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The European Parliament as an Accountability Forum
(2022)
This book targets scholars and students of European integration interested in democratic accountability in the EU and the reforms introduced since the euro crisis. It fits the syllabi of courses on EU institutions and EU ...
Transforming Biodiversity Governance
(2022)
This book outlines a governance approach that prioritizes ecocentric, compassionate and sustainable development, and stresses the importance of addressing the underlying causes of biodiversity loss. It is ideal for academics, ...
Hong Kong
(2022)
CK Lee situates the post-1997 China–Hong Kong contestation in the broader context of 'global China.' While Beijing deploys numerous power mechanisms globally, this Chinese power project has triggered countermovements from ...
Forest Preservation in a Changing Climate
(2017)
This book discusses how a global effort to fight climate change by reducing carbon emissions in the forestry sector in developing countries (known as REDD+) have affected the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities ...
Infrastructure Development and Ape Conservation
(2018)
This third volume analyses the impact of large scale infrastructure development on ape conservation and the opportunities for reconciling social and economic development with the conservation of biodiversity. It includes ...
Governing Climate Change
(2018)
The world's foremost experts provide the first systematic test of the ability of polycentric thinking to explain and enhance societal attempts to govern climate change. It is ideal for researchers, practitioners, and ...
Stand out of our Light
(2018)
Are the systems of intelligent persuasion developed by today's tech giants a threat to human freedom? Drawing on insights from Ancient Greece through to Silicon Valley, Williams argues that liberating human attention may ...
British Women Surgeons and their Patients, 1860–1918
(2017)
Drawing upon a rich archive, Brock explores the cultural, social and self-representation of the woman surgeon in Britain from 1860 to the end of the Great War. This book is essential reading for those interested in medical ...
The Politics of Fossil Fuel Subsidies and their Reform
(2018)
This comprehensive volume focuses on the politics of fossil fuel subsidies and provides insights from numerous case studies, applying a variety of political and economic theoretical approaches. Ideal for researchers, ...
The Sociology of Law and the Global Transformation of Democracy
(2018)
A new legal-sociological account of contemporary democracy, arguing that it is best understood through a transposition of key insights of classical legal sociology onto the form of global society. It will appeal to ...
Geographical Indications at the Crossroads of Trade, Development, and Culture
(2017)
This volume, edited by renowned intellectual property scholars, fills a gap in the literature by focusing on geographical indications (GIs) for the nations in the Asia-Pacific region. Geographical indicators are an issue ...
A Critical Introduction to International Criminal Law
(2018)
Suitable for students, academics and professionals from multiple fields wishing to understand contemporary theories, practices and critiques of international criminal law, this book presents the field in an accessible way ...
Expanded Sampling Across Ontogeny in <I>Deltasuchus motherali</I> (Neosuchia, Crocodyliformes)
(2021)
A revised diagnosis of this species, describing the new material and discussing incidents of apparent ontogenetic variation across the sampled population. The results of the ensuing phylogenetic analyses both situate ...
Publication and the Papacy in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
(2021)
This Element explores the papacy's engagement in authorial publishing in late antiquity and the Middle Ages. The opening discussion demonstrates that throughout the medieval period, papal involvement in the publication of ...
The Cambridge Handbook of Health Research Regulation
(2021)
This multi-disciplinary Handbook examines human health research and its regulation. It uses real world examples - research using patient data, tissue and other human materials - to explore current challenges in delivering ...
Nuclear Weapons Law
(2021)
This book explains in non-technical terms the law applying to the threat or use of nuclear weapons before and during an armed conflict. The rules and implications for nuclear command and control are explained, which will ...
Global Environment Outlook – GEO-6: Technical Summary
(2021)
This Technical Summary synthesizes the science and data in the GEO-6 report, making it accessible to a broad audience of policymakers and scientists. It highlights the need for urgent action and identifies transformational ...
Sustainable Development Report 2021
(2021)
The Sustainable Development Report 2021 features the SDG Index and Dashboards, the first and widely used tool to assess country performance on the UN Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals. It contains insights ...
Hidden Histories of the Dead
(2021)
This discipline-redefining study of secretive British medical research cultures after World War Two retraces the harvesting and recycling of bodies and body-parts for tissue culture and pathology labs, transplantation ...
Buried in the Red Dirt
(2021)
Bringing together a rich and vivid array of analog and non-traditional sources, including colonial archives, newspaper reports, literature, and interviews, this book tells a story of life, death, and reproduction, during ...
Revitalizing Endangered Languages
(2021)
Written by leading international scholars and activists with a wealth of practical experience, this guidebook provides ideas and strategies to support effective language revitalization. It is written in a clear, accessible ...
Women and Letterpress Printing 1920–2020
(2022)
This Element analyses the relationship between gender and literary letterpress printing from the early 20th century to the beginning of the 21st. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Embodied Narratives
(2022)
As increasing quantities of health and biological information are generated, the need for us all to consider the human impacts of its ubiquity becomes more urgent than ever. This book explains the ethical imperative to ...
The Case for Case Studies
(2022)
This volume demonstrates how to conduct case study research that is both methodologically rigorous and useful to development policy. It will interest scholars and students across the social sciences using case studies, and ...
Seneca's Characters
(2022)
This book addresses the much-neglected topic of fictional character and its relationship to actual human identity. Through the lens of Senecan tragedy, it tackles questions of behavioural coherence, imitative exemplarity, ...
Decoupling
(2022)
Anyone interested in courts, judicial decision-making, family law, gender violence, and the limits and possibilities of the globalization of law will want to read this book about women's struggles to divorce in China's ...
Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution
(2022)
The first scholar to focus on collective consciousness and resistance to enslavement before the Haitian Revolution, Eddins makes a major contribution to African Diaspora studies, sociology, history, and Latin American and ...
Rome: An Empire of Many Nations
(2022)
Explores the nature of the vast multinational Roman Empire through the identities of ethnic groups and the experiences of single individuals. The chapters range across the many cultures, languages, religions and literatures ...
Soro Soke
(2022)
People aged over 65 now outnumber children under five, yet one region in the world is bucking this trend: Africa's population under 35 now equals almost a billion people. Trish Lorenz speaks to the bright new entrepreneurs, ...
The Arab Spring Abroad
(2022)
Diasporas can undermine authoritarian regimes from abroad, but when and how do they become transnational forces for change? By comparing diaspora activism for the Arab Spring revolutions, this book identifies the social ...
Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages
(2022)
Uncovering a wealth of neglected archival information, this book examines both visual and textual material from the mid-nineteenth century Franklin Search Expeditions to the Arctic, painstakingly tracing their influence ...
Disorder Contained
(2022)
A major study into mental disorder in English and Irish prisons between 1840 and 1900, Disorder Contained investigates the relationship between prison regimes and mental distress, the complex role of prison medical officers ...
Global China as Method
(2022)
After four decades of integration into the global socioeconomic system, discussions of China continue to be framed by a core assumption: that the country represents a fundamentally different and separate 'other'. This ...
Music and the Queer Body in English Literature at the Fin de Siècle
(2022)
Synthesizing music, literature and theory, Fraser Riddell reveals the importance of music in emergent queer identities at the fin de siècle. Illuminating for both students and researchers of the period, his compelling ...
Conservation Research, Policy and Practice
(2020)
Developed following the success of an international symposium, this book examines how to make conservation more effective through strengthening links between science research, policy and practice. Ideal for practitioners, ...
Sustainable Development Goals: Their Impacts on Forests and People
(2019)
A global scientific assessment of the impacts of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) implementation on forests and related socioeconomic systems. It discusses the potential trade-offs among the SDGs, as well as the potential ...
The Making of an Imperial Polity
(2020)
Bringing to life the interaction between America, its peoples, and statesmen in early seventeenth-century England, this book offers new perspectives on Jacobean tastes and political culture, confronting the histories of ...
After the Digital Tornado
(2020)
Once a seemingly unambiguous benefit to society, the internet is now the basis for invasions of privacy, massive concentrations of power, and manipulation. Featuring leading technology scholars, this collection examines ...
Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century
(2020)
All those who despair at the state of the world and its multiple problems will find in this book ambitious but reasonable proposals that will give our globalized world the institutions of international governance necessary ...
Sacred Heritage
(2019)
Critically evaluates the concept of sacred heritage, drawing on multi-disciplinary, global perspectives to clarify the multiple values of sacred heritage to spiritual and humanist audiences. Forges innovative connections ...
Model Organisms
(2020)
A philosophical exploration of the concept of the 'model organism' in contemporary biology. Thinking about model organisms in order to examine how living organisms have been brought into the laboratory and used to gain a ...
Mental Causation
(2019)
This book presents a comprehensive account of how the mind causes things to happen in the physical world. It will be of interest to a range of readers in philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and philosophy of science. This ...
Philosophy of Immunology
(2020)
In this Element, Thomas Pradeu considers the ways in which current immunology sheds light on some of the most important contemporary philosophical issues, from the persistence of identity through time to the interaction ...
Artificial Intelligence and International Economic Law
(2021)
A comprehensive look at the interplay between artificial intelligence and international economic law (IEL), this volume is a valuable guide for scholars, students, practitioners, and policymakers in the fields of IEL, ...
Resilience, Adaptive Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice
(2021)
This interdisciplinary volume, which includes eight case study chapters, offers a novel conceptual and empirical analysis of resilience, adaptive peacebuilding and transitional justice. It is the first volume of its kind ...
Systems Thinking Analyses for Health Policy and Systems Development
(2021)
Using systems-thinking tools for the first time to understand an entire national health system, this book will be of immense value to academics, students and policymakers. The case study of Malaysia shows that a people-centred ...
Encounters between Foreign Relations Law and International Law
(2021)
This book offers fresh perspectives on the encounters between foreign relations law and public international law. These can occur in a hybrid zone of interaction which requires both bridges and boundaries. A timely book ...
How and Why to Do Things with Eighteenth-Century Manuscripts
(2021)
This Element examines eighteenth-century manuscript forms, their functions in the literary landscape of their time, and the challenges and practices of manuscript study today. This title is also available as Open Access ...
Virtual Play and the Victorian Novel
(2021)
Virtual Play and the Victorian Novel proposes a literary history of virtual reality, stemming from imaginary worlds created by nineteenth-century novelists such as Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, and William Thackeray, ...
Big Data and Global Trade Law
(2021)
This multidisciplinary collection provides expert analyses on the state of global trade law in the era of Big Data and AI. It explores all areas of international economic law and includes multiple country and stakeholder ...
Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law
(2021)
This book's audience will be academics and undergraduate and postgraduate students working in the fields of legal history and comparative history, as well as History and Law more generally. The essays will also be of ...
Global Governance in a World of Change
(2021)
Global governance is changing, yet many disagree about how. This book introduces the idea of modes of governance, examining three different kinds – markets, hierarchies, and networks – and their evolution in contemporary ...
Governing the Climate-Energy Nexus
(2020)
Analysing the interactions between institutions in the climate change and energy nexus, including the consequences for their legitimacy and effectiveness. Prominent researchers from political science and international ...
War, Memory, and National Identity in the Hebrew Bible
(2020)
Drawing on the intriguing interdisciplinary research on war commemoration, the book shows that war pervades the pages of the Bible because its authors were engaged in an effort to forge a corporate identity for Israel, one ...
Old Books and Digital Publishing: Eighteenth-Century Collections Online
(2020)
This is a history of Eighteenth-Century Collections Online, a database of over 180,000 titles. Published by Gale in 2003 it has had an enormous impact of the study of the eighteenth century. An essential aspect of this ...
Humanitarianism in the Modern World
(2020)
Takes a fresh look at the history of famine relief and humanitarianism through a novel moral economy approach, drawing on case studies of the Great Irish Famine in the 1840s, the famine in Soviet Russia in 1921–3, and the ...
Foundations of Probabilistic Programming
(2020)
This book provides an overview of the theoretical underpinnings of modern probabilistic programming and presents applications in e.g., machine learning, security, and approximate computing. Comprehensive survey chapters ...
The Citizen's Guide to Climate Success
(2020)
Concerned citizens can drive the energy transition needed to prevent climate change by their personal choices and their identification and support of climate-sincere politicians. Jaccard explains the simplicity and modest ...
A Political Science Manifesto for the Age of Populism
(2020)
Modern capitalism, via creative destruction, produces economic winners and losers. The US needs political thought focused not only on efficiency, but also community. If creativity continues - as with driverless cars and ...
Remaking Political Institutions: Climate Change and Beyond
(2020)
This Element develops an original analytical foundation for studying institutional remaking and its political dynamics. It explains how institutional remaking can be observed and provides a typology comprising five areas ...
The Power of the Periphery
(2020)
What is the source of Norway's culture of environmental harmony in our troubled world? Exploring the role of Norwegian scholar-activists of the late twentieth century, Anker shows how their portrayal of Norway as a pristine ...
Sustainable Development Report 2020
(2021)
The Sustainable Development Report 2020 features the SDG Index and Dashboards, the first and widely used tool to assess country performance on the UN Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals. It contains insights ...
Ageing and Health
(2021)
Ageing societies can be healthy and productive- if they get the politics right. This book argues that the population ageing crisis can be solved through policies that reduce inequalities between and within generations. It ...
Trust in Government Agencies in the Time of COVID-19
(2021)
This Element explores variations in trust across various levels of government and government agencies based on a nationally-representative survey conducted in March of 2020. This title is also available as Open Access on ...
The Transformation of Historical Research in the Digital Age
(2022)
Almost all aspects of the historian's research workflow have been transformed by digital technology. The Transformation of Historical Research in the Digital Age equips historians to be self-conscious practitioners by ...
Beyond the Silk Roads
(2021)
Exploring Eurasian connections from the perspective of mobile Afghan traders, Marsden documents how trading communities thrive in geopolitically fraught contexts, analyses the structure of the networks they form, and ...
Can BRICS De-dollarize the Global Financial System?
(2022)
This study develops a 'Pathways to De-dollarization' framework and applies it to analyze the institutional and market mechanisms that BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) countries have created at the BRICS, ...
Living for the City
(2021)
A holistic understanding of the diverse history of the cross-border Central African Copperbelt, considered here as a single region, this study integrates neglected aspects of Copperbelt history including women, non-mining ...
Mind, State and Society
(2021)
Mind, State and Society examines reforms in psychiatry and mental health care in Britain during 1960–2010 and their relation to society. A truly multidisciplinary account, it will appeal to psychiatrists, mental health ...
The Theory, Practice, and Interpretation of Customary International Law
(2022)
This volume discusses the theory, practice, and interpretation of customary international law, as well as new developments and future research trajectories. Combining discussions of familiar concepts with new ideas, it is ...
Tense-Switching in Classical Greek
(2022)
Provides classicists and linguists in general with a complete account of the 'historical present' in Classical Greek. With its combination of philological and statistical methods and its cross-linguistic scope, it is ...
Transnational Crusoe, Illustration and Reading History, 1719–1722
(2025)
Bringing illustration studies, the history of reading and transnational book history together, the Element offers an original micro-history of illustrated editions and iconic interpretations of Daniel Defoe's Robinson ...
Aegeomania
(2024)
This Element provides an overview of Aegeomania: the fascination, sometimes bordering on the obsession, with the Aegean Bronze Age, which manifests itself in the uses of Aegean Bronze Age material culture to create something ...
Radically Legal
(2024)
Right in the middle of the German constitution, a group of ordinary citizens discover a forgotten clause that allows them to reclaim their homes from multi-billion corporations. Kusiak argues that to save our cities from ...
Empowering Affected Interests
(2024)
Empowering Affected Interests brings together a group of leading contemporary democratic theorists and philosophers to debate a taken-for-granted principle at the heart of the democratic project but increasingly under ...
Insurgent Cultures
(2024)
Moving beyond the normative frames of terrorism and counter-terrorism, this book shows how world literatures from the Global South can be used to examine the multiple modalities of violence that pervade contemporary world ...
Civil War Settlers
(2022)
Civil War Settlers is the first thorough analysis of Scandinavian Americans, examining citizenship, settler colonialism and whiteness in the Civil War era. Based on thousands of previously unearthed sources in multiple ...
Biodiversity and Nature Conservation Law and Policy in the Middle East and North Africa Region
(2025)
This book will be useful to practitioners, policymakers, graduate students and researchers of environmental law, environmental studies, human rights, sustainable development, social justice and area studies on the Middle ...
Reimagining Prosperity
(2024)
Articulates why the EU is well-placed to articulate and institute a new vision of prosperity that is both credible and appealing, whilst further fostering caring consumption, circular economy, sustainable industry and ...
The Problem of Animal Pain
(2024)
In this Element, atheists cite animal pain as compelling evidence against the existence of the loving God portrayed in the Judeo-Christian Bible. This Element engages the scientific literature in order to evaluate the ...
Embodied Experience in British and French Literature, 1778–1814
(2024)
Combining feminist, materialist, and comparatist approaches, Jillian Heydt-Stevenson reveals evocative and hidden information about objects like diamonds, hats, and statues, demonstrating women's life-preserving ecological, ...
The Water Diaries
(2025)
Provides insights into the regional and local factors influencing water insecurity and its effects on people's daily lives. With practical policy advice, this is a key resource for policy makers and practitioners, as well ...
The Nag Hammadi Codices and their Ancient Readers
(2024)
Since their discovery in 1945, the Nag Hammadi Codices have generated scholarly debate as to their date and function. This study analyses the palaeography and codicology of the manuscripts, focusing on paratextual elements ...
Intellectual Property, COVID-19 and the Next Pandemic
(2024)
This volume critically assesses the role of intellectual property in pandemic times through lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. It broadens our understanding of the implications of intellectual property protection ...
Public Engagement with Science
(2025)
This Element crosses disciplinary boundaries to outline theoretical and practical resources for effectively engaging with the public about science. Useful to academics who would like to conduct or study public engagement ...
Survival of the Greenest
(2024)
Environmental sustainability is no longer a choice but a necessity to maintain a competitive edge in the global economy. This Element shows how nations adjust to -and take advantage of- the new dynamics of structural ...
Rethinking Global History
(2024)
This collection of essays by leading global historians sheds light on the field's conceptual foundations and analytical instruments. Readers are guided to question implicit assumptions, critically assess the extant literature ...
Security in Sustainable Energy Transitions
(2024)
Provides an interdisciplinary analysis of how zero-carbon energy transitions connect to security and defence policy in four European countries between 2006 and 2023. This book is intended for researchers and experts ...
Disinformation, Misinformation, and Democracy
(2025)
Dis- and misinformation propagated across traditional and social media clearly undermines democracy – yet so does repressing political speech in the name of truth. This book brings together legal experts from democracies ...
Mechanisms of Social Dependency in the Early Islamic Empire
(2024)
Explains the success of the early Islamic empire as not purely the result of military might but rather as the product of the cohesion achieved through social relationships and local power dynamics, especially between ...
Foundations of General Relativity
(2024)
In this Element, the author offers a comprehensive interpretation of general relativity, describing its potential reality, internal structure, and differences from previous theories. The aim is to shape research agendas ...
International Economic Law in the Era of Datafication
(2024)
This book addresses the challenges of datafication through the lens of international economic law. The target audience includes academics, scholars, graduate students, practitioners and policy-makers in the fields of ...
The IPCC and the Politics of Writing Climate Change
(2024)
Using a new analytical framework, this book examines the history and politics of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and how this shapes its assessment practice and the climate knowledge it produces. It ...
Opinion Pooling
(2025)
This Element survey explores linear, multiplicative, and imprecise probability pooling options. It assesses these based on axiomatic approaches and epistemic and practical goals. It connects opinion pooling to philosophical ...
Herodotus and the Presocratics
(2024)
Explores Herodotus' Histories in dialogue with contemporary philosophical debates. Combining close readings, reader reception, and genre studies, it expands our understanding of Herodotus' context and restores the Histories' ...
Wittgenstein and Aesthetics
(2023)
This Element argues that aesthetics broadly conceived plays a significant role in Wittgenstein's philosophy. It traces a continuous line of thought pertaining to a non-conceptual form of encounter with reality and contributes ...
E-books and ‘Real Books’
(2024)
Laura Dietz explores a paradox of the e-book revolution: mass adoption without full acceptance as 'real books'. Drawing on new data, she investigates how conceptions of e-books as ersatz, digital proxy, and incomplete books ...
Pragmatism and Methodology
(2024)
Designed for social scientists working with big data sets, this book maps out the cycle of research, from epistemology and ethical questions to data collection and analysis. It introduces a unique mixed methods approach ...
Linguistic Knowledge and Language Use
(2023)
Combining insights from two of the most influential approaches in linguistics, Construction Grammar and Relevance Theory, this book furthers our understanding of how meaning comes about. This title is part of the Flip it ...
Nordic Bronze Age Economies
(2024)
Provides a multi-scalar synthesis of Nordic Bronze Age economies (1800/1700–500 BCE), organized around six sections: an introduction to the Nordic Bronze Age, macro-economic perspectives, defining local communities, economic ...