As schooling has become more commodity-based, the place and position of learning and curriculum has been transformed and new perspectives...

At a moment when Google seeks "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful", this book...

A few years ago, a group of researchers from the Stanford Literary Lab decided to use topic modelling to extract...

An innovative study of the ways performance influenced Mozart’s compositional style.

We know Mozart as one of history’s greatest composers....

Criticism has traditionally worked with the middle of the scale: a text, a scene, a stanza, an episode, an excerpt…...

Tracing war’s expansion beyond the battlefield to the concept of the human being itself

As military and other forms of...

Paper Knowledge is a remarkable book about the mundane: the library card, the promissory note, the movie ticket, the PDF...

‘Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 1760–1790’ explores the role of poetry in eighteenth-century thinking on human progress. Its central...

The fledgling United States fought a war to achieve independence from Britain, but as John Adams said, the real revolution...

Episodes in the history of data, from early modern math problems to today's inescapable “dataveillance,” that demonstrate the dependence of...

This study examines academic departments as a context for teaching in the secondary school. lt explores why teachers find departments...

An engaging and authoritative history of Scotland’s influence in the world and the world’s on Scotland, from the Thirty Years’...

Walter Scott in the twenty-first century
Ten essays that show Scott is a man for our times
Major...

This work presents methods for exploring the lexical environment of political concepts using interactive network visualisations of corpus-derived grammatical relations...

A revealing and surprising look at how classification systems can shape both worldviews and social interactions.
What do a...

The role that “system” has played in the shaping and reshaping of modern knowledge, from Galileo and Newton to our...

The Architecture of Concepts proposes a radically new way of understanding the history of ideas. Taking as its example human...

The New York Times bestseller: A provocative, imaginative exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge

“Dazzling.” – Steven Pinker,...

Machine-written literature might offend your tastes but until the dawn of Romanticism most writers were just as formulaic