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What object, institution or idea would you retrieve from the past?
By Rowland ManthorpeWhat’s the best way to move backward as a society? That’s right: backward, not forward. If the question needs clarification, that’s…
A Second Digital Transformation for Scholarly Monographs?
By Roger C. Schonfeld Scholarly monographs and other published books are among the most important resources for the humanities and adjacent fields. Unlike scholarly…
Notes on need
By Johanna Hedva My favourite definition of the body is that it’s a thing that needs support. A social body, a body of…
Coping with stasis – how the supposed ‘sick man of Asia’ might be a model for us all
I travel back and forth between Japan and the United States, mostly Tokyo and New York and a few other American cities, several…
How to Do Public Writing
© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University PressSalina, Kansas – small-town America. 1993. I’m in seventh grade, and kids all across town…
Tell me what you eat, and I’ll tell you who you are
Gustavo Laborde Doctor of Anthropology, specialist in the history and culture of food, he is professor at the School of Nutrition of the…
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