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A few weeks ago, filmmaker George Romero passed away in Toronto. Across the city and elsewhere, remembrance vigils were held for him. It was the kind of treatment usually reserved for great musicians,

This blog post was originally posted as an article on theAdventures on the Bookshelfblog – you can read it here [http://bookshelf.mml.ox.ac.uk/2017/05/17/europe/]. In 1813, Germaine de

This free to read book [http://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/590/searching-for-sharing--heritage-and-multimedia-in-africa] grew out of discussions about how multimedia technologies afforded scholars new ways of sharing documentation and scientific knowledge with the cultural

This blog post was originally published by Patrick Blessinger as an article on University World News – you can access it here [http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20170502124125567]. Open Education: International Perspectives

I’m not sure if it’s apocryphal or not, but Harold Macmillan supposedly once claimed that what politicians in government fear most is “events, dear boy, events”. For the academic, the publication

The Appearance of Design My book touches on many aspects of human nature.  However, I regard the nature/nurture dichotomy as false.  Nature refers to the end products of development and nurture to

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

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

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