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  • 23 Dec 2015
    happy holidays - pandas on a sleigh
    Andrew Martin

    Happy Holidays!

    We’d like to thank you for reading the fifteeneightyfour blog from Cambridge University Press during 2015. We’ll be back in January 2016, with more great articles, discussions and interviews with our authors. We wish you a very happy holiday season.  

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  • 26 Nov 2015
    Merry Wiesner-Hanks on The Cambridge World History series

    Merry Wiesner-Hanks on writing The Cambridge World History

    Editor-in-Chief Merry Wiesner-Hanks introduces The Cambridge World History and gives an insight into how the World's history was mapped across its 7 volumes.

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  • 13 Nov 2015

    Round Up of the First Ever Academic Book Week

    This week has seen the UK’s first ever Academic Book Week; a celebration of the diversity, innovation and influence of the academic book. The week was architected by the Academic Book of the Future Project, made up of a core team of 5 experts from UCL and King’s College, London. They asked booksellers, publishers, librarians […]

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  • 9 Nov 2015

    Cambridge University Press celebrates Academic Book Week

    This week Cambridge University Press is celebrating both University Press Week and Academic Book week by giving away free access to 20 of our most influential books, hosting an Open Day and live streaming a lecture on the future of publishing. Events were kicked off on Monday 9th with an exclusive open day for members […]

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  • 31 Oct 2015

    Happy Halloween!

    First, you’ll want to brush up on the history of Halloween. Then check out all of the great new posts this week if you haven’t already! The gothic and the occult have a deep history in our literary tradition: Andrew McCann examines the popular rise of occult writing as the 19th century brought about commercial […]

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  • 27 Aug 2015
    Diagram of brain and creativity. Image: Opensource.com via CreativeCommons.
    James C. Kaufman

    A Creativity Author Goes Back to Being Creative

    James C. Kaufman, co-editor of The Psychology of Creative Writing, takes us behind the scenes of his writing process, and explains how creativity takes centre stage in his work.

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  • 20 Aug 2015
    Cambridge University Press zipped bible patent design
    Rosalind Grooms

    Patent 407848 – The Zip Bible and Its Place in History

    Press Archivist, Dr Rosalind Grooms, takes us back to the 1930s, and explores how the Second World War disrupted our bibles business, and sparked a war of words between publishers at Cambridge, Oxford, and Collins.

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  • 19 Jan 2015

    Inside the Cambridge Companions

    Cambridge Companions are a series of authoritative guides, written by leading experts, offering lively, accessible surveys to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics, and periods. Below you can browse through what some of our authors and editors have to say about their Companion and what it contributes to their field of study. For more information about Cambridge Companions and to watch our animation, click here.

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  • 20 Mar 2015

    Goodbyeee!

    From: Cambridge Library Collection Blog
    Alas, and thrice woe (from my point of view anyway), this is my last ever blog for the Cambridge Library Collection. I now slip away into the sunset, ...
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  • 16 Mar 2015

    Spring and Port Wine

    From: Cambridge Library Collection Blog
     … is the name of a play and then a film about Bolton, in northern England. However, I’m borrowing the title because I’ve just spent a few spri...
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