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Academic Insights for the Thinking World
It has become a holiday tradition on the OUPblog to ask our favorite people about their favorite books. This year we asked authors to participate (OUP authors and non-OUP authors). For the next two weeks we will be posting their responses which reflect a wide variety of tastes and interests, in fiction, non-fiction and children’s […]
Novelist Louise Harwood recommends Restoration by Rose Tremain.
Novelist Rupert Thomson chooses his book of 2009.
Allan Barsky looks at moral courage.
Geologist Jan Zalasiewicz talks about the new epoch we live in and what the human legacy might look like in future Earth’s strata.
Richard Barrios shares his list of the ten best musical films of all time.
Elvin Lim looks at The Twilight Saga: New Moon.
A celebration of Thanksgiving and cranberries!
Elvin Lim looks at the new recommendation that women only undergo routine mammograms after the age of 50
An excerpt from Herge: The Man Who Created Tintin.
Who won our NBA contest?
If you haven’t already heard, ‘unfriend’ is the New Oxford American Dictionary ‘Word of the Year’. In honor of this announcement, I surveyed Facebook users across the country about why they would choose to unfriend someone. The results ranged from robots and rages, to baby photos and politics.
Laura Pappano discusses Elizabeth Lambert’s hair-pulling and sportsmanship in women’s athletics.
Professor Christian Kay on the press interest in the HTOED.
Geoffrey Block share five facts about West Side Story.
Elvin Lim comments on the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s upcoming trial in New York for the September 11th attacks within the context of justice in our legal system.