Monthly Highlights in Humanities and Social Sciences – Cambridge University Press
Classical studies
Plato’s Academy
Its Workings and its History
Editors :
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- Paul Kalligas, University of Athens, Greece
- Chloe Balla, University of Crete
- Effie Baziotopoulou-Valavani
- Vassilis Karasmanis
Description :
A comprehensive, interdisciplinary history of Plato’s Academy, the most prominent philosophical school in antiquity, which lasted for about 300 years. Also includes the first complete annotated translation in English of Philodemus’ History of the Academy, preserved on a papyrus from Herculaneum.
ISBN : 9781108426442
Date Published : March 2020
Economics & Business Studies
Grow the Pie
How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit
Author :
Alex Edmans, London Business School
Description :
What is a responsible business? Common wisdom is that it’s one that sacrifices profit for social outcomes. But while it’s crucial for companies to serve society, they also have a duty to generate profit for investors – savers, retirees, and pension funds. Based on the highest-quality evidence and real-life examples spanning industries and countries, Alex Edmans shows that it’s not an either-or choice – companies can create both profit and social value. The most successful companies don’t target profit directly, but are driven by purpose – the desire to serve a societal need and contribute to human betterment. The book explains how to embed purpose into practice so that it’s more than just a mission statement, and discusses the critical role of working collaboratively with a company’s investors, employees, and customers. Rigorous research also uncovers surprising results on how executive pay, shareholder activism, and share buybacks can be used for the common good.
ISBN : 9781108494854 (Hardback)
Date Published : May 2020
History
Description :
Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them. Female husbands – people assigned female who transed gender, lived as men, and married women – were true queer pioneers. Moving deftly from the colonial era to just before the First World War, Jen Manion uncovers the riveting and very personal stories of ordinary people who lived as men despite tremendous risk, danger, violence, and threat of punishment. Female Husbands weaves the story of their lives in relation to broader social, economic, and political developments in the United States and the United Kingdom, while also exploring how attitudes towards female husbands shifted in relation to transformations in gender politics and women’s rights, ultimately leading to the demise of the category of ‘female husband’ in the early twentieth century. Groundbreaking and influential, Female Husbands offers a dynamic, varied, and complex history of the LGBTQ past.
ISBN : 9781108483803
Date Published : March 2020
The Cambridge History of Science
Volume 8. Modern Science in National, Transnational, and Global Context
Author :
- Hugh Richard Slotten, University of Otago, New Zealand
- Ronald L. Numbers, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- David N. Livingstone, Queen’s University Belfast
Description :
This volume in the highly respected Cambridge History of Science series is devoted to exploring the history of modern science using national, transnational, and global frames of reference. Organized by topic and culture, its essays by distinguished scholars offer the most comprehensive and up-to-date nondisciplinary history of modern science currently available. Essays are grouped together in separate sections that represent larger regions: Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, East and Southeast Asia, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, and Latin America. Each of these regional groupings ends with a separate essay reflecting on the analysis in the preceding chapters. Intended to provide a balanced and inclusive treatment of the modern world, contributors analyze the history of science not only in local, national, and regional contexts but also with respect to the circulation of knowledge, tools, methods, people, and artifacts across national borders.
ISBN : 9781108483803
Date Published : March 2020
Language and linguistics
Sustainability Assessment of Urban Systems
Part of Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
Editors :
- Guido Rings, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
- Sebastian Rasinger, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
Description :
A highly interdisciplinary overview of the wide spectrum of current international research and professional practice in intercultural communication, this is a key reference book for students, lecturers and professionals alike. Key examples of contrastive, interactive, imagological and interlingual approaches are discussed, as well as the impact of cultural, economic and socio-political power hierarchies in cultural encounters, essential for contemporary research in critical intercultural communication and postcolonial studies. The Handbook also explores the spectrum of professional applications of that research, from intercultural teaching and training to the management of culturally mixed groups, facilitating use by professionals in related fields. Theories are introduced systematically using ordinary language explanations and examples, providing an engaging approach to readers new to the field. Students and researchers in a wide variety of disciplines, from cultural studies to linguistics, will appreciate this clear yet in-depth approach to an ever-evolving contemporary field.
ISBN : 9781108429696
Date Published : June 2020
Law
Handbook on Good Treaty Practice
Author :
- Jill Barrett, Queen Mary University of London
- Robert Beckman, National University of Singapore
Description :
This Handbook aims to provide practical guidance on good treaty practice. It presents a range of examples from the practice of several States and international organisations and explains the actions that need to be taken to create a new treaty, bring it into force, operate it, amend it and wind it up, on both the international and the domestic plane. It also explores what constitutes good treaty practice, and develops generic principles or criteria against which to evaluate these examples. It provides a useful analytical tool to enable each government and international organisation to identify and develop the best treaty practice for their circumstances, recognising that one size does not necessarily fit all. It will be of interest to those working with treaties and treaty procedures in governments, international organisations and legal practice, as well as legal academics and students wishing to gain insight into the realities of treaty practice.
ISBN : 9781107111905
Date Published : April 2020
International Judicial Review
When Should International Courts Intervene?
Part of Studies on International Courts and Tribunals
Author :
Shai Dothan, University of Copenhagen
Description :
This book is motivated by a question: when should international courts intervene in domestic affairs? To answer this question thoroughly, the book is broken down into a series of separate inquiries: when is intervention legitimate? When can international courts identify good legal solutions? When will intervention initiate useful processes? When will it lead to good outcomes? These inquiries are answered based on reviewing judgments of international courts, strategic analysis, and empirical findings. The book outlines under which conditions intervention by international courts is recommended and evaluates the implications that international courts have on society.
ISBN : 9781108488761
Date Published : April 2020
Literature
Shakespearean Charity and the Perils of Redemptive Performance
Part of Elements in Shakespeare Performance
Authors :
Todd Landon Barnes, Ramapo College of New Jersey
Description :
Examining documentaries depicting youths who are redeemed by Shakespeare. These films emerged in response to four historical developments: the rise of reality television; the rise of neoliberalism and emotional capitalism; the privatization of public education and the rise of charter schools; and the emergence of new modes of address.
ISBN : 9781108743167
Date Published : March 2020
Religion
The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature
Part of Cambridge Companions to Religion
Editors :
Colin McAllister, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Description :
Jewish and Christian apocalypses have captivated theologians, writers, artists, and the general public for centuries, and have had a profound influence on world history from their initial production by persecuted Jews during the second century BCE, to the birth of Christianity – through the demise of the Western Roman Empire and the medieval period, and continuing into modernity. Far from being an outlier concern, or an academic one that may be relegated to the dustbin of history, apocalyptic thinking is ubiquitous and continues to inform nearly all aspects of modern-day life. It addresses universal human concerns: the search for identity and belonging, speculation about the future, and (for some) a blueprint that provides meaning and structure to a seemingly chaotic world. The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature brings together a field of leading experts to provide a comprehensive overview of the subject.
ISBN : 9781108422703
Date Published : May 2020
Psychology
The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behavior
Part of Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
Editors :
- Lance Workman, University of South Wales
- Will Reader, Sheffield Hallam University
- Jerome H. Barkow, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia
Description :
The transformative wave of Darwinian insight continues to expand throughout the human sciences. While still centered on evolution-focused fields such as evolutionary psychology, ethology, and human behavioral ecology, this insight has also influenced cognitive science, neuroscience, feminist discourse, sociocultural anthropology, media studies, and clinical psychology. This handbook’s goal is to amplify the wave by bringing together world-leading experts to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of evolution-oriented and influenced fields. While evolutionary psychology remains at the core of the collection, it also covers the history, current standing, debates, and future directions of the panoply of fields entering the Darwinian fold. As such, The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behavior is a valuable reference not just for evolutionary psychologists but also for scholars and students from many fields who wish to see how the evolutionary perspective is relevant to their own work.
