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Diving into the Next Wave of Hemingway Studies
Even in this strangest of summers, when social distancing leaves us feeling we’re living in suspended animation, the art of the dive can teach us about poise and exploration—the walk to the edge, the glance down into faraway water, the prickle…
Marsquakes may originate in a well-known fracture
Reports of the first marsquakes – seismic events caused by crustal movement – aroused my interest. Recordings of earthquakes here on our own planet have taught us everything from the number and nature of layers in the interior to where the mos…
Join us for Lockdown Lectures: a Series of Author Q&As on Remote Teaching
We asked the authors of some of our most popular textbooks to take part in a series of Facebook Live webinars about teaching remotely.
Black (Economic) Lives Matter: Confronting Systemic Racism and Exploitation
The media is currently replete with American corporations signalling that they are going to pursue diversity on their corporate boards, in the C-suite, and among their employees. Some have made statements about addressing systemic racism as it relates to …
The Cambridge Handbook of Infant Development
When we decided to serve as Editors of the forthcoming Cambridge Handbook of Infant Development, we did not want to assemble just a traditional handbook volume. Sure, we wanted to gather together many of the world’s leading experts on infant d…
Bel-vedére: Tracing Early Modern Authorship
To those familiar with the Shakespeare-laden shelves of modern bookshops, it may come as a surprise to learn of the existence of Bel-vedére, or The Garden of the Muses. Published in 1600, it is no doubt the only early modern book containing a signi…
Too Many Police, Too Many Jails
As Black Lives Matter brings millions together in the mission to end state-sanctioned violence and anti-Black racism, we want to highlight some of the work we’ve published – or will publish – that supports this movement. This piece is th…
Loneliness, Helping Hands, TRUTH: One hundred voices on Covid-19
Until December 2019, I was in Nanjing, some five hundred kilometres from Wuhan where the first cases of the new lung disease were then discovered. When things unfolded in January, I initially felt a sense of having escaped a potentially fatal danger by a …
The stories behind your cup of coffee – are standards selling sustainability short?
For many academics, the workday begins with a cup of coffee. Next time you fill up the machine – possibly still bleary-eyed – take a closer look at the coffee package: can you see a sustainability label such as Rainforest Alliance’s frog…
COVID, Crisis and the Nature of Religion
What is the nature of human religiosity? For much of the 19th and 20th centuries, psychologists treated this area of human life as a disposition – something Gordon Allport termed a ‘sentiment’.[1] It was conceived as a kind of personalit…
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OCD and COVID-19: A New Frontier
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 Shahriyar…
The Last of the Moderns
Adalet Ağaoğlu, one of the most prominent authors of modern Turkish literature, passed away at the age of 91 leaving behind a literary legacy that will be difficult to match for years to come.…
US School Meals Have Potential to Improve Nutrition and Health of K-12 Students
Public Health Nutrition Editorial Highlight: ‘Changes to dietary and health outcomes following implementation of the 2012 updated US Department of Agriculture school nutrition standards: analysis using National Health and Nutrition Examination Surve…
John Ockendon 2020 Prize winner announced
The European Journal of Applied Mathematics and Cambridge University Press are pleased to award the 2020 John Ockendon Prize to B.…
Hegel in the era of Black Lives Matter
I remember, as if it were yesterday, the moment I committed to studying Hegel. I was reading the Phenomenology of Spirit cover-to-cover for the first time.…
Goat milk fatty acid composition can be improved with high forage ratio and fish oil in the diet
Goat milk is thought to be more beneficial than other milk: it’s easier to digest because it contains more short-chain fatty acids, lower lactose and more conjugated linoleic acid (CLA).…
Women, Peace and Security After Europe’s ‘Refugee Crisis’
Drawing upon their article in vol.5, no.2 of the European Journal of International Security, Aiko Holvikivi and Audrey Reeves explore how the Women, Peace and Security agenda has broadened to make space for women in conflict zones and also for refuge…
The Karen Stereotype
Karen is a first name, in fact, it’s my first name, but online, “Karen” has evolved to mean so much more than just a name.…
Q&A with Wearable Technologies Associate Editor: Nicola Vitiello
Associate Professor Nicola Vitiello of the Biorobotics Institute, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies – Pisa, Italy, answers our questions about his work and Cambridge University Press’s new journal Wearable Technologies.&hellip…
Decolonising the Curriculum
The discourse around systemic racism and the decolonising of the curriculum has recently intensified alongside the Black Lives Matter movement that is gaining momentum following the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor as well as countless other black A…
Winners of the 2020 Parasitology early career award – Drs Romina Petrigh & Marcela Espinaze
The Parasitolgy Early Career Award (ECA) is to further recognise the outstanding research efforts of those who have published a paper in Parasitology.…
So Young, So Sad, So Listen
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.