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Contents Anthropology Biological Anthropology.......................... Social, Cultural Anthropology..................
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Education Education Policy, Strategy and Reform... Education, History, Theory.......................
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Geography, the Environment Historical Geography.........................
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Psychology Applied Psychology.................................. Biological Psychology.............................. Cognition.................................................. Cultural Psychology.................................. Developmental Psychology...................... Educational Psychology........................... Experimental Psychology......................... Health and Clinical Psychology................ History of Psychology............................... Personality and Individual Differences.... Psychology (General)............................... Psychology Research Methods/Statistics................................. Social Psychology.....................................
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Social Science Research Methods 23 Qualitative Methods.......................... 23 Quantitative Methods........................ 23 Sociology Criminology.............................................. Demography, Social Statistics................. Historical Sociology................................. Organisational Sociology......................... Political Sociology.................................... Research Methods in Sociology and Criminology........................................... Social Policy and Social Work.................. Social Theory............................................ Sociology (General).................................. Sociology of Gender.................................
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Anthropology Biological Anthropology NEW IN PAPERBACK
The Foragers of Point Hope The Biology and Archaeology of Humans on the Edge of the Alaskan Arctic Charles E. Hilton | University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Written for archaeologists and biological anthropologists, both at academic and professional levels, this integrative volume brings together evidence from archaeological excavations and human skeletal remains to document how past cultures and peoples successfully lived and interacted in the Arctic environment of Point Hope, as well as Alaska as a whole. • Presents the first synthesis of biological variation in an archaeological context for Point Hope, Alaska • Brings together archaeology and biological anthropology to generate a holistic understanding of an archaeological site • Combines different data sources (such as artifacts, dental microwear and faunal remains) to arrive at a deeper understanding about lifeways of past populations Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology 331pp 49 b/w illus. June 2020 9781108829410 Paperback GBP 34.99 / USD 44.99 July 2014 9781107022508 Hardback GBP 54 / USD 90 eISBN 9781139136785
Social, Cultural Anthropology (Hi)Stories of Desire Sexualities and Culture in Modern India Rajeev Kumaramkandath
This volume situates questions of sexuality in the larger domain where they are conditioned by and, in turn, also condition historically and culturally produced landscapes of being, doing and desiring. It draws upon multi-disciplinary frameworks of analysis to provide a pan-Indian account of the making of sexual cultures. • The essays in this volume take into consideration multiple paradigms of analysis required for an understanding of sexuality • Presents a pan-Indian panorama of experiences and discourses of sexuality; the introduction theorises the volume in light of other works and provides a rich reading experience • Attempts to move away from standard postcolonial assumptions regarding sexuality and modernity in the Indian context 255pp February 2020 9781108494410 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108637770
An Anthropology of Deep Time Geological Temporality and Social Life Richard D. G. Irvine | University of St Andrews, Scotland
Rethinking social theory through a rich engagement with landscape and the history of geology, this book explores our human relationship with the timescale of geological formation and shows how social life becomes disconnected from the ecological and geological rhythms on which it depends. • Shows how anthropology and the social sciences can contribute to the effort to avert the forthcoming environmental crisis • Explains the importance of geology in understanding social life; it introduces non-specialist readers to key figures in the history of geology and their significance for a contemporary understanding of time • A new and unique synthesis of the history of geological theory and anthropological theory, and an in-depth ethnographic perspective on the geology of the landscape New Departures in Anthropology 220pp May 2020 9781108491112 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 May 2020 9781108792226 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 28.99 eISBN 9781108867450
Bread, Cement, Cactus A Memoir of Belonging and Dislocation Annie Zaidi
In this prize-winning exploration of the meaning of home, Annie Zaidi reflects on the cultural conflicts in India that have shaped her identity. Zaidi provides a nuanced perspective on land and regional affinity, migration and otherisation, and the ways in which memory works to attach us to a particular place. • 2019/ 2020 winner of the Nine Dots Prize, for creative thinking that tackles contemporary social issues • A personal yet researched exploration of identity in the author’s India that will resonate with readers worldwide • Available in Open Access 166pp May 2020 9781108840644 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 May 2020 9781108814638 Paperback GBP 9.95 / USD 12.95 eISBN 9781108886932
Comparing Cultures Innovations in Comparative Ethnography Michael Schnegg | Universität Hamburg
With contributions from a global spread of scholars, this book is a timely guide to comparative ethnographic methods and tools, allowing qualitative researchers in a range of social scientific fields, such as anthropology and sociology, to ensure that their work is more contextually sensitive, and theoretically robust. • A new approach to ethnographic comparison in anthropology: configurational comparisons • Enables readers to explore a range of options for conducting ethnographic comparative projects • Includes a variety of examples of successful collaborative comparative multi-sited projects with important scientific and policy implications 234pp 5 b/w illus. 5 tables May 2020 9781108487283 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 May 2020 9781108720014 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 25.99 eISBN 9781108766388
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Deceptive Majority Hinduism, Untouchability, and Underground Religion Joel Lee | Williams College, Massachusetts
An account of contemporary religious life in Lucknow illuminates the embrace and contestation of Hinduization in a Dalit community, it examines the practices by which signs of the community’s Hindu affiliation are amplified and tied to a new ethic of publicity. Lee tracks Dalit religion to encompass it within a newly imagined Hindu body politic. • Ethnographic history of religious majoritarianism • Challenges presuppositions at the very foundation of the study of caste and religion in South Asia South Asia in the Social Sciences 250pp November 2020 9781108826662 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 36.99 eISBN 9781108920193
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In Search of Gender Justice Rights and Relationships in Matrilineal Malawi Jessica Johnson | University of Birmingham
Johnson here calls for a shift in focus from human rights to justice in the study of gender relations as she examines the stories of ordinary Malawians striving to resolve disputes and achieve successful gender and marital relations. • Uses real-life case studies from ordinary citizens in Malawi • Focuses on a matrilineal area, to examine the effects of matriliny on women’s lives • Emphasises gender justice as an alternative to human or women’s rights
Economic Life in the Real World
The International African Library 216pp November 2020 9781108462471 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 November 2018 9781108473705 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108563031
Logic, Emotion and Ethics Charles Stafford | London School of Economics and Political Science
Simultaneous Identities
This book is directly relevant to students and professionals in anthropology, psychology and economicswho are interested in economic life in the real world of everyday human interactions. It is framed around fascinating examples drawn from field research in rural China and Taiwan, and thus provides a useful introduction to these two societies. • Uses clear and vivid real-world examples from fieldwork to show how anthropological, psychological and economic approaches can be integrated • Allows non-specialist readers to grasp both differences and areas of overlap between these three disciplinary approaches • Provides an opportunity for readers to reflect on their own experience of economic life and of social life more generally - but from some new perspectives New Departures in Anthropology 210pp January 2020 9781108483216 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 January 2020 9781108716550 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 28.99 eISBN 9781108673426
Godroads Modalities of Conversion in India Peter Berger | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
This book is especially relevant as it offers various case studies dealing with conversion within, between and across religious traditions, provides a thorough theoretical discussion of the topic, is multi-disciplinary and contextualizes the Indian situation comparatively. • Offers insights into the dynamics of religious change beyond the restricting confines of particular religious traditions • Discusses relevant theories and analytical tools that can inspire and help researchers in their study of conversion and cultural change • Includes different disciplines and thus provides each scholar concerned with the questions of conversion insights into questions of neighboring disciplines 325pp September 2020 9781108490504 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108781077
Language, Education, and the Nepali Nation Uma Pradhan | University of Oxford
This book illustrates that social actors in minority language education in Nepal made simultaneous claims to more than one social identity by discursively positioning ‘ethnic identity’ as ‘national identity’. By arguing for an analytical necessity to adopt relational approach, it aims to complicate the neat compartmentalisation of identities. • Helps the reader to rethink existing theories on ethnicity and nationalism • Provides methodological insights and details on the ethnography of schools and education in Nepal • Gives a bottom-up perspective on the social changes in Nepal South Asia in the Social Sciences 300pp September 2020 9781108489928 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108779715
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The Middle Class in Mozambique The State and the Politics of Transformation in Southern Africa Jason Sumich | Universitetet i Bergen, Norway
The growth of a middle class has been a feature of the ‘Africa Rising’ narrative in recent years. Sumich sheds new light on this important topic by exploring the political, economic, and social origins of a middle class in Mozambique and the contradictions it faces. • Uses the situation in Mozambique to explore our understanding of an African middle class more generally, and the uncertain future it faces • Shows just how powerfully embedded middle class formation is within the state and the ruling party • Offers analysis covering a large historical period: spanning the late colonial period to the present day The International African Library 191pp September 2020 9781108460712 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 29.99 October 2018 9781108472883 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108659659
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Transhumanism From Ancestors to Avatars Jennifer Huberman | University of Missouri, Kansas City
Education, History, Theory TEXTBOOK
Through an anthropological analysis of transhumanism, this book introduces the reader to the discipline, history and key topics of cultural anthropology. Providing lively ethnographic insights into a fascinating contemporary sociocultural movement, it will be of interest to students and researchers in social and cultural anthropology. • Introduces readers to the topic of transhumanism while at the same time introducing them to the discipline of cultural anthropology • Provides a fuller understanding of the transhumanist world-view and the transhumanist technological imagination • Approaches the study of transhumanism from a comparative perspective and foregrounds the value of the comparative perspective as a central mode of anthropological inquiry
Building and Sustaining a Teaching Career
Education
260pp 9 b/w illus. 62 colour illus. 7 tables August 2020 9781108724722 Paperback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99 eISBN 9781108642095
New Departures in Anthropology 275pp January 2021 9781108835930 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 January 2021 9781108798976 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 28.99 eISBN 9781108869577
Education Policy, Strategy and Reform Thrive The Purpose of Schools in a Changing World Second Edition Valerie Hannon
Humanity has entered an unprecedented age of disruption: schools need to be a part of the response. Thrive set outs the real challenges and opportunities that young people have now. This book will be of interest to parents, policy makers, professionals in schools, and academic researchers in education reform. • Explores what thriving might look like in an age of disruption, and how innovative schools are adapting to promote it • Gives practical and inspiring examples of specific initiatives, their benefits and potential • Offers a simple but comprehensive framework to articulate the purposes of education, in terms of individual (intra- and interpersonal), societal and global 240pp January 2021 9781108834827 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110 January 2021 9781108819978 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 31.99 eISBN 9781108877152
Strategies for Professional Experience, Wellbeing and Mindful Practice Narelle Suzanne Lemon | Swinburne University of Technology, Victoria
This text introduces pre-service teachers to the coping strategies, formal and informal practices, time management and organisation skills, and positive psychology critical to self-care as they are undertaking the professional experience component of their initial teacher education degrees. • Combines emerging scholarly discourses around mindfulness and student teacher well-being with practical strategies that are readily useable in classroom contexts • Features a friendly and approachable writing style that translates complex theoretical terminology in an easily digestible and engaging manner • Draws close parallels with everyday teacher student experiences through the inclusion of ‘real-world’ voices from the classroom
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Case Learning for Teachers Strategic Knowledge for Professional Experience Al Strangeways | Charles Darwin University, Darwin
Case Learning for Teachers: Strategic Knowledge for Professional Experience is a unique resource for Australian pre-service educators, using a case stories approach to support pre-service teachers in developing the skills of observation and reflective practice necessary for professional experience placements and the transition to the classroom. • Unique approach informed by both research and classroom experience • Useful tools to develop pre-service teachers’ skill sets • Companion website offering student resources 260pp 46 b/w illus. 58 tables August 2020 9781108746946 Paperback GBP 44.99 / USD 56.99 eISBN 9781108784429
Ethical Education Towards an Ecology of Human Development Scherto Gill | University of Sussex
With contributions from renowned global scholars, this book argues that ethical education should be directed at human relationships and help students become caring. This approach goes beyond the usual focus on character, virtues and moral codes. The chapters illustrate how this new vision can transform curriculum, pedagogy and classroom practice. • Introduces a fresh approach to ethical education that reframes pedagogy in terms of human relationships, mutual caring and wellbeing of students • Provides readers with an accessible but sophisticated theory and explores the implications of the theory for educational practices • Includes the voices of renowned international contributors from a range of fields, including philosophy, education, sociology, psychology, religious studies and spirituality Cambridge Education Research 220pp July 2020 9781108477406 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108769778
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Health and Wellbeing in Childhood
Making Humanities and Social Sciences Come Alive
Third Edition Susanne Garvis | Göteborgs Universitet, Sweden
Early Years and Primary Education Deborah Green | University of South Australia
Health and Wellbeing in Childhood provides readers with a comprehensive introduction to a wide range of topics and issues in health and wellbeing education, including child safety, bullying and social emotional wellbeing, resilience, physical education, communication development and friendships. • Highly comprehensive introduction to health and wellbeing in childhood • Written by a team of experts and leading researchers in the field • Each chapter is supported by a range of pedagogical features, including case studies with questions, pause and reflect boxes, definitions of key terms, and end of chapter questions
Drawing on the expertise of a diverse team of academics and educators, Making Humanities and Social Sciences Come Alive is an invaluable resource that provides early childhood and primary pre-service educators with the knowledge and skills to deliver this exciting curriculum. • Closely aligned with the Australian Curriculum and the Early Years Learning Framework, this text encourages best practice in the teaching of history, geography, civics and citizenship, and economics and business in the early childhood and primary settings • Each chapter draws on the expertise of a diverse group of leading academics and practising teachers from across Australia, providing comprehensive coverage of all major concepts • Learning is supported through practical tips, reflections, review questions and case studies highlighting the application of theory
0pp 52 b/w illus. 14 tables August 2020 9781108713870 Paperback GBP 59.99 / USD 89.99 eISBN 9781108658874
Language Development and Social Integration of Students with English as an Additional Language Michael Evans | University of Cambridge
Based on in-depth analyses of original empirical school data, this book discusses key ideas concerning the social and linguistic experiences of newcomer migrant students. It is aimed at policymakers, scholars, teachers and graduate students interested in English as an additional language, migration and education and second language development. • Gives a clear review of how social integration has been defined in the context of migration and education • Outlines a socially inclusive approach to the education of newcomer English as an additional language (EAL) students • Provides case studies of four secondary schools, with analyses of a range of data including interviews with EAL parents, students and teachers Cambridge Education Research 0pp 2 b/w illus. 16 tables July 2020 9781108493543 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108656047
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Learning to Research and Researching to Learn An Educator’s Guide Annette Hilton | University of Technology, Sydney
Learning to Research and Researching to Learn is an essential introduction to developing research skills and conducting practitioner research in the field of education. • Highly comprehensive and reader-friendly • Provides readers a practical introduction to research in educational contexts and presents the process in a simple, step-by-step manner • Features case studies and examples from real-world research projects conducted by practitioners in both primary and secondary contexts 236pp 25 b/w illus. 20 tables April 2020 9781108729079 Paperback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99 eISBN 9781108678872
552pp 74 colour illus. 33 tables February 2020 9781108445436 Paperback GBP 54.99 / USD 69.99 eISBN 9781108692779
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Managing with Mindfulness Connecting with Students in the 21st Century Tony Yeigh | Southern Cross University, Australia
This book draws on educational psychology, duty-of-care principles and mindfulness practices to introduce the Control/Connect continuum as a model designed to foster inclusive classroom practices for the contemporary classroom. It addresses topics such as communication, positive relationships, emotional literacy, and classroom behaviours. • Provides a mindfulness and duty-of-care approach to inclusive classroom practice • Engages with positive psychology in education context • Framed by the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers 312pp November 2020 9781108724739 Paperback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99 eISBN 9781108661560
Science in Early Childhood Fourth Edition Coral Campbell | Deakin University, Victoria
Now in its fourth edition, Science in Early Childhood provides a comprehensive and engaging introduction to science in the early years. The text features new chapters on Indigenous ways of knowing science, inquiry approaches to learning science and teaching science inclusively. • Highly comprehensive • Written by a team of experts and leading researchers in the field of early science education • Case studies help students understand theory and practice 0pp February 2021 9781108811965 Paperback GBP Price is not yet set / USD Price is not yet set eISBN 9781108868419
Education / Geography, The Environment / Psychology
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Secondary English Subject and Method Rod Quin
Secondary English is a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of teaching English in secondary schools for pre-service teachers. Written by highly accomplished English teachers, the book’s practical approach to language, literacy and literature, fosters the skills of assessment, unit planning and teaching strategies. • Written by experienced English teachers • Comprehensive coverage of language, literacy and literature • Full of lesson plans and other classroom resources 292pp November 2020 9781108746939 Paperback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.95 eISBN 9781108784405
STEM Education in the Primary School A Teacher’s Toolkit Anne Forbes | Macquarie University, Sydney
This book introduces pre-service teachers to the theory, skills and practice of teaching STEM through a project-based learning approach. Science, technology, engineering and mathematics are presented as professions, mindsets and practices, and are integrated with the Australian Curriculum through a school garden project case study. • Provides an integrated approach to STEM education within a Primary setting • Discusses the project-based learning (PBL) framework and ‘real world’ classroom applications for teachers, with detailed examples of classroom projects for all year levels (F–6) in engaging and contemporary topic areas • The print and enhanced eBook include a wide range of questions, activities, and scenario and information boxed to support student learning and to assist instructors with their lesson planning and delivery 360pp February 2021 9781108868495 Online resource, Paperback GBP 62 / USD 79.95 eISBN 9781108868488
The Attack on Higher Education The Dissolution of the American University Ronald Musto
Takes a long historical perspective on the evolution of education in our culture to analyze the state of higher ed in America. Will interest university administrators, faculties in the arts and sciences, policy-makers in academia, government, foundations, and the general public seeking a handle on American politics and education. • Contextualizes the narrative that threatens American higher ed in historical precedent of the remote enough past to create a metaphorical tool with which to approach and comprehend a complex variety of current trends and contingent causalities • Deploys a unique triad of ‘authority, separateness, and innovation’ to describe and analyze the historical development and current state of American higher ed • Draws on a variety of disciplines - including history, architecture and planning, and political thought - and deploys sources ranging from historical texts to current journalism to synthesize currents affecting the success and survival of higher education in America 225pp June 2021 9781108471923 Hardback GBP 19.99 / USD 24.99 eISBN 9781108559355
Geography, The Environment Historical Geography Historic Maps of Bahrain 1817– 1970 3 Volumes Hardback Set R Jarman
Library Editions reprints make available CAE originals in a new format. The editor has compiled a comprehensive list, from particularly diverse sources, of all the British surveyed maps of Bahrain, from the earliest survey of Bahrain and Arad islands in 1817 to the last maps just prior to Independence in 1971. • A unique diversity of sources. This collection has been gathered together from the following: Ministry of Housing, Municipalities and Environment, Bahrain; Hydrographic Office, Taunton, UK; Ministry of Defence, Military Surveys, Directorate of Geographic Information, Tolworth, UK; British Library: Map room and Oriental and India Office collections, London, UK. • The editor has compiled a comprehensive list of all the British surveyed maps of Bahrain, from the earliest survey of Bahrain and Arad islands in 1817 to the last maps just prior to Independence in 1971. Each ‘first time’ map represents a new perception of Bahrain: in the early days, in terms of geographic accuracy; in recent years, in terms of features depicted and of the maps as a record of civic development.
56pp August 2020 9781788060790 3 Hardback books GBP 1050 / USD 1395
Psychology Applied Psychology Leaders Who Lust Power, Money, Sex, Success, Legitimacy, Legacy Barbara Kellerman | Harvard University, Massachusetts
Academic research on the psychology of leadership is presented in jargon-free language to highlight the traits, behaviours, and motivations of leaders who lust. This book outlines what lust is: how, where, and when it is manifested in leaders particularly, and what lessons can be learned by leaders and followers alike. • Exposes the various and variegated lusts that drive some of the world’s greatest leaders • Reveals the links between leadership and lust • Explores the inextricable ties between leaders who lust and their followers - some willing, some unwilling • Tells tales of leaders who lust - from Xi Jinping to Hillary Clinton, from Silvio Berlusconi to Tom Brady, and from Charles Koch to Melinda Gates • Highlights the real-world implications for the followers of lustful leaders - for individuals and institutions, for policies and practices, for groups and organizations worldwide 250pp September 2020 9781108491167 Hardback GBP 25 / USD 29.95 eISBN 9781108867764
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Next Generation TechnologyEnhanced Assessment Global Perspectives on Occupational and Workplace Testing John C. Scott
This book examines the types of web-based testing applications that exist, their technical requirements, and their acceptability and use in various countries. • Covers the next generation of technical advancements in workplace testing • Draws from experts around the world and across practice domains • Offers a practical perspective for real-world application
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Educational and Psychological Testing in a Global Context 421pp 24 b/w illus. 15 tables June 2020 9781107561533 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 41.99 December 2017 9781107124363 Hardback GBP 95 / USD 125 eISBN 9781316407547
Publishing Journal Articles A Scientific Guide for New Authors Worldwide Zheng Yan | University at Albany, State University of New York
With over fifty real-life cases and the framework of Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman’s theory, the book’s structure generally matches a graduate course curriculum. This book explains the conceptual foundation and the future of the science of journal publication. It also provides research-based strategies for planning, writing, and publishing. • Maps out the conceptual foundation for the science of journal publication • Describes key strategies of planning, writing, and publishing journal articles based on the current literature of the science of journal publication • Includes over fifty real-life cases • Presents the future of the science of journal publication • Contains an introduction-discussion-conclusion structure that generally matches the layout of a typical sixteen-week graduate course • Based on Daniel Kahneman’s intuitive judgement theory, focusing on System 1 (imperfect intuition), System 2 (rational thinking), and System 3 (skilled intuition) 200pp October 2020 9781108417341 Hardback GBP 59.99 / USD 79.99 October 2020 9781108404938 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.99 eISBN 9781108277426
The Cambridge Handbook of the Changing Nature of Work
The Cambridge Handbook of Workplace Affect Liu-Qin Yang | Portland State University
Learn how applications of emotion research can improve organizational effectiveness, in terms of employee behavior, teamwork, leadership, and organizational climate. Several disciplines are combined to offer ideas and solutions to scholars or workplace leaders who implement interventions and programs to manage workplace emotion more effectively. • Shows how applications of emotion research can improve organizational effectiveness, in terms of employee behavior, teamwork, leadership, and organizational climate • Offers ideas and potential solutions to scholars and workplace leaders who design and implement interventions and programs to manage workplace emotion more effectively • Presents an integrative approach to affect and emotion, spanning different scholarly disciplines • Maps out several research methodologies used to investigate workplace affect and emotion Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology 572pp 20 b/w illus. July 2020 9781108494038 Hardback GBP 135 / USD 175 July 2020 9781108463782 Paperback GBP 74.99 / USD 99 eISBN 9781108573887
The Psychology of Inner Peace Discovering Heartfulness Sayyed Mohsen Fatemi
This book maps out the relationship between the discovery of heartfulness and the psychology of inner peace for those researching psychology, psychoanalysis, and philosophy. It highlights the inadaquacies of mind-oriented theories of peace and presents a recodite psychological analysis of the role of innerness in addressing the nature of peace. • Presents rigorous analysis on the underlying components of the psychology of peace • Explicates theory and critique on mind-oriented theories of peace • Introduces alternative theories that discuss conceptualization of peace • Explains how heartfulness is the key element for implementing the psychology of peace 250pp January 2021 9781108489508 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 January 2021 9781108747288 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 25.99 eISBN 9781108784603
Brian J. Hoffman | University of Georgia
This handbook provides an evidence-based discussion of how work, working environments, and workers have changed over several decades. The advice and insights given on how to effectively manage talent with regard to such changes are invaluable to students, researchers, practitioners, organizational leaders, and policy-makers. • Summarizes empirical evidence for what has actually changed by marshalling interdisciplinary research on changes in the nature of work • Provides data-driven evidence and figures to document changes in work and workers over the past several decades • Draws from empirical evidence to derive implications for a range of management functions, such as selection, performance management, leadership, and well-being Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology 636pp 11 b/w illus. 27 tables April 2020 9781108417631 Hardback GBP 150 / USD 195 April 2020 9781108405539 Paperback GBP 54.99 / USD 69.99 eISBN 9781108278034
Biological Psychology Attentional Selection Top-Down, Bottom-Up and History-Based Biases Jan Theeuwes | Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Proposes a framework in which it is assumed that visual selection is the result of the interaction between top-down, bottom-up and selectionhistory factors. Also discussed are top-down attentional engagement and suppression, bottomup selection by abrupt onsets and static singletons as well as lingering biases due to selection-history.
Elements in Perception 75pp September 2020 9781108813068 Paperback GBP 15 / USD 20 eISBN 9781108891288
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Crossmodal Attention Applied Lessons for and from Driving Charles Spence | University of Oxford
In this Element laboratory studies on crossmodal attention are situated within the applied context of driving. The conditions favoured by laboratory research, typically using a few paradigms involving simplified experimental conditions, is contrasted with multisensory, real-world environments filled with complex, intrinsically-meaningful stimuli.
Elements in Perception 75pp September 2020 9781108826501 Paperback GBP 15 / USD 20 eISBN 9781108919951
Human Color Vision and Tetrachromacy Kimberly A. Jameson | University of California, Irvine
This Element focuses on new knowledge about linkages between color vision genetics and color perception variation, and the color perception consequences of inheriting alternative, nonnormative, forms of genetic sequence variation.
Elements in Perception 0pp June 2020 9781108714129 Paperback GBP 15 / USD 20 eISBN 9781108663977
The Breadth of Visual Attention Stephanie C. Goodhew | Australian National University, Canberra
This Element is for researchers seeking to understand visual attentional breadth. It critically considers the conceptualisation, measurement, and manipulation of attentional breadth, and how changing breadth impacts perceptual performance. The Element reviews the current ‘state of the art’, and provides useful frameworks for shaping future science. Elements in Perception 75pp June 2020 9781108796217 Paperback GBP 15 / USD 20 eISBN 9781108854702
The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behavior Lance Workman | University of South Wales
This handbook integrates a wide range of perspectives on the relationship between evolution and the human condition. In addition to evolutionary psychology and behavioral ecology, the inclusion of neuroscience, feminist discourse, sociocultural anthropology, and media studies makes the handbook the most comprehensive reference in the field to date. • Brings together experts from a wide range of fields, including evolutionary psychology, ethology, human behavioral ecology, sociocultural anthropology, biology, neuroscience, and media studies • Introduces both theoretical and applied issues, making these accessible to students and scholars without specialized training in evolutionary theory • Includes up-to-date findings with regard to mechanisms underlying evolutionary change Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology 578pp 22 b/w illus. 21 tables March 2020 9781316642825 Hardback GBP 150 / USD 195 March 2020 9781316642818 Paperback GBP 49.99 / USD 63.99 eISBN 9781108131797
Cognition Action and Inaction in a Social World Predicting and Changing Attitudes and Behavior Dolores Albarracín | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
This book explains how actions and inactions change in social contexts, connecting psychological research with problems of interest in communication, public health, economics, organizational and consumer behavior, and environmental sciences. This cutting-edge, multidisciplinary view also informs intervention design and gauges social media effects. • Describes how humans conceptualize and make decisions about their actions and inactions • Allows readers to replicate and adapt instruments and procedures used in researching psychology, communication, organizational behavior, and public health • Connects theory to virtual experience, messaging, and the use of technology for behavioral change 300pp December 2020 9781108840002 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108878357
Argumentation The Art of Persuasion Raymond S. Nickerson | Tufts University, Massachusetts
Argumentation outlines different types of arguments and how they influence beliefs and behaviour. It offers graduate students, researchers, and instructors on human reasoning advice on how to evaluate arguments. Serving as a source for understanding arguments in decision-making, it is ideal for courses on cognition, reasoning, and psychology. • Describes different types of arguments and facilitates the evaluation of arguments • Defines arguments as attempts to influence beliefs and behavior • Illustrates the importance of arguments in daily reasoning and decision-making • Identifies fallacies, biases, and other reasoning flaws that are commonly found in arguments 350pp October 2020 9781108835268 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 October 2020 9781108799874 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108892032
Bilingual Lexical Ambiguity Resolution Roberto R. Heredia | Texas A & M University
This book provides a much-needed perspective on how bilingual speakers comprehend ambiguous information arising from the languages they know, both at the word and sentence levels. It gives students and researchers the tools needed to tackle enduring theoretical questions in bilingual research, particularly at the neuropsychological level. • Clearly formatted for instructional purposes, both in the classroom and self-study • Provides an overview of the latest research into bilingual languagesystem modelling and bilingual lexical ambiguity processing • Reports on findings from neuroimaging • Explores enduring theoretical questions in bilingual research, such as bilingual representation and bilingual language processing 342pp January 2020 9781107145610 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781316535967
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Biological and Computer Vision Gabriel Kreiman | Harvard University, Massachusetts
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Vision applications are pervasive from smartphones that recognize faces to automatic analysis of clinical images. This book bridges neuroscience, cognitive science, computer science, and artificial intelligence to explain neural mechanisms of biological vision and how artificial intelligence computer vision systems work. • Combines research from animal and human visual cognition, the brain, and artificial intelligence vision systems • Introduces state-of-the-art topics in biological vision and algorithmic approaches to modeling visual systems in machines • Explains experimental design, hypothesis testing, and critical thinking through discussion of biological and computational experiments in vision research • Shows how machines are trained to see and interpret the visual world around us 280pp January 2021 9781108483438 Hardback GBP 94.99 / USD 125 January 2021 9781108705004 Paperback GBP 39.99 / USD 49.99 eISBN 9781108649995
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Bodies and Other Objects The Sensorimotor Foundations of Cognition Rob Ellis | University of Plymouth
This book is written for students, scholars and anyone with an interest in embodied cognition – the claim that the human mind cannot be understood without regard for the actions and capacities of the body. It offers a novel way of combining psychology, neuroscience and anthropology to yield a unified theory. • Proposes a unified theory of embodied cognition, drawing on several disciplines • Shows a way of reframing some hard problems in cognitive science • Has the potential to generate new research programmes 212pp 2 b/w illus. October 2020 9781107629806 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 November 2018 9781107060289 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 120 eISBN 9781107446809
Cognitive Science An Introduction to the Science of the Mind Third Edition José Luis Bermúdez | Texas A & M University
This popular and highly readable text has been re-organized for the third edition to make it more accessible to students. It presents a unified and up-to-date narrative of cognitive science as a discipline in its own right, with new material on deep learning and Bayesian approaches. • Offers a popular and highly readable text that consolidates the interdisciplinary streams of cognitive science into a unified introduction to the field • Provides a strong focus on dynamical systems, situated cognition and robotics, and mindreading • Thought-provoking exercises within the chapters enable students to test and apply their understanding • Includes new chapters on Bayesian approaches to cognitive science and machine learning/deep learning 560pp 143 colour illus. 9 tables January 2020 9781108424493 Hardback GBP 99.99 / USD 130 January 2020 9781108440349 Paperback GBP 45.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781108339216
Frame It Again New Tools for Rational Decision-Making José Luis Bermúdez | Texas A & M University
This book will appeal to those seeking tools for rational problem-solving and effective political engagement. Framing effects are everywhere. Being influenced by them is not a sign of irrationality. This book shows the power of rational framing in tackling personal dilemmas and breaking the deadlock in contemporary political discourse. • Presents a controversial and important central claim: framing effects can be tools for rational problem-solving • Shows how rational frames can help solve practical dilemmas in personal and social life • Develop a new framework for thinking about internal and collective conflicts • Discusses a wide range of examples from contemporary life, the history of literature, philosophy, and psychology • Explains all the theoretical concepts and important experiments without jargon and using the author’s trademark clarity 340pp November 2020 9781107192935 Hardback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.95 eISBN 9781108131827
Give Yourself a Nudge Helping Smart People Make Smarter Personal and Business Decisions Ralph L. Keeney | Duke University, North Carolina
Decision-making is the best way to actively improve anything in your personal and professional life, or in any business or organization. This book presents and illustrates several fundamental ideas and offers procedures that nudge you to improve your decision-making skills and guide you to make smarter decisions. • Introduces and explains practical concepts and procedures that can be used by anyone to make smarter decisions • Explains and illustrates how the use of the concepts and procedures are applicable to improve any business or organizational decision • Shows individuals the critical role that their decision-making has on all aspects of their quality of life 274pp 13 b/w illus. 21 tables April 2020 9781108715621 Paperback GBP 14.99 / USD 19.99 eISBN 9781108776707
Good Thinking Seven Powerful Ideas That Influence the Way We Think Second Edition Denise D. Cummins
This book is for anyone who wonders whether to trust the media, seeks creative solutions to problems, or grapples with with ethical dilemmas. Find out how experts think and how to apply these techniques to be a more effective decision-maker using seven powerful decision-making methods. • Explains seven easily-applicable decision-making methods • Provides tools to evaluate claims from the media about scientific breakthroughs or political platforms • Draws from real-life events that emphasize the relevance of each decision-making strategy 250pp March 2021 9781108830485 Hardback GBP 55 / USD 70 March 2021 9781108827324 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.99 eISBN 9781108907712
Psychology
Habits Pragmatist Approaches from Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, and Social Theory Fausto Caruana
Combining research from renowned philosophers, cognitive scientists, neuroscientists, and social theorists, this book demonstrates the pragmatist notion of habit as a unifying concept for many disciplines. Suitable for graduate students and researchers interested in philosophy, cognitive science, neuroscience, psychology, and social theory. • Provides the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary account of the notion of habit • Offers a conceptual background which benefits the dialogue between social theory and cognitive sciences • Contributes to a pragmatist turn in current research on mind, action and society 400pp November 2020 9781108498449 Hardback GBP 95 / USD 125 eISBN 9781108682312
In the Know Debunking 35 Myths about Human Intelligence Russell T. Warne | Utah Valley University
Readers will not need advanced training in psychology, statistics, or neuroscience to enjoy this book. Insightful and packed with scientific knowledge, this guide provides a better understanding of critical issues, such as bias in IQ tests, the importance of intelligence for work success, the genetics of intelligence, and much more. • Highlights the severe mismatch between popular beliefs about intelligence/IQ and the scientific research on the topic • Gives non-experts a firm understanding of intelligence • Shows how the willingness of people to deny the existence of intelligence and/or its importance in everyday life is harmful • Outlines why intelligence matters and the importance of acknowledging IQ differences 200pp October 2020 9781108493345 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99 October 2020 9781108717816 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 25.99 eISBN 9781108593298
Rhythm in Art, Psychology and New Materialism Gregory Minissale | University of Auckland
This book presents materialist and psychological theories in relation to specific artworks. Researchers and students studying art, psychology, or human imagination can use this as an important guide to understanding abstract art, or as a key text for courses on modern art. • Supplies a new interdisciplinary understanding of abstract art and aesthetic experience • Provides examples of interdisciplinary science and art collaboration • Gives a rigorous analysis of terms informed by new materialism and neuropsycholog • Establishes a foundation for grasping concepts such as mind, matter, rhythm, and sensation • Analyses artworks by Matisse, Pollock Dubuffet, Tapies, Smithson, Benglis, Morris, Johns, Stella, Len Lye, Star Gossage, Shannon Novak, Simon Ingram, Lee Mingwei, L. N. Tallur, and many others 300pp February 2021 9781108831413 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108917216
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Spatial Biases in Perception and Cognition Timothy L. Hubbard | Arizona State University
Our experience of the world is influenced by numerous spatial biases. Providing a ‘one-stop shop’ for information on such a key aspect of our experience of the world, this volume introduces and reviews the most prominent spatial biases in various domains and activities. • A general introduction to the topic of spatial biases, discussing biases in many different domains and activities • Catalogs the most prominent spatial biases in various domains of experience • Provides numerous examples, as well as comprehensive discussions of historical and current theories 503pp 8 b/w illus. October 2020 9781316607077 Paperback GBP 34.99 / USD 45.49 August 2018 9781107154988 Hardback GBP 110 / USD 140 eISBN 9781316651247
Rethinking Creativity Inside-the-Box Thinking as the Basis for Innovation Robert W. Weisberg | Temple University, Philadelphia
Academics, students, and researchers in creativity will discover a new perspective on the subject: creative innovation depends on inside-of-the-box thinking. That’s right! Not outside the box... This book presents creativity as a concept that builds on what we know and how we use old ideas to produce new ones. • Introduces a new way of thinking about creativity • Highlights case studies of significant creative advances from history • Lays out a critical review of modern research on creativity • Shows how to examine creativity from a scientific perspective 420pp September 2020 9781108479400 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 120 September 2020 9781108742900 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108785259
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States of Consciousness The Pulses of Experience Thomas Natsoulas | University of California, Davis
This volume extends Thomas Natsoulas’ development of the psychology of consciousness by giving sustained attention to the stream of consciousness and its component ‘pulses of experience’. Combining scholarship across psychology, philosophy and cognate fields, Natsoulas highlights surprising connections between the works of leading theorists of consciousness. • An interdisciplinary study covering a broad range of material relating to consciousness • The book is well-written and engaging, endowing readers with a thorough understanding of the field • Synthesizes discussions of leading figures, both historically and in recent work 455pp January 2020 9781107444171 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 36.99 January 2018 9781107083509 Hardback GBP 110 / USD 140 eISBN 9781316017791
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The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence Second Edition Robert J. Sternberg | Cornell University, New York
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This is the most comprehensive and definitive account of what is known about human intelligence. It not only includes traditional topics, such as the nature, measurement, and development of intelligence, but also contemporary research into intelligence and video games, collective intelligence, emotional intelligence, and leadership intelligence. • Provides a comprehensive historical overview of the field of intelligence and intelligence testing • Contains new topics not to be found elsewhere, such as intelligence and video games, collective intelligence, leadership intelligence, and the historical evolution of intelligence • Virtually no area of intelligence research is left untouched Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology 1266pp 52 b/w illus. 17 tables January 2020 9781108485104 Hardback GBP 260 / USD 350 January 2020 9781108719193 Paperback GBP 94.99 / USD 135.99 eISBN 9781108755818
The Cambridge Handbook of the Imagination Anna Abraham | University of Georgia
This book showcases a rich analysis on how imagination is understood across several disciplines of study such as anthropology, archaeology, medicine, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy and the arts. In reading this book, researchers, students and practitioners will learn about fundamental issues of relevance in relation to imagination. • Written by experts in neuroscience, philosophy, psychology and the arts • Supplies a comprehensive and multidisciplinary analysis of human imagination • Presents an integrated theoretical-empirical-applied picture of the field of imagination Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology 862pp 64 b/w illus. June 2020 9781108429245 Hardback GBP 145 / USD 190 June 2020 9781108453424 Paperback GBP 44.99 / USD 54.99 eISBN 9781108580298
Cultural Psychology Child Helpers A Multidisciplinary Perspective David F. Lancy | Utah State University
This Element examines the development of child helpers in varied cultural contexts, reviewing evidence for supportive environments in the ethnographic record versus an environment which extinguishes the drive to be helpful in WEIRD children. In the last section, the benefits of the helper stage are discussed.
Elements in Psychology and Culture 75pp 8 b/w illus. 7 tables March 2020 9781108738552 Paperback GBP 15 / USD 20 eISBN 9781108769204
Culture, Mind, and Brain Emerging Concepts, Models, and Applications Laurence J. Kirmayer | McGill University, Montréal
Human biology is cultural biology - we develop and live our lives in socially constructed worlds that vary widely in their structure, values, and institutions. This volume examines how our biology interacts with our immense cultural diversity to shape our experience, psychology, and imagination. • Brings together a diverse group of researchers to take a fresh look at emerging concepts, tools, models, and data in culture, mind, and brain interactions • Bridges disciplines with dynamic developmental and ecological models • Explores integrative approaches to studying the relationships between culture, mind, and brain Current Perspectives in Social and Behavioral Sciences 352pp September 2020 9781108484145 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 120 eISBN 9781108695374
Methods and Assessment in Culture and Psychology Michael Bender | Universiteit van Tilburg, The Netherlands
Comparing psychological variation across cultures requires accurate and appropriate methods. This book highlights methodological developments that promise to improve the work of social and behavioral scientists and practitioners. It covers acculturation and identity, individual differences, and features perspectives on future themes and challenges. • Explains that studying culture is an inherently methodological enterprise • Highlights how methodological rigor is relevant across a wide area of inquiries, including acculturation, educational assessment, emotion, motivation, and personality • Describes how empirical, cross-cultural investigations are grounded in qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods procedures, which are critical for test adaptation • Argues that methodologically sound cross-cultural studies attending to equivalence, bias, and invariance testing must be included in psychological research Culture and Psychology 400pp February 2021 9781108476621 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 104.99 February 2021 9781108701150 Paperback GBP 28.99 / USD 37.99 eISBN 9781108675475
Technology and the Global Adolescent Judith L. Gibbons | St Louis University, Missouri
Adolescents use technology for education, to further their identity and socio-emotional development, to access health information, engage in civic activities, and for entertainment. This comes with challenges. Researchers, parents, and policy makers must consider the role of culture in the complex interactions of teenagers with technology. Elements in Psychology and Culture 75pp 9 b/w illus. April 2020 9781108714181 Paperback GBP 15 / USD 20 eISBN 9781108639538
Psychology
The Cambridge Handbook of Intercultural Training Fourth Edition Dan Landis | University of Hawaii, Hilo
This handbook presents the rational and scientific foundations of intercultural training to students, managers, and professionals undertaking international assignments. It discusses the findings from many disciplines that zero in on cultural transitions, including emotion studies, neuroscience, and social work. • Presents findings from many disciplines that zero in on the understanding of cultural transitions, including emotion studies, neuroscience, and social work • Prepares people to work effectively within unfamiliar countries and cultures • Reviews training methodologies and their benefits • Describes the history of intercultural communication and its developments to highlight how to improve the practice of intercultural training today Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology 790pp August 2020 9781108490566 Hardback GBP 145 / USD 190 August 2020 9781108795906 Paperback GBP 44.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781108854184
Developmental Psychology NEW IN PAPERBACK
Body Positive Understanding and Improving Body Image in Science and Practice Elizabeth A. Daniels | University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Focused on understanding what it is that makes people feel good about their bodies, this book draws together a leading panel of scientists to provide a provocative and engaging look at how we feel about our physical selves in the twenty-first century, and how we can all feel better than we currently do. • The only book of its kind to focus exclusively on positive body image • Summarizes recent science that reconceptualizes body image away from the negative, i.e. body dissatisfaction • Written in a clear and engaging way to appeal to diverse audiences of scholars and laypersons 281pp 4 b/w illus. 3 tables October 2020 9781108410427 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 33.79 July 2018 9781108419321 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108297653
Child Development in Evolutionary Perspective David F. Bjorklund | Florida Atlantic University
Natural selection has operated as strongly on the early stages of the lifespan as adulthood. One evolved feature of human childhood is high levels of behavioral, cognitive, and neural plasticity. Taking an evolutionary perspective provides better understanding of children and how changes in the development of our ancestors produced modern humans.
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Forms of Fellow Feeling Empathy, Sympathy, Concern and Moral Agency Neil Roughley | Universität Duisburg–Essen
This collection addresses a perennial issue that is of concern in many different disciplines: what is the basis of our capacity to act morally? In this unique volume, renowned scholars from psychology and philosophy are brought together to discuss the emotional foundations of moral agency. • Brings together renowned scholars from psychology and philosophy to discuss cutting-edge research in the field • Covers a wide array of emotional and affective aspects of moral agency • Will appeal to readers who are interested in theoretical accounts of the basis of morality as well as readers who are interested in scientific approaches 342pp 12 b/w illus. January 2020 9781107521636 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 31.99 January 2018 9781107109513 Hardback GBP 95 / USD 125 eISBN 9781316271698
Gender in Childhood Christia Spears Brown | University of Kentucky
Gender is a highly salient and important social group that shapes how children interact with others and how they are treated by others. In this Element, we offer an overview and review of the research on gender development in childhood from a developmental science perspective. Elements in Child Development 75pp October 2020 9781108812740 Paperback GBP 15 / USD 20 eISBN 9781108874281
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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development Second Edition Brian Hopkins | Lancaster University
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development remains the most authoritative and accessible account of all aspects of child development. Written by an international team of experts, and thoroughly updated and expanded to 124 entries, the second edition’s comprehensive, interdisciplinary coverage is essential reading for researchers, students, and practitioners. • The second edition addresses all major developments and methodological and technical advancements since 2005 • While each entry of the Encyclopedia is presented as a self-contained entity, readers are also aided by extensive cross-references among them • Features a new section on future directions of research in child development 991pp 262 b/w illus. January 2020 9781107502765 Paperback GBP 120 / USD 150 October 2017 9781107103412 Hardback GBP 242 / USD 315 eISBN 9781316216491
Elements in Child Development 75pp October 2020 9781108791502 Paperback GBP 15 / USD 20 eISBN 9781108866187
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The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Aging A Life Course Perspective Ayanna K. Thomas | Tufts University, Massachusetts
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Informed by psychological, medical, neuropsychological, and gerontological perspectives, this handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the principles that characterize a life course approach to cognitive aging, including consideration of genetics, early life experiences, motivation, emotion, social contexts, and lifestyle interventions. • Explores cognitive aging through both lifespan and life course perspectives • Highlights the influence of non-cognitive factors on cognitive aging • Includes targeted summaries of sub-sections to further explain more complex points • Considers both behavioral and neural changes with aging Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology 774pp 34 b/w illus. 16 colour illus. 5 tables May 2020 9781108428347 Hardback GBP 155 / USD 200 May 2020 9781108449366 Paperback GBP 54.99 / USD 69.99 eISBN 9781108552684
The Questioning Child Insights from Psychology and Education Lucas Payne Butler | University of Maryland, College Park
Questioning others is one of the best methods that children use to learn about the world. In this volume, leading experts explore critical issues in the development of questioning to provide an interdisciplinary understanding of how questions play a pivotal role in child development and education. • Includes contributions from interdisciplinary researchers in psychology and education • Features theoretical and empirical investigations that represent stateof-the-art research in the field • Provides a comprehensive framework for understanding this area of research 344pp January 2020 9781108428910 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108553803
The Science of Violent Behavior Development and Prevention
The Cambridge Handbook of Infant Development
Contributions of the Second World War Generation Richard E. Tremblay | Université de Montréal
Brain, Behavior, and Cultural Context Jeffrey J. Lockman | Tulane University, Louisiana
This book describes the lives of 12 people born in Europe and North America during World War II, who became leading scholars on the development and prevention of human violence. The reader will discover very different life histories, whose paths crossed with time, creating an exceptional international network of scientists. • Describes the development, from birth to retirement, of twelve outstanding scientists who pioneered longitudinal and experimental research on the development and prevention of violent behaviour • Provides exceptional examples of the numerous developmental paths leading to excellence in research on human development • Outlines how scientists from different backgrounds, different disciplines, and different countries created a science of violence development and prevention • Summarises the next generations’ perspective on what steps will need to be taken to advance knowledge and initiate positive action
This multidisciplinary book synthesizes research on infant learning and development, with thematic coverage of neuroscience, cultural approaches, and policy. It provides cutting-edge methods and sets the agenda for future studies for advanced students, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers interested in promoting infant development. • Makes current research methods and findings around infant development accessible to a multi-disciplinary audience, including advanced students, researchers, educators, clinicians, and policy makers • Provides comprehensive and cutting-edge research findings in key areas of infant development • Each chapter features an integrative treatment of neuroscience, culture/context, and policy/practice perspectives in specific areas of infant development Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology 866pp August 2020 9781108426039 Hardback GBP 160 / USD 210 August 2020 9781108444392 Paperback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108351959
The Environment Where Children Spend Time and Become Who They Are Robert H. Bradley | Arizona State University
This Element focuses on the environment and how it is implicated in children’s development. A broad array of social and physical features connected to children’s home life and the neighborhoods where children live, including multiple aspects of parenting, housing characteristics and the increased prevalence of media in daily life are addressed.
Elements in Child Development 75pp November 2020 9781108791410 Paperback GBP 15 / USD 20 eISBN 9781108866040
300pp December 2020 9781108834810 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108877138
Educational Psychology A Better Future The Role of Higher Education for Displaced and Marginalised People Jacqueline Bhabha | Harvard University, Massachusetts
Written for policy makers, advocates, and scholars looking into social justice, this book tackles a prevalent barrier to equality. It offers an interdisciplinary overview of exclusion from higher education and its impact on marginalized groups, including refugees, indigenous populations, people with disabilities, and racial or ethnic minorities. • Outlines the impacts of educational disadvantage, normally reserved for primary and secondary education • Engages with different theoretical and analytical perspectives, affording the reader a broad survey of a complex and diverse field • Offers critical perspectives to the challenge of enabling access to higher education for the following three groups of marginalized populations: stigmatized citizen groups, refugees, and migrants 496pp 5 b/w illus. 18 tables September 2020 9781108496889 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 120 September 2020 9781108738996 Paperback GBP 31.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108655101
Psychology
Ethical Dilemmas in Schools
Learning to Make a Difference
Collaborative Inquiry, Decision-Making, and Action Douglas J. Simpson | Texas Christian University
Value Creation in Social Learning Spaces Etienne Wenger-Trayner | University of Brighton
This book is a compelling study of fictional school personnel as they grapple with existential and theoretical issues over a decade. The examination of educational ethics involves aspiring and practising educators in professional decisionmaking and appropriate and inappropriate actions. • Uses cases drawn from experience and enduring dilemmas to create a context where the principal, staff, parents and students work through and grow from addressing them • Provides multi-disciplinary perspectives and diverse ethical theories • Encourages a collaborative approach by employing ordinary-language and multiple stakeholders • Each chapter includes situations integrated into the text and ends with an extensive case set in a common context 250pp December 2020 9781108491471 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 December 2020 9781108798334 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108868853
Higher Education Admissions Practices An International Perspective María Elena Oliveri | Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey
This book places higher education admissions in a global context to advise assessment professionals, higher education administrators, testing organizations, education researchers, and policy makers. It serves as a reference and resource for understanding existing and future admissions practices, as well as access, diversity, and equity challenges. • Provides a global outlook on higher education admissions practices • Summarizes the tools and approaches used to inform admissions decisions • Supplies perspectives related to newer approaches in higher education admissions that can result in increased access for diverse populations Educational and Psychological Testing in a Global Context 410pp January 2020 9781108472265 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108559607
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Learning as a Generative Activity Eight Learning Strategies that Promote Understanding Logan Fiorella | University of California, Santa Barbara
This book offers an accessible introduction to eight effective, evidence-based strategies that improve learning: summarizing, mapping, drawing, imagining, self-testing, self-explaining, teaching, and enacting. The authors focus on generative learning, in which learners select relevant pieces of information, organize them into a coherent cognitive structure, and integrate them with existing knowledge. • Uses the same organization in each chapter and a friendly writing style to make the book accessible to a wide range of readers • Offers a focused, concise review of learning strategies that is easier to process than multi-author handbooks • Discusses methods that can be applied to primary and secondary education, higher education, and workplace training 234pp 6 b/w illus. 25 tables November 2020 9781107687974 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 February 2015 9781107069916 Hardback GBP 75.99 / USD 107 eISBN 9781107707085
This book offers a framework for learning to have an impact: engaging with others, monitoring the value this creates, and making adjustments onthe-go. It is written for researchers, educators, and leaders in business, government, healthcare, and international development with or without prior knowledge of learning theory. • Provides a truly thorough treatment of the value-creation framework • Introduces a fairly complex theory using ordinary language, clear explanations, and concrete examples • Takes a theoretically rigorous and practically oriented approach • Supplies an overview and reading itineraries for each section 200pp 17 b/w illus. October 2020 9781108497169 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 October 2020 9781108739535 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 31.99 eISBN 9781108677431
Motivating Self and Others Thriving with Social Purpose, Life Meaning, and the Pursuit of Core Personal Goals Martin E. Ford | George Mason University, Virginia
This book integrates evidence from motivational and evolutionary science to explain the essential nature of human motivation. Scholars, professionals, leaders, and students in psychology, education, and business will learn how goal-life alignment and ‘thriving with social purpose’ can inspire optimal functioning and enhance life meaning. • Presents a scientifically defensible way of thinking about human behaviour that recognizes that a strong sense of social purpose is a key motivator • Integrates theory and research on human motivation using an inclusive strategy that identifies the best ideas and evidence for both scientific and applied purposes • Organizes the concepts into a comprehensive framework that guides intervention efforts • Tells the story of how motivational processes evolved • Offers a new theory of life meaning that explains the central role that feelings of life meaning play in human motivation 500pp 21 b/w illus. 13 tables October 2020 9781108491655 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 105 October 2020 9781108798785 Paperback GBP 34.99 / USD 44.99 eISBN 9781108869164
Multimedia Learning Third Edition Richard Mayer | University of California, Santa Barbara
This textbook examines the scientific underpinnings of multimedia learning and is well-suited to graduate and undergraduate courses in psychology, education, computer science, communication, instructional design, and game design. It lays out a cognitive theory of multimedia instruction and principles for designing effective multimedia messages. • Examines the scientific underpinnings of multimedia learning • Well-suited to graduate and undergraduate courses in psychology, education, computer science, communication, instructional design, and game design • Provides basic theory and research on the cognitive science of how people learn from words and pictures • Gives practical evidence-based principles for how to design effective multimedia instruction • Presents a systematic summary of research studies on multimedia learning, supplemented with complementary evidence from around the globe
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450pp July 2020 9781107187504 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 120 July 2020 9781316638088 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781316941355
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Reflections on the Learning Sciences Michael A. Evans | North Carolina State University
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This volume presents a historical, critical analysis of the emerging field of the learning sciences, which takes an interdisciplinary approach to studying how people learn. It features both established and up-and-coming scholars, offering a broad yet selective perspective on what the learning sciences are and how contributors conduct their work. • Contains contributions from key figures in the founding of the field • Provides perhaps the first critical and historical examination of the learning sciences in a single volume • Features authors from core learning sciences programs as well as cognate fields, offering an eclectic and nuanced treatment Current Perspectives in Social and Behavioral Sciences 311pp 18 b/w illus. 8 tables October 2020 9781107659445 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 39.99 February 2016 9781107070158 Hardback GBP 87.99 / USD 110 eISBN 9781107707221
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Sustaining Early Childhood Learning Gains Program, School, and Family Influences Arthur J. Reynolds | University of Minnesota
How early childhood learning gains are initiated, increased, sustained, and affect life-course development are fundamental to science and society. This book synthesizes research findings for increasing and sustaining gains in early childhood programs and practices, and addresses the effectiveness of these public investments in promoting well-being. • Offers a comprehensive analysis of next steps and new-generation approaches in early intervention • Provides a conceptual overview of the factors that influence whether early childhood learning programs have short- and longer-term effects • Includes examples and illustrations of effective approaches for improving early childhood learning programs 385pp 27 b/w illus. 31 tables October 2020 9781108441896 Paperback GBP 31.99 / USD 41.59 January 2019 9781108425926 Hardback GBP 95 / USD 130 eISBN 9781108349352
The Cambridge Handbook of Applied School Psychology Frank C. Worrell | University of California, Berkeley
For clinical practitioners, school psychologists, and education researchers, state-of-the-art research is harnessed to provide practical recommendations for those working with school-age children. This book shows you the reasoning behind best practice behaviors in school environments and why engaging correctly with students is integral to success. • Translates theory concerning childhood challenges into practical recommendations to ensure better outcomes • Contains lists of resources at the end of each chapter • Connects empirical findings to best practice indicators and highlights how such research informs and supports professional decision-making Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology 600pp September 2020 9781108415965 Hardback GBP 140 / USD 180 September 2020 9781108401258 Paperback GBP 44.99 / USD 59.99
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The New Roadmap for Creating Online Courses An Interactive Workbook Catherine R. Barber | University of St Thomas, Houston
Online learning is among the top trends in postsecondary education. Instructors need support for creating online courses that are realistic, relevant, and inclusive of diverse learners. This interactive workbook provides a unique combination of theory, research, and experience that inspires readers to create exceptional online courses. • Incorporates a non-linear, flexible, and iterative process to create online courses based on adult learning principles • Applies theory, research, and the experiences of the authors and others to fully illustrate the course creation process • Immerses the reader in the interactive learning experience of an effective online course 239pp June 2020 9781108720311 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108766890
The Social Value of Zoos John Fraser
This book couples anecdotes with real data to help nature lovers, zoo staff, zoo fans, and even zoo foes understand the many ways zoos are conceptualized, used, and valued, unpacking what seems to happen in the minds of diverse zoo-goers to highlight powerful opportunities for learning, engagement, and activism. • Synthesizes leading social science research into the value of zoo experiences in the public mind • Integrates conservation psychology into a larger concept of social change • Maps out the problem statement from the perspective of the user group, rather than the academic views of psychologists • Reassesses the cultural capital zoos hold as agents of moral change and offers insights regarding how zoos might leverage that power 300pp March 2021 9781108486132 Hardback GBP 93 / USD 120 March 2021 9781108731812 Paperback GBP 31.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108644679
Experimental Psychology The Study of Living Control Systems A Guide to Doing Research on Purpose Richard S. Marken | University of California, Los Angeles
This book is for psychologists and social or behavioral scientists who are interested in learning a new approach to studying the behavior of organisms. The approach is based on a theory of behavior called Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) that views organisms as purposeful rather than mechanical systems. • Uses concrete demonstrations to describe the theoretical justification for the new approach to behavioral research described in the book • Includes pointers to online demonstrations that allow the reader to test these ideas for themselves • Provides a step-by-step description of this new approach to research using examples from several different disciplines • Ensures these novel research methods are accessible to readers in different disciplines who have had no previous experience with them • Suggests ways to start a research program using this new approach to psychological research • Helps faculty and students develop research agendas that reflect the aims of a research program 200pp
Psychology
February 2021 9781108485586 Hardback GBP 93 / USD 120 February 2021 9781108707336 Paperback GBP 31.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108752138
April 2020 9781108485197 Hardback GBP 120 / USD 155 eISBN 9781108750349
Substance Use Disorders
Health and Clinical Psychology Enactive Psychiatry Sanneke de Haan | Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Written for psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists and philosophers, Enactive Psychiatry provides a model that connects the factors at play in the development and treatment of psychiatric disorders. It also introduces readers to philosophical issues relating to psychiatry, such as the mind-body problem and embodied cognition. • Provides a straightforward, holistic view on psychiatric disorders • Expands and enriches enactivism to include more complex forms of human cognition • Shows how factors involved in the development and persistence of psychiatric disorders are connected
A Biopsychosocial Perspective Perry M. Duncan | Old Dominion University, Virginia
Suitable for advanced undergraduates or graduate students in psychology, counseling, social work, nursing, or medicine, this book surveys evidence about substance use disorders from a range of fields; including genetics, pharmacology, neuroscience, psychiatry, and psychology, as well as personal accounts of individuals with substance use issues. • Lays out the history and current status of disease theory, including its benefits, supporting evidence, and limitations • Looks into the nature and role of mutual-assistance groups, such as Alcoholics Anonymous, in promoting recovery from addiction • Includes real-life examples that illustrate the essential features of substance use disorders • Describes addiction as a behavioural disorder with disease-like characteristics and biopsychosocial origins
304pp March 2020 9781108426060 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108685214
400pp 83 b/w illus. 14 tables September 2020 9780521877770 Hardback GBP 150 / USD 200 September 2020 9781108819091 Paperback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781139025515
Introduction to Clinical Psychology
The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Disorders
Bridging Science and Practice Ninth Edition Douglas A. Bernstein | University of South Florida
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. • Includes sections on both major historical influences on the development of the science of clinical psychology and on exciting innovations in the field (such as in technology and other novel delivery models) • Highlights the wide range of clinical psychologists’ contributions to research, assessment, and treatment of mental disorder • Tells the whole story of activities in the field, including research on assessment and treatment as well as teaching, consulting, and administration 600pp 55 b/w illus. 30 colour illus. 58 tables November 2020 9781108484374 Hardback GBP 115 / USD 150 November 2020 9781108735797 Paperback GBP 59.99 / USD 79.99 eISBN 9781108676908
Levels of Analysis in Psychopathology Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives Kenneth S. Kendler | Virginia Commonwealth University
This book establishes an interdisciplinary dialogue between leading experts in psychiatry, philosophy, and psychology to explore the range of explanatory approaches for understanding the nature psychiatric disorders both in research and practice. It uses these perspectives to advance etiologic theories, classification, and treatment in the field. • Combines psychology, philosophy, and psychiatry to explore the variety of explanatory approaches for understanding the nature of psychiatric disorders • Provides commentaries within each main chapter to create an interdisciplinary dialogue • Brings together leading thinkers who have been widely published and involved in the creation of the DSM and RDoC framework 580pp 18 b/w illus. 4 tables
Carl W. Lejuez | University of Kansas
This book is an essential resource for the rapidly evolving field of personality disorders for researchers and clinicians at all career stages in disciplines including psychology, psychiatry, social work, and nursing. It covers the causes, course, assessment, and treatment of personality disorders with commentaries and a rejoinder for each chapter. • Addresses both categorical and dimensional perspectives • Explains etiology, models, individual disorders and clusters, assessment, and treatment • Has a broad appeal across multiple disciplines and for researchers or treatment providers ranging from trainees to those who have shaped the field • Each chapter has two commentaries and a rejoinder, which provides multiple perspectives and an exchange of ideas Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology 552pp 17 b/w illus. 24 tables May 2020 9781108424349 Hardback GBP 180 / USD 235 May 2020 9781108440097 Paperback GBP 89.99 / USD 115 eISBN 9781108333931
The Cambridge Handbook of Research Methods in Clinical Psychology Aidan G. C. Wright | University of Pittsburgh
This Handbook provides an overview and guide for state-of-the-art research methods in clinical psychological science. It is the ideal resource for clinical psychologists, graduate students studying clinical psychology, and practitioners or researchers in allied disciplines including psychiatry and social work. • Integrates philosophy of science, data acquisition methods, and statistical modeling techniques • Supplies clear links between conceptual underpinnings, study design, and analysis • Provides a forward-thinking perspective on the rapidly changing landscape of clinical science Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology 600pp 65 b/w illus. 29 tables
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The Cambridge Handbook of Substance and Behavioral Addictions Steve Sussman | University of Southern California
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This is a key guidebook for all those interested in the breadth and depth of addiction processes. It provides an understanding of substance and behavioral addictions’ conceptual underpinnings, etiology, prevention, and treatment. Written by leaders in the addictions field, this handbook pushes research and practice to new horizons. • Provides a multi-level understanding of addiction, including prevention and cessation discourse alongside conceptual and etiological perspectives • Supplies suggestions for future research • Highlights how concepts can be integrated across different topics to encourage an interdisciplinary outlook • Describes the state of the science of lab techniques in the arenas of behavioural economics and human neurobiology, as well as self-report measures and qualitative approaches Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology 464pp August 2020 9781108427166 Hardback GBP 160 / USD 195 August 2020 9781108447850 Paperback GBP 80 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108632591
The Handbook of Behavior Change Martin S. Hagger
This handbook offers a broad overview of evidence-based research and practice on the emerging science of behavior change. Authored by world-leading experts, each chapter outlines how research in behavior change can provide practical behavioral solutions to address many of the problems faced by society today. • Provides a unified reference on both the foundations and key issues on research on the science of behavior change • Includes step-by-step practical guidelines on developing and carrying out behavior change interventions • Summarizes the state of the art in the development, evaluation, and implementation of behavior change interventions Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology 728pp 46 b/w illus. July 2020 9781108496391 Hardback GBP 140 / USD 180 July 2020 9781108733670 Paperback GBP 44.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781108677318
Time and Body Phenomenological and Psychopathological Approaches Christian Tewes
This book guides advanced undergraduates, researchers and practitioners through current debates at the interface of psychology, phenomenology, and psychiatry. It demonstrates how psychopathology benefits from phenomenological and embodied approaches, and how they combine to apply to a range of mental disorders. • Provides new insights into how psychopathology can benefit from phenomenological and embodied research • Advances an interdisciplinary understanding of how temporality, the lived body, and the social nature of mind relate to mental disorders • Gathers perspectives from leading scholars advancing phenomenologically oriented cognitive science 400pp November 2020 9781108489355 Hardback GBP 95 / USD 125
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Trans and Non-binary Gender Healthcare for Psychiatrists, Psychologists, and Other Health Professionals Christina Richards
Motivated by the need to incorporate gender diversity into clinical practice, this book provides simple, practical advice on working with trans and non-binary people in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Written by two clinicians with extensive experience, it will be invaluable for psychologists, psychiatrists and other health professionals. • Offers simple practical guidance on what to do in clinical situations where gender diversity arises, benefiting busy clinicians who are looking for a quick, authoritative answer rather than masses of theory • Covers all the main areas a clinician may face, from assessment for hormones and surgeries to sexuality, forensic matters and learning disabilities • Draws upon the extensive experience of two senior clinicians, resulting in a guide that is practical and usable, without being speculative, politicised, or overly theoretical • Applies to a wide variety of general contexts, appealing to readers from a range of clinical settings, including mental health settings, general hospitals, outpatient settings and primary care 132pp August 2020 9781108703024 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 eISBN 9781108628419
History of Psychology Diagnosing from a Distance Debates over Libel Law, Media, and Psychiatric Ethics from Barry Goldwater to Donald Trump John Martin-Joy
A controversy is raging over whether it is ethical for psychiatrists to comment on the mental health of public figures. This book is a gripping exploration of the so-called ‘Goldwater Rule’, from its origins with Barry Goldwater in the 1960s to its consequences today in the age of Donald Trump. • A lively and engaging narration of a series of historical episodes in which psychiatric ethics and libel were vigorously and publicly debated • The first book to examine the still-raging ethics debate over psychiatric comment on President Donald Trump, using numerous original interviews with the participants • Makes extensive use of archival sources that have rarely been explored in detail before • Advances a philosophically supported case for a more liberal approach to the ethics of psychiatric comment 348pp 14 b/w illus. March 2020 9781108486583 Hardback GBP 54.99 / USD 69.99 March 2020 9781108707985 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 25.99 eISBN 9781108761222
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Wounded Healers Tribulations and Triumphs of Pioneering Psychotherapists Keh-Ming Lin | University of California, Los Angeles
Freud was addicted to cocaine and nicotine, Jung was psychotic for years, and Margaret Mead remained closeted throughout her lifetime. This book includes fifteen wounded healers whose own struggles enabled them to show us the immensity and richness of our unconscious minds and reshaped the modern world. • Explores the process of transformation turning vulnerability into sources of strength • Shows how theories of different schools of depth psychology are linked with their founders’ life experiences, including personal trauma and the ethos of the time • Encourages those learning or seeking therapy to view their own difficulties in a potentially positive light • Uses information about the relationship between life’s vicissitudes and creativity to help destigmatize mental illness 250pp November 2020 9781108479912 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 November 2020 9781108790963 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 36.99 eISBN 9781108801164
January 2021 9781108727723 Paperback GBP 70 / USD 89.99 eISBN 9781108635462
The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology Second Edition Philip J. Corr | City, University London
This handbook provides an accessible summary of cutting-edge personality research in all its forms, giving students, researchers, and practitioners a comprehensive resource for understanding personality theory and application. It also introduces the leading methods in the field, from molecular genetics to narrative inquiry. • Offers lively, engaging chapters written by an international team of leading personality researchers • Introduces cutting-edge methodologies, including technological tools such as molecular genetics and neuroimaging, as well as modern psychometric and statistical techniques • Balances basic theory with applications to work, education, physical and mental health, criminal justice, and economics Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology 566pp 46 b/w illus. 29 tables September 2020 9781108417099 Hardback GBP 150 / USD 195 September 2020 9781108404457 Paperback GBP 54.99 / USD 69.99 eISBN 9781108264822
Personality and Individual Differences Chess and Individual Differences Angel Blanch | Universitat de Lleida
Individual differences is a psychological approach that explores how people differ based on variables including attitude, values, or cognitive development. The book applies this approach to the psychology of chess to give behavioural and social scientists, and chess players a deeper understanding of the psychology involved in the game. • Summarises the psychology of chess with an emphasis on individual differences • Provides the basic characteristics of the studies carried out in the field • Supplies additional data analyses to illustrate the issues addressed • Highlights the practical applications using empirical data 350pp February 2021 9781108476041 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108567732
The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence and Cognitive Neuroscience
Psychology (General) Critical Thinking in Psychology Second Edition Robert J. Sternberg | Cornell University, New York
This book shows students and researchers in psychology how to think critically about experimental research, statistical inference, case studies, and ethical judgments. Each chapter explains what critical thinking is and how to teach and assess it by supplying useful features, such as critical-thinking questions and definitions of key terms. • Highlights the importance of critical thinking and how to improve it • Lists key terms with definitions • Presents a wide range of views on how to understand and increase critical thinking • Includes pedagogical features which will help students and faculty alike make optimal use of the book 402pp 9 b/w illus. 12 tables January 2020 9781108497152 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 January 2020 9781108739528 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108684354
Aron K. Barbey | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
This handbook introduces the reader to the thought-provoking research on the neural foundations of human intelligence. Written for undergraduate or graduate students, practitioners, and researchers in related fields, the chapters summarize research emerging from the rapidly developing neuroscience literature on human intelligence. • Summarizes fundamental issues in the characterization and measurement of general intelligence, and evaluates multidisciplinary research consortia and large-scale data repositories for the study of general intelligence • Provides a systematic review of neuroimaging methods for studying intelligence, including structural and diffusion-weighted MRI techniques, functional MRI methods, and spectroscopic imaging • Maps out predictive modeling approaches to the study of human intelligence 600pp January 2021 9781108480543 Hardback GBP 125 / USD 165
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Giving the Devil his Due Reflections of a Scientific Humanist Michael Shermer | Chapman University, California
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This book is for all readers who care about science and reason, humanism and secularism, the progress of humanity, and the advancement of morals and values. It also advocates for the protection and continued expansion of human rights, such as civil rights, women’s rights, LGBT+ rights, and animal rights. • Outlines a ten-point defence of free speech and open inquiry in politics, science, and culture • Presents numerous real-world examples of how science and reason can be employed for solving moral dilemmas and determining human values • Supplies many examples of heretics and heterodox thinkers, who challenged the orthodoxy and were punished for it, and how we should think about people whose claims challenge mainstream ideas today 366pp 22 b/w illus. April 2020 9781108489782 Hardback GBP 19.99 / USD 24.95 eISBN 9781108779395
Psychology Research Methods/Statistics TEXTBOOK
Statistics for the Social Sciences
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Statistics Using R An Integrative Approach Sharon Lawner Weinberg | New York University
Using numerous examples with real data, this textbook closely integrates the learning of statistics with the learning of R. It is suitable for introductory-level learners, allows for curriculum flexibility, and includes R-code script files for students to learn from and adapt and use in their future data analytic work. • The textbook is suitable for those who do not have a strong background in mathematics • Perfect for introductory-level learners and allows for curriculum flexibility • Using numerous examples with real data, this textbook closely integrates the learning of statistics with the learning of R • Includes, as an online resource, R-code script files for all examples and figures, which students can learn from, adapt, and use in their future data analytic work • Contains an online R tutorial that introduces readers to data frames and other basic elements of the R architecture • Provides a CRAN library of datasets and functions that is used throughout the book, online solutions to all end-of-chapter exercises, and a set of PowerPoint slides that can be used as a study guide 692pp 188 b/w illus. 102 tables August 2020 9781108719148 Paperback GBP 61.99 / USD 79.99 eISBN 9781108755351 TEXTBOOK
A General Linear Model Approach Second Edition Russell T. Warne | Utah Valley University
Statistics Using Stata
This textbook introduces statistics using the General Linear Model, a method that shows the interconnections among statistical concepts. The second edition is for undergraduate social science majors in a one-semester statistics course and provides timely updates, building on the success of the first edition. • Illustrates statistical concepts and methodologies with real data drawn from the social sciences to make statistics relevant to students’ interests and field of study • Includes step-by-step instructions with screenshots to show readers how to conduct and interpret each statistical analysis using Excel and SPSS • Clearly explains the interconnections among statistical procedures using the General Linear Model as a framework to teach students the commonalities among statistical methods • Emphasizes modern reporting practices and interpretation of statistics in conformity with the latest developments from the replication crisis and the Journal Article Reporting Standards from APA
Engaging and accessible to students from a range of mathematical backgrounds, this book blends statistical concepts with the acquisition of the Stata (version 16) software package. Its coverage of essential topics gives instructors flexibility in curriculum planning and provides students with more advanced material to prepare them for future work. • Can be used in courses at the undergraduate or graduate level in the social, behavioral, health, and policy sciences • Based upon the most recent version of Stata: version 16 • Covers topics not included in other introductory texts, such as robust methods of estimation based on the bootstrap resampling technique, regression to the mean, and diagnostic tools for analyzing model fit • By closely integrating the learning of Stata with the learning of statistics, the textbook merges these two ostensibly disparate goals into one, demonstrating the direct connection between the two • Uses an extremely clear and lively writing style and working examples • Online features include problem sets and appendices for students, and PowerPoint slides for instructors to use in the classroom and students to use as a study guide
650pp January 2021 9781108841573 Hardback GBP 81 / USD 99 January 2021 9781108814508 Paperback GBP 61.99 / USD 74.99 eISBN 9781108894319
An Integrative Approach Sharon Lawner Weinberg | New York University
740pp 195 b/w illus. February 2020 9781108725835 Paperback GBP 59.99 / USD 79.99 eISBN 9781108770163
Psychology
The Art of Presenting Delivering Successful Presentations in the Social Sciences and Humanities Fieke Harinck | Universiteit Leiden
This book is written for academics working in the social sciences and humanities. It uses insights from psychology, as well as the theatre, to offer a complete guide for delivering successful academic presentations, coping with stress, addressing different audiences, managing cultural differences, and navigating the world of conferences. • Gives advice on how to deliver presentations that highlight the importance and quality of your work • Presents top tips on best practice for dealing with presentation anxiety, cultural differences, non-verbal behaviour, dress code, and networking • Includes suggestions on how to design slides, address different audiences, and make the most of conferences 182pp August 2020 9781107139077 Hardback GBP 59.99 / USD 79.99 August 2020 9781316504314 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 25.99 eISBN 9781316488348
The Design of Experiments in Neuroscience Third Edition Mary E. Harrington | Smith College, Massachusetts
This much-anticipated third edition is an ideal core or supplementary text for undergraduates and graduate students studying neuroscience, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, neurochemistry, or biological psychology. It offers a concise introduction to the basic principles of experimental design and analysis. • Provides numerous examples of research design including fMRI studies, the use of transgenic mice and optogenetics • Includes a ‘12-Step Program for Reading Journal Articles’ feature that explains the important elements of a scientific paper • Gives practical guidance on presentations of results in either talks, posters, or papers 300pp 31 b/w illus. 86 colour illus. February 2020 9781108492621 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 February 2020 9781108716925 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108592468
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Arguing, Obeying and Defying A Rhetorical Perspective on Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Experiments Stephen Gibson | York St John University
This text presents a qualitative analysis of the transcripts from the experimental sessions from one of the most notorious academic studies ever conducted: Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiments. It will appeal to scholars and students in psychology, the social sciences, and the history of science. • Features a detailed analysis of the transcripts of Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiments, with multiple examples from recordings of the experimental sessions themselves • Provides an overview of the last 10-15 years’ worth of work on Milgram’s obedience experiments • Outlines the way in which recent developments in the wider study of rhetoric can be used to expand discursive and rhetorical psychology 242pp October 2020 9781108431811 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.49 March 2019 9781108421331 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108367943
Beyond Virtue The Politics of Educating Emotions Liz Jackson | The University of Hong Kong
By integrating research from psychology, philosophy, sociology, and feminist theory about educating emotions, this book covers a range of pedagogies and practices in schools. Suitable for teachers, school leaders, and educational researchers, it explores the cultural aspects of teaching about emotions, character education, and related strategies. • Explores the cultural differences and relational aspects of classroom practices • Discusses a range of pedagogies and practices in schools • Integrates findings from psychology, philosophy, sociology, and feminist theory about educating emotions • Highlights the strengths and weaknesses related to social and emotional learning, character education, and related strategies Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction 250pp December 2020 9781108482134 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108699747
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Affectionate Communication in Close Relationships Kory Floyd | University of Arizona
This book reviews and critiques empirical research on affectionate communication in close relationships, and offers compelling questions for future empirical work. It will appeal to faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students in social psychology, communication, family studies, sociology, health sciences, and clinical psychology. • Represents both a socio-cultural and a bio-evolutionary approach to communication research • Provides a detailed summary of research on the mental and physical health effects of affectionate behavior • Compares and critiques existing theories and measurement models of affectionate communication 293pp 1 b/w illus. 9 tables October 2020 9781108456210 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 36.39 December 2018 9781108470582 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108653510
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Contemporary Studies on Relationships, Health, and Wellness Jennifer A. Theiss | Rutgers University, New Jersey
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Written for researchers, practitioners, and students interested in cutting-edge and cross-disciplinary research on the interplay between close relationships and health, this volume explores relationship processes that are significant in health contexts, including influence, information management, uncertainty, social support, and communication. • Showcases empirical studies on health and relationships that can be meaningfully applied to improve people’s health and relationships • Includes research from scholars in a variety of disciplines, which highlights different types of questions underlying research on health and relationships • Uses research with a diverse range of methodological approaches, both qualitative and quantitative • Provides exemplars for conducting high-quality research on health and relationships from a variety of different orientations Advances in Personal Relationships 379pp 12 b/w illus. 19 tables October 2020 9781108412285 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 38.99 November 2018 9781108419864 Hardback GBP 95 / USD 130 eISBN 9781108304344
Creating Equality at Home How 25 Couples around the World Share Housework and Childcare Francine M. Deutsch | Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts
Creating Equality at Home tells the fascinating stories of couples around the world whose everyday decisions about sharing the housework and childcare - such as who washes the dishes or cuts back on paid work to look after the baby bring profound rewards for men, women, marriage, and children. • Gives fascinating, real-life examples of how couples around the world are creating equality in family work • Demonstrates that individual choices and decisions can thwart traditional social norms and structural forces • Reveals that equality in family work is not just a woman’s issue, as men also benefit from equal sharing • Shows that gender equality is not an impossible dream, but exists right now in unlikely places 428pp 23 maps June 2020 9781108497886 Hardback GBP 54.99 / USD 69.99 June 2020 9781108708845 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 24.99 eISBN 9781108597319 NEW IN PAPERBACK
Health and Illness in Close Relationships Ashley P. Duggan | Boston College, Massachusetts
Written for academic researchers, students, and health professionals, this is the first volume to review and synthesize the current literature on health and illness in close relationships. The author provides an integrated theoretical framework for understanding the complexities of health trajectories and relationship processes. • Offers an integrated theoretical framework of health, illness, and relational processes • Cuts across current theoretical concerns and propositions to connect with practical issues of health management within relationships • Illustrates how language shapes responses to close relationships and the understanding of health and illness Advances in Personal Relationships 380pp October 2020 9781108412643 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 38.99
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Interdependence, Interaction, and Close Relationships Laura V. Machia | Syracuse University, New York
Are you an undergraduate, graduate, or academic researcher interested in understanding close relationships, including the development of trust and dependence? Discover how personality and psychological states are shaped by interaction, from the perspective of a foundational theory that enables one to think beyond existing research. • Discusses the relevance and importance of theory in understanding how we relate to others • Covers research that examines the intersection of personality, psychological states, interaction, and relationships • Helps researchers ground their investigations within critical contextual elements driving relationships • Provides examples of multi-disciplinary science in action, showing how different disciplines interact and overlap in approaching the study of close relationships Advances in Personal Relationships 366pp 10 b/w illus. 3 maps 8 tables June 2020 9781108480963 Hardback GBP 95 / USD 125 eISBN 9781108645836
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Interpersonal Emotion Dynamics in Close Relationships Ashley K. Randall | Arizona State University
Emotions play a powerful role in close relationships. Significant progress has been made in understanding how interpersonal emotion dynamics are associated with the development and maintenance of relationships across the lifespan. This book brings together perspectives from leading scholars, and is an important basis for future scientific work. • Integrates diverse definitions and views of emotions in close relationships • Touches all areas of scholarship, from theory to methods and applications • Readers will gain an understanding of the interpersonal emotional dynamics underlying a wide range of relationship processes associated with close relationships across the lifespan Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction 220pp 14 b/w illus. 3 tables October 2020 9781316630709 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.49 September 2018 9781107177703 Hardback GBP 80 / USD 110 eISBN 9781316822944
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Learning and Memory Second Edition David A. Lieberman
An engaging introduction to learning and memory that encourages critical thinking while providing stimulating material on human research and how it can be applied. Examples include behavioral treatments of autism, recovered memory, and improving studying. The text concludes with the remarkable achievements of neural networks and deep learning. • New critical thinking questions interwoven throughout the text, encouraging students to evaluate their reactions to the material they’ve read and to relate the findings to their own lives • Streamlined presentation of the Rescorla-Wagner model to improve student comprehension of this classic theory • Includes the latest research on cutting-edge topics such as neural networks and deep learning, explaining how extraordinarily simple processes can give rise to extraordinarily sophisticated behaviors • Lively and engaging writing style to stimulate and engage students • Promotes critical thinking in students with in-depth discussions of the methodology of selected experiments, emphasising depth rather than breath 630pp September 2020 9781108428613 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 115 September 2020 9781108450737 Paperback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99 eISBN 9781108553179
Meet Up! Better Meetings Through Nudging Martin J. Eppler | Universität St Gallen, Switzerland
For those who lead or participate in meetings, learn to make those meetings more productive and enjoyable. Based on behavioral economics, this book shows 100 ways to hack the human subconscious and make meetings more successful by improving focus, orientation, involvement, and commitment. • Provides an explanation of the nudge theory and six principles of how nudging affects our behavior subconsciously • Presents four relevant areas for improving meeting productivity: focus, orientation, involvement, and commitment • Demonstrates 100 very practical nudges for inducing meeting productivity that can be used by any meeting leader or participant 185pp December 2020 9781108830751 Hardback GBP 49 / USD 59 December 2020 9781108828796 Paperback GBP 15.99 / USD 19.99 eISBN 9781108903059 NEW IN PAPERBACK
Power in Close Relationships Christopher R. Agnew | Purdue University, Indiana
Using interdisciplinary theorizing and research about power from disciplines such as social psychology, communications, family studies, and public health, this book is an essential resource for any researcher, professional, student, or layperson seeking to better understand how power operates in those relationships that are most important to us. • Presents multiple theoretical perspectives to offer a unique overview of the research surrounding power in close relationships • Supplies specific examples of theoretical applications in practice • Proposes new theoretical insights and suggestions for future research and theoretical extensions
Relating Through Technology Everyday Social Interaction Jeffrey A. Hall | University of Kansas
This book offers a theoretically-driven, balanced, and evidence-based account of the role of mobile and social media in personal relationships for researchers, undergraduates, and graduates specialising in communication studies, media studies, mass communications, or social psychology. • Situates mobile and social media use in the context of personal relationships • Provides a unified, theory-driven account of the mutual influence and spill-over of face-to-face communication and online communication on close relationships • Summarizes the research on both the negative and positive effects of media use in relationships Advances in Personal Relationships 300pp 5 b/w illus. 2 tables July 2020 9781108483308 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108629935
Selves as Solutions to Social Inequalities Why Engaging the Full Complexity of Social Identities is Critical to Addressing Disparities Tiffany N. Brannon | University of California, Los Angeles
Social disparities tied to social group membership(s) are prevalent and persistent in mainstream institutions. Psychological science has harnessed selves as solutions to inequality.We propose and review evidence that theoretical and applied impacts of leveraging ‘selves as solutions’ can be furthered through a stigma and strengths framework. Elements in Applied Social Psychology 75pp October 2020 9781108812733 Paperback GBP 15 / USD 20 eISBN 9781108874267
The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Human Rights Neal S. Rubin
This handbook explains the crucial role that psychology plays in: defending individuals’ human rights, health, well-being, and dignity; supporting the development and implementation of appropriate health policies; and advancing the human rights global agenda. A must-read for students, researchers, non-governmental organizations, and policy-makers. • Describes the significant developments of psychology in advancing human rights at the United Nations • Includes key historical figures in psychology and human rights • Explains human rights instruments to shed light on the human rights system • Links psychological science with understanding the behavioral dimensions of human rights challenges • Shows how to translate psychological science into an optimistic endeavor to address emerging global issues Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology 800pp October 2020 9781108425636 Hardback GBP 155 / USD 200 October 2020 9781108442817 Paperback GBP 54.99 / USD 69.99 eISBN 9781108348607
Advances in Personal Relationships 294pp October 2020 9781316640913 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 36.39 February 2019 9781107192614 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108131490
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The Cambridge Handbook of the International Psychology of Women Fanny M. Cheung | The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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The handbook will be a valuable psychological knowledge touchstone for scholars studying in fields concerned with the lives of women and gender issues. It can also be used by practitioners working with female groups as well as members of the general public to understand more about the psychology of women. • Builds upon and expands the existing scholarship in the field by taking a broader perspective and using an international framework • Draws upon the expertise of international scholars to examine gender differences • Provides a thorough, contemporary and cross-cultural comparison of effects of intersecting factors such as income/class, ethnicity, sexuality, age, and functionality on the situation of women Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology 578pp 18 b/w illus. 10 tables August 2020 9781108473033 Hardback GBP 150 / USD 195 August 2020 9781108460903 Paperback GBP 54.99 / USD 69.99 eISBN 9781108561716 NEW IN PAPERBACK
The Psychology of Radical Social Change From Rage to Revolution Brady Wagoner | Aalborg University, Denmark
Drawing on case studies of revolutions and uprisings from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century across the world, this book applies a social psychological approach to analyze the conditions that allow these events to emerge, the trajectories they take, and how they are represented to the public. • Proposes a social psychological approach to revolutions and social change more generally • Bridges theoretical models and the analysis of concrete contextualized cases • Uses case studies from countries around the world and at different historical periods, allowing for numerous comparisons 308pp 13 b/w illus. January 2020 9781108431804 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 31.99 April 2018 9781108421621 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108377461
The Psychology of Social Influence Modes and Modalities of Shifting Common Sense Gordon Sammut | University of Malta
This volume provides an integrated view of different manifestations of social influence grounded in socio-political concerns. It brings together a range of modalities of influence - such as crowds, leadership, norm formation, conformity, obedience, resistance, and persuasion - in a unified diagnostic periodic table of social influences. • Provides a comprehensive treatment of social influences modalities • Combines theories of social influence, showing how the manifestation of social influence occurs in a dynamic interplay of different modes of interaction • Grounds various modalities of influence using practical, real-life examples • Lays out the implications of social influence findings and how these impact other social and psychological domains of inquiry such as beliefs, attitudes, behaviour, and common sense 280pp November 2020 9781108416375 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110
November 2020 9781108402897 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108236423
Undoing the Gender Binary Charlotte Chucky Tate | San Francisco State University
The central question of this Element is this: What does it mean to be transgender - in general and in specific ways? What does the designation mean for any individual and for the groups in which the individual exists? Biologically, what occurs? Psychologically, what transpires?
Elements in Applied Social Psychology 75pp June 2020 9781108731133 Paperback GBP 15 / USD 20 eISBN 9781108584234
Violence Rewired Evidence and Strategies for Public Health Action Richard Whittington | Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim
This book synthesises research on violence for researchers and policy makers to inform future practice. Those who are interested in human conflict and how to reduce it are offered an alternative picture of the causes of violence through a combination of findings from anthropology, genetics, psychology, psychiatry and criminology. • Uses evidence to challenge the widespread, yet mistaken, belief that violence is a fundamental part of human nature • Combines results from anthropology, genetics, psychology, psychiatry and criminology to offer an alternative picture of the causes of human violence • Presents approaches and methods that can enable us to reduce or escape from violence, on both individual and societal levels 316pp 3 b/w illus. 7 tables April 2020 9781107018075 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781139086486
Weaponized Words The Strategic Role of Persuasion in Violent Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization Kurt Braddock | Pennsylvania State University
Weaponized Words maps out the psychology of how terrorists persuade peaceful individuals to join their groups and engage in violence. Security officials, researchers, policymakers, and community activists are given the tools to develop strategic messages of their own to fight terrorist propaganda and prevent violent radicalization from occurring. • Describes four key theories and perspectives related to persuasion and how they relate to radicalization and counter-radicalization • Identifies future challenges that security officials will face in trying to stop terrorist messaging from promoting violent radicalization • Suggests future directions that security officials, researchers, and policymakers can take persuasion theory to develop effective countermessaging campaigns 302pp 13 b/w illus. 5 tables April 2020 9781108474528 Hardback GBP 59.99 / USD 79.99 April 2020 9781108464871 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108584517
Social Science Research Methods
Social Science Research Methods Qualitative Methods Rapid Ethnographies A Practical Guide Cecilia Vindrola-Padros | University College London
Written by a leading expert, this is a practical guide to rapid ethnographies, showing how they can be used to carry out successful research projects quickly and effectively. It includes a wide range of case studies, making it invaluable for researchers in a variety of disciplines. • Includes short vignette examples, with reflections from the author, and case studies with examples of published studies, to show how the theory can be applied in practice • Provides appendices with practical tools that can be implemented by the reader in their own work • Contains an annotated bibliography that can be used by the reader to search for examples of rapid ethnographies on topics of interest 275pp October 2020 9781108493369 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 97.99 October 2020 9781108736992 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108623568
The Production of Knowledge Enhancing Progress in Social Science Colin Elman | Syracuse University, New York
A wide-ranging discussion of factors that impede the cumulation of knowledge in the social sciences, including problems of transparency, replication, and reliability. Rather than focusing on individual studies or methods, this book examines how collective institutions and practices have (often unintended) impacts on the production of knowledge. • Comprehensively examines elements of the production of knowledge that inhibit the cumulation of knowledge • Covers a range of social science disciplines, including economics, political science, psychology, sociology, and related fields • Written in a fluid and accessible manner for a broad academic audience Strategies for Social Inquiry 566pp 11 b/w illus. 20 tables March 2020 9781108486774 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 March 2020 9781108708289 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108762519
Quantitative Methods TEXTBOOK
An SPSS Companion for the Third Edition of The Fundamentals of Political Science Research Paul M. Kellstedt | Texas A & M University
This workbook teaches students how to use the popular SPSS statistical software program to assess causal relationships using real political science data. It parallels the main Kellstedt and Whitten text, which allows students to apply the lessons and techniques they learn in each chapter in a statistical software setting. • Provides students with an introduction to using popular SPSS software program to assess causal relationships by conducting statistical analyses • Parallels the main text, giving students a chance to apply the lessons and techniques learned in each chapter in a statistical software setting • Teaches students to reproduce results presented in the main text, allowing them to become comfortable with data sets and techniques through repeated practice • Includes step-by-step instructions for using SPSS, including command lines and screenshots to demonstrate proper use of the software 100pp April 2020 9781108447935 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 25.99 eISBN 9781108594615
Marketing Research Methods Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches Mercedes Esteban-Bravo | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Covering both quantitative and qualitative market research methods and including rigorous academic theory, this book explains the breadth of modern methods for upper level business and social science students. • Provides students with higher-level and comprehensive examination of all methods in the field, including recent innovations such as, social networks, machine learning, big data, and artificial intelligence, and contextualises developments in market research from all social sciences • Illustrates methods and connects theory with practice through multiple examples and case studies that show students real-world application, and prepares them for practice by discussing the preparation of research reports, papers, and oral presentations, and examining the effect of researcher bias on reading and interpreting research findings • Written to be accessible to students with an intermediate level of algebra and calculus, or a non-finance background, self-contained chapters on statistical and econometric market research tools clearly and comprehensively explain the quantifiable methods of market research • To allow students to engage with the broader academic field, multiple references for each 700pp January 2021 9781108834988 Hardback GBP 115 / USD 150 January 2021 9781108792691 Paperback GBP 44.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781108874748
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Developmental Criminology and the Crime Decline
David A. Ellis
A Comparative Analysis of the Criminal Careers of Two New South Wales Birth Cohorts Jason Payne | Australian National University, Canberra
Over 2 billion people carry small, powerful computers that track an increasing number of behavioural and environmental metrics a.k.a. smartphones. Psychological science can now conduct research at a scale never previously possible. This documents the successes and ongoing challenges associated with interdisciplinary research in the digital age. • Readers can understand the content without requiring a technical background • Evaluates the progress that psychology has made when it comes to understanding the impact of technology on people and society • Proposes how the research base can productively evolve and stop repeating mistakes of the past 200pp September 2020 9781108497954 Hardback GBP 64.99 / USD 84.99 September 2020 9781108709347 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108671408
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Crime Prevention Principles, Perspectives and Practices Third Edition Adam Sutton | Deceased
Crime Prevention: Principles, Perspectives and Practices introduces readers to the theory and practice of crime prevention. Written by a team of experts in the field of criminology, Crime Prevention remains an authoritative introduction to crime prevention in Australia, and is an invaluable resource for criminology students. • Written by lead experts in crime prevention • Uses Australian case studies throughout • Features useful pedagogy including case studies, discussion questions and extension topics 244pp February 2021 9781108796965 Paperback GBP 50 / USD 65 eISBN 9781108859943
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Crime, Deviance and Society An Introduction to Sociological Criminology Ana Rodas | Western Sydney University
Crime, Deviance and Society: An Introduction to Sociological Criminology offers a comprehensive introduction to criminological theory. The book introduces key sociological theories, examines how traditional approaches have influenced the ways in which crime and deviance are constructed, and provides an account of contemporary theories and debates. • A ‘specialty’ text focussed on the analysis of theoretical concepts and their application to contemporary social issues • Accompanied by a suite of resources in the form of lesson plans, which provide supporting material for teaching criminological theories. These plans incorporate innovative ‘blended learning’ practices that make use of innovations in online and face-to-face teaching 500pp 13 b/w illus. 6 tables December 2020 9781108430302 Paperback GBP 59.99 / USD 77.99 eISBN 9781108333641
During the 1990s many countries around the world experienced the beginnings of what would later become the most significant decline in crime ever recorded. Through the lens of developmental and life-course criminology, this Element compares the criminal offending trajectories of two Australian birth cohorts born ten years apart in 1984 and 1994. Elements in Criminology 75pp September 2020 9781108794794 Paperback GBP 15 / USD 20 eISBN 9781108882149
Demography, Social Statistics Numbers in India’s Periphery The Political Economy of Government Statistics Ankush Agrawal | Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Analyses the quality of statistics such as geographic area, census population and sample survey statistics in a developing country. Using field interviews, archival sources, and secondary data, it explores the shifting relations between various kinds of statistics over their lifecycles and charts their cradle-to-grave political career. • Explores the quality of area, census population, and sample survey statistics over seven decades • Uncovers the dynamic relations between data, development, and democracy in developing countries • Reveals statistics as social artefacts shaped over their lifecycles by political and economic factors 390pp September 2020 9781108486729 Hardback GBP 90 / USD 120 eISBN 9781108762229
Historical Sociology Family Power Kinship, War and Political Orders in Eurasia, 500–2018 Peter Haldén
Combining political science with history, this book presents a new history and theory of how political order developed in Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East, explaining why some empires and states succeed and others fail. Elite families and dynasties are shown to be crucial to state formation. • This book uncovers longer historical trends than most comparative works in the state-formation genre • By comparing Europe with Central Asia and the Middle East the book draws new conclusions from each case as well as from a general phenomenon in human history • Makes us understand how political orders are shaped, what makes them last and draws political focus away from a focus on military force as a means of state-building 386pp March 2020 9781108495929 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108863612v
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Organisational Sociology The Social Structure of Online Communities William Sims Bainbridge
Students, software designers, and everyday users will explore and understand guilds in virtual worlds, cyber collectives in real-world settings, social movements in online media, wikis, digital government, and citizen social science. This book outlines the research methods, theories, history, and functions of Internet society. • Explores the diversity of important social phenomena that computer science has made possible • Can serve as a textbook for students working in computer science • Provides a platform for social scientists and computer scientists to cooperate in the research and development of new cyber-social systems • Raises the challenge of technological determinism, while also suggesting that computer technology can be moderated by the humanities Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences 338pp 43 tables April 2020 9781108499132 Hardback GBP 37.99 / USD 49.99 eISBN 9781108615211
Political Sociology Colossus The Anatomy of Delhi Sanjoy Chakravorty | Temple University, Philadelphia
Colossus is a comprehensive, data-driven, theory-rich, and multidisciplinary compilation that dissects the figurative anatomy of Delhi and India’s National Capital Region. It will find a prominent place in studies on South Asia, urbanization and urban social behavior, and become a standard resource on these subjects. • Enlarges the coverage out of the usual focus area of central Delhi • Provides insights from multidisciplinary perspectives, including economics, environmental science, geography, history, political science, sociology, and urban planning • Focuses on social attitudes and relations, which is new in urban studies South Asia in the Social Sciences 460pp December 2020 9781108832243 Hardback GBP 110 / USD 140 eISBN 9781108935654
Grassroots Environmentalism Suzanne Staggenborg | University of Pittsburgh
Examining both the promise of grassroots environmental activism and the challenges activists face, Staggenborg provides an inside look at grassroots organizing across five diverse organizations. This book is for scholars and students of political science and sociology, as well as anyone interested in pressing environmental issues. • Details participation in five grassroots organizations that vary by structure and culture • Examines organizational dynamics to offer important insight for activists seeking to make movements more effective and sustain energy over time • Reveals both what can be accomplished by grassroots activists and why organizing is so difficult
Ruling by Other Means State-Mobilized Movements Grzegorz Ekiert | Harvard University, Massachusetts
This book is the first cross-national and historical investigation of State-Mobilized Movements (SMMs). By enlarging the analytical horizons of social movement and civil society research, as well as our understanding of the bases of authoritarian rule, the volume aims to encourage debate and stimulate new research on state-society relations. • Explores and theorizes a new domain of contentious politics • Expands analysis of social bases of authoritarian politics • Provides consistent cross-national and cross regional approach Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics 348pp 25 b/w illus. 7 tables July 2020 9781108478069 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 July 2020 9781108745611 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108784146
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The Civil Sphere in East Asia Jeffrey C. Alexander | Yale University, Connecticut
From leading East Asian scholars, this collection of case studies, distributed across five East Asian nations, examines a wide range of contemporary social and cultural conflicts. It will be of use to graduate students and researchers in cultural sociology, political sociology, social theory, sociology of social movements, and globalization theory. • Covers an incredible range of topics, from banking crises and Presidential impeachment in Korea, to police surveillance and scandals over fertility technology in Japan, to labor struggles in China, to memory wars throughout East Asia • Utilizes diverse case studies across five different nations in East Asia • Advances civil sphere theory, a new, ambitious, and exciting sociological theory of democratic possibilities 322pp 2 b/w illus. 5 tables February 2020 9781108448208 Paperback GBP 20.99 / USD 31.99 February 2019 9781108427838 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108698368
The Genesis of Rebellion Governance, Grievance, and Mutiny in the Age of Sail Steven Pfaff | University of Washington
This book is intended for anyone interested in the genesis of rebellion and the world of ships at sea during the Age of Sail. Bringing to life dramatic events that led to mutinies, the authors shed new light on the ways governing authorities, whether through disregard or neglect, unintentionally create the grievances that drive people to rebel. • Can act as a lens to understand contemporary populism and the rejection of the establishment, as we learn more about what inspires rebellion • Provides a new understanding of why people rebel informed by advances in the science of how emotions and expectations shape behavior • Brings together history and social science in ways that are engaging and compelling to a wide variety of readers 352pp September 2020 9781107193734 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108149853
Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics 200pp October 2020 9781108478489 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 October 2020 9781108745864 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108777872
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The New Handbook of Political Sociology Thomas Janoski | University of Kentucky
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The New Handbook of Political Sociology provides a survey of the vibrant field of political sociology in six parts: theories of political sociology, the information and knowledge explosion, the state and political parties, civil society and citizenship, the varieties of state policies, and globalization and how it affects politics. • Covers all the subareas of political sociology with both theoretical orientations and a strong basis in empirical studies of many topics • Connects scholars with actual research being done on the subareas of sociology so that theory and research can be assessed together rather than simply relying on theory or critical endeavors • Focuses strongly on the new impact of political parties through articulation theories, showing the refocusing of political sociology on how political parties shape public opinion and the demands of various groups in society 1142pp 14 b/w illus. 8 tables March 2020 9781107193499 Hardback GBP 175 / USD 225 eISBN 9781108147828
Research Methods In Sociology and Criminology
Social Policy and Social Work Program Evaluation Pragmatic Methods for Social Work and Human Service Agencies Allen Rubin | University of Houston
This textbook provides students and instructors with a pragmatic introduction to program evaluation that emphasizes the activities students are likely to conduct in their future roles in serviceoriented agencies. • Focuses on the practical aspects of performing evaluation tasks as service providers or administrators in human service agencies • Balances the need for methodological rigor while maintaining realistic expectations consistent with becoming a successful evaluator within service-oriented settings • Each chapter gives examples, summaries, and questions that instructors can use in class discussion • Includes instructions on how to write and disseminate an evaluation report in a way that maximizes its chances of being used • Gives advice on: surveys of client needs or satisfaction, monitoring program implementation of new agency initiatives, and maximizing the value of evaluations that have limited internal validity 264pp 11 b/w illus. 12 tables July 2020 9781108835992 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 July 2020 9781108799096 Paperback GBP 39.99 / USD 49.99 eISBN 9781108870016
Living in Networks The Dynamics of Social Relations Claire Bidart | Université d’Aix-Marseille
How are personal networks built and how do they evolve? How do relationships emerge and disintegrate? Are there inequalities in this regard? Are digital networks changing things? Grounded in sociological surveys, this book offers a new perspective on the dynamics of relationships and personal networks. • Implements surveys, one of which replicated a classic American survey, other involved interviewing young people for twenty years of their life, to confirm and illustrate the social dimension of personal networks • Provides a clear theory of the combined dynamics of relations and networks • Synthesises current knowledge on personal networks Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences 225pp October 2020 9781108841436 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 October 2020 9781108794831 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108882392
Social Theory Social Avalanche Crowds, Cities and Financial Markets Christian Borch | Copenhagen Business School
A compelling account of how crowd dynamics, or social avalanches, are central to cities and financial markets. Just as urban inhabitants are prone to being caught up in the city’s flux, the same dynamic can cause traders on financial exchanges and even the algorithms of present-day financial markets to be captured by the maelstrom of the market. • Introduces the notions of social avalanche and tensional individuality through a reinterpretation of classical crowd theory • Shows that cities and financial markets are closely connected • Argues that algorithms (and algorithmic trading) can have sociality 290pp 29 b/w illus. January 2020 9781108489218 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 January 2020 9781108733632 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 eISBN 9781108774239
The Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory 2 Volume Hardback Set Peter Kivisto | Augustana College, Illinois
This two-volume handbook of social theory consists of forty original contributions. The researchers take stock of the state of social theory and its relationship to the canon, exploring the nature, purpose, and meaning of social theory; the significance of the classics; the impact of specific individual and theory schools; and more. • Appeals to the social sciences in general, rather than just sociological theory • Synthesizes a body of knowledge about social theory in sociology • Offers a wide-ranging treatment of contemporary theory and its applications 1300pp October 2020 9781107131705 2 Hardback books GBP 225 / USD 365 eISBN 9781316443521
Sociology
The Marx Revival Key Concepts and New Interpretations Marcello Musto | York University, Toronto
An international set of eminent scholars examine the contemporary relevance and continuing contribution of Marx’s work. This indispensable volume presents Marx’s theories in a new light, both for specialists who might think they already know everything about Marx and for a new generation of readers who are approaching his work for the first time. • International spread of authors, from several disciplines, countries and backgrounds • Written in an accessible style, for academic and general readers alike • Includes the most updated philological discoveries on Marx (based on the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe edition) which help in presenting him in a new light compared to the past 442pp June 2020 9781107117921 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 June 2020 9781107542167 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781316338902
Sociology (General) TEXTBOOK
An Introduction to Japanese Society Fifth Edition Yoshio Sugimoto | La Trobe University, Victoria
An Introduction to Japanese Society provides a sophisticated, highly readable introduction to Japanese society by internationally renowned scholar Yoshio Sugimoto. This edition begins with a new historical introduction placing the sociological analysis of contemporary Japan in context, and includes a new chapter on religion and belief systems. • To match contemporary teaching syllabi, the text now includes a brief historical introduction to Japan and a chapter on religion and belief systems • The engaging discussion encourages students to develop an understanding of the complexity and multifaceted nature of Japanese society • Student learning is scaffolded through the inclusion of case examples and video examples, research questions, suggested further readings and online resources • Instructors will find additional reflection questions and research questions on the companion website, which can be utilized in online learning 0pp November 2020 9781108724746 Paperback GBP Price is not yet set / USD Price is not yet set eISBN 9781108661669
The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology Volume 1 Katharine Legun | University of Otago, New Zealand
A two-volume work featuring sixty chapters, The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology offers educators, students, and researchers a go-to resource for learning about the cutting edge of research in the field, providing theoretical depth, global scope, and diversity of cases • An overview of various theoretical approaches and empirical examples that reflect both the breadth and depth of the field • Chapters are written from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of the field of environmental sociology • New directions in environmental sociological theory and new empirical examples are highlighted, with special attention to the current political context 600pp 5 b/w illus. October 2020 9781108429320 Hardback GBP 160 / USD 200 eISBN 9781108554510
The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology Volume 2 Katharine Legun | University of Otago, New Zealand
A two-volume work featuring sixty chapters, The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology offers educators, students, and researchers a go-to resource for learning about the cutting edge of research in the field, providing theoretical depth, global scope, and diversity of cases. • An overview of various theoretical approaches and empirical examples that reflect both the breadth and depth of the field • Chapters are written from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of the field of environmental sociology. • New directions in environmental sociological theory and new empirical examples are highlighted, with special attention to the current political context 556pp October 2020 9781108429337 Hardback GBP 160 / USD 200 eISBN 9781108554558
The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology 2 Volume Hardback Set Katharine Legun | University of Otago, New Zealand
A two-volume work featuring sixty chapters, The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology offers educators, students, and researchers a goto resource for learning about the cutting edge of research in the field, providing theoretical depth, global scope, and diversity of cases. • An overview of various theoretical approaches and empirical examples that reflect both the breadth and depth of the field • Chapters are written from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of the field of environmental sociology • New directions in environmental sociological theory and new empirical examples are highlighted, with special attention to the current political context 1200pp October 2020 9781108429306 2 Hardback books GBP 288 / USD 360 eISBN 9781108554497
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The Cambridge Handbook of Sociology, Volume 1 provides an overview of the core areas of sociology and the development of the discipline that is both comprehensive and up to date. The essays, produced by respected scholars, teachers, and public sociologists from all over the world, are highly readable and written with a lay, as well as a scholarly, audience in mind. • Provides an overview of the field that is both comprehensive and up to date • In addition to covering key areas in the field, it provides a history of the discipline, showing how and why it developed, and includes entries on related areas of study • Truly comprehensive and written in accessible language 538pp March 2020 9781107565227 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 37.99 October 2017 9781107125896 Hardback GBP 168 / USD 210 eISBN 9781316418376
Sociology of Gender Witch Hunts Culture, Patriarchy and Structural Transformation Govind Kelkar
This book is a unique intersectional analysis combining culture, gender struggles and structural including economic transformations, both in the formation of gendered class society, patriarchy and capitalism. • Unique intersectional analysis of culture, gender struggles and structural, including economic, transformation • Covers witch hunts in India, Africa, the Americas and early modern Europe 300pp September 2020 9781108490511 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108781091
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