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In this, the first of three posts, T. W. Körner, author of Calculus for the Ambitious (2014) sheds light on the life of Joseph Fourier - a mathematician and physicist who got caught-up in the French Revolution, and managed to help found modern Egyptology.
As a functioning member of American society, you have surely been inundated with talks of government and elections in the last few months. So in honor of this political occasion, we sat down with Professor & Cambridge University Press author Marc Landy and got answers to all your Political Science questions, particularly regarding academia and his acclaimed textbook, American Government, co-written with Professor Sidney M. Milkis.
Since the 1950s, it has been known that atmosphere undergoes a drastic change in behaviour at around one week. In modern terms, for shorter periods, successive fluctuations tend to reinforce each other...
Donald J. Lisio, the author of British Naval Supremacy and Anglo-American Antagonisms, 1914–1930, tells the unknown story of First Sea Lord David Beatty's takeover of the 1927 Geneva Naval Arms Control Conference and the crises that followed.
Julius Ruiz, the author of The 'Red Terror' and the Spanish Civil War, discusses the complicated reaction incited by the Spanish version of his book.
The authors behind A Practitioner’s Guide to Stochastic Frontier Analysis Using STATA take you inside a powerful new tool and important analytical method.
The 20th century was a difficult time in Spain, where the last 100 years saw civil war, fascism, and a bloody battle for power. Julián Casanova, the co-author of Twentieth-Century Spain: A History, explains the importance of Spain's last century and why it demands to be studied.
To mark the launch of our collection of the books known to have been on board H.M.S. Beagle during Darwin's voyage, Dr Alison Pearn describes the library and its importance in the development of Darwin's thought.
Grant Heiken, the author of Dangerous Neighbors, discusses the recent eruption of Mt. Ontake.
Roland Paulsen, the author of Empty Labor breaks down the idleness that happens in our workdays and how our "empty labor" (hours spent on Facebook, socializing with coworkers, and writing emails when we're meant to be working) can be reduced.
Author Richard Dutton explores Ben Jonson's work and finds evidence that connects him to the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.
James Seaton, the author of Literary Criticism from Plato to Postmodernism, discusses the iconic essay "The Ambiguity of Henry James" and how it reshaped the way we think about his literary works.
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