Rights General Guide - Spring 2020

RIGHTS TITLES SPRING | 2020

CONTENTS History

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Economics

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Sociology

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Politics and Social Theory

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Religion

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English Literature

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Classical Studies

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Psychology

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Computer Studies

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Engineering

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Life Sciences

30

HISTORY

FEMALE HUSBANDS A Trans History

Jen Manion Amherst College, Massachusetts

March 2020 228 x 152 mm c.320pp 26 b/w illus.

978-1-108-48380-3 Hardback £17.99

WHY IT WILL SELL • Charts the rise and fall of female husbands from the 1740s to the 1910s in a clear and accessible way • Reveals key turning points in the history of gender and sexuality in the United States and the United Kingdom

Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them. Female husbands – people assigned female who transed gender, lived as men, and married women – were true queer pioneers. Moving deftly from the colonial era to just before the First World War, Jen Manion uncovers the riveting and very personal stories of ordinary people who lived as men despite tremendous risk, danger, violence, and threat of punishment. Female Husbands weaves the story of their lives in relation to broader social, economic, and political developments in the United States and the United Kingdom, while also exploring how attitudes towards female husbands shifted in relation to transformations in gender politics and women’s rights, ultimately leading to the demise of the category of ‘female husband’ in the early twentieth century. Groundbreaking and influential, Female Husbands offers a dynamic, varied, and complex history of the LGBTQ past.

CONTENTS Introduction: extraordinary lives; Part I. UK Husbands, 1740–1840: 1. The first female husband; 2. The pillar of the community; 3. The sailors and soldiers; 4. The wives; Part II. US Husbands,1830–1910: 5. The workers; 6. The activists; 7. The criminalized poor; 8. The end of a category; Conclusion: sex trumps gender; Epilogue: the first female-to-male transsexual.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Level: general readers, undergraduate students

• Draws on a diverse source base that includes all references to female husbands in US and British print culture

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THE HUMAN RIGHTS DICTATORSHIP Socialism, Global Solidarity and Revolution in East Germany

Ned Richardson-Little Universität Erfurt, Germany

January 2020 228 x 152 mm c.286pp 978-1-108-42467-7 Hardback c. £74.99

WHY IT WILL SELL • Challenges popular narratives on the fall of the Berlin Wall and proposes a new interpretation of the role of human rights in the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War • Debunks the myth of Western liberal democracies as the sole arbiters of human rights, and provides a unique perspective on the history of human rights by focusing on the agency of actors in East Germany and socialist Eastern Europe

Richardson-Little exposes the forgotten history of human rights in the German Democratic Republic, placing the history of the Cold War, Eastern European dissidents and the revolutions of 1989 in a new light. By demonstrating how even a communist dictatorship could imagine itself to be a champion of human rights, this book challenges popular narratives on the fall of the Berlin Wall and illustrates how notions of human rights evolved in the Cold War as they were re-imagined in East Germany by both dissidents and state officials. Ultimately, the fight for human rights in East Germany was part of a global battle in the post-war era over competing conceptions of what human rights meant. Nonetheless, the collapse of dictatorship in East Germany did not end this conflict, as citizens had to choose for themselves what kind of human rights would follow in its wake.

CONTENTS Introduction. The exploitation of man by man has been abolished!; 1. Creating a human rights dictatorship, 1945–1956; 2. Inventing socialist human rights, 1953–1966; 3. Socialist human rights on the world stage, 1966–1978; 4. The ambiguity of human rights from below, 1968– 1982; 5. The rise of dissent and the collapse of socialist human rights, 1980–1989; 6. Revolutions won and lost, 1989–1990; Conclusion. Erasures and rediscoveries.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Level: academic researchers, graduate students Series: Human Rights in History

• Highlights the global nature of human rights politics in a field that is deeply Eurocentric by illuminating the influence of decolonization and the Third World on the Eastern bloc

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CHINESE DIASPORAS A Social History of Global Migration

Steven B. Miles Washington University, St Louis

March 2020 228 x 152 mm 286pp 10 b/w illus. 5 maps 2 tables 978-1-107-17992-9 Hardback £69.99

WHY IT WILL SELL • Introduces concepts and debates in migration history • Compelling case studies focus on individual migrants and their descendants • Provides an integrated history of internal and external Chinese migration

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Chinese Diasporas provides a concise and compelling new history of internal and external Chinese migration from the sixteenth century to the present day. Steven B. Miles places Chinese migrants and their families at the center of his narrative through a series of engaging case studies taking readers from the heart of Ming China to the global property markets of the twenty-first century. The focus on individual migrants and their descendants reveals the ways in which the ‘Chinese diaspora’ has consisted of distinct paths of migration from specific emigrant communities to targeted destinations both within China and abroad.

This is essential reading for those interested in the history of the Chinese diaspora and the overseas Chinese, and for those interested in the role of migration in the making of the modern world.

CONTENTS Introduction. Framing Chinese migration; 1. Early modern patterns, 1500–1740; 2. Migration in the prosperous age, 1740–1840; 3. The age of mass migration, 1840–1937; 4. The Chinese state and the politics of diaspora, 1860s–1940s; 5. Disruptions and diasporic communities in the mid-twentieth century; 6. The ‘floating population’ and ‘new migrants’, 1980s–present; 7.

Transnational Chinese, 1990s–present; 8. Is there a Chinese diaspora?

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Level: graduate students, undergraduate students Series: New Approaches to Asian History

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MODERN BRAZIL A Social History

Herbert S. Klein Columbia University, New York

Francisco Vidal Luna Universidade de São Paulo

March 2020 228 x 152 mm c.400pp 978-1-108-48902-7 Hardback c. £92.00

WHY IT WILL SELL • Draws upon extensive quantitative research while providing an excellent survey of the secondary literature • An exemplary model of a modern social history that offers a macro perspective on societal changes

Herbert S. Klein and Francisco Vidal Luna present a sweeping narrative of social change in Brazil that documents its transition from a predominantly rural and illiterate society in 1950, to an overwhelmingly urban, modern, and literate society in the twenty-first century. Tracing this radical evolution reveals how industrialization created a new labor force, how demographic shifts reorganized the family and social attitudes, and how urban life emerged in what is now one of the most important industrial economies in the world. A paradigm for modern social histories, the book also examines changes in social stratification and mobility, the decline of regional disparities, education, social welfare, race, and gender. By analyzing Brazil’s unprecedented political, economic, and social changes in the late twentieth and twenty-first century, the authors address an under-explored area in current scholarship and offer an invaluable resource for scholars of Latin American and Brazil.

CONTENTS List of maps; List of graphs; List of tables; Introduction; 1. Brazil at mid-century; 2. Political and economic evolution of Brazil; 3. Demographic change; 4. Women, family and work; 5. The Welfare State and income transfers; 6. Urban life in the twentieth and twenty-first century; 7.

Stratification and mobility; 8. Race and stratification; 9. Organization of civil society; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Level: academic researchers, graduate students

• Provides a valuable tool for scholars comparing Brazil to other BRIC countries and analyzing the modernization process

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HISTORY February 2020 228 x 152 mm c.298pp 978-1-108-48908-9 Hardback £75.00

THE ORIGINS OF THE ARAB-IRANIAN CONFLICT Nationalism and Sovereignty in the Gulf between the World Wars

Chelsi Mueller Tel-Aviv University

The interwar period marked a transition from a Gulf society characterized by symbiosis and interdependency to a sub-region characterized by national divisions, sectarian suspicions, rivalries and political tension. In this study, Chelsi Mueller tells the story of a formative period in the Gulf, examining the triangular relationship between Iran, Britain and the Gulf Arab shaykhdoms. By doing so Mueller reveals how the revival of Iranian national ambitions in the Gulf had a significant effect on the dense web of Arab-Iranian relations during the interwar period. Shedding new light on our current understanding of the present-day Arab-Iranian conflict, this study, which pays particular attention to Bahrain and the Trucial states (United Arab Emirates), fills a significant gap in the literature on the history of Arab-Iranian relations in the Gulf and Iran’s Persian Gulf policy during the Reza Shah period.

WHY IT WILL SELL • Examines the triangular relationship between Iran, Britain and the Gulf Arab shaykhdoms to reveal the origins of the presentday Arab-Iranian conflict • Pays particular attention to Bahrain in charting the revival of Iranian claims to sovereignty during the interwar period

CONTENTS Introduction; 1. States and tribes in the pre-modern Gulf; 2. British policy in the Persian Gulf between the world wars; 3. The rise of Reza Khan and Iran’s Persian Gulf policy, 1919–1925; 4.

Reza Shah’s Persian Gulf policy, 1925–1941; 5. The Trucial States, Iran and the British; 6. Bahrain, Iran and the British; Conclusion.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Level: graduate students, academic researchers

• Fills a significant gap in the literature on the history of ArabIranian relations in the Gulf and Iran’s Persian Gulf policy during the Reza Shah period

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ECONOMICS

A HISTORY OF BIG RECESSIONS IN THE LONG TWENTIETH CENTURY Andrés Solimano International Center for Globalization and Development (CIGLOB), Chile

January 2020 228 x 152 mm c.264pp 60 b/w illus. 52 tables 978-1-108-48504-3 Hardback £74.99

WHY IT WILL SELL • Provides a broad cross-country perspective of a variety of regional, national and international crises that occurred throughout the twentieth century • Links economic and political factors underlying destabilizations and crisis situations

This book examines the array of financial crises, slumps, depressions and recessions that happened around the globe during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It covers events including World War I, hyperinflation and market crashes in the 1920s, the Great Depression of the 1930s, stagflation of the 1970s, the Latin American debt crises of the 1980s, the post-socialist transitions in Central Eastern Europe and Russia in the 1990s, and the great financial crisis of 2008–9. In addition to providing wide geographic and historical coverage of episodes of crisis in North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia, the book clarifies basic concepts in the area of recession economics, analysis of high inflation, debt crises, political cycles and international political economy. An understanding of these concepts is needed to comprehend big recessions and slumps that often lead to both political change and the reassessment of prevailing economic paradigms.

CONTENTS 1. Introduction; 2. Recessions and depressions: an overview of theories and empirics; 3. World War I, hyperinflation in the 1920s and World War II; 4. The Great Depression of the 1930s; 5.

Stagflation in the 1970s, globalization and the financial crisis of 2008–9; 6. Two depressions in the early twenty-first century: the cases of Latvia and Greece; 7. Soviet-type of socialism and the post-socialist transition; 8. Economic crises in Latin America and East Asia; 9. Synthesis and interpretation.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Level: academic researchers, graduate students

• Stresses the importance of global shocks, the role of debt cycles, financial fragility, inequality and political economy as contributing factors to economic slumps

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NETWORK ORIGINS OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY East vs. West in a Complex Systems Perspective

Hilton L. Root George Mason University, Virginia

March 2020 228 x 152 mm c.338pp 14 b/w illus. 2 tables 978-1-108-48899-0 Hardback £29.99

WHY IT WILL SELL • Demonstrates how to apply complexity theory to history and the social sciences • Draws out patterns from economic history that can help us understand the risks arising from transitions in current global political economy • Uses case studies from European and Chinese history

The upheavals of recent decades show us that traditional models of understanding processes of social and economic change are failing to capture real-world risk and volatility. This has resulted in flawed policy that seeks to capture change in terms of the rise or decline of regimes or regions. In order to comprehend current events, understand future risks and decide how to prepare for them, we need to consider economies and social orders as open, complex networks. This highly original work uses the tools of network analysis to understand great transitions in history, particularly those concerning economic development and globalisation.

Hilton L. Root shifts attention away from particular agents – whether individuals, groups, nations or policy interventions – and toward their dynamic interactions. Applying insights from complexity science to often overlooked variables across European and Chinese history, he explores the implications of China’s unique trajectory and ascendency, as a competitor and counterexample to the West.

CONTENTS Preface; Part I. Political Economy and Complex Systems: 1. Great transitions in economic history; 2. Growth, form, and self-organization in the economy; 3. Human evolutionary behavior and political economy; Part II. An Analysis of Historical Regimes: 4. Network assemblage of regime stability and resilience; 5. Network formation and the emergence of law: from feudalism to small-world connectivity; 6. The network foundations of the Great Divergence; Part III. The Coming Instability: 7. Has the baton passed to China?; 8. China’s ambitions and the future of the global economy; 9. Global networks over time; 10. A future of diminishing returns or massive transformation?; 11. Network structure and economic change: East vs. West.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Level: academic researchers, graduate students

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SOCIOLOGY March 2020 234 x 156 mm c.400pp 43 tables 978-1-108-49913-2 Hardback £37.99

THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF ONLINE COMMUNITIES William Sims Bainbridge National Science Foundation

With great potential benefit and possible harm, online social media platforms are transforming human society. Based on decades of deep exploration, distinguished scholar William Sims Bainbridge surveys our complex virtual society, harvesting insights about the future of our real world. Many pilot studies demonstrate valuable research methods and explanatory theories. Tracing membership interlocks between Facebook groups can chart the structure of a social movement, like the one devoted to future spaceflight development. Statistical data on the roles played by people in massively multiplayer online games illustrate the Silicon Law: information technology energizes both freedom and control, in a dynamic balance. The significance of open-source software suggests the traditional distinction between professional and amateur may fade, whereas webbased conflicts between religious and political groups imply that chasms are opening in civil society. This analysis of online space and the divergent communities is long overdue.

WHY IT WILL SELL • Explores the diversity of important social phenomena that computer science has made possible • Can serve as a textbook for students working in computer science

CONTENTS 1. Introduction; 2. Facebook; 3. Virtual worlds; 4. Open-source software; 5. Wikis; 6. Citizen social science; 7. Digital government; 8. Cultural science.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Level: professionals, academic researchers Series: Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences

• Provides a platform for social scientists and computer scientists to cooperate in the research and development of new cyber-social systems • Raises the challenge of technological determinism, while also suggesting that computer technology can be moderated by the humanities

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POLITICS AND SOCIAL THEORY

REASON AND CAUSE Social Science and the Social World

Richard Ned Lebow King’s College London

March 2020 229 x 152 mm c.366pp 978-1-108-47943-1 Hardback £90.00

WHY IT WILL SELL • Focuses on three eras of Western history: classical Athens, the Enlightenment and Victorian England, and the early twentieth century

Philosophy and social science assume that reason and cause are objective and universally applicable concepts. Through close readings of ancient and modern philosophy, history and literature, Richard Ned Lebow demonstrates that these concepts are actually specific to time and place. He traces their parallel evolution by focusing on classical Athens, the Enlightenment through Victorian England, and the early twentieth century. This important book shows how and why understandings of reason and cause have developed and evolved, in response to what kind of stimuli, and what this says about the relationship between social science and the social world in which it is conducted. Lebow argues that authors reflecting on their own social context use specific constructions of these categories as central arguments about the human condition. This highly original study will make an immediate impact across a number of fields with its rigorous research and the development of an innovative historicised epistemology.

CONTENTS 1. Introduction; 2. Homer and Sophocles; 3. Thucydides; 4. David Hume; 5. Dickens, Trollope, and Collins; 6. Max Weber; 7. Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka; 8. Conclusion.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Level: graduate students

• Builds bridges between philosophy, social science and literature • Undercuts foundational assumptions of philosophy and social science as currently conceived

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POLITICS AND SOCIAL THEORY

“Every engaged citizen, every political activist living in our times, which are bad times, needs to read this book.” Michael Walzer

A POLITICAL SCIENCE MANIFESTO FOR THE AGE OF POPULISM DAVID M. RICCI March 2020 216 x 140 mm c.204pp 978-1-108-47942-4 Hardback £74.99

WHY IT WILL SELL • Starts to answer many of the questions people have about populism, investigating the roots of the resentment that generates political populism by unearthing the downsides of creative destruction and critiquing mainstream economic thinking

A POLITICAL SCIENCE MANIFESTO FOR THE AGE OF POPULISM Challenging Growth, Markets, Inequality, and Resentment

David M. Ricci Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Populism and authoritarian-populist parties have surged in the 21st century. In the United States, Donald Trump appears to have become the poster president for the surge. David M. Ricci, in this call to arms, thinks Trump is symptomatic of the changes that have caused a crisis among Americans – namely, mass economic and creative destruction: automation, outsourcing, deindustrialization, globalization, privatization, financialization, digitalization, and the rise of temporary jobs – all breeding resentment. Rather than dwelling on symptoms, Ricci focuses on the root of our nation’s problems. Thus, creative destruction, aiming at perpetual economic growth, encouraged by neoliberalism, creates the economic inequality that fuels resentment and leads to increased populism. Ricci urges political scientists to highlight this destruction meaningfully and substantively, to use empirical realism to put human beings back into politics. Ricci’s sensible argument conveys a sense of political urgency, grappling with real-world problems and working to transform abstract speculations into tangible, useful tools. The result is a passionate book, important not only to political scientists, but to anyone who cares about public life.

CONTENTS Preface; 1. The age of populism; 2. The temple of science; 3. Mainstream economics; 4. Creative destruction; 5. Targetting neoliberalism; 6. Humanism; 7. A story for political science.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Level: graduate students, undergraduate students

• Provides a focus for scholars who want to make specific, tangible, useful, and repeated contributions to the public conversation rather than to speculate more broadly and abstractly about what has brought President Trump and populist leaders in other countries to power in recent years

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Revolution REVOLUTION that THATFailed FAILED Nuclear Nuclear Competition Competition Arms Arms Control Control and the Cold War and the Cold War

BRENDAN BRENDAN GREEN GREEN

January 2020 228 x 152 mm c.225pp 978-1-108-48986-7 Hardback £29.99

WHY IT WILL SELL • Unites political science with deep historical analysis, showing how general theories can be used to interpret and understand unique historical events • Introduces theories in ordinary language, making theoretical arguments accessible to readers without formal training in international relations

THE REVOLUTION THAT FAILED Nuclear Competition, Arms Control, and the Cold War

Brendan Green University of Cincinnati

The study of nuclear weapons is dominated by a single theory – that of the nuclear revolution, or mutual assured destruction (MAD). Although such theorists largely perceive nuclear competition as irrational and destined for eventual stalemate, the nuclear arms race between superpowers during the second half of the Cold War is a glaring anomaly that flies in the face of this logic. In this detailed historical account, Brendan Green presents an alternate theoretical explanation for how the United States navigated nuclear stalemate during the Cold War. Motivated by the theoretical and empirical puzzles of the Cold War arms race, Green explores the technological, perceptual, and ‘constitutional fitness’ incentives that were the driving forces behind US nuclear competition.

Green hypothesizes that states can gain peacetime benefits from effective nuclear competition, reducing the risk of crises, bolstering alliance cohesion, and more. He concludes that the lessons of the Cold War arms race remain relevant today: they will influence the coming era of great power competition and could potentially lead to an upsurge in future US government nuclear competition.

CONTENTS Introduction: a revolution, or what?; 1. The nuclear revolution revisited; 2. The delicacy of the nuclear balance; 3. Comparative constitutional fitness; 4. Testing the argument against its competitors; 5. Nixon and the origins of renewed nuclear competition, 1969–1971; 6. Nixon, Ford, and accelerating nuclear competition, 1971–1976; 7. The rise of nuclear warfighting, 1972–1976; 8. Carter and the climax of the arms race, 1977–1979; 9. The revolution that failed.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Level: graduate students

• Shows how the argument can be applied to the major issues of the day

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POLITICS AND SOCIAL THEORY

ORGANIZING AGAINST DEMOCRACY The Local Organizational Development of Far Right Parties in Greece and Europe

Antonis A. Ellinas University of Cyprus

January 2020 228 x 152 mm c.281pp 24 b/w illus. 8 tables 978-1-108-41514-9 Hardback £75.00

WHY IT WILL SELL • Explores a timely topic, as public interest in far right actors and how they come to rise has increased in recent years • Takes a creative approach by systematically examining the ‘lives’ of local far-right party organizations

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Organizing Against Democracy investigates some of the most important challenges modern democracies face, filling a distinctive gap in the literature, both empirically and theoretically. Ellinas examines the attempts of three of the most extreme European far-right parties to establish roots in local societies, and the responses of democratic actors.

He offers a theory of local party development to analyze the many factors affecting the evolution of far-right parties at the subnational level. Using extraordinarily rich data, the author examines the ‘lives’ of local farright party organizations in Greece, Germany and Slovakia, studying thousands of party activities and interviewing dozens of party leaders and functionaries, and antifascists. He goes on to explore how and why extreme parties succeed in some local settings while, in others, they fail. This book broadens our understanding of right-wing extremism, illuminating the factors limiting its corrosiveness.

CONTENTS 1. Introduction; 2. Extremist right-wing parties in Europe; 3. The organizational development of extremist right-wing parties; 4. The organizational development of the Golden Dawn; 5. Variation in local organizational development; 6. Endogenous drivers of local organizational development; 7. Electoral drivers of local organizational development; 8. The state and local organizational development; 9. Societal reactions and local organizational development; 10. The local development of extremist right-wing parties in Germany and Slovakia; 11. Conclusions.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Level: academic researchers, graduate students

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MAKING YOUNG VOTERS Converting Civic Attitudes into Civic Action

January 2020 228 x 152 mm c.282pp 42 b/w illus. 8 tables 978-1-108-48842-6 Hardback c. £75.00

WHY IT WILL SELL • Guided by multiple disciplines, this comprehensive study on the youth voting crisis provides insights on how to help young people overcome personal and structural barriers to participation • Formulated at the intersection of various disciplines – not only political science, but other fields just as relevant to voter turnout, such as economics, psychology, and education

John B. Holbein

D. Sunshine Hillygus

University of Virginia

Duke University, North Carolina

In 2016, 90% of young Americans reported an interest in politics. 80% intended to vote. Yet only 43% of people between the ages of 18 and 29 ended up actually casting a ballot. Making Young Voters investigates what lies at the core of this gap. The authors’ in-depth, interdisciplinary approach reveals that political apathy is not the reason for low levels of youth turnout. Rather, young people too often fail to follow through on their political interests and intentions. Those with ‘noncognitive’ skills related to self-regulation are more likely to overcome internal and external barriers to participation. This book combines theory from psychology, economics, child development, and more to explore possible solutions rooted in civic education and electoral reform. This potentially paradigm-shifting contribution to the literature of American politics serves to influence not only our understanding of voter turnout, but also the fundamental connections between the education system, electoral institutions, and individual civic behavior in a democracy. How young people vote affects not only each individual future, but that of the United States, and of us all.

CONTENTS 1. The puzzle of low youth turnout; 2. Rethinking what makes voters; 3. What are non-cognitive skills?; 4. Quantitative evidence that non-cognitive skills increase voting; 5. Rethinking civic education; 6. Promoting follow through by reducing the cost of voting; 7. Looking ahead; 8. Book appendix.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Level: graduate students, undergraduate students

• Documents how civic education has fallen short but can be improved to develop young people into active participants in American democracy

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THOU SHALT HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME Why Governments Discriminate against Minorities

Jonathan Fox Bar-Ilan University, Israel

February 2020 228 x 152 mm c.292pp 18 b/w illus. 42 tables 978-1-108-48891-4 Hardback £75.00

WHY IT WILL SELL • This book is the most thorough and comprehensive analysis of the causes of religious discrimination to date • Offers increased accessibility for readers without training in statistical methodology, since the book provides detailed illustrations and anecdotes for each finding

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This book is among the most thorough and comprehensive analysis of the causes of religious discrimination to date, complete with detailed illustrations and anecdotes. Jonathan Fox examines the causes of government-based religious discrimination (GRD) against 771 minorities in 183 countries over the course of twenty-five years, while offering possible reasons for why some minorities are discriminated against more than others. Fox illustrates the complexities inherent in the causes of GRD, which can emerge from secular ideologies, religious monopolies, anti-cult policies, security concerns and more. Western democracies tend to discriminate more than Christian-majority countries in the developing world, whether they are democratic or not. While the causes of GRD are ubiquitous, they play out in vastly different ways across world regions and religious traditions. This book serves as a method for better understanding this particular form of discrimination, so that we may have the tools to better combat it and foster compassion across people of different religions and cultures.

CONTENTS 1. Introduction; 2. Government-based religious discrimination; 3. Societal discrimination; 4.

Support, regulation and religious regime as causes of GRD in the Muslim world; 5. Non-orthodox Christian-majority democracies in the West and Europe; 6. Orthodox, Buddhist and communist states; 7. The rest, 1: democracies; 8. The rest, 2: non-democracies; 9. Conclusions.

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THE JOY OF RELIGION Exploring the Nature of Pleasure in Spiritual Life

Ariel Glucklich Georgetown University, Washington DC

All religions describe spiritual experience as pleasant, and the goal of the religious pursuit as profoundly joyful. But many religions also condemn sensory pleasures and the desire for objects of pleasure. In this book, Ariel Glucklich resolves this apparent contradiction by showing how religious practices that instill self-control and discipline transform one type of pleasure into the pleasures of mastery and play. Using historical data and psychological analysis, he details how the rituals, mystical practices, moral teachings, and sacred texts of the world’s religions act as psychological instruments that induce well-being. Glucklich also shows that in promoting joy and pleasure, religion also strengthens social bonds and enhances an individual’s pursuit of meaning.

February 2020 228 x 152 mm c.300pp 1 b/w illus. 1 map 1 table 978-1-108-48642-2 Hardback £74.99

WHY IT WILL SELL • Offers a psychological-biological theory of religious experience and religious motivation as positive and pleasant dimensions of life • Brings together comparative material from a variety of cultures and historical periods • Documents and analyzes the role of pleasure in religion

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CONTENTS Introduction: religion, pleasure and evolution; 1. The variety and mystery of religious pleasure; 2.

The nature and cultivation of complex pleasure; 3. The discovery of mastery pleasure; 4. Philo’s mastery, Plotinus’ play and the mystic’s joy; 5. Pleasure, play and magical thinking; 6. Churchsect theory and pleasure; 7. Narratives and rituals of pleasure; 8. A scholar’s Shabbat in central Virginia; Conclusion.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Level: graduate students, academic researchers

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RELIGION AND THE MEANING OF LIFE An Existential Approach

Clifford Williams Trinity International University, Illinois

March 2020 228 x 152 mm c.200pp 978-1-108-42156-0 Hardback c. £75.00

WHY IT WILL SELL • The book is unique in that monotheism lies at the core of its argument, whereas most books on the topic of life’s meaning take a more secular approach • Takes an interdisciplinary approach that can attract a wide range of readers, such as philosophers, religious studies scholars, psychologists, students, and general readers, and is designed to appeal to readers beyond academia

As humans, we want to live meaningfully, yet we are often driven by impulse. In Religion and the Meaning of Life, Williams investigates this paradox – one with profound implications. Delving into felt realities pertinent to meaning, such as boredom, trauma, suicide, denial of death, and indifference, Williams describes ways to acquire meaning and potential obstacles to its acquisition. This book is unique in its willingness to transcend a more secular stance and explore how one’s belief in God may be relevant to life’s meaning. Religion and the Meaning of Life’s interdisciplinary approach makes it useful to philosophers, religious studies scholars, psychologists, students, and general readers alike. The insights from this book have profound real-world applications – they can transform how readers search for meaning and, consequently, how readers see and exist in the world.

CONTENTS Introduction; 1. Why should we care about meaning?; 2. Boredom; 3. Denial of death; 4.

Acquiring meaning; 5. Suicide; 6. The divine one; 7. Life after death; 8. Obstacles; 9. How should we live so as to die well?; Epilogue. Facts the heart can feel; References; Index.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Level: undergraduate students, graduate students Series: Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society

• Contains a chapter on why we should care about meaning, which has not been explored by others writing on this topic • Includes chapters on topics of deep human concern – boredom, death, ways of acquiring meaning, and how we should live so as to die well

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WHAT IS A PERSON? Realities, Constructs, Illusions

John M. Rist University of Toronto

December 2019 228 x 152 mm 294pp 978-1-108-47807-6 Hardback £26.99

WHY IT WILL SELL • Offers an account of the concept of ‘person’ as it has developed in the West, and how it has become alien in a post-Christian culture • Considers whether we have rights as persons, whether we ‘matter’, and how we have reached a position where we are not sure whether we do • The appendix provides an additional space to explore contemporary claims about human rights

In this book, John M. Rist offers an account of the concept of ‘person’ as it has developed in the West, and how it has become alien in a postChristian culture. He begins by identifying the ‘mainline tradition’ about persons as it evolved from the time of Plato to the High Middle Ages, then turns to successive attacks on it in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, then proceeds to the ‘five ways’ in which the tradition was savaged or distorted in the nineteenth century and beyond. He concludes by considering whether ideas from contemporary philosophical movements, those that combine a closer analysis of human nature with a more traditional metaphysical background, may enable the tradition to be restored. A timely book on a theme of universal significance, Rist ponders whether we persons matter, and how we have reached a position where we are not sure whether we do.

CONTENTS Part I. Constructing the ‘Mainline Tradition’: 1. The first foundations: Plato and Aristotle; 2. From Stoic individuals and personae to Christian persons; 3. Mixtures: Plotinus, Porphyry, Nemesius; 4. Augustine’s personae: theology, metaphysics, history; 5. The definition: Boethius and Richard of Saint Victor; 6. Toward a synthesis: Thomas Aquinas; 7. Between two worlds: Duns Scotus; Part II. No God, No Soul; What Person?: 8. Virtue, ‘virtue’, rights; 9. Descartes on soul, self, mind, nature; 10. Personal identity from Hobbes to Locke; 11. After Locke; 12. Sympathy or empathy: Richardson, Hume, Smith; 13. Ambiguous Rousseau’s soul and ‘moi’; 14. Kant’s rational autonomy; Part III. Toward Disabling the Person: 15. Introducing the five ways; 16. Assimilation and homogenization; 17. The way of Prometheus; 18. Whistling in the humanitarian wind; 19.

Virtual morality: propaganda as social glue; 20. The way to an absolute nihilism; Part IV. Persons Restored or Final Solution?: 21. Parfit and Heidegger; 22. Strawson and Nagel; 23. Personalism, phenomenology, Edith Stein; 24. God made Adam and Eve.

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RELIGION

THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO THE BIBLE AND LITERATURE Edited by Calum Carmichael Cornell University, New York

December 2019 228 x 152 mm c.285pp 978-1-108-42295-6 Hardback £74.99

WHY IT WILL SELL • Together, the essays demonstrate why a classical work like the Bible, and the literary works inspired by it, will always be an inexhaustible stimulus to thinking • Highlights the ways in which the Bible contributes to language, including vocabulary, idioms and styles of writing • Examines topics from the gruesome wonders of apocalyptic texts to the mythic status of Melville’s Moby Dick

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This Companion volume offers a sweeping survey of the Bible as a work of literature and its impact on Western writing. Underscoring the sophistication of the biblical writers’ thinking in diverse areas of thought, it demonstrates how the Bible relates to many types of knowledge and its immense contribution to education through the ages. The volume emphasizes selected texts chosen from different books of the Bible and from later Western writers inspired by it. Individual essays, each written specially for this book, examine topics such as the gruesome wonders of apocalyptic texts, the erotic content of the Song of Songs, and Jesus’ and Paul’s language and reasoning, as well as Shakespeare’s reflections on repentance in King Lear, Milton’s genius in writing Paradise Lost, the social necessity of individual virtue in Shelley’s poetry, and the mythic status of Melville’s Moby Dick in the United States and the Western world in general.

CONTENTS 1. Literature of the Ancient Near East and the Bible; 2. The primary narrative (Genesis through 2 Kings); 3. Reading biblical literature from a legal and political perspective; 4. Biblical law and literature; 5. Kings, prophets, and judges; 6. Prophetic literature; 7. Wisdom literature; 8. The Gospels; 9. Paul’s Letters; 10. Apocalyptic literature; 11. Shakespeare’s King Lear and the Bible; 12. The Bible and John Milton’s Paradise Lost; 13. The Bible, Shelley, and English Romanticism; 14. Herman Melville and the Bible; 15. The Song of Songs and two biblical readings; Index.

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ENGLISH LITERATURE March 2020 229 x 152 mm c.320pp 978-1-108-42736-4 Hardback c. £71.99

THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO LITERATURE AND FOOD Edited by J. Michelle Coghlan University of Manchester

This Companion provides an engaging and expansive overview of gustation, gastronomy, agriculture and alimentary activism in literature from the medieval period to the present day, as well as an illuminating introduction to cookbooks as literature. Bringing together sixteen original essays by leading scholars, the collection rethinks literary food from a variety of critical angles, including gender and sexuality, critical race studies, postcolonial studies, eco-criticism and children’s literature.

Topics covered include mealtime decorum in Chaucer, Milton’s culinary metaphors, early American taste, Romantic gastronomy, Victorian eating, African-American women’s culinary writing, modernist food experiments, Julia Child and cold war cooking, industrialized food in children’s literature, agricultural horror and farmworker activism, queer cookbooks, hunger as protest and postcolonial legacy, and ‘dude food’ in contemporary food blogs. Featuring a chronology of key publication and historical dates and a comprehensive bibliography of further reading, this Companion is an indispensible guide to an exciting field for students and instructors.

WHY IT WILL SELL • Examines food in English, American, and postcolonial literature across a wide variety of historical periods, literary genres, and fields • Provides a comprehensive, up-todate guide to suggested further reading in literary food studies as well as a chronology of key publication and historical dates • Tells the story of cookbooks from medieval shorthand to runaway Victorian bestsellers, avant-garde culinary experiments, Soul Food activism and contemporary food blogs

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CONTENTS Introduction: the literature of food; 1. Medieval feasts; 2. The art of early modern cookery; 3. The Romantic revolution in taste; 4. The matter of early American taste; 5. The culinary landscape of Victorian literature; 6. Modernism and gastronomy; 7. Cold War cooking; 8. Farm horror in the twentieth century; 9. Queering the cookbook; 10. Guilty pleasures in children’s literature; 11. Postcolonial tastes; 12. Black power in the kitchen; 13. Farmworker activism; 14. Digesting Asian America; 15. Postcolonial foodways in contemporary African literature; 16. Blogging food, performing gender.

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ENGLISH LITERATURE January 2020 229 x 152 mm c.260pp 978-1-108-47534-1 Hardback £74.99

THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO J. M. COETZEE Edited by Jarad Zimbler University of Birmingham

Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee is amongst the most acclaimed and widely studied of contemporary authors. The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Coetzee provides a compelling introduction for new readers, as well as fresh perspectives and provocations for those long familiar with Coetzee’s works. All of Coetzee’s published novels and autobiographical fictions are discussed at length, and there is extensive treatment of his translations, scholarly books and essays, and volumes of correspondence.

Confronting Coetzee’s works on the grounds of his practice, the chapters address his craft, his literary relations and horizons, and the relationship between his writings and other arts, disciplines and institutions. Written by an international team of contributors, this Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to this important writer, establishes new avenues of discovery, and explains Coetzee’s undiminished ability to challenge and surprise his readers with inventive works of striking power and intensity.

WHY IT WILL SELL • Provides a thorough introduction to the writings of J. M. Coetzee • Approaches Coetzee’s corpus on the grounds of his practice and relations • Provides critical engagements with recent trends in Coetzee scholarship by addressing translation, adaptation, philosophy, archives and life writing

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CONTENTS Introduction; Part I. Forms: 1. Composition and craft: Waiting for the Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K; 2. Scenes and settings: Foe, Boyhood, Youth, Slow Man; 3. Stories and narration: In the Heart of the Country, The Master of Petersburg, The Childhood of Jesus; 4. Styles: Dusklands, Age of Iron, Disgrace, The Schooldays of Jesus; 5. Genres: Elizabeth Costello, Diary of a Bad Year, Summertime; Part II. Relations: 6. Translations; 7. Collaboration and correspondence; 8. Criticism and scholarship; 9. Influence and intertextuality; 10. Worlds, world-making, and Southern horizons; Part III. Mediations: 11. Other arts and adaptations; 12. Philosophies; 13. Lives and archives; 14. Publics and personas; Further reading; Index.

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CLASSICAL STUDIES

OVID ON SCREEN A Montage of Attractions

Martin M. Winkler George Mason University, Virginia

January 2020 228 x 152 mm c.494pp 24 b/w illus. 54 colour illus.

978-1-108-48540-1 Hardback £105.00

WHY IT WILL SELL • Systematically traces and interprets the importance of Ovid in the age of the moving image in general and for film history in particular • Helps readers understand literature and visual arts as related forms of storytelling, with roots in classical antiquity • Written in an accessible and jargon-free style by one of the most distinguished scholars of antiquity and film

This book presents the first systematic appreciation of Ovid’s extensive influence on, and affinity with, modern visual culture. Some topics are directly related to Ovid; others exhibit features, characters, or themes analogous to those in his works. The book demonstrates the wideranging ramifications that Ovidian archetypes, especially from the Metamorphoses, have provoked in a modern artistic medium that did not exist in Ovid’s time. It ranges from the earliest days of film history (Georges Méliès’s discovery of screen metamorphosis) and theory (Gabriele D’Annunzio’s fascination with the metamorphosis of Daphne; Sergei Eisenstein’s concept of film sense) through silent films, classic sound films, commercial cinema, art-house and independent films to modernism and the C.G.I. era. Films by well-known directors, including Ingmar Bergman, Walerian Borowczyk, Jean Cocteau, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Fritz Lang, Max Ophüls, Alain Resnais, and various others, are analyzed in detail.

CONTENTS List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Fade-in: Prooemium; Adages; Part I. Theory and Practice: 1. Cinemetamorphosis; 2. Ovid’s film sense and beyond; Part II. Key Moments in Ovidian Film History: 3. D’Annunzio’s Ovid and the cinematic impulse; 4. The Labyrinth: narrative complexity, deadly mazes, and Ovid’s modernity; Part III. Into New Bodies: 5. Effects and essences; 6. The Beast in Man: not Ovid’s, but how Ovidian!; Part IV. Love, Seduction, Death: 7. Varieties of modernism: Orpheus and Eurydice; 8. Love and death; 9. Lessons in seduction; Part V. Eternal Returns: 10. Immortality: philosophy, cinema, Ovid; 11. Ovidian returns; Sphragis: end credits; Bibliography; Index.

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PSYCHOLOGY

GIVING THE DEVIL HIS DUE Reflections of a Scientific Humanist

Michael Shermer Chapman University, California

April 2020 228 x 152 mm c.340pp 978-1-108-48978-2 Hardback c. £23.0

Who is the ‘Devil’? And what is he due? The Devil is anyone who disagrees with you. And what he is due is the right to speak his mind. He must have this for your own safety’s sake because his freedom is inextricably tied to your own. If he can be censored, why shouldn’t you be censored? If we put barriers up to silence ‘unpleasant’ ideas, what’s to stop the silencing of any discussion? This book is a full-throated defense of free speech and open inquiry in politics, science, and culture by the New York Times bestselling author and skeptic Michael Shermer. The new collection of essays and articles takes the Devil by the horns by tackling five key themes: free thought and free speech, politics and society, scientific humanism, religion, and the ideas of controversial intellectuals. For our own sake, we must give the Devil his due.

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WHY IT WILL SELL • Outlines a ten-point defence of free speech and open inquiry in politics, science, and culture • Presents numerous real-world examples of how science and reason can be employed for solving moral dilemmas and determining human values • Supplies many examples of heretics and heterodox thinkers, who challenged the orthodoxy and were punished for it, and how we should think about people whose claims challenge mainstream ideas today

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Introduction. Who is the Devil and what is he due?; Part I. The Advocatus Diaboli: Reflections on Free Thought and Free Speech: 1. Giving the Devil his due: why freedom of inquiry and speech in science and politics is inviolable; 2. Banning evil: in the shadow of the Christchurch massacre, myths about evil and hate speech are misleading; 3. Free speech even if it hurts: defending Holocaust denier David Irving; 4. Free to inquire: the evolution-creationism controversy as a test case in equal time and free speech; 5. Ben Stein’s blunder: why intelligent design advocates are not free speech martyrs; 6. What went wrong? Campus unrest, viewpoint diversity, and freedom of speech; Part II. Homo Religiosus: Reflections on God and Religion: 7. E pluribus unum for all faiths and for none; 8. Atheism and liberty: raising consciousness for religious skepticism through political freedom; 9. The curious case of Scientology: is it a religion or a cult?; 10. Does the Universe have a purpose?; 11. Why is there something rather than nothing?; Part III. Deferred Dreams: Reflections on Politics and Society: 12. Another dream deferred: how identity politics, intersectionality theory, and tribal divisiveness are inverting Martin Luther King, Jr’s dream; 13.

Healing the bonds of affection: the case for classical liberalism; 14. Governing mars: lessons for the red planet from experiments in governing the blue planet; 15. The Sandy Hook effect: what we can and cannot do about gun violence; 16. On guns and tyranny; 17. Debating guns: what conservatives and liberals really differ on about guns (and everything else); 18. Another fatal conceit: the lesson from evolutionary economics is bottom-up self-organization, not top-down government design; Part IV. Scientia Humanitatis: Reflections on Scientific Humanism: 19.

Scientific naturalism: a manifesto for Enlightenment humanism; 20. Mr Hume: tear. Down. This.

Wall.; 21. Kardashev’s types and Sparks’ law: how to build civilization 1.0; 22. How lives turn out: genes, environment, and luck – what we can and cannot control; Part V. Transcendent Thinkers: Reflections on Controversial Intellectuals: 23. Transcendent man: an elegaic essay to Paul Kurtz – a skeptic’s skeptic; 24. The real hitch: did Christopher Hitchens really keep two sets of books about his beliefs?; 25. The skeptic’s chaplain: Richard Dawkins as a fountainhead of skepticism; 26. Have archetype – will travel: the Jordan Peterson phenomenon; 27. Romancing the past: Graham Hancock and the quest for a lost civilization.

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PSYCHOLOGY

THE QUESTIONING CHILD Insights from Psychology and Education

Edited by Lucas P. Butler University of Maryland, College Park

Samuel Ronfard University of Toronto Mississauga

Kathleen H. Corriveau Boston University

January 2020 228 x 152 mm c.350pp 978-1-108-42891-0 Hardback £85.00

WHY IT WILL SELL • Includes contributions from interdisciplinary researchers in psychology and education • Features theoretical and empirical investigations that represent stateof-the-art research in the field • Provides a comprehensive framework for understanding this area of research

Questioning others is one of the most powerful methods that children use to learn about the world. How does questioning develop? How is it socialized? And how can questioning be leveraged to support learning and education? In this volume, some of the world’s leading experts are brought together to explore critical issues in the development of questioning. By collecting interdisciplinary and international perspectives from psychology and education, The Questioning Child presents research from a variety of distinct methodological and theoretical backgrounds. It synthesizes current knowledge on the role of question-asking in cognitive development and charts a path forward for researchers and educators to understand the pivotal function that questioning plays in child development and education.

CONTENTS 1. Questions about questions: framing the key issues; 2. Questions in development; 3. The point, the shrug, and the question of clarification; 4. The quest for comprehension and learning: children’s questions drive both; 5. Children’s question-asking across cultural communities; 6. The development of information-requesting gestures in infancy and their role in shaping learning outcomes; 7. Developmental changes in question asking; 8. Understanding developmental and individual differences in the process of inquiry during the preschool years; 9. ‘Why are there big squares and little squares?’ How questions reveal children’s understanding of a domain; 10. Children’s questions in social and cultural perspective; 11. Mothers’ use of questions and children’s learning and language development; 12. Teaching and learning by questioning; 13.

Asking ‘why?’ and ‘what if?’ The influence of questions on children’s inferences; 14. What makes a good question? Towards an epistemic classification; 15. The questioning child: a path forward.

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PSYCHOLOGY

CRITICAL THINKING IN PSYCHOLOGY Second edition

Edited by Robert J. Sternberg Cornell University, New York

Diane F. Halpern Claremont McKenna College, California

January 2020 228 x 152 mm c.300pp 978-1-108-49715-2 Hardback £74.99

WHY IT WILL SELL • Highlights the importance of critical thinking and how to improve it • Lists key terms with definitions • Presents a wide range of views on how to understand and increase critical thinking • Includes pedagogical features which will help students and faculty alike make optimal use of the book

Good scientific research depends on critical thinking at least as much as factual knowledge; psychology is no exception to this rule. And yet, despite the importance of critical thinking, psychology students are rarely taught how to think critically about the theories, methods, and concepts they must use. This book shows students and researchers how to think critically about key topics such as experimental research, statistical inference, case studies, logical fallacies, and ethical judgments.

Using updated research findings and new insights, this volume provides a comprehensive overview of what critical thinking is and how to teach it in psychology. Written by leading experts in critical thinking in psychology, each chapter contains useful pedagogical features, such as critical-thinking questions, brief summaries, and definitions of key terms.

It also supplies descriptions of each chapter author’s critical-thinking experience, which evidences how critical thinking has made a difference to facilitating career development.

CONTENTS 1. An introduction to critical thinking: maybe it will change your life; 2. Nobelists gone wild: case studies in the domain specificity of critical thinking; 3. Why science succeeds, and sometimes doesn’t; 4. Critical thinking and the rejection of unsubstantiated claims; 5. Promoting critical thinking by teaching, or taking, psychology courses; 6. Avoiding and overcoming misinformation on the Internet; 7. Critical thinking impacts our everyday lives; 8. Research suffers when we all agree: how sociopolitical homogeneity impairs critical thinking in the academy; 9. When all is just a click away: is critical thinking obsolete in the digital age?; 10. Critical thinking: promise, progress, and paradox; 11. Evaluating experimental research; 12. Critical thinking as scientific reasoning: examining the power of sports momentum; 13. Critical thinking in STEM disciplines; 14. Why would anyone do or believe such a thing? A social influence analysis; 15. Conclusion: how to think critically about politics (and anything else!).

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COMPUTER STUDIES

HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION An Introduction

Christoph Bartneck

Friederike Eyssel

Merel Keijsers

University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

Universität Bielefeld, Germany

University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

Tony Belpaeme University of Plymouth

April 2020 247 x 174 mm c.280pp 978-1-108-73540-7 Paperback £44.99

WHY IT WILL SELL • Minimal prerequisites and modular presentation enable courses to be tailored to fit students with different backgrounds • Discussion questions and relevant literature at the end of each chapter contribute to deeper conversations in and outside the classroom

Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute

Selma Šabanović Indiana University

The role of robots in society keeps expanding and diversifying, bringing with it a host of issues surrounding the relationship between robots and humans. This introduction to human-robot interaction (HRI), written by leading researchers in this developing field, is the first to provide a broad overview of the multidisciplinary topics central to modern HRI research.

Students and researchers from robotics, artificial intelligence, psychology, sociology, and design will find it a concise and accessible guide to the current state of the field. Written for students from diverse backgrounds, it presents relevant background concepts, describing how robots work, how to design them, and how to evaluate their performance. Selfcontained chapters discuss a wide range of topics, including the different communication modalities such as speech and language, non-verbal communication and the processing of emotions, as well as ethical issues around the application of robots today and in the context of our future society.

CONTENTS 1. Preface; 2. What is human-robot interaction?; 3. How a robot works; 4. Design; 5. Spatial interaction; 6. Nonverbal interaction; 7. Verbal interaction; 8. Emotion; 9. Robots in the media; 10.

Research methods; 11. Applications; 12. Ethical aspects; 13. The future.

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• Over ninety color illustrations showcase the history and most recent developments in humanrobot interaction

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ENGINEERING

NEXT-GENERATION ETHICS Engineering a Better Society

Edited by Ali E. Abbas University of Southern California

November 2019 228 x 152 mm 474pp 978-1-108-72737-2 Paperback £29.99

Many of the significant developments of our era have resulted from advances in technology, including the design of large-scale systems; advances in medicine, manufacturing, and artificial intelligence; the role of social media in influencing behaviour and toppling governments; and the surge of online transactions that are replacing human face-toface interactions. These advances have given rise to new kinds of ethical concerns around the uses (and misuses) of technology. This collection of essays by prominent academics and technology leaders covers important ethical questions arising in modern industry, offering guidance on how to approach these dilemmas. Chapters discuss what we can learn from the ethical lapses of #MeToo, Volkswagen, and Cambridge Analytica, and highlight the common need across all applications for sound decision-making and understanding the implications for stakeholders.

Technologists and general readers with no formal ethics training and specialists exploring technological applications to the field of ethics will benefit from this overview.

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WHY IT WILL SELL • Written in a style tailored to a general audience • Applications span a variety of different fields, including technology, business, medicine, and public policy • Prominent contributors include Vint Cerf, Glenda Cooper, Eric Horvitz, and Deirdre Mulligan

1. Next-generation ethics: an introduction; 2. Ethical distinctions for building your ethical code; Part I. Technology: 3. Composite ethical frameworks for IoT and other emerging technologies; 4.

Ethics of immersive technologies; 5. Internet, technology, and the future: an interview with Vint Cerf; 6. A Hippocratic Oath for technologists; 7. Data, privacy, and the greater good; 8. Guidelines for artificial intelligence containment; Part II. Business Enterprises: 9. Next-generation business ethics: the impact of artificial intelligence; 10. Big data privacy, ethics and enterprise continuous monitoring systems; 11. How management theories and culture fads kill organizational ethics; 12. How next-generation teams and teaming may affect the ethics of working in teams; 13.

Transparency: the what, why, and how of organizational effectiveness and ethics; 14. Global engagement by leaders is a moral imperative: building the next generation of ethical corporate cultures; Part III. Engineering: 15. The whistle that was not blown: WV, diesels and engineers; 16. Addressing corruption in our global engineering/construction industry; 17. Ethics issues facing engineers in oil and gas operations; 18. Engineering codes of ethics: legal protection and empowerment for engineers; 19. Engineering ethics when lives are on the line: when does bad engineering become bad ethics?; 20. Case studies of product life cycle environmental impacts for teaching engineering ethics; Part IV. Society: 21. Next-generation ethical issues: engineering, business, medicine, and public policy; 22. Techno innovations: the role of ethical standards, law and regulation, and the public interest; 23. Evolutionary ethics: a potentially helpful framework in engineering a better society; 24. Topics in next-generation medical ethics: the art in the art of medicine; 25. Next-generation ethical development of medical devices: considering harms, benefits, fairness, and freedom; 26. Looking back to go forward: the ethics of journalism in a social media age; 27. Social media ethics 2.0; 28. AI people and society; 29. Ethics in cyberspace: freedom, rights, and cybersecurity; 30. Next-generation religion and ethics.

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ENGINEERING

INTRODUCING PHOTONICS Brian Culshaw University of Strathclyde

January 2020 228 x 152 mm 160pp 978-1-107-15573-2 Hardback c. £58.99

WHY IT WILL SELL • Explains the fundamentals, but also shows how these relate to the operation of photonic devices and systems • Provides accessible and intuitive mathematical explanations • Includes carefully designed worked examples and end-of-chapter problems

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The essential guide for anyone wanting a quick introduction to the fundamental ideas underlying photonics. The author uses his forty years of experience in photonics research and teaching to provide intuitive explanations of key concepts, and demonstrates how these relate to the operation of photonic devices and systems. Readers will gain insight into the nature of light and the ways in which it interacts with materials and structures, and learn how these basic ideas are applied in areas such as optical systems, 3D imaging and astronomy. Carefully designed worked examples and end-of-chapter problems enable students to check their understanding, with full solutions available online. Mathematical treatments are kept as simple as possible, allowing readers to grasp even the most complex of concepts. Clear, concise and accessible, this is the perfect guide for undergraduate students taking a first course in photonics, and anyone in academia or industry wanting to review the fundamentals.

CONTENTS 1. Photonics: an introduction; 2. The nature of light; 3. Light interacting with materials; 4. Light interacting with structures; 5. Photonic tools; 6. The future.

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LIFE SCIENCES

TREES AND GLOBAL WARMING The Role of Forests in Cooling and Warming the Atmosphere

William J. Manning University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Large-scale tree planting is advocated to provide additional atmospheric cooling and further reduce global warming. This raises a question about the present time: do trees cool or warm the atmosphere? This question does not have a simple yes or no answer. Examination of the greenhouse effect, global warming and the carbon cycle, and how trees and forests function provides the basis for understanding how forests might cool or warm the atmosphere. Results from research and models indicate that cooling or warming depends on where forests are located and the type and color of trees. Cooling generally prevails over warming, but this may change. This book will appeal to anyone interested in climate change, ecology and conservation.

March 2020 228 x 152 mm c.350pp 978-1-108-47178-7 Hardback c. £49.99

WHY IT WILL SELL • Covers ozone and ozone/ CO2 interactions at ambient and elevated temperatures, experiments with air and soil warming and tree growth, and applied predictive models that have been developed to assess the effects of forests on global warming

CONTENTS 1. Global warming and forests in the Anthropocene; 2. The gases that cause the greenhouse effect; 3. Carbon and photochemical oxidant cycles; 4. Biogeochemical and bio geophysical factors that affect trees; 5. Trees in a warming world; 6. Forests of the world; 7. Knowledge base for forests in cooling and warming; 8. Mitigating global warming by forests; 9. Bringing it all together.

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• Provides a comprehensive review about forests and how they affect global warming • Describes the effectiveness of tree planting

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LIFE SCIENCES

CURIOUS ABOUT NATURE A Passion for Fieldwork

Edited by Tim Burt

Des Thompson

Durham University

Scottish Natural Heritage

Notwithstanding the importance of modern technology, fieldwork remains vital, not least through helping to inspire and educate the next generation. Fieldwork has the ingredients of intellectual curiosity, passion, rigour and engagement with the outdoor world – to name just a few. You may be simply noting what you see around you, making detailed records, or carrying out an experiment; all of this and much more amounts to fieldwork. Being curious, you think about the world around you, and through patient observation develop and test ideas. Forty contributors capture the excitement and importance of fieldwork through a wide variety of examples, from urban graffiti to the Great Barrier Reef.

Outdoor learning is for life: people have the greatest respect and care for their world when they have first-hand experience of it.

February 2020 228 x 152 mm c.350pp 978-1-108-42804-0 Hardback £69.99

WHY IT WILL SELL • Reviews the history of fieldwork across the biological and geographical sciences • Provides evidence of the importance of taking students out of the classroom • Forty contributors provide a wide range of examples, all extolling the importance of being in the field

CONTENTS Part I. Getting Curious about Nature: 1. Fieldwork and nature: observing, experimenting, and thinking; 2. The place of field studies in environmental science; 3. The history of field work in the geosciences; 4. Pioneering fieldwork heroes in the life sciences; 5. The educational benefits of out-of-classroom learning; Part II. Inspiring Fieldwork: 6. Understanding the decline of hen harriers on Orkney; 7. Rocky shores are not just for the able-bodied; 8. Life, love and longing to survive; 9. Bringing palaeoecology alive; 10. Expedition botany / hobby botany; 11. The Illisarvik drained-lake field experiment: a legacy of J. Ross Mackay; 12. In praise of meteorology field courses; 13. Time, place and circumstance; 14. Sampling fish diversity along a submarine mountain chain; 15. Place and placefulness; 16. Ripples across the pond; 17. Fieldwork, fieldfriends, and the paradox of absence; 18. Ornithological fieldwork – essential and enjoyable; 19. Exploration science on the shore of the Arctic Ocean – a personal experience; 20. Only connect – and make records; 21. Studying patterned bogs; 22. Mapping the rise of the animals: Cambrian bodies in the Sirius Pass, North Greenland; 23. Evolution in the cellar: live-trapping wild house mice in the Italian Alps; 24. Reflections on ‘babooning’; 25. Bogs, birds and bones: interdisciplinary fieldwork on the Isle of RuÌm NNR; 26. Exploring world(s) down under; 27.

Experiments by nature – strength in realism; 28. Big problems – small animals; 29. Soil survey: a field-based science; 30. A traveling ethnography of urban technologies; 31. My date with the devil; 32. Peregrinations through the heathlands and moorlands of Britain: an applied plant ecologist’s tale; 33. The Maimai catchment New Zealand; 34. ‘Writing in the field’ – the importance of a local patch; 35. Looking but not seeing – how sketching in the field improves observational skills in science; 36. From rum to recording forest soils via the Soil Survey of Scotland – a life of fieldwork; 37. In praise of bat detectors; 38. In search of Tawny Frogmouths; 39. Don’t just sit there reading …; 40. Fieldwork in the Australian bush – if it doesn’t kill you, it’ll convert you; 41. Field studies of behaviour and life-changing events; 42. Sediment, wind turbines, and rhinos: ah, the life of a geographer!; 43. Conservation science – the need for a new paradigm founded on robust field evidence; 44. The worst journey in the world; 45. Field-less fieldwork in archaeology’s digital age; 46. Reflections on a career with FSC; 47. My love-affair with rocks that fizz; 48. In the footsteps of John Wesley Powell – restoring the sand bars in the Grand Canyon; 49. Connecting the next generation to their world; 50. Beyond the curriculum – wider conceptions of learning in the field; Part III. Reflections and where next for field studies: 51.

Conclusion: inspiring, curious and novel fieldwork.

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LIFE SCIENCES

SHEPHERDING NATURE The Challenge of Conservation Reliance

March 2020 228 x 152 mm c.350pp 62 b/w illus. 57 colour illus.

978-1-108-42182-9 Hardback c. £69.99

WHY IT WILL SELL • Acknowledges the validity of multiple perspectives and concerns, and the importance of including these in conservation and management activities • Describes how legal approaches and conservation prioritizations need to change to accommodate conservation reliance

J. Michael Scott

Beatrice Van Horne

University of Idaho

US Forest Service

John A. Wiens

Dale D. Goble

Colorado State University

University of Idaho

Globally, more and more species are at risk of extinction as the environment and climate change. Many of these species require longterm management to persist – they are conservation-reliant. The magnitude of this challenge requires a rethinking of how conservation priorities are determined and a broader societal commitment to conservation. Choices need to be made about which species will be conserved, for how long, and by whom. This volume uses case studies and essays by conservation practitioners from throughout the world to explore what conservation reliance is and what it means for endangeredspecies management. Chapters consider threats to species and how they are addressed, legal frameworks for protecting endangered species, societal contexts and conflicts over conservation goals, and how including conservation reliance can strengthen methods for prioritizing species for conservation. The book concludes by discussing how shepherding nature requires an evaluation of societal values and ethics.

CONTENTS 1. Extinction and the challenge of conservation reliance; 2. The conservation spectrum; 3. The genesis of conservation reliance and the language of conservation; 4. What are the threats; 5. Emerging threats in a rapidly changing world; 6. The role of policy and law; 7. What’s in the conservationist’s toolbox: species-centered approaches; 8. Expanding the conservationist’s toolbox: going beyond species; 9. Conservation reliance is a human issue; 10. Making tough decisions: prioritizing species for conservation; 11. Being a good shepherd; Appendices; Author biographies; References; Index.

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• Discusses the current and future prevalence of conservation reliance and associated costs and tradeoffs

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INDEX A

Abbas, Ali E............................................................................... 28

B

Bainbridge, William Sims........................................................... 10 Bartneck, Christoph................................................................... 27 Belpaeme, Tony......................................................................... 27 Burt, Tim................................................................................... 31 Butler, Lucas P........................................................................... 25

Making Young Voters................................................................. 15 Manion, Jen................................................................................ 3 Manning, William J.................................................................... 30 Miles, Steven B............................................................................ 5 Modern Brazil............................................................................. 6 Mueller, Chelsi............................................................................. 7

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Network Origins of the Global Economy....................................... 9 Next-Generation Ethics.............................................................. 28

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Cambridge Companion to J. M. Coetzee, The.............................. 22 Cambridge Companion to Literature and Food, The.................... 21 Cambridge Companion to the Bible and Literature, The.............. 20 Carmichael, Calum.................................................................... 20 Chinese Diasporas....................................................................... 5 Coghlan, J. Michelle.................................................................. 21 Corriveau, Kathleen H................................................................ 25 Critical Thinking in Psychology................................................... 26 Culshaw, Brian.......................................................................... 29 Curious about Nature................................................................ 31

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Organizing Against Democracy.................................................. 14 Origins of the Arab-Iranian Conflict, The....................................... 7 Ovid on Screen.......................................................................... 23

P

Political Science Manifesto for the Age of Populism, A................ 12

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Questioning Child, The............................................................... 25

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Ellinas, Antonis A....................................................................... 14 Eyssel, Friederike....................................................................... 27

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Female Husbands........................................................................ 3 Fox, Jonathan............................................................................ 16

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Giving the Devil his Due............................................................ 25 Glucklich, Ariel.......................................................................... 17 Goble, Dale D............................................................................ 32 Green, Brendan......................................................................... 13

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Halpern, Diane F........................................................................ 26 Hillygus, D. Sunshine................................................................. 15 History of Big Recessions in the Long Twentieth Century, A........... 8 Holbein, John B......................................................................... 15 Horne, Beatrice Van................................................................... 32 Human Rights Dictatorship, The................................................... 4 Human-Robot Interaction.......................................................... 27

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Introducing Photonics................................................................ 29

J

Joy of Religion, The.................................................................... 17

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Kanda, Takayuki........................................................................ 27 Keijsers, Merel........................................................................... 27 Klein, Herbert S........................................................................... 6

L

Lebow, Richard Ned.................................................................. 11 Luna, Francisco Vidal................................................................... 6

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Reason and Cause..................................................................... 11 Religion and the Meaning of Life............................................... 18 Revolution that Failed, The......................................................... 13 Ricci, David M........................................................................... 12 Richardson-Little, Ned................................................................. 4 Rist, John M.............................................................................. 19 Ronfard, Samuel........................................................................ 25 Root, Hilton L.............................................................................. 9

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Šabanović, Selma...................................................................... 27 Scott, J. Michael........................................................................ 32 Shepherding Nature.................................................................. 32 Shermer, Michael....................................................................... 24 Social Structure of Online Communities, The............................... 10 Solimano, Andrés........................................................................ 8 Sternberg, Robert J.................................................................... 26

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Thompson, Des......................................................................... 31 Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods before Me................................ 16 Trees and Global Warming......................................................... 30

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What Is a Person?..................................................................... 19 Wiens, John A............................................................................ 32 Williams, Clifford....................................................................... 18 Winkler, Martin M..................................................................... 23

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Zimbler, Jarad............................................................................ 22

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