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Popular Music’s Greatest Hits Go Free

In celebration of its 30th volume, Cambridge Journal Popular Music invites everyone to download its ‘greatest hits’. Popular Music is an international multi-disciplinary journal covering all aspects...

20 Jul 2011

Spinoza, the Moral Heretic: Examining one of history’s most and important and misunderstood figures

Benedict de Spinoza (1632-1677), the notorious Jew of Amsterdam, has long been a darling of academics.  Excommunicated from the Jewish community for his radical philosophical views, Spinoza devoted his...

Matthew J. Kisner | 19 Jul 2011

The Making of Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust: Part One

For Rebecca Boehling and Uta Larkey, their book Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust probably would not have been possible without Suzanne Ostrand-Rosenberg.  A colleague of Rebecca’s at University...

18 Jul 2011

The King James Bible: Anti-Establishment Muse

The King James Bible (KJB) has long held the ironic distinction of being the English translation of the Bible most associated with the monarchy and the established church—thus having a traditional, even...

Hannibal Hamlin, Norman W. Jones | 11 Jul 2011

A Gay Liberationist Looks at Gay Marriage

Shannon Gilreath responds to the recent passage of marriage equality in New York. Read More ?

Shannon Gilreath | 5 Jul 2011

An Interview with the General Editor of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway

Professor Spanier is  general editor of Cambridge’s forthcoming The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Vol 1 1907-1922 (to be published  in October, 2011). This is the first complete and authorized compilation;...

1 Jul 2011

The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf Launch Celebration

To celebrate the launch of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf, Cambridge University Press held a panel discussion on ‘Virginia Woolf in the 21st Century’, on 25th February...

30 Jun 2011

Edward Barbier for TripleCrisis

Author Edward B. Barbier explores the connection between worldwide debt and global warming.

Edward B. Barbier | 27 Jun 2011

Deconstructing the Conscious Universe

What is the mind’s place in the universe? It’s a question that has provoked a flurry of responses, both on theist and atheist sides of the debate. As the famed astrophysicist Carl Sagan once wrote,...

27 Jun 2011

Genocide and the Europeans

A recent article in The Economist (‘The Uses and Abuses of the G-Word’, 4 June 2011) reviews the tangled debates about the definition of ‘genocide’, and notes that ‘its use brings momentous political...

Karen E. Smith | 24 Jun 2011

The Early History of AIDS: Lessons in Prudence and Humility

June 1981 is the birthdate of AIDS. A short article in a medical journal described five cases of a rare form of pneumonia among previously healthy gay men from Los Angeles.Nobody could have imagined that,...

Jacques Pépin | 21 Jun 2011

Irish Writers Trivia: Swift, Yeats, Joyce, Beckett

If you’re celebrating Bloomsday on June 16th, you probably already know that it commemorates the events in James Joyce’s Ulysses, which all took place on June 16th, 1904. But did you know that the...

15 Jun 2011