Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
  1. Home
  2. Publications
  3. Books
  4. Content listing

Refine listing

Refine listing

Access:
Content type:
Publication date:
Apply   From and To filters
Subject: Show more
Journals Show more
Publishers: Show more
Societies Show more
Series: Show more
Collections: Show more

Actions for selected content:

Select all | Deselect all
  • View selected items
  • Export citations
  • Download PDF (zip)
  • Save to Kindle
  • Save to Dropbox
  • Save to Google Drive

Save Search

You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches".

Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters.
Cancel
×

1374676 results in Books

Page 9 of 68734

The Origins of Prose in Ancient Greece
  • Teddy Fassberg
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    January 2027
    Print publication:
    31 January 2027
  • Ancient Greek prose literature is commonly believed to have originated late in the Archaic period in the imposing shadow of Greek poetry, primitive and derivative in form and accordingly bereft of authority. Why, then, would Greeks in the sixth century BCE compose prose? If it were entirely lacking in style and status, how could it be used by Pherecydes and Anaximander to stake claims to wisdom and to knowledge of the history and structure of the cosmos? With a novel approach to prose a new view of Archaic literary culture emerges, one in which prose is more abundant, artful and authoritative than previously recognized. In addition to providing a secure foundation for the history of Greek prose literature, the book also traces for the first time the emergence of the concept of prose, which is considered quintessentially modern but is shown here to be deeply rooted in antiquity.

Diverse Indigenous Knowledge for Sustainability
  • Perspectives, Challenges, and Opportunities
  • Edited by Amit Kumar Batar, Bhanwar Vishvendra Raj Singh
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    January 2027
    Print publication:
    31 January 2027
  • From Ainu knowledge in Japan and Adivasi foodways in India, to Maasai pastoral systems in East Africa, Iñupiat climate resilience in Arctic Alaska, and Wet'suwet'en forest governance in Canada, Indigenous Knowledge systems are essential to sustainable futures. This volume explores how Indigenous Knowledge operates in diverse contexts, highlighting its adaptability and potential for addressing pressing environmental challenges. Interweaving theory, global case studies, and governance debates across five continents, the book engages critically with rights-of-nature frameworks, ecological sovereignty, carbon markets, and water governance. It also examines the challenges Indigenous communities face in preserving their knowledge systems and ways of life amidst land encroachment, climate change, industrialization, and other pressures. Bridging multidisciplinary scholarship and lived experience, this book positions Indigenous Knowledge as central – not peripheral – to sustainability science and policy transformation. It will be particularly valuable for students, researchers, and policymakers in environmental science, Indigenous studies, sustainable development, and political ecology.

Governing Educational Technology in Schools and Universities
  • Edited by Kyle M. L. Jones, Rebecca B. Reynolds, Yan Shvartzshnaider
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    January 2027
    Print publication:
    31 January 2027
  • As artificial intelligence and data-based digital surveillance rapidly expand in schools and universities via educational technology, educational communities are urgently seeking ways to protect student privacy and reclaim control over their data. Governing Educational Technology in Schools and Universities provides a vital roadmap for understanding and combating these systemic challenges. The book features nine unique case studies that innovatively apply the Governing Knowledge Commons (GKC) and Critical Informatics (CI) frameworks to expose the deep power imbalances inherent in modern EdTech. The book explores a diverse range of critical topics, including AI-powered plagiarism detection, the chilling effects of 'smart university' surveillance, and the media's framing of the 'algorithmic turn'. Moving beyond mere critique, this essential guide equips readers with actionable collective strategies-from academic labor union organizing to decentralized data models-to democratize technology governance and champion digital self-determination. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

A Feisty Woman
  • The Memoir of Concha Lombardo de Miramón, 1835–1869
  • Edited and translated by Silvia Marina Arrom
  • Concepción Lombardo de Miramón
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    January 2027
    Print publication:
    31 January 2027
  • This extraordinary memoir by Concha Lombardo de Miramón is the only known autobiography written by a nineteenth-century Mexican woman. In it she recounts her life from her birth in Mexico City to the beginning of her long European exile following her husband's execution for supporting Maximilian, the ill-fated Austrian prince who established an empire in Mexico. Now available for the first time in English, translated and edited by Silvia Marina Arrom, it offers rich insight into Mexico's past from a female perspective. Concha provides not only eyewitness accounts of Mexico's bitter civil wars and leading political figures, but also lively anecdotes of daily life that both confirm and question stereotypes about women and gender. Readers will enjoy, and relate to, her accounts of family secrets, childhood mischief, possessive boyfriends, marital spats, practical jokes, daring escapades, and, finally, a love story that ends in tragedy.

Ideas as Causes
  • A Methodological Inquiry
  • John Gerring
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    January 2027
    Print publication:
    31 January 2027
  • Why do we do what we do? One commonsense answer is that actions follow ideas. We have ideas about who we are, what we believe, what we value, and how we ought to behave. These ideas-partly inherited and partly chosen, partly conscious and partly unconscious-structure our behavior. Much of what social scientists produce falls into the 'ideas' category. This includes well-worn subjects such as ideology, values, norms, roles, beliefs, religion, culture, political culture, as well as facets of identity captured by ethnicity, nation, race, gender, and sexuality. Yet within social science research, interests and institutions remain the preferred mode of explanation. In this ambitious and timely study of social behavior, John Gerring brings ideas into the fold of causal explanation. He offers an overview of the field, an in-depth discussion of the methodological obstacles facing ideational causes, and some potential solutions for researchers across social science fields.

In Plain Sight
  • The Black Girl Stress Epidemic
  • Katrina K. Morrison
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    January 2027
    Print publication:
    31 January 2027
  • Black girls face a mental-health crisis. Acting as a call to action, this book examines the long history of overlooking Black girls' pain and analyzes how expectations of resilience place harmful pressure on them, contributing to anxiety, depression, and delayed self-care. Chapters trace the trauma Black girls have shouldered since enslavement and pair this history with first-hand accounts from contemporary Black girls who describe the pressures they face today and the limited emotional support they receive in educational and social settings. By amplifying these voices, the text challenges the 'Strong Black Girl' image and calls for expanded mental-health resources to ensure Black girls' well-being is prioritized. With current policies failing to meet Black girls' needs, In Plain Sight makes their pain visible and offers concrete steps that equip parents, schools, community members, health providers, and policymakers with tools to take meaningful action to support and protect Black girls.

Taking on TIVA
  • Debunking Myths and Dispelling Misunderstandings
  • 2nd edition
  • Edited by Michael G. Irwin, Claire C. Nestor
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    January 2027
    Print publication:
    31 January 2027
  • Total Intravenous Anaesthesia (TIVA) does not have to be complicated. This fully updated second edition translates TIVA into an engaging, and practical guide for anaesthesia practitioners at all levels. Written in clear, straightforward language and enriched with insights from international experts, the book covers everything from core principles to advanced techniques, including pharmacokinetic models, dosage calculations, and emergency applications. Featuring practical advice for treating a wide range of patients - from routine elective cases to paediatric, geriatric, obese, and pregnant individuals - making it an essential resource for safe, confident anaesthetic care. Including real-world examples, diagrams, and step-by-step evidence-based guidance on TIVA techniques, drug pharmacology, and protocols, the authors bring fresh perspectives and updated knowledge to reflect the latest research and innovations. Whether you're starting out or refining your skills, this handbook delivers the clarity, confidence, and practical guidance needed to master TIVA in everyday clinical settings – an essential companion.

Substitutions and Symbolic Dynamics
  • Marie-Pierre Béal, Fabien Durand, Dominique Perrin
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    December 2026
    Print publication:
    31 December 2026
  • Substitutions play a role in many problems, such as combinatorics on words, linear recurrent sequences, numeration systems, and complexity theory. This text offers a unified treatment of these problems and easy access to the results and methods of proof. It presents a comprehensive survey of sequences and shift spaces defined by substitutions. The book covers important results, such as the finiteness theorem for minimal morphic shifts, which characterizes a minimal morphic shift by the finiteness of its set of derivatives. Other highlights include the proof of the recognizability property under very general assumptions and the classification of complexity types for substitution shifts. The work culminates with the proof of the decidability of conjugacy for minimal morphic shifts. This is an essential resource for graduate students and academic researchers in dynamical systems.

The Origins of Children's Literature, 1658–1834
  • Katherine Wakely-Mulroney
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    December 2026
    Print publication:
    31 December 2026
  • Drawing on a diverse range of materials from the long Eighteenth Century, this study provides a new account of the origins of children's literature. During this vibrant period, works as varied as encyclopaedias, nursery rhymes, catechisms, and moral tales emerged from the desire to convey profound concepts to audiences in the earliest stages of understanding, supplying multum in parvo, 'much in little'. Changing conceptions of children's bodies, lifespans, social scale, and mental capacity resulted in works that strove to be little in remarkably different ways. Whether facilitating readers' paths towards adulthood or an early grave, supplying them with couplets, abridgements, or tales in words of one syllable, children's literature has from its beginnings treated simplicity as the entryway to life's biggest questions. The belief that young people deserve access to complex ideas remains at the heart of children's publishing today, reflecting the significance of early children's literature to modern childhood.

Learning from Data with the Maximum Correntropy Criterion
  • Badong Chen, Lei Xing, Nanning Zheng, José C. Principe
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    December 2026
    Print publication:
    31 December 2026
  • Traditional signal processing and machine learning methods rely on mean square error, which becomes brittle when data contains heavy-tailed noise, impulsive disturbances, and outliers—conditions frequently encountered in real-world applications. This comprehensive guidebook introduces correntropy-based methods that demonstrate superior robustness across diverse engineering domains, progressing from foundational concepts to applications. Authored by pioneers in information theoretic learning, the book systematically covers correntropy fundamentals, adaptive filtering techniques, neural network training, feature learning, and applications including point set registration, matrix completion, and federated learning. Each chapter balances rigorous theory with practical algorithms and performance comparisons against conventional methods. With implementation guidelines and a unified framework connecting different robust learning criteria, this book addresses the critical gap between Gaussian-assumption theory and non-Gaussian reality, providing researchers and graduate students with applicable solutions for challenging real-world problems.

Beyond Reality
  • The Extraordinary World of Psychotic Phenomena
  • Femi Oyebode
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    December 2026
    Print publication:
    31 December 2026

The Reflective Choice Theory of Consumer Law
  • Syzmon Osmola
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    December 2026
    Print publication:
    31 December 2026
  • Modern consumption is based on choice. But what if consumer choices are poorly informed, overly constrained, or subject to manipulation and other forms of undue influence? This book offers an original, autonomy-based account of consumer law, arguing that its core function is to facilitate reflective choices: choices consumers can reasonably endorse. Moving beyond predominant narratives, the book offers a comprehensive theory that reconceptualises fundamental tools of consumer law, including disclosure duties, advertising law, unfair terms control, remedies, and withdrawal rights. Combining abstract theory with comprehensive doctrinal analysis of EU consumer law, the book demonstrates how the quality of consumer choices can be improved at different stages of their market interactions with traders. The book confronts contemporary challenges related to digital consumer markets and demonstrates the limits of consumer law in addressing social inequality and environmental sustainability. It will interest everyone seeking understanding of how consumer law shapes modern market life.

Language Academies in the Digital Age
  • Florian Coulmas
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    December 2026
    Print publication:
    31 December 2026
  • As guardians of proper language, Language Academies have historically been widely recognised, quaint and emblematic institutions, but in recent years, have become subject to advances in influential language technologies. This turn towards digitalisation has many consequences for language, all of which we still do not fully understand. For schools, universities and speech communities, the future of language and languages is an area of particular concern. Language Academies are active institutions at the interface of culture, economy, politics, and law, and are rapidly developing within the intersections of history, science and technology. For linguists, the all-important question is of how the digital turn will affect the foundation of these establishments. Exploring the ideologies pursued by these organisations, this book establishes the relationship between state and language worldwide, focusing on similarities and differences within the consequences of digitalisation, and introduces readers to a prominent institution that originated in the European Renaissance.

Gender Functions
  • Why LGBTQ+ Gender Matters and How it Works
  • Heidi Levitt
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    December 2026
    Print publication:
    31 December 2026
  • Centering voices from 25+ years of interview-based research, Gender Functions reveals enduring patterns that convey what gender entails and why LGBTQ+ genders matter. Throughout, people earnestly share how their gender identities are shaped and enacted, from across drag, butch, femme, bear, leather, transgender, nonbinary, and house/family communities. It illuminates how genders create new possibilities to be authentic in relationships, rather than viewing gender development as a project of adopting social norms. Chapters make evident the connections between gender norms, internal felt sense, gender identity, gender expression, and gendered sexuality-articulating the cyclical process through which genders continually evolve. The constructive functions of gender are showcased, making clear why gender serves people's needs and is vital across societies. Gender Functions takes readers on an interdisciplinary voyage through the evolution of LGBTQ+ genders, across diverse communities. This book considers pressing questions and politics. It pioneers a new pathway for developing transformative gender theory.

Politics, Grievances, and Protest
  • Student Movements in Latin America's Southern Cone
  • Indira Palacios-Valladares
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    December 2026
    Print publication:
    31 December 2026
  • Politics, Grievances, and Protest draws on one hundred interviews and forty years of media coverage to provide a cross-national analysis of student mobilization in Latin America's Southern Cone. The book explains why student protests increased in Chile starting in the 2000s, while decreasing in neighboring Argentina and Uruguay. Its findings show that when democracies persistently ignore social demands, they may indirectly foster protest growth. In such contexts, the absence of meaningful change fuels anti-establishment grievances, encourages social movement innovation, and facilitates processes of radicalization that can spread widely. In contrast, state responsiveness often produces the opposite effect. These findings challenge long-standing theories that link relatively closed political systems and movement radicalization to decreased mobilization and suggest that grievances play a central role in shaping variation in protest activity. This is a Flip it Open title and may be available open access on Cambridge Core.

Strategic Open Justice
  • How Courts Communicate
  • Jane Johnston
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    December 2026
    Print publication:
    31 December 2026
  • Strategic Open Justice examines how fusing two fundamental components of modern democratic societies – strategic communication and open justice – has begun a revolutionary change in the way courts manage their public media and communication practice. It explores historic developments that have led to contemporary media and communication operations in the courts and how these both build and challenge public opinion and community confidence in the administration of justice and the judicial arm of government. The cross-disciplinary approach combines theory and practice from law, media and journalism, strategic communication, and narratology in a single, internationally researched volume. Examining concepts such as publicity, transparency, media platforms, big data, AI, and open justice itself, it presents a thought-provoking analysis of how contemporary open justice developed and changed, the actors involved, how communication and media drive engagement, and the challenges and benefits in modernising court communication practices, cultures, and traditions.

Rediscovering the 'Judge' of Israel in Judah's Bible
  • Origin, Transmission, and Reception
  • Julian C. Chike
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    December 2026
    Print publication:
    31 December 2026
  • Why are the leaders of early Israel called 'Judges'? What does this institution refer to and where did it come from? How was it appropriated, transformed, and reconceptualized in the Hebrew Bible? To answer these questions, Julian Chike offers an analysis of new data, a re-evaluation of previous data in light of new data, and, more importantly, a new framework for using second millennium BCE sources from the ancient Near East to rediscover the 'Judge' of Israel in Judah's Bible. Rather than reflecting scribal invention or later borrowing, Chike proposes that the 'Judge' of Israel stands in cultural continuity with an ancient form of leadership called šāpitòum which stems from the Amorite world most clearly depicted in the Mari documents. The findings of this study invite a re-evaluation of compositional and historical claims surrounding Israel's origin stories and stimulate further conversation about Amorite relations to the inhabitants of early Israel.

The Alexander Romance in the Orthodox Slavic World
  • The Transmission of a Classic Text
  • Susana Torres Prieto
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    December 2026
    Print publication:
    31 December 2026
  • Alexander the Great is the only Classic hero whose exploits were widely known in the Slavic Middle Ages, mainly through the Greek Alexander Romance. At least two great groups of translations can be differentiated, one made in East Slavic and another one in South Slavic lands. The reasons behind these translations vary depending on the area, the time and the purpose. This book explores these translations by analysing almost fifty pre-seventeenth century manuscripts in Greek and Slavonic, as well as the relation of the Romance to all the other Classical and Biblical texts known in Slavonic in which Alexander was the main character. A detailed study of the manuscript evidence challenges current theories on the Slavic Alexanders, redating the translation of the earliest East version. It also presents new findings on scribal practices in the translation of non-canonical texts and a new understanding of paratactic scribal innovation.

The End of Cold War Solidarity
  • Mozambique and the Soviet Union in the Age of Decolonization
  • Elizabeth Banks
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    December 2026
    Print publication:
    31 December 2026
  • This innovative multi-archival study explores the myriad and unexpected connections between the USSR and Mozambique during the last decades of state socialism, decolonization and Cold War. Drawing on documents and oral histories in three languages, Elizabeth Banks explores how leaders, bureaucrats, and ordinary citizens used diplomacy, culture, fishing, debt, trade, and delegation exchange to build Mozambican-Soviet connections throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Socialist connections like these played a key role in the process of post-colonial state-building, and fundamentally shaped the lives of individuals in the second half of the twentieth century. As Banks shows, symbolic promises of solidarity wrestled with shared material constraints to render visible international connections more valuable. These same dynamics helped cement credit relations as the core of Soviet development provision during late socialism, ultimately undermining the struggle for alternative forms of economic sovereignty during decolonization.

Experiences of Monetary Policy
  • The First Quarter of the 21st Century
  • Edited by David Cobham
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    December 2026
    Print publication:
    31 December 2026
  • The first quarter of the 21st Century was a difficult period. it covers the last few years of the Great Moderation but then the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-2008, followed by the shocks to the world economy caused by the Covid pandemic and the war in Ukraine. Written by a team of leading economists, Experiences of Monetary Policy provides a wide-ranging perspective on the evolution of monetary policy over this period in response to these developments, in general and with particular reference to some of the world's most important economies – both advanced economies and the emerging economies of China, India, Mexico, South Africa and Türkiye. It analyses what policies worked and what did not, and why. The Afterword includes a discussion on how monetary policy might develop in the future, in the light of the actions of the Trump administration in the US in its first year.

Page 9 of 68734