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Few interventions that succeed in improving healthcare locally end up becoming spread and sustained more widely. This indicates that we need to think differently about spreading improvements in...

In requiring artificial light, the early modern indoor theatre had to interrupt the action so that the candles could be attended to, if necessary. The origin of the five-act, four-interval play was...

In this innovative book, Gloria Frost reconstructs and analyses Aquinas's theories on efficient causation and causal powers, focusing specifically on natural causal powers and efficient causation in...

In this volume, Randall B. Smith provides a revisionist account of the scholastic culture that flourished in Paris during the High Middle Ages. Exploring the educational culture that informed the...

This Element volume provides an up-to-date synthesis of the archaeology of the Roman conquest, combining new theoretical and methodological approaches with the latest fieldwork results. Recent...

In terms of design, multifunctional requirements are becoming the rule. While previous decades were driven by the development of new materials, this new engineering approach calls for the development...

Aristotle's On the Soul aims to uncover the principle of life, what Aristotle calls psuche (soul). For Aristotle, soul is the form which gives life to a body and causes all its living activities,...

The overriding question discussed in this Element can be stated simply as: can computers create art? This Element presents an overview of the controversies raised by various answers to this question...

The revolutions that began to sweep across countries in North Africa and the Middle East in December 2010 - like other revolutions in diverse modern historical contexts - have often been articulated,...

Is Artificial Intelligence a more significant invention than electricity? Will it result in explosive economic growth and unimaginable wealth for all, or will it cause the extinction of all humans?...

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are transforming economies, societies, and geopolitics. Enabled by the exponential increase of data that is collected, transmitted, and processed...

Thin-film growth is a very old art and an established scientific field in materials science. For decades, growth of monocrystal-like films has been practiced by making use of epitaxy on...

Cambridge Experience Readers is an award-winning series of graded readers including original fiction, adapted fiction and non-fiction especially written for teenagers. Alice is an Agony Aunt on her...

Examining the relationship between a strengthened Iraqi state under the Ba?th regime and the Assyrians, a Christian ethno-religious group, Alda Benjamen studies the role of minorities in...

In recent decades, powerful telescopes have enabled astrophysicists to uncover startling new worlds and solar systems. An epochal moment came in 1995, when a planet - 51 Pegasi b - was located...

Contemporary scholars debate the factors driving despotic labour conditions across the world economy. Some emphasize the dominance of global market imperatives and others highlight the market's...

Radically revises widely held assumptions about the relationship between the Athenians and Boiotians in the Archaic and Classical period.Author: Roy van WijkPublisher: Cambridge University...

The most comprehensive, detailed, and beautiful account of the Messier objects available, for amateur astronomers of all abilities.Author: Ronald StoyanPublisher: Cambridge University...

This Element builds on the mainstream theory of attachment and contemporary understanding of the environment of evolutionary adaptedness to address the origin and nature of infant-maternal bond...

Between 2016 and 2020 Australia's foreign and security policies were significantly impacted by profound changes in geopolitics and geoeconomics, particularly as great power competition re-emerged...

Australian Constitutional Law: Concepts and Cases provides an accessible introduction for law students, integrating theory and doctrine.Author: Luke BeckPublisher: Cambridge University...

This Element explores the sentiment and keyword features in both authorship profiling and authorship attribution in social media texts in the Chinese cultural context. The key findings can be...

Offers a radically new account of Babylonian Jewish and rabbinic engagement and negotiation with Sasanian rule.Author: Simcha GrossPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublication Date: Apr 11,...

This Element focuses on how music is experienced, articulated, and reclaimed in urban commercial environments. Special attention is paid to listeners, spaces, and music, co- and re-produced...

This Element focuses on the machinery of commercial theatre, on extra-authorial interventions into the creative process and on the people and institutional forces that foster them. Such a process...

Author: Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin, ?????? ????????????? ???????, Michael Bakunin, Bakunin MichaelPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublication Date: Nov 30, 1990Number of Pages: 300...

Balancing Strategy examines how neutrality and prize-law shaped eighteenth century maritime strategy, and the development of seapower.Author: Anna BrinkmanPublisher: Cambridge University...

Some scholars are highly productive. They break new ground and do it again and again. Their names and ideas are ubiquitous in scientific journals and scholarly books. They scoff at 'publish or perish...

This Element discusses the association between Samuel Beckett, and the Romanian-born philosopher, E. M. Cioran. It draws upon the known biographical detail, but, more substantially, upon the terms of...

Becoming Free, Becoming ack:ace, Freedomandaw in Ca, Virgiaand Louiana (Studies in Lal History) - 9781108468145Author: Alejandro de la FuentePublisher: Cambridge University PressPublication Date: Dec...