In our recent article, Paula Sheppard and I tested the assumptions of life history theory, which is commonly used in evolutionary anthropology and related disciplines.…
Welcome to August’s Library Newsletter featuring upcoming events, noteworthy new products and launches within the library community. COVID-19 Information We are continuing to provide access to more than 900 relevant book chapters and journal articles which have been added to this unique collection. You…
Professor Tom Sugar of Arizona State University, USA answers our questions about his work and Cambridge University Press’s new journal Wearable Technologies
A new FENS conference report has published today in the Journal of Nutritional Science looking at the role of Nutrition in Healthy Ageing: ‘From lifespan to healthspan: the role of Nutrition in healthy ageing’.…
Welcome to our “Meet the Editors” series, where we interview the editorial team about their work and their relationship to the journal.…
According to a new study published in Public Health Nutrition, the political strategies of food industry actors in Colombia may have negatively influenced the development of a new front-of-pack nutrition labeling in the country, thus delaying the introduction of the measure to prevent and reduce diseases and deaths amongst the Colombian population.…
A group of residents living on Russell Island, off the coast of Brisbane, Queensland, are petitioning to change the island’s name to an indigenous one.…
**updated August 28, 2020** Elections for judges in the US don’t usually attract much controversy or attention, but the 2014 race for seats on the Montana Supreme Court was an exception.…
On the 51st anniversary of Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics (QRB) and on my 4th year as Editor-in-Chief, it is with pleasure that I announce the new open access journal, QRB Discovery from Cambridge University Press that will provide an outlet for exciting new discoveries in the burgeoning field of biophysics.…
Hen harrier and short-eared owl populations are declining across Europe. A new study drawing on expert knowledge highlights overlaps in threats faced by both species in different countries, shortcomings of current conservation strategies, and the need for international collaborative actions to save these emblematic birds of prey.
Hegel’s philosophy is notoriously difficult, but when I first studied his Phenomenology and Philosophy of Right in the mid 1970s I was struck by a simple idea that is at the core of both works: you can’t be yourself by yourself, but you need others in order to be who you are.…
The August 2020 British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) Article of the Month is from the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist (tCBT) and is entitled “Treating social anxiety disorder remotely with cognitive therapy” by Emma Warnock-Parkes, Jennifer Wild, Graham R.…
Trematodes (parasitic flatworms) frequently infect the gonad of molluscs such as mussels and snails, but no good methods exist for measuring the level of infection.
Hegel has a reputation as a difficult philosopher, and often people treat the complexities of his texts as being due to his intensely systematic aims.…
The RCPsych Article of the Month for August is from The British Journal of Psychiatry (BJPsych) and is entitled ‘Cardiac structure and function in schizophrenia: cardiac magnetic resonance imaging study’ by Emanuele F. Osimo, Stefan P. Brugger, Antonio de Marvao et al.
A joint response to the UKRI policy review, from Cambridge University Press and University Library
For decades, external observers have dismissed Belarus as a country with a weak or contested national identity and an underdeveloped civil society.…
Welcome to the Cambridge Elements in Digital Literary Studies series. This series defines and expands the elements of digital literary studies through a series of short exemplary texts.…
We think this roundtable is a great place to start thinking about the many approaches to teaching about the Spanish Flu pandemic in the midst of our own.
Public Health Nutrition Editorial Highlight: ‘Perceptions of nutrition education classes offered in conjunction with a community supported agriculture intervention among low-income families’.…
A hundred years later, the claims that KRA members made about widening political representation and constitutional reforms sit at the heart of the protests taking place on the streets of Hong Kong.
The animal Article of the Month for September is “Genetic position of Hungarian Grey among European cattle and identification of breed-specific markers” by A.…
Prior to the advent of the Factories Act of 1883, India had seen the worst of an unregulated labour market, a convenient indentured labour base for the British Empire which saw workers as dispensable commodities to its profit-making industries.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
A global history of the Irish Revolution, making the case for applying transnational, comparative, and global approaches and perspectives in order to fully understand the complexity and diversity of Ireland’s global revolution.
My article draws on the transnational literature, and newly accessible Irish archives, to examine gender as an identifier in the Irish Civil War.
A new article looks at the critical supply issues due to COVI-19 and how materials science has provided a viable alternative for rapid production and distribution of PPEs and medical devices.
The digital sphere is consistently expanding, and now encompasses more than half of the world’s population with eight billion digital devices (Kemp, 2019).…
Whole grain labels on cereal, bread, and crackers are confusing to consumers and could cause them to make fewer healthy choices, according to the results from a study in Public Health Nutrition that tested whether people are able pick out the healthier, whole grain option based on food package labels.…
Publishing a journal article is an important part of our academic work, but the process can be challenging, particularly for early career scholars (ECSs) who often juggle precarious teaching and research contracts and need to have published articles before they can apply for a more secure job.…
Heart University – A deeper look with Justin Tretter, MD By David K. Werho, MD @DWerho In a rapidly changing world, who knew how different our lives and learning would be? …
The recent publication of both 2019 CiteScore™ and the 2019 Journal Citation Reports prompted us to have a look back on 2019 and celebrate what a standout year it was for Cambridge Journals.…
“French, the son of a Yorkshire policeman, graduated with a BA in Classics from Cambridge University, but found his vocation as an archaeologist in Greece through encounters at the British School at Athens…” The latest digital publication of the British Institute at Ankara is a collection of papers that commemorate and appraise the work of David French, director of the BIAA from 1968 to 1994.…
This is not an easy time for many children and parents. We hope our book ‘So Young, So Sad, So Listen’ can help parents recognise depression in their children, work out why this is happening and what can be done about it.
The July British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) Article of the Month is from the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist (tCBT) and is entitled “OCD and COVID-19: a new frontier” by Amita Jassi, Khodayar Shahriyarmolki, Tracey Taylor, Lauren Peile, Fiona Challacombe, Bruce Clark and David Veale This article came to life on the back of discussions within the National Highly Specialised Services for severe OCD/BDD teams at the start of the pandemic.…
This is the first post in our new series: “Conversations with Authors.” For our inaugural post, we asked Dr. Vesla Weaver to meet (virtually) with Dr.…
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
Long before Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in 2016, or Kamala Harris became the first woman vice president and launched her own presidential bid in 2024, another woman set her sights on the White House, at a time when women couldn’t even vote.…
Plenty has been written about the dog. Slobbery, goofy, embarrassingly friendly, with… well, everyone. Dogs are prominently featured in historic accounts and paintings, loaded down with ingratiating platitudes like “man’s best friend”.…
The English language contains a wealth of insults and terms of abuse. Personal insults attack the core and immutable aspects of a person, such as their race, ethnicity, appearance, age, or a disability.…
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
Some disability-related names have dropped out of usage, because they are now considered to be offensive due to their origins. Down Syndrome (Trisomy 21) is one example.…
It is an article of faith among ordinary Filipinos that American troops will die with Filipino troops defending Philippine claims to the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea (SCS).…
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
The opportunity to showcase some of the exciting archaeological research currently underway on medieval Ethiopia in a journal as widely read as Antiquity is important.
This is the first post in our new series: “Conversations with Authors.” For our inaugural post, we asked Dr. Vesla Weaver to meet (virtually) with Dr.…
Q&A with Editor-in-Chief of the Precision Medicine Journal, Dame Anna Dominiczak, for International day of Women and Girls in Science
At the end of the Greek Bronze Age, between c.1400-1200 BCE, the Mycenaean palaces of Crete and mainland Greece used small clay tablets to keep their accounting documents.
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