Publications
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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, ...
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 ...