Publications
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Skills Development for Inclusive and Sustainable Growth in Developing Asia-Pacific
(2013)
Professional and Vocational Education
Kantianism for Animals
(2022)
This open access book revises Kant’s ethical thought in one of its most notorious respects: its exclusion of animals from moral consideration. The book gives readers in animal ethics an accessible introduction to Kant’s ...
Time Predictions
(2018)
time predictions; human judgement; overoptimism; uncertainty; project management
Death, Emotion and Childhood in Premodern Europe
(2016)
This book draws on original material and approaches from the developing fields of the history of emotions and childhood studies and brings together scholars from history, literature and cultural studies, to reappraise how ...
The Future of the Bamiyan Buddha Statues
(2020)
This Open Access book explores heritage conservation ethics of post conflict and provides an important historical record of the possible reconstruction of the Bamiyan Buddha statues, which was inscribed in the UNESCO World ...
Multilevel Modelling for Public Health and Health Services Research
(2020)
This open access book is a practical introduction to multilevel modelling or multilevel analysis (MLA) – a statistical technique being increasingly used in public health and health services research. The authors begin with ...
Russische Errungenschaften in der Physiologie der Verdauung
(2021)
Dieses Buch ist den wichtigsten wissenschaftlichen Ereignissen rund um die Geschichte und Physiologie der Verdauung in Russland gewidmet. Das Fundament der modernen Wissenschaft auf diesem Gebiet wurde durch die gemeinsame ...
Tuberculosis in Adults and Children
(2015)
This work contains updated and clinically relevant information about tuberculosis. It is aimed at providing a succinct overview of history and disease epidemiology, clinical presentation and the most recent scientific ...
Words, Objects and Events in Economics
(2021)
This open access book examines from a variety of perspectives the disappearance of moral content and ethical judgment from the models employed in the formulation of modern economic theory, and some of the papers contain ...
Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities
(2013)
Urbanization is a global phenomenon and the book emphasizes that this is not just a social-technological process. It is also a social-ecological process where cities are places for nature, and where cities also are dependent ...
Value and the Humanities
(2020)
Tracing the shift from liberal to neoliberal education from the nineteenth century to the present day, this open access book provides a rich and previously underdeveloped narrative of value in higher education in England. ...
Mehrsprachige Pflegebedürftige in deutschen Pflegeheimen und das Projekt UnVergessen
(2021)
In diesem Open-Access-Sammelband geht es um das preisgekrönte Projekt UnVergessen, in dessen Verlauf Studierende sprachliche Unterstützung für pflegebedürftige Immigrant*innen in Form von regelmäßigen Besuchen leisten. ...
Co-creation for Responsible Research and Innovation
(2022)
This open access book summarizes research being pursued within the SISCODE (Society in Innovation and Science through CO-DEsign) project, funded by the EU under the H2020 programme, the goal of which is to set up an ...
„Beyond the Wall”: Game of Thrones aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive
(2022)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch beleuchtet das Serienphänomen „Game of Thrones“ aus unterschiedlichen wissenschaftlichen Perspektiven: Die rechtswissenschaftliche trifft auf die sprach-, musik-, literatur- und sozialwissenschaftliche, ...
Migration and Integration in a Post-Pandemic World
(2023)
As the world emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, this book explores current migration and integration challenges. Against the background of long-term migration trends, it asks whether the pandemic has changed the patterns ...
Normal Development of Voice
(2024)
This fully revised and extended second edition provides a comprehensive, most up-to-date overview of the investigation of quantitative measurement in the complex of voice. Important objective parameters of normal voice ...
Travel Writings on Asia
(2022)
This open access book provides an analysis of human actors and their capacity to explore and conceptualise their own agency by being curious, gathering knowledge, and shaping identities in their travel reflections on Asia. ...
Writing Manuals for the Masses
(2021)
This open access collection of essays examines the literary advice industry since its emergence in Anglo-American literary culture in the mid-nineteenth century within the context of the professionalization of the literary ...
Cohabitation and Marriage in the Americas: Geo-historical Legacies and New Trends
(2016)
This open access book presents an innovative study of the rise of unmarried cohabitation in the Americas, from Canada to Argentina. Using an extensive sample of individual census data for nearly all countries on the ...
Socio-Technical Innovation Bundles for Agri-Food Systems Transformation
(2022)
This open access book is the result of an expert panel convened by the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and Nature Sustainability. The panel tackled the seventeen UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030 ...