New ebook collections: Bloomsbury Subject Collections EBA 2021-2023

The ebooks@cambridge team is pleased to announce the launch of a new evidence-based (EBA) scheme which has allowed us to open up unlimited DRM-free access to around 1,850 extra titles on the Bloomsbury Collections platform. All titles published (and to be published) 2021-2023 in the following subject collections are included;

Africa, Asia and Latin American Studies; Art & Visual Culture; Biblical Studies; Classical Studies & Archaeology; Design; Education; Fashion; Film & Media Studies; History; Linguistics; Literary Studies; Middle East; Music & Sound Studies; Philosophy; Politics & International Relations; Religious Studies; and Theology.

These titles will be searchable in iDiscover until the end of July 2024, when a selection of around 55 of the most popular books, chosen in consultation with your faculty and College librarians, will be permanently purchased.

This is a fantastic new ebooks scheme which opens up a greater breadth of Bloomsbury ebooks for students in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences than ever before. This EBA scheme adds to previously purchased selective subject, archive and special collections as well as individually purchased titles, for all of which title records are searchable in iDiscover.

Please see below for a glimpse of the titles available in these new collections. Click here to skip to the list of iDiscover links.

If you have any questions, please do get in touch with the ebooks team at ebooks@lib.cam.ac.uk

Africa, Asia and Latin America Studies

Politics & International Relations

Design

Biblical Studies

Art & Visual Culture

Education

Architecture

Literary Studies

Classical Studies & Archaeology

Film & Media Studies

Middle East

Music & Sound Studies

Philosophy

Religious Studies

Theology

Linguistics

Literary Studies

History

List of iDiscover links

• Ghana: a Political and Social History
• A Nation in Crisis: Division, Conflict and Capitalism in the United Kingdom
• After Universal Design: the disability design revolution
• Before there was a Bible: Authorities in early Christianity
• Needlework, Affect and Social Transformation: the Everyday Textures of Feminist Activism
• The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sustainability in Higher Education: an agenda for transformational change
• The Color of Modernism: paints, pigments, and the transformation of modern architecture in 1920s Germany
• Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene: imagining futures and dreaming hope in literature and media
• Music: Antiquity and Its Legacy
• American Disaster Movies of the 1970s: Crisis, Spectacle and Modernity
• Fada’i Guerrilla Praxis in Iran (1970–1979): Narratives and Reflections on Everyday Life
• Radiophilia
• Roman Ingarden’s Aesthetics and Ontology: Contemporary Readings
• Religion and inequality in Africa
• The persistence of evil: a cultural, literary and theological analysis
• Music, Dance & Translation
• Angela Carter’s Pyrotechnics: a Union of Contraries
• Laughter and awkwardness in late medieval England: social discomfort in the literature of the Middle Ages

New Bloomsbury 2022 Collections

The ebooks team is pleased to announce the acquisition of six Bloomsbury 2022 ebook collections.

The first five of these collections were purchased from the Connell fund, with additional funding from the MMLL Library and ebooks@cambridge for the Film & Media Studies collection. Titles in these collections will be of interest to students and researchers from a wide range of subject areas across the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.

You can browse the collections on the Bloomsbury website using the authenticated links below:

• Africa, Asia and Latin American Studies 2022 (16 total titles; 4 published so far).
• Art & Visual Culture 2022 (18 total titles; 7 published so far).
• Film & Media Studies 2022 (81 total titles; 18 published so far).
• Politics & International Relations 2022 (53 total titles; 10 published so far).
• Religious Studies 2022 (40 total titles; 12 published so far).

Additionally, the Squire Law Library has purchased Hart Publishing 2022. Cambridge users now have access to the Hart Publishing 2014-22 annual collections.

• Hart Publishing 2022 (151 total titles; 25 published so far).

MARC records for all published titles in these collections are now available in iDiscover; additional records will be loaded into the catalogue as the remaining titles are added to the Bloomsbury Collections platform throughout the year.

Please see below for a small selection of currently available titles from each collection:

Africa, Asia and Latin American Studies 2022

• War, Women, and Post-conflict Empowerment: Lessons from Sierra Leone
• Urban Inequality: Theory, Evidence and Method in Johannesburg
• Operation Car Wash: Brazil’s Institutionalized Crime, and The Inside Story of the Biggest Corruption Scandal in History
• Power and Informality in Urban Africa: Ethnographic Perspectives

Art & Visual Culture 2022

• Material Modernity: Innovations in Art, Design, and Architecture in the Weimar Republic
• Pop Art and Beyond: Gender, Race, and Class in the Global Sixties
• Laugh Lines: Caricaturing Painting in Nineteenth-Century France
• The Medicine of Art: Disease and the Aesthetic Object in Gilded Age America
• Domestic Space in France and Belgium: Art, Literature and Design, 1850–1920
• Malevich and Interwar Modernism: Russian Art and the International of the Square

Film & Media Studies 2022

• Japanese Horror Cinema and Deleuze: Interrogating and Reconceptualizing Dominant Modes of Thought
• Radio’s Legacy in Popular Culture: The Sounds of British Broadcasting over the Decades
• The Film Archipelago: Islands in Latin American Cinemades
• Hollywood Screwball Comedy 1934-1945: Sex, Love, and Democratic Ideals
• SceneWriting: The Missing Manual for Screenwriters
• City Limits: Filming Belfast, Beirut and Berlin in Troubled Times

Politics & International Relations 2022

• Global Health Watch 6: In The Shadow Of The Pandemic
• Georgia’s Foreign Policy in The 21st Century: Challenges for a Small State
• Uncontrollable Women:Radicals, Reformers and Revolutionaries
• Indigenous Women’s Voices: 20 Years on from Linda Tuhiwai Smith’s Decolonizing Methodologies
• A Vanishing West in the Middle East: The Recent History of U.S.-Europe Cooperation in the Region
• Rethinking Labour’s Past

Religious Studies 2022

• Religious Diversity in Europe: Mediating the Past to the Young
• Buddhism and Waste: The Excess, Discard, and Afterlife of Buddhist Consumption
• Jehovah’s Witnesses: A New Introduction
• African Spirituality, Politics, and Knowledge Systems: Sacred Words and Holy Realms
• Cyber Muslims: Mapping Islamic Digital Media in the Internet Age
• Experience, Identity & Epistemic Injustice within Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries

Hart Publishing 2022

• The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the European Union: The Impact on Law and Governance
• The Future of Unions and Worker Representation: The Digital Picket Line
• The Criminal Law’s Person
• Three Liability Regimes for Artificial Intelligence: Algorithmic Actants, Hybrids, Crowds
• Taking Law Seriously: Essays in Honour of Peter Cane
• From Cosmopolitanism to Human Rights

Please contact the ebooks@cambridge team at ebooks@lib.cam.ac.uk if you have any questions about these collections.

New ebooks – December 2019

Here is a taster of the titles added to the ebooks@cambridge collection during December. These titles were purchased by, or on behalf of, department and faculty libraries within the University of Cambridge and by the University Library.

A complete list of ebook purchases is available to Cambridge library staff to download from the ebooks@cambridge section of the Cambridge Libraries Intranet.

All of the titles can be found in iDiscover. Alternatively, follow the title links below the cover images for access.

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Covers of a selection of Arts & Humanities ebooks purchased in December

• Author Unknown : The Power of Anonymity in Ancient Rome
• A Family of Gods: the Worship of the Imperial Family in the Latin West
• Arabic literature in a posthuman world : proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Association for Modern Arabic Literature
• Aristotle and Early Christian Thought
• Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture: A Companion to the Enlightenment
• Colonization, Piracy, and Trade in Early Modern Europe: the Roles of Powerful Women and Queens
• Creaturely Poetics : Animality and Vulnerability in Literature and Film
• Family Lexicon
• Humoring the Body: Emotions and the Shakespearean Stage
• La scrittura infinita di Alberto Arbasino : studi su Fratelli d’Italia
• Luigi Meneghello
• Method and Variation : Narrative in Early Modern French Thought
• Moderns Abroad: Architecture, Cities and Italian Imperialism
• Of Books and Botany in Early Modern England : Sixteenth-Century Plants and Print Culture
• Remapping the Mediterranean World in Early Modern English Writings
• Screening Nature : Cinema Beyond the Human
• The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Italy : History, Politics, Society

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Covers of a selection of Humanities & Social Sciences ebooks purchased in December

• Climate Psychology
• Data-Driven Learning for the Next Generation: Corpora and DDL for Pre-tertiary
• Interpreting the Early Modern World: Transatlantic Perspectives
• Militant Democracy
• New Voices and New Perspectives in International Economic Law
• Responsive Regulation: Transcending the Deregulation Debate
• Teaching Human Rights in Primary Schools: Overcoming the Barriers to Effective Practice
• The Ashgate Companion to the History of Textile Workers, 1650-2000
• The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus
• The Judicialization of Politics in Asia
• The Routledge Handbook of English Language Teacher Education
• The Storytelling School: (Handbook for Teachers)

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Covers of a selection of Science, Technology and Medicine ebooks purchased in December

• 500 Single Best Answers in Medicine
• Evaluating Training Programs: the Four Levels (3rd ed.)
• Genomics and Molecular Genetics of Plant-Nematode Interactions 
• Off the Network: Disrupting the Digital World
• Practitioner’s Guide to Telemental Health
• Quantum Tunnelling in Condensed Media
• Rhoton’s Atlas of Head, Neck, and Brain : 2D and 3D Images
• The Complete Family Office Handbook : a Guide for Affluent Families and the Advisers who Serve Them
• The Palgrave Handbook of Arctic Policy and Politics 

New ebooks – November 2019

Here is a taster of the titles added to the ebooks@cambridge collection during November. These titles were purchased by, or on behalf of, department and faculty libraries within the University of Cambridge and by the University Library.

A complete list of ebook purchases is available to Cambridge library staff to download from the ebooks@cambridge section of the Cambridge Libraries Intranet.

All of the titles can be found in iDiscover. Alternatively, follow the title links below the cover images for access.

Arts & Humanities

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• Antiformalist, unrevolutionary, illiberal Milton
• Assuming a body: transgender and rhetorics of materiality
• Aztecs on stage: religious theater in colonial Mexico
• Bonapartismo cesarismo e crisi della società: Luigi Napoleone e il colpo di Stato del 1851 
• Brill’s companion to Statius
• Cold War orientalism: Asia in the middlebrow imagination, 1945-1961
• A companion to contemporary documentary film
• La danza delle streghe: cunti e credenze dell’arcipelago eoliano 
• God, evolution, and animal suffering: theodicy without a fall
• Left behind: a novel of the Earth’s last days
• Queering the field: sounding out ethnomusicology
• Radical hope: ethics in the face of cultural devastation
• The rise of analytic philosophy, 1879-1930: from Frege to Ramsey
• Shakespeare’s representation of weather, climate and environment: the early modern ‘fated sky’ 
• Slow movies: countering the cinema of action
• A small place
• Vietnam: explaining America’s lost war
• Why Taiwan matters: small island, global powerhouse

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• 21st century skills: rethinking how students learn
• American politics in the Early Republic: the new nation in crisis
• The baptism of early Virginia: how Christianity created race 
• Birth of modern Europe – culture and economy, 1400-1800
• Blackstone’s guide to the Freedom of Information Act 2000. 5th ed.
• British Pakistani boys, education and the role of religion: in the land of the Trojan Horse
• Conceptual aphasia in black: displacing racial formation
• Corbynism: a critique
• The dawn of Detroit: a chronicle of slavery and freedom in the City of the Straits
• The evolution of the sensitive soul: learning and the origins of consciousness
• Future(s) of the revolution and reformation
• The great transformation: the political and economic origins of our time
• Histories of health in Southeast Asia: perspectives on the long twentieth century
• Hunting girls: sexual violence from The Hunger Games to campus rape
• Interdisciplinarity: reconfigurations of the social and natural sciences
• Iran’s foreign policy: from Khatami to Ahmadinejad
• Literary cultures and medieval and early modern childhoods
• A new introduction to jurisprudence
• Nimo’s war, Emaa’s war: making feminist sense of the Iraq War
• The price of nice: how good intentions maintain educational inequity
• Protocol: how control exists after decentralization
• Rewiring education: how technology can unlock every student’s potential
• Skeletal variation and adaptation in Europeans: Upper Paleolithic to the twentieth century
• Taste of art: cooking, food, and counterculture in contemporary practices
• Wellbeing in the primary classroom: a practical guide to teaching happiness
• The Western codification of Criminal Law : a revision of the myth of its predominant French influence 
• Youth and the national narrative: education, terrorism and the security state in Pakistan 

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• Applied petroleum geomechanics
• Goal-directed decision making: computations and neural circuits
• Marketing management (4th European edition)
• Project management: the managerial process
• Prosperity: better business makes the greater good
• Venture deals: be smarter than your lawyer or venture capitalist

Manchester Film Studies

Manchester Film Studies is a growing collection of currently163 books written by leading names in the field as well as one journal: Film Studies. It covers all aspects of film studies from volumes on a wide range of British, French, Spanish and Latin American filmmakers to debates and issues that are informing current practice in film and screen studies.

This collection aims to help readers develop an understanding of how film engages with socio-cultural and political concerns, placing films in their historical context as well as covering current debates and future challenges for cinema as a medium. Manchester Film Studies will enable readers to explore many aspects of theoretical and historical film studies as well as critical approaches to classical and contemporary films.

Thanks to a collaborative purchase between the Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics Faculty Library, the Connell Fund and ebooks@cambridge, members of Cambridge University now have full text access to all of the ebooks within this collection, on and off-campus, via iDiscover or directly via Manchester Hive, MUPs online platform.

Here is a small selection of titles available within the collection to tantalise the film buffs amongst you. Access is via the links below the cover images:

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• Tears of laughter : comedy-drama in 1990s British cinema
• Hispanic and Lusophone women filmmakers
• Derek Jarman
• Cinema – Italy
• The British working class in postwar film
• Algerian national cinema
• The playboy and James Bond
• Reframing difference : Beur and banlieue filmmaking in France

Catalogue records are available in iDiscover now for the titles which have already been published in this collection, with further titles/MARC records being added as they are published online.

As usual, please contact ebooks@lib.cam.ac.uk if you have any questions about this collection or any other aspect of ebook provision at the University.

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New ebooks – February 2019

Here is a taster of the titles added to the ebooks@cambridge collection during February. These titles were purchased by, or on behalf of, department and faculty libraries within the University of Cambridge and by the University Library.

A complete list of ebook purchases is available to Cambridge library staff to download from the ebooks@cambridge section of the Cambridge Libraries Intranet.

All of the titles can be found in iDiscover. Alternatively, follow the title links below the cover images for access.

Arts & Humanities

• Afrofuturism and Black sound studies: culture, technology, and things to come
• American ethnographic film and personal documentary: the Cambridge turn
• The body and the Arts
• Cruising utopia: the then and there of queer futurity
• Edmund Spenser: essays on culture and allegory
• Minorities and education in multicultural Japan
• Re-reading the salaryman in Japan
• Routledge companion to sound studies
• Routledge handbook to Luigi Nono and musical thought
• Sayyid Qutb and the origins of radical Islam
• Sogno e sogni: natura, storia, immaginazione
• Verb movement in romance
• Worldmaking: literature, language, culture

Humanities & Social Sciences

• Acting like a state: Kosovo and the everyday making of statehood
• British capitalism after the crisis
• Creative selves creative cultures
• Early global interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean world, Volume 1 : commercial structures and exchanges
• Early global interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean world, Volume II : exchange of ideas, religions, and technologies
• Global environments through the Quaternary: exploring environmental change
• The Global Interior: mineral frontiers and American power
• Health divides: where you live can kill you
• Making gray gold
• Mental illness in young adult literature: exploring real struggles through fictional characters
• The principles and practice of narrative medicine
• The Routledge companion to picturebooks
• White privilege: the myth of a post-racial society

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• Beyond performance management: why, when, and how to use 40 tools and best practices for superior business performance
• Introductory econometrics for finance (3rd edition)
• Process theory
• The promise of a pencil: how an ordinary person can create extraordinary change
• What they do with your money

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• Introduction to paleobiology and the fossil record
• On gravity: a brief tour of a weighty subject
• Skyrmions: topological structures, properties, and applications

New ebooks – July 2018

Here is a taster of the titles added to the ebooks@cambridge collection during July. These titles were purchased by, or on behalf of, department and faculty libraries within the University of Cambridge and by the University Library.

A complete list of ebook purchases is available to Cambridge library staff to download from the ebooks@cambridge section of the Cambridge Libraries Intranet.

All of the titles can be found in iDiscover. Alternatively, click on the cover image to access the title via our authenticated links.

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New ebooks – May 2018

Here is a taster of the 83 titles added to the ebooks@cambridge collection during May. These titles were purchased by, or on behalf of, department and faculty libraries within the University of Cambridge and by the University Library.

A complete list of ebook purchases is available to Cambridge library staff to download from the ebooks@cambridge section of the Cambridge Libraries Intranet.

All of the titles can be found in iDiscover. Alternatively, click on the cover image to access the title via our authenticated links.

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New ebooks – March and April 2018 double issue

Here is a taster of the 177 titles added to the ebooks@cambridge collection during March and April. These titles were purchased by, or on behalf of, department and faculty libraries within the University of Cambridge and by the University Library.

A complete list of ebook purchases is available to Cambridge library staff to download from the ebooks@cambridge section of the Cambridge Libraries Intranet.

All of the titles can be found in iDiscover. Alternatively, click on the cover image to access the title via our authenticated links.

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New ebooks – January 2018

Here is a selection of the titles added to the ebooks@cambridge collection this month. These titles were purchased by, or on behalf of, department and faculty libraries within the University of Cambridge and by the University Library.

All of the titles can be found in iDiscover. Alternatively, click on the cover image to access the title via our authenticated links.