Publications
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Fading Foundations
(2017)
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book addresses the age-old problem of infinite regresses in epistemology. How can we ever come to know something if knowing requires having good reasons, and reasons ...
Play-Responsive Teaching in Early Childhood Education
(2019)
This open access book develops a theoretical concept of teaching that is relevant to early childhood education, and based on children’s learning and development through play. It discusses theoretical premises and research ...
Unsettling Responsibility in Science Education
(2021)
This open access book engages with the response-ability of science education to Indigenous ways-of-living-with-Nature. Higgins deconstructs the ways in which the structures of science education—its concepts, categories, ...
Artificiality and Sustainability in Entrepreneurship
(2023)
This open access edited volume explores the past, present, and future of artificiality and sustainability in entrepreneurship – the unforeseen consequences and ways to advance to a sustainable future. In particular, it ...
Deforming the Reform
(2022)
This open access book presents an actor-centered study on Europeanization, based on the assumption that EU-driven reforms are highly dependent on the behavior and interests of the key domestic actors. Whether or not a state ...
Shared Mobility Revolution
(2025)
This open access book gathers contributions to the EU-funded Horizon 2020 project Shared automation Operating models for Worldwide adoption (SHOW). It reports on technologies and business models focusing on supporting the ...
Achieving the Paris Climate Agreement Goals
(2022)
This open access book is designed as a continuation of the editor’s 2019 book Achieving the Paris Climate Agreement Goals. This volume provides an in-depth analysis of industry sectors globally, and its purpose is to present ...
Online-Komponenten digitaler Spiele
(2020)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch befasst sich Maximilian Vonthien mit den Fragen, wie lange Publisher von modernen digitalen Spielen den Support für die Online-Komponenten (Online-Mehrspielermodus und Online-DRM-Systeme) erbringen ...
Product Development within Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Legal Risk
(2022)
This open-access-book synthesizes a supportive developer checklist considering sustainable Team and agile Project Management in the challenge of Artificial Intelligence and limits of image recognition. The study bases on ...
Compliance and Resistance Within Neoliberal Academia
(2021)
This open access book reflects on academic life under a neoliberal regime. Through collaborative autoethnographies, the authors share stories about the everyday experiences, dilemmas and conflicts of three academics: the ...
Intersections of Religion, Education, and a Sustainable World
(2025)
This open access volume contains up-to-date, informed perspectives on how sustainable development issues can be integrated into religious education. With a focus on issues that frequently appear in policy documents related ...
Achieving the Paris Climate Agreement Goals
(2019)
This open access book presents detailed pathways to achieve 100% renewable energy by 2050, globally and across ten geographical regions. Based on state-of-the-art scenario modelling, it provides the vital missing link ...
Model and Mathematics: From the 19th to the 21st Century
(2022)
This open access book collects the historical and medial perspectives of a systematic and epistemological analysis of the complicated, multifaceted relationship between model and mathematics, ranging from, for example, the ...
Deutsch-chinesische Studienangebote erfolgreich managen
(2019)
In diesem Open Access-Buch liefern Katja Kuhn und Patrick Fekete eine hilfreiche Unterstützung zur erfolgreichen Entwicklung und Realisierung deutsch-chinesischer Studienprogramme. Basierend auf einer detaillierten ...
Shaping Inclusive Workplaces for Persons with Disabilities
(2026)
Despite the increase in research about workplace inclusion, the current literature is dominated by a negative focus on the barriers managers face as they attempt to hire people from disadvantaged groups, including people ...
Ecological and Digital Transition in Cities
(2025)
This open access book delves into the intersection of ecological, technological, and social dynamics at the core of urban transition and the relevance of urban planning and design in addressing the pressing challenges faced ...
Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere
(2019)
This open access Pivot book is a comparative study of six early colonial public libraries in nineteenth-century Australia, South Africa, and Southeast Asia. Drawing on networked conceptualisations of empire, transnational ...
Cultural Representations of Gender Vulnerability and Resistance
(2022)
This Open Access book considers the cultural representation of gender violence, vulnerability and resistance with a focus on the transnational dimension of our contemporary visual and literary cultures in English. Contributors ...
Mission AI
(2023)
This open access book offers a strategic perspective on AI and the process of embedding it in society. After decades of research, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now entering society at large. Due to its general purpose ...
An Introduction to Cognitive Economics
(2025)
This book introduces readers to “cognitive economics,” a rapidly emerging interdisciplinary science built on economic, psychological, and data scientific foundations. Throughout the book, economist Andrew Caplin provides ...
Mental Health and Enhancement
(2023)
This book takes the reader from basic questions like “What is health?” and “What is a psychiatric disorder?”, into the midst of people’s present mental health and enhancement choices. More and more people receive psychiatric ...
Revisiting Premodern Islamic Science and Experience
(2025)
This open access book takes a fresh look at the nature and place of experience in premodern Islamic science. It seeks to answer two questions: What kind of experience constituted premodern Islamic science? And in what ways ...
Trustworthy AI
(2025)
This book is an Open Access Publication. The Guidelines for Trustworthy AI developed by the European Commission High-Level Expert Group on AI is a framework that has been developed to promote and achieve the trustworthiness ...
Sonic Interactions in Virtual Environments
(2023)
This open access book tackles the design of 3D spatial interactions in an audio-centered and audio-first perspective, providing the fundamental notions related to the creation and evaluation of immersive sonic experiences. ...
The World of the Seafarer
(2021)
This open access book constitutes an ethnographic mosaic which depicts the contextual complexities of the life and work of seafarers who are employed in the international merchant cargo fleet. The collection is based upon ...
Automated Machine Learning
(2019)
This open access book presents the first comprehensive overview of general methods in Automated Machine Learning (AutoML), collects descriptions of existing systems based on these methods, and discusses the first series ...
Business Data Ethics
(2024)
This open access book explains how leading business organizations attempt to achieve the responsible and ethical use of artificial intelligence (AI) and other advanced information technologies. These technologies can produce ...
Heritage Conservation and Tourism Development at Cham Sacred Sites in Vietnam
(2023)
This open access book considers the growing field of heritage tourism from community perspectives. It explores how the Cham—Vietnam’s large ethnic minority—reconcile their needs for economic development with the boundaries ...
Real-time Linked Dataspaces
(2020)
This open access book explores the dataspace paradigm as a best-effort approach to data management within data ecosystems. It establishes the theoretical foundations and principles of real-time linked dataspaces as a data ...
Horizontal Intergovernmental Coordination at Local and Regional Levels
(2025)
The most pressing policy challenges of our time require complex and coordinated strategies that transcend territorial borders. Issues such as climate mitigation, sustainable development and the migration crisis all require ...
Ausbildungsqualitäten – andersartig, aber gleichwertig?
(2022)
Am Beispiel zweier konkurrierender allgemein- und berufsbildender Gesundheitsausbildungen - die Fachmittelschule mit Berufsfeld Gesundheit und die berufliche Erstausbildung Fachfrau/-mann Gesundheit - zeigt diese Open ...
Presseberichterstattung im Kapitalmarktrecht
(2025)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch beginnt Robin-René Hartung mit einer Untersuchung des Spannungsfelds zwischen Pressefreiheit und dem Schutz der Integrität des Kapitalmarktes. Ausgehend von der Berichterstattung von Dan McCrum ...
Affirmative Aesthetics and Wilful Women
(2020)
Fifty years of feminist thought have made the idea that women stay at home while men dominate the streets seem outdated; nevertheless, Ceuterick argues that theoretical considerations of gender, space, and power in film ...
Educating Students to Improve the World
(2020)
This open access book addresses how to help students find purpose in a rapidly changing world. In a probing and visionary analysis of the field of global education Fernando Reimers explains how to lead the transformation ...
Familial Feeling
(2021)
This open access book discusses British literature as part of a network of global entangled modernities and shared aesthetic concerns, departing from the retrospective model of a postcolonial “writing back” to the centre. ...
The European Framework of Credit Intermediaries
(2026)
This open access book provides an overview of the credit distribution ecosystem in Europe, with a specific focus on the definitions, laws, and authorities related to the figures of credit intermediaries (credit agents and ...
Chapter Preface
(2020)
Uncertainty Management in Pharmacology, Causality Medical Epistemology,
(Un)doing Gender empirisch
(2021)
In diesem Open-Access-Sammelband wird angehenden und fortgeschrittenen Forschenden aufgezeigt, wie «doing» und «undoing gender» in Institutionen der frühen Kindheit erforscht und analysiert werden können. Thematisiert ...
Space, Place and Educational Settings
(2022)
This open access book explores the nexus between knowledge and space with a particular emphasis on the role of educational settings that are, both, shaping and being reshaped by socio-economic and political processes. It ...
Earth Observation Open Science and Innovation
(2018)
geospatial analytics; social observatory; big earth data; open data; citizen science; open innovation; earth system science; crowdsourced geospatial data; citizen science; science in society; data science
The Future of Coaching
(2025)
This open access book builds bridges between the science of coaching and coaching practice by analyzing the effects of coaching in detail and improving its practical effectiveness. Written by a proven expert in the field, ...
Moral Reasoning at Work
(2019)
This book is open access under a CC-BY license. Moral dilemmas are a pervasive feature of working life. Moral Reasoning at Work offers a fresh perspective on how to live with them using ethics and moral psychology research. ...
The Water, Energy, and Food Security Nexus in Asia and the Pacific
(2024)
This open access book considers the water, energy, food (WEF) nexus in the Pacific region. The region comprises seventeen sovereign countries and seven territories spread across the Pacific Ocean, a blue expanse that covers ...
Integrating the UN SDGs into WTO Law
(2025)
This is an open access book. Sustainable development is so important that humanity must do its utmost to achieve these goals for the well-being of the present and future generations. WTO members have started to reform WTO ...
Time Predictions
(2018)
This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. Predicting the time needed to complete a project, task or daily activity can be difficult and people frequently underestimate how long an activity will take. ...
Manifold Learning
(2024)
This Open Access book reviews recent theoretical and numerical developments in nonlinear model order reduction in continuum mechanics, being addressed to Master and PhD students, as well as to researchers, lecturers and ...
The Ocean Incubator Network Learning Toolkit
(2025)
This open access book is designed to enhance ocean literacy through diverse research, educational and interdisciplinary approaches. It focuses on a number of critical themes, including: an exploration of positionality, ...
Advances in the Characterisation and Remediation of Sites Contaminated with Petroleum Hydrocarbons
(2024)
This open access book synthesizes important advances in the assessment and management of soil and groundwater systems contaminated with petroleum hydrocarbons, especially in the form of light non-aqueous phase liquids ...
Krankenhaus-Report 2024
(2024)
Der Krankenhaus-Report, der jährlich als Buch und als Open-Access-Publikation erscheint, greift 2023 das Schwerpunktthema „(Neu-)Strukturierung der Krankenhauslandschaft, Ambulantisierung und Nachhaltigkeit“ auf. Daneben ...
Mobilities of the Highly Skilled towards Switzerland
(2019)
This open access book analyses the strategies of migration intermediaries from the public and private sectors in Switzerland to select, attract, and retain highly skilled migrants who represent value to them. It reveals ...
Feiernd lernen in Ritualen
(2025)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch fragt ausgehend von der Erfahrung des Verfassers als Lehrer an einem öffentlichen Gymnasium nach der Bedeutung des säkularen Feier-Typus „Schulische Adventfeiern“ für den religiösen Kompetenzerwerb ...
Lives in Peace Research
(2022)
This open access book explains how PRIO, the world’s oldest peace research institute, was founded and how it survived through crises. In this book, twenty-four of its researchers and associates, including Johan Galtung, ...
Frontiers of Combining Systems
(2023)
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems, FroCoS 2023, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in September 2023. The symposium was co-located with the ...
Computational Thinking Education
(2019)
This This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book offers a comprehensive guide, covering every important aspect of computational thinking education. It provides an in-depth discussion of computational ...
Towards a Natural Social Contract
(2021)
This open access book states that the societal fault lines of our times are deeply intertwined and that they confront us with challenges affecting the security, fairness and sustainability of our societies. The author, ...
Strategic Innovative Marketing and Tourism
(2025)
This open access book presents the latest findings of researchers from around the globe who presented their work at the 11th International Conference of Strategic Innovative Marketing and Tourism (ICSIMAT) in 2024. It ...
Researching Values
(2022)
This open access book presents new approaches for researching values as they are performed or materialized. Values have been an important topic in academic literature for a long time; they are at the core of institutional ...
Narrative Praktiken von Unternehmen
(2022)
Diese Open-Access-Publikation befasst sich mit dem Erzählen im Unternehmenskontext, was spätestens seit der Einführung des Storytelling in den 1999er-Jahren allgegenwärtig ist. Der Band zeigt in diesem Zusammenhang, wie ...
Large-Scale Cognitive Assessment
(2020)
This open access methodological book summarises existing analysing techniques using data from PIAAC, a study initiated by the OECD that assesses key cognitive and occupational skills of the adult population in more than ...
Erklärvideos im Sachunterricht
(2024)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird ausgehend vom aktuellen Forschungsdiskurs der didaktische Einsatz von Erklärvideos im Sachunterricht untersucht. Der Sachunterricht stellt aufgrund seines umfassenden Bildungsauftrags ein ...