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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 ...