Books published by Cambridge University Press

Gail Lythgoe challenges readers to reconsider the territoriality of the contemporary global order. This study sits at the intersection between international law, geography, and global governance, examining the spatial assumptions of legal practice and power and offering a new legal account of territory and geography for the global order.

Social justice has returned to the heart of political debate in present-day Europe. Using a transnational approach, this book provides the first historical account of the evolution of social justice across Europe during the twentieth century, and explores the divergent ways different groups have understood and sought to achieve social justice.

This book addresses the challenges of datafication through the lens of international economic law. The target audience includes academics, scholars, graduate students, practitioners and policy-makers in the fields of international trade and economic law, technology law, media and communication studies, political economy and global governance.

Offers insightful reflections by academics and practitioners on contemporary challenges to the authority, effectiveness, legitimacy, and coordination of the international dispute settlement mechanisms across different fields of international law, including new ones such as space and cyberspace, and how they can be addressed.

Leading scholars analyze how intellectual property and competition law can supply a robust institutional infrastructure for the growth and development of 5G-enabled technology and the Internet of Things that will transform business and consumer life.

"The book is relevant to persons interested in public governance, comparative politics and the politics of Brazil, Russia, and the United States. It would also be accessible to Ph.D. and motivated upper-division students, and to practitioners. The arguments are presented rigorously, but also in a captivating manner"--

"The book is written for the general reader concerned with ideological polarization in the world today. It analyses current ideologies as part of cultural worldviews characteristic of the modern era, and suggests ways for furthering political stability and social harmony"--

"Explores the rise of image as a rhetorical category in Jewish and Christian literature originating between the sixth and eighth centuries. This book demonstrates how Jewish texts serve as an important witness to the formation of image discourse and associated practices of image veneration" --

"This text provides a state-of-the-art treatment of distributional regression, accompanied by real-world examples from diverse areas of application. Maximum likelihood, Bayesian and machine learning approaches are covered in-depth and contrasted, providing an integrated perspective on GAMLSS for researchers in statistics and other data-rich fields"--

"Sheds light on how facial recognition technology (FRT) has been developed, used by public authorities, and regulated in jurisdictions across five continents. Offers distinct perspectives from diverse authors across different legal systems, arguing that new rules, frameworks, and approaches are necessary to prevent harms of FRT in the modern state"--

Most people have some dissatisfaction or concern about body weight, fatness, or obesity, either personally or professionally. This book shows how the popular understanding of obesity is often at odds with scientific understandings, and how misunderstandings about people with obesity can further contribute to the problem. It describes, in an approachable way, interconnected debates about obesity in public policy, medicine and public health, and how media and social media engage people in everyday life in those debates. In chapters considering body fat and fatness, genetics, metabolism, food and eating, inequality, blame and stigma, and physical activity, this book brings separate domains of obesity research into the field of complexity. By doing so, it aids navigation through the minefield of misunderstandings about body weight, fatness, and obesity that exist today, after decades of mostly failed policies and interventions--Publisher's description.

"Dispersed multiphase flows are frequently found in nature and have diverse geophysical, environmental, industrial, and energy applications. This book targets a beginning graduate student looking to learn about the physical processes that govern these flows, going from the fundamentals to the state of the art, with many exercises included"--

Including texts in English, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese, this book uses a Systemic Functional Linguistic approach to explore how language builds knowledge about the past and gives value to historical events - shaping contemporary culture. It is essential reading for researchers concerned with literacy, discourse analysis and language description.