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Beyond the Invisible Hand: Exploring the Construction of Markets
Markets are everywhere—in our communities, workplaces, and even our personal lives—shaping society in important and often unnoticed ways. For many, markets are viewed as the solution to society’s most pressing challenges, from improving …
Reimagining Prosperity in the EU
We live in the times of profound pessimism about the future. Where has the optimism of the 90s gone? And how is Europe, and its political leaders, trying to create new grounds for optimism? In Europe, the earlier receipt for some time was the European Gre…
“The Pediatric Liver Transplant Journey: A Five-Part Series”
As a transplant surgeon and an advocate for pediatric healthcare education, I’m thrilled to share my latest five-part series of books designed to guide children and their families through the liver transplant journey. Each book in the series breaks …
“Dialysis: An Aquarium Filter for Your Blood”
When I first embarked on writing and illustrating books for children, I had one simple goal: to make complex medical concepts accessible, relatable, and less intimidating for young patients and their families. My latest book, Dialysis: An Aquarium Filter …
Why Is There Something and Not Rather Nothing? Hey, Whatever
According to Thomas Aquinas, knowledge of first causes is the most fundamental kind of knowledge. Since a cause is an explanation – a reason why something is — to say things have no cause is to say that they have no explanation. Mo…
The Extraordinary History of World Cities
This is an urban age. The concept of “world cities” and the cross-border networks that animate them inspired a wave of interdisciplinary research. Megaregions like New York, Lagos, Mexico City, and Mumbai captivate the world by their scale and…
Bidding farewell to Kant’s ‘murderer at the door’
Kant’s 1797 essay “On a Supposed Right to Lie from Love of Humanity” has done more than any of his other works to scare students off his moral theory. Interpreters have little time for it. They call it “grotesque”, “sho…
Recovering an ancient scientific culture: The case of the Roman artes
One of the most significant legacies of Greek and Roman antiquity is the vast body of scientific and technical writings which, copied and transmitted across the centuries, has exerted a profound influence on the development of the modern world. Certain ce…
Noah the Environmentalist and the Flood
For the last two thousand years and more, the story of Noah and the flood in the book of Genesis has been thought of as an historical account of what happened around 2,500 BCE, some 1,500 years after the creation of the world. For the last several hundred…
Brand Ownership in the Cultural Landscape
Branding, personal branding, corporate branding; everyone must brand themselves today in order to be seen and to take part in the continual construction of their identity in the spaces in which they exist and engage with the wider world. We talk about bra…
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The Publication of the First Translated Article in LSR
Mayra Feddersen and colleagues have published in the Law & Society Review a Spanish-language translation of their article, “‘The state is something that disappoints’: legal consciousness amid institutional dissatisfact…
Evaluating Fair Use Principle in the context of Free Service Providing Websites
The extensive use of free service providing websites by netizens aligned with ignorance of their copyright violation while accessing such websites is an issue for deliberation.…
Introducing the new Co-Editors-in-Chief of Development and Psychopathology
In 1989, Dr. Dante Cicchetti founded Development and Psychopathology, a journal that quickly came to reflect the best scholarship in the then nascent field of developmental psychopathology.…
PMLA Articles in the College Classroom
Many years ago, while still in graduate school, I was helping a group of undergraduates understand a scholarly essay about translation, when one student asked me (with all good intentions): “Why do we need to know this?”…
Constitutionalism, technology, environmental governance and more
The latest issue of the German Law Journal is perfectly timed for the start of the year, as it covers an array of themes poised to dominate the scholarly agenda in 2025.…
World NTD Day – Progress, Challenges, and the Path to Elimination
On 30th January, we celebrate World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day. This annual celebration highlights the hard work and achievements of the many researchers, medical workers, NGOs and other committed individuals in this field, and acts as a convenient f…
Early-career researchers sought for mentorship programme on prestigious mental health journal
Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health has launched a mentorship programme offering young people the chance to spend a year on the journal’s editorial board.…
This Toxic Love Affair by Ezinne Ogwumah
This edition of Muses features a moving and exceptionally vulnerable disclosure by Nigerian mental health advocate Ezinne Ogwumah, who reflects on her mental health journey and intermittent cannabis use. An addiction isn't exactly a thing one readily adm…
Poisonous pitohuis as pets
The latest Paper of the Month for Bird Conservation International is Poisonous pitohuis as pets and is available as open access. In our line of work, we come across new trends in the use of wildlife.…
From Brexit to Environmental Destruction: Understanding Modern Britain with James Vernon
What inspired you to write a book on the history of Modern Britain? There were two motivations. I was interested in rescuing national histories from the nativism of the right. Of course, in Britain that virulent type of nationalism swept the country wit…