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  • 31 May 2013

    Galley Giveaway! COTTON by Giorgio Riello

    In honor of Cotton’s release, we’re hosting a galley giveaway!

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  • 28 May 2013

    Reviewed: Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby

    In the weeks leading up to the release of the new 3-D Great Gatsby film, director Baz Luhrmann talked a lot about how an early draft of Fitzgerald's great American novel called Trimalchio helped influence his adaptation. Cambridge University Press is the only publisher of that original version, which Luhrmann cited as an inspiration in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and the New York Times. He also consulted the volume's editor, James L.W. West III, for advice on the film.

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  • 24 May 2013
    Dean Anthony Gratton

    Let’s Keep it Simple: Introducing the ICE Model

    I have worked within the wireless communications R&D industry for close to 20 years now and, in my experience, one consistent ingredient that has often escaped the recipe of so many consumer electronic products is simplicity.  This facet alone should be instilled, force-fed and, to be honest, beaten into innovators, developers, manufacturers or whomever decides […]

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  • 22 May 2013

    Cotton: The Quiz

    How well do you know the history of cotton? Take our quiz and find out!

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  • 16 May 2013
    Paul J. Zwier

    Send in the Clowns

    It is time to send in the clowns. With North Korea's new young leader falling into old habits of saber rattling toward South Korea, and with China unwilling to put pressure on it to come into the community of nations, it is time to send in a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) mediator. The only trick is how to get the New Dear Leader to ask for one.

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  • 15 May 2013
    Giorgio Riello

    When Cotton was Banned: Indian Cotton Textiles in Early Modern England

    From the mid-seventeenth century onwards, Indian textiles were imported by the European East India companies and were sought after by consumers not just in England, but in most European countries. But the inroads of Indian cotton textiles into the consuming habits of Europeans also generated resistance.

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  • 13 May 2013
    David Stahel

    One Man Out of 3 Million: Sergei

    Operation Typhoon involved over three million men on both sides of the eastern front. Such a figure is hard to comprehend and the truth is, even as an historian, it’s easy to lose sight of the human dimension in this war. That was brought home to me last year during a trip to Russia and the battlefield of Viaz’ma.

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  • 10 May 2013
    Rachel E.

    Reading a Different Kind of “Gatsby”

    Take a deeper look into the inspiration behind the new Great Gatsby film. Some sources might surprise you.

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