Publications
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Heavy Quark Physics
(2000)
Understanding the physics of heavy quarks gives physicists a unique opportunity to test the predictions of quantum chromodynamics and the Standard Model. This introductory text begins with a review of the Standard Model, ...
European Elites and Ideas of Empire, 1917-1957
(2016)
A study of the genesis of ‘European civilisation’ as a concept of 20th-C EU political practice & as a specific project of a transnational network of EU elites, examining how they sought to rehabilitate EU identity as a ...
An Introduction to Regge Theory and High Energy Physics
(1977)
This book presents an extended introduction to the theory of hadrons, the elementary particles that occur in the atomic nucleus. The main emphasis is on the theory of the complex angular momentum plane 'Regge theory'. In ...
Moonshine beyond the Monster
(2007)
Moonshine forms a way of explaining the mysterious connection between the monster finite group and modular functions from classical number theory. The theory has evolved to describe the relationship between finite groups, ...
Spin in Particle Physics
(2001)
Motivated by dramatic developments in the field, this book provides a thorough introduction to spin and its role in elementary particle physics. Starting with a simple pedagogical introduction to spin and its relativistic ...
Taxes and Trust
(2018-01-12)
Taxes and Trust is the first book on taxes to focus on trust and the first work of social science to concentrate on how tax policy actually gets implemented on the ground in Poland, Russia and Ukraine. It highlights the ...
Nuclear Superfluidity
(2005)
Nuclear Superfluidity is a monograph devoted exclusively to pair correlations in nuclei. It begins by exploring pair correlations in a variety of systems including superconductivity in metals at low temperatures and ...
Governing Failure
(2014)
Jacqueline Best argues that the changes in International Monetary Fund, World Bank and donor policies in the 1990s, towards what some have called the 'Post-Washington Consensus,' were driven by an erosion of expert authority ...
Quantum Chromodynamics at High Energy
(2013)
Filling a gap in the current literature, this book is dedicated to high energy quantum chromodynamics (QCD) including parton saturation and the color glass condensate (CGC). It presents groundbreaking progress on the subject ...
An Introduction to the Standard Model of Particle Physics
(2007)
The second edition of this introductory graduate textbook provides a concise yet accessible introduction to the Standard Model. It has been updated to account for the successes of the theory of strong interactions and the ...
Chapter 3 Persuasive technologies and the right to mental liberty
(2022)
The outline of this chapter is as follows. In section 2 we provide a further definition of
PTs, and present some possibilities that PTs offer for the smart correctional rehabilitation of
criminal offenders. Next, in ...
The Theory and Applications of Instanton Calculations
(2018)
Instantons, or pseudoparticles, are solutions to the equations of motion in classical field theories on a Euclidean spacetime. Instantons are found everywhere in quantum theories as they have many applications in quantum ...
Print, Publicity and Radicalism in the 1790s
(2016-06-01)
Jon Mee explores the popular democratic movement that emerged in the London of the 1790s in response to the French Revolution. Central to the movement’s achievement was the creation of an idea of ‘the people’ brought into ...
The Lund Model
(1998)
The Lund model, inspired by quantum chromodynamics, has provided a promising approach to the dynamics of quark and gluon interactions. Starting with a brief reprise of basic concepts in relativity, quantum mechanics of ...
Unity of Science
(2021)
Unity of science was once a very popular idea among both philosophers and scientists. But it has fallen out of fashion, largely because of its association with reductionism and the challenge from multiple realisation. ...
Polio Across the Iron Curtain
(2018)
By the end of the 1950s Hungary became an unlikely leader in what we now
call global health. Only three years after Soviet tanks crushed the revolution
of 1956, Hungary became one of the first countries to introduce the ...
Loops, Knots, Gauge Theories
(2001)
This volume provides a self-contained introduction to applications of loop representations, and the related topic of knot theory, in particle physics and quantum gravity. These topics are of considerable interest because ...
Renormalization
(1984)
Many numerical predictions of experimental phenomena in particle physics are made possible by exploiting the discovery that simplifications can happen when phenomena are investigated on short distance and time scales. This ...
Data Management for Social Scientists
(2023)
The 'data revolution' offers many new opportunities for research in the social sciences. Increasingly, social and political interactions can be recorded digitally, leading to vast amounts of new data available for research. ...
Quantized Detector Networks
(2017)
Scientists have been debating the meaning of quantum mechanics for more than a century. This book for graduate students and researchers gets to the root of the problem: how the contextual nature of empirical truth and the ...
QCD as a Theory of Hadrons
(2005)
This 2004 book provides a pedagogical introduction to the perturbative and non-perturbative aspects of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). The text introduces the basic theory of QCD and its historical development, covering ...
The power of standards
(2019)
Standards often remain unseen, yet they play a fundamental part in the organisation of contemporary capitalism and society at large. What form of power do they epitomise? Why have they become so prominent? Are they set to ...
The Cambridge Handbook of Information Technology, Life Sciences and Human Rights
(2022)
Debates on the human-rights implications of new and emerging technologies have been hampered by the lack of a comprehensive theoretical framework for the complex issues involved. This volume provides that framework, bringing ...
Kinks and Domain Walls
(2007)
Kinks and domain walls are the simplest kind of solitons and are invaluable for testing various ideas and for learning about non-perturbative aspects of field theories. They are the subject of research in essentially every ...
Weak Scale Supersymmetry
(2007)
Supersymmetric models of particle physics predict new superpartner matter states for each particle in the Standard Model. These superpartners will have wide ranging implications, from cosmology to observations at high ...
Methods of Contemporary Gauge Theory
(2002)
This book introduces the quantum theory of gauge fields, emphasising four non-perturbative methods which have important applications: path integrals, lattice gauge theories, the 1/N expansion, and reduced matrix models. ...
Introduction to Quantum Fields on a Lattice
(2003)
This book provides a concise introduction to quantum fields on a lattice: a precise and non-perturbative definition of quantum field theory obtained by replacing continuous space-time by a discrete set of points on a ...
Strong Interactions of Hadrons at High Energies
(2009)
Vladimir Gribov was one of the founding fathers of high-energy elementary particle physics. This volume derives from a graduate lecture course he delivered in the 1970s. It provides graduate students and researchers with ...
A Bit Too Simple
(2025)
Elucidates the problematic impact of influential development metanarratives on different actors as well as policy and practice on sustainability challenges. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
Abuse in New Religious Movements
(2025)
This Element analyses issues of abuse in new religious movements (NRMs). It argues that certain factors can be intensified in NRM contexts, not least propensities for separation from wider society, teachings on unique ...
A Critical Genealogy of Humanism
(2026)
The genealogy of 'humanism' demonstrates its impossibility as a historiographical category since the Early Modern Period, thereby opening up the potentials of a critical historiography. This title is also available as open ...
Art and Anti-Racism in Latin America
(2025)
This collection interrogates how art with anti-racist intent can move beyond identity politics, embracing an inclusive anti-racism. It will be of interest to students and scholars in Latin American studies, ethnic and ...
Asymptotic Diffraction Theory and Nuclear Scattering
(2019)
This book presents a simple physical picture of diffractive nuclear scattering in terms of semi-classical trajectories. It demonstrates the transition from quantum to classical scattering, for researchers using scattering ...
Arendt on the Political
(2019)
A clear introduction to Hannah Arendt and a new interpretation of her work, this book shows how her reconceptualizations of political theory shed new light on the past and present of American politics. This title is also ...
Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare
(2025)
Based on case studies, this is a guide to conducting corpus-based studies on health communication, from interactions in clinical settings to media representations of illness. It is essential reading for both students and ...
AI and Image
(2025)
AI and Image illustrates the importance of critical perspectives in the study of AI and its application to image collections in the art and heritage sector. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
An Introduction to Nuclear Physics
(2012)
This clear and concise introduction to nuclear physics provides an excellent basis for an undergraduate course. It sets nuclear physics in the context of elementary particle physics and shows how simple models can provide ...
Algorithmic Rule By Law
(2024)
Amidst a global rule of law crisis, this book shows how the rule of law is eroded by algorithmic regulation under the guise of efficiency, leading to algorithmic rule by law. This title is also available as open access on ...
Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography
(2026)
The Element traces the history of Shakespearean bibliography, arguing that understanding these is foundational to researching Shakespeare. It underscores how taxonomic organization, ambit, and media of enumerative ...
Complexity Economics and Sustainable Development
(2024)
Provides a novel framework for overcoming analytical challenges in sustainable development. It walks the reader through an analytic toolkit and familiarises them with a diverse set of empirical applications. Audience ...
Being Human in the Digital World
(2025)
This volume explores the different ways in which digital technologies might change the idea of being human. It investigates how our digitized society could transform the conditions that enable humans to direct their own ...
Classical Solutions in Quantum Field Theory
(2012)
Written for advanced graduate students and researchers in elementary particle physics, cosmology, and related fields, this book discusses the most important classes of solitons: kinks, vortices, and magnetic monopoles, as ...
Clientelism
(2025)
This Element examines clientelism and analyzes its systemic impact on democratic institutions and markets. Clientelism arises as reciprocal exchanges of resources and benefits between actors. Clientelism is thus a rational ...
Clearcut
(2025)
This book provides an intersectoral analysis of the political, socio-economic, and moral causes of deforestation across Brazil, Peru, and Finland. It will be valuable for advanced students, researchers, and policy makers ...
Climate Politics
(2026)
This book provides a novel understanding of the relationship between politics and policy for those familiar with climate change mitigation policies, and an introduction to readers new to the field. It will be valuable for ...
Chinese Global Environmentalism
(2026)
This Element examines 'Chinese global environmentalism' and traces Chinese global environmentalism's historical evolution and motivations and analyzes its deployment through green ideology, diplomacy, economic statecraft, ...
Colonialism and the EU Legal Order
(2025)
This book shows how Europe's history of colonialism has shaped the development of the EU legal order. Offering the reader a broadened perspective on contemporary EU law, the book illustrates the impact of colonialism on ...
Climate Justice
(2026)
Examines the impact of climate change on marginalized communities across the globe and the different ways of resisting these impacts. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
Different and Unequal?
(2026)
The Element examines political participation across diverse activities, individual-level explanations, patterns over time, and cross-national differences, and provides an analysis of gender patterns in participation. It ...
Data Analysis Techniques for Physical Scientists
(2017)
A comprehensive guide to data analysis for the physical sciences including probability, statistics, data reconstruction, and Monte Carlo methods. This book provides a valuable resource for advanced students and seasoned ...
Design Strategies in Public Services
(2026)
This Element explores the impact of integrating service design principles into public management and administration. It highlights the need for ongoing engagement and the integration of user experiences and reveals a trend ...
Decolonizing Pedagogy in Post-Apartheid South Africa
(2026)
The Element examines post-apartheid pedagogy in South Africa to uncover its philosophical and epistemological foundations. The analysis reveals epistemologies and their philosophical postulations, espousing solipsistic ...
Data Access and AI Explainability
(2025)
As managers digitize judgment using AI, their evaluations of persons risk imposing benefits and burdens in opaque and unaccountable ways. This Element offers a useful evaluative framework for those interpreting and applying ...
Developmental Dilemmas
(2026)
This Element outlines a conceptual framework for policy-relevant inquiry. It addresses the concept of power—noting sources, instruments, manifestations, domains of operation, and strategic templates. This title is also ...
Cultures of Programming
(2025)
The book provides a framework for understanding the development of concepts programmers rely on. It documents important episodes from the history of programming and provides programmers, computer scientists and historians ...
Dynamic Capabilities
(2025)
This Element relates the dynamic capabilities framework to many important concepts from the business and economics literature, demonstrating how the framework applies to today's business challenges. It also offers the ...
Divination
(2025)
This Element adopts a naturalistic, cognitive perspective to understand divination, examining belief, plausibility, and the socio-cultural factors influencing the perception and persistence of divination practices across ...
Catching Fire in the News
(2026)
This Element uses a fire triangle analogy for the necessary conditions of media storms. Media storms takes the right event, at the right time, with the momentum of attention. But when a media storm erupts, it can serve as ...
China and the Global Economic Order
(2025)
This Element examines China's relations with the Bretton Woods institutions (BWIs), the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group. China's interventions have resulted in BWs reforms and the transformation of the ...
Catalytic Capital
(2025)
Examines philanthropy as a catalyst for systemic change in emerging markets, with a strong focus on climate resilience and adaptation. Suitable for philanthropists, impact investors, policymakers, and development professionals ...
Can the Public be Trusted?
(2025)
This comprehensive analysis examines trust-based versus coercive regulatory approaches across contexts, integrating behavioral science and socio-legal research to develop frameworks for optimizing voluntary compliance. ...
Causal Fermion Systems
(2025)
Offering an in-depth introduction to the theory of causal fermion systems, this book covers the relevant fundamental structures, mathematical methods and physical applications. It is intended for graduate students and ...
Aristotle's Ontology of Artefacts
(2023)
Shows historians of philosophy that Aristotle provides an elaborate account of artefacts from which we can extrapolate a new solution to the problem of artefacts' substantiality. The reconstruction of such an account also ...
After Impressionism
(2025)
First study of the poetry written after impressionism. It has a wide interdisciplinary range across the fields of literary, philosophical, art-historical and cultural studies. Would be useful for scholars as well as ...
China for Africa's Industrialization?
(2025)
This Element considers the vectors of Africa–China engagements, how they contribute to industrialization prospects, and the central role of policy agency, bargaining and contestation. This title is also available as Open ...
Charting Translation Reception
(2025)
This Element explores translation reception as a form of cultural negotiation in which cognitive processes and sociocultural forces converge to shape understanding. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Charismatic Nations
(2026)
This gripping history offers a unique understanding of the pervasive influence of nationalism in both politics and culture, from the period of romanticism to present-day populism.This title is also available as Open Access ...
Corporate Climate Adaptation
(2026)
This Element offers a new perspective on responsible business conduct in climate adaptation, presenting a theoretical framework that explains how regulatory and political factors external to firms influence their consideration ...
Copyright Reversion
(2025)
Copyright is criticised for doing a poor job of rewarding creators and promoting ongoing access to knowledge and culture. This empirically-grounded book shows how we can use copyright reversion (mechanisms for returning ...
Creative Construction Grammar
(2025)
Constructions are long-term pairings in memory of form and meaning. How are they created and learned, how do they change, and how do they combine into new utterances (constructs, communicative performances) in working ...
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
(2025)
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is an educational approach that combines the teaching of subject content with language learning. This Element offers a comprehensive overview of CLIL, tracing its origins and ...
Conflict and Change
(2026)
This book presents a groundbreaking synthesis of social and developmental psychology, exploring its application to longstanding conflicts. Employing diverse methods and perspectives, it informs broader societal conflicts ...
Configuring Psychology
(2026)
This book presents a sociological study of clinical psychology in the UK. Professor Martyn Pickersgill demonstrates how policy and governance shape and are shaped by clinical practices, structuring access to – and exclusion ...
Connectives and Discourse Relations
(2024)
Illustrated with a wide range of examples, this book provides an introduction to the meanings and functions of connectives, and the discourse relations they communicate. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and ...
Constructing Economic Nationalisms in Brazil and India
(2026)
This Element analyzes variation in foreign investment regulation in post-war India and Brazil. Policymakers' preferences were shaped by contrasting colonial experiences that generated economic nationalisms and policies and ...
Compositional Abduction and Scientific Interpretation
(2025)
The theory of compositional abduction developed in this book provides a theory of confirmation that will be valuable to philosophers of science, those working on hypothetico-deductive confirmation, Peirce's view of abduction, ...
Dynamic Capabilities and Related Paradigms
(2025)
This Element presents the dynamic capabilities framework and compares it to a dozen other paradigms of strategic management and innovation. It demonstrates that these approaches to strategic management can be thought of ...
Early Globalism and Chinese Literature
(2026)
Exploring 'early globalism and Chinese literature' through the lens of 'literary diffusion,' this Element analyzes two primary forms. The authors contend that early global literary diffusion left a lasting imprint on Chinese ...