Books published by Cambridge University Press

Based on extensive archival research, this book provides a new and stimulating history of International Relations as an academic discipline. It will appeal to students and scholars in History and International Relations (IR) as well as neighbouring fields, especially International Law and Political Science.

King Alfred's domboc ('book of laws'), the most ambitious legal text of the Anglo-Saxon period, combines translated biblical laws with Alfred's own ordinances and those of the early West-Saxon King Ine. This edition and commentary - the first in over a century - will interest all students of English history and law.

Georg Philipp Telemann's significance within eighteenth-century musical culture is now well acknowledged, and his rich and varied output increasingly appreciated by students, scholars, and listeners. This volume of essays - the first of its kind in English - will provide the impetus for growing international engagement with Telemann's legacy.

Transnational labour governance is in urgent need of a new paradigm of democratic participation. Using responses to the 2013 Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh, this book charts innovative approaches to establish more meaningful representation of workers in global supply chains.

This book demonstrates the crucial role played by Homer as a philosophic thinker in the thought of Plato, Machiavelli, and Nietzsche concerning the relation among politics, religion, and philosophy and in their debates concerning human nature, morality, the proper education for human excellence, and the best way of life.

Why do communities form militias to defend themselves against violence during civil war? Using original interviews with former combatants and civilians and archival material from extensive fieldwork in Mozambique, Corinna Jentzsch's Violent Resistance explains the timing, location and process through which communities form militias. Jentzsch shows that local military stalemates characterized by ongoing violence allow civilians to form militias that fight alongside the government against rebels. Militias spread only to communities in which elites are relatively unified, preventing elites from coopting militias for private gains. Crucially, militias that build on preexisting social conventions are able to resonate with the people and empower them to regain agency over their lives. Jentzsch's innovative study brings conceptual clarity to the militia phenomenon and helps us understand how wartime civilian agency, violent resistance, and the rise of third actors beyond governments and rebels affect the dynamics of civil war, on the African continent and beyond.

This Element aims to build, promote, and consolidate a new social science research agenda by defining and exploring the concepts of turbulence and robustness, and subsequently demonstrating the need for robust governance in turbulent times. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

In Dying Abroad, Osman Balkan examines the political significance of death and dying in the context of international migration. Offering a rich, ethnographic account of a universal yet understudied dimension of the migratory experience, he sheds new light on the meaning of home and belonging in an increasingly transnational world.

In this Cambridge Companion, global thought leaders in the fields of workplace stress and well-being highlight how theory and research can improve employee health and well-being. It is an ideal reference for students and researchers in the areas of human resources management, occupational health psychology and organisational behavior.

This book is for professionals, students, and general readers interested in ancient cities. It takes a transdisciplinary and scientific approach and presents a series of 30 case studies of early cities. Readers will find descriptions of specific ancient settlements, set in a thematically-organized novel framework.

Why do some autocracies remain stable while others break down? Based on an inventory of what we know about non-democracies in modern political science, this book carves out two distinct stabilizing logics. The Two Logics of Autocratic Rule proposes an innovative approach to aid readers in better understanding the inner workings of autocracies.

The concept of subjectivity is one of the most popular in recent scholarly accounts of music; it is also one of the obscurest and most ill-defined. Multifaceted and hard to pin down, subjectivity nevertheless serves an important, if not indispensable purpose, underpinning various assertions made about music and its effect on us. We may not be exactly sure what subjectivity is, but much of the reception of Western music over the last two centuries is premised upon it. Music, Subjectivity, and Schumann offers a critical examination of the notion of musical subjectivity and the first extended account of its applicability to one of the composers with whom it is most closely associated. Adopting a fluid and multivalent approach to a topic situated at the intersection of musicology, philosophy, literature, and cultural history, it seeks to provide a critical refinement of this idea and to elucidate both its importance and limits.

This handbook highlights the limitations of quantitative data analytics, promoting qualitative approaches (in tandem or separately) in analysing and understanding data and phenomena. It will appeal to scholars conducting research projects with digital assets in Information Systems, Management, Strategic Management, and  Organisation Studies.

Based on a vast, virtually unstudied archive in Indian languages and Persian, this book reawakens the lost voices of celebrated Indian musicians, men and women, who endured the momentous transition from Mughal to British rule. It will appeal to readers interested in Indian music, global music history, South Asian history, empire and colonialism.

A cohesive text for engineers and scientists utilising laser diagnostics and wishing to expand their understanding of atomic and molecular spectroscopy. Contains the detailed information required to fully understand the formulae and computer codes used in spectroscopic data analysis across mechanical, aerospace, and chemical engineering.

Fractional modeling is a new frontier of high-fidelity predictive modeling approaches in mathematics, science, and engineering. This introduction for graduate students and researchers is a guide to numerically solving fractional differential equations as tractable models for complex rheology, aging materials, and turbulence.

Volume 60 of Studies in Church History examines the theme of hypocrisy in the Church. This theme touches upon tensions at the heart of Christian teaching and experience: the distance between ideal and lived practice, and conflicts between sincerity of faith and the demands of society and the state. To explore the place of hypocrisy in Christian thought is to highlight issues of deception, dissimulation and double standards - rich themes in Christian history and discourse, encompassing a wide range of topics such as casuistry and priestcraft. The articles in this volume raise questions about the importance of external ritual in relation to internal belief and of dualist approaches to religion in which evil has no conceivable place in the good. They highlight anxieties around the discernment of sin and virtue and explore historical responses to the ethical question of whether lies and deception can ever be deployed for good ends.

150 engaging riddles provide a fun and refreshing alternative method of learning and reviewing neuroanatomical structures, which is otherwise an often dry subject for students. Each riddle is accompanied by a complete description of the structure along with history of the structure, clinical correlation and more key information.

150 engaging riddles provide a fun and refreshing alternative method of learning and reviewing neurological syndromes, conditions and diseases, an often dry subject for students. Each riddle is accompanied by an explanation of the history of the disease, pathophysiology, clinical presentation, diagnostics, treatment and prognosis.

International organizations play an important, if imperfect, role in world politics, solving collective action problems in security, economic, environmental, and global health among others.  While many believe that international organisations have formed critical pillars of global governance, sceptics contend that they reflect the power politics of the day and the interests of hegemonic powers. This volume examines whether international organizations contribute to or detract from peaceful change, acting as agents of both status quo and stasis. Providing a historical overview of international organizations, from the nineteenth century to the current day, a team of leading scholars offer an overview of how major theoretical approaches - Liberalism, Constructivism, Rationalism and Realism - have contributed to our understanding of the role played by international organizations in peaceful change. In particular, the roles of the United Nations General Assembly, UN Peacekeeping, UN Environment Program, World Health Organization, World Trade Organization and G20 are analysed.