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Understanding the American South: Slavery, Race, Identity, and the American South
As the United States recently completed a bitter and divisive national election, Americans find themselves in the middle of the third decade of the twenty-first century searching for new understandings of their history. We all look for explanations of chr…
Free Internet Access as a Human Right
For you reading this text on the Cambridge University Press blog, life without access to the internet has probably become unthinkable. We have become dependent on it for many things we do. But online access is not just a matter of convenience or doing thi…
The Mo Clan, Hà Tiên, and Eighteenth-Century Maritime East Asia
Hà Tiên, situated in the western Mekong River Delta and Gulf of Siam littoral not far from Vietnam’s present border with Cambodia, thrived as an entrepôt over much of the eighteenth century. The Chinese merchants who frequented th…
The Cambridge Handbook of Secondary Sanctions and International Law
The ascendance of secondary sanctions We live in an age of economic sanctions, of powerful states imposing restrictions on commercial and financial transactions with other states (and non-state actors) to achieve political goals. In particular, states tha…
The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York
It has been more than three decades since the discovery and archaeological investigation of the African American burial ground in New York City. Since then, a generation of historians have prompted New Yorkers to ask themselves how it is that the history …
Exploring Quantum Nonlocality and Contextuality: A Journey Through the Växjö Conferences and My New Book
Quantum mechanics—one of the most puzzling and fascinating areas of modern science—has captivated both physicists and the public for over a century. From Einstein’s skepticism about its strange implications to the mysterious behavior of …
Structure Matters: Why complex systems matter for behavior
Why do we see the behaviors that we do in the world? This question has challenged many notable thinkers, including Darwin, Saussure, Wittgenstein, Lévi-Strauss, Durkheim, and many other past and recent thinkers. Their conclusions identified how thi…
Karl Barth on Religion
The world is in a mess – wars, famines, storms, floods, and massacres – human existence so often seems, as Thomas Hobbes thought, nasty, brutish, and short. Karl Marx thought that religion was ‘the heart of a heartless world’, offe…
Principles of Finance
Zvi Bodie, Robert C. Merton, & Richard T. Thakor Publishing 12 February 2025 | Paperback / $74.99 / £54.99 / 9781108987165 Order an examination copy About the Book Written for the MBA or undergraduate first course in finance, as well as follow-o…
Touring Tokyo: Past and Present
It may be hard to imagine that today’s Tokyo-a vibrant and expansive metropolis home to more than 14 million people-was once a sleepy backwater dotted with fishing villages. But for many centuries, well until the late 1500s, this area was a swa…
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Study Shows Seed Impact Mills Clobber Waterhemp Seed Viability
Recent research shows promise for controlling herbicide-resistant weeds, such as waterhemp, in soybean fields by using a seed impact mill at harvest.
Growing a Reputation for Quality: One Year in as Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Nutritional Science
“Professor Bernard Corfe’s strategy for JNS will be to continue to build on JNS’s reputation for quality, to publish work supporting scientific reproducibility (and to support research identifying irreproducibility), and to continue to e…
Lodging in Vetch Crops: How Moddus Can Help Boost Resistance
Lodging, where plant shoots band due to environmental factors, is a major problem for crop producers. It results in poor grain filling, pod loss, and increased susceptibility to diseases, all of which impact yield and quality. While breeding for lodging r…
GLJ looks ahead after 25 years
In September, the German Law Journal had the honour of welcoming former and current editors, friends old and new, contributors and luminaries to our 25th Anniversary event in Berlin.…
Why forest transitions aren’t always sustainable
Stopping and reversing deforestation is a top priority across the tropics. Numerous policies and programs try to stem forest clearance, encourage tree planting, and restore forest landscapes.…
Making Trust in Early Modern London
In the bustling streets of medieval and early modern London, trust was a precious commodity, just as it is today. But who did Londoner’s choose to trust?…
Policing and pension reform in nineteenth-century London
In the late nineteenth century, at the same as large corporations began to emerge as central features of industrial capitalism, parallel developments were taking place in state bureaucracies across western economies.…
Could Indoor Humidity Levels Help Control COVID-19 Spread?
A recent study published in QRB Discovery sheds light on the impact of humidity on the infectivity of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, responsible for COVID-19 transmission. The study found that there was a notable decrease in the infection rate as the surrounding a…
Introducing Minh Huynh, new Editor-in-Chief of PASA as it shifts to Gold Open Access
I am very excited and extremely honoured to be the new Editor in Chief of the Publication of the Astronomical Society of Australia (PASA).
Planting Soybean Green Proves Effective for Waterhemp and Palmer Amaranth Suppression
Recently published research in the journal Weed Science shows planting soybean into a green, living cover crop effectively suppresses two problematic Amaranthus weed species – waterhemp and Palmer amaranth – when integrated with pre-emergence …
