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Page 24 of 68752

Beyond the Bedside
  • A Narrative Model of Knowledge Translation in Reproductive Health
  • Eivind Engebretsen, Mona Baker
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    October 2026
    Print publication:
    31 October 2026
  • This book makes a bold but crucial claim: storytelling is not an embellishment to medical knowledge-it is the engine that drives it. Evidence becomes meaningful only when it is framed and interpreted within existing stories. Focusing on reproductive health, Beyond the Bedside explores diverse understandings of medical evidence in relation to some of today's most contested topics, including embryo selection in IVF, puberty blockers for transgender youth and abortion care. Across these cases, the authors reveal how identical evidence can lead to starkly different syntheses, guidelines, and public positions, depending on the narratives into which it is woven. Introducing the concept of deep knowledge translation, the book offers a new way of analysing how evidence moves across research, clinical practice, policy, law, and public debate. It shows why medical controversies persist and how understanding narrative dynamics can transform the way we produce and use knowledge. Available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Dewey's Experience and Nature
  • A Critical Guide
  • Edited by David L. Hildebrand, Nicola Ramazzotto
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    October 2026
    Print publication:
    31 October 2026
  • Marking the centennial of John Dewey's Experience and Nature (1925), this volume offers the first book-length critical guide to what is widely considered Dewey's philosophical masterpiece. Written by an international team of leading scholars, the book explores Experience and Nature's enduring relevance across a range of fields, including philosophy, science, education, aesthetics, political theory, and cultural studies. Each chapter addresses key themes and concepts from Dewey's work-such as naturalism, embodiment, value, language, and the continuity of experience and nature-while situating them in relation to contemporary debates. This interdisciplinary volume is ideal for students and researchers in pragmatism, American philosophy, intellectual history, and democratic theory. Clear, engaging, and rich, it is an essential resource for understanding one of the most ambitious and original contributions to twentieth-century philosophy.

Mother Tongue and English
  • The Politics of Language in Indian Higher Education
  • Christina P. Davis, Chaise LaDousa
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    October 2026
    Print publication:
    31 October 2026
  • The first of its kind, this book ethnographically examines mother tongue, a pervasive concept in South Asian social life, yet one that is rarely questioned in policy and educational institutions. In recent education policy, the Indian government advocates for mother tongue education but makes little mention of English despite its centrality at all levels of education. Through interviews with students at three Indian higher educational institutions, the authors analyze how the recent policy recommendations resonate with students' understandings and usage of language. Presenting the notion of language ideology in an engaging and accessible manner, this book highlights the changing views and attitudes toward mother tongue in light of the increased desire to learn English. It also stresses the importance of students' voices in the critique of language and education policy. It is essential reading for scholars and students of language policy, multilingual education, linguistic and cultural anthropology, and South Asian studies.
The Edge of Purpose

The Edge of Purpose
  • How Science Funding Lost its Way and How to Fix It
  • Seth B. Darling
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  • Expected online publication date:
    October 2026
    Print publication:
    31 October 2026
  • Science today is trapped between blurred motives and urgent demands. We invest billions expecting both paradigm-shattering insight and deployable technology, yet our funding systems seldom distinguish between those disparate aims. The Edge of Purpose argues that, in today's ecosystem, conflating curiosity-driven inquiry with technology development stifles each. Tracing the long arc from Aristotle to AI, the Element shows how post-war policy hardened an outdated linear model and how even refined schemes (e.g., Pasteur's Quadrant) still neglect knowledge that is valuable without being useful. A complementary 'Knowledge-Level' (KL) scale is proposed, parallel to Technology Readiness Levels, to map the maturation of understanding itself. Re-aligning incentives around distinct KL and TRL tracks, while building bridges for serendipity, can reinvigorate discovery, accelerate innovation, and restore public trust. Clear purpose, not bigger budgets alone, is the key to unlocking science's full creative power. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
The Wise Club

The Wise Club
  • Origins of Common Sense in the Aberdeen Philosophical Society, 1758–1773
  • Charles Bradford Bow
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    October 2026
    Print publication:
    31 October 2026
  • The Wise Club reconstructs the collaborative intellectual culture in which the Scottish philosophy of common sense first emerged in the Aberdeen Philosophical Society between 1758 and 1773. Rather than attributing this school of thought to a single founder, the study traces how David Skene, John Gregory, Thomas Reid, George Campbell, Alexander Gerard, and James Beattie developed distinct yet compatible inquiries across different branches of knowledge through a disciplined culture of inquiry. Their collective commitment to an inductive investigation of the original faculties of the human mind extended common sense beyond epistemology to natural history, medicine, rhetoric, aesthetics, moral philosophy, and imaginative literature. Drawing on unpublished discourses, abstracted discussions, lecture notes, and correspondence, this Element situates the Wise Club in a formative context that produced canonical works of the Scottish Enlightenment and reinterprets common sense philosophy as a characteristic method of inquiry rather than a unified doctrinal system.

Unraveling the World-Knot
  • Mind-Body Problems in Clinical Context
  • Laurence J. Kirmayer
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    October 2026
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    31 October 2026
  • The relation of mind and body is a longstanding puzzle in philosophy. This book explores how mind-body problems show up in contemporary biomedicine and psychiatry through dualistic models and metaphors that shape clinical practice. It discusses how the resultant tensions and contradictions that plague healthcare can be resolved. This begins with disentangling the knots that constitute the mind-body problem and applying ideas from systems biology, cognitive science, and anthropology to understand mind, consciousness, and agency as processes that emerge from embodied engagements with a social world. The text takes the reader on a journey across diverse clinical situations to consider: the power of multilevel systems theory; problems of knowledge, truth, and explanation in psychiatry; the mechanisms of placebo effects and hypnotic suggestion; the role of stories in constructing the self; the power and limits of imagination; and the prospects for an integrative view of the person in health and illness.
Children in Ancient Israel and Judah

Children in Ancient Israel and Judah
  • Kristine Henriksen Garroway
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    October 2026
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    31 October 2026
  • Most studies of ancient Israelite families have taken children for granted. Scholarship assumed children were present but, thinking that children were invisible in the archaeological record, it did not pay much attention to them. In recent years, a new emerging field of inquiry promises to enrich and expand our understanding of children and the family in ancient Israel. Utilizing text and archaeology, this Element explores how children had an impact on the family and its household. It first considers why children were desired and explores the ways in which children entered the ancient Israelite household. The subsequent sections examine different aspects of a child's life within the family, including issues of gender and culture, household religion, death, and items used by children in their daily lives. What becomes apparent is that children were not overlooked by their families but were treated as a valuable component of the ancient Israelite household.

Bridging Political Divides
  • A Collaborative–Developmental Approach
  • Michael F. Mascolo
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    October 2026
    Print publication:
    31 October 2026
  • We are living in an increasingly polarized political world. Partisans routinely view members of opposing political parties as out-of-touch, stupid, crazy, or even evil. This book calls for the creation of a more collaborative democracy to bridge these divides. It does so by noting that modern democracy is based primarily on adversarial practices – we seek to solve political problems through debating, campaigning, and voting. Drawing on an 18-month study, Michael F. Mascolo shows how individuals with opposing beliefs were able to use the principles and practices of conflict resolution to address three contentious socio-political issues: school dress codes, capital punishment, and race relations involving the police. Their success illustrates how collaborative problem-solving can generate genuine, shared solutions to seemingly intractable problems, offering insights for scholars and practitioners seeking to reduce polarization and strengthen democratic life. An essential read for researchers, politicians, and policy makers interested in resolving political polarization.

Random Vibrations
  • A Primer
  • Debasish Roy, G. Visweswara Rao
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    September 2026
    Print publication:
    30 September 2026
  • This textbook charts out an easy-to-comprehend account of the methods of random vibrations, aided by modern yet basic concepts in probability theory and random processes. It starts with a quick review of certain elements of structural dynamics, thus setting the stage for their seamless continuation in developing techniques for response analyses of structures under random environmental loads, such as winds and earthquakes. The book also offers a few glimpses of the powerful tools of stochastic processes to kindle the spirit of scientific inquiry. By way of applications, it contains numerous illustrative examples and exercises, many of which relate to practical design problems of interest to the industry. A companion website provides solutions to all the problems in the exercises. For the benefit of the prospective instructors, a semester-long schedule for offering a course on Random Vibrations is also suggested.

Differential Calculus and its Applications
  • Idrees Qasim
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    September 2026
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    30 September 2026
  • This textbook is meant for first-year undergraduates majoring in mathematics or disciplines where formal mathematics is important. It will help students to make a smooth transition from high school to undergraduate differential calculus. Beginning with limits and continuity, the book proceeds to discuss derivatives, tangents and normals, maxima and minima, and mean value theorems. It also discusses indeterminate forms, functions of several variables, and partial differentiation. The book ends with a coverage of curvature, asymptotes, singular points, and curve tracing. Concepts are first presented and explained in an informal, intuitive, and conceptual style. They are then covered in the form of a conventional definition, theorem, or proof. Each concept concludes with at least one solved example. Additional solved examples are also provided under the section "More Solved Examples". Practice numerical exercises are included in the chapters so that students can apply the concepts learnt and sharpen their problem-solving skills.

Learning Law
  • 3rd edition
  • Anthony Marinac, Asmi Wood, Zara Bending, Jennifer Nielsen, Adrian Evans
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    September 2026
    Print publication:
    01 January 2028
  • Learning Law equips students with the foundational knowledge and skills to succeed in their law studies. It breaks down the Australian court system and Parliament, and guides students through nuanced concepts including being an ethical lawyer, equality in the law, and what to expect when becoming a legal practitioner. Dedicated chapters explore the complexities of Australia's legal history and Indigenous peoples and the law, providing students with vital context for understanding the contemporary Australian legal landscape. Learning Law has been significantly revised. It includes new chapters focused on developing legal skills including reading cases, writing persuasive essays and other assessments. Chapters on statute law and statutory interpretation have been expanded, giving students clearer guidance in a challenging area of legal study. Review questions reinforce learning, and extension questions encourage students to build their problem-solving skills. Contributions by in-practice legal professionals exemplify the varied careers a law degree can prepare students for.

The Inner Life of Politics
  • Grassroots Activism in West Germany, 1962–1983
  • Belinda J. Davis
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    September 2026
    Print publication:
    30 September 2026
  • What is the nature and timeline of political change and how should its success be assessed? And why do stories matter in grassroots politics? Reading oral histories against the grain of conventional narratives, this history of grassroots activism in West Germany considers these questions in the context of that country's ''68ers.' Drawing together what are often perceived as discrete elements, such as the student and peace movements, Belinda Davis offers new understandings of political transformation, as activists sought to radically transform themselves as well as societal relations, through a politics that was profoundly personal. While recent studies have challenged the achievements of these activists, this book argues that their efforts made some forms of popular democracy mainstream, in the process redefining politics and rethinking the nature of representation, political organization, and notions of what is radical. This work contributes to a fresh take on West German politics and society in this post-fascist state, offering new understandings of where and how change takes place and how to enact it from the bottom up, with significant implications for our present.

The Origins of English Writing in Ireland
  • Caoimhe Whelan
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  • Expected online publication date:
    September 2026
    Print publication:
    30 November 2026
  • The first comprehensive study of vernacular English literature from medieval Ireland, this volume explores a rich yet until now relatively neglected body of work within Ireland's literary heritage. Revealing the strikingly important place occupied by Middle English in the story of Ireland's literary production, Caoimhe Whelan reveals interactions between Gaelic and English in colonial Ireland and the wider English empire, opening a new perspective on the tradition of writing in English in Ireland. Engaging in close analysis of original manuscript sources, she situates texts in their various historical, literary and cultural contexts and presents literary scholars and historians with a new way of understanding medieval colonial writing in the English lordship of Ireland.
Redeployment in Multilingual Phonology

Redeployment in Multilingual Phonology
  • John Archibald, Darin Flynn
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    September 2026
    Print publication:
    30 September 2026
  • In this book we explore the construct of phonological redeployment which can be described as taking a contrastive element from your L1 grammar and using it in a new way to represent a novel contrast in an additional language. We look at learning a new liquid contrast, a new place contrast, a new vowel contrast, and show how redeployment accounts for the observed patterns. We look at learning new laryngeal features such as voicing, aspiration, and ejection. We also touch upon the field of language contact, showing how features can be redeployed within a language to set up new contrasts resulting from contact. We also review cases where learners take an L1 feature from one domain (a vocalic feature) and redeploy it to acquire a new L2 consonantal place contrast. We conclude by situating the studies within the literature on monolingual normativity to emphasize that different does not mean deficient.

Computer Networks
  • An Algorithmic Approach
  • Sudip Misra, Riya Tapwal
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    September 2026
    Print publication:
    30 September 2026
  • Computer Networks: An Algorithmic Approach is designed for undergraduate and early postgraduate students in computer science and electronics/telecommunications. It goes beyond explaining what protocols do by focusing on how they work through an algorithm-centric approach. Core topics such as routing, switching, congestion control, and network security are presented using clear, step-by-step methods that support problem-solving, design, analysis, and implementation. The book also covers modern developments including software-defined networking (SDN), cloud and edge networking, IoT, and 5G, along with dedicated sections on AI for computer networks and blockchain networking.

Lucretius On Animals
  • Pamela Zinn
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  • Expected online publication date:
    September 2026
    Print publication:
    30 September 2026
  • In Lucretius' De rerum natura, animals are fundamentally like humans and deserve to be treated accordingly. Animals also have much to teach us, including about how to treat each other and, indeed, (other) animals. That is not merely poetic imagery, but also scientific argument. Lucretius' analysis of animal nature is thoroughly integrated with his broader philosophical arguments and integral to many. Animals likewise serve as moral exemplars in his didactic programme and even as symbols of it. Positing a continuum of life, rather than a hierarchy of being, Lucretius thus offers a thorough, systematic challenge to the anthropocentric worldview exemplified by Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics. His position on animal intelligence and its ethical implications is an original contribution to the Epicurean tradition and a landmark in the history of ideas. It prefigures modern debates on subjects ranging from cognition and bioethics to ecology.

How to Describe a Painting
  • Philostratus and Art Criticism in the Graeco-Roman World
  • Jaś Elsner, Michael Squire
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  • Expected online publication date:
    September 2026
    Print publication:
    30 September 2026
  • How should we talk about material objects, especially the virtual two-dimensional impressions of painting? A particularly sophisticated answer is provided by Philostratus' Imagines, one of the world's earliest and greatest works of art criticism. Jaś Elsner and Michael Squire situate this Imperial Greek text in its various 'Second Sophistic' contexts, especially in relation to Graeco-Roman traditions of image-making, aesthetics, rhetoric and the evocation of visual impressions (so-called 'ecphrasis'). They also champion its extraordinarily rich significance for anyone interested in perception, subjective imagination and the emotional leverage of art. If the Imagines remains unsurpassed as one of the western tradition's most creatively original, scintillating and self-reflexive works of art criticism, Elsner and Squire argue, its relevance is also pressingly contemporary: there are modern lessons to be learnt from this ancient project of educating the young – lessons that have a particular urgency in our own dawning digital age.

Unlocking Metaphor
  • The Creative Power of Figurative Language
  • L. David Ritchie
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  • Expected online publication date:
    September 2026
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    30 September 2026
  • 'The traffic was a nightmare today'; 'you're a star'; 'he's an early bird'; 'we need to get our ducks in a row'. Metaphors like these are so enmeshed within our language that we barely realise we are using them. This book, written by world-renowned expert, provides a clear, comprehensive discussion of how we understand and use metaphor, with a focus on ordinary conversation. It begins by defining metaphors, moving on to explore their communicative role in a range of settings across regular and professional life, and finishing with an overview of the main theoretical approaches to metaphor. Drawing on current research findings, each chapter concludes with a brief discussion of how the topics covered are useful in everyday communication. Ideas are explained in non-technical language, using examples from real-life conversation - making it ideal for students of Communication, Linguistics and Psychology, or anyone interested in the fascinating world of metaphor.

Innovation's Heritage
  • Insights on a Cultural Phenomenon from the Ancient Past
  • Saro Wallace
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    September 2026
    Print publication:
    30 September 2026
  • Is innovation all we think it is? In this study, Saro Wallace challenges prevalent assumptions about innovation within post-colonial, post-industrial academic, and popular frameworks. She shows how they are often predicated on recent western culture and its dominant economic frameworks, and how they draw heavily on ecological and evolutionary models in the biological sciences. Using the ancient past to examine and recast innovation in long-term perspective, she reveals innovation's ultimate social determination, historicity, and non-innateness in human groups. Wallace offers core case studies from the ancient Mediterranean and west Asia and covers the origins of metals, ceramics, textiles and cultural landscapes starting 14000 years ago and ending in the first millennium BC. She demonstrates that her compelling, wide-ranging model also applies to historical and recent  cases, suggesting that innovation is neither an engineerable phenomenon in society, nor is it inherent, organic, or inevitable.

Spirit
  • Paul S. Fiddes
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  • Expected online publication date:
    September 2026
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    30 September 2026
  • The Element begins by surveying the image of spirit within Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It explores the duality between the experience of spirit 'from beyond' and spirit 'within', and finds a consistency in the idea of spirit as the presence and activity of God in the world. Attention is given to the image of spirit as an 'overflow' in Islam and late Judaism. Moving into discussion of a dialectic between 'spirit' and 'letter', or spirit and written text, gives a context for investigating the place of spirit in the New Testament, modern romanticism and idealism, and finally in the late-modern protest against structures of spirit. Finally, the development of spirit into the 'Holy Spirit' of the Christian doctrine of the Trinity is considered, arguing that an experience of spirit as an inexhaustible relation and flow of love will oppose forces of domination in human life.

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