Books published by Cambridge University Press

It brings together works of behavoural economists examining the effects of COVID-19 on behaviours and health, uncovering behavioural regularities and documenting how pandemics change our lives.

This book analyses how and why insolvency law in emerging economies needs to be reinvented. It also explores the role of insolvency law in the promotion of economic growth as well as the similarities and divergences in the design of insolvency laws around the world.

The first book-length treatment of Aristotle and Theophrastus' achievements in their separate but coordinated studies of animals and plants. It explores their original motivations for articulating their investigation of life into separate studies of animals and plants at a time when our reliance on these categories is being challenged. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Jack Kerouac is among the most important and influential writers to emerge from mid-twentieth century America. Founder of the Beat Generation literary movement, Kerouac's most famous novel, On the Road, was known as the bible of this generation, and inspired untold people to question the rigid social and cultural expectations of 1950s America. And yet despite its undeniable influence, On the Road is only a small piece of Kerouac's literary achievement, and there are now well over forty Kerouac books published. The centerpiece to this work is Kerouac's multi-volume Duluoz Legend, named for his fictional alter-ego, Jack Duluoz, and comprising numerous books written over decades that together tell the story of Duluoz's life and times. This volume offers fresh perspectives on his multifaceted body of work, ranging from detailed analyses of his most significant books to wide-angle perspectives that place Kerouac in key literary, theoretical, and cultural contexts.

Examines the construction of space and place in early China and the ancient Mediterranean through the lens of performances conducted in a wide range of specific locations, such as roads, gardens, neighbourhoods, hydraulic infrastructures, funerary performance, spectacles at court, and the everyday display of authority through clothing and fashion.

With an interdisciplinary approach, the book is written in a narrative style and in an accessible format to appeal to both academic readers and a broader audience. The book appeals to those who want to learn more about urban processes in Iran through first-hand accounts of daily life.

Explores Herodotus' Histories in dialogue with contemporary philosophical debates. Combining close readings, reader reception, and genre studies, it expands our understanding of Herodotus' context and restores the Histories' place in Presocratic thought. In addition, the book elucidates philosophy's subsequent engagement with Herodotus' Histories.

This book examines the mental health impacts of climate change on youth. It is the first to offer both basic and scientific explanations of climate distress, how it relates to mental health, when to seek professional help, and how to intervene to support youth in a variety of settings.

Ethnic riots are a costly and all too common occurrence during political transitions in multi-ethnic settings. Why do ethnic riots occur in certain parts of a country and not others? How does violence eventually decline? Drawing on rich case studies and quantitative evidence from Indonesia between 1990 and 2012, this book argues that patterns of ethnic rioting are not inevitably driven by inter-group animosity, weakness of state capacity, or local demographic composition. Rather, local ethnic elites strategically use violence to leverage their demands for political inclusion during political transition and that violence eventually declines as these demands are accommodated. Toha breaks new ground in showing that particular political reforms-increased political competition, direct local elections, and local administrative units partitioning-in ethnically diverse contexts can ameliorate political exclusion and reduce overall levels of violence between groups.

Leading and emerging scholars discuss how the US Cooperative Extension System addresses issues and opportunities relevant to children, youth, families, and communities both now and in the future. Extension must now lead the way in building sustainable partnerships across disciplines to tackle complex issues considering diminishing resources.

Theatre is the most ephemeral of art forms. It is a truism that the ephemeral performance text is divorced from the static published play text. This Element is of the eighteenth-century performance history of The Fair Penitent demonstrates the interrelation of print and performance and models how readers can recover elements of performance through close attention to text. Traces of performance adhere to the mediascape in playbills and puffs, reviews and accounts. The printed text also preserves traces of performance in notation and illustration. By analysing traces found in performance trends, casting decisions, publication histories and repertory intertexts, this Element recovers how The Fair Penitent was interpreted at different points in the century and explains how a play that bombed in its first season could become a repertory staple.

This first comprehensive analysis of Central and Eastern European energy transitions and climate and energy policy examines their domestic and foreign policy positions, energy security concerns and climate policy preferences as the EU aims for decarbonisation by 2050.

Between 1750 and 1830, two key cultural achievements - the sixteenth-century Reformation and the late eighteenth-century birth of 'German' philosophy - became fused in public discussion. Enlightenment's Reformation explores how the Reformation was transformed into a narrative of progress, and why it has had such a long-standing impact.

Polluted Politics examines the global conundrum of e-waste recycling through the remarkable case of the Palestinian-Israeli context, showing how the emergence, impacts and possible futures of the Palestinian informal hub that has recycled most of Israel's e-waste for two decades illuminates dynamics and dilemmas of similar places worldwide.

This diverse study offers insights into practices of martyrdom within specific socio-political contexts. Analyzing martyrdom through political theology, John Soboslai examines self-sacrifice in four religious traditions during social and political crises, from second century Christianity in Asia Minor to 21st century Tibetan Buddhism.

This inter-disciplinary book critiques the extent to which the Mental Capacity Act can deal adequately with the impact of mental disorder on autonomous decision-making. It will interest lawyers, legal scholars, medical practitioners, and policy makers working in this area, as well as students studying both law and medicine.

Many would agree that human perfection is unattainable. Yet depictions of human perfection are widespread. Examining both secular culture and the New Testament, Robin Gill explores this paradox. Gill argues that Synoptic accounts of the Transfiguration offer a Christian understanding of perfection with important implications for social ethics.

Beth Munro offers a retrospective study of the material value of and deconstruction processes at villas. She explores the technical properties of materials that were most frequently recycled, glass, metals, and limestone, the craftspeople who undertook this work, as well as the economic and culture drivers of recycling.