Publications
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Brexit and the Control of Tobacco Illicit Trade
(2020)
This book assesses the consequences of Brexit for the control of illicit trade in tobacco products in the UK and EU. Based on the currently applicable legal framework, it examines the significance of a possible non-application ...
Martial Culture and Historical Martial Arts in Europe and Asia
(2023)
This open access book is the first publication to provide a comparative framework for the study of martial culture and historical martial arts in Europe and Asia, in particular in Italy and China. Due to the interdisciplinary ...
A City in Blue and Green
(2019)
This open access book highlights Singapore’s development into a city in which water and greenery, along with associated environmental, technical, social and political aspects have been harnessed and cultivated into a ...
Digital Twin
(2024)
This open access book offers comprehensive, self-contained knowledge on Digital Twin (DT), which is a very promising technology for achieving digital intelligence in the next-generation wireless communications and computing ...
Immunogenetics
(2022)
This open access book explores techniques for working in the field of immunogenetics, i.e. fundamental and translational research into the adaptive immune receptor repertoire. Many chapters are dedicated to lab protocols, ...
Digital Humanism
(2022)
This open access book deals with cultural and philosophical aspects of artificial intelligence (AI) and pleads for a “digital humanism”. This term is beginning to be en vogue everywhere. Due to a growing discontentment ...
New Perspectives in Critical Data Studies
(2022)
This Open Access book examines the ambivalences of data power. Firstly, the ambivalences between global infrastructures and local invisibilities challenge the grand narrative of the ephemeral nature of a global data ...
Fethullah Gülen’s Teaching and Practice
(2022)
This is the first book of its kind about the Turkish Muslim scholar, Fethullah Gülen, since the July 2016 events in Turkey, the trauma experienced by Gülen, and the disruption to initiatives inspired by his teaching, known ...
Beyond Treaties: Rethinking Legal Mechanisms for International Climate Governance
(2025)
This open access book examines the implications of the shift towards minilateralism for international climate law, analysing how climate-related trade measures and Paris Agreement compatible platforms may enhance global ...
Environmental Valuation with Discrete Choice Experiments in R
(2025)
This open access book offers advice and practical guidance for conducting discrete choice experiments (DCEs) in environmental valuation. It covers essential aspects of designing, implementing, and analysing choice experiments. ...
Climate Disaster Preparedness
(2024)
As a result of global warming, extreme events, such as firestorms and flash floods, pose increasingly unpredictable and uncertain existential threats, taking lives, destroying communities, and wreaking havoc on habitats. ...
Digital Libraries
(2020)
16th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries, IRCDL 2020, Bari, Italy, January 30–31, 2020, Proceedings
Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft: Ein vertrauensvoller Dialog
(2020)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch hat das Anliegen, das Zusammenspiel von Wissenschaft, Medien und Öffentlichkeit zu analysieren und nach Wegen zu suchen, es zu verbessern. Die Publikation wurde mit Mitteln der Daimler und Benz ...
Paul J. Crutzen: A Pioneer on Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Change in the Anthropocene
(2016)
This open access book contains texts by the Nobel laureate Paul J. Crutzen who is best known for his research on ozone depletion. It comprises Crutzen’s autobiography, several pictures documenting important stages of his ...
The Republic of Turkey and its Unresolved Issues
(2025)
This open access book explores the Republic of Turkey’s unresolved issues that have persisted over the past 101 years. It adopts an interdisciplinary perspective to explore the challenges facing the country to critically ...
The Ethics of Medical Data Donation
(2019)
This open access book presents an ethical approach to utilizing personal medical data. It features essays that combine academic argument with practical application of ethical principles. The contributors are experts in ...
Chapter The Price of Uncertainty in Present-Biased Planning
(2017)
The tendency to overestimate immediate utility is a common cognitive bias. As a result people behave inconsistently over time and fail
to reach long-term goals. Behavioral economics tries to help affected individuals
by ...
BUiD Doctoral Research Conference 2023
(2024)
This open access book presents selected contributions on a wide range of scientific and technological areas originating from the BUiD Doctoral Research Conference (BDRC 2023). It discusses the following topics: project ...
Ten Crises
(2021)
This open access handbook, Ten Crises systematically traces the economic history of China from 1949 to 2020, unravelling the complex domestic and global factors leading to the cyclical crises identified by WEN and his ...
Concepts, Frames and Cascades in Semantics, Cognition and Ontology
(2021)
This open access book presents novel theoretical, empirical and experimental work exploring the nature of mental representations that support natural language production and understanding, and other manifestations of ...
A Philosophical Examination of Social Justice and Child Poverty
(2015)
This book is open access under a CCBY license. This book investigates child poverty from a philosophical perspective. It identifies the injustices of child poverty, relates them to the well-being of children, and discusses ...
The Heterogeneity of Cancer Metabolism
(2021)
This open access volume will introduce recent discoveries in cancer metabolism since the publication of the first edition in 2018, providing readers with an up-to-date understanding of developments in the field. Genetic ...
Big Data in Bioeconomy
(2021)
This edited open access book presents the comprehensive outcome of The European DataBio Project, which examined new data-driven methods to shape a bioeconomy. These methods are used to develop new and sustainable ways to ...
Critical Landscape Planning during the Belt and Road Initiative
(2021)
This open access book traces the development of landscapes along the 414-kilometer China–Laos Railway, one of the first infrastructure projects implemented under China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and which is due for ...
Socioeconomic Inequality and Educational Outcomes
(2019)
This open access book focuses on trends in educational inequality using twenty years of grade 8 student data collected from 13 education systems by the IEA’s Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) between 1995 and ...
Selbstverständnisse der Philosophiedidaktik zwischen Fachphilosophie und Interdisziplinarität
(2025)
Dieser Open Access-Band präsentiert die aktuellen Debatten über das Selbstverständnis der Philosophiedidaktik, ihre Beziehung zur Fachphilosophie und den Stellenwert bzw. das Wesen der Interdisziplinarität. Dies betrifft ...
The Psychology Of Economic Inequality
(2025)
This open access book interrogates psychology’s contributions to our understanding of economic inequality. In the UK, the US and in many other countries, a high level of economic inequality is now one of the major problems ...
Understanding China’s School Leadership
(2020)
This open access book outlines key terms of China’s school leadership in Chinese political and legal, financial, administrative, and cultural contexts. It reveals and interprets the real meaning of these practical terms ...
Better Work
(2021)
This Open Access book provides a thorough analysis of the quality of work in the Netherlands, and suggests policy proposals to promote and facilitate good work for more people. New technology, flexibilization and the ...
Successful Global Collaborations in Higher Education Institutions
(2020)
This open access book presents deep investigation to the manifold topics pertaining to global university collaboration. It outlines the strategies King Abdulaziz University has employed to rise in global rankings, and the ...
Understanding Risks and Uncertainties in Energy and Climate Policy
(2019)
This open access book analyzes and seeks to consolidate the use of robust quantitative tools and qualitative methods for the design and assessment of energy and climate policies. In particular, it examines energy and climate ...
Particle Physics Reference Library
(2020)
This third open access volume of the handbook series deals with accelerator physics, design, technology and operations, as well as with beam optics, dynamics and diagnostics. A joint CERN-Springer initiative, the “Particle ...
Critical Issues in Head and Neck Oncology
(2021)
This open access book discusses the most current issues in head and neck cancer with a focus on current trends such as biomarkers, precision medicine and immunotherapy. New approaches in the diagnosis such as liquid biopsies ...
Sepsis Management in Resource-limited Settings
(2019)
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. It constitutes a unique source of knowledge and guidance for all healthcare workers who care for patients with sepsis and septic shock in resource-limited settings. More ...
Co-governed Sovereignty Network
(2021)
This open access book introduces MIN, a novel networking architecture to implement the sovereign equality of all countries in the cyberspace. Combining legal theory and network technology, it first discusses the historical ...
Revisualising Intersectionality
(2022)
Revisualising Intersectionality offers transdisciplinary interrogations of the supposed visual evidentiality of categories of human similarity and difference. This open-access book incorporates insights from social and ...
Mesoscale Analysis of Hydraulics
(2021)
This open access book presents a series of complicated hydraulic phenomena and related mechanism of high-speed flows in head-head dam. According to the basic hydraulic theory, detailed experiments and numerical simulations, ...
Chapter Reading together
(2017)
Every region of India is and has been multilingual, with speakers of
different languages and speakers of multiple languages. But literary
‘multilingual locals’ are often more fragmented than we think. While
multilingualism ...
Revolution and Witchcraft
(2023)
Ideas influence people. In particular, extremely well-developed sets of ideas shape individuals, groups, and societies in far-reaching ways. This book establishes these “idea systems” as an academic concept. Through three ...
Enabling Sustainable Energy Transitions
(2020)
This open access book reframes sustainable energy transitions as being a matter of resolving accountability crises. It demonstrates how the empirical study of several practices of legitimation can analytically deconstruct ...
Arching in Piled Embankments Including the Effects of Reinforcement and Subsoil
(2025)
This Open access book examined the performance of the reinforced piled embankments in both plane strain and three-dimensional conditions. The arching mechanisms involved in the piled embankments have been investigated by ...
Energy Poverty, Practice, and Policy
(2022)
This Open Access book examines the implications of welfare policy for energy poverty and engages with key conceptual debates at the forefront of energy demand research. Academic work on energy poverty has rarely been brought ...
Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Strategies in Japan
(2025)
This open access book presents the latest Japanese research for the projection of climate change impacts and the evaluation of adaptation policies, with a particular focus on the S-18 Project—a nationwide, interdisciplinary ...
Gemeinsam Musizieren
(2023)
Wenn Menschen miteinander musizieren, koordinieren und synchronisieren sie ihre Handlungen so präzise, dass sie ein hörbares Kollektivgebilde konstruieren: Gemeinsame Musik. Das ist eine herausragende Leistung, die ein ...
Spationomy
(2020)
This open access book is based on "Spationomy – Spatial Exploration of Economic Data", an interdisciplinary and international project in the frame of ERASMUS+ funded by the European Union. The project aims to exchange ...
Managing Protected Areas
(2024)
This open access book brings together 16 specially commissioned chapters drawn from a range of different professional-practitioner and academic global perspectives on the importance of the relationship between people and ...
Anti-Microbial Resistance in Global Perspective
(2020)
‘The Maternal Sepsis Intervention has had a profound impact on maternal mortality and antibiotic use whilst also reducing hospital costs. The Ministry of Health is keen to explore opportunities to extending the lessons ...
Teaching and Learning with Research Cognitive Theory
(2025)
This open access volume explores the transformative role of Research Cognitive Theory (RCT) in education, emphasizing its application in fostering curiosity, creativity, innovation, problem-solving skills, and cognitive ...
Bienen an der Hochschule
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch werden verschiedene Erfahrungen vorgestellt, die im Bienenprojekt „BEEsy Mission“ der Hochschule Pforzheim gesammelt wurden. Zukünftigen Projektverantwortlichen wird eine Hilfestellung bei der ...
Künstliche Intelligenz in der Forschung
(2022)
Dieses Buch ist eine Open Access Publikation. Der lange gehegte Traum von künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) wird in unserer Alltagswelt zunehmend Realität. Damit verbinden sich hohe gesellschaftliche Erwartungen, aber auch ...
Cycling Through the Pandemic
(2024)
This open access book provides insight on how the tactical urbanism has the capacity to influence change in mobility practices such as cycling. COVID-19 crisis prompted the public authorities to rethink the use of public ...
Inter-group Relations and Migrant Integration in European Cities: Changing Neighbourhoods
(2016)
Migration; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns); Political Science
Decolonising Blue Spaces in the Anthropocene
(2021)
This open access book crosses disciplinary boundaries to connect theories of environmental justice with Indigenous people’s experiences of freshwater management and governance. It traces the history of one freshwater crisis ...
Exceptional Lifespans
(2021)
How long can humans live? This open access book documents, verifies and brings to life the advance of the frontier of human survival. It carefully validates data on supercentenarians, aged 110+, and semi-supercentenarians, ...
Energy Citizenship
(2025)
This open access book develops a deeper understanding of an increasingly applied term across policy cycles and academic discourses, ‘energy citizenship’. It provides the reader with five distinct chapters, with each in ...
Kantian Ethics and the Attention Economy
(2024)
In this open access book, Timothy Aylsworth and Clinton Castro draw on the deep well of Kantian ethics to argue that we have moral duties, both to ourselves and to others, to protect our autonomy from the threat posed by ...
Methods for Analysing and Reporting EQ-5D Data
(2020)
This open access book is the first published guide about how to analyse data produced by the EQ-5D, one of the most widely used Patient Reported Outcomes questionnaires world wide. The authors provide practical, clear and ...
Green Infrastructure and Climate Change Adaptation
(2022)
This open access book introduces the function, implementation and governance of green infrastructure in Japan and other countries where lands are geologically fragile and climatologically susceptible to climate change. It ...
Volunteered Geographic Information
(2024)
This open access book includes methods for retrieval, semantic representation, and analysis of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), geovisualization and user interactions related to VGI, and discusses selected topics ...
Thermocapillary Convection in Microgravity
(2025)
This open access book overviews cutting-edge research on thermocapillary convection driven by temperature dependence of surface tension. A notable feature of the book is that it is concerned with a series of experiments ...