Anthropology
Anthropological theory
Shapes in Revolution
The Political Morphology of Cuban Life
Martin, Holbraad | University College London
Taking the reader on a historiographic and ethnographic journey into the lived experience of everyday life in Cuba, this book shows that revolutions are worldmaking projects. It proposes a fresh and distinctively anthropological approach to the study of revolutions, articulating morphology as a new departure for political anthropology.
250pp
How Transparency Works
Ethnographies of a Global Value
Nov. 2025 9781009613088 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009613101
Anthropology (general)
The Cambridge Handbook of Psychological Anthropology
Edward, Lowe | Soka University of America
With contributions from a global team of renowned scholars, this Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the dynamic field of psychological anthropology. It shows how researchers can bridge the divide between disciplines such as anthropology and psychology to work collaboratively to enrich our understanding of the human condition.
Cambridge Handbooks in Anthropology
666pp
Sep. 2025 9781316515679 Hardback GBP 125.00 / USD 160.00
eISBN 9781009026246
Social, cultural anthropology
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Beyond the Silk Roads
Magnus, Marsden | University of Sussex
Exploring Eurasian connections from the perspective of mobile Afghan traders, Marsden documents how trading communities thrive in geopolitically fraught contexts, analyses the structure of the networks they form, and explores the dynamics of the commercial hubs important to their activities. This title is also available as Open Access.
Asian Connections
324pp
Filipe, Calvão | Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva Explores transparency in social, economic and political contexts, focusing on its mechanisms, failures and impacts across global commodity chains. An international team of anthropologists considers the practices, qualities and tools that produce transparency. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
250pp
Jan. 2026 9781009605205 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009605243
Questioning Migrants
Ethnic Nationalism at the Limits of Pakistan
Tahir H. Naqvi | Trinity University, Texas
This is a granular historical and ethnographic study of the Muhajir Qaumi Movement's (MQM) capacity to think beyond the exclusivism of Muhajir nationalism toward its contingency and toward a more plural and subaltern framing of the universal.
South Asia in the Social Sciences
224pp
Jan. 2025 9781009492300 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009492294
Sacrifice and Violence
Reflections from an Ethnography in Nepal
Marie, Lecomte-Tilouine | Collège de France, Paris
This book aims to understand what sacrifice means through long-term ethnographic studies and its close relationship with power and social organisation in Nepal. Sacrifice is considered here through its constitutive core of violence and its complex relationships with legitimate violence, in order to trace its ability to persist despite disapproval.
280pp
May 2025 9781108978774 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108974387
Feb. 2025 9781009537490 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009537476
Visceral Politics
Imaginaries of Power in South India
Indira, Arumugam | Department of Anthropology, National University of Singapore
How is politics made not just present but also palpable, even existential? As they live their everyday lives, how do ordinary people theorize for themselves the workings of power? Beyond just ideology, self-interest or instrumentality, this book is about how politics moves people and gets them in its grip?
254pp
Jul. 2025 9781009577441 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009577458
Education
Education policy, strategy and reform
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City of Intellect
The Uses and Abuses of the University
Nicholas B. Dirks | New York Academy of Sciences
This gripping account of university life puts a candid, personal perspective on clashes and crises around the true cost and value of higher education, the governance of public universities, free speech and academic freedom debates, the politicization of the college campus, and the future of the humanities and liberal arts.
390pp
Jul. 2025 9781009394451 Paperback
eISBN 9781009394437
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Mapping Educational Change in Kazakhstan
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Colleen, McLaughlin | University of Cambridge
Based on an in-depth, ten-year study, this book examines the large scale reform of Kazakhstan's education system, from the initial plans through to the widespread implementation. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website
Cambridge Core for details.
Cambridge Education Research
358pp
Apr. 2025 9781009074483 Paperback
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Politics and Knowledge
Shaping Educational Reform
Case Studies from Around the Globe
Colleen, McLaughlin | University of Cambridge
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Education, history, theory
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Intentional Practice with Infants and Toddlers
Pedagogies for Learning, Development and Wellbeing
Sheila, Degotardi | Macquarie University, Sydney Intentional Practice with Infants and Toddlers focuses on purposeful pedagogical approaches, equipping preservice and practising early childhood teachers and educators with the professional knowledge and strategies required to implement effective infant and toddler pedagogies in early childhood education settings.
325pp
Jun. 2025 9781009380553 Paperback GBP 54.99 / USD 74.99
eISBN 9781009380577
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Introduction to Education
Knowledge, Practice, Engagement
Second edition
Heather, Sharp | University of Newcastle, New South Wales
Introduction to Education provides an overview of the context, craft and practice of teaching in Australian schools. Each chapter poses a question about the nature of teaching and explores authentic classroom examples, contemporary research and literature, and the professional, policy and curriculum contexts of teaching.
416pp
Presenting ten global cases studies, this book shows how evidence and ideology compete for prominence in the design, implementation and evaluation of education reform. It challenges prevailing models of top-down policy making, making it essential reading for practitioners, policy makers and researchers of international education policy and reform.
Cambridge Education Research
216pp
Feb. 2025 9781009414807 Hardback GBP
eISBN 9781009414753
Nov. 2025 9781009571258 Paperback GBP 79.99 / USD 105.00
eISBN 9781009571234
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Language and Literacy
Essential Knowledge for All Teachers
Michael, Carey | University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland Literacy is important foundational knowledge for all teaching areas and classroom settings. Language and Literacy covers the essential building blocks of literacy, as well as the developmental skills all pre-service and in-service teachers need to teach effectively and meaningfully across the Australian curriculum.
320pp
Jun. 2025 9781009366175 Paperback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99
eISBN 9781009366144
Learning to Teach in a New Era
Essential Knowledge for All Teachers
Third edition
Jeanne, Allen | Griffith University, Queensland Teaching is complex work, and becoming a teacher in current times is arguably more challenging than ever before.
Learning to Teach in a New Era provides a positive, future-oriented approach to preparing preservice and beginning teachers to teach and to embrace the rewarding aspects of working in the educational sphere.
508pp
Dec. 2025 9781009528399 Paperback GBP 80.00 / USD 100.00
eISBN 9781009528375
Pursuing Institutional Purpose
Profiles of Excellence
Matthew, Hartley | University of Pennsylvania
In an era where people are questioning the value of higher education, this book profiles eight institutions that are pursuing unique educational missions and making a profound difference to their students and society. It is essential reading for researchers and students of education research, education policy, and international education reform.
Cambridge Education Research
206pp
Feb. 2025 9781108840804 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781108892667
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Student Engagement
Promoting Positive Classroom Behaviour
Jeffrey, Thomas | Department of Education, Tasmania
Student Engagement: Promoting Positive Classroom Behaviour encourages preservice teachers in Australian primary and secondary schools to make choices about how best to design and manage their classrooms and schools to maximise productive behaviour and learning.
380pp
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The Arts and MeaningMaking with Children
Susan, Wright | University of Melbourne
A quality arts education in early childhood has a positive impact on children’s early development. This book focuses on arts in early childhood through the lenses of 'play' and 'meaning making'. The Arts and Meaning-Making with Children offers a focused exploration of the arts in early childhood, an essential resource for pre-service educators.
262pp
Jan. 2025 9781009289795 Paperback GBP 54.99 / USD 72.99 eISBN 9781009289771
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Teaching Key Concepts in the Australian Mathematics Curriculum Years 7 to 10
Annette, Hilton | University of Technology, Sydney
In order to be effective mathematics educators, teachers need to be able to make mathematics comprehensible and accessible to their students. Teaching Key Concepts in the Australian Mathematics Curriculum Years 7 to 10 ensures that pre-service and practising teachers in Australia have the resources required to teach lower secondary mathematics.
346pp
Sep. 2025 9781009470544 Paperback GBP 55.99 / USD 69.99
eISBN 9781009470537
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Understanding Sociological Theory for Educational Practices
Third edition
Tania, Ferfolja | Western Sydney University Understanding Sociological Theory for Educational Practice introduces the diversity of contemporary learning environments and uses a sociological lens to analyse relevant theoretical concepts, encouraging all educators to consider the impact of the learning environment they cultivate. This edition has been thoroughly updated.
290pp
Aug. 2025 9781009373005 Paperback GBP 55.99 / USD 74.00 eISBN 9781009372985
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Teaching the Arts
Early Childhood and Primary Education
Fourth edition
David, Roy | University of Newcastle, New South Wales
Teaching the Arts: Early Childhood and Primary Education emphasises the fundamental nature of the arts in learning and development. Arranged in three parts and focusing on the key areas of dance, drama, media arts, music and visual arts, this book encourages educators to connect to the 'why', 'what' and 'how' of arts education.
432pp
Apr. 2025 9781009354820 Paperback GBP 52.99 / USD 69.99
eISBN 9781009354844
Teacher training and professional development
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Making
Humanities and Social Sciences Come Alive
Early Years and Primary Education
Second edition
Deborah, Green | University of South Australia
A strong foundation in Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) helps young learners to think critically, communicate effectively, make decisions and adapt to change. Making Humanities and Social Sciences Come Alive prepares pre-service educators to effectively teach and integrate the crucial learning area of HASS.
536pp
Oct. 2025 9781009322812 Paperback GBP 64.99 / USD 85.00 eISBN 9781009322829
Aug. 2025 9781009217156 Paperback GBP 55.00 / USD 72.00
eISBN 9781009217149
Psychology
Applied psychology
Questioning Conventional Assumptions of Competition Dynamics
Ahlam, Lee | Xavier University
This book enables readers to gain knowledge and insight into the ubiquity of competition and its significant role in the evolution of human society across cultures, regions, systems, and eras. It is suitable for everyone across all academic disciplines, as it helps individuals understand their inadvertent involvement in competition arenas.
324pp
Aug. 2025 9781009348096 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009348133
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Transition Expertise and Identity
A Study of Individuals Who Succeeded Repeatedly in Life and Career Transitions
Christopher, Connolly | Sporting Bodymind Ltd
Using a cross-disciplinary approach, this book explains how expert performers in sport, music, and business make successful career transitions to senior levels in their field. In-depth interviews illustrate the stories of their lives, bring theory alive, and illuminate the roles of motivation, identity, self concept, and cognitive abilities.
430pp
Biological psychology
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Just as Deadly
The Psychology of Female Serial Killers
Marissa A. Harrison | Pennsylvania State University
A riveting and meticulous account of why and how female serial killers commit murder. Drawing on original scientific research and various psychological perspectives, Dr. Marissa A. Harrison illustrates how female serial killers differ from their male counterparts and why society is so fascinated by their grisly crimes.
280pp
Feb. 2025 9781009158190 Paperback GBP 15.99 / USD 19.95
eISBN 9781009158183
Cognition
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Biological Implications of Circadian Disruption
A Modern Health Challenge
Laura K., Fonken | University of Texas, Austin
Exposure to electric light at night is ubiquitous in modern society. This book describes how our 24-hour circadian clock regulates our physiology and behavior and why light at the "wrong" time of day can impact our health.
408pp
Jan. 2025 9781009108256 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009103763
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Working Relationally in and across Practices
A Cultural-Historical Approach to Collaboration
Anne, Edwards | University of Oxford
This book offers resources for reflecting on and developing professional and research practices, and the conditions in which they occur. It is based in culturalhistorical approaches and focuses on learning and change; the three ideas at the core of the arguments presented are relational expertise, common knowledge, and relational agency.
336pp
May 2025 9781009060349 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009057646
Cognition and the Arts
From Naturalized Aesthetics to the Cognitive Humanities
Timothy, Justus | Pitzer College, Claremont
Jun. 2025 9781107527386 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781316275184
This book examines the artful mind from an interdisciplinary perspective combining philosophy, empirical sciences, and the humanities. It argues that just as leadingedge theories of cognition can be applied to the arts and aesthetic experience, these topics can serve as a model for interdisciplinary scholarship in cognitive science.
181pp
Oct. 2025 9781009245104 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 125.00
eISBN 9781009245074
Good Vibrations
Unlocking the Healing Power of Music
Stefan, Koelsch | University of Bergen Good Vibrations reveals the science behind music's power to heal, inspire, and transform. Neuroscientist Stefan Koelsch explores how music affects our brains and emotions, providing practical strategies to harness its benefits for well-being. Essential reading for musicians, therapists, and anyone eager to enrich their lives with music.
346pp
May 2025 9781009366779 Hardback GBP 22.00 / USD 29.99
eISBN 9781009366755
Near-Death Experiences
Scientific Perspectives on Stories of Personal Truth
Raymond, Romand | University of Strasbourg
This book examines our understanding of near-death experiences from metaphysical and transcendental to modern brain sciences. Employing clinical, psychological, and neuroscientific methods, it will fascinate professionals and general readers interested in brain functions including consciousness, psychology, psychiatry, and philosophy of the mind.
244pp
Sep. 2025 9781009594387 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 140.00 eISBN 9781009594431
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Society within the Brain
How Social Networks Interact with Our Brain, Behavior and Health as We Age Jeanyung, Chey | Seoul National University
This book examines how social interaction and relationships influence the brain in aging. Using a case study on the elderly population in a rapidly aging society, the authors effectively integrate different levels of data from social connection to socioeconomic information, psychological functioning, and cognitive and brain measures.
316pp
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The Thalamus
Michael M. Halassa | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The thalamus is a central structure in the mammalian brain, providing a hub for communication within and across distributed forebrain networks. Research in this area has experienced a revolution in the last decade. This ambitious reference work takes a broad approach, encompassing anatomy, physiology, computational mechanisms and cognition.
454pp
Jul. 2025 9781009663977 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 eISBN 9781108974325
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The Analogical Reader
A Cognitive Approach to Literary Perspective
Taking
Peter, Dixon | University of Alberta
Using new empirical evidence, this book weaves together insights from a multidisciplinary review into a comprehensive theory on perspective taking. It is written for anyone interested in the phenomenon of perspective taking, including psychologists, literary scholars, linguists, philosophers, and educators.
268pp
Jun. 2025 9781108722933 Paperback GBP 78.99 / USD 99.99
eISBN 9781108674287
Cultural psychology
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Agency and Transformation
Motives, Mediation, and Motion
Nick, Hopwood | University of Technology, Sydney
Researchers need the concept of agency to address diverse and urgent social problems of our time. Culturalhistorical activity theory, originally started with Vygotsky, is widely used in education, psychology, sociology, and transdisciplinary contexts. Scholars and students in diverse disciplines will benefit from this volume.
424pp
Jul. 2025 9781009344159 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 eISBN 9781009344203
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The Freedom of Words
Abstractness and the Power of Language
Anna M. Borghi | University of Rome
This volume explores how language, and particularly abstract language, shapes our thought. Academic researchers and graduate students in philosophy of language and cognitive sciences will benefit.
312pp
Jun. 2025 9781009153683 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009153799
Developmental psychology
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Developing Together
Understanding Children through Collaborative Competence
Rebecca R. Garte | City University of New York Scholars and practitioners within psychology and education will find new insights into the development of children considered at-risk. The approach of this book highlights overlooked strengths specifically grounded in majorityworld cultures. Details of applying the methodology to multiple contexts are provided.
278pp
Jul. 2025 9781009663960 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108913294
Jun. 2025 9781009446662 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781009446686
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Donor-Linked Families in the Digital Age Relatedness and Regulation
Fiona, Kelly | La Trobe University, Victoria Scholars and practitioners from a range of social science, legal, and health-related backgrounds will benefit from this volume. This book includes diverse contributions from a global context relating to donor conception and donor-linked families, giving it both international and interdisciplinary appeal.
278pp
Jun. 2025 9781009009614 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 eISBN 9781009008129
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First-Time Parenting Journeys
Expectations and Realities
Damien W. Riggs | Flinders University of South Australia
Based on interviews conducted from before conception through to after the child's birth, this book maps out the social norms that shape experiences of new parenthood. It will equip those in gender studies, psychology, and sociology with a detailed understanding of what it means for heterosexual couples to become parents.
224pp
Jul. 2025 9781009077040 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781009076449
Genes, Environments, and Differential Susceptibility
Current Topics in Evolutionary Developmental Psychology
Satoshi, Kanazawa | London School of Economics and Political Science
For students and researchers alike, this overview encompasses the field of evolutionary developmental psychology. Written by world-renowned experts, the chapters provide essential reading for those studying developmental, evolutionary, clinical, and educational psychology as well as criminology, human genetics and the wider social sciences.
296pp
Sep. 2025 9781009363952 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009363914
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Music, Senior Centers, and Quality of Life
Lisa J. Lehmberg | University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Written for all who support the wellbeing of older adults, including scholars, educators, health professionals, musicians, psychologists, service providers, caregivers, and students. The authors share findings on how musical activities in senior centers serving diverse clienteles across the United States enhance older adults' quality of life.
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The Cambridge Handbook of Prosociality
Development, Mechanisms, Promotion Tina, Malti | University of Toronto
Prosociality is a cornerstone of a humane, harmonious, and flourishing society. This handbook details how prosociality develops, what factors underlie its growth, and how it can be nurtured in children and adolescents across different social contexts. It aims to inform and assist researchers, students, practitioners, caregivers, and policy makers.
Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology 677pp
Jan. 2025 9781108819763 Paperback GBP 49.99 / USD 62.95
eISBN 9781108876681
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The Cambridge Handbook of the Development of Coping
Ellen A. Skinner | Portland State University
How people develop and deploy the many skills needed to cope with stress is a topic of enduring interest to science, practice, and general audiences. Stress and coping cut across multiple areas of enquiry, making this Handbook relevant for psychologists, sociologists, neuroscientists, public health experts, educators, and practitioners.
Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology 748pp
Jan. 2025 9781108932929 Paperback GBP 49.99 / USD 62.95
eISBN 9781108917230
Educational psychology
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Cognition and Motivation
Forging an Interdisciplinary Perspective
Shulamith, Kreitler | Tel-Aviv University
Editor Shulamith Kreitler brings together a wide range of international contributors to examine the many internal and external factors affecting cognitive processes. These contributions go beyond the standard approach of examining the effects of motivation and emotion to consider the contextual factors that may influence cognition.
528pp 26 b/w illus. 6 tables
220pp
Jul. 2025 9781009164351 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781009164344
Jul. 2025 9780521716918 Paperback GBP 33.99 / USD 43.99
eISBN 9781139021463
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Concept Formation in the Wild
Yrjö, Engeström | University of Helsinki
Based on cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT), this book provides a new theoretical framework for understanding the collective formation of concepts that can guide the course of development in different activities and organizations. It is essential reading for researchers, advanced students and practitioners across human and social sciences.
226pp
Apr. 2025 9781009015998 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009030021
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Constructing Dynamic Triangles Together
The Development of Mathematical Group Cognition
Gerry, Stahl | Drexel University, Philadelphia
A longitudinal study of eight sessions of online teamwork by three girls learning geometry as novices, this book presents innovative approaches and persuasive insights into computer-supported collaborative learning of mathematics. It offers valuable resources for researchers, instructors, and students interested in group cognition, educational technology, mathematics education, and human-computer interaction.
Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
294pp 40 b/w illus. 63 tables
Jun. 2025 9781107566873 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781316422755
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Dialogue, Argumentation and Education History, Theory and Practice
Baruch B. Schwarz | Hebrew University of Jerusalem
New pedagogical visions and technological developments have brought argumentation to the fore of educational practice. This book presents the historical, theoretical and empirical foundations of educational practices involving dialogue and argumentation, as a means to gain deeper understanding and knowledge in specific disciplines.
315pp 17 b/w illus. 1 table
Jun. 2025 9781316506738 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781316493960
NEW IN PAPERBACK Funds of Identity
Connecting Meaningful Learning Experiences in and out of School
Moisès, Esteban-Guitart
This book provides an invaluable resource for researchers who wish to improve education by bridging students, school, family, and community resources. Based in connecting experiences in and out of school, it suggests a strategy to put students' practices, cultures, and identities in the center of a twenty-first-century education.
Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
150pp
Jun. 2025 9781316601129 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781316544884
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Taking Children and Young People Seriously
A Caring Relational Approach to Education
Mariane, Hedegaard | University of Copenhagen
This volume is written for all those who work with children and young people, including educators, psychologists, researchers, and the wider caring professions. Based in cultural-historical approaches, it shows both why accessing children's perspectives and motives is important and how to work relationally with them to help them move forward.
310pp
Jun. 2025 9781108970518 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108980869
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The Nature and Nurture of Talent
A New Foundation for Human Excellence
David Yun, Dai | SUNYAlbany
Challenging the notion that only a few achieve excellence, this book explores various pathways to excellence via a unified theory of talent development. With a broad scope, it outlines crucial developmental steps in an engaging narrative. Ideal for academic audiences in educational and developmental psychology.
310pp
Jun. 2025 9781009370608 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009370622
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The Value of Intellectual Styles
Li-fang, Zhang | The University of Hong Kong Intellectual styles are individuals' preferred ways of using their abilities. This book presents the first comprehensive and systematic review of research on the value and desirability of different intellectual styles. The findings - from international studies conducted over eight decadeshave practical value in both educational and non-educational contexts.
410pp
Jul. 2025 9781107443204 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781316014561
Health and clinical psychology
Causal Concepts in Psychopathology
Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Kenneth S. Kendler | Virginia Commonwealth University
By incorporating an interdisciplinary analysis, this book offers new perspectives on causation for psychopathology in relation to the latest scientific and philosophical advances. Featuring contributions from scholars across psychiatry, philosophy, and psychology, it is written to be accessible for members of all three disciplines.
502pp
Dec. 2025 9781009390637 Hardback GBP 130.00 / USD 170.00
eISBN 9781009390620
Conceptualizing Personality Disorder
Perspectives from Philosophy, Psychological Science, and Psychiatry
Konrad, Banicki | Jagiellonian University, Krakow
This book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on personality disorder with chapters by philosophers, psychological scientists, and psychiatrists. Written to be accessible to all three disciplines, it updates traditional conceptualizations and offers new and novel perspectives with a special emphasis on borderline and narcissistic personalities.
426pp
History of psychology
Ever Not Quite
Pluralism(s) in William James and Contemporary Psychology
Saulo de Freitas, Araujo | Federal University of Juiz de Fora
Jul. 2025 9781009445979 Hardback GBP 115.00 / USD 150.00
eISBN 9781009445955
Selling Healing
Creative Arts and Health Communication in Ghana
Ama, de-Graft Aikins | University College London
The book will be of interest to researchers and students in arts and health, health communication, medical humanities, African Studies, social psychology, public health and global health as well as creative arts communities working on health-related projects.
240pp
Founding psychologist William James famously called for pluralism, valuing psychology's range of theoretical and philosophical foundations, methods and perspectives. In this book, Araujo and Osbeck investigate the meanings of pluralism across James's writings, connecting them to psychological research and theory today.
195pp
Sep. 2025 9781009704731 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108954327
Dec. 2025 9781009244435 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009244459
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Storying Mental Illness and Personal Recovery
Dorthe Kirkegaard, Thomsen | Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
This book elucidates how narrative identity is crucial to understanding mental illness and personal recovery. It analyses over 100 personal stories shared by individuals with mental illness, and provides guidance to facilitate recovery.
Useful for mental health researchers and professionals as well as individuals experiencing mental illness.
308pp
Jun. 2025 9781009301138 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781108907606
Young People with Cognitive Disability in Transition to Adulthood
Stories of Survival and Aspiration in the Face of Adversity
Kathy, Ellem | University of Queensland
This book presents the lived experiences of young people with cognitive disability transitioning to adulthood. Whether you are a young person yourself, a family member or friend, or a professional, this book shows what can lead to abuse of young people and what can promote young people's self-belief and resilience.
290pp
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The Soul in Soulless Psychology
Robert, Kugelmann | University of Dallas
Modern psychology began with a rejection of the 'soul' as relevant for the science. How did that come about? This alternative history of psychology explores that question and then considers the reappearance of the soul in psychology in various manifestations over the years.
324pp
Jun. 2025 9781009301206 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009301220
Psychology (general)
A Complex Systems View on the Visual Arts
Paul, van Geert | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
This groundbreaking book reexamines the visual arts through complexity and dynamical systems theories. Integrating philosophy, psychology, sociology, art history, and economics, it offers a thought-provoking exploration for students and researchers.
474pp
Feb. 2025 9781009408707 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009408721
Apr. 2025 9781009378963 Hardback GBP 125.00 / USD 160.00
eISBN 9781009378970
Psychology research methods/statistics
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New Handbook of Mathematical Psychology
Volume 3 Perceptual and Cognitive Processes
F. Gregory, Ashby | University of California, Santa Barbara
The New Handbook of Mathematical Psychology provides a rigorous introduction to the key foundational, theoretical, and applied areas of the field of mathematical psychology. Volume 3 focuses on key content areas in perceptual and cognitive processes, and effectively complements the previous volumes by covering recent developments. Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology 494pp
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Emotion Communication by the Aging Face and Body
A Multidisciplinary View
Ursula, Hess | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
As we age, our faces and bodies change, but we know little about how these physiological changes can affect how people perceive and interpret the emotions of older adults. This book reviews how the elderly communicate emotions in interactions with friends and family, in the workplace, and in healthcare settings. Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction
340pp
Jan. 2025 9781108821223 Paperback GBP 42.99 / USD 62.95
eISBN 9781108902724
Social psychology
Autobiographical Memory and the Life Story
New Perspectives on Narrative Identity
Christin, Camia | Zayed University Abu Dhabi
By integrating the fields of narrative identity and autobiographical memory research, this book explores how people construct their identities and understand their lives across time and cultural contexts. It will be of great interest to scholars, researchers and students seeking to gain fresh perspectives on life story psychology.
400pp
Jun. 2025 9781009209663 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009209656
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Emotion Regulation and Parenting
Isabelle, Roskam | Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Dec. 2025 9781009492126 Hardback GBP 115.00 / USD 150.00
eISBN 9781009492140
Dyadic Health Science
Theories, Methods, and Future Directions
Karen S. Lyons | Boston College, Massachusetts
This is the first book to provide an accessible overview of the theories, methods, and research in dyadic health science. Featuring insight from 22 experts with diverse experience, the three authors designed the book for graduate students and researchers across relationship science, psychology, nursing, sociology, and social work.
Advances in Personal Relationships
260pp
Dec. 2025 9781009649742 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 140.00
eISBN 9781009649735
Written for students, researchers and professionals interested in emotions in parent-child interactions, this book surveys the known antecedents and consequences of emotion regulation in parenting. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details. Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction
314pp
Jun. 2025 9781009304351 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009304368
Experiences of Sexual Minority and Gender Diverse Individuals in Romantic Relationships
Heeding a Global Call
Ashley K. Randall | Arizona State University
Suitable for students and scholars alike, this volume delivers a multinational perspective on the lives and relationships of sexual minority and gender diverse people. Offering research from 12 countries, it delves into factors affecting personal experiences making it a must-read for anyone studying LGBTQ+ relationships.
Advances in Personal Relationships
322pp
Mar. 2025 9781009345750 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009345774
Purpose In Life As Ancient but Nascent
Perspectives from Psychology, Philosophy, and Human Development
Patrick, Hill | Washington University, St Louis
This book offers valuable insights into the science and philosophy of purpose, catering to those intrigued by this growing topic. Featuring innovative perspectives from academics, the chapters blend rigorous research with relatable analogies and real-life examples, making the exploration of purpose accessible and engaging for all readers.
315pp
Nov. 2025 9781009407434 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009407427
Strikingly Similar
Plagiarism and Appropriation from Chaucer to Chatbots
Roger, Kreuz | University of Memphis
From students and teachers to politicians and journalists, who hasn't come across a tale of plagiarism these days? In Strikingly Similar, discover the history and psychology of famous and lesser-known incidents of appropriation, as well as the changes in cultural attitudes and the underexplored topic of unconscious plagiarism.
256pp
Jan. 2026 9781009618328 Hardback GBP 25.00 / USD 29.95
eISBN 9781009618335
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The Making of a Dialogical Theory
Social Representations and Communication
Ivana, Marková | University of Stirling Marková explores Serge Moscovici's theory of social representations and communication as a case study in the making of a dialogical social theory. She sheds light on novel ideas that connect issues and problems from diverse domains and disciplines and open the theory's potential for becoming an anthropology of modern culture.
316pp
Social science research methods
Quantitative methods
A Practical Guide to Time Series Analysis
Suzanna, Linn | Pennsylvania State University
Jul. 2025 9781009295024 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009295000
The
Political Psychology of Citizens in Rising China
Yida, Zhai | University of Tsukuba, Japan
Examining the political psychology of Chinese citizens in the context of the country's economic rise, this book is an essential resource for scholars in political science, psychology, sociology, Chinese studies, and foreign policy. It also provides valuable material for undergraduate courses in international relations, and area studies.
280pp
Dec. 2025 9781009489713 Hardback GBP 115.00 / USD 150.00 eISBN 9781009489720
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The Sociocultural Context of Romantic Relationships
Brian G. Ogolsky | University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign
Using truly interdisciplinary social science, this book demonstrates the many ways in which social and cultural forces affect individuals in their relationships on a regular basis. It is the first of its kind to highlight the diverse contexts in which romantic relationships operate.
Advances in Personal Relationships
286pp
Our applied guide is for students analysing data over time. For example, approval ratings, economic measures, and international conflicts. Time series data requires its own set of advanced statistical tools which we outline as simply as possible. Detailed examples help readers navigate the complicated process of learning from temporal data.
Methodological Tools in the Social Sciences
536pp
Mar. 2026 9781108407519 Paperback GBP 44.00 / USD 55.00
Mar. 2026 9781108418539 Hardback GBP 130.00 / USD 165.00
eISBN 9781108290326
Sociology
Historical sociology
A Comparative Historical Sociology of Corruption
Marco, Garrido | University of Chicago
What is corruption? Why is it so hard to get rid of? Why do some people call things corrupt, but not others? Why do these meanings shift? Drawing on sociological and historical tools, this volume proposes a novel framework to understand why and how corruption persists across history and today.
Cambridge Studies in Historical Sociology 294pp
Jan. 2026 9781009669146 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009669139
How Economic Ideas Evolve
The Impact of Religion on the German and Italian Welfare State
Josef, Hien | Mid Sweden University and Institute For Future Studies, Stockholm
Jun. 2025 9781009158640 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781009158657
This book demonstrates the link between religious ideas and the diverging development of economies and welfare states in Europe. The work provides an analysis of the contextual factors that steered religious development and expands historical sociology by focusing on religious ideas and their long-term developmental trajectories in politics.
Cambridge Studies in Historical Sociology
204pp
Jul. 2025 9781009569262 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009569293
Nationalism as a Way of Life
The Rise and Transformation of Modern Subjectivities
Siniša, Malešević | University College Dublin
Exploring the global rise and transformation of nationalism, this book shows why nationalism is much more than an ordinary political ideology such as liberalism, conservatism, or socialism.
Malešević explores the practices through which nation-centric idioms have become normalised and naturalised in everyday life. 440pp
Dec. 2025 9781009570206 Hardback GBP 35.00 / USD 44.99 eISBN 9781009570213
Pious Politics
Cultural Foundations of the Islamist Movement in Turkey
Zeynep, Ozgen | New York University Abu Dhabi
A sociological examination of the rise and resilience of Islamist politics in contemporary Turkey. Drawing on two years of research, Zeynep Ozgen explores?religious political contention and, more broadly, the complex relationship between culture and politics in shaping reality.
Cambridge Studies in Historical Sociology 284pp
Oct. 2025 9781009653268 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009653305
The Kansas Court of Industrial Relations
Interwar America's Dangerous Experiment in Social Control
Ben, Merriman | University of Kansas
Revisiting the intense controversy over the Kansas Court of Industrial Relations, this book shows how its defeat reshaped America's law and politics of labor. Ben Merriman explores why the US turned away from the world's most-used labor policy design and toward its unique New Deal model.
Cambridge Studies in Historical Sociology 264pp
Aug. 2025 9781009665278 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009665247
Political sociology
After the Exodus Gender and Belonging in Bangladesh's Rohingya Refugee Camps
Farhana, Afrin Rahman | University of Cambridge Focuses on the lived experiences of Rohingya women in Bangladesh's refugee camps. It examines how forced migration of the Rohingya from Myanmar to Bangladesh has transformed Rohingya gender relations and roles in displacement. It further reveals how refugee women reconstruct their lives by creating a sense of belonging.
South Asia in the Social Sciences
176pp
Camille Bulcke
The Jesuit Devotee of Tulsidas Ravi Dutt, Bajpai | University of Gothenburg, Sweden
The first English biography of the Belgian Jesuit, Father Bulcke who came to colonial India and found spiritual inspiration in the life and compositions of Goswami Tulsidas and emerged as a renowned exponent of Ramkatha and the Hindi language.
318pp
Jan. 2025 9781009414821 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009414845
Feb. 2025 9781108838122 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781108937252
Counting Caste
Census Politics, Bureaucratic Deflection, and Brahmanical Power in India
Trina, Vithayathil | Providence College, Rhode Island
It investigates the Indian state's efforts to implement social justice reforms, focusing on the 2011 Census caste data collection. The book critiques the institutionalization of 'castelessness' and the persistence of caste privilege. South Asia in the Social Sciences
296pp
Jun. 2025 9781009414111 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009414135
Dalit Ecologies
Caste and Environment Justice Mukul, Sharma | Ashoka University, India
Explores the ecological experiences, histories, and perspectives integrated within Dalit writing, art, and culture and studies the relationship between caste and environment, Dalit autobiographies, caste and climate change, and BlackDalit ecologies.
300pp
Jan. 2025 9781009453455 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009453424
Shifting Landscapes
Education and Urban Transformations in India
Geetha B. Nambissan | Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
A multidimensional exploration of urban education in the multiverse of India, this volume takes on an interdisciplinary approach to examine how the idea of the urban and that of urban education are co-constituted and, more specifically, how spatial and educational inequalities in cities intersect. Available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Metamorphoses of the Political: Multidisciplinary Approaches
375pp
Sep. 2025 9781009596893 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 145.00
eISBN 9781009596886
Syndicates and Societies
Criminal Politics in Dhaka
David, Jackman | University of Oxford
This book offers a rich ethnographic account of the relationship between crime and politics in Bangladesh. It studies how 'syndicates' led by political leaders control the country's largest bazar, how this has changed over recent decades, and how labourers and vendors navigate this world.
South Asia in the Social Sciences
224pp
Mar. 2025 9781009442305 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009442336
Social policy and social work
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Engaging with Social Work
A Critical Introduction
Third edition
Christine, Morley | Queensland University of Technology
Social work practitioners must be prepared to respond to emerging social problems in a rapidly changing world. Engaging with Social Work is an introduction to critical social work, helping students to cultivate their own understanding of the structures and discourses of oppression and disadvantage, while exploring the role of the social worker.
454pp
NEW IN PAPERBACK Morphogenesis
Answers Its Critics
Margaret S. Archer | University of Warwick
Margaret S. Archer was responsible for important conceptual developments in critical realism and the structure-agent problem, but her explanatory framework often opposed those of other influential theorists. In this book she provides a response to critics of her work in the form of a set of discussions of published articles.
232pp
Jul. 2025 9781009405454 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009405430
Sociology of gender
'New' Women
Trans Women, Hijras and the Remaking of Inequality in India
Liz, Mount | Flagler College, Florida
An ethnography of transwomen and gender non-conforming hijras in India. Many people assume that recent attention to transgender issues, alongside new opportunities for trans people, represent positive change. Yet this book shows how members of marginalized groups experience social change differently.
207pp
Oct. 2025 9781009397063 Paperback GBP 65.00 / USD 85.00
eISBN 9781009397056
Social theory
Anticolonialism and Social Thought
Anaheed, Al-Hardan | Howard University While anticolonialism has been largely ignored in mainstream Euro-American social thought, this book shows that anticolonial thinkers, activists and movements around the world produce novel, innovative and vital social thought. By challenging imperialism and colonialism, anticolonial struggles offer new critical ways of looking at society.
LSE International Studies
348pp
Sep. 2025 9781009607124 Paperback GBP 30.99 / USD 41.99
Sep. 2025 9781009607100 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009607087
Jan. 2025 9781009343435 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009343428
A Woman's Job
Making Middle Lives in New India
Asiya, Islam | London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Presents a unique urban ethnography of young lower middle class women's lives in Delhi as they weave in and out of service employment, education, and domestic contracts.
South Asia in the Social Sciences
194pp
Jan. 2025 9781009536653 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99
eISBN 9781009536646
Sociology of religion
The Social Life of Islam
Sufi Shrines in Urban Pakistan
Amen, Jaffer | Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan
Through an ethnography of Sufi shrines in Lahore, the book examines how they serve as spaces for Islam to deeply enmesh with the social life of diverse urban groups. Connecting urban and religious studies, it explores the minutiae of social interactions in everyday life that make Sufi shrines as a key social, political and religious space.
Muslim South Asia
282pp
Mar. 2025 9781009537063 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009537087
Sociology of science and medicine
Island Time
Theory Groups and the Social Production of Scientific Knowledge
John N. Parker | University of Oslo
Examining how small groups of scientists create new scientific theories, launch intellectual movements, and compete for attention, this book is designed for scholars, policy makers, and university leaders seeking to understand the social processes by which research groups develop new scientific theories that transform scientific understanding. 250pp
Mar. 2026 9781009222488 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 140.00 eISBN 9781009222518
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