Books

Human Evolution Beyond Biology and Culture: Evolutionary Social, Environmental and Policy Sciences (Cambridge University Press, October 2018) is a new book written by ICREA Research Professor Jeroen van den Bergh of at ICTA-UAB. It offers a complete account of evolutionary thinking in the social, environmental and policy sciences, while creating bridges with biology.

Palgrave Macmillan is thrilled to launch a new format of short, accessible books written by influential academics with direct policymaking experience. The books are designed to appeal to a wide audience, with clear summaries on policy implications and recommendations for action.

Dr. Kim Nielsen, who helped launch the first undergraduate degree of its kind in disability studies in the country at The University of Toledo, is one of three editors of the book published by Oxford University Press and one of 30 experts to write a chapter.

Two titles on the development of the internet in China and the world were launched today at the Frankfurt Book Fair. The books are co-published by Publishing House of Electronics Industry (PHEI) and Springer Nature and are important outcomes of the Fourth World Internet Conference.

The images are terrifying. Homes have been washed away, flooded, burnt or torn apart. It's a scene that's played out worldwide as people are left dispossessed post disaster or as a result of conflict. A QUT architecture academic is calling on industry professionals to upskill and help fill a gap in post-disaster and humanitarian architectural knowledge to improve outcomes for people displaced, with her research published as the first chapter of a book.

In a new book, University of Arizona communication professor Stephen Rains explores how people diagnosed with serious illnesses turn to social media, online health forums and other digital resources for help coping.

In her new book, 'The Poison Squad,' Deborah Blum details the nascent 19th-century science and politics of food regulation, from the early efforts to figure out what dangers lay in food, to the torturous struggle to push regulations through the political system.

To be Hopi is to run. So it's no surprise that Hopi scholar Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert was drawn to the story of runners from his tribal community often running with and beating the world's best in the early 1900s. It's the story that Gilbert, a University of Illinois professor, tells in "Hopi Runners: Crossing the Terrain Between Indian and American," being published this month.