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One of my favorites children’s books was What Do People Do All Day? by Richard Scarry. Repeatedly, I learned how the Busytown tailors, construction workers, and lumbermill employees...
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Religious Studies Reflections
Whether you’re a wine connoisseur or not, you’ve likely had a moment at a party or a dinner where someone poured you a glass and expected that you would know what to do next. Give...
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Psychology
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...
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Medicine
On 15 October 2024 I attended the UK premiere of Joy at the Royal Festival Hall — part of the 68th annual British Film Institute gala sponsored by Cunard. Directed by Ben Taylor...
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Medicine
BASIC Essentials is a comprehensive review book for the Anesthesiology BASIC Exam. It is designed to provide a concise and focused review of high-yield and testable facts for the BASIC...
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Philosophy & Religion
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...
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Language & Linguistics
To become a better writer, stop imitating published writing—and follow the science If only writers knew the unnecessary effort their texts inflict on hapless readers, they would...
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History & Classics
Most historians of the formative generations of the United States have focused (and still do) on a story of nation building that is centered on the creation of domestic institutions,...
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History & Classics
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...
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History & Classics
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...
Read MoreOn 10 May 1570, at the chateau of Dieppe in Normandy, a cloth-merchant was interrogated about the contents of a basket he was carrying, including thirty notes and letters ‘concealed in a bed of straw...
Purpose of the book: This book provides an advanced and detailed, yet pedagogical, account of the theoretical formal-ism that describes quantum many-body systems departing from equilibrium under quite...
Because business ethics sits at the intersection of multiple disciplines, the field often suffers from an abundance of disconnected perspectives. A unified account of the moral purpose of markets and...
In the mid-tenth century ce, two Muslim scholars were having a chat in Baghdad. One of them, called Ibn al-Jiʿābī, was well known to contemporaries as a fairly prolific author and historian, even if...
In 2012, Zambian President Michael Sata launched “Link Zambia 8000,” pledging 8,000 kilometers of new roads. Billions flowed from China, the World Bank, and OECD financiers. A decade later,...
Departures This book, at its core, is a renouncement of a belief system: doctrinal legal approaches to ‘law and torture’ research and practice. At the same time, it is articulation of new belief...
Labour precarity is an epidemic of our times. From the Arab Spring (2010-2012) to the Occupy Wall Street Movement (2011) and the more recent Yellow Vest Movement (since 2018), a key common thread has...
A girl of around 11 or 12 is reading out a letter to her attentive elders. Why did I pick James Brenan’s ‘News From America’ to illustrate a history of Ireland that spans sixteen centuries? ...
General audiences are accustomed to imagining medieval culinary practices through those of the elites — in shows, films, and novels, where little attention is given to the habits of common people. Perhaps...
The field of South Asian economic history has changed dramatically since the publication of The Cambridge Economic History of India, Vol. 2 (CEHI 2, 1983). CEHI 2 was a pathbreaking reference work when...
Over the past several decades, capital markets have become increasingly globalised, with major international financial centres such as the US, the UK, Hong Kong, and Singapore engaging in fierce competition...
The aim of this book is to find some precision and a point of origin for the concept of capital and by doing that, therefore capitalism. It also challenges the merchant based London centric interpretation...
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