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Moving along the First Global Empire
We live now in a time in which more and more people vouch for building up walls and barriers to deter the movement of people as it is seen with suspicion; as if mobility were the cause of all contemporary problems, a harmful activity that would break up s…
Why don’t we see more autistic people in academia?
When I was a little girl, bullied by my peers and misunderstood by my teachers, I couldn’t wait to be a grown-up. I dreamed of my future life as a professor, filling my brain with facts and my shelves with books. In my ivory tower, I would be surrou…
A Religion of Peace and Quiet? Islamic Nonviolence Between Justice and Quietism
What makes ‘a religion of peace’? This rarely-explained and occasionally maligned phrase has become a commonplace in 21st century speechcraft. Puzzlingly, it is rarely applied in a comparatively straightforward descriptive fashion – perh…
A New History of Theatre in France: Qu’est-ce que c’est?
Shuffling past the French Department noticeboard one day in my undergraduate first year, a small ad caught my eye. A week in Paris. All expenses paid. Was I dreaming? The small print, however, confirmed that there’s no such thing as a free dé…
Palladio’s Hybrid: A Renaissance Villa between Country and City
On Wednesday, the 29th of October 1567, the Venetian patrician Francesco Pisani lay mortally ill in his country house in Montagnana, 50 miles southwest of Venice. He summoned his long-time notary, Giovanni Maria Corradin, to draft a codicil to his final w…
The Cambridge Handbook of Digital Evidence in Criminal Investigations
The age of electronic evidence: challenges and the need for cooperation of service providers In today’s digital age, where information and communication technologies have revolutionised how we communicate, store, access, and share information, and w…
Whose Rights? Whose Duties? Private Actors in the Constitutional Order
Who is responsible for your constitutional rights? The traditional answer is that constitutions create obligations for the state. So, state or government actors are responsible for upholding rights, from respecting the freedom of speech to promoting the r…
Adolescent Voice: The Intersection of Technology and Participatory Health Research
I got my first mobile phone when I was 18 years old. Internet at my time still made this annoying sound trying to connect from the phoneline, that somebody else needed every time you were doing something very very but very important for 16-year-old me at …
Creative use of prior, likelihood and posterior distributions to develope dependence models using hierarchical structures
Bayes’ Theorem started as a way of obtaining conditional probabilities via the reversed conditionals and thus was called law of inverted probabilities. However, the Bayesian statistical theory uses it as a way of updating prior beliefs associated to…
What Does Literature Have to Do with Political Thought? Moses and the Formation of the Pentateuch
The wilderness narrative, the story at the heart of the Torah, or Pentateuch, follows the Israelites from Egypt to Canaan—from enslavement, to liberation, to independence. In an important sense, though, the story of Israel is the story of Moses. Phi…
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Introducing a Psychological Formulation Model of Maladaptive Daydreaming
The March BABCP Article of the Month is from the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist and is entitled “Introducing a psychological formulation model of maladaptive daydreaming“ by Amy Lucas and Alexandra Bone Our journey began with Amy’s do…
Are regime changes always bad economics?
Political instability has long been associated with negative economic consequences, particularly through its presumed effect on investment. Conventional wisdom suggests that regime changes – such as resignations, coups, or assassinations – cre…
The Role of Business in Gender Equality Policy: Challenges, Opportunities and Tools for Collaboration
Gender equality is a universal aspiration, but achieving it requires genuine collaboration across sectors. Businesses, long perceived as reluctant or passive players in equality policies, are now being called to take on more active roles.…
The Fronde, the Court, and the Cosmos: Morin, Gassendi, and Astrology’s Decline in XVII Century France
Astrology today is often seen as the epitome of pseudoscience. Yet, until the 17th century, it was considered a legitimate scholarly discipline, serving as the practical branch of astronomy.…
What are the hot topics for 2025? Our Management editors share their views…
We asked the editors of Cambridge management and cross-disciplinary journals to select recently published articles covering topics they felt would be hotly debated, discussed and researched in 2025.…
“Nous les mamans“: ‘European’ Communism, Cross-Cultural Encounters, and Women’s Anticolonial Resistance in French North Africa
Mention the words “women” and “Algeria” and the remarkableness of their role in armed resistance during the War of Independence (1954-1962) will often come to mind.…
Do you know your capacity from your consent?
Few researchers have looked at the consent processes for patients who require radiotherapy treatment but are considered to lack the mental capacity to consent for themselves and no published research has identified the education practices surrounding cons…
Submerged Aircraft Wrecks: A Plea for Appropriate Site Management
Famed Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier once wrote “war was the hellish laboratoryin which aviation became adult and was shaped to flawless perfection.”…
Legal Infrastructures
The German Law Journal editorial team is enthusiastic to be able to present to you this Special Issue dedicated to ‘Legal Infrastructures’, a concept that has attracted attention in several legal contexts recently, without howev…
Intensive Grazing: Maximising Pasture Potential and Animal Performance Through Infrastructure
Grazing pasture provides a highly nutritious, low cost feed and energy supply for ruminant animals, while also converting a human inedible feed source into a human edible feed source in the form of meat and dairy products. However, to efficiently convert …
