Books published by Cambridge University Press

In this immersive, engaging study of the poetic aesthetics of the first Sikh Guru, Nikky Singh explores his 974 hymns spread across the 1,430 pages of the Guru Granth Sahib. Offering authoritative analysis of Guru Nanak's foundational compositions, the author reveals a consummate lyrical art seamlessly merged with metaphysical content.

This book considers the impact of religious reform on the devotional art and architecture of sixteenth-century Venice. Interrogating early modern censorship, artistic liberty, notions of decorum tied to depictions of the body, and the role of sacred images in the shaping of local identity, it showcases a study through which to explore these themes.

Biblical authors used wine as a potent symbol and metaphor of material blessing and salvation, as well as a sign of judgement. In this volume, Mark Scarlata provides a biblical theology of wine through exploration of texts in the Hebrew Bible, later Jewish writings, and the New Testament. He shows how, from the beginnings of creation and the story of Noah, wine is intimately connected to soil, humanity, and harmony between humans and the natural world. In the Prophets, wine functions both as a symbol of blessing and judgement through the metaphor of the cup of salvation and the cup of wrath. In other scriptures, wine is associated with wisdom, joy, love, celebration, and the expectations of the coming Messiah. In the New Testament wine becomes a critical sign for the presence of God's kingdom on earth and a symbol of Christian unity and life through the eucharistic cup. Scarlata's study also explores the connections between the biblical and modern worlds regarding ecology and technology, and why wine remains an important sign of salvation for humanity today.

This study investigates the intellectual legacy of Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali (1058-1111), an influential thinker of the classical Islamic period. Ali Mirsepassi and Tadd Graham Fernée study Ghazali's major Persian-language text Kimiya-e sa?adat (The Alchemy of Happiness) presenting a new understanding of Ghazali as a reformer of his own time.

Ecological instability has time and again emerged as a catalyst for risky development projects along India's south-west coastline. In this integrative environmental, legal and political history, Devika Shankar examines the rise in port development during periods of crisis, using the example of Cochin to explore the nature of colonial sovereignty.

"Explores how states have formulated policies to respond to a range of circumstances that their nationals might face abroad. Through individual country chapters, covering both Western and non-Western states, the contributors show how these policies can range from the assistive to the punitive"--

This book addresses academics, practitioners, policymakers and other stakeholders interested in digital evidence gathering and cooperation with service providers in criminal investigations. Taking a comparative approach, it discusses crucial transversal questions and offers profound insights on balancing privacy and needs for effective enforcement-- Provided by publisher.

"The ancient Greeks were consequential - not by creating "timeless values", but by questioning them. This book is for anyone interested in the ancient world and its modern meaning and follows the history of science and of the literary canon to reveal how the Greeks set off a train of progress"--

What role did German big business play in the persecution of Jews during the Holocaust? Profits and Persecution explores the economic and personal motivations that rendered German corporate leaders instruments of the Nazi regime and then, after the war, falsifiers of the historical record until prompted to change by new commercial calculations.

This volume explores how people experience, produce, and manage misinformation in their everyday lives. Synthesizing three scholarly traditions - everyday life, misinformation, and governing knowledge commons - it presents ten case studies of online and offline communities tackling diverse dilemmas regarding truth and information quality.

By describing experiments that control, manipulate and measure mental processes, this book shows how we can discover the answers to key questions about the mind, such as: 'Can we focus attention on more than one thing?' and 'Is language unique to humans?' Written in a down-to-earth narrative prose that avoids jargon, addresses the reader directly and draws on the authors' unique style ('suppose Willingham split his pants at a junior high dance ...'), this text takes complex experiments in cognitive psychology and describes them for undergraduate students. Willingham has a record of excellence in translating cognitive psychology research for K-12 teachers with his bestselling Why Don't Students Like School? and other popular books. This book applies the clear and approachable prose style towards building foundational knowledge in cognitive psychology for undergraduates.

Bringing together an internationally acclaimed team of scholars, this volume provides different perspectives on the ever-changing realm of persuasive language. It is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the power of language, including linguists, sociologists, psychologists and researchers in the field of media and internet studies.

Delve into the ideal resource for theory and research on parental monitoring and adolescents' disclosure and concealment from parents. This handbook presents ground-breaking research exploring how adolescents respond to parents' attempts to control and manage their activities and feelings. The chapters highlight how adolescents' responses are as important for their mental health and behaviour as parents' attempts to regulate them. Examining responsive, intrusive, and invasive parenting behaviours, the volume addresses modern challenges like monitoring in the digital age and medical decision-making. It covers cutting-edge research on diverse cultures and groups including Latinx, Turkish, Chinese, LGBTQ+, and chronically ill youth. The internationally recognized contributors offer insights from different theoretical perspectives and describe novel methodological approaches, focusing on variations across different developmental stages, contexts, and cultures.

Brownian motion is an important topic in various applied fields where the analysis of random events is necessary. Introducing Brownian motion from a statistical viewpoint, this detailed text examines the distribution of quadratic functionals of Brownian motion and demonstrates the utility of this approach for time series analysis. It also offers the first comprehensive guide on deriving the Fredholm determinant and the resolvent associated with such statistics. Presuming only a familiarity with standard statistical theory and the basics of stochastic processes, this book brings together a set of important statistical tools in one accessible resource for researchers and graduate students. Readers also benefit from online appendices, which provide probability density graphs and solutions to the chapter problems.

This volume appeals to a wide range of readers, from students to practitioners, looking for the current state of research on elephant behavior and conservation. It weaves together data from numerous studies and includes a wealth of photographs to argue for critical and newly emerging issues in species conservation.

What does liberty entail? How have concepts of liberty changed over time? And what are the global consequences? This book surveys the history of rival views of liberty from antiquity to modern times, exploring when and why the concept of liberty as independence was superseded by the view that liberty is absence of restraint.

Decolonizes Roman provincial archaeologies and histories by showing how empire reshaped rites related to child sacrifice in Roman Africa.

This book explores the fractionalization of particles, a topic of fundamental importance in many-body physics. Using an example-driven approach, with full derivations given wherever possible, it will be of value to graduate students and researchers in physics. Numerous exercises allow readers to reinforce understanding of key topics.

This book examines Argentina's Black resistance movement and how activists grapple with a history of erasure and denial of an Argentinian Black past and present. An important resource for students and scholars interested in Afro-Latin America, social movements, and gender studies.