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The Cambridge History of Technology

The Cambridge History of Technology

Defining the Gods in Archaic Greece
  • Votive Offerings and the Material of Polytheism
  • Tulsi Parikh
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    February 2027
    Print publication:
    28 February 2027
  • How did the ancient Greeks understand their many gods, and how were those understandings shaped through material acts of worship? Tulsi Parikh explores Archaic Greek religion through the practice of votive offering, treating objects not as passive reflections of belief but as active instruments of religious thought. Through votive gifts, ranging from everyday objects to carefully crafted dedications, worshippers negotiated the uncertain boundary between human and divine, defining divine power, presence, and otherness through material choice. Drawing on archaeological evidence from over twenty sanctuaries across Greece, the book reveals how local, regional, and interregional patterns of dedication expressed diverse yet interconnected theologies. Moving beyond long-standing models of chaos versus order in Greek polytheism, it foregrounds lived religious experience and shows how belief, cognition, and divine relationships were materially produced. The result is a fresh, material-based religious history of Archaic Greece-one written through things. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Strategic Autonomy and the Geopolitics of EU Law
  • Edited by Mark Dawson, Armin Steinbach
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    January 2027
    Print publication:
    31 January 2027
  • Our current world order is in a period of rupture, marked by increasing geo-political competition. This rupture has entirely upended Europe's place in the world, leading it to seek greater strategic autonomy on the world stage. This book is devoted to exploring the impact of these momentous geo-political changes on Europe's legal order. As the book demonstrates, the search for strategic autonomy is increasingly upending many of our key assumptions about EU law, altering its goals, its constitutional underpinnings and key elements of its substantive law. Examining key emerging fields of EU law and policy, as well as the relation between the European, US, Chinese and international law orders, this book provides a first mapping of the emerging geo-political Europe and its reformed legal architecture. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Artificial Intelligence, Politics, and Political Science

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.

Symmetries of Living and Artificial Intelligence Systems
  • Fibrations and Synchronization in Networks
  • Hernán A. Makse, Paolo Boldi, Francesco Sorrentino, Ian Stewart
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    January 2027
    Print publication:
    31 January 2027
  • Symmetry plays a crucial role across various scales in physics-from the fundamental particles that comprise matter to the intricate shapes of snowflakes. The ubiquity of these symmetries poses a pivotal question: if life arises as an emergent property from physics, what prevents symmetry from also explaining the architectures of biological, or even artificial, life? This book addresses the question by introducing a new geometry for 'living' networks, drawing inspiration from Grothendieck's fibrations in category theory. The traditional, restrictive symmetry groups of physics are replaced with symmetry fibration, a novel notion which is both local and adaptable to evolutionary pressures. This provides an effective framework for understanding biological complexity, translating the once inscrutable AI 'black box' into an interpretable 'colored box' rich with symmetry. Featuring numerous cutting-edge applications from genomics, neuroscience and AI, this text is ideal for graduate students and researchers in mathematical biology, machine learning and network science.

Regulating Water Scarcity
  • A Socio-Legal Perspective
  • Bettina Lange
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    January 2027
    Print publication:
    31 December 2026
  • Regulating water scarcity engages with a core challenge posed by a changing climate: how can we use legal rules to alleviate water scarcity and drought? Based on interview data, this book examines how managers of water resources – in water companies and environmental regulatory agencies in England and Wales – draw on distinct ideas of evidence when applying legal rules. The book develops its account of evidence as organization in the context of a critical analysis of academic literature about regulatory spaces, the co-production of law with science, Foucaultian ideas about information resources, and the 'rules of the game' that inform how organizations take actions. The book's approach to 'water law in action' includes a comparative perspective that introduces selected features of regulating water scarcity and drought in Australia, China, California and the Colorado river system, Germany and Spain. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

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.

Psychedelic Medicine

The Psychological Foundations of Climate Solutions
  • From Individual Minds to Collective Climate Action
  • Edited by Madalina Vlasceanu, Sander van der Linden
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    December 2026
    Print publication:
    31 December 2026
  • Why do people support or resist climate solutions? And what actually moves societies from concern to action? This book brings together leading scholars in psychology to answer these urgent questions. Spanning cognition, emotion, values, misinformation, social norms, identity, culture, decision-making, and collective action, it offers the most comprehensive synthesis to date of the psychological forces shaping climate outcomes. Moving beyond abstract debates, the volume focuses explicitly on solutions: how to increase public support for effective policy, counter polarization and conspiracy beliefs, leverage social norms, mobilize social movements, and design interventions that bridge individual behaviors and systemic change. Each chapter combines rigorous scientific evidence with clear implications for practice, culminating in a policy-oriented summary for practitioners. Accessible yet authoritative, this work is an essential resource for anyone seeking a science-based roadmap to advancing effective and equitable climate action. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

The Cambridge Handbook of Law and Responsible Business
  • Legal Strategies for Sustainability in Global Value Chains
  • Edited by Debadatta Bose, Anne Lafarre, Ricardo García Antón, Bas Rombouts, Paul Verbruggen
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    December 2026
    Print publication:
    31 December 2026
  • This Handbook provides the first comprehensive examination of the legal strategies around the world shaping sustainability in global value chains. Bringing together leading scholars, it maps how diverse legal disciplines (including corporate law, labour law, tax law, tort law, private law, environmental law, international law and more) conceptualise and regulate the complex architectures of cross-border production. Through a unifying analytical framework, the book reveals how fragmented regulatory approaches can complement one another, and how legal tools may address the environmental, social, and economic challenges that global production networks create and sustain. Covering jurisdictions across the globe and engaging with emerging regulatory instruments such as due diligence laws, sustainability reporting obligations, climate transition plans, and international taxation initiatives, this Handbook offers an indispensable resource for academics, policymakers, practitioners, and students concerned with responsible business conduct and sustainable development. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

The Wealth of Nations at 250
  • Understanding Prosperity and Development in the Modern World
  • Edited by Alex Trew
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    December 2026
    Print publication:
    31 December 2026
  • In The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith set out a system for understanding why some societies prosper and others do not, and in the process founded the discipline of economics. In the 250 years since its publication, the world has transformed beyond recognition. Smith has also been reduced in the collective imagination to little more than a byword for the free market. The Wealth of Nations at 250 brings together today's most influential economists and economic historians to ask where Smith's system still holds, and where it needs new machinery. The task of rethinking what causes prosperity demands a return to the breadth of Smith's original vision, incorporating the cultural, institutional, and political foundations as well as the economic. Written in the spirit of Smith's own clarity, the book speaks to anyone interested in how and why nations prosper. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Making America a Democracy Again
  • How to Fix Our Political Dysfunction
  • David Orentlicher
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    December 2026
    Print publication:
    31 December 2026

Seeing Otherwise
  • International Higher Education and the Possibility of Change
  • Maia Chankseliani
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    December 2026
    Print publication:
    31 December 2026
  • What happens when people cross borders to learn and then return to the worlds that shaped them? This book follows 391 returnees from sixty-nine countries to show how international higher education reshapes how individuals see, judge, and engage in their societies. Drawing on vivid cases from education, health, poverty, and democratic life, it traces five generative mechanisms-reflexive agency, civic understanding, knowledge translation, transnational social relations, and intercultural understanding-through which comparative experience becomes consequential after return. Grounded in critical realism, transformative learning, and transnational theory, the book introduces a new framework centred on presence: a sustained relational stance through which individuals hold their ground under constraint. It offers an empirically rich account of how international study widens interpretive horizons, sustains engagement, and keeps democratic and institutional possibility open even in settings marked by inequality, fragility, and uncertainty. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

The Many Arctics in 2050

Language on Display
  • Ideology, Observation, Spectacle
  • Lionel Wee
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    November 2026
    Print publication:
    30 November 2026
  • What exactly are viewers or audiences expected to appreciate when language is put on display? What kinds of ideologies about language underpin such displays? Does language operate differently when it becomes the intended object of display as opposed to when it is being used for regular communication? Language is often 'invisible' because we use it without thinking too much about it. The study of language on display makes the invisible visible. Drawing on examples of the display of language in multiple contexts: museums, exhibitions, contests, celebrations, this book analyses cases where language is deliberately offered up as an object for contemplation, entertainment, and even decoration; language as spectacle in and of itself. It provides an innovative theorisation that shows how the subjectification process involved – where people are treated more as viewers than users – entrenches an objectivist understanding of language. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Arctic Geopolitics
  • A Subregional Approach to Security and Geography
  • Andreas Østhagen
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    November 2026
    Print publication:
    30 November 2026
  • Is the Arctic destined for conflict, or can cooperation prevail? This timely book explores the complex interplay of security, geography, and regions in the Arctic. Moving beyond simplistic narratives of geopolitical rivalry, it offers a nuanced, multilevel analysis of state security practices, foreign policies, and regional cooperation across distinct subregions. Challenging conventional notions of 'regions' and re-evaluating the role of geographic proximity, it provides fresh insights into how states engage with their neighbours. It also explores the enduring relevance of geography in international relations, demonstrating how the concept of an 'Arctic region' can be a powerful framework but also rests on some false assumptions. Essential for scholars, students, and policymakers, Arctic Geopolitics reshapes our understanding of security dynamics in the Arctic and beyond.  This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Understanding Our Philanthropic Commons
  • Edited by Brent Never, Brenda K. Bushouse, Robert K. Christensen
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    November 2026
    Print publication:
    30 November 2026
  • Understanding Our Philanthropic Commons boldly rethinks giving and volunteering as part of a shared resource system - a philanthropic 'commons'. Drawing on the influential frameworks of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom and the Ostrom Workshop, this book equips readers with accessible tools, including the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework, Social‑Ecological Systems (SES), Institutional Grammar, and Design Principles for self‑governance. Using case studies ranging from giving circles and donor‑advised funds to workplace campaigns and volunteer management, the authors show how rules, norms, and strategies create institutional arrangements that shape philanthropic behaviour. Fresh insights are offered into addressing philanthropic social dilemmas - such as declines in giving and volunteering - amid technological, social, and economic change. This book is ideal for scholars, nonprofit leaders, policy professionals, students seeking to understand how to sustainably govern giving resources, and for anyone interested in philanthropy. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Weak State, Strong Community
  • How Institutions Enable Lynching in Latin America
  • Enzo Nussio
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    November 2026
    Print publication:
    30 November 2026

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