Elements in Race in American Literature and Culture
Elements in Race in American Literature and Culture aims to extend our understanding of the critical role race has played in shaping US literary history.…
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Celebrating our 2000th Element: Elitism versus Populism
Today’s critics of populism often place their trust in political elites, expecting mainstream politicians to respect American democratic institutions. But in my latest work, Elitism versus Populism, I directly test whether today’s politicians are any more likely to support fair political competition than members of the public.…
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Celebrating 2000 Elements: Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
When we wrote the blog post for the 1000th Element celebrations in 2023, we could not have imagined that a mere two years later we’d be celebrating the 2000th title in the series!…
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Celebrating 2000 Elements: Elements in Philosophy of the Mind
The American adventurer Chris McCandless said that happiness is only real when it is shared. I would say something similar about knowledge.…
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Celebrating 2000 Elements: Elements in Popular Music
I am series editor of the CUP Elements in Popular Music. I’ve previously edited a number of journals and was pleased to take the lead in a new series of publications that could cover a wide range of topics in the field.…
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Celebrating 2000 Elements: Elements in Public Economics
It is an honour to celebrate the Elements series on the occasion of its arrival at that magic number of 2000.…
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Introducing a new series, Elements in Emergency Neurosurgery
We are delighted to announce the release of “Elements in Emergency Neurosurgery” which is an exciting new publication intended for trainees and practitioners all over the world working in Neurosurgery, Neurology, Emergency Medicine, and Critical Care.…
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Celebrating 1000 Elements: Elements in Global Urban History
Cambridge Elements in Global Urban History reinterprets the history of the world’s cities by combining the approaches of urban and global history.…
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Celebrating 1000 Elements: Elements in Law, Economics and Politics
We are grateful to you for sharing in our celebration of this Element series. Why write on this topic? Because we are excited about the series and what it represents to scholars.
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Celebrating the publication of our 1000th Element
We are celebrating publishing the 1000th Element and I want to share why this is such an important milestone for us at Cambridge University Press.
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Celebrating 1000 Elements: Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses
Post Excerpt The Elements series on the histories of emotions and senses owes everything to the vision and dedication of Jan Plamper, who established the series.
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Celebrating 1000 Elements: Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
Publishing an academic book takes time. Sometimes even years. And that can be for all kinds of reasons, from the extensive length to making corrections, and from production delays to peer reviewers going awol.
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Viral Shakespeare: Performance in the Time of Pandemic: An interview with Professor Pascale Aebischer
This month, we announced a publishing milestone, with Cambridge Elements reaching 500 titles. As part of our celebration, we spoke to Professor Pascale Aebischer, Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Performance Studies at the University of Exeter on her upcoming Cambridge Element.…
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Cambridge Elements at 500: Everything you need to know
To celebrate the publishing of 500 Elements titles, discover 8 things you might not know about Cambridge Elements 1. Elements is an online-first mid-length publication and often the people reading our publications are not the people buying it.…
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Cambridge Elements at 500: An interview with Product Manager, Andri Johnston
Cambridge Elements is celebrating the publishing of 500 Elements titles. Former Elements Product Manager, Andri Johnston talks to the Library marketing team about the importance of this milestone and its contribution to teaching and learning.…
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New and Creative Models of Academic Publication Scholars Should Know About, Part 3
Earlier this year, Avi Staiman, CEO of Academic Language Experts, interviewed Chris Harrison, Publishing Development Director of Humanities and Social Sciences at Cambridge University Press on new and creative models of academic publications that scholars should be aware of that extend beyond the classic manuscript and journal article. This is the final of a three-part series resulting from that interview. The first part can be found here. The second part can be found here. You can also watch the full recording of the interview, held on March 22, 2021 as part of the Academic Language Experts ‘Publication Success Interview Series’.
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New and Creative Models of Academic Publication Scholars Should Know About, Part 2
Earlier this year, Avi Staiman, CEO of Academic Language Experts, interviewed Chris Harrison, Publishing Development Director of Humanities and Social Sciences at Cambridge University Press on new and creative models of academic publications that scholars should be aware of that extend beyond the classic manuscript and journal article.
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New and Creative Models of Academic Publication Scholars Should Know About, Part 1
Earlier this year, Avi Staiman, CEO of Academic Language Experts, interviewed Chris Harrison, Publishing Development Director of Humanities and Social Sciences at Cambridge University Press on new and creative models of academic publications that scholars should be aware of that extend beyond the classic manuscript and journal article.
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Gender in Childhood Goes Beyond Pink or Blue
When people think about gender in children, the focus is often around differences between girls and boys. But most modern research on gender development highlights how this focus overlooks two important themes: boys and girls, at the group level, are much more similar to one another than they are different, and there is so much variation within gender groups that those comparisons are flawed to begin with.…
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Child Welfare, Protection, and Justice
I immensely enjoyed writing this booklet on universal conceptualisation of child welfare, protection, and justice. I am sure that the reader of this Element will find the conceptualisation very refreshing, no matter which part of the world he or she belongs to.…
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IQ is NOT Intelligence and Neither Are Other Test Scores!
In The Nature of Intelligence and Its Development in Childhood, I seek to make one big point and a number of subsidiary ones.…
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Always Connect
“Always Connect” seems more fundamental than “Always Historicize,” at least for the long eighteenth century (pace Jameson and Foucault). People characterized themselves and others through their multiple relations and positions relative to each other, as master-servant, master-slave, patron-client, parent-child, sister, brother, friend, daughter, feme sole or wife.…
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Introducing a New Cambridge Elements Series for Environmental Humanities
An exciting new series has just appeared in Cambridge Elements focusing on Environmental Humanities, a new trans-disciplinary complex of approaches that reexamine our species’ history in light of the drastic climate changes that may end the Holocene period in which homo sapiens has flourished.…
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Welcome to Cambridge Elements, a new concept in academic publishing
Today marks the official launch of Cambridge Elements! Cambridge Elements provide a completely new format for publishing scholarly material: succinct and significant, peer-reviewed research that combines the best features of books and journals.…
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Cambridge Elements in Flexible and Large-Area Electronics – Q&A with Carlos Garcia Nuñez and Fengyuan Liu
Carlos Garcia Nuñez and Fengyuan Liu take part in a Q&A about the Element Integration Techniques for Micro/Nanostructure-Based Large-Area Electronics, part of Cambridge Elements in Flexible and Large-Area Electronics.…
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Under the microscope: SemStat Elements
A few months ago, Cambridge University Press launched a new set of succinct, yet information-rich products known as SemStat Elements, edited by Ernst Wit, Chair of Statistics and Probability at the University of Groningen.…
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The 33%: Q&A with Dame Anna Dominiczak
Q&A with Editor-in-Chief of the Precision Medicine Journal, Dame Anna Dominiczak, for International day of Women and Girls in Science
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From religious to secular perspectives of religion and state – tracing the American Blue laws
In our open access article “From religious to secular perspectives of religion and state – tracing the American Blue laws” in Politics and Religion, we explore how religiously rooted legislation evolves over time, but has a hard time leaving, democratic systems.…
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Sluts, Bitches, and Battle-axes: women and insults
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.…
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The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability
How long will humankind survive? Besides the fact that we have been able to eliminate ourselves with nuclear weapons for decades, even without a third world war, the challenge to take care of the resources of our planet remains; we need to use them in a way that our children and their children can have a place on Earth as well. In this blog post Andreas Losch discusses his recent review article in the International Journal of Astrobiology, The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability
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How did Down syndrome get its name?
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.…
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Race Isn’t Biological — So Why Do So Many Still Think It Is?
Even though findings from genetics and other sciences unequivocally refute biological conceptions of race, this erroneous viewpoint remains widespread among the general public.…
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Reflections on House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths
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.…
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The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability
How long will humankind survive? Besides the fact that we have been able to eliminate ourselves with nuclear weapons for decades, even without a third world war, the challenge to take care of the resources of our planet remains; we need to use them in a way that our children and their children can have a place on Earth as well. In this blog post Andreas Losch discusses his recent review article in the International Journal of Astrobiology, The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability
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Nothing-Burger? U.S. Obligation to Defend the Philippines in the South China Sea – Part 1
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).…
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The impact of parasite infection on mental illness
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.
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Conversations with Authors: Institutionalized Police Brutality
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.…
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The 33%: Q&A with Dame Anna Dominiczak
Q&A with Editor-in-Chief of the Precision Medicine Journal, Dame Anna Dominiczak, for International day of Women and Girls in Science
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Reflections on House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths
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.…
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Sluts, Bitches, and Battle-axes: women and insults
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.…
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