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Page 23 of 63588

Synoptic Paleoclimatology
  • The Weather Regime Approach from the Tropics to the Poles
  • Ian D. Goodwin
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    August 2025
    Print publication:
    31 August 2025
  • Projecting regional climate change over this century and the next remains challenging due to the chaotic nature of weather, but it is made more reliable through reconstructions of paleoweather in relation to climate change in atmospheric and ocean circulation, winds, waves, currents, and precipitation. This primer applies a cross-disciplinary treatment of large-scale and synoptic climatology to the reconstruction of past climates under the umbrella of synoptic paleoclimatology, providing the theory and application of synoptic paleoclimatology for the study and prediction of future climate evolution. Climate proxy and data–model assimilation methodologies are described in detail, focusing on coasts, the surface ocean, glaciers, and ice sheets. This book also presents a state-of-the-art synthesis of regional climate history across the Southern Hemisphere, including tropical coral reefs, coasts, alpine glaciers, and Antarctica. This book will be invaluable to advanced students, researchers, and practitioners in climatology, paleoclimatology, meteorology, coastal geoscience, glaciology, oceanography, global change, and climate risk assessment.

The Will in English Renaissance Drama
  • Douglas Clark
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    August 2025
    Print publication:
    31 August 2025
  • Douglas Clark reveals how moments of willing and will-making pervade English Renaissance drama and play a crucial role in the depiction of selfhood, sin, sociality, and succession. Exploring the dramatic performance of the will as both internal faculty and legal document, this wide-ranging study synthesizes concepts from historical, theological, philosophical, and legal studies. Clark explores the diverse connections that Shakespeare, Jonson and Middleton as well as overlooked playwrights of the early Elizabethan era made between types and understandings of the will, and reveals the little-understood ethical issues to which they gave rise in relation to the mind, emotions, and soul. Understanding the purpose of the will in its multiple forms was a central concern for writers of the time, and Clark shows how this concern profoundly shaped the depiction of life and death in both Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. This title is part of the Flip it Open programme and may also be available open access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Court, Credit, and Capital
  • Amsterdam's Insolvency Legislation in the Dutch Golden Age
  • Maurits den Hollander
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    August 2025
    Print publication:
    31 August 2025
  • Seventeenth-century Amsterdam was a city of innovations. Explosive economic growth, the expansion of overseas trade, and a high level of religious tolerance sparked great institutional, socio-economic and legal changes, a period generally known as 'the Dutch Golden Age'. In this book, Maurits den Hollander discusses how insolvency legislation contributed to the rise of a modern commercial order in seventeenth-century Amsterdam. He analyzes the procedure and principles behind Amsterdam's specialised insolvency court (the Desolate Boedelskamer, 1643) from a theoretical perspective as well as through the eyes of citizens whose businesses failed. The Amsterdam authorities created a regulatory environment which solved insolvency more leniently, and thus economically more efficiently, than in previous times or places. Moving beyond the traditional view of insolvency as a moral failure and the debtor as a criminal, the Amsterdam court recognised that business failure was often beyond the insolvent's personal control, and helped restore trust and credit among creditors and debtors.

Hispanic Technocracy
  • From Fascism to Catholic Authoritarianism in Spain, Argentina, and Chile, 1945–1991
  • Daniel Gunnar Kressel
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    August 2025
    Print publication:
    31 July 2025
  • Hispanic Technocracy explores the emergence, zenith, and demise of a distinctive post-fascist school of thought that materialized as state ideology during the Cold War in three military regimes: Francisco Franco's Spain (1939–1975), Juan Carlos Onganía's Argentina (1966–1973), and Augusto Pinochet's Chile (1973–1988). In this intellectual and cultural history, Daniel Gunnar Kressel examines how Francoist Spain replaced its fascist ideology with an early-neoliberal economic model. With the Catholic society Opus Dei at its helm amid its 'economic miracle' of the 1960s, it fostered a modernity that was 'European in the means' and 'Hispanic in the ends.' Kressel illuminates how a transatlantic network of ideologues championed this model in Latin America as an authoritarian state model that was better suited to their modernization process. In turn, he illustrates how Argentine and Chilean ideologues adapted the Francoist ideological toolkit to their political circumstances, thereby transcending the original model.

The Psychology of System Change and Resistance to Change
  • A New Psychology of Intergroup Relation
  • Winnifred R. Louis, Gi K. Chonu, Kiara Minto, Susilo Wibisono
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    August 2025
    Print publication:
    31 August 2025
  • Why do some societies evolve while others remain stagnant? What creates divisiveness and exclusion, versus community cohesion and social progress? This book discusses the psychology of social system change and resistance to change, offering readers a deep exploration of the psychological dynamics that shape societal transformations. Readers explore psychological perspectives on intergroup relations and group processes, alongside interdisciplinary perspectives from environmental science, history, political science, and sociology, to question and challenge conventional thinking. This readable, entertaining book contains clear definitions, lucid explanations, and key learnings in each chapter that highlight the take-home points and the implications, so that readers can apply these insights to their real-world challenges. Whether you're a student, scholar, community member, or leader, this book provides important knowledge for all who are interested in understanding and influencing the dynamics of social change.

Being Human in the Digital World
  • Interdisciplinary Perspectives
  • Edited by Beate Roessler, Valerie Steeves
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    August 2025
    Print publication:
    31 July 2025
  • Being Human in the Digital World is a collection of essays by prominent scholars from various disciplines exploring the impact of digitization on culture, politics, health, work, and relationships. The volume raises important questions about the future of human existence in a world where machine readability and algorithmic prediction are increasingly prevalent and offers new conceptual frameworks and vocabularies to help readers understand and challenge emerging paradigms of what it means to be human. Being Human in the Digital World is an invaluable resource for readers interested in the cultural, economic, political, philosophical, and social conditions that are necessary for a good digital life. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Becoming Allies
  • Civil Rights Activism in India
  • Ankita Pandey
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    August 2025
    Print publication:
    01 November 2026

The Cambridge Companion to Indian Politics and Society

Essential Mathematics for Convex Optimization
  • Fatma Kılınç-Karzan, Arkadi Nemirovski
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    August 2025
    Print publication:
    30 June 2025
  • With an emphasis on timeless essential mathematical background for optimization, this textbook provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to convex optimization for students in applied mathematics, computer science, and engineering. Authored by two influential researchers, the book covers both convex analysis basics and modern topics such as conic programming, conic representations of convex sets, and cone-constrained convex problems, providing readers with a solid, up-to-date understanding of the field. By excluding modeling and algorithms, the authors are able to discuss the theoretical aspects in greater depth. Over 170 in-depth exercises provide hands-on experience with the theory, while more than 30 'Facts' and their accompanying proofs enhance approachability. Instructors will appreciate the appendices that cover all necessary background and the instructors-only solutions manual provided online. By the end of the book, readers will be well equipped to engage with state-of-the-art developments in optimization and its applications in decision-making and engineering.

Redemption
  • MacArthur and the Campaign for the Philippines
  • Peter R. Mansoor
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    August 2025
    Print publication:
    14 August 2025
  • Redemption is a sweeping new history of the largest and costliest campaign waged by US armed forces during the Pacific War. Peter Mansoor surveys the course of the Philippines campaign, from the Japanese invasion and the Filipino guerrilla operations which contested occupation to the US Army's return to Leyte and the subsequent battles of liberation. Central to the book is a re-evaluation of the leadership of General Douglas MacArthur, one of the most controversial military commanders in US history. At times brilliant, courageous, and politically astute, MacArthur was also egotistical, publicity hungry, often ignorant of conditions at the front, and self-certain to a fault. In their return to the Philippines, MacArthur and his forces liberated millions of Filipinos and severed a critical Japanese resource lifeline. But he also achieved something much rarer – redemption on the same ground and against the same enemy that defeated him earlier in the war.

Face and Form
  • Physiognomy in Literary Modernism
  • Anca Parvulescu
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    August 2025
    Print publication:
    31 August 2025
  • Faces, faces, faces - faces everywhere! Modernism was obsessed with the ubiquity of the human face. Thomas Mann, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein and, later, Kōbō Abe framed their literary projects around the question of the face, its dynamic of legibility and opacity. In literary modernism, the face functioned as a proxy for form, memory, intermediality or difference - and combinations thereof. The old pseudo-science of physiognomy, which assumed that faces are sites of legible meaning, was in the process reconfigured. Faces in modernist literature lost their connection to interiority, but remained surfaces of reading and interpretation. As such, they also became canvasses for creative appropriation, what Mina Loy called auto-facial-construction. The modernist overinvestment in faces functions as a warning against the return of physiognomy in contemporary technologies of facial recognition. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Syntax and Semantics of Petri Nets
  • Roberto Gorrieri
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    August 2025
    Print publication:
    31 August 2025
  • Petri nets are one of the most popular tools for modeling distributed systems. This book provides a modern look at the theory behind them, by studying three classes of nets that model (i) sequential systems, (ii) non-communicating parallel systems, and (iii) communicating parallel systems. A decidable and causality respecting behavioral equivalence is presented for each class, followed by a modal logic characterization for each equivalence. The author then introduces a suitable process algebra for the corresponding class of nets and proves that the behavioral equivalence proposed for each class is a congruence for the operator of the corresponding process algebra. Finally, an axiomatization of the behavioral congruence is proposed. The theory is introduced step by step, with ordinary-language explanations and examples provided throughout, to remain accessible to readers without specialized training in concurrency theory or formal logic. Exercises with solutions solidify understanding, and the final chapter hints at extensions of the theory.

Making Humanities and Social Sciences Come Alive
  • Early Years and Primary Education
  • 2nd edition
  • Edited by Deborah Green, Deborah Price
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    August 2025
    Print publication:
    31 August 2025

States of Transition
  • From Governing the Environment to Transforming Society
  • Peter Newell
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    August 2025
    Print publication:
    31 August 2025
  • States of Transition takes a deep dive into the multiple roles states are playing in supporting transitions to a more sustainable world and where there is scope for their transformation. Going beyond unhelpful binaries - which cast the state as the central problem or the all-encompassing solution to ecological and social crises - it explores diverse current state practice across key domains: military, democracy, welfare, entrepreneurial, industrial, and foreign policy. It builds on theoretical resources from a range of disciplines, as befits the challenge of making sense of these diverse aspects of state power. It moves beyond existing analysis of the 'environmental state' to explore scope for a 'transition state' to emerge, capable of corralling and transforming all aspects of state power behind the goal of responding to the existential threat of planetary collapse. The book will be invaluable to students, academics, and practitioners concerned with environmental policy and sustainability.

China's International Energy Relations
  • The Impact of Transition from Fossil Fuels to Renewables
  • Hao Tan
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    August 2025
    Print publication:
    31 August 2025
  • This book presents a comprehensive account of China's evolving international energy relations (IER) as the world's largest energy user transitions from fossil fuels to renewables amidst significant geopolitical shifts. It introduces an original analytic framework for IER, focusing on three interconnected dimensions: the international business activities of energy companies at the micro level, state energy diplomacy and energy statecraft at the state level, and the nation's engagements with the global energy governance at the global level. Drawing an extensive range of Chinese and English-languages sources and employing novel perspectives, the book provides a timely analysis on this significant phenomenon. It constructs a compelling narrative on the profound impact of China's domestic energy transition and the changing geopolitical landscape on the country's international energy engagements.

Human-Technology Partnerships at Work
  • Edited by Tara S. Behrend
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    August 2025
    Print publication:
    31 August 2025
  • Discover how technology is revolutionizing the world of work across diverse industries in this essential text. As AI, automation, and digital platforms reshape fields like healthcare, hospitality, law enforcement, and the skilled trades, this book describes the emerging demands and skills workers need to thrive. Each chapter spotlights a different sector, uncovering how job roles are changing, what new training looks like, and the social and economic impacts of these shifts. By exploring both the opportunities and challenges of these technological transformations, this book offers an insightful perspective for professionals, educators, and anyone curious about the future of work. Perfect for readers seeking a comprehensive view of how technology is redefining careers and the labor market, it's a must-read for staying ahead in an ever-evolving workplace.

Money and American Literature
  • Edited by Paul Crosthwaite
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    August 2025
    Print publication:
    31 August 2025
  • Few topics are as central to the American literary imagination as money. American writers' preoccupations with money predate the foundation of the United States and persist to the present day. Writers have been among the sharpest critics and most enchanted observers of an American social world dominated by the 'cash nexus'; and they have reckoned with imaginative writing's own deep and ambivalent entanglements with the logics of inscription, circulation, and valuation that define the money economy itself. As a dominant measure of value, money has also profoundly shaped representations of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. American literature's engagements with money – and with directly related topics including debt, credit, finance, and the capitalist market – are among Americanists' most prominent concerns. This landmark volume synthesizes and builds upon the abundance of research in the field to provide the first comprehensive mapping of money's crucial role over five centuries of American literary history.

Nezhat's Textbook of Minimally Invasive Surgery
  • Including Hysteroscopy, Vaginoscopy and Robotic-Assisted Procedures
  • 5th edition
  • Edited by Camran R. Nezhat, Farr R. Nezhat, Ceana Nezhat, Nisha Lakhi, Azadeh Nezhat
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    August 2025
    Print publication:
    31 August 2025
  • The practice of surgery has been revolutionized since the introduction of video-assisted endoscopy. Minimally invasive procedures are now available for almost all severe gynecologic diseases and conditions and innovations such as the use of video-assisted and robotic-assisted hysteroscopy and vaginoscopy make this one of the most dynamic and technically demanding specialties. The new edition of this authoritative textbook covers the full spectrum of laparoscopic and hysteroscopic procedures used in gynecologic surgery. Containing descriptions of new techniques such as fetoscopic surgery and practical advice on how to set up the operating theater, the avoidance and management of complications will be stressed throughout. Over 700 high-quality images and accompanying videos are included in the book, illustrating the concepts covered and helping readers incorporate information.

Hegel Beyond Liberalism
  • The Dialectic of Political and Economic Democracy
  • Bernardo Ferro
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    August 2025
    Print publication:
    31 August 2025
  • Hegel's political philosophy has long been associated with some form of social or welfare liberalism. Bernardo Ferro challenges this interpretation and shows how Hegel's work harbours a more ambitious philosophical project, pointing to a different vision of modern society. Ferro argues that Hegel's account of the state should be read not as a complement to the concept of civil society, but as a direct challenge to its underlying logic. He then draws the political and economic conclusions implicit in this line of approach, arguing that the conscious pursuit of the common good which Hegel regards as essential to a rational state is not compatible with either a capitalist production system or a constitutional monarchy: a true dialectical synthesis of the particular interests of individuals and the general interests of society entails nothing less than a comprehensive democratization of the economic and the political spheres, and the need for this transformation holds the key to Hegel's enduring political relevance.
Bureaucratic Resistance in Times of Democratic Backsliding

Bureaucratic Resistance in Times of Democratic Backsliding
  • João V. Guedes-Neto, B. Guy Peters
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    August 2025
    Print publication:
    31 August 2025
  • This Element investigates how public employees react to illiberal policies proposed by authoritarian leaders during democratic backsliding. Using survey experiments employed with 942 bureaucrats from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Brazil, the research explores their willingness to resist the implementation of illiberal policies. Findings show a significant readiness for resistance. The results indicate varying levels of resistance across countries, with Brazilian bureaucrats showing the highest, followed by British and American counterparts. Additionally, within-country analysis identifies individual characteristics affecting the intent to resist. The Element explores the dynamic relationship between politicians and bureaucrats, the autonomy of civil servants, and the perils of working under autocratic leadership. It also underscores the need for tailored strategies in recruiting and retaining public employees to uphold democratic values. These findings shed light on the complex dynamics between bureaucrats and democratic governance, emphasizing the importance of safeguarding institutions in times of authoritarian challenges.

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