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Valerie Abrahamsen looks at Titus and other missionaries on Crete in TIS#10

Valerie Abrahamsen's paper on "Titus and other missionaries on Crete: Encountering the Legacy of the Goddess" has been accepted for publication in The Independent Scholar Vol. 10. This special issue focuses on scholarly exploration of biblical and ancient texts and will appear in...

"Designed to Impress" co-authored by NCIS member Janis Bell

We were delighted to learn of Janis Bell's co-authored book Designed to Impress: Guido Mazenta’s Plans for the Entry of Gregoria Maximiliana of Austria into Milan (1597). This volume, by Janis Bell, Elisa Ruiz Garcia (University of Madrid, Spain), Silvio Leydi and Stefano Bruzzese, is "...

Review of Reid's "A Boston Schooner in the Royal Navy" now online

Maritime historian and NCIS member Phillip Reid's latest book is "A Boston Schooner in the British Navy, 168-17722: Commerce and Conflict in Maritime British America." You can read Sidney Carpenter's review of this "highly recommended" book as a preprint...

NCIS cited in Journal of Scientometric Research

Many thanks to Dr. Jean-Olivier Gransard-Desmond, icono-archeologist at ArkéoTopia and associated researcher at the CNRS (Centre nationale de la recherche scientifique) in France for bringing to our attention a paper entitled "Independent Researchers: A Bibliometric Analysis." The paper cites...

Magrini's Philosophical Sojourns in Aesthetics, Existence, and Education

NCIS member: James M. Magrini
Philosophical Sojourns in Aesthetics, Existence, and Education (Cambridge Scholars Publishers, 2023). This collection of seven speculative essays initiates a journey, inviting readers to abide, for a short time, with philosophical themes emerging from...

Review of Boria Sax's Avian Illustrations now on line

NCIS member Boria Sax's latest book on human-animal relations is Avian Illustrations: A Cultural History of Birds, in which he aims "to show how intimately our bonds with birds are bound up in the matrix of ideas, practices, fear and hopes that make up what we call ‘human civilization...

2023 EISENSTEIN PRIZE WINNER ANNOUNCED

CONGRATULATIONS to UK-based archeologist and egyptologist Hannah Pethen Barrett on being awarded the 2023 Eisenstein Essay Prize!
Dr Pethen Barrett's winning article is "The Hatnub Quarries Industrial Landscape Survey 2017: Mobile-GIS Ground-truthing of the Satellite Remote-survey,"...

NCIS WELCOMES NEW MEMBERS FROM THE USA, CANADA, ITALY AND JAPAN

We are pleased to welcome six new scholars to the NCIS fold. They are based in the USA, Canada, Italy and Japan, and their specialisms range from art curation, psychiatry, education, and communication technologies through to planning, medicine and international studies. Such is breadth of...

PREPRINT OF James Magrini's "Reading the Jefferson Bible: Elucidating the Philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth"

We are pleased to publish the preprint of "Reading the Jefferson Bible: Elucidating the Philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth" by James M. Magrini. This speculative essay, which will appear in its final form in The Independent Scholar Vol. 10 later this year, is focused on elucidating the...

Congratulations to Kate Burrows on publishing on the history of deaf technology advertising

Congratulations to NCIS member Kate Burrows who has just published the last of 3 papers from her dissertation. This article, about the history of deaf technology advertising (including early hearing aid advertising and modern cochlear implant advertising) connects the advertising message with...

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