Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

サイバー戦争百科事典　第2版
Springer, Paul J. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Cyber Warfare. 2nd ed. 416 pp. 2025:2 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <732-4>
ISBN 978-1-4408-8160-2 hard ¥36,036.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

This volume offers a concise overview of cyber warfare, providing historical context and an examination of its rapid development into a potent technological weapon of the 21st century. Ready-reference entries profile key individuals, organizations, technologies, and cyberattack events. Readers will also discover a curated selection of relevant primary source documents with insightful analyses. A chronology, cross references at the end of each entry, and a guide to related topics help readers discover and navigate content and form a more robust conceptual framework of the subject. Entry-specific further readings and an end-of-volume bibliography point readers toward additional resources and serve as a gateway to further learning. This second edition features more than 30 new entries, including coverage of recent high-profile events such as cyberattacks during the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russo-Ukrainian War. Other new entries examine the development and potential cybersecurity impacts of artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, ransomware, and other emerging technologies. The documents section includes 7 new primary sources, offering perspectives from the U.S. government, European Union, People's Republic of China, and others. Updates to entries, the chronology, further readings, and the end-of-volume bibliography capture the significant developments of this ever-evolving topic. This new volume continues the expert scholarship of the first edition of Encyclopedia of Cyber Warfare, which was named a Top Ten Reference by Booklist in 2018.

死刑－歴史・政治・文化・法百科事典
Melusky, Joseph A. (ed.), Capital Punishment: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture, and the Law. 400 pp. 2024:11 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <732-3>
ISBN 978-1-4408-7707-0 hard ¥20,790.- (税込) GB￡ 75.00

This authoritative, balanced, and accessible reference resource provides readers with a wide-ranging survey of capital punishment in America, including its history, its legal and cultural foundations, and racial and economic factors in its application. This carefully crafted primer on the history and present state of capital punishment in the United States examines cultural, political, and legal factors and developments, as well as key figures, groups, and movements, by consolidating a wide variety of material into a single, convenient source. Utilizing a rich and varied array of scholarship and primary sources, this work examines historical, political, cultural, and legal factors and developments that have shaped the contours of capital punishment throughout American history. It examines key figures and organizations who have played pivotal roles in debates over the death penalty; provides readers with illuminating coverage of laws, cases, and the people involved; discusses the experiences of death row inmates; and explores questions and controversies revolving around the socioeconomic factors that influence the use of capital punishment.

現代中国経済学事典
Hong, Yinxing (ed.), Dictionary of Contemporary Chinese Economics. 5400 pp. 2024:10 (Springer, GW) <732-2>
ISBN 978-981-9740-35-2 hard ¥574,746.- (税込) EUR 2,499.99

This Dictionary provides the theoretical summary and conceptual framework around the milestones obtained through Chinese reform and development and highlights the research achievements of Chinese economics over the past 40 years. It also presents Chinese economics to the world, featuring the Belt and Road Initiative and the Chinese theory and Chinese system to be known and shared internationally with a Chinese intellectual foundation. It sets out to frame the theoretical achievements of extraction and summary of practice experience from Chinese reform and development. The choice of entries in the Dictionary seeks to embody the very Chinese characteristics of economics and the combination of theory and practice is illuminated. Furthermore, the dictionary explores examples of scientific achievements that traditional economics has brought forward and how they fit and unify within both a Chinese, as well as an international context.

ヒロイズム研究百科事典
Allison, Scott T. / Beggan James K. et al. (eds.-in-Chief), Encyclopedia of Heroism Studies. 2467 pp. 2024:10 (Springer, GW) <732-1>
ISBN 978-3-031-48128-4 hard ¥218,401.- (税込) EUR 949.99

This reference work is an important resource in the growing field of heroism studies. It presents concepts, research, and events key to understanding heroism, heroic leadership, heroism development, heroism science, and their relevant applications to businesses, organizations, clinical psychology, human wellness, human growth potential, public health, social justice, social activism, and the humanities. The encyclopedia emphasizes five key realms of theory and application: Business and organization, focusing on management effectiveness, emotional intelligence, empowerment, ethics, transformational leadership, product branding, motivation, employee wellness, entrepreneurship, and whistleblowers; clinical-health psychology and public health, focusing on stress and trauma, maltreatment, emotional distress, bullying, psychopathy, depression, anxiety, family disfunction, chronic illness, and healthcare workers' wellbeing; human growth and positive psychology, discussing altruism, authenticity, character strengths, compassion, elevation, emotional agility, eudaimonia, morality, empathy, flourishing, flow, self-efficacy, joy, kindness, prospection, moral development, courage, and resilience; social justice and activism, highlighting anti-racism, anti-bullying, civil disobedience, civil rights heroes, climate change, environmental heroes, enslavement heroes, human rights heroism, humanitarian heroes, inclusivity, LGBTQ+ heroism, #metoo movement heroism, racism, sustainability, and women's suffrage heroes; and humanities, relating to the mythic hero's journey, bliss, boon, crossing the threshold, epic heroes, fairy tales, fiction, language and rhetoric, narratives, mythology, hero monomyth, humanities and heroism, religious heroes, and tragic heroes.