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Nietzsche’s ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra’
Nietzsche considered his philosophical novel, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, his masterwork, but recently it has largely been ignored by philosophical scholars. The new critical guide from Cambridge University Press, Nietzsche’s ‘Thus Spoke Zarathust…
The Atrocity of Hunger can be Averted for Millions in Somalia
“Never Again,” the campaign to end extreme hunger emerged out of the 2011 famine in Somalia, yet today, in Somalia, seven and a half million people are facing food shortages while over 200,000 people are experiencing a level five famine with t…
The Company That Lived—and Died—by the Sword
Some time in the late eighteenth century, Madar Khan, a South Indian Muslim, enlisted as a sepoy—a soldier—with the British East India Company, the face of Britain’s rapidly expanding authority on the subcontinent. He was one of several …
Debt Sustainability — A Truly Global Challenge!
Global debt, public and private, is at record highs! But there is no agreement on whether we should worry about this much. My new Cambridge Element, Debt Sustainability—A Global Challenge” argues that we should care. Debt does not only affect …
The Causal Paradox
David Hume rightly observed that people search for causes because it makes it easier to cope with the world. Causal inference is more important still in the modern world as our lives are so interdependent and affected by all kinds of developments over whi…
Spies, Writers, and the Cold War in Latin America
What was the impact of surveillance on writers? If a writer is under surveillance by secret police agents, and he or she knows it, does that change what he or she wrote? Would the literature be a reply, a repudiation, an angry answer to the surveillance? …
Investment treaties during armed conflict: Special protection for foreign investors?
Through numerous international agreements, states promise their respective treaty partners to accord foreign investors and their investments protection from unlawful state encroachments as well as violence by third parties. In case these guarantees are vi…
Music Theatre and the Holy Roman Empire
When I lived in Germany, I was spoilt by choice so far as opera was concerned. I was in an area that had three large theatres separated by two rivers and all very close to one another. I certainly wasn’t alone in having such great access…
The Burned Out Physician
Physicians and other healthcare professionals are facing unprecedented challenges. One of the most critical and potentially devastating challenges is the threat of burnout. That threat has been growing for decades, and the pandemic has significantly inten…
“How did hesitation, equivocation, compromise, and serendipity give shape to a Reformation driven by a handful of determined people?”
In my last book, Luther, Conflict, and Christendom, which Cambridge published in 2018, I tried to find an organic way to understand the effects of context and circumstance on one of the great defining controversies of European religion, the conflict over …
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From ‘generation zero’ to a trailblazer in medicine
Dame Anna Dominiczak, the first female chief scientist for health in Scotland and Editor-in-Chief of the new Cambridge Prisms: Precision Medicine journal, details her stellar achievements since her move from Gdansk to Glasgow 40 years ago
Cambridge welcomes OSTP open research policy
The new policy from the OSTP promises a leap forward in the speed of transition to open research in the United States.
Breaching the Boundaries of Law and Anthropology
With the new academic year either already underway or just around the corner, we truly hope you had a relaxing and inspiring summer break, with plenty of opportunities to turn towards your summer reading list and finish the stack of books and papers you w…
South Asian vultures and diclofenac
Vultures are keystone species that perform a vital ecosystem service by disposing of carrion. Veterinary use of the painkilling drug diclofenac to treat livestock has caused the collapse of vulture populations throughout South Asia, with dramatic ecologic…
4 discoveries you never knew were grounded in control engineering
When we think of control engineering we immediately think of aircraft and spacecraft control, self-driving cars, and automated manufacturing. However, there are other exciting, emerging fields that also rely heavily on control engineering; some that may s…
RCPsych: preparing a new generation of peer reviewers
Anna Munks, Managing Editor of BJPsych Advances and BJPsych Open, speaks to us about the importance of peer review for the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych).
Ducks win big at the Ig Nobels
A study on duck swimming behaviour published in JFM secures the 2022 Ig Nobel prize in physics for Zhi-Ming Yuan, Minglu Chen, Laibing Jia, Chunyan Ji and Atilla Incecik
What are the biggest obstacles to successful peer review?
We asked our authors what they consider to be the biggest obstacles when it comes to peer reviewing. Author 1: The reader who just doesn’t connect with my approach, or even see what I’m trying to do.…
How to define a good peer reviewer…
Cambridge authors offer their opinions on what makes a good peer reviewer. Author 1: A good peer reviewer should be a person of integral academic standing and an acknowledged expert in the field.…
Is the peer review process evolving?
A selection of our authors describe how they see the peer review process evolving in the future, and discuss what change has already taken place.…
