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Dire Straits-Education Reforms: Ideology, Vested Interests and Evidence

The aim of this book is to address the following question: why are education reforms so difficult to implement and so easy to reverse? i

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The Little Drummer Boy and The Juggler of Notre Dame

Read now 'The Little Drummer Boy and The Juggler of Notre Dame' by Jan M. Ziolkowski, author of 'The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity' and 'Reading the Juggler of Notre Dame: Medieval Miracles and Modern Remakings'

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Greening Europe: Powering the argument for green investment during challenging times

Read Now: a blog post written by our volunteer Joanne Walton on 'Greening Europe: 2022 European Public Investment Outlook' by Floriana Cerniglia and Francesco Saraceno.

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Transforming Conservation: A Practical Guide to Evidence and Decision Making

This blog post was written by Bill Sutherland (Miriam Rothschild Professor in Conservation Biology in the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge) and Nigel Taylor (Research Associate in the Conservation Science Group, University of Cambridge)

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Steven Jan on Music and/as Evolution

Read now a blog by OBP author Steven Jan where he discusses the topic of his latest title 'Music in Evolution and Evolution in Music'

Open Access Week 2022

Fake Seeds and Dead Livestock: Where’s the Justice in that?

Read Now: Thea Potter's blog on climate change, climate justice and the environment written for OA Week 2022: Open for Climate Justice.

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Artists were the First Environmentalists: Pictures Tracking Climate Change & Assaults on Nature

Read Now: Katherine Manthorne's blog on climate change, art history and the environment written for OA Week 2022: Open for Climate Justice.

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Linking Climate Justice and Open Access: the case for truly public knowledge

Read Now: Mihnea Tănăsescu's blog on climate justice, academic research and OA written for OA Week 2022: Open for Climate Justice.

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Life, Re-Scaled: The Biological Imagination in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Performance

What kind of character is a microbe? How can an ecosystem take to the stage? Do springtails make good protagonists for detective novels? Life, Re-Scaled explores how contemporary literature and performance engage with our century’s shifting views of life.

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A People’s Voice

We all know the Romantic hero: solitary, brooding, out of the ordinary, Byronic. There is a disconnect between that hero and the society which they renounce, and that is well and good. There is a space, after all, for misfits in this world.

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Dire Straits-Education Reforms: Ideology, Vested Interests and Evidence

The Little Drummer Boy and The Juggler of Notre Dame

Greening Europe: Powering the argument for green investment during challenging times

Transforming Conservation: A Practical Guide to Evidence and Decision Making

Steven Jan on Music and/as Evolution

Fake Seeds and Dead Livestock: Where’s the Justice in that?

Artists were the First Environmentalists: Pictures Tracking Climate Change & Assaults on Nature

Linking Climate Justice and Open Access: the case for truly public knowledge

Life, Re-Scaled: The Biological Imagination in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Performance

A People’s Voice