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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 ...