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Literature 8 Language and Linguistics
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Philosophy 19 Religion 30 Anthropology 33 Archaeology 34 Psychology 37 Politics 41 Economics 43 Law 45 Education 46 History 48 Computer Science
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Physics 53 Earth and Environmental Science
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Art
Michelangelo’s David Florentine History and Civic Identity
John T. Paoletti Wesleyan University, Connecticut
April 2015 253 x 177 mm 404pp 82 b/w illus. 978-1-107-04359-6 Hardback £70.00
Why will it sell • Highlights discoveries of new source material for the statue’s history • Rolf Bagemihl has also provided new translations of the documentary sources
This book takes a new look at the interpretations of, and the historical information surrounding, Michelangelo’s David. New documentary materials discovered by Rolf Bagemihl add to the early history of the stone block that became the David and provide an identity for the painted terracotta colossus that stood on the cathedral buttresses for which Michelangelo’s statue was to be a companion. The David, with its placement at the Palazzo della Signoria, was deeply implicated in the civic history of Florence, where public nakedness played a ritual role in the military and in the political lives of its people. This book, then, places the David not only within the artistic history of Florence and its monuments but also within the popular culture of the period as well.
Contents 1. The commission and history of the David; 2. David, narrative ambiguity, and the competition with antiquity; 3. The David and sculpture at the cathedral; 4. David and the symbols of the state at the Palazzo della Signoria; 5. Naked men in piazza; Appendix I: documents for Michelangelo’s David and its predecessors; Appendix II: report of the commission to advise on the placement of the David.
Additional Information Level: academic researchers, graduate students
• Includes appendices of all the archival information relevant to the David, edited by Rolf Bagemihl, who has re-edited previously published documentation
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Music
Understanding the Leitmotif From Wagner to Hollywood Film Music
Matthew Bribitzer-Stull University of Minnesota
May 2015 247 x 174 mm 315pp 3 tables 176 music examples 978-1-107-09839-8 Hardback c. £60.00
Why will it sell • Explains the concept of the leitmotif, adopting a new developmental approach to understanding its form and function • Explores the themes and associations of modern-day film music and the widely enjoyed musical genres of nineteenth-century dramatic music, such as program symphonies, tone poems, opera, and lieder • Provides a cross-disciplinary perspective that will be of interest to scholars of music theory, musicology, film studies, cultural studies, and comparative literature
The musical leitmotif, having reached a point of particular forcefulness in the music of Richard Wagner, has remained a popular compositional device up to the present day. In this book, Matthew Bribitzer-Stull explores the background and development of the leitmotif, from Wagner to the Hollywood adaptations of The Lord of The Rings and the Harry Potter series. Analyzing both concert music and film music, BribitzerStull explains what the leitmotif is and establishes it as the union of two aspects: the thematic and the associative. He goes on to show that Wagner’s Ring cycle provides a leitmotivic paradigm, a model from which we can learn to better understand the leitmotif across style periods. Arguing for a renewed interest in the artistic merit of the leitmotif, Bribitzer-Stull reveals how uniting meaning, memory, and emotion in music can lead to a richer listening experience and a better understanding of dramatic music’s enduring appeal.
Contents: 1. Introduction: the leitmotif problem; Part I. Musical Themes: 2. Motive, phrase, melody, and theme; 3. Thematic development, thematic identity: musical themes and the prototype model; Part II. Musical Association: 4. The phenomenon of musical association; 5. Piece specifics, cultural generics, and associative layering; 6. From ‘Nibelheim’ to Hollywood: the associativity of harmonic progression; Part III. Leitmotifs in Context: 7. The paradigm of Wagner’s Ring; 8. Leitmotif in Western art music outside the Ring; 9. The modern-day leitmotif: associative themes in contemporary film music.
Additional Information Level: academic researchers, graduate students
Advance praise: ‘In eloquent prose, Dr Bribitzer-Stull offers a fascinating interpretation of the structural and expressive roles of the leitmotif in Wagnerian opera and Hollywood film music. His attractive semiotic theory of associative meaning yields fundamental insights into how musical motives enhance meaning in intermedial contexts.’ Robert S. Hatten, University of Texas, Austin
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Music
The Cambridge Companion to French Music Edited by Simon Trezise Trinity College, Dublin
February 2015 247 x 174 mm 440pp 18 b/w illus. 20 music examples 978-0-521-70176-1 Paperback £19.99
Why will it sell • Traces the development of French music across the centuries, explaining the political and cultural contexts of composers and their works • Combines a broad chronological overview with more detailed topical studies relating to French music, such as the Court and Church • Explores both art music and popular and traditional music, to offer a wide-ranging introduction to French music genres and styles
France has a long and rich music history that has had a far-reaching impact upon music and cultures around the world. This accessible Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to the music of France. With chapters on a range of music genres, internationally renowned authors survey music-making from the early middle ages to the present day. The first part provides a complete chronological history structured around key historical events. The second part considers opera and ballet and their institutions and works, and the third part explores traditional and popular music. In the final part, contributors analyse five themes and topics, including the early church and its institutions, manuscript sources, the musical aesthetics of the Siècle des Lumières, and music at the court during the ancien régime. Illustrated with photographs and music examples, this book will be essential reading for both students and music lovers.
Contents: Foreword; Part I. Chronological History of French Music from the Early Middle Ages to the Present: 1. From abbey to cathedral and court: music under the Merovingian, Carolingian, and Capetian kings in France, through Louis IX; 2. Cathedral and court: music under the late Capetian and Valois kings in France, to Louis XI; 3. The Renaissance; 4. Music under Louis XIII and XIV (1610–1715); 5. Music from the Regency to the Revolution (1715–89); 6. The Revolution and Romanticism to 1848; 7. Renaissance and change: 1848 to 1914; 8. La guerre et la paix: 1914–45; 9. Cultural and generational querelles in the musical domain: music in France from the Second World War; Part II. Opera: 10. Opera and ballet to the death of Gluck; 11. Opera and ballet after the Revolution; Part III. Other Musics: 12. Traditional music and its ethnomusicological study in France; 13. Popular music; Part IV. Themes and Topics: 14. Manuscript sources and calligraphy; 15. Church and state in early medieval France; 16. Music and the court of the ancien régime; 17. Musical aesthetics of the Siècle des Lumières; 18. Paris and the regions from the Revolution to World War I.
Additional Information Level: undergraduate students, graduate students Series: Cambridge Companions to Music
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Music
The Cambridge Companion to Hip-Hop Edited by Justin A. Williams University of Bristol
January 2015 247 x 174 mm 350pp 20 b/w illus. 11 music examples 978-1-107-03746-5 Hardback c. £55.00
Why will it sell • Provides a new resource for students and enthusiasts, which updates and adds to previous arguments, debates, and contexts in hip-hop studies • Takes a multidisciplinary approach to hip-hop studies, including perspectives from political science, linguistics, musicology, and ethnomusicology • Balances mainstream US case studies with those from countries around the world, revealing links between global and local trends in hip-hop
It has been more than thirty-five years since the first commercial recordings of hip-hop music were made. This Companion, written by renowned scholars and industry professionals reflects the passion and scholarly activity occurring in the new generation of hip-hop studies. It covers a diverse range of case studies from Nerdcore hip-hop to instrumental hip-hop to the role of rappers in the Obama campaign and from countries including Senegal, Japan, Germany, Cuba, and the UK. Chapters provide an overview of the ‘four elements’ of hip-hop – MCing, DJing, break dancing (or breakin’), and graffiti – in addition to key topics such as religion, theatre, film, gender, and politics. Intended for students, scholars, and the most serious of ‘hip-hop heads’, this collection incorporates methods in studying hip-hop flow, as well as the music analysis of hip-hop and methods from linguistics, political science, gender and film studies to provide exciting new perspectives on this rapidly developing field.
Contents: Introduction: the interdisciplinary world of hip-hop studies; Part I. Elements: 1. MC origins: rap and spoken word poetry; 2. Hip-hop dance; 3. Hip-hop visual arts; 4. DJs and turntabilism; 5. The fifth element: knowledge; 6. Hiphop and religion: from the mosque to the church; 7. Hip-hop theater and performance; Part II. Methods and Concepts: 8. Lyrics and flow in rap music; 9. The musical analysis of hip-hop; 10. The glass: hip-hop production; 11. Hip-hop and racial identification: an (auto)ethnographic perspective; 12. Thirty years of rapsploitation: hip-hop culture in American cinema; 13. Barbz and kings: explorations of gender and sexuality in hip-hop; 14. Hip-hop and politics; 15. Intertextuality, sampling, and copyright; Part III. Case Studies: 16. Nerdcore hip-hop; 17. Framing gender, race, and hip-hop in Boyz in the Hood, Do the Right Thing and Slam; 18. Japanese hip-hop: alternative stories; 19. Council estate of mind: the British rap tradition and London’s hip-hop scene; 20. Cuban hip-hop; 21. Senegalese hip-hop; 22. Off the grid: instrumental hip-hop and experimentalism after the golden age; 23. Stylized Turkish German as the resistance vernacular of German hip-hop; 24. ‘Bringin’ ‘88 back’: historicizing rap music’s greatest year; 25. ‘Where ya at?’: Hip-hop’s political locations in the Obama era.
Additional Information Level: graduate students, general readers Series: Cambridge Companions to Music
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Classical Studies
The Pantheon From Antiquity to the Present
Edited by Tod A. Marder and Mark Wilson Jones
May 2015 253 x 177 mm 350pp 174 b/w illus. 18 colour illus. 978-0-521-80932-0 Hardback £65.00
Why will it sell • The most up-to-date study of the Pantheon, this volume includes recent archaeological findings about the history and development of the building • Provides a comprehensive history of the building, from its construction to its continued influence on architecture and our imagination
The Pantheon is one of the most important architectural monuments of all time. Thought to have been built by Emperor Hadrian in approximately AD 125 on the site of an earlier, Agrippan-era monument, it brilliantly displays the spatial pyrotechnics emblematic of Roman architecture and engineering. The Pantheon gives an upto-date account of recent research on the best preserved building in the corpus of ancient Roman architecture from the time of its construction to the twenty-first century. Each chapter addresses a specific fundamental issue or period pertaining to the building; together, the essays in this volume shed light on all aspects of the Pantheon’s creation, and establish the importance of the history of the building to an understanding of its ancient fabric and heritage, its present state, and its special role in the survival and evolution of ancient architecture in modern Rome.
Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. Agrippa’s Pantheon and its origin; 3. Dating the Pantheon; 4. The conception and construction of drum and dome; 5. Sources and parallels for the design and construction of the Pantheon; 6. The Pantheon builders: estimating manpower for construction; 7. Building on adversity: the Pantheon and problems with its construction; 8. The Pantheon in the middle ages; 9. Impressions of the Pantheon in the Renaissance; 10. The Pantheon in the seventeenth century; 11. Neo-classical remodelling and reconception, 1700–1820; 12. A nineteenth-century monument for the state; 13. The Pantheon in the modern age.
Additional Information Level: graduate students, undergraduate students, academic researchers
• The essays assume little prior knowledge of architecture, yet provide enough new material to engage the scholar
Also of Interest
The Roman Forum A Reconstruction and Architectural Guide
Gilbert J. Gorski University of Notre Dame, Indiana
See page 34
James E. Packer Northwestern University, Illinois
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Literature
Old Books, New Technologies The Representation, Conservation and Transformation of Books since 1700
David McKitterick University of Cambridge
September 2014 247 x 174 mm 294pp 23 b/w illus. 978-1-107-47039-2 Paperback £18.99
Why will it sell • Examines changes in attitudes to old books since the seventeenth century, setting current debates about digital reproduction in their historical context • Makes use of a wide range of examples from Britain and western Europe to show how and when our attitudes towards old books have changed
As we rely increasingly on digital resources, and libraries discard large parts of their older collections, what is our responsibility to preserve ‘old books’ for the future? David McKitterick’s lively and wide-ranging study explores how old books have been represented and interpreted from the eighteenth century to the present day. Conservation of these texts has taken many forms, from early methods of counterfeiting, imitation and rebinding to modern practices of microfilming, digitisation and photography. Using a comprehensive range of examples, McKitterick reveals these practices and their effects to address wider questions surrounding the value of printed books, both in terms of their content and their status as historical objects. Creating a link between historical approaches and the emerging technologies of the future, this book furthers our understanding of old books and their significance in a world of emerging digital technology.
Contents: 1. The past in pixels; 2. Restoration and invention; 3. Conservation, counterfeiting and bookbinding; 4. Representation and imitation; 5. From copying to facsimile; 6. The arrival of photography; 7. Public exhibition; 8. The Caxton exhibition of 1877; 9. A bibliographical and public revolution; 10. Conclusion.
Additional Information Level: academic researchers, graduate students
‘A learned, sensible and well-written piece of historical scholarship.’ The Times Literary Supplement
• Focuses especially on the second half of the nineteenth century to explore how a reading public for old books developed
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Literature
The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis Jean-Michel Rabaté University of Pennsylvania
November 2014 228 x 152 mm 262pp 978-1-107-02758-9 Hardback £50.00
Why will it sell • An introductory text that offers theoretical sophistication, accessible explanations, and precise examples of applications
This volume is an introduction to the relationship between psychoanalysis and literature. Jean-Michel Rabaté takes Sigmund Freud as his point of departure, studying in detail Freud’s integration of literature in the training of psychoanalysts and how literature provided crucial terms for his myriad theories, such as the Oedipus complex. Rabaté subsequently surveys other theoreticians such as Wilfred Bion, Marie Bonaparte, Carl Jung, Jacques Lacan, and Slavoj Žižek. This Introduction is organized thematically, examining in detail important terms like deferred action, fantasy, hysteria, paranoia, sublimation, the uncanny, trauma, and perversion. Using examples from Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare to Sophie Calle and Yann Martel, Rabaté demonstrates that the psychoanalytic approach to literature, despite its erstwhile controversy, has recently reemerged as a dynamic method of interpretation.
Contents: 1. Freud’s theater of the unconscious: Oedipus, Hamlet, and ‘Hamlet’; 2. Literature and fantasy: towards a grammar of the subject; 3. From the uncanny to the unhomely; 4. Psychoanalysis and the paranoid critique of pure literature; 5. The literary phallus, from Poe to Gide; 6. A thing of beauty is a Freud for ever: Joyce with Jung and Freud, Lacan, and Borges; 7. From the history of perversion to the trauma of history.
Additional Information Level: undergraduate students, graduate students, academic researchers Series: Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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Literature
The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett Edited by Dirk Van Hulle Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium
January 2015 228 x 152 mm 246pp 4 b/w illus. 978-1-107-07519-1 Hardback £50.00
Why will it sell • Fifteen incisive essays by eminent Beckett scholars • A detailed chronology of Beckett’s works • A clear three-part structure (Canon; Poetics; Topics)
In the past decade, there has been an unprecedented upsurge of interest in Samuel Beckett’s works. The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett offers an accessible and engrossing introduction to a key set of issues animating the field of Beckett studies today. This Companion considers Beckett’s lasting significance by addressing a host of relevant topics. Written by a team of renowned scholars, this volume presents a continuum in Beckett studies ranging from theoretical approaches to performance studies, from manuscript research to the study of bilingualism, intertextuality, late modernism, history, philosophy, ethics, body and mind. The emphasis on burgeoning critical approaches aids the reader’s understanding of recent developments in Beckett studies while prompting further exploration, assisted by the guide to further reading.
Contents: 1. Early Beckett: ‘the one looking through his fingers’; 2. Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable: the novel reshaped; 3. Still stirrings: Beckett’s prose from Texts for Nothing to ‘Stirrings Still’; 4. Waiting for Godot and Beckett’s cultural impact; 5. Endgame and shorter plays: religious, political and other readings; 6. Ruptures of the visual: Beckett as critic and poet; 7. Beckett and late modernism; 8. Beckett’s intertexts; 9. Bilingual Beckett: beyond the linguistic turn; 10. Samuel Beckett and the ‘idea’ of theatre: performance through Artaud and Deleuze; 11. Samuel Beckett with, in and around philosophy; 12. Love and lobsters: Beckett’s meta-ethics; 13. Beckett, body and mind; 14. ‘Humanity in ruins’: Beckett and history.
Additional Information Level: undergraduate students, graduate students Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Literature
Modernist Fiction and Vagueness Philosophy, Form, and Language
Megan Quigley Villanova University, Pennsylvania
April 2015 228 x 152 mm 246pp 978-1-107-08959-4 Hardback £60.00
Why will it sell • New readings of major novels based on archival research • The first work to link the topic of vagueness in philosophy to modernist literature • Interdisciplinary (philosophy and literature) and relates literature to social and historical context
Modernist Fiction and Vagueness marries the artistic and philosophical versions of vagueness, linking the development of literary modernism to changes in philosophy. This book argues that the problem of vagueness – language’s unavoidable imprecision – led to transformations in both fiction and philosophy in the early twentieth century. Both twentieth-century philosophers and their literary counterparts (including James, Eliot, Woolf, and Joyce) were fascinated by the vagueness of words and the dream of creating a perfectly precise language. Building on recent interest in the connections between analytic philosophy, pragmatism, and modern literature, Modernist Fiction and Vagueness demonstrates that vagueness should be read not as an artistic problem but as a defining quality of modernist fiction.
Contents: 1. The art of vagueness; 2. The two pragmatisms and Henry James’s criticism; 3. ‘Guess my riddle’: Watch and Ward; 4. The vengeance of the ‘great vagueness’: ‘The Beast in the Jungle’; 5. The bad pragmatist: The Sacred Fount’s narrator; 6. ‘Vague values’: Strether’s dilemma in The Ambassadors; 7. Mush and the telescope; 8. Vagueness and vagabonds in ‘Craftsmanship’; 9. Night and Day and the ‘semi-transparent envelope’; 10. Jacob’s shadow; 11. ‘I begin to doubt the fixity of tables’: solipsism and The Waves; 12. ‘The study of languages’: logical versus natural languages; 13. Wittgenstein the poet and Joyce the ‘philosophist’; 14. Learning vague language: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; 15. Throwing away the ladder, losing the keys: Siopold and Boom in Ulysses; 16. Blasphemy and nonsense: Finnegans Wake in Basic; 17. Eliot’s critical influence; 18. Eliot and Russell: ‘wobbliness’ and ‘the scientific paradise’; 19. ‘Fuzzy studies’ and fuzzy fictions.
Additional Information Level: graduate students, academic researchers
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Literature
The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature Edited by David Hillman University of Cambridge
and Ulrika Maude University of Bristol
May 2015 228 x 152 mm 320pp 978-1-107-04809-6 Hardback c. £50.00
Why will it sell • Offers the first systematic analysis of the representation of the body in literature • Historicizes embodiment by charting our evolving understanding of the body from the Middle Ages to the present day
This Companion offers the first systematic analysis of the representation of the body in literature. It historicizes embodiment by charting our evolving understanding of the body from the Middle Ages to the present day, and addresses such questions as sensory perception, technology, language and affect; maternal bodies, disability and the representation of ageing; eating and obesity, pain, death and dying; and racialized and posthuman bodies. This Companion also considers science and its construction of the body through disciplines such as obstetrics, sexology and neurology. Leading scholars in the field devote special attention to poetry, prose, drama and film, and chart a variety of theoretical understandings of the body.
Contents: Chronology; Modern Arab culture: introductory remarks; 1. The question of language; 2. Religious and ethnic minorities; 3. Nahda: the Arab project of enlightenment; 4. Law; 5. Poetry; 6. Narrative; 7. Music; 8. Cinema and television; 9. Theatre; 10. Art; 11. Architecture; 12. Humour; 13. Folklore; 14. Food and cuisine; 15. Migration and diaspora; Glossary; Guide to further reading; Index.
Additional Information Level: undergraduate students, graduate students Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Includes a consideration of science and its construction of the body through disciplines such as obstetrics, sexology and neurology
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The Cambridge Companion to Modern Arab Culture Edited by Dwight F. Reynolds University of California, Santa Barbara
March 2015 228 x 152 mm 352pp 18 b/w illus. 3 maps 978-0-521-89807-2 Hardback £55.00
Why will it sell • Explores critical areas of Arab culture not covered in other volumes such as Arab humour, folklore, cuisine, law, and the role of ethnic and religious minorities
Dwight F. Reynolds brings together a collection of essays by leading international scholars to provide a comprehensive and accessible survey of modern Arab culture, from the early nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The chapters survey key issues necessary to any understanding of the modern Arab World: the role of the various forms of the Arabic language in modern culture and identity; the remarkable intellectual transformation undergone during the ‘Nahda’ or ‘Arab Renaissance’ of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the significant role played by ethnic and religious minorities, and the role of law and constitutions. Other chapters on poetry, narrative, theatre, cinema and television, art, architecture, humour, folklore, and food offer fresh perspectives and correct negative stereotypes that emerge from viewing Arab culture primarily through the lens of politics, terrorism, religion, and economics.
Contents: Chronology; Modern Arab culture: introductory remarks; 1. The question of language; 2. Religious and ethnic minorities; 3. Nahda: the Arab project of enlightenment; 4. Law; 5. Poetry; 6. Narrative; 7. Music; 8. Cinema and television; 9. Theatre; 10. Art; 11. Architecture; 12. Humour; 13. Folklore; 14. Food and cuisine; 15. Migration and diaspora; Glossary; Guide to further reading; Index.
Additional Information Level: graduate students, undergraduate students Series: Cambridge Companions to Culture
• Brings together essays by leading international scholars along with a chronology, glossary and guide to further reading • Corrects many negative stereotypes that emerge from viewing Arab culture primarily through the lens of politics, terrorism, religion and economics
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Language and Linguistics
The Semantics of Colour A Historical Approach
C. P. Biggam University of Glasgow
February 2015 229 x 152 mm 272pp 12 tables 978-1-107-49988-1 Paperback c. £22.99
Why will it sell • Discusses the crucial differences between modern and historical colour studies • Includes a large number of case studies on various aspects of colour semantics, drawn from both modern and historical languages from around the world
Human societies name and classify colours in various ways. Knowing this, is it possible to retrieve colour systems from the past? This book presents the basic principles of modern colour semantics, including the recognition of basic vocabulary, subsets, specialised terms and the significance of non-colour features. Each point is illustrated by case studies drawn from modern and historical languages from around the world. These include discussions of Icelandic horses, Peruvian guinea-pigs, medieval roses, the colour yellow in Stuart England, and Polynesian children’s colour terms. Major techniques used in colour research are presented and discussed, such as the evolutionary sequence, Natural Semantic Metalanguage and Vantage Theory. The book also addresses whether we can understand the colour systems of the past, including prehistory, by combining various semantic techniques currently used in both modern and historical colour research with archaeological and environmental information.
Contents: 1. What is colour?; 2. What is colour semantics?; 3. Basic colour terms; 4. Non-basic and non-standard colour expressions; 5. Basic colour categories; 6. The evolutionary sequence; 7. Different approaches; 8. Historical projects: preliminaries; 9. Synchronic studies; 10. Diachronic studies; 11. Prehistoric colour studies; 12. Applications and potential.
Additional Information Level: academic researchers
• Investigates the possibilities for prehistoric colour semantic studies
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Language and Linguistics
Communication across Cultures Mutual Understanding in a Global World Second edition
October 2014 228 x 152 mm 240pp 978-1-107-68514-7 Paperback £29.99
Why will it sell • Provides an accessible and interdisciplinary introduction to language and language variation in intercultural communication • Comprehensively updated to incorporate recent research • Reviews and critiques classic concepts such as ‘face’, ‘politeness’ and ‘speech acts’
Heather Bowe
Kylie Martin
Howard Manns
Monash University, Victoria
Hokkaido University, Japan
Monash University, Victoria
Communication across Cultures explores how cultural context affects the use and (mis)interpretation of language. It provides an accessible and interdisciplinary introduction to language and language variation in intercultural communication by drawing on both classic and cutting-edge research from pragmatics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology and politeness studies. This new edition has been comprehensively updated to incorporate recent research, with an emphasis on the fluid and emergent practice of intercultural communication. It provides increased coverage of variation in language within and between cultures, drawing on real-world examples of spoken and written communication. The authors review classic concepts like ‘face’, ‘politeness’ and ‘speech acts’, but also critique these concepts and introduce more recent approaches. Each chapter provides a set of suggested readings, questions and exercises to enable the student to work through concepts and consolidate their understanding of intercultural communication. This is an excellent resource for students of linguistics and related disciplines.
Contents: 1. Culture, communication and context; Part I. Contextual Felicity across Cultures: 2. Direct and indirect messages; 3. Schema, face and politeness; 4. Speech acts and politeness; Part II. Structure and Contextual Update across Cultures: 5. Conversation across cultures; 6. Positioning the self: role, power and gender; 7. Positioning the other: naming, address and honorifics; 8. Cultural differences in writing; Part III. Professional Communication across Cultures: 9. Translating language and culture; 10. Intercultural communication in the workplace; 11. Successful intercultural communication.
Additional Information Courses: Cross-Cultural Communication Departments: Linguistics Level: undergraduate students, graduate students
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Language and Linguistics
Multilingualism Anat Stavans Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Beit Berl College
and Charlotte Hoffmann University of Salford
January 2015 216 x 138 mm 250pp 19 b/w illus. 4 maps 6 tables 978-1-107-09299-0 Hardback £59.99
Why will it sell • A multidisciplinary approach to the study of multilingualism involving descriptive, theoretical and analytical tools from sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics and education • Contains a range of examples of multilingualism from different contexts which will help the reader to develop a view of the subject as a multifaceted and complex phenomenon
How do children and adults become multilingual? How do they use their languages? What influence does being multilingual have on their identities? What is the social impact of multilingualism today and how do societies accommodate it? These are among the fascinating questions examined by this book. Exploring multilingualism in individuals and in society at large, Stavans and Hoffmann argue that it evolves not from one factor in particular, but from a vast range of environmental and personal influences and circumstances: from migration to globalisation, from the spread of English to a revived interest in minority languages, from social mobility to intermarriage. The book shows the important role of education in helping to promote or maintain pupils’ multilingual language competence and multilingual literacy, and in helping to challenge traditional monolingual attitudes. A clear and incisive account of this growing phenomenon, it is essential reading for students, teachers and policymakers alike.
Contents: Introduction; Part I. Global and Societal Issues in Multilingualism and Trilingualism: 1. Historical perspectives of language contact; 2. Patterns of societal multilingualism; 3. Old and new linguistic minorities; 4. Globalisation, language spread and new multilingualisms; Part II. Construing Individual Multilingualism: 5. Individual multilingualism; 6. Multilingual language competence and use; 7. Accommodating multilingualism; 8. Multilingual education and multilingual literacies; Glossary; References; Index.
Additional Information Level: graduate students Series: Key Topics in Sociolinguistics
Advance praise: ‘The authors of this book demonstrate that multilingualism is as old as humanity itself. Language and politics have always been intertwined, creating amazing and conflictual complexity … This is a very clear and highly informative book.’ Jean-Marc Dewaele, Birkbeck, University of London
• Explores the impact of multilingualism on society and identity, providing an organic description of multilingualism as a result of, and response to, contemporary social trends
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Language and Linguistics
Endangered Languages An Introduction
Sarah G. Thomason University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
and Veronica Grondona Eastern Michigan University
April 2015 247 x 174 mm 250pp 1 map 978-0-521-68453-8 Paperback £19.99
Why will it sell • Uses case studies and a wide variety of examples of situations involving endangered languages • Includes a glossary of technical terms to help readers gain a clear understanding of the concepts involved in language endangerment • Complete with an extensive ‘Sources and further readings’ section at the end of each chapter
Most of the 7,000 languages spoken in the world today will vanish before the end of this century, taking with them cultural traditions from all over the world, as well as linguistic structures that would have improved our understanding of the universality and variability of human language. This book is an accessible introduction to the topic of language endangerment, answering questions such as: what is it? How and why does it happen? Why should we care? The book outlines the various causes of language endangerment, explaining what makes a language ‘safe’, and highlighting the danger signs that threaten a minority language. Readers will learn about the consequences of losing a language, both for its former speech community and for our understanding of human language. Illustrated with case studies, it describes the various methods of documenting endangered languages, and shows how they can be revitalised.
Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. Why and how languages become endangered; 3. Sliding into dormancy: social processes and linguistic effects; 4. What a community loses: language loss as cultural loss; 5. What science loses: language loss as a threat to our understanding of human history, human cognition, and the natural world; 6. Field research on endangered languages; 7. Language preservation and revitalizati Additional Resources: http://www.cambridge.org/9780521865739 List of websites of interest, discussion questions
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Advance praise: ‘This is a superb one-volume, single-author introduction to endangered languages. Full coverage, [an] accessible style, and illuminating examples will make this volume invaluable to novice fieldworkers and wonderfully resonant to veterans.’ Nancy C. Dorian, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, Bryn Mawr College
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Language and Linguistics
Language Change Joan Bybee University of New Mexico
How and why do languages change? This new introduction offers a guide to the types of change at all levels of linguistic structure, as well as the mechanisms behind each type. Based on data from a variety of methods and a huge array of language families, it examines general patterns of change, bringing together recent findings on sound change, analogical change, grammaticalization, the creation and change of constructions, as well as lexical change. Emphasizing crosslinguistic patterns and going well beyond traditional methods in historical linguistics, this book sees change as grounded in cognitive processes and usage factors that are rarely mentioned in other textbooks. Complete with questions for discussion, suggested readings and a useful glossary of terms, this book helps students to gain a general understanding of language as an ever-changing system. May 2015 247 x 174 mm 300pp 2 b/w illus. 28 tables 978-1-107-02016-0 Hardback c. £60.00
Why will it sell • This new introduction offers a guide to all aspects of language change, with an emphasis on the role of cognition and language use • Each chapter touches on a type of change and maps the directionality of that change so readers can grasp patterns more easily
Contents: 1. The study of language change; 2. Sound change; 3. Sound change and phonological change in wider perspective; 4. The interaction of sound change with grammar; 5. Analogical change; 6. Grammaticalization: processes and mechanisms; 7. Common paths of grammaticalization; 8. Syntactic change: the development and change of constructions; 9. Lexical change: how languages get new words and how words change their meaning; 10. Comparison, reconstruction and typology; 11. Causes of language change: internal and external factors.
Additional Information Courses: Language Change, Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics Departments: Linguistics Level: undergraduate students, graduate students Series: Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
• Within historical linguistics non-European languages are often overlooked; in this book, examples are given from both European and non-European languages
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Philosophy
Natural Human Rights A Theory
Michael Boylan Marymount University, Virginia
October 2014 228 x 152 mm 312pp 2 tables 978-1-107-02985-9 Hardback £60.00
Why will it sell • Presents major modes of thinking about human rights, and argues for an original position • Sets out traditional ways that the West and China understand natural law (and the resulting human rights) • Introduces each major section with a short story that depicts a violation of human rights in line with the pedagogical structure presented
This timely book by internationally regarded scholar of ethics and social/political philosophy, Michael Boylan, focuses on the history, application and significance of human rights in the West and China. Boylan engages the key current philosophical debates prevalent in human rights discourse today and draws them together to argue for the existence of natural, universal human rights. Arguing against the grain of mainstream philosophical beliefs, Boylan asserts that there is continuity between human rights and natural law and that human beings require basic, essential goods for minimum action. These include food, clean water and sanitation, clothing, shelter and protection from bodily harm, including basic healthcare. The achievement of this goal, Boylan demonstrates, will require significant resource allocation and creative methods of implementation involving public and private institutions. Combining technical argument with four fictional narratives about human rights, the book invites readers to engage with the most important aspects of the discipline.
Contents: Part I. Conceptualizing Human Rights: 1. How do we talk about human rights?; 2. A short history of human rights in the West; 3. Human rights in China; Part II. Justifications for Human Rights: 4. Legal justifications; 5. Interest justifications; 6. Agency justifications; 7. Ontology, justice, and human rights; Part III. Applications of Human Rights: 8. War rape; 9. Political speech; 10. LGBT rights.
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‘In this important book Boylan the philosopher and Boylan the novelist join forces. By combining fine stories; conceptual, historical, and literary analysis; an extended systematic argument; and pertinent case studies, Boylan successfully develops his theory of universal human rights. A demonstration of admirable scholarship and a superb addition to philosophy!’ Klaus Steigleder, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
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Philosophy
Husserl’s Transcendental Phenomenology Nature, Spirit, and Life
Andrea Staiti Boston College, Massachusetts
November 2014 228 x 152 mm 323pp 978-1-107-06630-4 Hardback £60.00
Why will it sell • Offers an interpretation of Husserl which engages with lesser-known thinkers of his time, appealing to those pursuing an understanding of phenomenology which goes beyond standard presentations • Discusses key texts that are not available in English translation, providing Anglophone readers the opportunity to learn about these crucial philosophical works for the first time • Clarifies fundamental notions in transcendental phenomenology in accessible terms, allowing readers familiar with Kant’s transcendental philosophy to connect Husserl’s thought to the Kantian tradition
Edmund Husserl (1859–1938) is regarded as the founder of transcendental phenomenology, one of the major traditions to emerge in twentieth-century philosophy. In this book Andrea Staiti unearths and examines the deep theoretical links between Husserl’s phenomenology and the philosophical debates of his time, showing how his thought developed in response to the conflicting demands of Neo-Kantianism and life-philosophy. Drawing on the work of thinkers including Heinrich Rickert, Wilhelm Dilthey and Georg Simmel, as well as Husserl’s writings on the natural and human sciences that are not available in English translation, Staiti illuminates a crucial chapter in the history of twentieth-century philosophy and enriches our understanding of Husserl’s thought. His book will interest scholars and students of Husserl, phenomenology, and twentieth-century philosophy more generally.
Contents: Introduction; 1. Southwestern Neo-Kantianism in search of ontology; 2. Life-philosophical accounts of history and psyche: Simmel and Dilthey; 3. Standpoints and attitudes: scientificity between Neo-Kantianism and Husserlian phenomenology; 4. The reception of Husserl’s Ideen among the Neo-Kantians; 5. Husserl’s critique of Rickert’s secretly naturalistic transcendentalism: the Natur und Geist lectures (1919–1927); 6. Historia formaliter spectata: Husserl and the life-philosophers; 7. The life-world as the source of nature and culture: towards a transcendentalphenomenological worldview; 8. Ethical and cultural implications in Husserl’s phenomenology of the life-world; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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‘Andrea Staiti’s book presents an account of Husserl’s thought that does full justice to the richness of his contribution to the philosophical elucidation of life, nature, the cultural world, and history. It should greatly facilitate dialogue between phenomenology and other philosophical approaches to these topics.’ Steven Crowell, Rice University
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Philosophy
The Cambridge Companion to Liberalism Edited by Steven Wall University of Arizona
February 2015 228 x 152 mm 400pp 978-1-107-08007-2 Hardback £55.00
Why will it sell • A single volume overview and guide to liberalism as a tradition of political thought • Examines liberalism from the perspective of historical political thought and contemporary political theory and philosophy • Surveys and contributes to ongoing debates in contemporary political theory
The political philosophy of liberalism was first formulated during the Enlightenment in response to the growth of the modern nation-state and its authority and power over the individuals living within its boundaries. Liberalism is now the dominant ideology in the Western world, but it covers a broad swathe of different (and sometimes rival) ideas and traditions and its essential features can be hard to define. The Cambridge Companion to Liberalism offers a rich and accessible exploration of liberalism as a tradition of political thought. It includes chapters on the historical development of liberalism, its normative foundations, and its core philosophical concepts, as well as a survey of liberal approaches and responses to a range of important topics including freedom, equality, toleration, religion, and nationalism. The volume will be valuable for students and scholars in political philosophy, political theory, and the history of political thought.
Contents: I Introduction; Part I. Historical Perspectives: 1. American liberalism from colonialism to the Civil War and beyond; 2. Liberalism and the morality of commercial society; 3. Liberalism: 1900–1940; Part II. Normative Foundations: 4. Contractarianism and the problem of exclusion; 5. Public reason liberalism; 6. Autonomy and liberalism: a troubled marriage?; 7. Liberalism, neutrality, and democracy; Part III. Topics and Concepts: 8. Contemporary liberalism and toleration; 9. Liberalism and equality; 10. Disagreement and the justification of democracy; 11. Liberalism and economic liberty; 12. Liberalism and religion; 13. Liberalism and multiculturalism; 14. Liberalism and nationalism; Part IV. Challenges: 15. Feminist critiques of liberalism; 16. The republican critique of liberalism; 17. The conservative critique of liberalism.
Additional Information Level: undergraduate students, graduate students Series: Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
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Philosophy
Logicism and its Philosophical Legacy William Demopoulos University of Western Ontario
March 2015 229 x 152 mm 286pp 2 b/w illus. 978-1-107-50258-1 Paperback c. £18.99
Why will it sell • A rich collection of classic, revised and newly written essays by a leading commentator on twentiethcentury analytic philosophy • Ranges over the work of major figures including Frege, Russell, Ramsey and Carnap
The idea that mathematics is reducible to logic has a long history, but it was Frege who gave logicism an articulation and defense that transformed it into a distinctive philosophical thesis with a profound influence on the development of philosophy in the twentieth century. This volume of classic, revised and newly written essays by William Demopoulos examines logicism’s principal legacy for philosophy: its elaboration of notions of analysis and reconstruction. The essays reflect on the deployment of these ideas by the principal figures in the history of the subject – Frege, Russell, Ramsey and Carnap – and in doing so illuminate current concerns about the nature of mathematical and theoretical knowledge. Issues addressed include the nature of arithmetical knowledge in the light of Frege’s theorem; the status of realism about the theoretical entities of physics; and the proper interpretation of empirical theories that postulate abstract structural constraints.
Contents: Preface; Introduction; 1. Frege’s analysis of arithmetical knowledge; 2. Carnap’s thesis, on extending ‘empiricism, semantics and ontology’ to the realism-instrumentalism controversy; 3. Carnap’s analysis of realism; 4. Bertrand Russell’s The Analysis of Matter: Its historical context and contemporary interest; 5. On the rational reconstruction of our theoretical knowledge; 6. Three views of theoretical knowledge; 7. Frege and the rigorization of analysis; 8. The philosophical basis of our knowledge of number; 9. The 1910 Principia’s theory of functions and classes; 10. Ramsey’s extensional propositional functions.
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• Relates the history of logicism to current concerns about the nature of mathematical and theoretical knowledge
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Philosophy
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Psychology Daniel Weiskopf Georgia State University
and Fred Adams University of Delaware
January 2015 247 x 174 mm 220pp 3 b/w illus. 978-0-521-51929-8 Hardback £50.00
Why will it sell • Situates the philosophy of psychology firmly within the philosophy of science • Easily accessible to readers without prior knowledge of psychology or neuroscience
Psychology aims to give us a scientific account of how the mind works. But what does it mean to have a science of the mental, and what sort of picture of the mind emerges from our best psychological theories? This book addresses these philosophical puzzles in a way that is accessible to readers with little or no background in psychology or neuroscience. Using clear and detailed case studies and drawing on up-to-date empirical research, it examines perception and action, the link between attention and consciousness, the modularity of mind, how we understand other minds, and the influence of language on thought, as well as the relationship between mind, brain, body, and world. The result is an integrated and comprehensive overview of much of the architecture of the mind, which will be valuable for both students and specialists in philosophy, psychology, and cognitive science.
Contents: 1. What psychology is; 2. Autonomy and reduction in psychology; 3. Modularity and cognitive architecture; 4. Nativism, development, and change; 5. Beyond the brain and body; 6. Perception and action; 7. Attention and consciousness; 8. The social mind; 9. Thought and language.
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• Each chapter stands alone as an independent topic for study and can be consulted in any order
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Philosophy
Spinoza and the Stoics Jon Miller Queen’s University, Ontario
March 2015 228 x 152 mm 220pp 4 tables 978-1-107-00070-4 Hardback £65.00
Why will it sell • The first comprehensive study of the Stoics and Spinoza published in English • Covers a broad range of philosophical issues, from metaphysics and epistemology to philosophical psychology and ethics
For many years, philosophers and other scholars have commented on the remarkable similarity between Spinoza and the Stoics, with some even going so far as to speak of ‘Spinoza the Stoic’. Until now, however, no one has systematically examined the relationship between the two systems. In Spinoza and the Stoics Jon Miller takes on this task, showing how key elements of Spinoza’s metaphysics, epistemology, philosophical psychology, and ethics relate to their Stoic counterparts. Drawing on a wide-range of secondary literature including the most up-to-date scholarship and a close examination of the textual evidence, Jon Miller not only reveals the sense in which Spinoza was, and was not, a Stoic, but also offers new insights into how each system should be understood in itself. His book will be of great interest to scholars and students of ancient philosophy, early modern philosophy, Spinoza, and the philosophy of the Stoics.
Contents: Introduction; 1. Monism; 2. Phantasia and ideas; 3. Conatus and Oikeiosis; 4. Value; 5. Happiness; Conclusion: Spinoza and the Stoics?; Bibliography; Index.
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• Engages with the most up-todate scholarship on both the Stoics and Spinoza
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Philosophy
Spinoza and the Case for Philosophy Elhanan Yakira Hebrew University of Jerusalem
This book analyzes three often-debated questions of Spinoza’s legacy: was Spinoza a religious thinker? How should we understand Spinoza’s mind-body doctrine? What meaning can be given to Spinoza’s notions – such as salvation, beatitude, and freedom – which are seemingly incompatible with his determinism, his secularism, and his critique of religion. Through a close reading of often-overlooked sections from Spinoza’s Ethics, Elhanan Yakira argues that these seemingly conflicting elements are indeed compatible, despite Spinoza’s iconoclastic meanings. Yakira argues that Ethics is an attempt at providing a purely philosophical – as opposed to theological – foundation for the theory of value and normativity. December 2014 228 x 152 mm 297pp 1 b/w illus. 978-1-107-06998-5 Hardback £60.00
Why will it sell • Addresses the most general question about Spinoza through close readings of very short sections of Ethics • Refutes one of the main dogmas of Spinoza scholarship: the parallelism thesis
Contents: Part I: 1. Spinoza and the question of religion; Part II. Mind and Body: 2. The exegetic inadequacy of parallelism; 3. The context; 4. Ethics II, propositions 1-13; Part III: 5. Bodies and ideas – a few general remarks; Part IV: 6. The norm of reason: adequacy, truth, knowledge, and comprehension; 7. Man, a mode of the substance; Instead of a conclusion: Salus sive Beatitude sive Libertas.
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• Offers a comprehensive interpretation of one of the most difficult and least studied parts of Ethics: the second section of the fifth part
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Philosophy
Hegel’s Theory of Responsibility Mark Alznauer Northwestern University, Illinois
A crucial aspect of Hegel’s practical philosophy is his theory of responsibility. This theory is both original and radical in its emphasis on the role and importance of social and historical conditions as a context for our actions. But even those who agree that there is something valuable in Hegel’s emphasis on sociality are not in agreement about what that something is or about how Hegel argues for it. Mark Alznauer offers the first book-length account of the structure of the theory and its place within Hegel’s thought as a whole. The reader is carefully walked through the psychological, social and historical aspects of responsibility in Hegel’s texts. The book demonstrates that attention to the concept of responsibility reveals the true nature of Hegel’s controversial claims about the inherent sociality of human action. February 2015 228 x 152 mm 250pp 2 tables 978-1-107-07812-3 Hardback £60.00
Why will it sell • The first book-length treatment of a central concept in Hegel’s practical philosophy: responsibility
Contents: Introduction; 1. The actualization of the will; 2. Responsibility and innocence; 3. Action and the spheres of right; 4. The inner-outer thesis; 5. Transcending responsibility.
Additional Information Level: academic researchers, graduate students
• Offers a revisionary, but carefully argued, account of Hegel’s social theory of action • Will interest readers who want to understand how Hegel’s practical philosophy relates to contemporary and historical debates about moral responsibility
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Philosophy
Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling A Critical Guide
Edited by Daniel Conway Texas A & M University
February 2015 228 x 152 mm 280pp 978-1-107-03461-7 Hardback £65.00
Why will it sell • Presents a fresh set of interpretations of Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling • Takes a wide-ranging look at Fear and Trembling in its entirety, providing a platform for Kierkegaard scholars from multiple traditions and approaches
Written by an international team of contributors, this book offers a fresh set of interpretations of Fear and Trembling, which remains Kierkegaard’s most influential and popular book. The chapters provide incisive accounts of the psychological and epistemological presuppositions of Fear and Trembling; of religious experience and the existential dimension of faith; of Kierkegaard’s understanding of the relationship between faith and knowledge; of the purported and real conflicts between ethics and religion; of Kierkegaard’s interpretation of the value of hope, trust, love and other virtues; of Kierkegaard’s debts to German idealism and Protestant theology; and of his seminal contributions to the fields of psychology, existential phenomenology and literary theory. This volume will be of great interest to scholars and upper-level students of Kierkegaard studies, the history of philosophy, theology and religious studies.
Contents: Introduction; 1. Homing in on Fear and Trembling; 2. Fear and Trembling’s ‘Attunement’ as midrash; 3. Johannes de silentio’s dilemma; 4. Can an admirer of silentio’s Abraham consistently believe that child sacrifice is forbidden?; 5. Eschatological faith and repetition: Kierkegaard’s Abraham and Job; 6. The existential dimension of faith; 7. Learning to hope: the role of hope in Fear and Trembling; 8. On being moved and hearing voices: passion and religious experience in Fear and Trembling; 9. Birth, love, and hybridity: Fear and Trembling and the Symposium; 10. Narrative unity and the moment of crisis in Fear and Trembling; 11. Particularity and ethical attunement: situating Problema III; 12. ‘He speaks in tongues’: hearing the truth of Abraham’s words of faith; 13. Why Moriah?: weaning and the trauma of transcendence in Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling.
Additional Information Level: academic researchers, graduate students Series: Cambridge Critical Guides
• Offers a balanced treatment of Kierkegaard’s arguments and their context
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Philosophy
Kierkegaard and the Problem of Self-Love John Lippitt University of Hertfordshire
March 2015 229 x 152 mm 222pp 978-1-107-50254-3 Paperback c. £18.99
Why will it sell • Engages sympathetically but critically with Kierkegaard’s Works of Love and related texts • The first book on Kierkegaard to focus specifically on proper self-love as part of an overall neighbour-love ethics • Relates Kierkegaard’s thought to a wider literature in recent and contemporary ethics, moral psychology and philosophy of religion
The problem of whether we should love ourselves – and if so how – has particular resonance within Christian thought and is an important yet underinvestigated theme in the writings of Søren Kierkegaard. In Works of Love, Kierkegaard argues that the friendships and romantic relationships which we typically treasure most are often merely disguised forms of ‘selfish’ self-love. Yet in this nuanced and subtle account, John Lippitt shows that Kierkegaard also provides valuable resources for responding to the challenge of how we can love ourselves, as well as others. Lippitt relates what it means to love oneself properly to such topics as love of God and neighbour, friendship, romantic love, self-denial and self-sacrifice, trust, hope and forgiveness. The book engages in detail with Works of Love, related Kierkegaard texts and important recent studies, and also addresses a wealth of wider literature in ethics, moral psychology and philosophy of religion.
Contents: 1. Introduction: how should I love myself?; 2. Cracking the mirror: friendship and the problem of self-love; 3. Self-love in Works of Love: explicit references; 4. The problem of special relationships: self-love’s wider context; 5. Another take on self-love: an excursus on Harry Frankfurt; 6. Love’s blank cheques: on self-denial and its limitations; 7. Towards a more positive account of self-love, I: trust and hope; 8. Towards a more positive account of self-love, II: self-forgiveness and self-respect; 9. An immodest proposal: a coda on rehabilitating pride; 10. Summary and conclusion.
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Advance praise: ‘This is the most important book on Kierkegaard and love to appear since Jamie Ferreira’s classic Love’s Grateful Striving; in particular, it offers the most detailed treatment available on the notion of proper self-love in Works of Love. This work also brings Kierkegaard directly into current debates in moral psychology regarding love for particular others such as family and friends, and their relation to forms of self-love. The discussions of forgiveness, including self-forgiveness and self-respect, are especially rewarding. Lippitt writes clearly and his analyses will be accessible to readers without a prior speciality in Kierkegaard, including anyone interested in theories of love and various forms of love in their own right – and especially in theological contexts.’ John J. Davenport, Fordham University
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Philosophy
The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy Third edition
Edited by Robert Audi University of Notre Dame, Indiana
June 2015 253 x 177 mm 1312pp 978-1-107-01505-0 Hardback £65.00
This is the leading, full-scale comprehensive dictionary of philosophical terms and thinkers to appear in English in more than half a century. Written by a team of more than 550 experts and now widely translated, it contains approximately 5,000 entries ranging from short definitions to longer articles. It is designed to facilitate the understanding of philosophy at all levels and in all fields. Key features of this third edition include: • 500 new entries covering Eastern as well as Western philosophy, and covering individual countries such as China, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain • Increased coverage of such growing fields as ethics and philosophy of mind • More than 100 new intellectual portraits of leading contemporary thinkers • Wider coverage of Continental philosophy • Dozens of new technical concepts in cognitive science and other areas • Enhanced cross-referencing to add context and increase understanding • Expansions in both text and index to facilitate research and browsing
Contents:
• Substantial articles on the major philosophers, as well as hundreds on minor philosophers • An overview of the subfields of philosophy - epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, philosophy of mind and philosophy of science • Numerous crossreferences to help readers relate concepts and philosophers and pursue ideas and thinkers in depth • Appendix defining logical and other special symbols used in philosophy
• Many entries on terms and thinkers from nonWestern philosophy, including Chinese, Indian, Korean, Japanese, and other traditions • Includes selected terms and writers from related fields, such as cognitive science, decision theory, jurisprudence, linguistics, literary theory, and religion • Alphabetically organized, handsomely printed, and carefully cross-referenced for easy use
Contributors; Preface; Dictionary; Appendix of special symbols and logical notations; Index of selected names not occurring as headwords.
Additional Information Level: graduate students, undergraduate students
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Religion
Religious Diversity Philosophical and Political Dimensions
Roger Trigg University of Oxford
June 2014 228 x 152 mm 205pp 978-1-107-02360-4 Hardback £50.00
Why will it sell • First in the new series Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy and Society • Established, well-known author
Should we merely celebrate diversity in the sphere of religion? What of the social cohesion of a country? There is a constant tug between belief in religious truth and the need for respect for other religions. Religious Diversity: Philosophical and Political Dimensions examines how far a firm faith can allow for toleration of difference and respect the need for religious freedom. It elucidates the philosophical credentials of different approaches to truth in religion, ranging from a dogmatic fundamentalism to a pluralism that shades into relativism. Must we resort to a secularism that treats all religion as a personal and private matter, with nothing to contribute to discussions about the common good? How should law approach the issue of religious freedom? Introducing the relevance of central discussions in modern philosophy of religion, the book goes on to examine the political implications of increasing religious diversity in a democracy.
Contents: Introduction; 1. The challenge of religious diversity; 2. Do religions claim truth?; 3. Religious pluralism; 4. The roots of religious belief; 5. Does disagreement undermine theism?; 6. Education and religious diversity; 7. Truth and coercion; 8. Religious diversity and identity; 9. Religion as personal preference; 10. Freedom and religion.
Additional Information Level: undergraduate students, graduate students Series: Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society
• Deals with a major issue of contemporary importance: more wide, general readership than just university classrooms
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Religion
Zionism and Judaism A New Theory
David Novak University of Toronto
April 2015 216 x 138 mm 200pp 978-1-107-09995-1 Hardback c. £65.00
Why will it sell • The only current book presenting an original philosophical-theological argument for Zionism • The only present work that critically analyzes previous Zionist theories
Why should anyone be a Zionist, a supporter of a Jewish state in the land of Israel? Why should there be a Jewish state in the land of Israel? This book seeks to provide a philosophical answer to these questions. Although a Zionist need not be Jewish, nonetheless this book argues that Zionism is only a coherent political stance when it is intelligently rooted in Judaism, especially in the classical Jewish doctrine of God’s election of the people of Israel and the commandment to them to settle the land of Israel. The religious Zionism advocated here is contrasted with secular versions of Zionism that take Zionism to be a replacement of Judaism. It is also contrasted with versions of religious Zionism that ascribe messianic significance to the State of Israel, or which see the main task of religious Zionism to be the establishment of an Israeli theocracy.
Contents: Introduction; 1. Why Zionism?; 2. Was Spinoza the first Zionist?; 3. Secular Zionism: political or cultural?; 4. Should Israel be a theocracy?; 5. Why the Jews and why the land of Israel?; 6. Can the state of Israel be both Jewish and democratic?; 7. What could be the status of non-Jews in a Jewish state?; 8. What is the connection between the Holocaust and the state of Israel?
Additional Information Level: academic researchers, graduate students
• Addresses Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and secular readers – the only book on Zionism to do so
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The Cambridge Companion to Sufism Edited by Lloyd Ridgeon University of Glasgow
December 2014 228 x 152 mm 240pp 4 b/w illus. 978-1-107-01830-3 Hardback £50.00
Why will it sell • Offers a chronological development of Sufism • Stresses the diversity of Sufism by revealing the significant geographical range of the tradition • Many neglected topics are investigated, including Sufism and gender, Sufism and ethics, and Sufism in the contemporary age
Sufism, the mystical or aesthetic doctrine in Islam, has occupied a very specific place in the Islamic tradition, with its own history, literature and devotional practices. Its development began in the seventh century and spread throughout the Islamic world. The Cambridge Companion to Sufism traces its evolution from the formative period to the present, addressing specific themes along the way within the context of the times. In a section discussing the early period, the devotional practices of the earliest Sufis are considered. The section on the medieval period, when Sufism was at its height, examines Sufi doctrines, different forms of mysticism and the antinomian expressions of Sufism. The section on the modern period explains the controversies that surrounded Sufism, the changes that took place in the colonial period and how Sufism transformed into a transnational movement in the twentieth century. This inimitable volume sheds light on a multifaceted and alternative aspect of Islamic history and religion.
Contents: Part I. The Early Period: 1. Origins and early Sufism; 2. Pious Sufi women; 3. Sufi rituals; 4. Morality in early Sufi literature; Part II. Medieval Sufism: 5. Sufism and mysticism; 6. Sufism’s religion of love, from Rābi‘a to Ibn ‘Arabī; 7. Antinomian Sufism; Part III. Sufism in the Modern Age: 8. Nana Asma’u: nineteenth-century West African Sufi; 9. Sufism and colonialism; 9. Nana Asma’u: nineteenth-century West African Sufi; 10. Sufism in the West; 11. Sufism in the age of globalisation; 12. Transnationalism and regional cults.
Additional Information Level: graduate students, undergraduate students Series: Cambridge Companions to Religion
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Anthropology
Anthropologies of Class Power, Practice, and Inequality
Edited by James G. Carrier Max-Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
and Don Kalb Central European University, Budapest
January 2015 228 x 152 mm 248pp 5 b/w illus. 978-1-107-08741-5 Hardback £60.00
Why will it sell
Rising social, political and economic inequality in many countries, and rising protest against it, has seen the restoration of the concept of ‘class’ to a prominent place in contemporary anthropological debates. A timely intervention in these discussions, this book explores the concept of class and its importance for understanding the key sources of that inequality and of people’s attempts to deal with it. Highly topical, it situates class within the context of the current economic crisis, integrating elements from today into the discussion of an earlier agenda. Using cases from North and South America, Western Europe and South Asia, it shows the – sometimes surprising – forms that class can take, as well as the various effects it has on people’s lives and societies.
Contents:
• Covers a broad geographical range, with cases from North and South America, Western Europe and South Asia
Introduction: class and the new anthropological holism; 1. The concept of class; 2. Dispossession, disorganization, and the anthropology of labor; 3. The organic intellectual and the production of class in Spain; 4. Through a class darkly, but then face to face: praxis through the lens of class; 5. Walmart, American consumer-citizenship, and the erasure of class; 6. When space draws the line on class; 7. Class trajectories and indigenism among agricultural workers in Kerala; 8. Making middle-class families in Calcutta; 9. Working-class politics in a Brazilian steel town; 10. Export processing zones and global class formation; 11. Global systemic crisis, class, and its representations.
• Prefaced by a strong contextualising and theoretical introduction
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• Highly topical, it engages directly with the current global economic crisis
Level: academic researchers, graduate students
Advance praise: ‘This volume re-establishes class as a fundamental concept in anthropology and shows how inadequate identity-based analyses are. In excellent case studies and theoretical essays, it brilliantly demonstrates that understanding global and local property relations is central to the study of culture, politics and society.’ Don Robotham, City University of New York Graduate Center
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Archaeology
The Roman Forum A Reconstruction and Architectural Guide
Gilbert J. Gorski
James E. Packer
University of Notre Dame, Indiana Northwestern University, Illinois
May 2015 228 x 304 mm 474pp 60 b/w illus. 247 colour illus. 978-0-521-19244-6 Hardback £150.00
Why will it sell
The Roman Forum was in many ways the heart of the Roman Empire. Today, the Forum exists in a fragmentary state, having been destroyed and plundered by barbarians, aristocrats, citizens and priests over the past two millennia. Enough remains, however, for archaeologists to reconstruct its spectacular buildings and monuments. This richly illustrated volume provides an architectural history of the central section of the Roman Forum during the Empire (31 BCE–476 CE), from the Temple of Julius Caesar to the monuments on the slope of the Capitoline hill. Bringing together state-of-the-art technology in architectural illustration and the expertise of a prominent Roman archaeologist, this book offers a unique reconstruction of the Forum, providing architectural history, a summary of each building’s excavation and research, scaled digital plans, elevations, and reconstructed aerial images that not only shed light on the Forum’s history but vividly bring it to life. With this book, scholars, students, architects and artists will be able to visualize for the first time since antiquity the character, design and appearance of the famous heart of ancient Rome.
Contents:
• With over 300 illustrations, the majority of them in color, this is the most complete and visually striking treatment of the Forum to date
Part I. Architecture in the Roman Forum during the Empire: A Brief History: 1. The Augustan Reconstruction; 2. From the Tiberius to Phocas (14–608 CE); Part II. The Monuments: 3. The Temple of Antoninus and Faustina; 4. The Temple of Caesar (Aedes divi Iuli); 5. The Basilica Aemilia; 6. The Curia; 7. The Arch of Septimius Severus; 8. The West Rostra; 9. The Temple of Concord; 10. The Temple of Vespasian; 11. The Tabularium; 12. Portico of the Dei Consentes; 13. The Temple of Saturn; 14. The Basilica Julia; 15. The Arch of Tiberius; 16. The Schola Xanthi; 17. The Diocletianic Honorary Columns; 18. The Temple of Castor and Pollux; 19. The Parthian Arch of Augustus; 20. The Temple of Vesta; Part III. Conclusions.
• Authored by an expert team of illustrator and Roman archaeologist
Additional Information Level: graduate students, academic researchers, amateurs/enthusiasts
• The reconstructions of every monument in the Forum constitute the handsomest, most complete, most attractive series of Forum images ever done
Also of Interest
The Pantheon From Antiquity to the Present
Edited by Tod A. Marder and Mark Wilson Jones
See page 7
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Archaeology
The Archaeology of Early China From Prehistory to the Han Dynasty
Gideon Shelach-Lavi Hebrew University of Jerusalem
March 2015 253 x 203 mm 360pp 226 b/w illus. 37 maps 978-0-521-19689-5 Hardback £65.00
Why will it sell • Covers a long period in Chinese history, from the Paleolithic to the Early Imperial period • Emphasizes the great cultural diversity of Chinese culture • Combines up-to-date information on the archaeology of China with advanced and innovative analysis and insights on its social meaning • Provides comprehensive references and lists for further reading
This volume aims to satisfy a pressing need for an updated account of Chinese archaeology. It covers an extended time period from the earliest peopling of China to the unification of the Chinese Empire some two thousand years ago. The geographical coverage includes the traditional focus on the Yellow River basin but also covers China’s many other regions. Among the topics covered are the emergence of agricultural communities; the establishment of a sedentary way of life; the development of sociopolitical complexity; advances in lithic technology, ceramics, and metallurgy; and the appearance of writing, large-scale public works, cities, and states. Particular emphasis is placed on the great cultural variations that existed among the different regions and the development of interregional contacts among those societies.
Contents: 1. The geographic and environmental background; 2. Before cultivation: human origins and the incipient development of human culture in China; 3. The transition to food production: variability and processes; 4. The development of agriculture and sedentary life in north China; 5. The shift to agriculture and sedentism in central and south China; 6. The emergence and development of sociopolitical complexity; 7. Stepping into history; 8. The Shang dynasty: the emergence of the state in China; 9. Regional variation and interregional interactions during the Bronze Age: ‘center and periphery’ or ‘interaction spheres’?; 10. The societies and cultures of the Zhou period: processes of globalization and the genesis of local identities; 11. The son of heaven and the creation of a bureaucratic empire.
Additional Information Level: graduate students, undergraduate students, specialist medical trainees
Advance praise: ‘The Archaeology of Early China is the most up-to-date synthesis of major developments in China from human origins to the early Imperial period. Readable and concise, it emphasizes mobility and interaction in different eras and eloquently sets a new standard for critical evaluation of the interpretation of archaeological data.’ Rowan Flad, Harvard University, Massachusett
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Archaeology
War and Cultural Heritage Biographies of Place
Edited by Marie Louise Stig Sørensen University of Cambridge
and Dacia Viejo Rose University of Cambridge
April 2015 253 x 177 mm 326pp 60 b/w illus. 2 maps 978-1-107-05933-7 Hardback £65.00
Why will it sell • Takes a completely original approach to studying the impact of conflict on cultural heritage sites • Breaks new ground in terms of analysing the role of cultural heritage in postconflict scenarios • Includes new studies of iconic sites (Dresden and Guernica) and lesser-known ones (a park in Tuzla and the Carabanchel Prison in Madrid)
The reconstruction of society after conflict is complex and multifaceted. This book investigates this theme as it relates to cultural heritage through a number of case studies relating to European wars since 1864. The case studies show in detail how buildings, landscapes, and monuments become important agents in post-conflict reconstruction, as well as how their meanings change and how they become sites of competition over historical narratives and claims. Looking at iconic and lesserknown sites, this book connects broad theoretical discussions of reconstruction and memorialisation to specific physical places, and in the process it traces shifts in their meanings over time. This book identifies common threads and investigates their wider implications. It explores the relationship between cultural heritage and international conflict, paying close attention to the long aftermaths of acts of destruction and reconstruction and making important contributions through the use of new empirical evidence and critical theo
Contents: Introduction: the impact of conflict on cultural heritage: a biographical lens; 1. Dybbøl: the construction and reconstruction of a memorial landscape; 2. ‘The cemetery of France’: reconstruction and memorialisation on the battlefield of Verdun; 3. Something old, something new: the materiality of tradition and power in the postwar reconstruction of Gernika’s Foru Plaza; 4. The Dresden Frauenkirche as a contested symbol: the architecture of remembrance after war; 5. The prison of Carabanchel (Madrid, Spain): a life story; 6. ‘A heritage of resistance’: changing readings of Belgrade’s Generalstab; 7. Grand ruins: the case of the Ledra Palace Hotel and the rendering of ‘conflict’ as heritage in Cyprus; 8. Changing the meaning of Second World War monuments in post-Dayton Bosnia Herzegovina: a case study of the Kozara monument and memorial complex; 9. Imagining community in Bosnia: constructing and reconstructing the Slana Banja memorial complex in Tuzla; Postscript 1: the time of place; Postscript 2: when memory takes place.
Additional Information Level: academic researchers, graduate students
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Psychology
How Students Come to Be, Know, and Do A Case for a Broad View of Learning
Leslie Rupert Herrenkohl University of Washington
and Véronique Mertl University of Washington
January 2015 229 x 152 mm 240pp 10 b/w illus. 2 tables 978-1-107-47918-0 Paperback £21.99
Why will it sell • Makes an argument for a view of human learning that engages the affectivevolitional processes of becoming students alongside and in conjunction with processes of knowing
Studies of learning are too frequently conceptualized only in terms of knowledge development. Yet it is vital to pay close attention to the social and emotional aspects of learning in order to understand why and how it occurs. How Students Come to Be, Know, and Do builds a theoretical argument for and a methodological approach to studying learning in a holistic way. The authors provide examples of urban fourth graders from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds studying science as a way to illustrate how this model contributes to a more complete and complex understanding of learning in school settings. What makes this book unique is its insistence that to fully understand human learning we have to consider the affective-volitional processes of learning along with the more familiar emphasis on knowledge and skills.
Contents: Introduction; 1. The context lens; 2. How ways of knowing, doing, and being emerged in the classroom: interpersonal interactions and the creation of community, part I; 3. How ways of knowing, doing, and being emerged in the classroom: interpersonal interactions and the creation of community, part II; 4. Personal lens of analysis: individual learning trajectories; Conclusion.
Additional Information Level: academic researchers, graduate students Series: Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
• Provides a theoretical argument as well as empirical examples • Incorporates teacher and student interviews together with extensive transcripts to present a more complex view of student learning in school science contexts
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Psychology
The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences Second edition
Edited by R. Keith Sawyer University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
January 2015 253 x 177 mm 750pp 51 b/w illus. 1 map 15 tables 978-1-107-03325-2 Hardback £100.00
Why will it sell • Written by the leading scholars in the field • Provides a comprehensive overview of the latest research • Accessible to newcomers to the field
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The interdisciplinary field of the learning sciences encompasses educational psychology, cognitive science, computer science, and anthropology, among other disciplines. The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences, first published in 2006, is the definitive introduction to this innovative approach to teaching, learning, and educational technology. This dramatically revised second edition incorporates the latest research in the field, includes twenty new chapters on emerging areas of interest, and features contributors who reflect the increasingly international nature of the learning sciences. The authors address the best ways to design educational software, prepare effective teachers, organize classrooms, and use the internet to enhance student learning. They illustrate the importance of creating productive learning environments both inside and outside school, including after-school clubs, libraries, museums, and online learning environments. Accessible and engaging, the Handbook has proven to be an essential resource for graduate students, researchers, teachers, administrators, consultants, educational technology designers, and policy makers on a global scale.
Contents: Preface; Part I. Foundations; Part II. Methodologies; Part III. Practices that Foster Effective Learning; Part IV. Learning Together; Part V. Learning Disciplinary Knowledge; Part VI. Moving Learning Sciences Research into the Classroom.
Additional Information Level: graduate students, undergraduate students, academic researchers Series: Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology ‘The first edition of this Handbook was outstanding. This second edition is even more inclusive and up to date, with a choice of chapters that nicely complement one another and are written with unusual clarity. I see this as a must-read that will help all of us interested in the learning sciences move toward new levels of synthesis and application, and discover previously hidden pathways toward exciting new research issues. We owe the editor and authors a great debt of thanks for their outstanding work.’ John D. Bransford, Shauna C. Larson Professor of the Learning Sciences at the University of Washington, Emeritus
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Psychology
Ethical Challenges in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences Case Studies and Commentaries
Edited by Robert J. Sternberg Cornell University, New York
and Susan Tufts Fiske Princeton University, New Jersey
January 2015 228 x 152 mm 252pp 1 b/w illus. 978-1-107-03973-5 Hardback £60.00
Why will it sell • Commentary is provided by editor Susan Tufts Fiske on the greater ethical dilemmas contained within each part • Each chapter is written by a fellow of a major scientific organization • Book is presented by the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, and the co-editors are the current and past presidents
In recent years, a growing number of scientific careers have been brought down by scientists’ failure to satisfactorily confront ethical challenges. Scientists need to learn early on what constitutes acceptable ethical behavior in their professions. Ethical Challenges in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences encourages readers to engage in discussions of the diverse ethical dilemmas encountered by behavioral and brain scientists – allowing scientists to reflect on ethical issues before potentially confronting them. Each chapter is authored by a prominent scientist, who describes a dilemma, how it was resolved, and what the scientist would do differently if confronted with the situation again. Featuring commentary throughout and a culmination of opinions and experiences shared by leaders in the field, the goal of this book is not to provide ‘correct’ answers to real-world ethical dilemmas. Instead, authors pose the dilemmas, discuss their experiences and viewpoints on them, and speculate on alternative reactions to the issues.
Contents: Part I. Academic Cheating; Part II. Academic Excuses and Fairness; Part III. Authorship and Credit; Part IV. Confidentiality’s Limits; Part V. Data Analysis, Reporting and Sharing; Part VI. Designing Research; Part VII. Fabricating Data; Part VIII. Human Subjects; Part IX. Personnel Decisions; Part X. Reviewing and Editing; Part XI. Science for Hire and Conflict of Interest.
Additional Information Level: graduate students, academic researchers, undergraduate students
Advance praise: ‘At a time of diminishing public trust in the sciences, Sternberg and Fiske have given us the perfect antidote: a rich collection of sincere and probing testimonies about ethical problems by leading brain and behavioral scientists. A page-turner – not usual in thoughtful treatments of ethics – this book will provide readers with a real educational experience. The book is a uniquely valuable answer to some of the most burning scientific dilemmas of our day.’ William Damon, Stanford University, California and author of The Power of Ideals: The Real Story of Moral Choice
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Psychology
The Psychology of Fatigue Work, Effort and Control
Robert Hockey University of Sheffield
December 2014 229 x 152 mm 290pp 10 b/w illus. 3 tables 978-1-107-47780-3 Paperback £22.99
Why will it sell • Brings together work on fatigue in human performance, motivation, physical work, sleep and chronic illness • Develops a new theory of fatigue based on its role in motivational control and goal management • Analyses how changes in our experience of work have helped shape the way we explain fatigue
Fatigue can have a major impact on an individual’s performance and well-being, yet is poorly understood, even within the scientific community. There is no developed theory of its origins or functions, and different types of fatigue (mental, physical, sleepiness) are routinely confused. The widespread interpretation of fatigue as a negative consequence of work may be true only for externally imposed goals; meaningful or self-initiated work is rarely tiring and often invigorating. In the first book dedicated to the systematic treatment of fatigue for over sixty years, Robert Hockey examines its many aspects – social history, neuroscience, energetics, exercise physiology, sleep and clinical implications – and develops a new motivational control theory, in which fatigue is treated as an emotion having a fundamental adaptive role in the management of goals. He then uses this new perspective to explore the role of fatigue in relation to individual motivation, working life and well-being.
Contents: 1. The problem of fatigue; 2. Changing experiences of fatigue: the social-historical context; 3. The work-fatigue hypothesis; 4. Stress, coping and fatigue; 5. Effort, strain and fatigue; 6. A motivation control theory of fatigue; 7. Extensions and limitations: energy, physical work and sleep; 8. The psychopathology of fatigue; 9. An agenda for fatigue: research and application.
Additional Information Level: academic researchers, professionals
‘Bob Hockey has produced an outstanding book containing easily the best theoretical account of fatigue ever produced. This book (which also provides a fascinating historical account) is destined to become an ‘instant classic’.’ Michael W. Eysenck, Roehampton University
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Politics
The Global Transformation History, Modernity and the Making of International Relations
Barry Buzan London School of Economics and Political Science
and George Lawson London School of Economics and Political Science
January 2015 228 x 152 mm 424pp 11 b/w illus. 8 tables 978-1-107-03557-7 Hardback £59.99
Why will it sell • Provides a concise history of how the nineteenth century revolutions of modernity shaped the main contours of international relations during the twentieth and twentyfirst centuries, both materially and ideationally
The ‘long nineteenth century’ (1776–1914) was a period of political, economic, military and cultural revolutions that re-forged both domestic and international societies. Neither existing international histories nor international relations texts sufficiently register the scale and impact of this ‘global transformation’, yet it is the consequences of these multiple revolutions that provide the material and ideational foundations of modern international relations. Global modernity reconstituted the mode of power that underpinned international order and opened a power gap between those who harnessed the revolutions of modernity and those who were denied access to them. This gap dominated international relations for two centuries and is only now being closed. By taking the global transformation as the starting point for international relations, this book repositions the roots of the discipline and establishes a new way of both understanding and teaching the relationship between world history and international relations.
Contents: Introduction; Part I. The Global Transformation and IR: 1. The global transformation; 2. IR and the nineteenth century; Part II. The Making of Modern International Relations: 3. Shrinking the planet; 4. Ideologies of progress; 5. The transformation of political units; 6. Establishing a core-periphery international order; 7. Eroding the core-periphery international order; 8. The transformation of great powers, great power relations and war; Part III. Implications: 9. From ‘centred globalism’ to ‘decentred globalism’; 10. Rethinking international relations.
Additional Information Level: graduate students, academic researchers Series: Cambridge Studies in International Relations, 135
• Challenges IR’s convention that the modern world came into being in 1648 as well as questioning IR’s orthodox ‘benchmark dates’ (1500, 1648, 1919, 1945, 1989), finding them arbitrary and dysfunctional as a way of organizing teaching and research • Offers a balanced and truly global history that covers both the West and other parts of the world in equal measure
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Politics
Narcissism and Politics Dreams of Glory
Jerrold M. Post George Washington University, Washington DC
In this age of narcissism, the proliferation of politicians with significant narcissistic personality features is dramatic. Driven by dreams of glory, they seem to find the spotlight that the arena of politics provides irresistible. This book analyzes narcissism and politics and systematically explores the psychology of narcissism – the entitlement, the grandiosity and arrogance overlying insecurity, the sensitivity to criticism, and the hunger for acclaim – illustrating different narcissistic personality features through a spectrum of international and national politicians. It addresses the power of charismatic leader–follower relationships, as well as the impact of age and illness on leaders driven by dreams of glory. January 2015 228 x 152 mm 260pp 978-1-107-00872-4 Hardback £55.00
Why will it sell • The first book to systematically apply the understanding of narcissism to the world of politics • Dramatically illuminates a new understanding of some of the headline leaders of the contemporary era – from Saddam Hussein to Osama bin Laden to Silvio Berlusconi
Contents: 1. Narcissism in full bloom; 2. Dreams of glory and narcissistic rage; 3. Great expectations; 4. Daughters of destiny I – Indira Gandhi; 5. Daughters of destiny II – Benazir Bhutto; 6. Narcissism and the charismatic leaderfollower relationship; 7. Self objects: the special role of wives and the inner circle; 8. Narcissism, entitlement, sex, and power; 9. An exceptional exception: the rise and fall of Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi; 10. Phallic narcissism in the governor’s mansion; 11. The impact of illness and age on narcissistic leaders; 12. Seeking immortality: dictators and their progeny; 13. Leaders by default: second-choice sons; Conclusion.
Additional Information Level: graduate students, undergraduate students
Advance praise: ‘Post is a pioneer in the field of political-personality profiling.’ Jane Mayer, writer for The New Yorker
• Investigates the motivations beneath the facade of grandiosity
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Economics
A Course on Cooperative Game Theory Satya R. Chakravarty Manipushpak Mitra and Palash Sarkar Indian Statistical Institute
December 2014 234 x 156 mm 288pp 978-1-107-05879-8 Hardback £65.00
Why will it sell • The technical terms and mathematical operations employed to discuss the results are explained in nontechnical language and intuitive explanations of the mathematical results are provided
Cooperative game theory deals with situations where objectives of participants of the game are partially cooperative and partially conflicting. It is in the interest of participants to cooperate in the sense of making binding agreements to achieve the maximum possible benefit. When it comes to distribution of benefit/payoffs, participants have conflicting interests. Such situations are usually modelled as cooperative games. While the book mainly discusses transferable utility games, there is also a brief analysis of non-transferable utility games. Alternative solution concepts to cooperative game theoretic problems are presented in chapters 1-9 and the next four chapters present issues related to computations of solutions discussed in the earlier chapters. The proofs of all results presented in the book are quite explicit. Additionally the mathematical techniques employed in demonstrating the results will be helpful to those who wish to learn application of mathematics for solving problems in game theory.
Contents: Preface; 1. Introduction and motivation page; 2. Basics and preliminaries; 3. The core and some related solutions; 4. The bargaining set, kernel and nucleolus; 5. The Shapley value; 6. The core, Shapley value and Weber set; 7. Voting games; 8. Mathematical matching; 9. Non-transferable utility cooperative games; 10. Linear programming; 11. Algorithmic aspects of cooperative game theory; 12. Weighted majority games; 13. Stable matching algorithm; References; Index.
Additional Information Level: graduate students, academic researchers
• Each chapter has analytical examples and contains at least one applied example directly related to the theory presented in the text • Integration of theory and practice helps students understand the theoretical issues first and then see their practical relevance • There are review questions at the end of most chapters
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Economics
Entertainment Industry Economics A Guide for Financial Analysis Ninth edition
Harold L. Vogel
December 2014 228 x 152 mm 680pp 95 b/w illus. 73 tables 978-1-107-07529-0 Hardback £45.00
Why will it sell • The best-selling textbook in entertainment economics for twenty-five years • This new edition covers legal aspects of ‘experience’ industries, and the psychology of entertainment
The entertainment and media industries, already important sectors of the US economy, continue to grow rapidly in other countries around the world. This ninth edition of Entertainment Industry Economics continues to be the definitive source on the economics of film, music, television, advertising, broadcasting, cable, casino and online wagering, publishing, performing arts and culture, toys and games, sports, and theme parks. It synthesizes a vast amount of data to provide a clear, comprehensive, and up-to-date reference guide on the economics, financing, accounting, production, and marketing of entertainment in the United States and overseas. Completely updated, it includes new sections on price effects, art markets, and Asian gaming. Financial analysts and investors, economists, industry executives, accountants, lawyers, regulators and legislators, and journalists, as well as students preparing to join these professionals, will benefit from this invaluable guide on how the entertainment and media industries operate.
Contents: Part I. Introduction: 1. Economic perspectives; 2. Basic elements; Part II. Media-Dependent Entertainment: 3. Movie macroeconomics; 4. Making and marketing movies; 5. Financial accounting in movies and television; 6. Music; 7. Broadcasting; 8. Cable; 9. Publishing; 10. Toys and games; Part III. Live Entertainment: 11. Gaming and wagering; 12. Sports; 13. Performing arts and culture; 14. Amusement/theme parks; Part IV. Roundup: 15. Performance and policy.
Additional Information Level: professionals, academic researchers
• Features new sections on music, advertising, gaming, and wagering
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Law
Sexting and Cyberbullying Defining the Line for Digitally Empowered Kids
Shaheen Shariff McGill University, Montréal
January 2015 228 x 152 mm 232pp 12 b/w illus. 978-1-107-01991-1 Hardback £50.00
Why will it sell • Brings a fresh perspective by drawing attention to the context as well as the behavior behind cyberbullying
Directed at policy makers, legislators, educators, parents, the legal community, and anyone concerned about current public policy responses to sexting and cyberbullying, this book examines the lines between online joking and legal consequences. It offers an analysis of reactive versus preventive legal and educational responses to these issues using evidence-based research with digitally empowered kids. Shaheen Shariff highlights the influence of popular and ‘rape’ culture on the behavior of adolescents who establish sexual identities and social relationships through sexting. She argues that we need to move away from criminalizing children and toward engaging them in the policy development process, and she observes that important lessons can be learned from constitutional and human rights frameworks. She also draws attention to the value of children’s literature in helping the legal community better understand children’s moral development and in helping children clarify the lines between harmless jokes and harmful postings that could land them in jail.
Contents: 1. Confronting cyberbullying – are we any further ahead?; 2. Sexism defines the lines between ‘fun’ and power; 3. The irony of charging children with distribution of child pornography; 4. Keeping kids out of court: jokes, defamation, and duty to protect; 5. From Lord of the Flies to Harry Potter: lessons we can all learn.
Additional Information Level: graduate students, legal practitioners
• Combines qualitative and legal research to bring together empirical research and legal analysis that should inform law, policy and judicial decisions
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Education
Becoming a Teacher of Language and Literacy Edited by Brenton Doecke, Glenn Auld and Muriel Wells Deakin University, Victoria
January 2015 249 x 175 mm 188pp 978-1-107-66286-5 Paperback £40.00
Why will it sell • Promotes a reflective and inquiry-based approach to literacy teaching • Written by a team of experts in the field of language and literacy education • Chapters feature teacher narratives designed to prompt reflection about teachers’ professional practice within local school settings
Becoming a Teacher of Language and Literacy explores what it means to be a literacy educator in the 21st century. It promotes a reflective and inquiry-based approach to literacy teaching and examines three central questions: 1. How do teachers approach the teaching of reading and writing, speaking and listening within a digital age? 2. How do teachers approach the standardisation of literacy, including high-stakes testing? 3. How do teachers work within the framework of the Australian curriculum: English? The book covers a range of contemporary topics in language and literacy education, including reading and creating digital texts, supporting intercultural engagement in literacy education and developing community partnerships. Each chapter features teacher narratives, current theoretical perspectives, examples of practice and reflective questions. The narratives are designed to prompt reflection about teachers’ professional practice within local school settings. They convey the voices of teachers as they grapple with the challenges of their professional practice.
Contents: 1. How to read this book; 2. Engaging with tensions: tensions are the norm; 3. Teachers researching their teaching: learning through practitioner inquiry; 4. Literacy teaching and learning in digital times: tales of classroom interactions; 5. Supporting intercultural engagement in literacy education; 6. Inclusive literacy education; 7. Homework: a window into community literacies; 8. Planning for teaching/planning for learning; 9. Teacher and student agency in contemporary literacy classrooms.
Additional Information Courses: Teaching Language and Literacy, English Education Departments: Education Level: undergraduate students, graduate students
• Companion website featuring further resources and videos for pre-service teachers
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Education
Sustainable Learning Inclusive Practices for 21st Century Classrooms
Lorraine Graham
Jeanette Berman
Melbourne Graduate School of Education
Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand
and Anne Bellert Southern Cross University, Australia
April 2015 249 x 176 mm 260pp 978-1-107-69595-5 Paperback £55.00
Why will it sell • Employs three overarching frameworks to examine inclusive practices in education: equity, values and sustainability
Sustainable Learning: Inclusive Practices for 21st Century Classrooms provides readers with the knowledge and skills to be confident and effective inclusive teachers. The authors show that these skills are essential to quality teaching – teaching that is evidence-based, purposeful, relevant and responsive to students’ needs. The book employs three overarching frameworks to examine inclusive practices in education: equity (learning for all), values (learning that matters) and sustainability (learning that lasts). It encourages teachers to see all students as developing learners and to consider the complexities and diversity of learning in the 21st century. In doing so, it canvasses topics such as a sustainable approach to inclusion, learning processes, teaching processes, differentiation, assessment to support teaching and learning, and life-long learning. Chapter features include: • ‘Think and do’ exercises • Examples, case studies and vignettes • Tables, figures and diagrams to help readers visualise core ideas, theories and themes
Contents: 1. An introduction to sustainable learning; 2. Processes of learning; 3. Processes of teaching; 4. Factors that support and hinder learning; 5. Assessment and learning; 6. Learning for all; 7. Learning that matters; 8. Learning that lasts; 9. Sustainable learning: inclusive practice for 21st century classrooms.
Additional Information Level: undergraduate students, graduate students
• Considers the complexities and diversity of learning in the 21st century • Provides examples, case studies and vignettes to illustrate the link between theory and practice
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History
The Art of Medicine in Early China The Ancient and Medieval Origins of a Modern Archive
Miranda Brown University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
July 2015 228 x 152 mm 250pp 12 b/w illus. 8 maps 7 tables 978-1-107-09705-6 Hardback £65.00
Why will it sell • The first study of Chinese medical historiography • Represents the first effort within the China field to demonstrate historiographical continuity between the pre-modern and the modern period
In this book, Miranda Brown investigates the myths that acupuncturists and herbalists have told about the birth of the healing arts. Moving from the Han (206 BC–AD 220) and Song (960–1279) dynasties to the twentieth century, Brown traces the rich history of Chinese medical historiography and the gradual emergence of the archive of medical tradition. She exposes the historical circumstances that shaped the current image of medical progenitors: the ancient bibliographers, medieval editors, and modern reformers and defenders of Chinese medicine who contributed to the contemporary shape of the archive. Brown demonstrates how ancient and medieval ways of knowing live on in popular narratives of medical history, both in modern Asia and in the West. She also reveals the surprising and often unacknowledged debt that contemporary scholars owe to their pre-modern forebears for the categories, frameworks, and analytic tools with which to study the distant past.
Contents: Part I. Before Medical History: 1. Attendant He: innovator or persona?; 2. Bian Que as a seer: political persuaders and the medical imagination; 3. Chunyu Yi: can the healer speak?; Part II. Medical Histories: 4. Liu Xiang: the imperial library and the creation of the exemplary healer list; 5. Zhang Ji: the kaleidoscopic father; 6. Huangfu Mi: from innovator to transmitter; Epilogue: ancient histories in the modern age; Appendix: a problematic preface.
Additional Information Level: academic researchers, graduate students, general readers
• Written to engage specialists of both China and medical history • Offers an alternative to the traditional chronological treatment of history
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History
A Concise History of Japan Brett L. Walker Montana State University
February 2015 228 x 152 mm 280pp 25 b/w illus. 5 maps 978-1-107-00418-4 Hardback £55.00
Why will it sell • A concise, authoritative and vibrant introduction to Japanese history from earliest times to the present day • Addresses questions of national consciousness and identity • Threads environmental concerns through the course of Japanese history
To this day, Japan’s modern ascendancy challenges many assumptions about world history, particularly theories regarding the rise of the west and why the modern world looks the way it does. In this engaging new history, Brett L. Walker tackles key themes regarding Japan’s relationships with its minorities, state and economic development, and the uses of science and medicine. The book begins by tracing the country’s early history through archaeological remains, before proceeding to explore life in the imperial court, the rise of the samurai, civil conflict, encounters with Europe, and the advent of modernity and empire. Integrating the pageantry of a unique nation’s history with today’s environmental concerns, Walker’s vibrant and accessible new narrative then follows Japan’s ascension from the ashes of World War II into the thriving nation of today. It is a history for our times, posing important questions regarding how we should situate a nation’s history in an age of environmental and climatological uncertainties.
Contents: Preface; Chronology; Introduction; 1. The birth of the Yamato state, 14,500 BCE–710 CE; 2. The courtly age, 710–1185; 3. The rise of Samurai rule, 1185–1336; 4. Medieval Japan and the warring states period, 1336–1573; 5. Japan’s encounter with Europe, 1542–1640; 6. Unifying the realm, 1560–1603; 7. Early modern Japan, 1600– 1800; 8. The rise of imperial nationalism, 1770–1854; 9. Meiji enlightenment, 1868–1912; 10. Meiji’s discontents, 1868–1920; 11. The birth of Japan’s imperial state, 1800–1910; 12. Empire and imperial democracy, 1905–1931; 13. The Pacific War, 1931–45; 14. Japan’s postwar history, 1945–present; 15. Natural disasters and the edge of history; Glossary; Further reading; Index.
Additional Information Level: undergraduate students, general readers Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
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History
Chopsticks A Cultural and Culinary History
Q. Edward Wang Rowan University, New Jersey
January 2015 228 x 152 mm 224pp 32 colour illus. 978-1-107-02396-3 Hardback £19.99
Why will it sell • A pioneering account of the history and culture of chopsticks • Charts the evolution of chopstick use in Asian food culture from ancient times to the present day • Surveys the cultural significance of chopsticks and chopstick use across the cultures in which they are used
Chopsticks have become a quintessential part of the Japanese, Chinese and Korean culinary experience across the globe, with more than one fifth of the world’s population using them daily to eat. In this vibrant, highly original account of the history of chopsticks, Q. Edward Wang charts their evolution from a simple eating implement in ancient times to their status as a much more complex, cultural symbol today. Opening in the Neolithic Age, at the first recorded use of chopsticks, the book surveys their practice through Chinese history, before exploring their transmission in the fifth century to other parts of Asia, including Vietnam, Korea, Japan and Mongolia. Calling upon a striking selection of artwork, the author illustrates how chopstick use has influenced Asian cuisine, and how, in turn the cuisine continues to influence chopstick use, both in Asia and across the globe.
Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. Why chopsticks? Their origin and original function; 3. Dish, rice or noodle? The changing use of chopsticks; 4. Forming a chopsticks cultural sphere: Vietnam, Japan, Korea and beyond; 5. Using chopsticks: customs, manners and etiquette; 6. A pair inseparable: chopsticks as gift, metaphor and symbol; 7. ‘Bridging’ food cultures in the world; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.
Additional Information Level: general readers, undergraduate students
Advance praise: ‘Questions you would have never thought to ask are expertly answered in this timely volume. The pages and chapters bring to light unique facets of Chinese life that are usually reserved for interrogation by focusing on the Chinese written language as a special East Asian ‘cultural sphere’. By addressing chopsticks Wang neatly augments that sphere by adding culinary history to the cultural mix.’ Benjamin A. Elman, Princeton University, New Jersey
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History
Humanitarian Photography A History
Edited by Heide Fehrenbach Northern Illinois University
and Davide Rodogno The Graduate Institute of Geneva
April 2015 228 x 152 mm 354pp 60 b/w illus. 978-1-107-06470-6 Hardback £65.00
Why will it sell • Copiously illustrated with over sixty images • A comprehensive introduction that establishes ‘humanitarian photography’ as an object of historical study • The essays combine original archival research with reference to current historical and theoretical debates
For well over a century, humanitarians and their organizations have used photographic imagery and the latest media technologies to raise public awareness and funds to alleviate human suffering. This volume examines the historical evolution of what we today call ‘humanitarian photography’ – the mobilization of photography in the service of humanitarian initiatives across state boundaries – and asks how we can account for the shift from the fitful and debated use of photography for humanitarian purposes in the late nineteenth century to our current situation in which photographers market themselves as ‘humanitarian photographers’. This book is the first to investigate how humanitarian photography emerged and how it operated in diverse political, institutional, and social contexts, bringing together more than a dozen scholars working on the history of humanitarianism, international organizations and nongovernmental organizations, and visual culture in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the United States.
Contents: Introduction. The morality of sight: humanitarian photography in history; 1. Picturing pain: evangelicals and the politics of pictorial humanitarianism in an imperial age; 2. Framing atrocity: photography and humanitarianism; 3. The limits of exposure: atrocity photographs in the Congo reform campaign; 4. Photography, visual culture, and the Armenian genocide; 5. Developing the humanitarian image in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century China; 6. Photography, cinema, and the quest for influence: the international committee of the Red Cross in the wake of the first world war; 7. Children and other civilians: photography and the politics of humanitarian image-making; 8. Sights of benevolence: UNRRA’s recipients portrayed; 9. All the world loves a picture: the World Health Organization’s visual politics, 1948–73; 10. ‘A’ as in Auschwitz, ‘B’ as in Biafra: the Nigerian civil war, visual narratives of genocide, and the fragmented universalization of the Holocaust; 11. Finding the right image: British development NGOs and the regulation of imagery; 12. Dilemmas of ethical practice in the production of contemporary humanitarian photography.
Additional Information Level: academic researchers, graduate students Series: Human Rights in History
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Computer Science
The Computing Universe A Journey through a Revolution
Tony Hey Microsoft Research, Redmond, Washington
and Gyuri Pápay University of Southampton
December 2014 297 x 210 mm 424pp 596 colour illus. 20 tables 978-0-521-76645-6 Hardback £50.00
Why will it sell • Explains in an engaging, nontechnical way how computers work, how the world of computing came to be this way, and where it is going in the future • Contains numerous anecdotes and photos of key events and personalities involved with the development of the industry
Computers now impact almost every aspect of our lives, from our social interactions to the safety and performance of our cars. How did this happen in such a short time? And this is just the beginning … In this book, Tony Hey and Gyuri Pápay lead us on a journey from the early days of computers in the 1930s to the cutting-edge research of the present day that will shape computing in the coming decades. Along the way, they explain the ideas behind hardware, software, algorithms, Moore’s Law, the birth of the personal computer, the Internet and the Web, the Turing Test, Jeopardy’s Watson, World of Warcraft, spyware, Google, Facebook and quantum computing. This book also introduces the fascinating cast of dreamers and inventors who brought these great technological developments into every corner of the modern world. This exciting and accessible introduction will open up the universe of computing to anyone who has ever wondered where his or her smartphone came from.
Contents: 1. Beginnings of a revolution; 2. The hardware; 3. The software is in the holes; 4. Programming languages and software engineering; 5. Algorithmics; 6. Mr. Turing’s amazing machines; 7. Moore’s Law and the silicon revolution; 8. Computing gets personal; 9. Computer games; 10. Licklider’s intergalactic computer network; 11. Weaving the World Wide Web; 12. The dark side of the Web; 13. Artificial intelligence and neural networks; 14. Machine learning and natural-language processing; 15. The end of Moore’s Law; 16. The third age of computing; 17. Computers and science fiction – an essay. Additional Resources: http://www.cambridge.org/9780521766456
Additional Information Level: general readers, undergraduate students
• Features chapters on Moore’s Law, video games, malware and cryptography, machine learning, Artificial Intelligence and consciousness
‘Tony Hey has made significant contributions to both physics and computer science and with The Computing Universe he and his co-author share the knowledge and history that has inspired us all.’ Bill Gates
• Shows how students have been able to make major contributions to computing and why young people should be interested in helping shape the future
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Physics
A Student’s Guide to Maxwell’s Equations Daniel Fleisch Wittenberg University, Ohio
January 2008 228 x 152 mm 146pp 63 b/w illus. 39 exercises 978-0-521-87761-9 Hardback £49.99
Why will it sell • Features an interactive website with complete solutions to every problem within the text, as well as audio podcasts explaining key concepts • Plain-language explanations of the symbols used in the equations
Gauss’s law for electric fields, Gauss’s law for magnetic fields, Faraday’s law, and the Ampere–Maxwell law are four of the most influential equations in science. In this guide for students, each equation is the subject of an entire chapter, with detailed, plain-language explanations of the physical meaning of each symbol in the equation, for both the integral and differential forms. The final chapter shows how Maxwell’s equations may be combined to produce the wave equation, the basis for the electromagnetic theory of light. This book is a wonderful resource for undergraduate and graduate courses in electromagnetism and electromagnetics. A website hosted by the author at www.cambridge.org/9780521877619 contains interactive solutions to every problem in the text as well as audio podcasts to walk students through each chapter.
Contents: Preface; 1. Gauss’s law for electric fields; 2. Gauss’s law for magnetic fields; 3. Faraday’s law; 4. The Ampere– Maxwell law; 5. From Maxwell’s equations to the wave equation; Appendix; Further reading; Index.
Additional Information Courses: Electricity and Magnetism, Electromagnetism, Electromagnetic Waves Departments: Physics, Electrical Engineering Level: undergraduate students, graduate students
‘Professor Fleisch is a great scientific communicator.’ electronicdesign.com
• Modular approach allows reader to find relevant material easily
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Physics
A Student’s Guide to Waves Daniel Fleisch Wittenberg University, Ohio
and Laura Kinnaman Wabash College, Indiana
March 2015 228 x 152 mm 225pp 109 b/w illus. 60 exercises 978-1-107-05486-8 Hardback c. £40.00
Why will it sell • Uses Daniel Fleisch’s wellknown plain-language approach to tackle topics students find the most troublesome
Waves are an important topic in the fields of mechanics, electromagnetism, and quantum theory, but many students struggle with the mathematical aspects. Written to complement course textbooks, this book focuses on the topics that students find most difficult. Retaining the highly popular approach used in Fleisch’s other Student’s Guides, the book uses plain language to explain fundamental ideas in a simple and clear way. Exercises and fully-worked examples help readers test their understanding of the concepts, making this an ideal book for undergraduates in physics and engineering trying to get to grips with this challenging subject. The book is supported by a suite of online resources available at www.cambridge.org/9781107054868. These include interactive solutions for every exercise and problem in the text and a series of video podcasts in which the authors explain the important concepts of every section of the book.
Contents: Introduction; 1. Wave fundamentals; 2. The wave equation; 3. Wave components; 4. The mechanical wave equation; 5. The electromagnetic wave equation; 6. The quantum wave equation; References; Index.
Additional Information Level: undergraduate students, graduate students
• Clear mathematical explanations and fully-worked examples help students get to grips with the subject • Online resources include author-produced podcasts explaining important concepts and mathematical techniques; and interactive solutions to all problems so students can actively test their understanding
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Physics
Thermal Physics Energy and Entropy
David Goodstein California Institute of Technology
February 2015 228 x 152 mm 176pp 44 b/w illus. 96 exercises 978-1-107-08011-9 Hardback £40.00
Why will it sell • Makes the usually complex subject of statistical mechanics and thermodynamics simple and easy to understand • Introduces all thermodynamic functions and how they are related to microscopic quantities through statistical mechanics
Written by distinguished physics educator David Goodstein, this fresh introduction to thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and the study of matter is ideal for undergraduate courses. The textbook looks at the behavior of thermodynamic variables and examines partial derivatives – the essential language of thermodynamics. It also explores states of matter and the phase transitions between them, the ideal gas equation, and the behavior of the atmosphere. The origin and meaning of the laws of thermodynamics are then discussed, together with Carnot engines and refrigerators, and the notion of reversibility. Later chapters cover the partition function, the density of states, and energy functions, as well as more advanced topics such as the interactions between particles and equations for the states of gases of varying densities. Favoring intuitive and qualitative descriptions over exhaustive mathematical derivations, the textbook uses numerous problems and worked examples to help readers get to grips with the subject.
Contents: 1. The basic ideas of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics; 2. The care and feeding of thermodynamic variables; 3. Gases and other matters; 4. The laws of thermodynamics; 5. The Boltzmann factor and the density of states; 6. Thermodynamic functions; 7. Statistical mechanics for fixed and variable; 8. More advanced topics; 9. Solutions; Index.
Additional Information Courses: Thermodynamics, Thermal Physics Departments: Physics, Engineering Level: undergraduate students, graduate students
• Gives intuitive and qualitative descriptions over exhaustive mathematical derivations • Includes exercises and worked examples
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Earth and Environmental Science
The Pterosauria Edited by David Martill University of Portsmouth
David Unwin University of Leicester
and Robert Loveridge University of Portsmouth
July 2015 276 x 219 mm 500pp 978-0-521-51895-6 Hardback c. £80.00
Why will it sell • Provides detailed descriptions and illustrations of more than 130 known species and key fossil localities • Presents the most extensive treatment of pterosaur phylogeny to date, including extensive synopses of metric data, phylogenetic characters and distribution of fossils in time and space
Pterosaurs are the earliest vertebrates known to have evolved powered flight. This core reference work summarises state-of-the-art research on pterosaur taxonomy, phylogeny and evolutionary history, as well as recent advances in our understanding of pterosaur diversity and the distribution of these creatures. Compiled by a team of more than 20 experts from 8 different countries, this work provides the most extensive account yet written of pterosaur systematics. Highlights include detailed reviews of the geology and palaeontology of principal pterosaur localities; comprehensive accounts of pterosaur biogeography and preservation; detailed systematic reviews of the more than 130 species of pterosaur described so far; and the first detailed account of pterosaur evolution to include important new finds such as Darwinopterus. Illustrated with unique line drawings and photographs, The Pterosauria is a one-stop resource for academics, students of palaeontology, geology and biology, and amateur enthusiasts interested in these flying reptiles.
Contents: List of contributors; Foreword; 1. Introduction; 2. Pterosaur research since 1991: an overview; 3. The pterosaur fossil record; 4. A review of pterosaur phylogeny; 5. Pterosaur systematics; 6. Pterosaur trace fossils; 7. Pterosaur palaeobiogeography; 8. Pterosaurs in time and space; Appendix 1. Pterosaur synonymies; Appendix 2. Data matrices for cladistic analysis of pterosaurs; Appendix 3. The fossil record of the Pterosauria; Appendix 4. Nomina Anatomica Pterosauria; Appendix 5. Metric data; Index.
Additional Information Level: academic researchers, graduate students
• Includes results from recent studies and exciting new finds from China such as Darwinopterus
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Earth and Environmental Science
Geofuels Energy and the Earth
Alan R. Carroll University of Wisconsin, Madison
February 2015 228 x 152 mm 354pp 114 b/w illus. 1 table 978-1-107-00859-5 Hardback £55.00
Why will it sell • Provides a unique view of the entire energy landscape, as seen through the lens of geology – readers will gain a holistic understanding of the origins of energy, both renewable and nonrenewable • Written in an informal and nontechnical style – will appeal to those who might be put off by a formal, textbook-style presentation of technical material
Our energy use and its consequences (including climate change) motivate some of the most contentious and complex public debates of our time. Although these issues are often cast in terms of renewable versus non-renewable energy, in reality both depend on finite Earth resources. The evolution of the Earth itself therefore offers a uniquely illuminating perspective from which to evaluate alternative pathways toward energy and environmental sustainability. Geofuels: Energy and the Earth systematically develops this perspective using informal, nontechnical language laced with humor. It is well suited to a broad readership, ranging from beginning university students to lifelong learners who are interested in how the Earth’s past will influence their own future. It also provides simplified explanations of controversial topics, such as energy return on energy investment, peak oil, and fracking. The focus throughout is on building a sound physical understanding of how natural resources constrain our use of energy.
Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. The living Earth; 3. Warmed from above: solar energy; 4. Wind, water, and waves: energy from the fluid Earth; 5. Covered with green: biofuels basics; 6. Fossil farming: the geologic underpinnings of biofuels; 7. The light of an ancient sun: fossil fuel origins; 8. Digging for daylight: coal and oil shale; 9. Skimming the cream: conventional oil and gas; 10. Stuck in the mud: fossil fuels that fail to flow; 11. Petrified petroleum: oil sand and gas hydrate; 12. Water, water, everywhere; 13. Primordial power: geothermal and nuclear; 14. Out of sight, out of mind: geologic waste disposal; 15. How long is forever?: energy and time; 16. Conclusions.
Additional Information Courses: Energy, Introduction to Energy, Renewable Energy Level: general readers, undergraduate students, academic researchers
• Describes the connections between renewable energy systems and finite earth resources – gives readers a greater awareness of the fundamental trade-offs inherent to all energy systems
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Astronomy
The Scientific Exploration of Venus Fredric W. Taylor University of Oxford
October 2014 253 x 203 mm 314pp 171 b/w illus. 25 colour illus. 978-1-107-02348-2 Hardback £30.00
Why will it sell • The history of mankind’s interest in, and understanding of, our nearest planetary companion in space • An intimate account of the exploration of Venus during the space age by the Soviets, the USA, Europe and Japan • Authoritative explanations of the objectives and methods used to explore the planet, what they have achieved, and what remains mysterious
Venus is the brightest ‘star’ in the night sky and it has been observed since ancient times. Often dubbed Earth’s ‘twin’, it is the planet most similar to the Earth in size, mass and composition. There the similarity ends: Venus is shrouded by a dense carbon dioxide atmosphere, its surface is dominated by thousands of volcanoes and it lacks a protective magnetic field to shield it from energetic solar particles. So why isn’t Venus more like Earth? In this book, a leading researcher of Venus addresses this question by explaining what we know through our investigations of the planet. Venus presents an intriguing case study for planetary astronomers and atmospheric scientists, especially in light of the current challenges of global warming, which supports, and potentially threatens, life on Earth. Scientifically rigorous, yet written in a friendly non-technical style, this is a broad introduction for students and astronomy and space enthusiasts.
Contents: Part I. Views of Venus, from the Beginning to the Present Day: 1. The dawn of Venus exploration; 2. Mariner and Venera; 3. Pioneer Venus and Vega: orbiters, balloons and multi-probes; 4. Images of the surface; 5. The forgotten world; 6. Earth-based astronomy delivers a breakthrough; 7. Can’t stop now; 8. Europe and Japan join in: Venus Express and Akatsuki; Part II. The Motivation to Continue the Quest: 9. Origin and evolution: the solid planet; 10. Atmosphere and ocean; 11. A volcanic world; 12. The mysterious clouds; 13. Superwinds and polar vortices; 14. The climate on Venus, past, present and future; 15. Could there be life on Venus?; Part III. Plans and Visions for the Future: 16. Solar system exploration; 17. Coming soon to a planet near you: planned Venus missions; 18. Towards the horizon: advanced technology; 19. Beyond the horizon: human expeditions; Epilogue; Appendix A. Chronology of space missions to Venus; Appendix B. Data about Venus.
Additional Information Level: amateurs/enthusiasts, undergraduate students ‘The Scientific Exploration of Venus is a fascinating book that tells us everything about our understanding of our neighbouring planet, from ancient times to modern exploration. In a clear and brilliant style, the author leads us along all aspects of this quest, from the early images and the ground-based spectroscopic observations to the achievements of the space era. Chapter after chapter, we learn how our knowledge of the planet has improved, what are the open issues, and finally what the future of the planet might be. This very complete and well-documented book about our sister planet will be a reference for not just scientists and students, but also for anyone interested in the future evolution of our own planet.’ Dr Thérèse Encrenaz, Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, and author of Life Beyond Earth
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Astronomy
Cosmic Magnetic Fields Philipp P. Kronberg University of Toronto
Magnetic fields are important in the Universe and their effects contain the key to many astrophysical phenomena that are otherwise impossible to understand. This book presents an up-to-date overview of this fast-growing topic and its interconnections to plasma processes, astroparticle physics, high energy astrophysics, and cosmic evolution. The phenomenology and impact of magnetic fields are described in diverse astrophysical contexts within the Universe, from galaxies to the filaments and voids of the intergalactic medium, and out to the largest redshifts. The presentation of mathematical formulae is accessible and is designed to add insight into the broad range of topics discussed. Written for graduate students and researchers in astrophysics and related disciplines, this volume will inspire readers to devise new ways of thinking about magnetic fields in space on gala July 2015 247 x 174 mm 224pp 55 b/w illus. 1 table 978-0-521-63163-1 Hardback c. £75.00
Why will it sell • Presents an up-to-date review of magnetic fields in the Galaxy and wider Universe, examining how they are measured and their interconnections to diverse astrophysical phenomena • Discusses the techniques and methods for measuring magnetic fields, helping readers to appreciate future, more advanced magnetic field probes
Contents: 1. A brief history and background; 2. Methods for probing magnetic fields in astrophysical systems; 3. Mechanisms for magnetic field generation and regeneration; 4. Nearby galactic objects as a microcosm of the effects of astrophysical magnetic fields; 5. Magnetic field configurations in large galaxies; 6. Magnetic field outflow into the IGM from stellar and supernova activity; 7. Extragalactic scale jets and their magnetized lobes; 8. Distribution of magnetic energy into the IGM; 9. Magnetic fields associated with clusters and groups of galaxies; 10. Magnetic fields beyond galaxy clusters; 11. Intergalactic cosmic rays and magnetic fields; 12. Magnetic fields at earlier cosmological epochs since recombination; 13. Magnetic fields at and before the recombination epoch; 14. Magnetic fields and some fundamental physics questions; Index.
Additional Information Level: graduate students, academic researchers Series: Cambridge Astrophysics
• Presentation of mathematical formulae is accessible and designed to add insight into the broad range of topics discussed
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Index A Adams, Fred...............................................23 Alznauer, Mark...........................................26 Anthropologies of Class..............................33 Archaeology of Early China, The..................35 Art of Medicine in Early China, The.............48 Audi, Robert...............................................29 Auld, Glenn................................................46
B Becoming a Teacher of Language and Literacy...................................................46 Bellert, Anne..............................................47 Berman, Jeanette.......................................47 Biggam, C. P...............................................14 Bowe, Heather...........................................15 Boylan, Michael..........................................19 Bribitzer-Stull, Matthew................................4 Brown, Miranda.........................................48 Buzan, Barry...............................................41 Bybee, Joan................................................18
C Cambridge Companion to French Music, The.5 Cambridge Companion to Hip-Hop, The........6 Cambridge Companion to Liberalism, The...21 Cambridge Companion to Modern Arab Culture, The.............................................13 Cambridge Companion to Sufism, The.........32 Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature, The.........................................12 Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, The.....29 Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences, The...........................................38 Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis, The....................................9 Carrier, James G..........................................33 Carroll, Alan R............................................57 Chakravarty, Satya R...................................43 Chopsticks.................................................50 Communication across Cultures..................15 Computing Universe, The............................52 Concise History of Japan, A.........................49 Conway, Daniel..........................................27 Cosmic Magnetic Fields..............................59 Course on Cooperative Game Theory, A.......43
D Demopoulos, William..................................22 Doecke, Brenton.........................................46
E Endangered Languages..............................17 Entertainment Industry Economics..............44 Ethical Challenges in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences.........................................39
F Fehrenbach, Heide......................................51 Fiske, Susan Tufts........................................39 Fleisch, Daniel...................................... 53, 54
G Geofuels....................................................57 Global Transformation, The.........................41 Goodstein, David........................................55
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Gorski, Gilbert J..........................................34 Graham, Lorraine.......................................47 Grondona, Veronica....................................17
H Hegel’s Theory of Responsibility..................26 Herrenkohl, Leslie Rupert............................37 Hey, Tony...................................................52 Hillman, David............................................12 Hockey, Robert...........................................40 Hoffmann, Charlotte...................................16 How Students Come to Be, Know, and Do...37 Hulle, Dirk Van...........................................10 Humanitarian Photography.........................51 Husserl’s Transcendental Phenomenology....20
I Introduction to the Philosophy of Psychology, An........................................23
K Kalb, Don...................................................33 Kierkegaard and the Problem of Self-Love...28 Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling................27 Kinnaman, Laura........................................54 Kronberg, Philipp P.....................................59
L Language Change......................................18 Lawson, George.........................................41 Lippitt, John...............................................28 Logicism and its Philosophical Legacy.........22 Loveridge, Robert.......................................56
M Manns, Howard..........................................15 Marder, Tod A...............................................7 Martill, David.............................................56 Martin, Kylie...............................................15 Maude, Ulrika.............................................12 McKitterick, David........................................8 Mertl, Véronique........................................37 Michelangelo’s David...................................3 Miller, Jon..................................................24 Mitra, Manipushpak...................................43 Modernist Fiction and Vagueness................11 Multilingualism..........................................16
N Narcissism and Politics...............................42 Natural Human Rights................................19 New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett, The............................................10 Novak, David..............................................31
O Old Books, New Technologies.......................8
P Packer, James E..........................................34 Pantheon, The..............................................7 Paoletti, John T.............................................3 Pápay, Gyuri...............................................52 Post, Jerrold M...........................................42 Psychology of Fatigue, The..........................40
Pterosauria, The.........................................56
Q Quigley, Megan..........................................11
R Rabaté, Jean-Michel.....................................9 Religious Diversity......................................30 Reynolds, Dwight F.....................................13 Ridgeon, Lloyd...........................................32 Rodogno, Davide........................................51 Roman Forum, The.....................................34
S Sarkar, Palash.............................................43 Sawyer, R. Keith..........................................38 Scientific Exploration of Venus, The.............58 Semantics of Colour, The.............................14 Sexting and Cyberbullying..........................45 Shariff, Shaheen.........................................45 Shelach-Lavi, Gideon..................................35 Sørensen, Marie Louise Stig........................36 Spinoza and the Case for Philosophy..........25 Spinoza and the Stoics...............................24 Staiti, Andrea.............................................20 Stavans, Anat.............................................16 Sternberg, Robert J.....................................39 Student’s Guide to Maxwell’s Equations, A..53 Student’s Guide to Waves, A.......................54 Sustainable Learning..................................47
T Taylor, Fredric W..........................................58 Thermal Physics..........................................55 Thomason, Sarah G.....................................17 Trezise, Simon..............................................5 Trigg, Roger...............................................30
U Understanding the Leitmotif.........................4 Unwin, David.............................................56
V Viejo Rose, Dacia........................................36 Vogel, Harold L...........................................44
W Walker, Brett L............................................49 Wall, Steven...............................................21 Wang, Q. Edward.......................................50 War and Cultural Heritage..........................36 Weiskopf, Daniel.........................................23 Wells, Muriel..............................................46 Williams, Justin A.........................................6 Wilson Jones, Mark......................................7
Y Yakira, Elhanan..........................................25
Z Zionism and Judaism..................................31
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