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, ...