Cambridge Rights Spring/ Summer Catalogue 2026

SPRING / SUMMER 2026

TIPPING OUT OF TROUBLE

How Societies Transformed and How We Can Do So Again

Tipping Out of Trouble

Marten Scheffer

April 2026

229 x 152 mm 284pp 30 b/w illus

978-1-00-969975-4 Hardback

£25.00 / US$29.95

KEY FEATURES

• Provides a scientifically credible roadmap toward a sustainable future

• Shows how tipping points work at a societal level and that individual actions, however small, bring us closer to a fundamental revision of society

• Highlights the entrenched interests which hold back change including the role of large corporations and wealthy oligarchies

Marten Scheffer Wageningen Universiteit, The Netherlands

What kind of trouble lies ahead? How can we successfully transition towards a sustainable future? Drawing on a remarkably broad range of insights from complex systems and the functioning of the brain to the history of civilizations and the workings of modern societies, the distinguished scientist Marten Scheffer addresses these key questions of our times. He looks to the past to show how societies have tipped out of trouble before, the mechanisms that drive social transformations and the invisible hands holding us back. He traces how long-standing practices such as the slave trade and foot-binding were suddenly abandoned and how entire civilizations have collapsed to make way for something new. Could we be heading for a similarly dramatic change? Marten Scheffer argues that a dark future is plausible but not yet inevitable and he provides us instead with a hopeful roadmap to steer ourselves away from collapse-and toward renewal.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Marten Scheffer is a distinguished professor at Wageningen University and an expert on stability of complex systems ranging from the climate and the brain to societies and ecosystems. His work is highly cited and he is associated to the Dutch as well as the US academies of sciences.

CONTENTS

Prologue: Change is in the Air; 1. The Trouble; 2. The Tipping; 3. How Civilizations Transformed; 4. How Social Tipping Works; 5. Reading Our Times; 6. Three Plausible Futures; 7. The Invisible Strangling Hand; 8. What Can Be Done; Epilogue; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Reference; Index. ADDITIONAL

INFORMATION

Level: General readers

Joep Leerssen

February 2026

CHARISMATIC NATIONS

A Cultural History of Nationalism in Europe from 1800 to the Present

Joep Leerssen University of Amsterdam

At the core of nationalism, the nation has always been defined and celebrated as a fundamentally cultural community. This pioneering cultural history shows how artists and intellectuals since the days of Napoleon have celebrated and taken inspiration from an idealized nationality, and how this in turn has informed and influenced social and political nationalism. The book brings together tell-tale examples from across the entire European continent, from Dublin and Barcelona to Istanbul and Helsinki, and from cultural fields that include literature, painting, music, sports, world fairs and cinema as well as intellectual history. Charismatic Nations offers unique insights into how the unobtrusive soft power of nationally-inspired culture interacts with nationalism as a hard-edged political agenda. It demonstrates how, thanks to its pervasive cultural and ‘unpolitical’ presence, nationalism can shape-shift between romantic insurgency and nativist populism. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

KEY FEATURES

• This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core

• Offers, with many telling examples from different art-forms and media, an interdisciplinary historical survey of cultural nationalism

• Enhances a comparative and transnational awareness of how nationalism migrates between different national communities and countries

• Presents how cultural nationalism interacts with social and political activism

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Joep Leerssen was educated in the Netherlands, Germany, Ireland and Canada and held the chair of European Studies at the University of Amsterdam until 2022. His award-winning work on the comparative history of cultural nationalism (National Thought in Europe, the Encyclopaedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe) is widely authoritative.

CONTENTS

Part I. Memory and Power: 1. The romantic spell; 2. Becoming something, unmaking empires; Part II. Romancing the Nation: 3. Romantic prophets: inspired poets inspiring people; 4. Manuscripts found in the attic; 5. Ancestral voices; 6. Languages, states, races; 7. History related; 8. The image and the presence; 9. In tune: concerts, choirs; Part III. Adapting to Modernity: 10. People in the present; 11. Culture mobilized; 12. The long tail.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Level: Graduate students, academic researchers

GEOFF ELEY

THE MODERNIST WISH

A History of Europe, 1914–1939

October 2026

229 x 152 mm 350pp

978-0-521-81145-3 Hardback

£35.00 / US$45.00

KEY FEATURES

• Provides a comprehensive history of Europe in the early 20th century, integrating previously marginalized countries and distinguishing major cross-country patterns

• Incorporates macrohistory and microhistory, uniting large-scale events with individual lived experiences

• Presents Europe from the vantagepoint of the early-21st century, in the light of contemporary understandings of Europe’s place within a broader global context

THE MODERNIST WISH

A History of Europe, 1914-1939

Geoff Eley University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

As the 20th century recedes, how should its history be written? The 1920s and 1930s were a time of paradox, of great conflict and contradiction. If those years were the crucible of a new metropolitan modernity and its possibilities, what were the forward-moving forces and ideas? What were their effects and where did they lead? The Modernist Wish provides a comprehensive, nonhierarchical and integrated history of Europe’s early 20th century across the whole of the continent. Uniting social, cultural-intellectual, and political history alongside military-strategic and geopolitical dimensions, Geoff Eley examines the distinctiveness of early-20th century modernity. He draws out the exceptional character of the interwar years and their longer-run social and political fallout, based in the excitements of metropolitan living, the progressive achievements of an industrialized machine world, and the material possibilities for fashioning new forms of selfhood. In presenting a truly European history for our time, this study encompasses both the grand narratives of large-scale transformations, and the everyday realities of individual lived experiences.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Geoff Eley is Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor of Contemporary History Emeritus at the University of Michigan. His specialisms include modern European history; nationalism and fascism; the European Left; historiography; and social and cultural theory. Previous publications include Reshaping the German Right (1980); Forging Democracy (2002); A Crooked Line (2005); Nazism as Fascism (2013); and History Made Conscious (2023).

CONTENTS

List of Figures; List of Maps; Acknowledgements; Preface: Europe after War and Revolution, 1914–1939; Prelude: Europe on the Cusp of the Modern; Part I. Europe after War and Revolution, 1914–1939; 1. A New Kind of War, 1914–1918: Mass Killing and its Effects; 2. A New King of War: Complete Mobilization; 3. Socialist Challenge, Counter-Revolutionary Response, 1917–1923; 4. Territories, Nations, and States: Redrawing the Map of Europe, 1914–1923; 5. National Bodies, New Women, Damaged Men; Part II. European Modernities: Cities, Selfhood, and the Future; 6. Modernity and its Discontents: Estrangement and Possibility; 7. Popular Culture and Intellectual Life: Entertainment, Improvement, Contestation; 8. Modernity and its Discontents: Art, Literature, Aesthetics; 9. Intellectuals, Emancipation, and the Self: Learning to be Modern; 10. Modernity and its Futures: Science, Technology, Planning; Part III. Europe and its Others; 11. Europe in the World, 1914–1940: Colony and Empire; 12. Empire at Home: Race and the Color Line; Part IV. Towards Catastrophe; 13. Capitalism in Trouble, Europe in Depression: Breakdown, 1929–1936; 14. Fascism, Strong States, and the Challenge of Democracy: A Europe of Dictators, 1922–1939; 15. Crisis after Crisis, 1931–1938; 16. Back to War, 1938-1939; 17. Conclusion: What is to Come?; Suggestions for Further Reading: Index.

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Level: Graduate students, undergraduate students, general readers

Invisible Fatherland

HISTORY

INVISIBLE FATHERLAND

Constitutional Patriotism in Weimar Germany

Manuela Achilles University of Virginia

January 2026

229 x 152 mm 320pp

978-1-00-965099-1 Hardback

£25.00 / US$33.00

Weimar Germany is often remembered as the ultimate political disaster, a democracy whose catastrophic end directly led to Adolf Hitler’s rise. Invisible Fatherland challenges this narrative by recovering the nuanced and sophisticated efforts of Weimar contemporaries to make democracy work in Germany-efforts often obscured by the Republic’s eventual collapse. In doing so, Manuela Achilles reveals a unique form of constitutional patriotism that was rooted in openness, compromise, and the capacity to manage conflict. Authoritative yet accessible, Invisible Fatherland contrasts Weimar’s pluralistic democratic practices with the rigid tendencies in contemporary thought, including Rudolf Smend’s theory of symbolic integration and Karl Löwenstein’s concept of militant democracy. Both theories, though influential, restrict the positive potential of open, conflict-driven democratic processes. This study challenges us to appreciate the fundamental fluidity and pluralism of liberal democracy and to reflect on its resilience in the face of illiberal and authoritarian threats-an urgent task in our time.

KEY FEATURES

• Provides a fresh perspective of Weimar democracy, demonstrating how Weimar’s political culture contributed positively to modern democratic ideals and practices

• Explores the cultural and symbolic dimensions of democracy, including its constitutional patriotism and commemorative practices

• Engages critically with key political theorists such as Rudolf Smend and Karl Löwenstein, offering a comparison of democratic and authoritarian or illiberal political thought and practice

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Manuela Achilles is an associate professor of German and History at the University of Virginia, where she directs the European Studies Program and the Center for German Studies. Her research focuses on Weimar democratic culture and authoritarianism, and she has published broadly on the political culture of Weimar democracy.

CONTENTS

List of Figures page; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Weimar Democracy Now and Then – A Perspective from Charlottesville; Introduction: Toward a New Paradigm of Weimar Democracy Studies; 1. From Kaiserreich to Reich; 2. ‘Onwards over Graves’; 3. Symbolics of Shared Hegemony; 4. Anchoring the Nation in the Democratic Form; 5. Political Violence and the Inversion of Gewalt; 6. In Memoriam of Walther Rathenau; 7. Constitutional Patriotism Avant la Lettre; 8. Memory from Fragments; Conclusion: The Weimar Condition and Nazism; Bibliography; Index.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Level: Academic researchers, graduate students Series: Cambridge Concise Histories

Edited by David Stahel

November 2025

229 x 152 mm 422pp

30 b/w illus.  12 maps   978-1-00-965669-6 Hardback

£85.00 / US$110.00

KEY FEATURES

• Comprehensive guide to the largest and most complex theatre of the Second World War

• Brings together 24 leading experts in both German and Soviet history

• Maps and photographs enhance accessibility for non-expert readers

THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO THE

NAZI-SOVIET

Edited by David Stahel

University of New South Wales, Canberra

WAR

The Nazi-Soviet War was the largest and most brutal theatre of the Second World War, fought between two of the most ruthless states ever to exist. Bringing together twenty-four of the most accomplished authors in both German and Soviet history, this Cambridge Companion provides the most authoritative, and yet highly accessible, guide to the conflict. Each chapter examines a key aspect of the war from war planning, the opposing forces and the campaigns to criminality and occupation, alliances, the home fronts and postwar legacies and myth-making. The authors demonstrate that the NaziSoviet war was both a conventional clash of arms in which millions of soldiers fought in titanic battles, but also a non-conventional war in which soldiers and security forces murdered countless non-combatants. It was a war of resources, industry, mobilisation, administration, and popular support, with implications that still drive European security debates today.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

David Stahel is Associate Professor of History at the University of New South Wales. He has authored ten previous works about aspects of the Nazi-Soviet War, including Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East (2009), Joining Hitler's Crusade (2016), Retreat from Moscow (2019) and Hitler's Panzer's Generals (2023).

CONTENTS

List of figures; List of contributors; Introduction; Part I. Conceptions of War: 1. German-Soviet relations and military collaboration in the inter-war period; 2. Political thinking and strategic planning for Hitler’s lebensraum in the east; 3. Stalin’s political delusions and military preparations for war with Nazi Germany; Part II. Opposing Forces: 4. The Ostheer: leadership, command, motivation and experience; 5. The Red Army: leadership and command; 6. The Red Army: motivation and experience; Part III. Campaigns: 7. Operation Barbarossa, 1941; 8. Stalingrad and the eastern Front, 1942; 9. Kursk, 1943; 10. The Siege of Leningrad, 1941–1944; 11. Operation Bagration, 1944; 12. The soviet conquest and occupation of Germany, 1945; Part IV. Criminality and Occupation: 13. German occupation and mass murder in the east, 1941–1944; 14. Soviet crimes at times of war, 1941–1945; Part V. Home Fronts: 15. The German home front; 16. The soviet war effort; Part VI. Comrades in Arms: 17. Germany and the axis in the east; 18. The big three and the eastern front; Part VII. Post-War Legacies and Myth Making: 19. Germany’s selective memory of the eastern front; 20. The politics of war memory in the USSR and post-Soviet Russia; A guide to further reading; Index.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Level: Undergraduate students, academic researchers, general readers Series: Cambridge Companions to History

Ottoman Reform at Work

Class, Migration, and Coercion in the Imperial Arsenal

Akın Sefer

OTTOMAN REFORM AT WORK

Class, Migration, and Coercion in the Imperial Arsenal

Akın Sefer

Kadir Has Universitesi, Istanbul

January 2026

229 x 152 mm 326pp

978-1-00-967407-2 Hardback

£95.00 / US$130.00

During the nineteenth century, Ottoman sultans and bureaucrats engaged in a series of reforms that dramatically transformed the Ottoman state and society. But what did these reforms mean for the working classes in the Empire? In this study, Akın Sefer focuses on a single naval worksite, The Imperial Arsenal on the Golden Horn in Istanbul, to explore how reform processes were entangled with global capitalism. The Arsenal was a nexus where the global transformations of capitalism and Ottoman reform policies converged with the traditional and modern processes of labor coercion and migration. Drawing on an in-depth exploration of archival sources, Sefer traces the complicated relations between the working classes and the Ottoman state within this worksite and the neighbourhoods around it in Istanbul. Engaging with a wide array of scholarship in Ottoman and global history, this study brings new perspectives and questions on Ottoman modernity, highlighting the agency of working classes in both Ottoman and global history.

KEY FEATURES

• Brings a class perspective on Ottoman modernization, understanding it as integral to the history of global capitalism

• Highlights the agency of the working classes in Ottoman and global history

• Adopts a micro-historical and long-term approach, moving across different levels of analysis

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Akın Sefer is an Assistant Professor in the Core Program at Kadir Has University. Sefer's research focuses on late Ottoman history, labor, migration, and industrialization. He has contributed to articles in journals including the International Review of Social History, International Labor and Working-Class History, and the International Journal of Middle East Studies.

CONTENTS

Introduction; Part I. A New Order: 1. Accumulating capital; 2. Binding workers; Part II. Modernizing Coercion: 3. Militarizing labor; 4. Mobilizing children; 5. The factory regime; Part III. The Class on the Move: 6. A working-class colony; 7. A working-class quarter; Epilogue: reform, or the order of capital; Bibliography; Index.

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Level: Academic researchers, graduate students

The Conquest of the Mountains

State Violence, Technology, and Authoritarianism in the Ottoman East

Owen Robert Miller

December 2025

229 x 152 mm 256pp

978-1-00-952495-7 Hardback

£95.00 / US$130.00

THE CONQUEST OF THE MOUNTAINS

State Violence, Technology, and Authoritarianism in the Ottoman East

Owen Robert Miller

Bilkent

University, Ankara

In the late summer of 1894, Sultan Abdülhamid II ordered several battalions of Ottoman soldiers to destroy Armenian ‘bandits’ operating in the remote mountains of Sasun. Over a three-week period, these soldiers systematically murdered men, women, and children, beginning a chain of events which led directly to the Hamidian massacres of 1895 to 1897 and prefigured many of the patterns of the Medz Yeghern (Great Crime) of 1915–1917. Taking a microhistorical approach, Owen Robert Miller examines how the Ottoman State harnessed three nascent technologies (modern firearms, steamboats, and telegraphs) to centralize authority and envisage new methods of conquest. Alongside developing an understanding of how the violence took place, this study explores how competing narratives of the massacre unfolded and were both disseminated and repressed. Emphasizing the pivotal significance of geography and new technologies, The Conquest of the Mountains reveals how the tragic history of these massacres underscores the development of Ottoman State authoritarianism.

KEY FEATURES

• Demonstrates how the Ottoman State used industrial age technologies to conquer upland spaces, sharing similarity with the methods used by other European Imperial powers

• Analyzes the development of authoritarianism, showing how the Ottoman State sought to monopolize through violence and controlled narratives

• Brings newfound scholarly attention to the history of the people living in these eastern mountainous peripheries

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Owen Robert Miller is Assistant Professor of History at Bilkent University. His fields of research include Ottoman-US relations and the global histories of mountain people. He has published in the Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, The Muslim World, Middle Eastern Studies, and Études arméniennes contemporaines.

CONTENTS

Introduction; 1. Into the mountains; 2. The trials of empire; 3. Leaving a legacy of terror; 4. The struggle over narrative; 5. Sasun in the British press; 6. The monopolization of legitimate narrative; 7. Competing narratives; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Level: Academic researchers, graduate students

EAST ASIA

From Imperialism to the Cold War

November 2025

229 x 152 mm 388pp

978-1-00-954520-4 Hardback

£90.00 / US$115.00

KEY FEATURES

• Brings together interdisciplinary research on key events from twentiethcentury East Asian history

• Highlights the wider significance of historical examples from East and Southeast Asia to inform the study of contemporary international relations, including issues raised by China’s rapid rise

• Accessible to scholars of both history and international relations

EAST ASIA AND THE MODERN INTERNATIONAL ORDER

From Imperialism to the Cold War

Edited by Stephan Haggard

University of California, San Diego

David C. Kang

University of Southern California

This crucial interdisciplinary work brings together historians and international relations specialists to re-examine fourteen events in twentieth-century East Asia that shaped world and regional politics. In a series of case studies framed by conceptual essays the authors examine key moments and their wider significance, including the Chinese Exclusion Acts in the United States; the Japanese racial equality proposal at the Versailles conference of 1919; anticolonial movements in Southeast Asia before 1945; and the changing nature of sovereignty in the Pacific Islands. The authors decenter the Cold War in Asia away from American and European perspectives and examine how countries in the region positioned themselves given distinctive domestic coalitions. These historical examples demonstrate the unique East Asian experience of war, empire, and political independeence, shedding valuable light on contemporary international relations and the challenges faced in Asia-Pacific today.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Stephan Haggard is Distinguished Research Professor at the School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California, San Diego and Research Director for Democracy and Global Governance at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. His recent work on East Asia includes Developmental States and (with Marcus Noland) Hard Target: Sanctions, Inducements and the Case of North Korea.

David C. Kang is Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California and director of the USC Korean Studies Institute. He is the author of East Asia Before the West and coauthor, with Xinru Ma, of Beyond Power Transitions. He is the co-editor with Stephan Haggard of East Asia in the World: Twelve Events that Shaped the Modern International Order.

CONTENTS

Part I. Introduction: 1. Introduction: East Asia in the world: from imperialism to the cold war; 2. The myth of the San Francisco system: understanding post-World War II East Asian order; Part II. The Imperial Era: 3. Survival through reforms: Siam and its escape from colonialism; 4. The RussoJapanese war, 1904–5; 5. The Chinese exclusion acts; 6. Race and great power politics: the Japanese racial equality proposal of 1919; Part III. To the Pacific War: 7. Reform, revolution, and state failure in early twentieth century China; 8. The second Sino-Japanese war and its aftermath, 1931–1965; 9. Japanese expansionism and the ‘greater east Asia co-prosperity sphere; Part IV. The High Cold War in Asia: 10. Decentering the cold war from the division of Korea; 11. The first and second Taiwan straits crises; 12. Alliances, state-building, and development in Asia; 13. Credibility and the Vietnam war in the era of incomplete US hegemony; 14. Nationalism and Anglo-American neo-colonialism in Southeast Asia, 1945–1965; 15. Mandates, trusteeship, and decolonization in the North Pacific: balancing self-determination, development, and security; Part V. Conclusion: 16. Conclusion: a newly-dynamic East Asian international order; Bibliography; Index.

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Level: Graduate students, undergraduate students

AURANGZEB ‘ALAMGIR

and the Mughal Empire

A History Retold

Munis D. FARUQUI

May 2026

229 x 152 mm c.416pp

978-1-00-968337-1 Hardback

£35.00 / US$45.00

AURANGZEB ‘ALAMGIR AND THE MUGHAL EMPIRE

A History Retold

Munis

D. Faruqui

University of California, Berkeley

Aurangzeb ‘Alamgir (r. 1658–1707) was the last of the so-called ‘great’ Mughal emperors. He remains a controversial historical figure: castigated for religious intolerance and placed at the centre of a narrative of Mughal decline by some; considered a great Muslim hero by others. In this richly researched exploration of Aurangzeb ‘Alamgir’s life and times, Munis D. Faruqui contests such simplistic understandings to unearth a more nuanced picture of the emperor and his reign. Drawing on a large and varied archive, Faruqui provides new insights into the emperor’s rise to power, his administrative and religious policies, and the role of the imperial eunuchate and harem. By unpicking the complex dynamics of a long reign, from Aurangzeb ‘Alamgir’s accession to the last weeks of his life and his eighteenth-century memorialisation, this remarkable new history cuts through the many myths that have obscured the extraordinary life story of Emperor Aurangzeb ‘Alamgir.

KEY FEATURES

• Draws on a large multi-lingual archive including Persian collections of reports from the Mughal court

• Introduces the role of the imperial eunuchate and harem, presenting a fresh perspective on gender and power in Mughal India

• Rewrites Emperor ‘Alamgir’s place in Mughal history and beyond

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Munis D. Faruqui is Professor of South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and author of Princes of the Mughal Empire, 1504–1719 (2012).

CONTENTS

List of maps; Note on translations, transliterations, and dates; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. 1. The making of a king, 1618–1657; 2. The limits of a king; Part II. 3. Harem Raj; 4. All the emperor’s eunuchs; Part III. 5. End of days; 6. Memorializing ‘Alamgir; Conclusion; Appendix A; Appendix B.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Level: Academic researchers, graduate students

May 2026

229 x 152 mm c.387pp

978-1-00-960098-9 Hardback

£35.00 / US$45.00

HISTORY

SUPERNATURAL POLITICS

Mao Zedong and the Drive to Eliminate Religion in China, 1949–79

S. A. Smith University of

Oxford

In this landmark contribution to the study of modern China, Steve Smith examines the paradox of ‘supernatural politics’. He shows that we cannot understand the meaning of the Communist revolution to the Han Chinese without exploring their belief in gods, ghosts and ancestors. China was a religious society when the Communist Party took power in 1949, and it sought to erode the influence of the minority religions of Buddhism, Daoism, Catholicism and Protestantism. However, it was the folk religion of the great majority that seemed to symbolize China’s backwardness. Smith explores the Party’s efforts to eliminate belief in supernatural entities and cosmic forces through propaganda campaigns and popularizing science. Yet he also shows how the Party engaged in ‘supernatural politics’ to expand its support, utilizing imagery, metaphors and values that resonated with folk religion and Confucianism. Folk religion is thus essential to understanding the transformative experience of revolution.

KEY FEATURES

• Examines popular responses to the revolution of 1949 through the lens of religious practices

• Demonstrates how the CCP used supernatural imagery to make policies meaningful to the people

• Utilises wide-ranging archival material to demonstrate the breadth of Mao-era policies toward religion

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Steve Smith is Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His last book, Russia in Revolution, won the BASEES Alec Nove Prize and the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize.

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Religion, superstition, and science; 2. The religious policy of the Chinese communist party; 3. Crushing the redemptive religious societies; 4. Buddhists and Daoists under fire; 5. Protestants and Catholics under fire; 6. The politics of supernatural rumour; 7. Local officials confront folk religion; 8. Propaganda against religion and superstition; 9. Anti-superstition campaigns, 1963–76; 10. Confucian culture and the Chinese communist party; 11. Religion and resistance; 12. The supernatural in Maoist political culture; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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Level: Academic researchers, graduate students Series: Cambridge Studies in the History of the People’s Republic of China

May 2026

229 x 152 mm c.415pp

978-1-00-960093-4 Hardback

£35.00 / US$45.00

HISTORY

COMMUNISM IN AN ENCHANTED WORLD

Chinese Folk Religion under Mao Zedong

S. A. Smith

University of Oxford

Drawing together decades of research, Steve Smith explores the survival and adaptation of folk beliefs in Mao’s China in the face of seismic social change and growing political repression. Bringing an oftenneglected aspect of modern Chinese history to the fore, he shows how folk religion maintained a vital presence in everyday life. In myriad ways, through Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism, spirit mediums and spirit healing, divination, geomancy, and the reform of traditional marriage and funeral rites, rituals, and beliefs provided resources for adaptation and resistance to the regime. Nevertheless the survival of folk religion must be set against the secularizing forces that the regime unleashed. This unique history gives readers a vivid sense of life under Mao Zedong as vibrant, contentious, and resilient – a far cry from stereotypes of a secular, regimented, and monochrome society.

KEY FEATURES

• Analyses power relations between the Communist state and its people through the lens of folk religion

• Challenges stereotypes of uniformity to convey the complexities of life under the Mao regime

• Argues that the survival of folk religion can only be understood in the context of rapid state-led secularization

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Steve Smith is Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His last book, Russia in Revolution, won the BASEES Alec Nove Prize and the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize.

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Ancestor worship: household and lineage; 2. Temple religion; 3. Worshipping the Gods; 4. Folk religion and the three teachings; 5. Ghosts and demons; 6. Marriage, fertility and folk religion; 7. Death and funeral ritual; 8. Searching for sacred medicine; 9. Health and spirit healing; 10. Spirit mediums and witchcraft; 11. Geomancers and Yinyang masters; 12. Divination and fortune-telling; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Level: Academic researchers, graduate students

Series: Cambridge Studies in the History of the People’s Republic of China

HISTORY

FRIENDS OF GOD AND SLAVES OF MEN

Religion and Slavery, Past and Present

Religion and Slavery, Past and Present

Kevin Bales and Michael Rota

Kevin Bales

University of Nottingham

Michael Rota

University of St. Thomas

Religion and slavery have been connected since the beginning of human history, but their tangled relationship has rarely been dissected and truly understood. This groundbreaking book illuminates how religion has intersected with the institution of slavery, both as a force for its perpetuation and as a catalyst for its abolition. Spanning antiquity to the present day, this book offers a comprehensive overview of how Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and other faiths have variously justified, moderated, restricted, or opposed slavery. Experts Kevin Bales and Michael Rota integrate historical, philosophical, theological, and social scientific perspectives to offer fresh interdisciplinary insights into this crucial social justice issue. Engaging contemporary challenges, it covers ISIS’s religious justifications for enslavement and the role of the caste system in modern bondage. Finally, it highlights faith-based antislavery activism today and asks how religious communities can amplify their efforts to combat the enduring scourge of slavery worldwide.

KEY FEATURES

• Combines historical, philosophical, theological, and social scientific perspectives and research methods to achieve new insights that go beyond existing scholarly conversations

• Provides readers with both a general and in-depth perspective of the way various faiths have viewed and responded to slavery across time

• Sheds light on the pressing social justice issue of modern slavery that will hopefully inspire religious thinkers to take action

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kevin Bales is Professor of Contemporary Slavery and co-founder of the Rights Lab, University of Nottingham, and the American NGO, Free the Slaves. His book Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy has been published in twelve languages. Archbishop Desmond Tutu called the book 'a well researched, scholarly and deeply disturbing expose of modern slavery.' The film based on Disposable People, which he co-wrote, won the Peabody Award and two Emmys. Michael Rota is Professor of Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas, Minnesota. He has authored scholarly articles on the definition of slavery and on the relevance of moral psychology to the history of abolition, as well as numerous contributions to the philosophy of religion.

CONTENTS

1. Introduction; Part I. Religious Responses to Slavery – Historical Patterns: 2. Justifying slavery; 3. Ameliorating slavery; 4. Restricting slavery; 5. Rejecting slavery; Part II. Religion and Contemporary Slavery: 6. Slavery in the modern world; 7. False prophets: exploiting faith to enslave; 8. Religion’s role in freeing slaves today; Bibliography; Index.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Level: Graduate students, undergraduate students, academic researchers Series: Slaveries since Emancipation

Ancient Greek Democracies

May 2026

229 x 152 mm c.238pp

978-1-108-84454-3 Hardback

£80.00 / US$100.00

ANCIENT GREEK DEMOCRACIES

Matthew Simonton Princeton University, New Jersey

Classical Athenian democracy is rightly famous but democracy flourished in other parts of the Greek world as well. In this clear and fascinating book, Matthew Simonton traces the emergence, growth, consolidation and decline of democratic city-states over the millennium down to the fifth century CE. He argues for the widespread and highly participatory nature of democratic constitutions across the Greek world, particularly in the fourth, third, and second centuries BCE. Readers will also learn to appreciate the characteristic ideological, institutional, and material-cultural features of democratic poleis. The evidence marshalled includes literary texts, inscriptions, coins, archaeological remains, and monumental art. The book does not shy away from the fact that ancient Greek democracies both empowered lower-class men but also rested on a series of exclusions (of women, enslaved people, and foreigners). Nevertheless, dēmokratia emerges as a major facet of ancient Greek culture and society.

KEY FEATURES

• Traces the arc of democratic emergence, growth, consolidation, and decline across the ancient Greek world

• Synthesizes the results of recent international scholarship on ancient Greek democracy for an Anglophone audience

• Familiarizes the reader with aspects of democratic culture – including inscriptions, architecture, coinage, festivals, and monumental art – from Athens and beyond

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Matthew Simonton is Associate Professor of Classics at Princeton University, having previously worked at Arizona State University. His first book, Classical Greek Oligarchy: A Political History (2017), received the 2018 Runciman Award from the Anglo-Hellenic League. He is currently at work on a political and culture history of ancient Greek demagoguery.

CONTENTS

Introduction; 1. From Eunomia to Dēmokratia, 510–451/0 BCE; 2. A Contested Existence, 451/0–362 BCE; 3. The Heyday of Ancient Greek Democracies, 362–146 BCE; 4. (D)evolutions of Democracy, 146 BCE to Late Antiquity; Appendix. Instances of ‘Democracy’ on Stone.

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Level: Undergraduate students, graduate students, academic researchers Series: Key Themes in Ancient History

CYNTHIA FARRAR

CLASSICAL STUDIES

THE ORIGINS OF DEMOCRATIC THINKING

The Invention of Politics in Classical Athens Second edition

Cynthia Farrar

Foreword by Josiah Ober Stanford University, California

February 2026

229 x 152 mm 354pp

978-1-00-949295-9 Hardback

£90.00 / US$115.00

KEY FEATURES

• Brings often overlooked ancient figures – Protagoras, Antiphon, Democritus – to the fore, elucidating the relationship between democratic thought and practice in fifth-century BCE Athens

• Assumes no prior specialist knowledge of Ancient Greek and presents all texts in translation

• Contains a substantial new introduction, analyzing Farrar’s attempts to adapt Athenian theory and practice for modern use since the original publication

The Athenians invented democracy – and as they grappled with the implications, they also invented democratic political theory. By reconstruing Protagoras the sophist, Thucydides the historian, and Democritus the cosmologist in the context of political developments and contemporary scientific, literary, and philosophical works, Cynthia Farrar’s seminal study reveals the emergence of a distinctive and still cogent understanding of democratic order. All three thinkers wrestled with democracy’s insistence on separating political from social identity and status. Unlike Plato and Aristotle, they constructed democratic theories that were genuinely democratic: addressed to citizens, and inviting them to interpret what their own and collective well-being demands in the world as it is. In a new introduction, Farrar makes the case for the continued relevance of the ideas explored in this book by recounting her own attempts to adapt Athenian structures of democratic citizenship and to reinterpret their democratic theory for the modern world.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Cynthia Farrar is an independent scholar and civic entrepreneur. She is the author of articles on various aspects of ancient and modern democratic theory and practice. Her research has fueled groundbreaking work with Yale, New Haven's Community Foundation, and her production company, Purple States. Through democratically structured partnerships between communities and institutions, face-to-face deliberations, video storytelling, and a Civic Leagues structure for local engagement, she has renewed inclusive democratic citizenship.

CONTENTS

Foreword; Introduction; Preface; 1. Ancient reflections: a force for us; 2. Order in autonomy: the ungoverned cosmos and the democratic community; 3. Protagoras: measuring man; 4. Man’s measurings: cosmos and community; 5. Thucydides: reflecting history – man and the community; 6. Democritus: reflecting man – the individual and the cosmos; 7. Living democracy?; Bibliography; Indexes.

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Level: Undergraduate students, graduate students, academic researchers

Series: Cambridge Classical Classics

Reclaiming the Women of

CLASSICAL STUDIES

ATHENA’S SISTERS

Reclaiming

the Women of Classical Athens

Katherine Backler Trinity College, Oxford

February 2026

229 x 152 mm 424pp 20 colour illus  978-1-00-967232-0 Hardback £30.00 / US$39.99

Athena’s Sisters transforms our understanding of Classical Athenian culture and society by approaching its institutions—kinship, slavery, the economy, social organisation—from women’s perspectives. It argues that texts on dedications and tombstones set up by women were frequently authored by those women. This significant body of women’s writing offers direct insights into their experiences, values, and emotions. With men often absent, women redefined the boundaries of the family in dialogue with patriarchal legal frameworks. Beyond male social and political structures, women defined their identities and relationships through their own institutions. By focusing on women’s engagement with other women, rather than their relationships to men, this timely and necessary book reveals the richness and dynamism of women’s lives and their remarkable capacity to shape Athenian society and history.

KEY FEATURES

• Argues for female authorship of texts on monuments set up by women, revolutionising the use and understanding of epigraphic documents and massively expanding the base of female-authored sources from antiquity

• Offers a new solution to the problem of how to refer to and discuss women whose names are lost or suppressed in the stories, allowing readers to engage with real Athenian women as historical subjects

• Accessible and engaging to a wide range of readers, exploring phenomena through sustained case studies

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Katherine Backler is a Career Development Fellow in Ancient History at Trinity College, Oxford. Previously she was an Examination Fellow at All Souls College.

CONTENTS

Introduction; 1. Diognete and Nikarete: women’s networks through women’s lives; 2. Hipparkhe and Piste: women shaping kinship; 3. Thesmonike and Praxagora: relationships between enslaving and enslaved women; 4. Melinna and Phanostrate: how women’s work shaped women’s relationships; 5. Euthylla and Biote: women’s friendships; Conclusion.

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Level: Academic researchers, graduate students, undergraduate students

Christopher S. Celenza

CLASSICAL STUDIES

THE EVOLUTION OF WESTERN THOUGHT

A New History, from Antiquity to the Early Modern Era Volume 1: From the Ancient World to Late Antiquity

Christopher S. Celenza

Johns Hopkins University

A rich and immersive reinterpretation of the history of Western thought, this volume – the first in a major trilogy – explores the transmission and development of philosophical ideas from Plato and Aristotle to Jesus, Paul, Augustine and Gregory the Great. Christopher Celenza recalibrates philosophy’s story not as abstract argumentation but rather as lived practice: one aimed at excavating wisdom and shaping life. Emphasizing the importance of textual tradition and elucidation across diverse contexts, the author shows how philosophical and religious ideas were transformed and readjusted over time. By focusing on the centrality of Christianity to Western thought, he reveals how ancient ideas were alchemized within religious frameworks, and how – across the centuries – ethical and intellectual traditions intersected to shape culture, memory, and the pursuit of sagacity. Ever attentive to ongoing conversations between past and present, this expansive intellectual history brings perspectives to the subject that are both nuanced and fresh.

KEY FEATURES

• Christopher Celenza is one of the preeminent historians of the Renaissance and of the intellectual trajectory of the West

• An ambitious and expansive new history of Western thought by a modern master

• Rather than treating religion and philosophy as strictly separate domains, it uniquely puts Christianity and religious tradition at the centre of the development of Western thought

• Unlike many intellectual histories that focus primarily on abstract argumentation and systematic thought, this book emphasizes philosophy as a lived practice—one that shaped ethics, communities, and personal identity over time

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Christopher S. Celenza is Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and a Professor of History and Classics at Johns Hopkins University. A former Director of the American Academy in Rome, he has also held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and the Fulbright Foundation. He is a scholar whose wide interests and expertise span Renaissance thought, classical tradition, and intellectual history. His many books include Machiavelli: A Portrait (Harvard University Press, 2015), The Intellectual World of the Italian Renaissance: Language, Philosophy, and the Search for Meaning (Cambridge University Press, 2017), and The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities: An Intellectual History, 1400-1800 (Cambridge University Press, 2021).

CONTENTS

1. Introduction: Philosophy, Wisdom, Traditions; 2. Plato: Philosophy, Conversation, and the Nature of Reality; 3. Plato: Wisdom is about Examples; 4. Aristotle: From Observation to Ethics; 5. The Shape of the Good Life: Virtue, Friendship, and Contemplation in Aristotle; 6. Strands in the Fabric: Judaism, Hellenistic Thought, Rome; 7. Christianity; 8. The Death of Christ; 9. Vessel of Election, Light of the Gentiles; 10. Augustine, Platonism, and Conversion; 11. Augustine, the “City of God”, and History; 12. Endings and New Beginnings: Gregory the Great and Beyond; Epilogue.

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Level: Academic researchers, graduate students

THREE ECONOMIC ENLIGHTENMENTS

Old–New Lessons for Business Ethics

November 2025

229 x 152 mm 204pp

978-1-00-962091-8 Paperback

£28.00 / US$38.00

THE THREE ECONOMIC ENLIGHTENMENTS

Old–New Lessons for Business Ethics

Paolo

Santori

Tilburg University

When people wonder about the appropriate course of action in a given situation, they are already engaging in moral reasoning. This also applies to the field of business, where an understanding of ethics could help businesspeople and market participants make morally informed decisions. This book aims to enlarge the body of ethical theories available in Business Ethics by illustrating three moral principles relevant to economic agents based on the ideas of Immanuel Kant, Antonio Genovesi, and Adam Smith. All three authors were prominent figures in the eighteenth-century European Enlightenment movement and have much to teach us about the origins of modern economics. Additionally, the book provides specific examples relating to contemporary business situations, focusing on the ethical challenges posed by incomplete contracts. Overall, this book demonstrates that the historical evolution of economic and philosophical concepts remains pertinent to current dialogues in Business Ethics.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

• Draws on research in Business Ethics and History of Economic Thought

• Applies moral principles to case studies presented through a narrative methodology

• Allows readers to learn from philosophers to address the moral issues that arise in their daily business activities

KEY FEATURES CONTENTS

Paolo Santori is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Tilburg University, the Netherlands and the Chair of the Scientific Committee of the Economy of Francesco Foundation. He is the author of Thomas Aquinas and The Civil Economy Tradition (2021) and several articles in scientific journals.

1. Introduction; Part I. Political Economy, Civil Economy, Moral Economy: 2. Genovesi, Kant, and Smith; 3. The three economic enlightenments; Part II. Application: 4. A contractor under the rain; 5. Unreliable questionnaires; 6. Armed banks; 7. Conclusion: the fourth economic enlightenment.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Level: Graduate students, academic researchers

ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF GAME THEORY

A Nobel Symposium

Edited by Mark Voorneveld Stockholm School of Economics

Edited by Mark Voorneveld, Jörgen W. Weibull, Tommy Andersson, Roger Myerson, Jean-François Laslier, Rida Laraki, Yukio Koriyama

Jörgen W. Weibull Tommy Andersson

• Provides contributions from worldclass game theorists in a wide range of academic disciplines

• Provides a history of game theory and offers perspectives on its potentials for future developments

• Gives a broad, deep and crossdisciplinary perspective on game theory

Roger Myerson

Jean-François Laslier

Rida Laraki and Yukio Koriyama

In the winter of 2021, the Swedish Nobel Foundation organized a Nobel symposium ‘One Hundred Years of Game Theory’ to commemorate the publication of famous mathematician Emile Borel’s ‘La théorie du jeu et les équations intégrales à noyau symétrique’. The symposium gathered roughly forty of the world’s most prominent scholars ranging from mathematical foundations to applications in economics, political science, computer science, biology, sociology, and other fields. One Hundred Years of Game Theory brings together their writings to summarize and put in perspective the main achievements of game theory in the last one hundred years. They address past achievements, taking stock of what has been accomplished and contemplating potential future developments and challenges. Offering cross-disciplinary discussions between eminent researchers including five Nobel laureates, one Fields medalist and two Gödel prize winners, the contributors provide a fascinating landscape of game theory and its wide range of applications.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jörgen W. Weibull is professor emeritus at the Stockholm School of Economics. He has taught game theory at many universities in the world. In his research he has made significant contributions to political economy, to the modelling of social norms and moral values, to evolutionary game theory, and to non-cooperative game theory.

Tommy Andersson is a professor in the Department of Economics at Lund University. His research focuses on mechanism and market design. He is currently the President of the Society for Economic Design (2023-present) and a member of the Prize Committee for the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2019 – present).

Roger Myerson is a David L Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies in the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. He has written about game theory, information economics, and comparative political institutions. In 2007, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for contributions to mechanism design theory, which analyzes rules for coordinating economic agents efficiently when they have different information and difficulty trusting each other.

Jean-François Laslier is a Senior researcher at the CNRS and professor at the Paris School of Economics. His work interests include Games and Social Choice Theory, and Political Science. He does research on democracy, and in particular on voting rules and citizen's behavior.

Rida Laraki is Director of the Moroccan Center for Game Theory at the University Mohammed VI Polytechnique (UM6P), Rabat, Morocco. He is a multi-disciplinary researcher whose work includes stochastic games, voting design, economic theory, optimization, and multi-agent learning. He is the co-author of Majority Judgment: Measuring, Ranking, and Electing (2011).

Yukio Koriyama is Full Professor of Economics at the Ecole Polytechnique in France. His research interests include Game Theory and its application to Political Economy.

CONTENTS

ECONOMICS

One hundred years of game theory; a Nobel symposium; Part I. The Early History of Game Theory from Borel: 1. Introduction; 2. The games of Borel and chance; 3. Von Neumann, Morgenstern and their creation of game theory, 1900–1960; 4. Borel and the foundation of game theory; Part II. Mathematics of Game Theory and Its Foundations: 5. Introduction; 6. On mean field games; 7. Value and equilibrium; 8. Refinements of Nash equilibrium; Part III. Population Dynamics, Learning, and Biology; 9. Introduction; 10. Adjustment dynamics for human players; 11. Game theory in biology; ideas, successes, and challenges; 12. The dynamics of evolutionary game theory; Part IV. Computer Science: 13. Introduction; 14. Nonconcave games: A challenge for game theory’s next 100 years;15. Fairness in approval-based multiwinner voting; 16. Stochastic choice and dynamics based on pairwise comparisons; 17. Truthful mechanism design for computationally hard resource allocation 18. Impossibility in game dynamics; 19. The state of representing and solving games; Part V. Economics and Institutional Design; 20. Introduction; 21 Game theory and practical market design: how big, unobserved strategy sets brought cooperative and non-cooperative game theory together; 22. Learning and equilibrium refinements; Part VI. Individual Behavior in Strategic Interactions; 23. Introduction; 24. Empirical evidence about individual behavior in games; 25. From rationalistic to descriptive game theory; 26. Social preferences and strategic interactions; Part VII. Political Science: 27. Introduction; 28. Game theory in political science: voting, elections and information aggregation 29. Game theory and explanations for armed conflict; 30. Applications of game theory in the political economy of trade policy; Part VIII. Human Society: 31. Introduction; 32. Conflict, cooperation and innovation in the evolution of human societies; 33. Laws and norms in games humans play; 34. Game theory in cultural evolution.

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Level: Academic researchers, graduate students, undergraduate students

Series: Econometric Society Monographs

WILLIAM I. ROBINSON

EPOCHAL CRISIS

The Exhaustion of Global Capitalism

Crisis Epochal

September 2025

229 x 152 mm 234pp

978-1-00-967053-1 Hardback

£85.00 / US$110.00

KEY FEATURES

• Further develops the author’s acclaimed theory of global capitalism, creatively applying it to explain, analyse, and theorize the current unprecedented crisis of global capitalism facing the world today

• Provides a truly unique synthesis of the multiple dimensions of global crisis – economic, social, political, ecological, military – accompanied by a warning and call to action

• Breaks significant new theoretical ground in the disciplines of International/Global Political Economy, Political Economy, International Relations, Sociology, and Political Science

William I.

Robinson

University of California, Santa Barbara

In a groundbreaking new study, acclaimed scholar of global capitalism William I. Robinson presents a bold, original, and timely ‘big picture’ analysis of the unprecedented global crisis. Robinson synthesizes the different economic, social, political, military, and ecological dimensions of the crisis, applying his theory of global capitalism to elucidate these multidimensional and interconnected aspects. Addressing urgent issues such as economic stagnation, runaway financial speculation, unprecedented social inequalities, political conflict, expanding wars, and the threat to the biosphere, he illustrates how these different dimensions relate to one another and stem from the underlying contradictions of a global system spiralling out of control. This is a significant theoretical contribution to the study of globalization and capitalist crisis, in which Robinson concludes that the conditions for global capitalist renewal are becoming exhausted.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

William I. Robinson is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Global and International Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is the acclaimed author of numerous awardwinning books, including Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity (Cambridge, 2014), and is a frequent speaker on a wide range of current topics, among them global politics and economics, capitalist crises, and resistance movements. His theory of global capitalism has been hailed as a theoretical milestone in understanding the dynamics of the contemporary global order.

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements; Introduction: towards a theory of global capitalist exhaustion; 1. Structural crisis: overaccumulation; 2. Crisis of social reproduction; 3. Legitimacy crisis, geopolitical conflict, and global police state; 4. Collapse of the biosphere; 5. Into the vortex; Select bibliography.

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Level: Graduate students, academic researchers

POLITICS

ECONOMIC DISPLACEMENT

China and the End of US Primacy in Latin America

Francisco Urdinez

Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

Economic Displacement examines China’s economic displacement of the United States in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), and its implications for global geopolitics. Through data analysis and case studies, Francisco Urdinez demonstrates how China has filled the economic void left by US retrenchment from 2001 to 2020. He argues that this economic shift has led to a significant erosion of US political influence in the region, affecting public opinion, elite perspective, and voting patterns in international organizations. Providing a multifaceted view of this geopolitical transformation in this timely and important book, the author offers crucial insights into the changing landscape of global influence and the future of US–China rivalry in Latin America.

KEY FEATURES

• Introduces and operationalizes an innovative ‘Economic Weight Index’ to quantify China’s and the US’s economic influence in Latin America

• Offers a multifaceted view of China’s growing influence and its effects

• Emphasizes the role of Latin American countries in actively seeking Chinese engagement, challenging conventional narratives about China’s rise in the region

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Francisco Urdinez is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Political Science of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, where he also directs the Millennium Nucleus for the Impacts of China in Latin America (ICLAC) project on China's impacts in Latin America, a large three-year grant funded by the Ministry of Science of Chile. He served as a 2022–23 resident fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC. He is a fellow of the National Agency for Research and Development of Chile and his work on China's relations with the Global South has been published in Comparative Political Studies, the Review of International Organizations, the Journal of Peace Research, Research & Politics, the Chinese Journal of International Politics, and the Cambridge Review of International Affairs, among others.

CONTENTS

Part I. Economic Displacement: 1. Economic Weight and Displacement: A New Framework for Understanding US–China Rivalry; 2. China’s Economic Displacement of the US in Latin America; 3. Filling the Void: Chinese Economic Actors and the Provision of Substitute Goods; 4. The Demand Side: Latin American Agency in Economic Displacement; Part II. Political Implications of Economic Displacement: 5. The Effects of Economic Displacement on Public Opinion and Political Elites; 6. The Effects of Economic Displacement in International Organizations; 7. The New Cold War and the Future of China–US Rivalry in LAC.

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Level: Graduate students, undergraduate students, academic researchers

DEMOCRATIC DRAIN

JUSTIN GEST

March 2026

229 x 152 mm c.200pp

978-1-00-972691-7 Hardback

£30.00 / US$40.00

DEMOCRATIC DRAIN

Global Migration and the Struggle for Democracy

Justin Gest

George Mason University, Virginia

Democratic Drain links two of the most compelling topics of our time: immigration and democracy. With a blend of in-depth interviews and data analysis across 149 countries, Justin Gest explores how global migration filters people with liberal democratic values out of authoritarian spaces, enabling democratic backsliding around the world. At a global scale, the correlation between migratory choices and political values introduces a new reason why authoritarian countries may have struggled to democratize in the decades since the end of the Cold War – a period when flows of international migrants have grown so significantly, populism has spread, and authoritarians’ resolve has steadily hardened. At a time when the world is increasingly sorting into democratic and undemocratic spaces, Gest’s timely and innovative analysis raises important political and policy questions about how democracies might compensate for the inadvertent effects of global human mobility.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

KEY FEATURES

• Introduces a new concept and global phenomenon into the political vernacular

• Alters how we perceive and understand global migration in an era of democratic backsliding

• Provides global coverage, incorporating data from over 140 countries

CONTENTS

Preface; 1. Democratic Drain; 2. Democracy’s Carriers; 3. Outvoted, Voting Out; 4. The Sliding Scale; 5. Democratic Gain; 6. A Human Base.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Level: Graduate students, academic researchers

Russia’s War

on Ukraine

Taras Kuzio

Michał Wawrzonek

The Four Roots of Putin’s Invasion

December 2025

229 x 152 mm 404pp

978-1-00-964550-8 Hardback

£80.00 / US$100.00

KEY FEATURES

• The most comprehensive expert analysis available of the four roots of Russian military aggression

• Focuses on the domestic roots of the war as an outgrowth of Russian imperial nationalism

• Draws on decades of expertise on Ukraine and Russia and extensive fieldwork in both countries

RUSSIA’S WAR ON UKRAINE

The Four Roots of Putin’s Invasion

Taras Kuzio

National University of Kyiv, Mohyla Academy

Michal Wawrzonek

Jesuit University Ignatianum, Krakow

Understanding why Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014 and 2022 is vital for preparing for what may come next. This groundbreaking book is the first to provide an interdisciplinary study of the first full-scale war in Europe since 1945, which is having global ramifications on interstate relations, international law, international organisations, energy questions and economies. Written by two leading scholars of Ukrainian and Russian politics and history, and based on extensive field work and primary sources, the book moves beyond established Western ideas about Russia to show that Russian military aggression against Ukraine is domestically, not externally, driven. The authors analyse the statements and policies of the Russian leadership under Putin, Russia’s post-communist political culture and Russia’s understanding of itself as a civilisation without borders. Imperial nationalism, nostalgia, Russia’s divergent identity and political system to Ukraine’s, and Kremlin anti-Western xenophobia are the key elements underlying Russian aggression.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Taras Kuzio is Professor at the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy. He has written and edited twenty-four books and seven think tank monographs, including, most recently, Russia and Modern Fascism: New Perspectives on the Kremlin's War Against Ukraine (2025), Crimea: Where Russia's War Started, and Where Ukraine Will Win (2024), Russian Disinformation and Western Scholarship (2023), Russian Nationalism and the Russian-Ukrainian War (2022).

Michał Wawrzonek is Professor at the Jesuit University in Cracow (Poland). He is the author or co-author of four monographs: Memory, Politics and Legacy of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky (2023), Orthodoxy Versus Post-Communism? Belarus, Serbia, Ukraine and the Russkiy Mir (2016), Religion and Politics in Ukraine: The Orthodox and Greek Catholic Churches as Elements of Ukraine's Political System (2014) and Ecumenical Activity of Metropolitan Sheptytsky in Ukraine and Russia (2006 in Ukrainian).

CONTENTS

Introduction: the four roots of Russia’s war against Ukraine; Part I. Imperialism and Nationalism: 1. Imperial nationalism; 2. Pan-Russian world and Ukraine; 3. Russian orthodox church and Ukraine; Part II. Nostalgia: 4. Great patriotic war and cult of Stalin; 5. Ukrainian ‘nationalists/fascists/nazis’; Part III. Divergence: 6. Diverging identities in Russia and Ukraine; 7. Diverging political systems in Russia and Ukraine; Part IV. International Dimension: 8. Messianism, imperialism and anti-colonialism; 9. Xenophobia; Index of names.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Level: Graduate students, academic researchers

WHY NATIONS Still FIGHT

January 2026

229 x 152 mm 476pp

978-1-00-970108-2 Paperback

£32.00 / US$45.00

POLITICS

WHY NATIONS STILL FIGHT

Richard Ned Lebow

Dartmouth College, New Hampshire

Drawing on an original data set of interventions and wars from 1945 to the current day, as well as numerous short case studies, Richard Ned Lebow offers a novel account of their origins and outcomes – one that emphasises miscalculation, failure to conduct meaningful risk assessments, and cultural and political arrogance. In a successive work to Why Nations Fight (2010), he explains why initiators routinely lose militarily and politically when they resort to force, as well as accounting for why the great powers, in particular, have not learned from their failures. Lebow offers both type- and region-specific forecasts for the future likelihood of interventions and wars. His account reveals the inapplicability of theories nested in the realist and rationalist paradigms to the study of war. He argues what is needed instead is an “irrationalist” theory, and he takes the initial steps in this direction.

KEY FEATURES

• Features an original and comprehensive data set of 88 post1945 interventions and wars, on which the book’s claims are based. The full data set is included in an appendix

• Highlights and answers the seeming paradox of why initiators lose most of the wars and interventions they start due to serious miscalculations and failure to conduct proper risk analysis

• Offers nuanced and type-specific (rather than general) predictions and forecasts about the future use of force in international affairs

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Richard Ned Lebow is Professor Emeritus of International Political Theory in the War Studies Department of King's College London, Honorary Fellow of Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge, and James O. Freedman Presidential Professor Emeritus at Dartmouth College. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a member of the Atheneum. His most recent books include Weimar's Long Shadow (Cambridge, 2024), co-edited with Ludvig Norman; Fragility and Robustness of Political Orders, also co-edited with Ludvig Norman (Cambridge, 2022); and The Quest for Knowledge in International Relations: How Do We Know? (Cambridge 2021), as well as this book's predecessor, Why Nations Fight (Cambridge, 2010). He also publishes short stories, murder mysteries, and counterfactual, historical fiction.

CONTENTS

Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Questions, cases, and coding; 3. Colonial and post-colonial wars; 4. Divided nations; 5. Partitioned countries; 6. Rump states; 7. Regional rivalries and proxy wars; 8. Ethical traps; 9. Great powers; 10. Other categories of war; 11. Success and failure; 12. Miscalculation; 13. Motives; 14. When will they ever learn?; Appendix A: summary of data; Appendix B: data set.

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Level: Graduate students, academic researchers

CHILLING EFFECTS

Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age

Chilling Effe ct s

Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age

Jonathon W. Penney

November 2025

229 x 152 mm 286pp

978-1-108-48587-6 Hardback

£85.00 / US$110.00

Jonathon W. Penney

Dalhousie University Schulich

School of Law

In Chilling Effects, Jonathon W. Penney explores the increasing weaponization of surveillance, censorship, and new technology to repress and control us. With corporations, governments, and extremist actors using big data, cybermobs, AI, and other threats to limit our rights and freedoms, concerns about chilling effects – or how these activities deter us from exercising our rights – have become urgent. Penney draws on law, privacy, and social science to present a new conformity theory that highlights the dangers of chilling effects and their potential to erode democracy and enable a more illiberal future. He critiques conventional theories and provides a framework for predicting, explaining, and evaluating chilling effects in a range of contexts. Urgent and timely, Chilling Effects sheds light on the repressive and conforming effects of technology, state, and corporate power, and offers a roadmap of how to respond to their weaponization today and in the future.

KEY FEATURES

• Introduces and explains the concept of chilling effects

• Illustrates the scale and scope of the threat chilling effects pose to freedom, democracy, and fundamental rights

• Provides a theory and framework to predict, explain, and evaluate chilling effects in a wide variety of contexts, and a roadmap on how to respond to them

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jonathon W. Penney is a legal scholar and social scientist. His award-winning research on privacy, technology, and human rights has received national and international attention, including coverage in the Washington Post, NY Times, Reuters International, WIRED, The Guardian, Le Monde, and beyond.

CONTENTS

Introduction; Part I. Conventional Chilling Effects Theories and their Limits: 1. Law’s Flawed Theory and its McCarthy Era Origins; 2. Privacy’s Useful but Limited Theory; Part II. A New Understanding: 3. Social Chilling Effects; 4. A Conformity Theory of Chilling Effects; 5. A Taxonomy of Chilling Effects; Part III. Implications: 6. The Dangers of Chilling Effects; 7. What Chilling Effects Theory is For; 8. A Framework for Hard Cases; 9. Transforming Chilling Effects Doctrine; 10. The Future of Chilling Effects and How to Stop It; Conclusion.

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Level: Graduate students, academic researchers

Daniel A. Crane

How Tesla Went Straight to Consumers and Smashed the Car Dealers’ Monopoly

DIRECT HIT

How Tesla Went Straight to Consumers and Smashed the Car Dealers’ Monopoly

DIRECT H T

November 2025

229 x 152 mm 188pp

978-1-00-968789-8 Paperback

£26.99 / US$35.99

Daniel A. Crane

University of Michigan Law School

Since 2013, Elon Musk has been at war with car dealers in the United States. Battles have played out in legislative backrooms, courtrooms, governors’ offices, and news media outlets across the country. As of now, Musk has won the war. Telsa has established a foothold across the country, sold over 2 million cars without using a dealer, established a loyal customer base, and overcome most states’ franchise dealer laws. Direct Hit tells the story of this fight, taking readers into courtrooms and legislative halls where the dealers tried in vain to derail Tesla’s advances. The book shares key insights on the strategic choices made by dealers, legacy car companies, and electric-vehicle startups. With a combination of historical narrative, blow-by-blow accounts of the Tesla wars, and a consideration of America’s longstanding romance with the personal automobile, Direct Hit shares a uniquely American drama over cars and the people who sell them.

KEY FEATURES

• Locates the present technological and legal struggles over EV sales in the long story of the American automobile

• Draws on the author’s personal experiences in the middle of the direct sales wars and his access to key industry, public interest, and political players

• Outlines implications for environmental and transportation policy, urban design, and many other aspects of public policy

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Daniel A. Crane is the Richard W. Pogue Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, An expert in antitrust law, he has written over 200 books and articles in that field. Since 2014, Professor Crane has been the leading academic voice on the controversies surrounding direct-to-consumer sales of automobiles in the United States.

CONTENTS

Introduction; 1. The birth of the franchised dealer model; 2. Elon Musk’s direct sales decision; 3. The empire strikes back; 4. It’s the consumer, stupid!; 5. Legacies in the crossfire; 6. Crony capitalism in the motor city; 7. Strange bedfellows; 8. The others; 9. How Tesla turned the tide; 10. The road ahead.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Level: Graduate students, academic researchers

LAW

Move Slow Upgrade

MOVE SLOW AND UPGRADE

The Power of Incremental Innovation

Evan Selinger

Rochester Institute of Technology, New York

Albert Fox Cahn

Surveillance Technology Oversight Project

For far too long, tech titans peddled promises of disruptive innovation – fabricating benefits and minimizing harms. The promise of quick and easy fixes overpowered a growing chorus of critical voices, driving a sea of private and public investments into increasingly dangerous, misguided, and doomed forms of disruption, with the public paying the price. But what’s the alternative? Upgrades – evidence-based, incremental change. Instead of continuing to invest in untested, high-risk innovations, constantly chasing outsized returns, upgraders seek a more proven path to proportional progress. This book dives deep into some of the most disastrous innovations of recent years – the metaverse, cryptocurrency, home surveillance, and AI, to name a few – while highlighting some of the unsung upgraders pushing real progress each day. Timely and corrective, Move Slow and Upgrade pushes us past the baseless promises of innovation, towards realistic hope.

KEY FEATURES

• Demonstrates the power and utility of upgrades over innovation

• Utilizes case studies pulled from today’s headlines to ground theoretical analysis in current events

• Provides readers with warning signs they can use to spot dangerous innovations

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Evan Selinger is a Professor of Philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology. His research focuses on the ethical and privacy dimensions of emerging technology. Selinger's previous Cambridge University Press books included the co-authored Re-Engineering Humanity (2019) and co-edited The Cambridge Handbook of Consumer Privacy (2018). He is a contributing writer at The Boston Globe.

Albert Fox Cahn is the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project's founder and executive director. He has served as Practitioner-in-Residence at NYU Law School's Information Law Institute and a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Carr Center For Human Rights Policy, Yale Law School's Information Society Project, Ashoka, and TED.

CONTENTS

1. Introduction; 2. Zuckerberg’s Mythological Metaverse; 3. The Crypto Con; 4. Home Security Upgrades; 5. The Failed Promise of Covid Innovation; 6. Moving Fast and Breaking Schools with Remote Proctoring; 7. Upgrades in the Age of Generative AI; 8. Upgrading Hiring; 9. Cybersecurity: The Land of the True Upgraders; 10. The Upgrader’s Mindset.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Level: General readers, academic researchers, graduate students

A Safe Climate in Good Faith

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

PROMISE THE EARTH

A Safe Climate in Good Faith

Julian Allwood

University of Cambridge

Andrew Davison

University of Oxford

January 2026

216 x 140 mm 236pp

978-1-00-956397-0 Hardback

£75.00 / US$95.00

KEY FEATURES

• Provides a grounded description of what climate action involves in the timescales required, written by a world expert from an engineering perspective

• Connects the options to make the climate safe to our values

• Cuts through the pretence that climate action will be profitable, and by setting it in the context of what is most important to us, finds previously unnoticed benefits

Politicians and business leaders tell us that climate change can be solved with new technologies, but global emissions keep rising. Engineers show us technological options that could be deployed quickly, but there is no plan there to save us. We can no longer wait for solutions to climate change. To reduce our emissions quickly, we need to cut back on some aspects of modern life through inventive tweaks – and via restraint. Restraint is normal. It is also fundamental across all religious faiths. In this volume, Julian Allwood, an engineer, and Andrew Davison, a theologian, offer a fresh perspective and prescription for combatting climate change. Rather than starting from the vantage points of economics and politics, they rethink climate action in the long tradition of the virtues – Courage, Justice, Prudence, and Temperance — along with Faith, Hope, and Love from the Bible. By acting in good faith now, a safe climate becomes an expression of our faith in and love for humanity.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Julian Allwood is Professor of Engineering and the Environment at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Sustainable Materials: with Both Eyes Open (2011) which established Material Efficiency as an essential component of climate action. A Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Allwood has been a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and contributes to corporate and government strategies on climate mitigation.

Andrew Davison holds the prestigious Regius Professorship of Divinity at the University of Oxford. Trained in both the natural sciences and theology, he is the author of Participation in God (2020) and Astrobiology and Christian Doctrine (2023). He is the founder of the Leverhulme Centre for Life in the Universe at the University of Cambridge.

CONTENTS

1. Urgency; 2. Courage; 3. Innovation; 4. Prudence; 5. Restraint; 6. Temperance; 7. Cost; 8. Justice; 9. Action; 10. Faith; 11. Leadership; 12. Hope; 13. Decisions; 14. Love.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Level: Undergraduate students, graduate students

February 2026

198 x 129 mm c.249pp

978-1-00-940268-2 Paperback

£14.99 / US$18.99

A PHILOSOPHER LOOKS AT THE WEATHER

Benjamin Hale University of Colorado Boulder

From barometers to the famous BBC shipping forecast, we have – over the centuries – developed the means to predict, harness, and shield ourselves from what is happening in the atmosphere. Attitudes about the planet’s weather, as well as about human identity, have thereby taken on new meanings. In an era of climatic anxiety, what weather is and how weather behaves have taken on additional currency. Benjamin Hale weaves together philosophy and anecdote into a many-faceted exploration of this powerful force that shapes who we are and how we think about our place in the world. He argues that in our drive to ‘scientize’ weather, with all the technological advances in managing, anticipating, and understanding it, we also risk distancing ourselves from weather and losing a complete sense of what it is. This entertaining book reminds us that the weather is and always will be in some sense outside our control, and that consequently we are and forever will be learning to live alongside it.

KEY FEATURES

• Evergreen: the weather is a topic of perpetual fascination – this book explains why it exerts such a powerful hold over us

• Urgent: in a context of extreme weather anxiety, the book explores the consequences of trying to control a phenomenon that remains mostly uncontrollable

• Illuminating: brings acute insights to bear on a topic whose philosophy is not self-evident, helping us to understand what the weather really means for us

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Benjamin Hale is Professor in the Departments of Environmental Studies and Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is author of The Wild and the Wicked: On Nature and Human Nature (2016), co-editor of the journal Ethics, Policy and Environment, and former President of the International Society for Environmental Ethics.

CONTENTS

Introduction; 1. Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor hail: what is weather?; 2. Of rain and parades: how weather affects us; 3. Battening the hatches: living with weather; 4. Seeing through the fog: predicting the weather; 5. Catching a cloud: controlling the weather; Conclusion: silver linings; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Level: General readers, graduate students

Series: A Philosopher Looks At

UNDERSTANDING SCIENCE

The Web of Trust

Niklas Janz

Stockholm University

Sören Nylin

Stockholm University

In a time when the role of science in society is under threat, this book provides a timely and accessible text that can be used to learn or teach both the theory and practices of science, and how they are interconnected. The first chapters introduce the major approaches to the philosophy of science using simple language and examples that are easy to understand. The chapters that follow build on philosophy of science to explain science practices such as publication, bibliometrics, experiments, the use of statistics, research ethics, and the academic career. The book emphasizes how and why science is the most reliable source of knowledge and how society is dependent on science to make informed decisions. It primarily targets science students but is also accessible to general readers interested in understanding how science works. It is ideal as a textbook for intermediate-advanced students majoring in any science (or engineering) subject.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

KEY FEATURES

• Provides an accessible and comprehensive examination of the relationship between science and the philosophy of science

• Written by teachers who have tested and fine-tuned the material in this book in their own classrooms

• Offers a resource on which universities can establish courses on how the philosophy of science influences the actual practice of science

Level: Undergraduate students, graduate students, academic researchers

Niklas Janz is a professor in evolutionary insect ecology at Stockholm University, Sweden. His research has mainly focussed on the evolutionary association between insects and plants. He has taught extensively on ecology, evolutionary biology, and the philosophy of science. He has also published two novels for young adults.

Sören Nylin is a professor of animal ecology at Stockholm University, Sweden, where he also teaches theoretical and practical aspects of science. He has published a large number of scientific articles, primarily on insect evolutionary ecology, and is an elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

CONTENTS

Preface; 1. What’s so special about science?; 1.1 ‘I Could be wrong’; 1.2 Is there anything out there?; 1.3 Making the subjective objective; 1.4 Facts and theory; 1.5 ‘Follow the science’; 1.6 Understanding science; 2. Observation-driven science; 2.1 Mary’s butterflies; 2.2 Early empiricism: Francis Bacon; 2.3 Later empiricism: the positivists; 2.4 The limitations of empiricism; 2.5 The place of empiricism in science; 3. Hypothesis-driven science: Falsificationism; 3.1 Mary’s butterflies; 3.2 Karl Popper and falsificationism; 3.3 Mechanisms and change; 3.4 Ad hoc hypotheses; 4. Hypothesis-driven science: limitations and alternatives; 4.1 The limitations of hypothesis-testing; 4.2 The place of hypothesistesting in science; 5. Paradigm-driven science; 5.1 Mary’s butterflies; 5.2 The philosophy of paradigms: Thomas Kuhn; 5.3 The limitations of paradigms; 5.4 The place of paradigms in science; 6. Science as a social activity; 6.1 Mary’s butterflies; 6.2 Public knowledge; 6.3 A social definition of science; 7. Synthesis; 7.1 What do you mean by ‘science’?; 7.2 Search for consensus as a line of demarcation; 7.3 Being scientific; 7.4 The web of trust; 8. Science in practice: publishing; 8.1 The publication process; 8.2 Citations and impact factors: bibliometrics; 9. Science in practice: data; 9. 1 Scientific data in the light of philosophy; 9.2 Dealing with variation; 9.3 Reviews and meta-analyses; 9.4 Combining evidence: an example; 10. Science in practice: academia; 10.1 Academia and the competent researcher; 10.2 Academic freedom; 10.3 Funding; 10.4 Ethics in science; 10.5 Science outside of the academy; 11. Epilogue; Index; References.

Additional Resources: http://www.cambridge.org/9781009672894

Online Resources for course instructors: www.cambridge.org/janznylin Suggested course structure • Discussion questions • Course assignments

MICHAEL HANDFORD

Lump in My Throat

What Cancer Taught Me about Communication

May 2026

216 x 140 mm 276pp

978-1-00-963139-6 Hardback

£25.00 / US$29.95

LUMP IN MY THROAT

What Cancer Taught Me about Communication

Michael Handford Cardiff University

When faced with a cancer diagnosis, navigating the maze of emotions and decisions can be overwhelming. In this inspiring and deeply personal memoir, Michael Handford – a professor of intercultural communication – shares his experience of a stage-4 throat cancer diagnosis at the age of 42 while living and working in Japan and the UK. Weaving together his professional insights and personal experiences, and through vivid storytelling, Handford examines how communication – whether with doctors, loved ones, or oneself – can shape the cancer experience. He shows that creating meaning and agency in the face of illness can provide a sense of control amidst the chaos. This book is not just about surviving cancer but about reframing it as part of a quest for connection, resilience, and understanding. Poignant, and at times brutally funny, Lump in My Throat offers guidance, hope, and tools to navigate the toughest of times with dignity and strength.

KEY FEATURES

• Explores how communication skills can empower people with cancer and their carers to navigate diagnosis and treatment with greater confidence

• Connects language and care by showing how insights from linguistics can improve doctor–patient interactions and support more compassionate healthcare

• Challenges cultural stereotypes by offering a thoughtful, nuanced view of Japan and the UK that deepens understanding without resorting to clichés

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Michael Handford is an internationally renowned academic, having held professorships and honorary fellowships at the Universities of Tokyo, Cardiff and Birmingham. His research explores the relationship between communication and culture, often in professional settings. In 2011–12, he was treated for stage-4 throat cancer in Tokyo and Birmingham. This work interprets his cancer experiences through cultural and communication lenses.

CONTENTS

Preface; Introduction; 1. Contrasts; 2. Diagnosis; 3. Home; 4. Earthquake; 5. Flyjins; 6. In-laws; 7. Hakone; 8. Aftermath; 9. Internationalisation; 10. Planning; 11. Consulting; 12. Absurdity; 13. Prognosis; 14. Maurice; 15. Framing; 16. Unruly; 17. Sanshiro; 18. Admittance; 19. Hair; 20. Routines; 21. Emperor; 22. Shock; 23. Stuck; 24. Resisting; 25. Shrinking; 26. Supports; 27. Christmas; 28. Ending; 29. Redwoods; 30. Bournville; 31. Institutions; 32. Return; Postscript; Figure acknowledgements; Acknowledgements; Notes; Index.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Level: General readers, graduate students

Falk Huettig

The Perks of Being a Bookworm

THE PERKS OF BEING A BOOKWORM

The Science of the Benefits of Reading

Falk Huettig

Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik, The Netherlands

The Science of the Benefits of Reading

March 2026

229 x 152 mm c.320pp

978-1-00-970152-5 Hardback

£80.00 / US$100.00

KEY FEATURES

• Addresses the evolving landscape of reading in the digital age and its implications for cognitive abilities

• Presents cutting-edge scientific research spanning psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, and education to examine reading’s powerful cognitive benefits

• Features accessible, non-technical language designed to engage students, scholars, and nonspecialists alike

Online education, smartphones, and generative AI have dramatically changed what and how we read. Amid this backdrop of changing media and habits, this book addresses the question: What do we know about the cognitive benefits of reading? And how might this change in a digital age? Presenting a synthesis of research spanning psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, and education, it offers a clear and accessible account of how reading transforms the human mind and brain. It demonstrates the profound cognitive enhancements on memory, attention, language processing, reasoning, and intellectual growth resulting from reading, beyond knowledge acquisition. This is an essential guide for students, educators, and researchers alike interested in the science of reading.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Falk Huettig is a Senior Investigator at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, Netherlands. He holds honorary professorships at the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany, and the University of Lisbon, Portugal.

CONTENTS

List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgments; Part I. Foundations: 1. Scripted influence: written media transform societies and individuals; 2. The shaping of mind: comparing illiterate and literate cognition; Part II. Reading-Driven General Cognitive Enhancement: 3. Intelligence: literacy increases IQ scores; 4. Abstraction: literacy enhances generalization from individual experiences; Part III. Reading-Driven Enhanced Vision: 5. Visual discrimination: literacy enhances keeping mirror images apart; 6. Visual recognition: literacy enhances recognition of faces; 7. Visual attention: literacy enhances mental spotlights; Part IV. Reading-Driven Enhanced Memory: 8. Long and short-term memory: literacy enhances storing, maintaining, manipulating, and retrieving of information; 9. Memory resilience: literacy enhances cognitive reserve; Part V. Reading-Driven Enhanced Spoken Language: 10. Spoken words: alphabetic literacy enhances awareness and recognition of spoken words; 11. Prediction in spoken language: literacy enhances anticipation of what others might say next; Part VI. Reading-Driven Enhanced Reasoning: 12. Deductive reasoning: literacy enhances drawing of valid inferences; 13. Critical Reasoning: Literacy Enhances Reasoning about the Validity of Information; Part VII. Conclusion and Outlook: 14. The Benefits of Reading: Enhanced Literate Minds; 15. Utopia or dystopia? The prospect of a postliterate world; Notes; Index.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Level: Graduate students, academic researchers

SCIENCE OF THE SUPERNATURAL

Critical Thinking for the Mind and Brain

Melissa Maffeo

Wake Forest University, North Carolin

SUPER-

CRITICAL THINKING FOR THE MIND AND BRAIN

MELISSA MAFFEO

March 2026

229 x 152 mm c.220pp

978-1-00-932237-9 Paperback

£23.00 / US$30.00

How can science explain ghost sightings, psychic readings, or the feeling of presence in an empty room? This book explores eerie, unexplained experiences through the lens of neuroscience and psychology. With chapters on sleep paralysis, alien abductions, false memories, psychic readings, mystical experiences, and even zombies, it invites readers to examine how the brain generates strange sensations – and why we often interpret them as supernatural. Designed to spark curiosity and sharpen critical thinking, this book blends scientific insight with storytelling. It is perfect for students, educators, and curious readers alike. Whether you’re a skeptic, a believer, or somewhere in between, you’ll come away with a deeper understanding of how our brains shape belief.

KEY FEATURES

• Combines folklore, psychological case studies, and historical context to explore reports of the supernatural

• Challenges assumptions and explores the method and limits of scientific explanation

• Connects various supernatural phenomena to well-established principles in psychology and neuroscience

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Melissa Maffeo is an Associate Teaching Professor at Wake Forest University, specializing in behavioral neuroscience. She co-founded the Neuroscience Teaching Conference and has received multiple awards for teaching innovation and excellence. Melissa earned her PhD in Neuroscience from Florida State University.

CONTENTS

Science of the supernatural Maffeo; Introduction: why study the science of the supernatural?; 1. Why are scary things scary? The neuroscience of fear; 2. Bravery in the shadows: altruism, empathy, and the neurobiology of heroism; 3. The EMF is going crazy: ghosts, gadgets, and the temporal lobe; 4. They only come out at night: the brain’s role in nighttime hallucinations; 5. Extraterrestrials, running over pedestrians: alien abductions and the science of suggestibility; 6. Tea leaves and tarot cards: psychic readings and illusions of cognition; 7. The call is coming from inside the house: rabies, parasites, and the truth behind zombies; 8. Your brain on infinity: psychedelics, mystical experiences, and altered states of consciousness; Conclusion: the courage to keep asking questions.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Level: Undergraduate students

How Fathers Help their Children Develop

Natasha J. Cabrera and Ronald B. Mincy

December 2025

229 x 152 mm 256pp

978-1-00-920949-6 Hardback

£70.00 / US$90.00

KEY FEATURES

• Offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the role fathers play in their children’s lives

• Uses non-technical language and real-life examples from qualitative research to make the theory accessible to a wide audience

• Acts as a starting point for more interdisciplinary research on fathers and fathering across disciplines, including psychology, sociology, social work, public policy, and more

HOW FATHERS HELP THEIR CHILDREN DEVELOP

Money and Love

Natasha J. Cabrera

University of Maryland, College Park

Ronald B. Mincy

Columbia University, New York

Fathers influence their children’s development in many ways, including financially and emotionally, but the literature revealing how and why is limited. This book brings together theoretical orientations and different disciplinary lenses to the study of how and why fathers matter for children’s development. It challenges the commonly held view that fathers are only economic providers and points to the complex interplay between the love fathers have for their children and the money they have (or not) to support them. By integrating developmental science with economics, and drawing on real-life examples from qualitative research, the authors argue that fatherhood is a tale of two stories: love and money.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Natasha J. Cabrera is Professor of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology at the University of Maryland, USA. She received the National Council on Family Relations award for Best Research Article regarding men in families in 2009. She is the co-editor of the Handbook of Father Involvement: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (2013), co-author of Parenting Matters (2016) and co-PI of the National Center for Research on Hispanic Families and Children. Ronald B. Mincy is the Maurice V. Russell Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Practice at Columbia University, USA. He is the recipient of the Social Policy Researcher Award from the Society for Social Work and Research in 2021, the Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize for the Best Research Article in 2013 and the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management's Raymond Vernon Memorial Prize for the Best Research Article in 2009.

CONTENTS

Forward; Preface; 1. Contemporary fathers and their children in the US; 2. The role of fathers in child development: theoretical perspectives; 3. The money story: fathers’ financial contributions and children’s development; 4. The love story: fathers’ emotional contributions and children’s development; 5. Why does money matter for children’s development: new analysis addressing the gaps; 6. How does money, love, and children’s contribution matter for children’s development? New analysis; 7. Policies and programs implicated by our findings; 8. Implications for policy and program change; Methadological Appendices: Appendix A. Chapter 5 Resident fathers; Appendix B. Chapter 5 Nonresident fathers; Appendix C. Chapter 6.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Level: Academic researchers, graduate students, professionals

Marilyn Fleer

Play in the Early Years

December 2025

254 x 203 mm 296pp 90 colour illus.  45 table

978-1-00-964030-5 Paperback

£55.00 / US$75.00

KEY FEATURES

• A well-established, comprehensive and student-friendly introduction to the theory and practice of play for children from birth to eight years

• The fourth edition includes new case studies, updates and revisions in line with the latest version of the Early Years Learning Framework and the Australian Curriculum

• Chapters feature case studies, play examples, key terms with definitions, and ‘Reflection’ and ‘Researching Play’ questions. The companion website provides additional resources, videos and activities to expand on the book’s content instructor powerpoints for each chapter online resources and activities for students

NEW TO THIS EDITION

The main change to the table of contents in the fourth edition is the removal of the former Chapter 6, as well as some light changes to chapter titles.

PLAY

Fourth edition

IN THE EARLY YEARS

Marilyn Fleer Monash University, Victoria

Play has a significant role in children’s learning and development. Play in the Early Years examines the central questions about play from the perspectives of children, families and educators, providing a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of play for children from birth to eight years. In its fourth edition, Play in the Early Years has been thoroughly updated in line with the revised Early Years Learning Framework and the new version of the Australian Curriculum. It takes both a both a theoretical and a practical approach, and covers recent research into conceptual play and wellbeing. The text looks at social, cultural and institutional approaches to play, and explores a range of strategies for successfully integrating play into early years settings and primary classrooms. Each chapter features case studies and play examples, with questions and reflection activities incorporated throughout to enhance learners’ understanding.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Marilyn Fleer holds the titles of Australian Research Council Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Fellow (2018–2024), and Sir John Monash Distinguished Emeritus Professor, Monash University. She is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Faculty of Education at the University of Oxford, an Honorary Professor at the Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark, and previously a Second Professor at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (2018–2023). She was awarded the 2019 Ashley Goldsworthy Award for outstanding leadership in university–business collaboration and 2022 Honour roll of Women in Victoria, Australia (Change agent).

CONTENTS

1. What is play?; 2. Children’s perspectives on play; 3. Families at play; 4. Digital play; 5. Playing in schools; 6. Lenses on play: post-structuralist and feminist analyses of children’s play; 7. Lenses on play: cultural-historical conceptions of play; 8. Play in the curriculum; 9. Conceptual PlayWorlds: play-based learning and intentionality; 10. Planning for play development; 11. Assessment through, of and for play; 12. Being a play activist and play leader. Additional Resources: http://www.cambridge.org/9781009640305

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Level: Undergraduate students, graduate students, professionals

EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY

October 2025

254 x 203 mm 520pp 978-1-00-945293-9 Hardback £120.00 / US$160.00

EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY

An Introduction Fifth edition

Lance Workman

University of South Wales

Will Reader

Sheffield Hallam University

The fully revised fifth edition of this highly acclaimed undergraduate textbook provides a thought-provoking introduction to evolutionary psychology, while assuming no prior knowledge of evolutionary theory. The authors continue to carefully guide students towards a level of understanding where they can critically apply evolutionary theory to psychological explanation, providing an engaging and balanced discussion of the field. New material has been added on female homosexuality, artificial intelligence and language, cooking and human brain expansion, Covid-19 and rates of evolutionary change, and the effects of digital media on mental health. This edition also has new and revised boxed case studies, many new figures, extra discussion questions, and additional further reading suggestions. The text is accompanied by online resources including an updated test bank and lecture slides, as well as new answers to the end-of-chapter questions. This is essential reading for students taking undergraduate and graduate courses in evolutionary psychology.

KEY FEATURES

• In full colour, with more than a third of figures new to this edition

• Perfect for upper-level undergraduate psychology students, assuming no prior knowledge of evolutionary theory and biology

• Includes new material on female homosexuality, artificial intelligence and language, cooking and human brain expansion, Covid-19 and rates of evolutionary change, and the effects of digital media on mental health

• Retains the bold key terms, chapter summaries, and glossary of previous editions, but includes new and revised boxed case studies, extra discussion questions, and additional further reading suggestions

• Supported online by an updated test bank of 280 multiple-choice questions, complete with solutions, updated lecture slides for each chapter, and short answers to the end-of-chapter questions

Test bank of multiple-choice questions, with solutions; PowerPoint lecture slidesShort answers to the end-of-chapter questions; Figures from the book in JPEG and PPT format

NEW TO THIS EDITION

• Fully revised.

• New material has been added on female homosexuality, artificial intelligence, human thought and language, cooking, human brain expansion, Covid-19 and rates of evolutionary change, and the effects of digital media on mental health

• This edition also has new and revised boxed case studies, extra discussion questions, and additional further reading suggestions

• Accompanied by online resources including an updated test bank and lecture slides, as well as new answers to the end-of-chapter questions

• More than a third of figures are new to this edition

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

PSYCHOLOGY

Lance Workman is Visiting Professor of Psychology at the University of South Wales. He was previously Head of Psychology at Bath Spa University, and for seven years was the interviews editor for The Psychologist. His teaching and research interests are in biological and evolutionary psychology, and he has published widely on both human and animal behaviour. Workman regularly comments on developments in psychology in the media, making over 1000 appearances in the last thirty years, and has hosted his own series on psychology for Radio Wales.

Will Reader is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Sheffield Hallam University. His research interests and publications include the relationship between evolution and technology (particularly social media and the internet), and education research and human-computer interaction. He has twice won awards for inspirational teaching. He has presented his work on evolution and social media at both academic conferences and to members of the business community, and enjoys writing blogs on evolution and psychology.

CONTENTS

Preface; Foreword; 1. Introduction to evolutionary psychology; 2. Principles of evolutionary change; 3. Sexual selection; 4. The evolution of human mate choice; 5. Cognitive development, modularity and innateness; 6. Social development and morality; 7. The evolutionary psychology of social behaviour: kin relationships and conflict; 8. The evolutionary psychology of social behaviour: reciprocity and conflict; 9. Evolution, thought and cognition; 10. The evolution of language; 11. The evolution of emotion; 12. Evolutionary psychopathology and Darwinian medicine; 13. Evolution and individual differences; 14. The evolution of culture; Glossary; References; Index.

Additional Resources: http://www.cambridge.org/9781009452939

Test bank of multiple-choice questions, with solutions; PowerPoint lecture slidesShort answers to the end-of-chapter questions; Figures from the book in JPEG and PPT format

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Level: Undergraduate students, graduate students

Previousedition publishedin Turkish

SEVENTH EDITION

THE PSYCHOLOGIST’S COMPANION

A Guide to Professional Success for Students, Teachers, and Researchers

Robert J. Sternberg

Karin Sternberg

Ophélie Allyssa Desmet

June 2026

229 x 152 mm c.480pp

978-1-00-966765-4 Paperback £38.00 / US$50.00

THE PSYCHOLOGIST’S COMPANION

A Guide to Professional Success for Students, Teachers, and Researchers

Seventh edition

Robert J. Sternberg

Cornell University

Karin Sternberg

Cornell University

Ophélie Allyssa Desmet

Ball State University

In the evolving landscape of psychological research and communication, The Psychologist’s Companion, stands as the definitive guide supporting students, young professionals, and researchers in psychology at all stages of their careers.

This seventh edition presents new and updated chapters covering a wide range of topics essential for success in psychology, including planning and writing research papers, presenting data effectively, evaluating one’s own work, writing grant proposals, giving talks and presentations, finding a book publisher, navigating job interviews, and more! Serving as an invaluable resource for improving both written and oral communication skills in academic psychology, the content is structured as a step-by-step manual focusing on practical skills and contemporary issues. It guides readers through various tasks encountered during psychological research and academic life. Whether you’re crafting your first paper or seeking to enhance your scholarly impact, this book provides the tools and knowledge to excel in today’s competitive academic environment.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

KEY FEATURES

• Covers a wide range of topics essential for success in psychology

• Features new chapters covering mixed research methods, navigating collaborative endeavours, and presentation preparation

• Includes practical exercises for active learning so that readers can test their own ability to apply the concepts in each chapter

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Level: Graduate students, undergraduate students, professionals

Robert J. Sternberg is Professor of Psychology at Cornell University, USA, and Honorary Professor of Psychology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. His Ph.D. is from Stanford University and he holds 13 honorary doctorates. He is a past winner of the Grawemeyer Award in Psychology and the James and Cattell Awards from the Association for Psychological Science.

Karin Sternberg is an entrepreneur and lecturer at the Department of Psychology at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. Her Ph.D. is from the University of Heidelberg in Germany. Karin's work focuses on the applications of psychological research and she develops innovative science-based programs to help people create successful relationships.

Ophélie Allyssa Desmet is an assistant professor of Educational Psychology and leading researcher in talent development. With a Ph.D. from Purdue University, she has published extensively on underachievement and gifted education, secured over $5M in grants, and developed impactful interventions to support gifted students. She co-founded Belgium's Underachievement Support Center and has received multiple research awards.

CONTENTS

1. Eight common misconceptions about psychology papers; 2. How to generate, evaluate, and sell your ideas for research and papers; 3. Literature research; 4. Writing a literature review; 5. Planning and writing the quantitative research paper; 6. Planning and writing the qualitative paper; 7. Planning and writing the mixed-methods paper; 8. Ethics in research and writing; 9. Writing with clarity and correctness; 10. American Psychological Association guidelines for psychology papers; 11. Guidelines for data presentation; 12. Article writing 101; 13. How to make your article even better: Proofreading, revising, and editing; 14. Critical checklist before submitting an article for publication; 15. Deciding on a journal and submitting an article to a journal; 16. How to find a book publisher; 17. Writing a grant or contract proposal; 18. Preparing a poster presentation; 19. Preparing virtual and oral presentations; 20. Writing a lecture; 21. Doing a job interview; 22. Media and public engagement; 23. Navigating collaborative endeavours; 24. Becoming a creative and successful psychologist.

THE BODY IMAGE BOOK FOR GIRLS

Love Yourself and Grow Up Fearless

Charlotte Markey

Rutgers University, Camden

February 2026

276 x 178 mm 256pp

978-1-00-954507-5 Updated Edition

£16.99 / US$19.95

KEY FEATURES

• Provides accurate, evidence-based information about body image, eating habits, mental health and self-care for tween- and teen-aged girls

• Helps girls to understand and appreciate their bodies as they become women, and navigate their way through the inaccurate and unrealistic beauty ideals portrayed in the media/social media

• New and improved edition includes even more personal stories from girls about their body image experiences, and new ‘expert advice’ provides tips and inspiration from a range of voices

Girls are facing growing pressures that impact their self-esteem, whilst the pandemic and dominance of social media have made it even more challenging for girls to feel good about their bodies. Dr. Charlotte Markey provides girls aged 9–15 with the tools they need to understand, accept, and appreciate their bodies. She provides all the facts on puberty, mental health, self-care, why diets are bad news, dealing with social media, and everything in-between. Girls will find answers to questions they always wanted to ask, the truth behind many body image myths, advice and inspiration from experts, and real-life stories from girls who share their own experiences. Through this updated and beautifully illustrated guide, Dr. Markey teaches girls how to nurture both mental and physical health to improve their own body image, shows the positive impact they can have on others, and empowers them to go out into the world feeling fearless!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. Charlotte Markey is Professor of Psychology and Chair of the Health Sciences Department at Rutgers University, Camden. She is a world-leading expert in body image research, having studied body image and eating behavior for over twenty-five years. Through all her roles as a scientist, teacher, writer, and parent she is passionate about understanding what makes us feel good about our bodies and helping others to develop a healthy body image. Dr Markey is the author of four books, including Being You: The Body Image Book for Boys (2022) and Adultish: The Body Image Book for Life (2024). Her research has gained widespread media attention, having been featured in publications such as The New York Times, The Economist, ABC News, and Time Magazine.

CONTENTS

1. What is body image?; 2. Bodies change; 3. Love your body; 4. Your image; 5. Nourish your body; 6. Don’t diet; 7. Eating disorders; 8. Be active; 9. Self-care; 10. Be the change.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Level: General readers

Ethical and Clinical Complexities in the Treatment of Schizophrenia

Liberty or Life

Edited by Katherine Warburton and Stephen M. Stahl

April 2026

246 x 189 mm c.316pp

978-1-00-958775-4 Paperback

£55.00 / US$70.00

ETHICAL AND CLINICAL

COMPLEXITIES IN THE TREATMENT OF SCHIZOPHRENIA

Liberty or Life

Edited by Katherine Warburton

California Department of State Hospitals, University of California, Davis, USA

Stephen M. Stahl

University of California, Riverside, USA

This unique book offers a methodical exploration of biological, social, and ethical topics on the treatment (or lack thereof) of psychotic brain disease. Part I provides an empirical engagement with neuroscience and covers the neurobiology and pharmacology of schizophrenia, providing the reader with a current understanding of the disease. Topic areas include anosognosia, community treatments, and early intervention. Part II looks at international policy approaches to schizophrenia featuring topics such as the policy, funding, and historical elements contributing to frequently misguided approaches to severe brain disease, and it explains why some societies won’t/can’t support human beings with psychotic disease. Part III focuses on neuroethics and asks: ‘What is right?’ through chapters discussing the concepts of consciousness and free will, as well as the principles of nonmaleficence, beneficence, autonomy, and justice. Collectively the comprehensive approach of this book allows the reader to gain a full understanding of the ethical and clinical complexities in treating schizophrenia.

KEY FEATURES

• Presents an international comparison of policy related to the treatment of schizophrenia which examines diverse policies and their subsequent outcomes to help inform global best practice

• An all-star list of experts summarizes the most current science in neuroscience, psychopharmacology, and other evidence bases treatments for the treatment of schizophrenia in a straightforward format that allows non-physicians to digest what is known about this disease

• Examines functional outcomes resulting from treating, or not treating, psychosis by looking beyond the typical rating scales to illuminate how treatment can mitigate homelessness, incarceration, and brain damage

• Utilizes a framework of neuroethics to examine current international policy and outcomes for schizophrenia, demystifying the associated ethical dilemmas for mental health professionals and policy makers using generally accepted ethical principles

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Katherine Warburton is Associate Clinical Professor at the University of California, Davis, and Statewide Medical Director and Deputy Director of Clinical Operations at the California Department of State Hospitals.

Stephen M. Stahl is Distinguished Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the University of California Riverside, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, and an Honorary Fellow in Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge. He also serves as Senior Academic Advisor and Director of Psychopharmacology for the California Department of State Hospitals.

CONTENTS

Part I. Neuroscience: 1. The story of schizophrenia: liberty over life; 2. What is the neurobiology of schizophrenia?; 3. What is schizophrenia –symptomatology; 4. Assessment and treatment of anosognosia in schizophrenia; 5. Anosognosia in schizophrenia; 6. ‘How antipsychotics work in schizophrenia: a primer on mechanisms’; 7. Do antipsychotics work in people with schizophrenia? A review of outcomes and effect sizes; 8. Do antipsychotic medications work: an exploration using competency to stand trial as the functional outcome; 9. When do psychiatric interventions work? An argument for using functional outcomes when evaluating the effectiveness of treating schizophrenia; 10. Medications for psychosis in people with Schizophrenia: what happens if you take them and what happens if you don’t?; 11. Assisted outpatient treatment: are court ordered antipsychotic medications effective?; 12. Forensic assertive community treatment: an emerging best practice; 13. Does compulsory community treatment for discharged forensic hospital patients work? The recent evidence base; 14. Early intervention for schizophrenia: a pathway to improved clinical outcomes; 15. ‘Cardiometabolic disorders in persons living with schizophrenia: the right to equality’; Part II. International Policy Perspectives: 16. Failure to treat: an American policy perspective; 17. The Italian general psychiatry and forensic psychiatry treatment model: a unique story; 18. Liberty or life: mental health care in Australia; 19. Liberty or life: the Aotearoa New Zealand perspective; 20. Autonomy and compulsory care in the Netherlands; 21. Canadian mental health laws: a review of involuntary admission and treatment pending appeal; 22. The current situation of treatment for patients suffering from schizophrenia in the Austrian forensic system; 23. Interventions for the unhoused individual with schizophrenia: a civilized plan; 24. What role did serious mental illness play in Jackson Pollock’s drip paintings? Abstract expressionism and possible links to serious mental illness and to encrypted images (Polloglyphs); 25. The behavioral healthcare continuum in the United States: what should it look like and how we can pay for it; Part III. Neuroethics: 26. A unified understanding of the human mind-a neuroethical perspective: tracing the evolution in western thought and the integration with neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry, and relational dimensions; 27. A neuroethical approach to human life, identity, and liberty of schizophrenic patients; 28. Neuroethics and treatment without consent; 29. Advance directives in patients with schizophrenia; 30. Dignity restored: the power of treatment first; 31. Four principles of bioethics in cases of anosognosia; 32. Complexities of competency and informed consent as applied to individuals with symptoms of Anosognosia; 33. Evidence-based treatment for schizophrenia: a personal perspective; 34. Inmate mental health assistants: an emerging best practice for carceral settings; 35. Remarks of father Alberto Carrara to the American Psychiatry Association – May 2025 Father.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Level: Medical specialists/consultants, professionals, specialist medical trainees

MEDICINE

CASE STUDIES: STAHL’S ESSENTIAL PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Forensic Psychiatry

February 2026

228 x 138 mm 392pp

978-1-00-933586-7 Paperback

£54.99 / US$69.99

KEY FEATURES

• Expands upon the successful Stahl’s Case Studies series by Dr. Stahl, offering up-to-date examples of inter-disciplinary and multidisciplinary science in action

• Incorporates multiple somatic treatment options ranging from advanced psychopharmacology to interventional modalities, demonstrating the need for constant pursuit of treatment options until differential diagnosis is clarified and a treatment response is obtained

• Examples of clinical presentation of specific syndromes rarely seen outside of the institutionalized setting ensure that the subspecialty patient is accessible to readers without specialized training in forensics

Volume 6

Carolina A. Klein

California Department of State Hospitals, Sacramento

Stephen M. Stahl

University of California, San Diego and Riverside

This sixth volume in Stahl’s Case Studies series presents a selection of clinical case studies in forensic psychopharmacology. Focusing on severe syndromes and clinical presentations found in the severely mentally ill who have become justice involved and/or required care in a state or forensic hospital facility, these cases illustrate questions that are routinely asked in psychiatric consultations. Following a consistent, user-friendly layout, each case features icons, tips and questions about diagnosis and management as it progresses over time, a pre-case self-assessment question, followed by the correct answers at the end of the case. Formatted in alignment with the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology’s maintenance of psychiatry specialty certification, cases address multifaceted issues in an understandable way. Covering a wide-ranging and representative selection of clinical scenarios, each case is followed through the complete clinical encounter, from start to resolution, acknowledging the complications, issues, decisions, twists and turns along the way.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Carolina A. Klein is the Associate Medical Director and Lead Psychiatrist in Advancement & Innovation at California Department of State Hospitals in Sacramento, California.

Stephen M. Stahl is Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the University of California, Riverside, and Honorary Visiting Senior Fellow in Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge.

CONTENTS

Part I. Aggression and Violence in the Forensic Setting: 1. Psychotic Aggression – The Magic Combo; 2. Impulsive affective aggression – action in a second; 3. Predatory violence – the wolf in sheep’s clothing; Part II. Self-Injurious Behaviors (SIB): 4. SIB and violence – inwards and outwards; 5. Non-Suicidal Self Injury (NSSI) – death by a thousand cuts; 6. Prolonged fasting – starved for care; 7. Severe suicidality – to die at any cost; Part III. Severe Associated Syndromes Of SMI: 8. Who’s who? – misidentification syndromes in SMI; 9. Primary polydipsia – unquenchable thirsts; 10. Catatonia – turning into stone; 11. Negative syndrome – nothing and nobody; 12. Post-psychotic depression – too good to be true, so it’s blue; Part IV. Iatrogenic Syndromes and Drug-Associated Side Effects: 13. Neuroleptic malignant syndrome – altered and rigid; 14. Constipation – the full stop; Part V. Complex Comorbidities: 15. TBI and CTE – bruised brains; 16. Addictions – everyone, everywhere, everything; 17. Personality disorders – fixing the foundation; 18. Schizo-obsessive disorder – repeatedly compelling; 19. Anxiety disorders – constant worries; 20. COVID – the new player in town and here to stay; 21. Neurological Disorders – Near and Fa(h)r; Part VI. Specialty Forensic Populations: 22. IST MurCON – conserved or convicted?; 23. Sexually Violent Predators (SVPs) – interrupting the circuit; 24. Pregnancy –treating for two; 25. SCZ- OCD, addictions, paraphilia – the collision.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Level: Specialist medical trainees, medical interns, medical specialists/consultants

January 2026 216pp

978-1-00-968236-7 Paperback

£28.00 / US$37.00

ENGINEERING

THE STONE SKELETON

Structural Engineering of Masonry Architecture Second edition

Jacques Heyman

University of Cambridge

What is the timescale for the settlement and cracking of an old stone building? How do the elegant flying buttresses of a Gothic cathedral safely transfer thrust to the foundations? What is the effect of bell-ringing on a church tower? These and other questions pertinent to the upkeep of old stone structures are answered in this clear and authoritative guide, now revised in a new edition. With a firm scientific basis, but without the use of complex mathematics, the author provides a thorough and intuitive understanding of masonry structures. This new edition updates the text based on original research by the author, including sections on iconic structures such as St Peter’s Basilica in Rome, the dome of St Paul’s Cathedral and the vault of the Henry VII Chapel in London. An essential resource for structural engineers, architects, art historians and anyone passionate about the care and renovation of historic stone buildings.

KEY FEATURES

• Develops a clear and intuitive understanding of stone masonry and how it ages, covering a wide range of structures

• A rigorous and scientific approach without the use of complex mathematics

• Helps practitioners recognise how best to maintain and repair historic masonry structures

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jacques Heyman is a structural engineer and Emeritus Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge and was previously Professor and Head of the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. He has contributed substantially to plastic theory and initiated its application to masonry structures and was consulting engineer to many cathedrals, including Ely Cathedral and Westminster Abbey. He is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and in 2022 was awarded the Sir Frank Whittle Medal.

CONTENTS

1. Introduction; 2. Structural Theory of Masonry; 3. Domes; 4. The Masonry Vault; 5. Some Structural Elements; 6. Towers and Bells; 7. Spires; 8. Some Historical Notes.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Level: Undergraduate students, academic researchers, graduate students

Communications and Machine Learning

Le Liang, Shi Jin, Hao Ye, and Geoffrey Ye Li

July 2025

254 x 178 mm 306pp

978-1-00-923220-3 Hardback

£69.99 / US$89.99

ENGINEERING

WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS

AND MACHINE LEARNING

Le Liang

Southeast University, Nanjing

Shi Jin

Southeast University, Nanjing

Hao Ye

University of California, Santa Cruz

Geoffrey Ye Li

Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London

This focused textbook demonstrates cutting-edge concepts at the intersection of machine learning (ML) and wireless communications, providing students with a deep and insightful understanding of this emerging field. It introduces students to a broad array of ML tools for effective wireless system design, and supports them in exploring ways in which future wireless networks can be designed to enable more effective deployment of federated and distributed learning techniques to enable AI systems. Requiring no previous knowledge of ML, this accessible introduction includes over 20 worked examples demonstrating the use of theoretical principles to address real-world challenges, and over 100 end-of-chapter exercises to cement student understanding, including hands-on computational exercises using Python. Accompanied by code supplements and solutions for instructors, this is the ideal textbook for a single-semester senior undergraduate or graduate course for students in electrical engineering, and an invaluable reference for academic researchers and professional engineers in wireless communications.

KEY FEATURES

• Coverage includes deep learning for improved channel modeling and estimation; learning-based methods for key communication receiver functionalities; end-to-end learning-enabled system design, and optimized radio resource allocation

• Features a discussion of ‘wireless for AI’ that extends the ‘AI for wireless’ toolset to give more efficient machine learning training and inference

• Requires no previous knowledge of machine learning, instead building on existing student understanding of probability, signals and systems, and wireless communications

- solutions manual

- code supplements

- figures in JPG and PPT formats

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jacques Heyman is a structural engineer and Emeritus Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge and was previously Professor and Head of the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. He has contributed substantially to plastic theory and initiated its application to masonry structures and was consulting engineer to many cathedrals, including Ely Cathedral and Westminster Abbey. He is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and in 2022 was awarded the Sir Frank Whittle Medal.

CONTENTS

Preface; Notation; 1. Introduction; 2. Channel modeling, estimation, and compression; 3. Learning receiver design: signal detection and channel decoding; 4. End-to-end learning of wireless communication systems; 5. Learning resource allocation in wireless networks; 6. Wireless for AI: distributed and federated learning; References; Index.

Additional Resources: http://www.cambridge.org/9781009232203 Solutions manual; code supplements; jpegs and ppts www.cambridge.org/wirelesscomms

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Level: Graduate students, undergraduate students, professionals

Hands-On Network Machine Learning with Python

Eric W. Bridgeford, Alexander R. Loftus, and Joshua T. Vogelstein

September 2025

244 x 170 mm 478pp

978-1-00-940539-3 Paperback

£55.00 / US$70.00

KEY FEATURES

• Provides an accessible entry point to network machine learning for data scientists and researchers

• Demonstrates the practical application of network analysis using Python

• Bridges the gap between theoretical concepts, intuitiondriven reasoning, and real-world applications for networks

COMPUTER SCIENCE

HANDS-ON NETWORK MACHINE LEARNING WITH PYTHON

Eric W. Bridgeford

The Johns Hopkins University

Alexander R. Loftus

The Johns Hopkins University

Joshua T. Vogelstein

The Johns Hopkins University

Bridging theory and practice in network data analysis, this guide offers an intuitive approach to understanding and analyzing complex networks. It covers foundational concepts, practical tools, and real-world applications using Python frameworks including NumPy, SciPy, scikit-learn, graspologic, and NetworkX. Readers will learn to apply network machine learning techniques to real-world problems, transform complex network structures into meaningful representations, leverage Python libraries for efficient network analysis, and interpret network data and results. The book explores methods for extracting valuable insights across various domains such as social networks, ecological systems, and brain connectivity. Hands-on tutorials and concrete examples develop intuition through visualization and mathematical reasoning. The book will equip data scientists, students, and researchers in applications using network data with the skills to confidently tackle network machine learning projects, providing a robust toolkit for data science applications involving network-structured data.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Eric W. Bridgeford is a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University. Eric's background includes Computer Science, Bioengineering, and Biostatistics, and he develops methods for veridical data science. Eric is interested in biases presenting inferential obstacles to neuroscience, and how these limitations challenge analytical approaches and clinical adoption of neuroimaging methods.

Alexander R. Loftus is a doctoral student in David Bau's group in the Department of Computer Science at Northeastern University, studying interpretability in deep neural networks. He has worked on implementing network algorithms in Python. He won first place in a $100,000 Kaggle competition and has published work in top AI/ML conferences.

Joshua T. Vogelstein is Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. His research intersects natural and artificial intelligence, applying machine learning to biomedical challenges. He has published extensively in top scientific and AI venues, received numerous grants, and co-founded successful startups in quantitative finance and software development.

CONTENTS

Preface; Terminology; Part I. Foundations: 1. The network machine learning landscape; 2. Endto-end biology network machine learning project; Part II. Representations: 3. Characterizing and preparing network data; 4. Statistical models of random networks; 5. Learning network representations; Part III. Applications: 6. Applications for a single network; 7. Applications for two networks; 8. Applications for multiple networks; 9. Deep learning methods; Appendix A. Network model theory; Appendix B. Learning representations theory; Appendix C. Overview of machine learning techniques; Index.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Level: Undergraduate students, graduate students, professionals

January 2026

A HANDS-ON INTRODUCTION TO DATA SCIENCE

CHIRAG SHAH WITH PYTHON

253 x 203 mm 424pp

978-1-00-958892-8 Hardback £110.00 / US$140.00

A HANDS-ON INTRODUCTION TO DATA

SCIENCE WITH PYTHON

Second edition

Chirag Shah

University of Washington

Students will develop a practical understanding of data science with this hands-on textbook for introductory courses. This new edition is fully revised and updated, with numerous exercises and examples in the popular data science tool Python, a new chapter on using Python for statistical analysis, and a new chapter that demonstrates how to use Python within a range of cloud platforms. The many practice examples, drawn from real-life applications, range from small to big data and come to life in a new end-to-end project in Chapter 11. New ‘Data Science in Practice’ boxes highlight how concepts introduced work within an industry context and many chapters include new sections on AI and Generative AI. A suite of online material for instructors provides a strong supplement to the book, including lecture slides, solutions, additional assessment material and curriculum suggestions. Datasets and code are available for students online. This entry-level textbook is ideal for readers from a range of disciplines wishing to build a practical, working knowledge of data science.

KEY FEATURES

• Develop a practical understanding of data science by working through hands-on problems, exercises and examples using the popular Python platform

• Go from absolute beginner to working data scientist with 11 accessible chapters that assume no prior technical background

• See how concepts are applied within an industry context with all new ‘Data Science in Practice’ boxes

• Teach data science with end-to-end support, including curriculum suggestions, sample syllabi, lecture slides, datasets, additional assessment material and a solutions manual, available for registered instructors

Instructor resources

• Solutions Manual • Lecture Slides • Curriculum guide • Teaching guide • Assessment Materials

Student resources

• Datasets • Code • Appendices

NEW TO THIS EDITION

• New chapters on ‘Python for Statistical Analysis’ and ‘Cloud Computing’

• ‘Data Science in Practice’ boxes put concepts within an industry context

• New end-to-end project in Chapter 11

• New sections reflecting on the influence on AI and Generative AI

• All datasets are now available to download directly from the textbook’s resources page online

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Chirag Shah is Professor of Information and Computer Science at University of Washington (UW) in Seattle. He is the Founding Director for InfoSeeking Lab and Founding Co-Director of the Center for Responsibility in AI Systems & Experiences (RAISE). His research focuses on building, auditing, and correcting intelligent information access systems. Dr. Shah is a Distinguished Member of ACM as well as ASIS&T, and a Senior Member of IEEE. He has published nearly 200 peer-reviewed articles and authored several books, including textbooks on data science and machine learning. He regularly engages with industrial research labs at Amazon, ByteDance, Microsoft Research, and Spotify.

CONTENTS

Part I. Conceptual Introductions: 1. Introduction; 2. Data; Part II. Tools for Data Science: 3. Techniques; 4. Python; 5. Python for Statistical Analysis; 6. Cloud Computing; Part III. Machine Learning for Data Science: 7. Machine Learning Introduction and Regression; 8. Supervised Learning; 9. Unsupervised Learning; Part IV. Applications, Evaluations, and Methods: 10. Data Collection, Experimentation, and Evaluation; 11. Hands-On with Solving Data Problems.

Additional Resources: http://www.cambridge.org/9781009588928 www.cambridge.org/shah-python2e

Instructor resources: Solutions Manual; Lecture Slides; Curriculum guide

• Teaching guide

• Assessment Materials

• Student resources

• Datasets

• Code

• Appendices

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Level: Undergraduate students, graduate students, professionals

A HANDS-ON INTRODUCTION TO DATA SCIENCE

January 2026

253 x 203 mm 406pp

978-1-00-958905-5 Paperback

£45.00 / US$59.99

COMPUTER SCIENCE

A HANDS-ON INTRODUCTION TO DATA SCIENCE WITH R

Second edition

Chirag Shah

University of Washington

Students will develop a practical understanding of data science with this hands-on textbook for introductory courses. This new edition is fully revised and updated, with numerous exercises and examples in the popular data science tool Python, a new chapter on using Python for statistical analysis, and a new chapter that demonstrates how to use Python within a range of cloud platforms. The many practice examples, drawn from real-life applications, range from small to big data and come to life in a new end-to-end project in Chapter 11. New ‘Data Science in Practice’ boxes highlight how concepts introduced work within an industry context and many chapters include new sections on AI and Generative AI. A suite of online material for instructors provides a strong supplement to the book, including lecture slides, solutions, additional assessment material and curriculum suggestions. Datasets and code are available for students online. This entry-level textbook is ideal for readers from a range of disciplines wishing to build a practical, working knowledge of data science.

KEY FEATURES

• Develop a practical understanding of data science by working through hands-on problems, exercises and examples using the popular Python platform

• Go from absolute beginner to working data scientist with 11 accessible chapters that assume no prior technical background

• See how concepts are applied within an industry context with all new ‘Data Science in Practice’ boxes

• Teach data science with end-to-end support, including curriculum suggestions, sample syllabi, lecture slides, datasets, additional assessment material and a solutions manual, available for registered instructors Instructor resources

• Solutions Manual • Lecture Slides • Curriculum guide • Teaching guide • Assessment Materials Student resources

• Datasets • Code • Appendices

NEW TO THIS EDITION

• New chapters on ‘Python for Statistical Analysis’ and ‘Cloud Computing’

• ‘Data Science in Practice’ boxes put concepts within an industry context

• New end-to-end project in Chapter 11

• New sections reflecting on the influence on AI and Generative AI

• All datasets are now available to download directly from the textbook’s resources page online

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Chirag Shah is Professor of Information and Computer Science at University of Washington (UW) in Seattle. He is the Founding Director for InfoSeeking Lab and Founding Co-Director of the Center for Responsibility in AI Systems & Experiences (RAISE). His research focuses on building, auditing, and correcting intelligent information access systems. Dr. Shah is a Distinguished Member of ACM as well as ASIS&T, and a Senior Member of IEEE. He has published nearly 200 peer-reviewed articles and authored several books, including textbooks on data science and machine learning. He regularly engages with industrial research labs at Amazon, ByteDance, Microsoft Research, and Spotify.

CONTENTS

Part I. Conceptual Introductions: 1. Introduction; 2. Data; Part II. Tools for Data Science: 3. Techniques; 4. Python; 5. Python for Statistical Analysis; 6. Cloud Computing; Part III. Machine Learning for Data Science: 7. Machine Learning Introduction and Regression; 8. Supervised Learning; 9. Unsupervised Learning; Part IV. Applications, Evaluations, and Methods: 10. Data Collection, Experimentation, and Evaluation; 11. Hands-On with Solving Data Problems.

Additional Resources: http://www.cambridge.org/9781009589079 www.cambridge.org/shah-r2e

Instructor resources: Solutions Manual; Lecture Slides; Curriculum guide; Teaching guide

• Assessment Materials

Student resources

• Datasets

• Code

• Appendices

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Level: Undergraduate students, graduate students, professionals