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Peopling the Landscape: Local Priests in Tenth-Century Europe
On our book’s cover stands a small church. Coloured in a blue that suggests the haze of a summer’s day, it is set against a yellow landscape dotted with vines. We chose this image partly for its aesthetic appeal, and partly because it was pain…
Introducing Brief Research Reports
We have recently introduced a new article type for authors and readers of AJSIE, the brief research report. This will complement the existing original research articles, literature reviews and submissions for the Special Education Perspectives section of …
Fifty Years of International Environmental Law: Looking Back and Looking Ahead
In the advisory opinion of July 25, 2025, Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) took a bold step to declare that human rights law is the most relevant law with regard to climate change and to af…
Racial Justice in American Land Use
November 5, 2017, marked a century since the U.S. Supreme Court decided the famous Buchanan v. Warley case, striking down racial zoning in the United States. With more than 100 years of land use practices and legal and policy institutions to achieve racia…
People v. The Court: The Next Revolution in Constitutional Law
In People v. The Court, I argue that American democracy is broken and that the Supreme Court’s constitutional doctrine is a key factor contributing to democratic decay. The book charts a path for revolutionary changes in constitutional law that coul…
Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare
This book has been fun and also somewhat liberating to write. To explain this we have to tell the story of how the book came about. We are all corpus linguists, i.e. we use specialist software to study the use of language in very large datasets, or corpor…
What does it take to train a child and adolescent psychiatrist?
Third edition of Seminars in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is a major revision which was long overdue given that the second edition was published 20 years ago. That was around the same time I started working as a child and adolescent psychiatrist in the…
Liquid Languages – Or: Are Languages an Imagination from the Age of Print Literacy?
Languages appear to us as self-evident truths in the world. Until recently, the definition of what is a language seemed to be relatively straightforward: a language is what people from the same culture, living in the same territory, use to communicate wit…
My first encounter with number theory
The basso continuo of these essays is Euclid’s algorithm. The author wants readers to discover that almost every page contains the algorithm either visibly or implicitly or in disguised forms. Readers should eventually be amazed that the algori…
Variations on a Marian Theme in Late Medieval Orvieto
In the twelfth through fourteenth centuries, at the height of the cult of the Virgin Mary, a rare and rich conflux of past and present events, both authentic and legendary, catapulted Orvieto into the spotlight as a political, religious, and intellectual …
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Introducing Brief Research Reports
We have recently introduced a new article type for authors and readers of AJSIE, the brief research report. This will complement the existing original research articles, literature reviews and submissions for the Special Education Perspectives section of …
Constitutional Judging under Pressure
Constitutional courts today find themselves at the front lines of three converging crises: the persistence of socio-economic inequalities, the escalating climate emergency, and the erosion of democratic norms through rising autocratization.…
Advances in Unsteady Computational Aerodynamics with Separation: The 61st Lanchester Memorial Lecture
Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) is a burgeoning sector of the Aerospace industry exploring new design concepts from multi-passenger vehicles to small uncrewed autonomous systems for observations. These applications also expand operations into airspaces that w…
Balancing Act: How Starch and β-Hydroxybutyrate Affect Hindgut Fermentation in Early Lactation Cows
The paper “The effect of abomasal infusion of corn starch and β-hydroxybutyrate on hindgut microbial fermentation kinetics in early lactating dairy cows measured by the in vitro gas production technique“, published in The Journa…
On the puzzling geography of blowguns
You may be familiar with the blowgun, which appears as a five-minute DIY, life-saving weapon in some popular movies and series (e.g.,…
Race Isn’t Biological — So Why Do So Many Still Think It Is?
Even though findings from genetics and other sciences unequivocally refute biological conceptions of race, this erroneous viewpoint remains widespread among the general public.…
Happy 100th Birthday Quantum Mechanics
Quantum Mechanics celebrates its centenary in 2025, but we should update how we teach it, say Cambridge authors Asma Al-Qasimi and Daniel F. V. James.
CUP – Skibidi, delulu, tradwife are new words in the Cambridge Dictionary
How does a word earn its place in the dictionary? The Cambridge Dictionary has just welcomed a handful of internet-famous slang terms into its pages.…
A Tiny Stowaway with a Big Story: Discovering a New Galápagos Tapeworm
The Galápagos Islands are famous for inspiring Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection — their unique plants and animals have been studied for over a century.…
JFM Q&A with Daniel Chung
Daniel Chung – University of Melbourne has recently been appointed as an editorial board member of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics. To celebrate, they participated in a Q&A with the Journal.
