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Stalin’s reign over the Soviet Union has left many unanswered questions but in The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin’s Special Settlements Lynne Viola answers one: what happened to millions of peasants in the 1930’s.
Hargittai’s book tells the story of five brilliant men born at the turn of the twentieth century in Budapest: Theodore von Kármán, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, John von Neumann, and Edward Teller.
An excerpt from the first chapter of Philip Jenkins’s God’s Continent.
Philip Jenkins author of God’s Continent answers some questions for OUP.
Can Barbara Hillary teach us about life?
A biographical look at John Muir.
Susan Shirk, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State responsible for U.S. relations with China, is the author of China: Fragile Superpower. In her book Shirk opens up the black box of Chinese politics and finds that the real danger lies in the deep insecurity of its leaders. Below Shirk graciously answers some questions for OUP.
Sadly the movers are coming for my computer soon, but before they do, here is one last post for today. I was playing around on the electronic version of The International Encyclopedia of Dance and found this entry about the Tarantella dance. Keep reading to find out how dance and spiders are connected. Tarantella. Although […]
Lives across the pong from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Douglad P. Fry, author of Beyond War, writes an original piece for the OUPblog.
A closer look at Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse with help from the DNB.
Dreaming of Ireland.
This Day in History, Dreyfus condemned.
In the mid-1970s the cultural shockwave known as hip hop emerged from the economic paralysis of New York City, especially the neglected neighborhoods in the Bronx. However, while hip hop music was born in New York, it speaks to a long line of black American and African diasporic cultural traditions.