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  • 5 Aug 2024
    Christopher Chambers-Ju

    Teachers’ Unions, the Labor Movement, and Education Reform

    Mobilizing Teachers is a book that shows how teachers’ unions have turned into powerful labor organizations that developed different roles in the political arena. Teachers’ unions lie at the juncture of two global changes that are playing out in countries around the world. First, with labor unions in decline (because of changes including automation and […]

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  • 19 Aug 2022
    Merry Wiesner-Hanks

    What’s New in Early Modern Europe Third Edition

    Writing a new edition is always challenging, as there is always exciting new scholarship to incorporate and completely new directions and sub-fields to include. And then deciding what to cut, so the book does not become an unwieldy doorstop… The most important change I’ve made in the third edition of Early Modern Europe is to […]

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  • 3 Aug 2021
    Geoffrey Parker

    The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare

    In every bookshop in the English-speaking world, works on military history occupy at least half of the shelves devoted to ‘History’. I helped to create two of...

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  • 28 May 2021
    Stefano Sandrone

    Conversations with 24 Nobel Laureates on their life stories, advice for future generations and what remains to be discovered

    The following is a Press Release prepared by Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings for Nobel Life: Conversations with 24 Nobel Laureates on their life stories, advice for future generations and what remains to be discovered by Stefano Sandrone

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  • 23 Dec 2020
    Simon Friederich

    Are We Living in a Multiverse? Why We Might – and Why We Might Never Know

    Simon Friederich, author of Multiverse Theories: A Philosophical Perspective discusses the “multiverse” idea. What the idea entails and whether it can truly be tested.

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  • 13 May 2020
    Vincent Sherry

    The Pandemic, as seen from the First World War

    Endless war. I caught onto this phrase several decades ago, already several decades into my work on the literature and history of the First World War. There, as the conflict wore on, the phrase gained its own embattled place. On or about the midpoint of war, the irrepressible energy of irony and satire generated a […]

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  • 9 Aug 2019
    Jeffrey L. Gould

    Solidarity Under Siege and Immigration Crisis

    Alejandro Molina Lara, Gloria García, and Ana Alvarenga, the key protagonists in Solidarity Under Siege, all emigrated to North America. During the 1980s, Salvadoran death squads drove them to El Norte. In the early 1990s, many union activists, like Angel Escobar, were blacklisted from the fishing industry while others fled the tropical deindustrialization that accompanied […]

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  • 24 Apr 2019
    Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca

    The Remote Causes of Terrorism

    Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca, author of 'The Historical Roots of Political Violence', on the causes of 20th century revolutionary terrorism.

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