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Staging the Raj: The Dramatic Performances Act and Anti-Colonial Theater

Shortly after William Shakespeare’s famous words, “all the world’s a stage,” were uttered in the opening performance of As You Like It in the new Globe theater, the Red Dragon set sail to found...

Leila Neti | 24 Jun 2021

International Criminal Court Increasing its Focus on the Asia-Pacific

Government data suggests that at least 8663 thousand people (possibly triple that number) have been killed by police and other groups in the Philippines during President Duterte’s so-called “war...

Emma Palmer | 24 Jun 2021

Can there be an external peace without inner peace?

This book examines a wide variety of psychological perspectives on peace and presents a new conceptualization of peace by focusing on its underlying components. A force lives perpetually and persists...

Sayyed Mohsen Fatemi | 24 Jun 2021

Anachronism(s) in the history of mathematics

Debate concerning anachronism has long vexed historical interpretation. Forms of anachronism are often declared the greatest failure, almost a moral sin, that a historian can commit. Yet, many have spoken...

Niccolò Guicciardini | 24 Jun 2021

In the footsteps of Leibniz: Learning by Computing

This book focuses on the shaping of the lifting surfaces to give an aircraft the desired performance. Skills in shaping for performance can be built by hands-on experience in real aerodynamic design...

Arthur Rizzi, Jesper Oppelstrup | 23 Jun 2021

Three Lessons for Human Health Research after the COVID-19 Pandemic

Many governments claim that the way out of the COVID-19 pandemic is through vaccines. But this can only be partly true because of two inherently complicated and confounding factors: (i) the endless ingenuity...

Graeme T Laurie | 23 Jun 2021

COVID-19’s Aftermath – A Looming Eviction Crisis?

Perhaps surprisingly, the COVID-19 crisis had a broadly positive short-term impact on housing and homelessness problems and on tenant security. The urgent need from a public health perspective to get...

Rachael Walsh | 21 Jun 2021

Should the rich pay higher fines?

What if fines could be adjusted not only to the severity of the offense, but also to the income of the offender? What if the rich pay a higher fine than the poor for the same offense? This is not just...

Michael Faure, Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko | 18 Jun 2021

Freedom Beyond the Border

In 1829, Ohio’s state legislators made an announcement that reverberated through African American communities across the nation. Responding to white discomfort over the state’s growing free Black...

Elena K. Abbott | 17 Jun 2021
Jeffrey N. Cox | 16 Jun 2021

The Biblical Authors Should Count as Philosophers

Why isn’t the biblical literature taught alongside other philosophies? By any objective criteria, it measures up to the Mesopotamians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. In Biblical Philosophy: A Hebraic...

Dru Johnson | 15 Jun 2021

Beyond lipstick: how languages can change the scientific Babel

As an applied linguist interested in science communication, an important specialised domain of language in society today, I have developed high perceptiveness of the richness and the power of the...

Carmen Pérez-Llantada | 14 Jun 2021