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Cecil and the Beast

Over the last days, furious users from all over the world have been raging on social media at an American dentist who shot an iconic lion in Zimbabwe. There are calls for the hunter to be extradited to...

Ioannis Ziogas | 5 Aug 2015

70 Years Since Hiroshima

This week will mark the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The American bombings effectively ended the Second World War, killed over 100,000 people, and raised complicated questions about nuclear weapons and the limits of war. In an excerpt from his book The Most Controversial Decision, Wilson D. Miscamble explores the complicated legacy of those events.

Wilson D. Miscamble | 4 Aug 2015

Understanding Business in Europe

Since publication of The Business Environment of Europe last summer, I made three trips to Europe and spent almost three months working in and travelling around the region. While the reasons for travel...

Terrence R. Guay | 3 Aug 2015

Mindfulness in Organizations

"Mindfulness" is one of those buzzwords in management today. How do we get to the heart of what putting it to work in the workplace can really accomplish? Paul Atkins and Jochen Reb, co-editors of Mindfulness in Organizations have some suggestions.

Paul W. B. Atkins, Jochen Reb | 31 Jul 2015

Defending Migrant Rights in French Courts

This summer, France’s border police have deployed en masse on the French-Italian border. The heightened policing operations aim to prevent the record numbers of migrants who have arrived in Italy...

Leila Kawar | 28 Jul 2015

An Insight into Erard and His Inventions

The day-to-day existence of a musical instrument builder of past centuries has long been shrouded in mystery. Although their instruments may survive, few other traces of the men and women who toiled in...

Robert Adelson | 27 Jul 2015

Confronting the Internet’s Dark Side

Raphael Cohen-Almagor, the author of Confronting the Internet's Dark Side, explains his motivation for exploring the dangerous side of the world wide web. His new book is the first comprehensive book on social responsibility on the Internet.

Raphael Cohen-Almagor- 1 | 21 Jul 2015

Diversity in the Corporate Boardroom

Who governs the modern business corporation? Global statistics reveal the ubiquity of male-dominated business leadership, a fact that has caused heated debate in scholarly, policy, and practitioner-based...

Aaron A. Dhir | 14 Jul 2015

An Interview with Arrigo Opocher and Ian Steedman

Watch an interview with the author of Full Industry Equilibrium. This highly original book develops a systematic zero-net-profit comparative statics theory of the firm that challenges many widely held...

10 Jul 2015

Frederick Douglass and the Long Civil War

As debates rage across the American South about the Confederate flag's place in our country's past and present, Cody Marrs, the author of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Long Civil War, contemplates the abiding conflict created by the American Civil War and the larger global fight for freedom.

Cody Marrs | 9 Jul 2015

Human Evolution

Here’s the question that I raised at the end of my previous post: Does human evolution require some additional, special, explanation that does not apply to the rest of our kingdom? With regard to the...

Wallace Arthur | 8 Jul 2015

Images and the Images of Dreams in the Early Middle Ages

In Francia, probably in the late 780’s, a monk called John had a troubling vision about the death of Christianity. Charlemagne, king of the Franks (768–814), concerned with reforms of the church and...

Jesse Keskiaho | 7 Jul 2015