Books published by Cambridge University Press

An innovative and exciting introduction to one of the most influential and controversial ancient authors. Explores Lucian's major contributions to the history of satire, comic dialogues, religion, art, and erotics against the background of the cultural politics of the Greek world in the Roman Empire.

This guide offers a unique perspective on optimizing data processing which blends hardware and software insights, combining theoretical foundations with practical applications. It is a must-read for students and professionals needing to master the synergies between data management and computing infrastructure.

The basic history of the Shakespearean editorial tradition is familiar and well-established. For nearly three centuries, men - most of them white and financially privileged - ensconced themselves in private and hard-to-access libraries, hammering out 'their' versions of Shakespeare's text. They produced enormous, learned tomes: monuments to their author's greatness and their own reputations. What if this is not the whole story? A bold, revisionist and alternative version of Shakespearean editorial history, this book recovers the lives and labours of almost seventy women editors. It challenges the received wisdom that, when it came to Shakespeare, the editorial profession was entirely male-dominated until the late twentieth century. In doing so, it demonstrates that taking these women's work seriously can transform our understanding of the history of editing, of the nature of editing as an enterprise, and of how we read Shakespeare in history.

This Element examines the semiotics of Sino-Muslim heritage literacy in a way that integrates its Perso-Arabic textual qualities with broader cultural semiotic forms. Using data from images of the linguistic landscape of Sino-Muslim life alongside interviews with Sino-Muslims about their heritage, the author examines how signs of 'Muslimness' are displayed and manipulated in both covert and overt means in different contexts. In so doing the author offers a 'semiotics of Muslimness' in China and considers how forms of language and materiality have the power to inspire meanings and identifications for Sino-Muslims and understanding of their heritage literacy. The author employs theoretical tools from linguistic anthropology and an understanding of semiotic assemblage to demonstrate how signifiers of Chinese Muslimness are invoked to substantiate heritage and Sino-Muslim identity constructions even when its expression must be covert, liminal, and unconventional.

"Brings together environmental literary criticism and classics, generating new readings of foundational works of Augustan literature as environmental poetry. For classicists, it discloses new aspects of familiar texts, while for environmental literary critics it deepens and complicates the traditions and concepts of environmental literature"--

Central Bank independence has become a key part of how the world economy operates. We examine the independence of the Bank of England since 1997 and how independence has worked in practice to control inflation and stimulate economic growth.

"This study is the first to explore the Mediterranean and its ubiquity in nineteenth-century British literature. Lindsey N. Chappell recovers the region's centrality to Romantic and Victorian constructions of the past, the present, and the shape of time itself, revealing how classical and biblical heritage shaped British imperialism"--

"Although the hard-nosed scientist and the dandy aesthete seem unlikely allies at first glance, Lindsay Wilhelm argues that Victorian evolutionism and the Aesthetic (or "art for art's sake") Movement converged on surprisingly utopian ideas about beauty, pleasure, and the power of good taste to shape our society for the better"--

Three Consuls examines American ambitions in the Mediterranean in the generations after independence through the business and personal networks of consuls in Morocco, Italy and Spain. It will appeal to readers interested in US history, European history, North African history, and international studies.

"This book shows how the first generation of modern Indian economists pushed the boundaries of existing theories and produced reformulations that better fit their subcontinent. It opens up discursive space to find new ways of thinking about regress, progress and development"--

For more than fifty years, international aid for agricultural research has been shaped by an ad-hoc consortium known as CGIAR. Drawing on the best of recent historical scholarship, this book presents a compelling new look at the lasting influence of CGIAR around the world. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Essential Epidemiology is a clear, engaging and methodological introduction to the subject of epidemiology, fully integrated with the concepts of public health. Now in its fifth edition, the text has been thoroughly updated to reflect the latest research and data.

Teaching for Linguistic Diversity in Schools: Student Wellbeing and Achievement explores the linguistic landscape of Australia, including English, Indigenous languages, community languages and school-taught modern languages, to help teachers recognise the extent of children's language knowledge and to reflect on its implications for the classroom.

Provides an interdisciplinary analysis of how zero-carbon energy transitions connect to security and defence policy in four European countries between 2006 and 2023. This book is intended for researchers and experts interested in the energy transition and its connections to security and defence policies.

""Aimed at international lawyers and researchers in humanitarian law, particularly those interested in violent non-state actors. It is suitable for historians of war and of foreign volunteering. The method used will be of interest to researchers working on interdisciplinary approaches to law, history, psychoanalysis, and cultural studies. ""--