Essay Why prove it? December 13, 2022 Years ago, a student in an introductory math class asked me: 鈥淲hy do you聽prove everything; why don鈥檛 you just tell us?鈥� Ever since, I have pondered that聽question. Read More
Essay Parasites and the interconnected biosphere December 13, 2022 One of the most fascinating things that a young person can experience in the complex realm of biology is the discovery of an animal living inside another animal. The questions that arise when these kinds of animals are encountered for the first time are innumerable and, if answered carefully, may lead to even more questions and, hopefully, more answers. Read More
Essay Gal谩pagos birds: A lot more than meets the eye December 12, 2022 As a child growing up in the then-remote Galapagos Islands, the birds that surrounded my island home鈥攗nafraid as they were鈥攆ascinated me. Read More
Essay Why going to the Moon still matters December 12, 2022 The Moon is back on the space agenda. NASA鈥檚 Apollo project succeeded half a century ago in placing the first men on the Moon. We haven鈥檛 been back since 1972, but there is now great interest in returning. Read More
Essay Live longer by living better, says Seneca December 05, 2022 Because we can't truly conceive of an endpoint to life, we give to our time far less value than we should, squandering it on useless pursuits or frivolities. Read More
Interview Elena Llaudet and Kosuke Imai on Data Analysis for Social Science November 28, 2022 Data Analysis for Social Science teaches step-by-step how to analyze data with the free and popular statistical program R and covers the fundamentals of survey research, predictive models, and causal inference. Read More
Interview Office hours with Forrest Stuart November 26, 2022 Forrest Stuart, author of Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy, shares some significant moments thus far in his career, offers valuable insight on some of his favorite books鈥攁nd may surprise you with his bedtime reading habits. Read More
Essay A time for utopias November 21, 2022 鈥淕eneration Dread,鈥� 鈥淭he World as We Knew It,鈥� or 鈥淕lobal Burning.鈥� This is just a small sample of book titles from this year that deal with global warming and its environmental, socio-economic, political, and cultural consequences. Read More
Podcast Underwater Eye November 17, 2022 In聽The Underwater Eye, Margaret Cohen tells the fascinating story of how the development of modern diving equipment and movie camera technology has allowed documentary and narrative filmmakers to take human vision into the depths, creating new imagery of the seas and the underwater realm, and expanding the scope of popular imagination. Read More
Essay In the name of connection: Notes on the 2022 meeting of the PUP European Advisory Board November 17, 2022 16 September 2022.聽The date was set.聽We would be meeting with the 快色直播 European Advisory Board鈥攊n person!鈥攁fter a two-year hiatus. And we would be gathering in our new premises in leafy north Oxford, to which we had moved in late 2021. Read More
Podcast The World the Plague Made November 15, 2022 In 1346, a catastrophic plague beset Europe and its neighbours. The Black Death was a human tragedy that abruptly halved entire populations and caused untold suffering, but it also brought about a cultural and economic renewal on a scale never before witnessed. Read More
Interview Democracy鈥檚 dilemmas: Ewa Atanassow in conversation with Schuyler Curriden November 15, 2022 How can today鈥檚 liberal democracies withstand the illiberal wave sweeping the globe? What can revive our waning faith in constitutional democracy? Read More
Interview Ideas and inspiration from 快色直播 fellows November 14, 2022 In July 2022, 快色直播 welcomed its second-year Publishing Fellows. The Publishing Fellowship was created in 2021 to聽address a lack of diverse representation across the publishing industry, as part of a Press-wide聽Equity and Inclusion strategic initiative聽launched in 2018. Read More
Video Celebrating 100 audiobooks November 14, 2022 In 2018, the 快色直播 team launched the first university press audiobook program, 快色直播 Audio. Four years and almost a thousand hours of published audiobooks later, we are thrilled to be publishing our hundredth audiobook. Read More
Interview Richard S. Ellis on When Galaxies Were Born November 10, 2022 Astronomers are like time travelers, scanning the night sky for the outermost galaxies that first came into being when our universe was a mere fraction of its present age. Read More
