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Archive for August 2012

Perspectives on Politics Marks 10 Years Despite Canceled Conference

Mike Marvin | 30 Aug 2012

The 2012 American Political Science Association (APSA) Meeting & Exhibition, set to begin August 30, 2012 in New Orleans, was canceled as Hurricane Isaac made landfall in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.…


Cambridge University Press staff cycle for conservation

Richard Horley | 22 Aug 2012

For the third year in succession, a team from Cambridge University Press, including a group of Cambridge Journals staff, took part in the London to Cambridge Cycle Ride, raising money for Fauna & Flora International (FFI) for whom we publish Oryx – the International Journal of Conservation.…


Carping on to critical acclaim: Bulletin of SOAS article wins 6th Inoue Yasushi Award

Becky Roberts | 21 Aug 2012

Edwina Palmer is the winner of the 6th Inoue Yasushi Award for Outstanding Research in Japanese Literature in Australia and New Zealand.…


Should we tax soft drinks?

Jo Rennie | 16 Aug 2012

Jack Winkler’s commentary on a report by Ng et al., challenges the proposal of a 10% tax on ‘sugar-sweetened beverages’ (SSB).…


Social media – login and share with new CJO functionality

Tristan Collier | 14 Aug 2012

As more and more of you are using social media to communicate and share your reading, we’ve upgraded Cambridge Journals Online (CJO) with new social media functionality.…


Life on the ground: Exploring the Africa ‘Local Intellectuals Strand’

Becky Roberts | 13 Aug 2012

In the latest issue of Africa Carola Lentz (University of Mainz) introduces the work of Kumbonoh Gandah, an intellectual and historian from Northern Ghana. Gandah was the son of an influential chief and witnessed the way in which colonial rule and political developments played out in Northern Ghana during the 1940s and 1950s.…


2011 Brumfit Award prize runner up Rebecca Sachs provides an overview of her thesis

Katie Laker | 10 Aug 2012

2011 Brumfit Award prize runner up Rebecca Sachs provides an overview of her thesis, which was praised for the high quality of its content and presentation Individual differences and the effectiveness of visual feedback on reflexive binding in L2 Japanese In the field of second language acquisition, one of the ultimate goals of research into aptitude-treatment interactions is for language educators (and software developers) to be better able to tailor instruction to the needs and abilities of language learners.…


From the Ancient to the Modern: How have the Olympic games changed?

Becky Roberts | 6 Aug 2012

  The 2012 Olympic games are upon us. It is well known that the origins of the modern Olympic games lie in the Ancient Greek traditions, but how do they compare?…


Joint 2011 Christopher Brumfit Award winner Dr Catherine van Beuningen provides a summary of her prize winning work

Katie Laker | 3 Aug 2012

The effectiveness of comprehensive corrective feedback in second language writing Corrective feedback (CF) or error correction is a widely used method of targeting linguistic problems in L2 learners’ writing.…


How can we measure the wealth of nations?

Katie Laker | 2 Aug 2012

Sustainability and the wealth of nations have concerned economists for many decades, with economists trying to answer important questions such as: – How can we measure the wealth of nations?…


What is a blog and what does it mean for academia and academic publishing?

kieranfenby-hulse | 1 Aug 2012

Kieran Fenby-Hulse works at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Brighton as a Research Officer. Between 2005 and 2008, he was the editorial assistant for the Cambridge-published journal Eighteenth-Century Music.…


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