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Open Access and the Humanities : Contexts, Controversies and the Future
(2014)
If you work in a university, you are almost certain to have heard the term 'open access' in the past couple of years. You may also have heard either that it is the utopian answer to all the problems of research dissemination ...
The Myth of Piers Plowman
(2014)
Addressing the history of the production and reception of the great medieval poem, Piers Plowman, Lawrence Warner reveals the many ways in which scholars, editors and critics over the centuries created their own speculative ...
Urban Planet
(2018)
Global urbanization promises better services and stronger economies but also carries risks and unforeseeable consequences. Urban Planet highlights the hopes and hindrances of our journey of urbanization and the need for a ...
New Technologies for Human Rights Law and Practice
(2018)
This book is for human rights scholars and practitioners who are interested in the practical and conceptual impact of technology on their advocacy, research, and practice. It provides an explanation of the major risks and ...
Genetic Resources, Justice and Reconciliation
(2018)
This collection focuses on Indigenous perspectives on the sharing of traditional knowledge and the exploitation of genetic resources in Canada. This book is for public policy makers, Indigenous communities, environmental ...
Oral Democracy
(2018)
A talk-centered qualitative analysis of three hundred Indian village assemblies, revealing how the deliberation between citizens in a mass democracy is influenced by state policy and literacy. Essential reading for those ...
Animals through Chinese History
(2018)
This volume opens a door into the rich history of animals in China. Drawing on an extensive array of primary sources, the essays explore not only developments in the human-animal relationship but the ways in which the ...
Leading your Research Team in Science
(2018)
This short and practical guide offers valuable recommendations, stories and exercises, to guide readers towards a really successful career as an independent investigator in science. A must-read for early-career researchers, ...
Community Paralegals and the Pursuit of Justice
(2018)
The United Nations estimates that four billion people worldwide lack access to justice. This book is essential for anyone who wants to change that: lawyers, researchers, policy-makers, and activists. Community paralegals ...
Pirates of Empire
(2019)
The suppression of piracy and maritime raiding was a keystone in the colonisation of Southeast Asia. This comparative study in colonial history explores how piracy was defined, contested and used to resist or justify ...
Constituting Religion
(2018)
Constituting Religion examines how activists work to expand or challenge the reach of the shariah court system, and how these legal struggles shape popular understandings of Islam, liberal rights. This title is also available ...
Advanced Modeling with the MATLAB Reservoir Simulation Toolbox
(2021)
A follow-up to An Introduction to Reservoir Simulation using MATLAB/GNU Octave, this book introduces more advanced functionality recently added to the open-source MATLAB Reservoir Simulation Toolbox (MRST). Like the original ...
Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade
(2021)
Herbals, books describing the characteristics and uses of plants, were extraordinarily popular as a genre in early modern England. Illuminating the herbal's rich material history and its remarkable popularity across the ...
Private Health Insurance
(2020)
A collection of comparative case studies analysing the history, politics and performance of private health insurance globally and its implications for universal health coverage. This is essential reading for graduate ...
Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World
(2021)
Shows that wonder and wonders constituted a central theme in Greek culture from Homer to the Hellenistic period. Argues for its importance in discussions of the purpose of philosophy and literature and in expressions of ...
Pedagogical Translanguaging
(2021)
This Element looks at the way pedagogical translanguaging can be applied in language and content classes and how it can be valuable for the protection and promotion of minority languages. This title is also available as ...
Island Fantasia
(2021)
This in-depth study of the Matsu islands between China and Taiwan charts their sudden transition from a forbidden outpost in the Qing period to a military frontline during the Cold War and the Communist-Nationalist conflict, ...
A Theory of Bioethics
(2021)
Intended for students, scholars, and others interested in bioethics, this volume offers a compelling theory of bioethics while eliciting practical implications for issues including medical assistance-in-dying, the right ...
Leadership Standpoints
(2021)
Offers a new leadership framework for the next generation of nonprofit professionals. Based on five years of data collected from the New York Community Trust Leadership Fellowship - designed to address leadership development ...
Imperial Incarceration
(2021)
Michael Lobban examines the use of detention without trial in the British African Empire, evaluating the various legal powers used to facilitate imperial expansion. An essential text for lawyers and historians, Imperial ...
The Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate
(2022)
This IPCC Special Report provides the latest comprehensive assessment of the ocean and cryosphere in a changing climate. It serves policymakers, decision makers, stakeholders, and all interested parties with unbiased, ...
The Law and Practice of the Ireland-Northern Ireland Protocol
(2022)
This edited collection provides expert commentary in each of the areas of legal practice that the complex Ireland-Northern Ireland Protocol affects. It provides comprehensive examination of the legal meaning and interpretation ...
The Political Impact of the Sustainable Development Goals
(2022)
The first comprehensive global assessment of the political impact of the Sustainable Development Goals that the United Nations launched in 2015. Written by a team of over sixty experts and drawing on over 3000 scientific ...
Global Warming of 1.5°C
(2022)
This IPCC Special Report is a comprehensive assessment of our understanding of global warming of 1.5°C. It serves policymakers, decision makers, stakeholders, and all interested parties with unbiased, up-to-date, policy-relevant ...
Resilient and Sustainable Farming Systems in Europe
(2022)
Farming systems in Europe are rapidly evolving while at the same time being under threat. Farming systems must become more resilient in response to growing economic, environmental, institutional, and social challenges ...
The Political Regulation Wave
(2022)
Why has there been uneven success in reducing air pollution even in the same locality over time? This book offers an innovative theorization of how local political incentives can systematically affect bureaucratic regulation ...
Business School Leadership and Crisis Exit Planning
(2022)
As part of EFMD's fiftieth anniversary celebrations, its President, Professor Eric Cornuel, has edited this volume, featuring contributions from leaders in management education, including the presidents and deans of the ...
Poetry and Number in Graeco-Roman Antiquity
(2022)
Ranges widely across Greek and Latin poetry to demonstrate the various roles played by number and how the treatment of counting and arithmetic was bound up with wider conceptions of the nature of poetry. Aimed at both ...
Pandemic Kinship
(2022)
Shaped around the stories of one extended family, their friends, neighbours and community, this offers an intimate portrait of everyday life in Botswana's time of AIDS. It tackles questions relevant to scholars and ...
Constitutional Challenges in the Algorithmic Society
(2021)
The law struggles to address the constitutional challenges of the algorithmic society. This book is for scholars and lawyers interested in the intersections of law and technology. It addresses the challenges for fundamental ...
Algorithms and Autonomy
(2021)
Algorithms influence every facet of modern life. However, delegating important decisions to machines gives rise to deep moral concerns about responsibility, transparency, fairness, and democracy. This book examines these ...
Law and Policy for the Quantum Age
(2021)
Law and Policy for the Quantum Age is for readers interested in the political and business strategies underlying quantum sensing, computing, and communication. This work explains how these quantum technologies work, future ...
Entangled Legalities Beyond the State
(2021)
This volume - featuring eminent contributors from law, political science, sociology, anthropology, history and political theory - shows that law is often better understood as an entangled web than a coherent system, analysing ...
Disavowing Disability
(2021)
Examines the role that disability, both as a concept and an experience, played in seventeenth-century debates about salvation and religious practice. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Teaching Languages to Adolescent Learners
(2021)
Engaging and accessible, this book illustrates the principles of instructed language learning by presenting real life, practical examples from teachers. It illustrates best practice from high school classrooms, highlighting ...
Harnessing Public Research for Innovation in the 21st Century
(2021)
Universities and public research institutes play a key role in enabling the application of scientific breakthroughs and innovations in the marketplace. This book, available also as Open Access, suggests the most effective ...
Beyond Borders
(2021)
Beyond Borders considers the failures of law and politics to guarantee rights for the most vulnerable and attempts to imagine new forms of belonging across borders that provide a more robust basis for protections for ...
Creating the Ancient Rhetorical Tradition
(2021)
Examines how different aspects of rhetorical theory gradually came to be associated from Plato's Phaedrus onwards with the two outstanding writers in fourth-century BCE Athens, Lysias and Isocrates, and how in first-century ...
Democratic Multiplicity
(2022)
Our structures of democratic governance are often characterized by 'dysfunctionality', 'hollowing out', and 'gridlock'. This volume proposes an approach grounded in five different modes of democratic praxis. In exploring ...
The Great Reconfiguration
(2022)
This book is for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners who want to understand the dynamics and governance of low-carbon transitions. It shows how UK electricity, heat, and mobility systems are being reconfigured and ...
Evidence and Innovation in Housing Law and Policy
(2017)
These accessible, interdisciplinary contributions show how housing law and policy impacts household wealth, financial markets, urban landscapes, and local communities. A key resource for academics, students, policymakers, ...
Economics without Borders
(2017)
This book, with contributions from leading European economists, uses state-of-the-art surveys to bridge the gap between economics research and policymaking in Europe, demonstrating how recent research is contributing to ...
Trademark and Unfair Competition Conflicts
(2017)
This book will be of interest for all jurists doing research and working practically in intellectual property law and international economic law. It should be an element of the base stock for every law school library and ...
Contested Justice
(2015)
This pioneering edited collection from scholars and practitioners who specialise in the work of the International Criminal Court brings together diverse approaches from law, anthropology, sociology and international relations ...
Industrial Agriculture and Ape Conservation
(2016)
This second volume in an important series examines the interface between ape conservation and industrial agriculture, presenting original research as well as topical case studies. It aims to influence debate, practice and ...
A Sociology of Transnational Constitutions
(2016)
This book examines the social processes that lead to the evolution of legal norms with global constitutional standing in contemporary society. It makes an important contribution to the sociology of constitutional law, ...
Social Sector in a Decentralized Economy
(2017)
This book is an analytical examination of financing and public service delivery challenges in a decentralized framework. In addition, it provides critical insights into the effectiveness of public expenditure, through ...
Governing Medical Knowledge Commons
(2017)
This book supplies evidence that policymakers, researchers, and designers need to develop strategies for producing better innovation and systems of information production. The book's knowledge commons concept offers a ...
Global Volcanic Hazards and Risk
(2015)
Presenting the state of the art in our understanding of global volcanism, this is the first comprehensive assessment of global volcanic hazards and risk. Regional profiles and local case studies are provided online for all ...
Achieving Person-Centred Health Systems
(2020)
Individuals, their families and communities should have a greater role in the health system, but how this can be achieved in practice remains challenging. This volume explores how a person-centred approach can meet the ...
Bread, Cement, Cactus
(2020)
In this prize-winning exploration of the meaning of home, Annie Zaidi reflects on the cultural conflicts in India that have shaped her identity. Zaidi provides a nuanced perspective on land and regional affinity, migration ...
Social Media and Democracy
(2020)
This book is a state-of-the-art account of what we know and do not know about the impact of digital technology on democracy. It will interest scholars, policymakers, and philanthropic organizations. This title is also ...
Redefining Development
(2020)
Focuses on the concept phase of the project to resolve complex challenges faced by the communities in the Old Fadama slum of Accra, Ghana. The results are consolidated into a PAR intervention that incorporates results from ...
The Changing Role of the Hospital in European Health Systems
(2020)
Hospitals must change in the face of changing technologies and patient needs. This book is for anyone who works in a hospital, giving them the evidence they need to call for change, and for policy makers and planners charged ...
Challenges to Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance
(2020)
An accessible overview of the challenges in tackling AMR, and the economic and policy responses of the 'One Health' approach. It will appeal to policy-makers seeking to strengthen national and local polices tackling AMR, ...
Playful Virtual Violence
(2020)
Violence in video games has been a controversial object of public discourse for several decades. Building upon an extensive ethnographic study of players' emotional practices,this Element provides new insights into the ...
The Network Turn
(2020)
This Element contends that networks are a category of study that cuts across traditional academic barriers, uniting diverse disciplines through a shared understanding of complexity in our world. This title is also available ...
The Disinformation Age
(2020)
Understanding the post-fact era requires going beyond foreign influence or the rise of social media. This examination of the origins and workings of the US disinformation system shows how political strategies and communication ...
Migrants' Rights, Populism and Legal Resilience in Europe
(2022)
Analysing the problematic interplay between the rise of populism, restrictions of migrants' rights and democratic decay in Europe, this book goes beyond diagnosis by examining the potential for legal resilience. Bringing ...
Contemporary French Administrative Law
(2022)
Written from a comparative perspective, this book offers an authoritative English-language introduction to the key features of French administrative law and institutions. Using a systematic approach and with a variety of ...
Skill-mix Innovation, Effectiveness and Implementation
(2022)
Systemically analyses health workforce skill-mix innovations, implementation and outcomes by focusing on six core segments of health systems: health promotion and prevention, acute care, chronic care, long-term and palliative ...
The Brothers Grimm and the Making of German Nationalism
(2022)
In this first comprehensive English-language portrait of the Brothers Grimm as political thinkers and actors, Jakob Norberg shows how history's two most famous folklorists aspired to define national identity, delineate ...
Homer, Parmenides, and the Road to Demonstration
(2022)
Parmenides invented extended deductive argumentation and the practice of demonstration, a transformative event in the history of thought. This book uncovers the origins of this development in Homeric poetic imagery and ...
Apocalypse without God
(2022)
Despite often being dismissed as bizarre, apocalyptic thought has persistent appeal in political life. This book explains apocalyptic thought's political appeal by examining it through the eyes of secular thinkers and makes ...
Intellectual Property Licensing and Transactions
(2022)
This textbook covers practical contract drafting and negotiation skills alongside substantive legal doctrine relating to intellectual property transactions and licensing. It is intended primarily for classroom use, but can ...
Digital Constitutionalism in Europe
(2022)
This book provides the first study on digital constitutionalism in Europe. The research explains the European constitutional reaction to the challenges of digital capitalism while exploring a normative perspective to protect ...
Normative Reasons
(2022)
What are reasons to do something? This study assesses and critiques the current theories of normative reasons and provides a new theory of reasons as answers to normative why-questions, both for specialists and advanced ...
Handbook of Adolescent Digital Media Use and Mental Health
(2022)
With chapters from internationally renowned scholars in the field, this authoritative reference work synthesizes the science on a topic that has changed our culture more than perhaps any other in the past thirty years. ...
Decarbonising Economies
(2022)
Decarbonising Economies analyses the ways in which questions of agency, power, geography and materiality shape the conditions of possibility for a low carbon future. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Cyber Peace
(2022)
Cyberspace is increasingly vital to the future of humanity and managing it peacefully and sustainably is critical to both security and prosperity in the twenty-first century. These chapters and essays unpack the field of ...
Cultural-Historical Perspectives on Collective Intelligence
(2022)
Social creatures, like humans, solve problems together. Collective intelligence is essential in all organizations and societies if we want to resolve humanity's greatest challenges. This book explores how to deploy new ...
Policy Feedback
(2022)
This element explores early and more recent contributions of the policy feedback literature to clarify the meaning of this concept and its contribution to both political science and policy studies. This element also discusses ...
The Idea of Progress in Forensic Authorship Analysis
(2022)
This Element examines progress in research and practice in forensic authorship analysis. It describes the existing research base and examines what makes an authorship analysis more or less reliable. This title is also ...
The Future of Medical Device Regulation
(2022)
As the nature of medical devices is rapidly changing, the legal and ethical questions around medical devices are becoming ever more complex. This volume analyses the current issues and controversies around patient privacy, ...
Philosophy of Developmental Biology
(2022)
Taking a causal perspective, this Element examines to what extent and how developmental biology, having turned molecular about four decades ago, has been able to meet the vitalist challenge. This title is also available ...
Bronze Age Maritime and Warrior Dynamics in Island East Asia
(2022)
Recent interdisciplinary studies have provided a new perspective on the European Bronze Age. Hudson examines if these approaches can be applied to East Asia, analysing trade, maritime interactions and warrior culture in ...
Instability in Geophysical Flows
(2019)
An Open Access overview of physical processes that generate instability in geophysical systems. It covers classical analytical approaches together with numerical methods for quick prediction of stability in a system. ...
The Anglo-Norman Historical Canon
(2019)
Contributes to the ongoing debate on what it meant to publish a book in manuscript. Offers case-studies of twelfth-century Anglo-Norman historians. Argues that their contemporary success was a result of successfully conducted ...
Deep Carbon
(2019)
Summarizing ten years of research by the Deep Carbon Observatory, this is a comprehensive guide to carbon inside Earth - its quantities, movements, forms, origins, changes over time, and impact on planetary processes - for ...
Social Sustainability, Past and Future
(2019)
For a professional, educated non-academic audience, this book asks how our societies were caught in a socio-economic dynamic causing the sustainability conundrum. It develops an original view of social evolution as the ...
Book Clubs and Book Commerce
(2019)
In the twentieth century, cumulative millions of readers received books by mail from clubs like Book-of-the-Month Club. This Element offers an introduction to book clubs as a distribution channel and cultural phenomenon, ...
The Whipple Museum of the History of Science
(2019)
This collection of essays by noted historians provides examples of the study of the material culture of science. The essays demonstrate how the study of scientific objects offers a window into cultures of scientific practice ...
A Fossil History of Southern African Land Mammals
(2019)
A comprehensive reference on the taxonomy and distribution in time and space of all currently recognized southern African fossil mammals, covering the Eocene to the Holocene, with individual maps marking locations. This ...
Making Global Policy
(2019)
This Element goes beyond traditional texts which focus on public policy as an activity of states to outline how global policy making has driven many global and regional transformations over the past quarter-century. This ...
German Operetta on Broadway and in the West End, 1900–1940
(2019)
A study of a neglected but crucial part of the history of the West End and Broadway. The stage works presented here connect to major topics of the twentieth century including modernity, cosmopolitanism and media technology. ...
Knowing Women
(2021)
This intimate study focuses on the everyday lives of working-class women who love women in Ghana. Set in the context of the political, economic and social developments affecting people's lives across Africa, it goes beyond ...
Governing Privacy in Knowledge Commons
(2021)
Scholars from various disciplines explore privacy governance using the Governing Knowledge Commons framework. Case studies drawn from contexts such as academia, social media, mental health, and IoT provide insights into ...
Reading Peer Review
(2021)
This Element presents the background contexts and histories of peer review, the data-handling sensitivities of this type of research, the typical properties of reports in the journal to which the authors had access, a ...
Killing, Capture, Trade and Ape Conservation
(2021)
This fourth volume analyses significant threats to the long-term survival of wild ape populations. The chapters bring together original research and analysis with topical case studies and emerging best practices to further ...
Do-Gooders at the End of Aid
(2021)
Scandinavian countries are considered exceptional for their commitment to development cooperation, peace mediation, and humanitarian action. This book argues that policymakers can and do capitalize on this reputation to ...
Politics, Policy, and Public Options
(2021)
Policymakers and scholars in political science, law, economics, sociology, public policy, and history will find this book's interdisciplinary analysis and in-depth case studies helpful for understanding public options ...
The Economisation of Climate Change
(2021)
International economic institutions economise climate change, treating it as an economic rather than environmental issue. This book explores how three such institutions - G20, IMF, OECD - have addressed climate finance and ...
The Right to Science
(2021)
Leading academics, civil servants, lawyers, policymakers, and civil society representatives reflect on the powerful-but-neglected human right to science. This will appeal to anyone interested in how this right is pertinent ...
Forest Governance: <i>Hydra</i> or <i>Chloris</i>?
(2021)
Many forest-related problems are considered relevant today. This Element takes stock of these issues and initiatives by analysing different forest governance modes, shifts and norms, and case studies. This title is also ...
Carceral Logics
(2022)
In this volume, Lori Gruen and Justin Marceau invite experts to examine connections between mass incarceration of humans and captive control of animals. Chapters explore how carceral responses to animal crime and carceral ...
Translation as Experimentalism
(2022)
This Element argues for a perspective on literary translation based around ludification, using concrete poetry as a test case. It questions assumptions about translatability and opens up the discursive space of literary ...
Global Challenges for Innovation in Mining Industries
(2022)
Offering the first in-depth global analysis of the innovation ecosystem in the mining industry, this book is aimed at policy-makers and academia alike. A wide range of international contributors assess this from different ...
Injunctions in Patent Law
(2022)
Patents incentivize the creation and dissemination of new technical solutions and help to disclose their working to the public in exchange for limited exclusivity. Injunctions are vital tools for patent enforcement. This ...
Law Student Professional Development and Formation
(2022)
Although law schools do an excellent job of helping students to 'think like a lawyer', data show that clients, employers, and the legal system require a greater range of competencies. This book offers actionable steps to ...
Academic Brands
(2022)
Universities are increasingly presenting tas brands in their global marketing efforts. This volume shows what the emergence of academic brands can teach us about the rise of the 'university of excellence,' its global spread, ...