Books published by Cambridge University Press

Explains the success of the early Islamic empire as not purely the result of military might but rather as the product of the cohesion achieved through social relationships and local power dynamics, especially between different linguistic and religious communities. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

This innovative collection uses visual sources to explore the role of Asia in Cold War global diplomacy. Scholars across disciplines demonstrate how leaders in the region exploited the symbolic value of diplomacy to emphasise their agency in relationships with Great Powers, shedding new light on how culture shapes international relations.

A clearly written introduction to the science and practice of clinical psychology for intellectually curious undergraduates who may or may not be psychology majors, but who have an interest in the field. Readers whose backgrounds include coursework in introductory psychology and abnormal psychology will find the book especially valuable.

"Attentive to production in indigenous and migration languages, this book proposes a major reimagining of the field of Argentine literature. Individual chapters examine Argentine literature within the context of contemporary topics such as World Literatures, Gender, LGBQT+ identifications, Ecocriticism, Migration and Memory Studies"--

Bringing together original research and analysis with topical case studies and emerging best practices, this fifth State of the Apes volume is designed to further the ape conservation agenda around disease and health. This title is also available as Open Access via Cambridge Core.

An accessible clinical guide to dementia or mild cognitive impairment for healthcare professionals, covering both diagnosis and intervention. Featuring essential background information alongside the latest advances in diagnostic technology and treatment options. A comprehensive and valuable resource for all working in working in dementia services.

Style and Meaning in Late Antique Art: Ancients and Moderns on Seeing and Thinking proposes a new approach to the enduring question of how best to see and understand the art of late antiquity.

This volume is for academics working on the rule of law, fundamental rights, and judicial or administrative remedies for redress, as well as policy makers working on accountability of EU public power, and civil society organisations with a vision to stimulate change through strategic litigation. Also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

This book offers a new theoretical take on clashes of rights between private actors, or the 'horizontal application' of rights. It will be of interest to scholars across the social sciences and humanities, particularly those studying law and politics, the relationship between government and civil society, and the public-private divide.

This book considers the EU's recent reorientation of its trade policy towards stronger enforcement and more robust representation of its interests, and offers readers a comprehensive study of the novel tools of trade policy, considered especially in light of the EU's international and constitutional commitments and support for multilateralism.

Improbable Diplomats reveals the critical role of Chinese and American athletes, scientists, and artists in rebuilding US-China relations in the 1970s. Examining an overlooked aspect of ties between the two societies, this revisionist account of US-China rapprochement will interest historians and students of Chinese and US foreign relations.

Population Politics in the Tropics explores colonial population policies in Angola between 1890 and 1945 from a transimperial perspective. Using a wide array of previously unused sources and multilingual archival research from Angola, Portugal and beyond, Samuel Coghe sheds new light on the history of colonial Angola, showing how population policies were conceived, implemented and contested. He analyses why and how doctors, administrators, missionaries and other colonial actors tried to grasp and quantify demographic change and 'improve' the health conditions, reproductive regimes and migration patterns of Angola's 'native' population. Coghe argues that these interventions were inextricably linked to pervasive fears of depopulation and underpopulation, but that their implementation was often hampered by weak state structures, internal conflicts and multiple forms of African agency. Coghe's fresh analysis of demography, health and migration in colonial Angola challenges common ideas of Portuguese colonial exceptionalism.

Pindar's victory songs teem with divinity. By exploring them within the lived religious landscapes of the fifth century BCE, Hanne Eisenfeld demonstrates that they are in fact engaged in theological work. Focusing on a set of mythical figures whose identities blur the boundaries between mortality and immortality (Herakles, the Dioskouroi, Amphiaraos, and Asklepios), she newly interprets the value of immortality in the epinician corpus. Pindar's depiction of these figures responds to and shapes contemporary religious experience and revalues mortality as a prerequisite for the glory found in victory. The book combines close reading and philological analysis with religious historical approaches to Pindar's songs and his world. It highlights the inextricability of Greek literature and Greek religion, and models a novel approach to Greek lyric poetry at the intersection of these fields.

Demonstrates the limits of narratology in understanding ancient texts and forges a new approach that investigates the specific logic of ancient narrative. An invaluable introduction to ancient views of narrative but also a major contribution to a historically sensitive theory of narrative.

The account of the best life for humans - a happy or flourishing life - was the central theme of ancient ethics. This book explores the less-examined ancient theme of what constitutes a life worth living, and reconstructs philosophical engagements with that theme from Socrates to Plotinus.

A new insight into the brilliant poet who loved an aristocratic girl, attacked Julius Caesar and became a satirical playwright. For anyone interested in poetry and ancient Rome, Peter Wiseman combines textual, historical and even archaeological evidence to explode the orthodox view of Catullus' life and work.

Illuminates the origins of the earliest surviving poetry written in Latin and addresses a question that has vexed readers of Plautine comedy since the birth of modern philology: how did Plautus translate? Of interest to scholars of Latin poetry, the Roman Republic, book history and the history of western drama.

This book will be an invaluable resource for researchers and advanced students with interests in the full range of aquatic photoautotrophs. It explores how these organisms and their particular physiology have evolved, allowing them to thrive in the range of environmental conditions encountered on our planet - both past and present.

Interpreting modernism as a historical moment of financial crisis, this book expands the definition of finance capital beyond mode of capital accumulation and value form. Scholars working at the crossroads of economic and cultural studies will find a model for how to interpret literature as participating in economic processes of finance capital.