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Celebrating our award-winning authors! 🎉

17 of our books have been awarded 'Outstanding Academic Title' by @choicereviews.bsky.social in 2025. 📚

Read more 🏆🔗 https://cup.org/44DXPt5
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December 2, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Your backstage pass to how #StandUpComedy really works! 🎟️

Discover author Oliver Double’s favourite sentences from his book, ‘The Cambridge Companion to Stand-Up Comedy’🎤

Read more 🔗 https://cup.org/43VhW5M
December 1, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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✨ Our November highlights include:

🖋️ Practical advice for fiction writers
🗣️ The debate over whether humans possess an innate ability for language
📱 The chilling effects of technology in the digital age

Explore our recent publications 📚🔗 https://cup.org/3XlWPpG
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November 30, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Your weekend listen 🎧

Join Ryan Tripp as he speaks with author Michael B. Cosmopoulos about his book 'The World of Homer', which explores the origins of the most enduring epic poems — 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey'.

Listen now on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social 🎙️ 🔗 https://cup.org/3KlbG0y
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November 29, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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🎧 Hot off the Press

Join host Hayley Stevenson and Dr. Joanna Depledge, a scholar of international climate diplomacy, as they explore how environmental multilateralism weathers political turbulence.

🎙️ Listen to the full episode 🔗 https://cup.org/4a13KMz
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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From taboo‑breaking explorations of women’s health to timeless classics like 'Gulliver’s Travels', plus new insights into the science of the supernatural - discover standout titles in our Spring 2026 catalogue. 📚

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November 26, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Discover the world of comedy with author Oliver Double as he discusses his latest book, ‘The Cambridge Companion to Stand-Up Comedy’, and takes you behind the mic to explore how comedians turn life into pure connection and laughter. 🎤😂

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November 26, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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"We want to work with our library partners and other purchasers to make valuable titles available to institutions and individuals that cannot afford to buy them." Ben Denne, Director Publishing, Books

Find out more about our expansion of Flip it Open ! 🔗 https://cup.org/3XaORQ5
November 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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What happens when Shakespeare’s line shifts from 'hope' to 'dread' and from 'brain' to 'will'?

Jacke Wilson talks with Douglas Clark about the meaning of will-making in English Renaissance drama.

🎧 Listen now on The History of Literature podcast: https://cup.org/4oUVgeo
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November 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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'Dreams and Songs to Sing' by Alan McDougall has been named one of the @financialtimes.com Best Sports Books of the Year 2025! 🏅📚

Sports journalist @simonkuper.bsky.social describes the book as having been written with 'joy and love'.

Read more 🔗 (£) https://cup.org/4icKHkd
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November 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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At Cambridge, we’re committed to advancing knowledge on sustainability and publishing research that supports the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Discover our SDG collection here 🔗 https://cup.org/4oWnhlM
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November 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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In 2025 more than 70% of our research has published #OpenAccess each month. OA plays a key role in our mission to advance learning, knowledge, and research across the world.

Read how we are driving a community-led change to build an open future 🔗 https://cup.org/3LMIv76
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November 20, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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We are building knowledge for both the academic community and general readers by publishing research that inspires and supports the discovery of new solutions to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 🌍

Explore our UN SDG hub 🔗 https://cup.org/3JXQP3d
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November 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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🎧 Your weekend listen 🎧

“The making of modern Hyderabad is also the making of its film world.”

C. Yamini Krishna discusses her new book 'Film City Urbanism in India' on our Exchanges pod hosted by @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

Listen here 🔗 https://cup.org/49UB47z
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November 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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New textbooks from Cambridge Aspire! 🚀

Explore the latest November 2025 releases from machine learning and biomaterials to human rights and translation studies.

Read more 🔗 https://cup.org/4hVGUHM
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November 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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🥇 Back-to-back gold for Cambridge 🥇

Our University of Cambridge Online course, Creativity, Problem Solving and Design Thinking, has won gold at the 2025 Learning Technologies Awards, the second gold award in two years 🎉

Read more 🔗 https://cup.org/49eFO7U
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November 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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This #UPWeek 🎉 read our community-led 'Publishing futures' report and find out how the academic community, including university presses, can #TeamUP to deliver radical change in scholarly publishing.

Access the report here 🔗 https://cup.org/3KSaUrR
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November 13, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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It's #UPWeek 🎉 and we're celebrating how university presses #TeamUP to explore, engage, and promote bold new ideas.

This year, 'Self-Made' by Pamela Walker Laird is featured in the @aupresses.bsky.social #ReadUP gallery. 📚🎉

Discover more here 🔗 https://cup.org/3JKPLQ7
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November 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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In an interview with The Colorado Sun, historian Pamela Walker Laird discusses her new book 'Self-Made', which explores the myths and realities behind success stories.

Read more 🔗 https://cup.org/4hOEydY
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November 8, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald has been chosen as the Hay Festival Book Club Book of the Month! 📚

Join authors Sarah Churchwell and James L. W. West III in conversation with Shahidha Bari as they explore the classic tale of desire, illusions, and lost dreams.

🔗 https://cup.org/43gDf1r
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November 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Our 2025 #OA highlights include:

📄 over 70% of research publishing #OA each month
🌏 publishing our radical, community-led review
📖 new routes to fund #OABooks and article publishing
✅ success of our Cambridge Open Equity Initiative

Read more 🔗 https://cup.org/3LLtD8I
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November 6, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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The global academic publishing ecosystem is under growing strain and not equipped to meet future challenges without urgent, sector-wide reforms.

Our new report advocates for collective action to establish a more sustainable and equitable future. 🔗 https://cup.org/47YivxZ
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November 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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'Designing the New Open Article Economy' at the Charleston Conference.

Join Monica Westin and Doug Way as they explore the gap between OA’s promise and the present reality and lay out a practical blueprint for a new open article economy.

Read more in our recent report 🔗 https://cup.org/47DOEcG
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November 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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From a fun yet complex connection between law and beer to thrilling stories of escaping justice, and from the era of Christology to the legacy of Ernest Hemingway, our newest titles have something for every reader! ✨

Explore our list of new releases 🔗 https://cup.org/4nuAFfm
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November 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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As the nights grow longer and shadows stretch across our bookshelves, we’ve handpicked eight haunting highlights from our books and Cambridge Elements to enchant you this Halloween. 🎃

Read our spooktacular titles 👻 🔗 https://cup.org/4oiLnXJ

#HalloweenReads #SpookyBooks #GothicReads #GothicFiction
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October 31, 2025 at 2:44 PM