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Invasive Species in Forests and Rangelands of the United States
(2021)
This open access book describes the serious threat of invasive species to native ecosystems. Invasive species have caused and will continue to cause enormous ecological and economic damage with ever increasing world trade. ...
Migration and Cities
(2024)
This open access book brings together different perspectives on migration and the city that are usually discussed separately, to show the special character of the urban context as a territorial and political space where ...
Make Life Visible
(2020)
This open access book describes marked advances in imaging technology that have enabled the visualization of phenomena in ways formerly believed to be completely impossible. These technologies have made major contributions ...
Narratives of Resilience / Narrative der Resilienz
(2026)
Resilienz hat sich in den Environmental Humanities und darüber hinaus als Schlüsselbegriff etabliert. Dieser Open Access-Band lotet aus, wie die Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften die Resilienzforschung erweitern können ...
Students’ Collaborative Problem Solving in Mathematics Classrooms
(2024)
This open access book provides key insights into the social fundamentals of learning and indications of social interactive modes conducive and restrictive of that learning in China. Combining theoretical and technical ...
The Canary in the Coalmine
(2026)
An up-to-date edited open access book on the role of sexual dysfunctions in general, and of erectile dysfunction in particular, i) to early predict non-communicable diseases, ii) to motivate patients to modify wrong ...
Neuroethics and Nonhuman Animals
(2020)
This edited volume represents a unique addition to the available literature on animal ethics, animal studies, and neuroethics. Its goal is to expand discussions on animal ethics and neuroethics by weaving together different ...
Advances in Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing II
(2025)
This open access book reports on recent developments of artificial intelligence applications in the manufacturing industry. Gathering contributions to the second European Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing, ...
Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht - Vernunft und Gerechtigkeit (BSW)
(2025)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch liefert einen detaillierten Einblick in die Entstehung und Entwicklung des Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht – Vernunft und Gerechtigkeit (BSW). Das BSW wird dabei mit Blick auf seine Position im ...
Reading Prehistoric Human Tracks
(2021)
This Open Access book explains that after long periods of prehistoric research in which the importance of the archaeological as well as the natural context of rock art has been constantly underestimated, research has now ...
Coming to Terms with Superdiversity
(2019)
This open access book discusses Rotterdam as clear example of a superdiverse city that is only reluctantly coming to terms with this new reality. Rotterdam, as is true for many post-industrial cities, has seen a considerable ...
Swiss Energy Governance
(2022)
This open access book gathers the results of an interdisciplinary research project led by the Swiss Competence Centers for Energy Research (SCCER CREST) and jointly implemented by several universities. It identifies ...
The Power of Energy Justice & the Social Contract
(2024)
This open access book focuses on the energy sector and will make a significant contribution to its continued evolution. For many years, the energy sector has been missing a raison d’etre and now finally there are increased ...
Nuel Belnap on Indeterminism and Free Action
(2014)
In this introduction to the Outstanding contributions to logic volume devoted to Nuel Belnap’s work on indeterminism and free action, we provide a
brief overview of some of the formal frameworks and methods involved in ...
Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods
(2023)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods, TABLEAUX 2023, held in Prague, Czech Republic, ...
Medienökonomie
(2025)
Anhand von 13 Leitfragen führt dieses Open-Access-Lehrbuch in die Medienökonomie ein und stellt wesentliche Konzepte und Perspektiven vor. In den Antworten werden die in den Fragen aufgeworfenen Phänomene und Problemstellungen ...
The Business of Densification
(2024)
Affordable housing shortage and social exclusion have become severe societal problems across the globe. Increasing numbers of people are suffering from social eviction and displacement due to urban densification, modernization, ...
The Water, Energy, and Food Security Nexus in Asia and the Pacific
(2024)
This Open Access book undertakes a comprehensive analysis of the water, energy, and food (WEF) security nexus with a regional focus on East and Southeast Asia. Individual chapters of this book provide interesting nexus ...
Moonshots and the New Industrial Policy
(2024)
This open access book raises some central questions: Do we need moonshot policies to spur innovation and economic growth? What are the risks associated with such policies? Economic turbulence, the COVID-19 pandemic, and ...
MATLAB Roadmap to Applications
(2025)
This open access book presents a comprehensive guide to MATLAB programming, catering to students, engineers, and researchers seeking to harness MATLAB as a powerful tool for their work. The text meticulously covers fundamental ...
Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2023
(2023)
This open access book provides an extensive overview of the usage of information and communication technologies in the tourism and hospitality industry. It presents the proceedings of the International Federation for IT ...
Dynamics in Logistics
(2021)
This open access book highlights the interdisciplinary aspects of logistics research. Featuring empirical, methodological, and practice-oriented articles, it addresses the modelling, planning, optimization and control of ...
Control Problems for Conservation Laws with Traffic Applications
(2022)
Conservation and balance laws on networks have been the subject of much research interest given their wide range of applications to real-world processes, particularly traffic flow. This open access monograph is the first ...
Scale-ups and High-Growth Firms
(2024)
This open access book goes into the details of the characteristics of scale-ups, touching upon various theoretical perspectives (stages of growth models, the role of intangible capital, the tradeoffs between fixed costs ...
Everyday Welfare in Modern British History
(2025)
This open access book offers a new approach to understandings of welfare in modern Britain. Foregrounding the agency individuals and groups claimed through experiential expertise, it traces deep connections between personal ...
Diversitätsprozesse in interkulturellen Projektteams
(2025)
Diese Open-Access-Publikation greift den aktuellen Forschungsstand zu kultureller Diversität in der Teamarbeit auf und vertieft die Prozessperspektive. Teamprozesse werden als zusammenhängende, strukturbildende Aktivitäten ...
Goods and Services of Marine Bivalves
(2019)
The aim of this open access book is to review and analyse the goods and services of bivalve shellfish. How they are defined, what determines the ecological functions that are the basis for the goods and services, what ...
Metric Lie Groups
(2025)
This Open Access textbook presents Carnot-Carathéodory spaces from the perspective of Lie groups. Its main objective is to illustrate how these non-smooth geometries manifest in various mathematical domains, including ...
Decarbonizing Rural Buildings and Rural Energy System
(2025)
This open access book focuses on China’s building energy consumption and CO2 emissions, to discuss the status quo of China’s building energy in four categories, their characteristics and technologies to improve energy ...
Women’s Drug Use in Everyday Life
(2024)
This open access book explores the increasing role of psychoactive substances in contemporary everyday life, focussing on women's use. Drawing on an ethnographic study in Sweden, it uses cultural studies and queer phenomenology ...
Energy in Africa
(2018)
This open access book presents a picture of the current energy challenges on the African continent (and the Sub-Saharan region in particular) and proposes pathways to an accelerated energy transition. Starting with an ...
Demographic and Family Transition in Southeast Asia
(2022)
This open access book presents the trends and patterns of demographic and family changes from all eleven countries in the region for the past 50 years. The rich data are coupled with historical, cultural and policy background ...
Sozialrechtsbezogene Beratung
(2024)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird erstmals die sozialrechtsbezogene Beratung von Verbänden als Strategie im Zugang zum Recht in die Tiefe gehend analysiert und anhand von drei exemplarisch dargestellten Beratungssituationen ...
The Wheat Genome
(2024)
This open access book provides the first comprehensive coverage of the wheat genome sequence since the publication of the draft and reference sequences for bread wheat and durum wheat. It presents an overview and all aspects ...
The Palgrave Handbook of Positive Education
(2021)
This open access handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the growing field of positive education, featuring a broad range of theoretical, applied, and practice-focused chapters from leading international experts. It ...
AI based Robot Safe Learning and Control
(2020)
This open access book mainly focuses on the safe control of robot manipulators. The control schemes are mainly developed based on dynamic neural network, which is an important theoretical branch of deep reinforcement ...
Nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung
(2021)
Dieses Open Access Buch thematisiert den Beitrag der Städte zur nachhaltigen Entwicklung. Die Autor*innen stellen die Agenda 2030 und die 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) vor, auf die sich die Mitgliedstaaten der ...
Paul Ricoeur
(2023)
This open access book employs Paul Ricoeur's methodologies to identify, challenge, and replace with responsible language the many continuing abuses of power, including in the university curriculum and in the international ...
Evidence Based Global Health Manual for Preterm Birth Risk Assessment
(2022)
This is an open access book. In this open access book the NIHR Global Health research group on preterm birth, PRIME, prioritizes the development of prenatal risk assessment guidance for preterm birth. This book is based ...
Evolution of New Working Spaces
(2024)
This open access book provides multidisciplinary perspectives on the changing dynamics of new working spaces, with insights from various European countries and observing critical theoretical approaches. Divided into two ...
Pflege-Report 2019
(2020)
Der Pflege-Report, der in Buchform und als Open-Access-Publikation erscheint, nimmt jährlich relevante Themen der Versorgung von Pflegebedürftigen unter die Lupe. Schwerpunkt des Jahres 2019 ist die Frage „Mehr Personal ...
Emerging Pollutants
(2025)
This open access book focuses on the importance of reducing pollution and protecting water resources for the health of people and the environment. Water is vital for life on Earth. The quality of the world's freshwater ...
Preventing Mental Illness
(2019)
This book provides an overview of a diverse array of preventive strategies relating to mental illness, and identifies their achievements and shortcomings. The chapters in this collection illustrate how researchers, clinicians ...
Optimal Surface Fitting of Point Clouds Using Local Refinement
(2023)
This open access book provides insights into the novel Locally Refined B-spline (LR B-spline) surface format, which is suited for representing terrain and seabed data in a compact way. It provides an alternative to the ...
Childlessness in Europe
(2017)
In recent decades, levels of childlessness have been increasing rapidly in most
European countries. German-speaking countries seem to be at the forefront of this
development, as more than 20% of the women living in ...
Dynamics of Gender Relations
(2025)
This edited volume brings together for the first time international research approaches from the field of figurational and processual sociology at the intersection of gender studies. It assembles current research on the ...
Fire Hazards: Socio-economic and Regional Issues
(2024)
The open access book aims to show the readers novel, relevant and reproducible power of synergistic collaborations between European research groups and stakeholders with the objective to synthesize the existing knowledge ...
EU-Turkey Relations
(2021)
This open access book explores the new complexities and ambiguities that epitomize EU-Turkey relations. With a strong focus on the developments in the last decade, the book provides full access to a comprehensive understanding ...
Structural Health Monitoring Damage Detection Systems for Aerospace
(2021)
This open access book presents established methods of structural health monitoring (SHM) and discusses their technological merit in the current aerospace environment. While the aerospace industry aims for weight reduction ...
Remote Sensing of Plant Biodiversity
(2020)
This Open Access volume aims to methodologically improve our understanding of biodiversity by linking disciplines that incorporate remote sensing, and uniting data and perspectives in the fields of biology, landscape ...
Pflege-Report 2022
(2022)
Der Pflege-Report, der jährlich in Buchform und als Open-Access-Publikation erscheint, rückt im Schwerpunkt 2022 jene Pflegebedürftigen in den Mittelpunkt, die nicht wie im „Normalfall“ aus altersassoziierten Gründen ...
Adults in Play with Children
(2025)
This is an Open access book.This work addresses the presence and participation of adults in play with children. Rather than discussing this issue on ideological ground, the international contributions build on empirical ...
Migration and Discrimination
(2021)
This open access short reader provides a state of the art overview of the discrimination research field, with particular focus on discrimination against immigrants and their descendants. It covers the ways in which ...
Modelling our Changing World
(2019)
This open access book focuses on the concepts, tools and techniques needed to successfully model ever-changing time-series data. It emphasizes the need for general models to account for the complexities of the modern world ...
The Asian 21st Century
(2022)
This open access book consists of essays written by Kishore Mahbubani to explore the challenges and dilemmas faced by the West and Asia in an increasingly interdependent world village and intensifying geopolitical competition. ...
Science of Societal Safety
(2019)
This open access book covers comprehensive but fundamental principles and concepts of disaster and accident prevention and mitigation, countermeasures, and recovery from disasters or accidents including treatment and care ...
Society 5.0
(2020)
This open access book introduces readers to the vision on future cities and urban lives in connection with “Society 5.0”, which was proposed in the 5th Basic Science and Technology Plan by Japan’s national government for ...
Sustainable Development Goals and Human Rights
(2020)
This open access book analyses the interplay of sustainable development and human rights from different perspectives including fight against poverty, health, gender equality, working conditions, climate change and the role ...
Researching Central Asia
(2024)
This open access book explores some of the struggles and challenges that researchers and practitioners face when conducting research in the Central Asian research setting. Written for scholars still in the planning stages ...
The Limits of Art
(2021)
This open access book is about exploring interesting borderline cases of art. It discusses the cases of gustatory and olfactory artworks (focusing on food), proprioceptive artworks (dance, martial arts, and rock climbing ...