Books published by Cambridge University Press

Illustrated with fascinating examples throughout, this book shows the transformative effect minoritized languages have on linguistic theory. It introduces key concepts in an engaging and accessible style, making it essential reading for both students and researchers of theoretical syntax, phonology and morphology, and language policy and politics.

Student Engagement: Promoting Positive Classroom Behaviour encourages pre-service teachers in Australian primary and secondary schools to make choices about how best to design and manage their classrooms and schools to maximise productive behaviour and learning. The text explores numerous dimensions of student engagement from within and outside school settings, including verbal and non-verbal communication; disengaged behaviours and corrective strategies; trauma-informed practice; working with students with emotional and behavioural disorders; and bullying prevention and intervention strategies. Linking to the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APSTs), each chapter includes 'Embedding the theory' and 'Story from the field' boxes that discuss the theoretical research behind different approaches to engagement and explore their practical applications. 'Making professional decisions' boxes at the end of each chapter also provide further guidance on how to approach different situations and build a repertoire of resources for practice.

A fully updated second edition revision aid for Final FRCA preparation and success, containing the scripts of the individual podcasts from the Dr Podcast Final FRCA collection. Incorporating advancements in anaesthesia and changes in practice, it covers the entire syllabus providing exam-style questions, model answers, and tips for exam success.

Globalizing Europe explores modern Europe's myriad entanglements with the wider world, considering the continent not only as an engine but also as a product of global transformations. It looks at the ways in which the global movements of peoples and ideas, goods and raw materials, flora and fauna have impacted life on the continent over the centuries. Bringing together a group of leading historians, the book shows how the history of Europe can be integrated into global history. Taken together, its chapters will help reshape our understanding of the boundaries of Europe - and the field of modern European history.

Globalizing Europe explores modern Europe's myriad entanglements with the wider world, considering the continent not only as an engine but also as a product of global transformations. It looks at the ways in which the global movements of peoples and ideas, goods and raw materials, flora and fauna have impacted life on the continent over the centuries. Bringing together a group of leading historians, the book shows how the history of Europe can be integrated into global history. Taken together, its chapters will help reshape our understanding of the boundaries of Europe - and the field of modern European history.

This new edition of Early Pregnancy brings together all topics relevant to the care of first-trimester patients at a time that Early Pregnancy Units cope with high increases in demand. This book is a benchmark for evidence-based management, providing key recommendations which give clinicians the tools to improve the patient's experience.

Expropriation is a hotly debated issue in international investment law. This book applies the insights of legal theory to analyse expropriation clauses in investment treaties, clarifying what expropriation is and how to apply the unspecific prescriptions in investment agreements.

"Recently, a rising number of countries have turned away from democracy and human rights and the rule of law has been in retreat. The book defines the rule of law, assesses recent trends in its practice, and offers in-depth analysis of developments in international context and in key countries"--

An authoritative handbook on the intersection of commercial law and technology, addressing pressing social issues and appealing to academics, lawyers, technologists, students, and policymakers around the world.

"In 2002, decades into the country's civil war, the Colombian government initiated elite-financed security taxes equivalent to an additional one percent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP)-a major achievement in a region notorious for stagnant tax-to-GDP ratios (Everest-Philips 2010).2 More surprising than the sharp increase in yearly tax revenue is that the government did so by extracting from the wealthiest taxpayers and that these taxpayers evsupported the tax. Charles Tilly (2009, xiii) observed that taxation, "constitutes the largest intervention of governments in their subjects' private life." Colombia's government not only generated this revenue, but did so from the best politically-connected echelon of society, a group that has historically been able to resist taxation (Atria 2015; Bogliaccini and Luna 2016; Centeno 1997; 2002; Fairfield 2015; Kurtz 2009; 2013; Saylor 2014; Soifer 2009; 2015; Schneider 2012)"--

Looking at Christian and Muslim schools in urban Tanzania, this book explores how transformations in the country's educational sector, and students', parents' and teachers' quests for a "good life" in the neoliberal context, have affected their school and professional trajectories.

Philosophical pragmatists are sometimes blamed for providing the theoretical basis for the worrying trend towards 'post-truth' thinking. In this book, Sami Pihlstroem develops a pragmatist account of truth and truth-seeking based on the ideas of William James which gives space for a sincere search for truth.

During the French Wars of Religion, the nature and identity of politics was the subject of passionate debate and controversy. Exploring early modern French uses of the word 'politique' and the statesman who practised this art, this book investigates questions of language and of power over the course of a tumultuous century.

This book describes a distinctive practice and ethics of individuality through a close examination of epigraphy, architecture, and manuscripts. It shows that a concern for the individual was instrumental to the production and reproduction of empire, family, and social order during Mughal rule and after.

This book offers the reformist perspective of one of the most persistent and outspoken constitutional reformers in China. Through the analysis of landmark constitutional events in China since the late nineteenth century, it reveals the fatal dilemma faced by constitutional reform and the deadly dangers of any violent revolution that arises out of the frustration with the repeated failures of reform. Although there is no easy way out of such a predicament, the book analyzes available resources in the existing system and suggests possible strategies that might bring success to future constitutional reforms.

The Letters and Numbers Workbook, Ready for Letters and Numbers provides further practice to support the learning of letters and numbers. This Letters and Numbers Workbook is for both Ready, Set, Grow! and Ready, Steady, Grow!