Books
The Books section is a collection of publications by alumni and books with a link either to the University or to Cambridge. It also includes the books that have been reviewed in CAM magazine. Please use the navigation on the right to browse the subject categories or see all books.
To have your book considered for inclusion please email benefits@alumni.cam.ac.uk. The Alumni office is also pleased to offer CAMCard discounts with chosen book shops.
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Rule and Ruin
As the 2012 elections approach, the Republican Party is rocketing rightward away from the center of public opinion. Republicans in Congress threaten to shut down the government and force a U.S. debt default. Read more...
Sex and Drugs and Squash’n’Roll
Teenager Jolyon Jacks comes of age on the PSA tour. A chance game of squash against a girl at school leads fifteen year old Jacks to Manchester, and the iron-hard coach, ‘Sailor’ McCann. Read more...
A View from the Lodge
These are the reminiscences of a Cambridge College Porter, all the more remarkable for being true, with only some of the names and places changed in the tradition of discretion. Read more...
The Right Kind of History
A ground-breaking account of the teaching of history in England's state schools from the early 1900s to the present day, this accessible study is a major contribution to the current debates about the place of history in the classroom and the national curriculum. Read more...
Doubt, Atheism, and the Nineteenth-Century Russian Intelligentsia
The autocratic rule of both tsar and church in imperial Russia gave rise not only to a revolutionary movement in the nineteenth century but also to a crisis of meaning among members of the intelligentsia. Read more...