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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

Invitation to Book Launch Webinar – Changing Senses of Place: Navigating Global Challenges

You are cordially invited to the book launch where you will hear from the editors of Changing Senses of Place: Navigating Global Challenges who will address the vital question of how to navigate the contested forces of stability and change in a world shaped by multiple interconnected global challenges.

Christopher Raymond | 8 Sep 2021

Why Arbitration in Business and Human Rights Disputes Enhances Labor Rights

While many human rights lawyers might legitimately think that consensus submitting all business-related disputes to arbitration was never in doubt, they will be surprised to discover that this was not...

Ilias Bantekas, Michael Ashley Stein | 8 Sep 2021

The Vision for the Global Quantum Internet

An outlook for how a global quantum ecosystem enabled by the quantum internet could emerge. Credit- Peter P. Rohde The true power of classical computing was never fully realised until the emergence...

Peter P. Rohde | 7 Sep 2021

Dreams, Resilience and Afghanistan

Why do we dream when we are sleeping? In his book Livewired, the neuroscientist David Eagleman offers a fascinating explanation. In the constant competition for ‘brain real estate’, he argues, our...

Janine Natalya Clark | 6 Sep 2021

Modern Alienation, Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy

Today people tend to talk a lot about alienation as a modern crisis. We are said to feel a sense of alienation from our government, our economic system, our workplace, our religion, our community, and...

Jon Stewart | 2 Sep 2021

Surviving Climate Chaos: The ambition to survive

To make a difference to mid-century outcomes, we must be ambitious to survive and plan our climate response in full awareness of tipping point deadlines

Julian Caldecott | 2 Sep 2021