur. Mammuthus primigenius – or rather the...

Richard Fallon | 16 Sep 2021

Non-State Actors’ Right in Maritime Delimitation: Lessons from Land – interview with Dr Marianthi Pappa

What made you write this book? The monograph is based on my doctoral thesis, which was defended at the University of Aberdeen in June 2018. That work had emerged from a mere ‘what if’ question....

Marianthi Pappa | 15 Sep 2021

Crossing Borders in Cold War Central Europe

When the Berlin Wall famously fell on November 9, 1989, crowds from East and West Germany gathered along the border to celebrate the end of the Cold War in Europe. The Berlin Wall was a simple and powerful...

Julia E. Ault | 14 Sep 2021

Archaeology as History on the Great Plains

Many people see “history” as something we get from written records that tells us how important people influenced great events—colleagues in my institution’s history department sometimes make that...

Douglas B. Bamforth | 13 Sep 2021

Capitalism, Reconceived

It seems the more that is said about capitalism, the less people understand it. This might be intentional: capitalism has become a politically useful catch-phrase, conveniently morphing into whatever...

Shi-Ling Hsu | 10 Sep 2021

Surviving Climate Chaos: Chaos, strength and community

Surviving Climate Chaos is being published into a new world of lethal fires, floods and record-breaking temperatures, as well as frantic international negotiations before CoP 26 in Glasgow. This is while...

Julian Caldecott | 9 Sep 2021

Gothic in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries

The blurb for our book makes the bold claim that this is the first history of Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This may seem surprising – the study of Gothic literature and film is...

Catherine Spooner | 8 Sep 2021

Management of Complex Treatment-Resistant Psychotic Disorders

Management of Complex Treatment-Resistant Psychotic Disorders is a newly published colorful, concise reference compact paperback text for those clinicians who treat some of the most challenging patients...

Michael Cummings | 8 Sep 2021