Author Posts Behaviour, Development and Evolution - an Introductory Blog (2/3) The Importance of Adaptation From an early stage in its life each individual has to deal with many challenges. When young its ecology may be very different from that of the adult, in which case it may have special adaptations to deal with those conditions. Like a caterpillar before metamorphosing
Author Posts Behaviour, Development and Evolution - an Introductory Blog (3/3) A Perspective on Humans My central academic interests have been with the development and evolution of behaviour and I have long been concerned with the relevance of my work to humans. The notion of genetic determination, which was so firmly embedded in evolutionary theory, has seriously interfered with attempts to
Author Posts Wallenstein: A Dramatic Poem - A Q&A with Flora Kimmich Q: How did translating Wallenstein: A Dramatic Poem compare to your first translation with OBP, Fiesco’s Conspiracy at Genoa? A: Wallenstein is in every sense a much bigger piece than Fiesco: three plays instead of one; in verse and not in prose; a major tragedy and not a first
Author Posts Trump and the Trillion Dollar Infrastructure Finance Challenge On 9th November, after his victory in the American Presidential election, Donald Trump declared, “We are going to fix our inner cities and rebuild our highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, schools, hospitals. We’re going to rebuild our infrastructure, which will become, by the way, second to none.” His eyecatching pledge
Amores Latin Love I chose to focus on Amores(Book I) because Ovid’s text seems particularly suitable for students at that crucial stage when they have learned the basics of Latin and are just starting on real Latin authors. In some ways it is easiest to make the transition by means of
Caroline Warman Interdisciplinary Diderot Denis Diderot (1713-1784) was a mathematician, a major art critic, an innovative novelist, a playwright, and, of course, the editor of the Encyclopédie, which contained articles on most subjects under the sun: science, medicine, the arts, horse-breeding, ship-building… It is a fascinating, not to say enlightening, exercise to approach the
Conveyancing In Honour of Professor Robert Rennie In 2014, Robert Rennie retired from the post he had held since 1994 as Professor of Conveyancing at the University of Glasgow. This brought an end to part – but only part – of a remarkable career encompassing both academia and legal practice. Robert qualified as a solicitor in 1969, having previously
Documentary Photography How I Came Home For most of my professional career I was a teacher of French literature and much of my published work has been in that field. But I have always been a wanderer and, since my retirement in 1999, perhaps a rather reckless one. Sometimes I look back to see if I
20th-Century Literature In a Pilgrim's Footsteps In September 2011, I found myself standing on a rock on the shore of Lake Peipsi, the huge stretch of water that lies between Estonia and St Petersburg, peering out across the haze in the hope of catching a glimpse of the Russian shore. Behind me stretched a row of
English Spelling the Answer I wrote the Dictionary of the British English Spelling System [https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0053] because (1) most children learning to read and spell need to be taught the most effective method of identifying and understanding unfamiliar written words and of writing down words they don’t yet
