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The Worst Golf Course Ever: Coldham Common

The Worst Golf Course Ever: Coldham Common

Michael Morrison (Darwin 1978)

Bernard Darwin famously described Coldham Common in nineteenth century Cambridge as ‘the worst course I have ever seen, and many others would probably award it a like distinction’. Flat, featureless, frequently waterlogged, with foul-smelling ditches, a rifle range and local hooligans stealing golf balls were just some of the attributes that justified Darwin’s assertion. And yet from modest beginnings in 1869, CUGC would thrive and by the early 1890s, become one of the largest golf clubs in England.

Rivals of the Republic

Rivals of the Republic

Annelise Freisenbruch (Newnham 1995)

Rome, 70BC. Roman high society hums with gossip about the sudden, suspicious suicide of a prominent Roman senator. Shortly afterwards, the body of a Vestal Virgin is discovered in the river Tiber.

Everyday Evils: A Psychoanalytic View of Evil and Morality

Everyday Evils: A Psychoanalytic View of Evil and Morality

Coline Covington (Darwin 1975)

Everyday Evils blends psychoanalytic concepts with sociology, history, anthropology, philosophy, theology and studies of violence to look at the evils committed by “ordinary” people in different contexts. Ranging from discussion of Nazi atrocities and the horrors of Islamic State to the consequences of Stockholm Syndrome, this book will appeal to scholars from across disciplines as well as anyone who has ever asked the question:"How could anyone do something like that?" Coline Covington is a Jungian analyst in private practice in London.

Pain, Pleasure and Perversity: Discourses of Suffering in Seventeenth-Century England

Pain, Pleasure and Perversity: Discourses of Suffering in Seventeenth-Century England

John Yamamoto-Wilson (Magdalene 1971)

Luther’s 95 Theses begin and end with the concept of suffering, and the question of why a benevolent God allows his creations to suffer remains one of the central issues of religious thought. In order to chart the processes by which religious discourse relating to pain and suffering became marginalised during the period from the Renaissance to the end of the seventeenth century, this book examines a number of works on the subject translated into English from (mainly) Spanish and Italian.

Low Life Lawyer: in the footsteps of Bechet

Low Life Lawyer: in the footsteps of Bechet

Michael Simmons (Emmanuel 1952)

A legal thriller charting the rise and fall --and rise and fall again--of a somewhat unorthodox lawyer. 

Quintember

Quintember

Richard Major

When there are high crimes to be covered up, mysteries to be wrapped in enigmas, or a murderer to be liquidated - literally - there is only one man in England who can be trusted with the task: Felix Culpepper, tutor in Classics at St Wygefortis' College, Cambridge, and assassin-at-large for the British Establishment.

The Phoenician Symbol

The Phoenician Symbol

Basil Maddox (Christ's 1957)

The year is 1678 AD. Simon Maddox, a graduate student at Christ’s College Cambridge, receives from his tutor a subject for his thesis in History: “A Century through the Eyes of One Unusual Man.” That man, his uncle Thomas, is also a graduate. He has disappeared but may still be alive, and has left Simon with his research material in a cottage in Grantchester. He must make sense of a Phoenician Symbol described by Ptolemy a thousand years earlier and its connection to the Welsh Prince Madoc who sailed to America three hundred years before Columbus in his ship ‘Gwennan Gorn’.

Theatre and Aural Attention: Stretching Ourselves

Theatre and Aural Attention: Stretching Ourselves

George Home-Cook (Homerton 2002)

The question of attention in theatre remains relatively unexplored. In redressing this, Theatre and Aural Attention investigates what it is to attend theatre by means of listening. Focussing on four core aural phenomena in theatre  ̶  noise, designed sound, silence, and immersion – Home-Cook concludes that theatrical listening involves paying attention to atmospheres.

RED: A Natural History of the Redhead

RED: A Natural History of the Redhead

Jacky Colliss Harvey (Newnham 1981)

The first book to set out an overview of the red hair from the first appearance of the gene 60,000 years ago to the present day. RED combines genetics, biology, art history, literature, anthropology, gender studies, social history and psychology to track and explain attitudes to red hair and explore it as an example of 'otherness' in societies from Ancient Greece to the media-obsessed world of today.

Quantitative Trading: Algorithms, Analytics, Data, Models, Optimization

Quantitative Trading: Algorithms, Analytics, Data, Models, Optimization

Xin Guo, Tze Leung Lai, Howard Shek (Trinity 1991), Samuel Po-Shing Wong

The first part of this book discusses institutions and mechanisms of algorithmic trading, market microstructure, high-frequency data and stylized facts, time and event aggregation, order book dynamics, trading strategies and algorithms, transaction costs, market impact and execution strategies, risk analysis, and management. The second part covers market impact models, network models, multi-asset trading, machine learning techniques, and nonlinear filtering. The third part discusses electronic market making, liquidity, systemic risk, recent developments and debates on the subject.

The Heirs of Owain Glyndŵr

The Heirs of Owain Glyndŵr

Peter Murphy (Downing 1963)

1 July 1969. The Investiture of the Prince of Wales. 

When Arianwen Hughes is arrested driving with a home-made bomb near Caernarfon Castle, her case seems hopeless. Her brother Caradog, her husband Trevor, and their friend Dafydd are implicated in the plot, the evidence against them damning. Ben Schroeder's reputation as a barrister is riding high after the cases of Billy Cottage (A Matter for the Jury) and Sir James Digby (And is there Honey Still for Tea?). But defending Arianwen will be his greatest challenge yet. Trevor may hold the only key to her defence, but he is nowhere to be found. . .

My Cambridge Look Back in Love

My Cambridge Look Back in Love

M Harunur Rashid (Fitzwilliam 1964)

The book nostalgically flashes back on my memories of residence at Fitzwilliam College in the mid-sixties. It was a time when the College had just moved into the Huntingdon Street building. I remember my stay at digs owned by a Greek landlady married to a World War II veteran. I remember my friends, my rides to the Sidgwick Avenue, visits to other places like Oxford, Stratford-upon-Avon, London and Paris but most importantly I remember my teachers in English, who were world icons. 

Highway Law

Highway Law

Stephen Sauvain (Sidney Sussex 1967)

A detailed and practical commentary on the law relating to the creation, upkeep, development and ownership of highways, including the powers and duties of highway authorities, the rights of users of the highway and of those who own land around the highway, and road traffic regulation.

Re-Thinking Autism

Re-Thinking Autism

Ed. Katherine Runswick-Cole, Rebecca Mallet and Sami Timinmi (Chapter 11 author Graham Collins (Clare 1974))

This book inaugurates Critical Autism Studies, challenging received wisdom about the diagnosis and critically examining the phenomenon of autism from sociological, philosophical, scientific and psychological perspectives.

The Mayor of Mogadishu

The Mayor of Mogadishu

Andrew Harding (Emmanuel 1986)

An epic, uplifting story of one family’s journey through the violent unraveling of Somalia, and a timely exploration of what it means to lose your country and then to reclaim it.

Portland Place: secret diary of a BBC secretary

Portland Place: secret diary of a BBC secretary

Sarah Shaw (Librarian at Selwyn College 2002-2014)

Portland Place is Sarah Shaw's diary for 1971, in which year she was working at the BBC as a junior secretary.  While vividly recreating daily life for an office worker in the days of manual typewriters, Gestetner stencils, rail strikes, IRA bombs and decimalisation, it also traces the development of an extraordinary romance with a much older Irishman.

Refuge and Resilience: Promoting Resilience and Mental Health Among Refugees and Forced Migrants

Refuge and Resilience: Promoting Resilience and Mental Health Among Refugees and Forced Migrants

Laura Simich and Lisa Andermann (eds) (Darwin 1990)

Taking an interdisciplinary approach and focusing on the social and psychological resources that promote resilience among forced migrants, this book presents theory and evidence about what keeps refugees healthy during resettlement. The book draws on contributions from cultural psychiatry, anthropology, ethics, nursing, psychiatric epidemiology, sociology and social work.

First Overland - London-Singapore by Land Rover

First Overland - London-Singapore by Land Rover

Tim Slessor (St Catharine's 1952)

Why not? After all, no-one had ever done it before. It would be one of the longest of all overland journeys-half-way round the world, from the English Channel to Singapore. They knew that several expeditions had already tried it. Some had got as far as the deserts of Persia; a few had even reached the plains of India. But no-one had managed to go on from there: over the jungle-clad mountains of Assam and across northern Burma to Thailand and Malaya. Over the last 3,000 miles it seemed there were “just too many rivers and too few roads”. But no-one really knew…

An Old Engineer Remembers

An Old Engineer Remembers

Meher Kapadia (Fitzwilliam 1965)

This is an amusing true tale about the early days of computer control systems, based on the actual experiences and life story of an ordinary engineer. The book consists of technical descriptions of the systems of that era, intertwined around a memoir describing the engineering and business environment.  It gives some idea of the fun and excitement involved in systems engineering, and will interest new and aspiring engineers. It may even have some reminiscences for older engineers.

Intellectual Property Policy, Law and Administration in Africa: Exploring Continental and Sub-regional Co-operation

Intellectual Property Policy, Law and Administration in Africa: Exploring Continental and Sub-regional Co-operation

Caroline Ncube (Darwin 1999)

This book gives a panoramic view of the harmonisation of Intellectual Property (IP) policy, law and administration in Africa. It outlines what is being done, asks why it is being done and considers how such developments will affect the continent. It argues that the only acceptable justification for harmonisation is the public interest of each of the states concerned.

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