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A Millennial View of Spain’s Development
(2024)
This open access book presents the evolution of the Spanish economy over the past seven centuries since the end of the Reconquest and examines how much economic progress has Spain achieved, as well as its impact on living ...
Chapter 4 States of Rest
(2015)
This book offers a provocative account of interdisciplinary research across the neurosciences, social sciences and humanities. Setting itself against standard accounts of interdisciplinary 'integration,' and rooting itself ...
Urban Living Lab for Local Regeneration
(2023)
This open access book provides an integrated overview of the challenges and resources of large-scale social housing estates in Europe and outlines possible interdisciplinary approaches and tools to promote their regeneration. ...
The InfoSec Handbook
(2014)
Computer science
Modes of Esports Engagement in Overwatch
(2022)
This Open Access book provides a comprehensive review of the rapidly developing esport phenomenon by examining one of its contemporary flagship titles, Overwatch (Blizzard Entertainment 2016), through three central themes ...
Neuroaesthetics
(2024)
This open access neuroaesthetics textbook, the first in the world, is designed for teaching a semester module (14 meetings) to undergraduate/masters students from both the sciences and the humanities. Written in a style ...
Wie Sprache dem Verstehen hilft
(2022)
Das vorliegende Open-Access-Buch widmet sich den Desiderata, Design-Kriterien für sprachsensiblen Fachunterricht am Beispiel des Geographieunterrichts zu entwickeln sowie Erkenntnisse über dessen Wirksamkeit hinsichtlich ...
Measuring Professional Competence for the Teaching of Mathematical Modelling
(2021)
This open access book presents a structural model and an associated test instrument designed to provide a detailed analysis of professional competences for teaching mathematical modelling. The conceptualisation is based ...
Whole-Body Regeneration
(2022)
This Open Access volume provides a comprehensive overview of the latest tools available to scientists to study the many facets of whole-body regeneration (WBR). The chapters in this book are organized into six parts. Part ...
Transforming Lives and Systems
(2020)
This open access book explores the transformative experiences of participants in the University of Sydney’s National Centre for Cultural Competence (NCCC) programs. The establishment of the NCCC was viewed as a critical ...
Nordic Perspectives on the Discourse of Things
(2023)
This open access book deals with the role of written texts in an increasingly diverse and dynamic society, bringing together a series of studies anchored in the Scandinavian research tradition of sakprosa, which roughly ...
Binging Family
(2021)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch zeigt Jakob Kelsch, wie sich in der US-amerikanischen TV-Serie der 1950er und 1960er Jahre der Mythos der patriarchal-strukturierten Kernfamilie als Ideal des familiären Zusammenlebens herausbildete. ...
Chapter 11 Understanding the Social Care Crisis in England Through Older People’s Lived Experiences
(2020)
The chapter’s focus is social care in England where responsibility for
the organisation and funding of care has shifted from the state to the individual.
It draws on a qualitative research project about the experiences ...
Collapsing Structures and Public Mismanagement
(2022)
This open access book is about mismanagement of public agencies as a threat to life and limb. Collapsing bridges and buildings kill people and often leave many more injured. Such disasters do not happen out of the blue nor ...
Regenerative Territories
(2022)
This open access book provides new perspectives on circular economy and space, explored towards the definition of regenerative territories characterised by healthy metabolisms. Going beyond the mere reuse/recycle of material ...
Chapter 3 Clinical Manifestations
(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 ...
Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming – Workshops
(2020)
This open access book constitutes the 6 research workshops, the Agile Education and Training Track, the Doctoral Symposium, as well as a panel presented at XP 2020, the 21st International Conference on Agile Software ...
Improving Psychiatric Care for Older People
(2017)
elderly; older people, NHS; public services; history; psychiatry; social welfare
Evolutionary Equations
(2022)
This open access book provides a solution theory for time-dependent partial differential equations, which classically have not been accessible by a unified method. Instead of using sophisticated techniques and methods, the ...
Understanding Energy Innovation
(2022)
This open access book uses smart grids to explore and better understand energy innovation, from a social science perspective. Understanding Energy Innovation has four core themes—networks, nodes, narratives and nostalgia—and ...
Social Background and the Demographic Life Course: Cross-National Comparisons
(2021)
This open access book examines how childhood social disadvantage influences young-adult demographic decision-making and later-life economic and well-being outcomes. This book in particular focuses on testing whether the ...
Chasing the Chinese Dream
(2021)
This open access book explores the historical, cultural and philosophical contexts that have made anti-poverty the core of Chinese society since Liberation in 1949, and why poverty alleviation measures evolved from the ...
Annals of Scientific Society for Assembly, Handling and Industrial Robotics
(2020)
This Open Access proceedings present a good overview of the current research landscape of industrial robots. The objective of MHI Colloquium is a successful networking at academic and management level. Thereby the colloquium ...
Sex Work, Health, and Human Rights
(2021)
This open access book provides a comprehensive overview of the health inequities and human rights issues faced by sex workers globally across diverse contexts, and outlines evidence-based strategies and best practices. Sex ...
Towards Resilient Organizations and Societies
(2022)
This open access book brings together scholars in the fields of management, public policy, regional studies, and organization theory around the concept of resilience. The aim is to provide a more holistic understanding of ...
Mathematisches Problemlösen in der Studieneingangsphase
(2023)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch beschreibt die theoriebasierte Entwicklung einer semesterbegleitenden Maßnahme zur Förderung der Problemlösekompetenz von Studienanfänger:innen der Fachmathematik und des gymnasialen Lehramts, sowie ...
Chapter 6 I Would Have Gone on with the Hunger Strike, but Force-Feeding I Could Not Take
(2016)
It is the first monograph-length study of the force-feeding of hunger strikers in English, Irish and Northern Irish prisons. It examines ethical debates that arose throughout the twentieth century when governments authorised ...
Artificial Intelligence Technology
(2023)
This open access book aims to give our readers a basic outline of today’s research and technology developments on artificial intelligence (AI), help them to have a general understanding of this trend, and familiarize them ...
Norms and Standards for Language Resources Protection in China
(2024)
This open-access book presents standards which were developed by the Project for the Protection of Language Resources of China (PPLRC). At present, China is home to some of the world’s richest language resources. However, ...
The Future of Work
(2023)
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the adoption of new forms of working and new working arrangements largely enabled by technology. The Future of Work is a projection of how work, working, workers and the workplace will ...
Integrated Diagnostics and Theranostics of Thyroid Diseases
(2023)
This open access book provides basic concepts on Integrated Diagnostics and Theranostics with special emphasis on different human thyroid diseases. Thyroid diseases are increasingly detected (incidentally in many cases) ...
Sociological Debates on Gestational Surrogacy
(2021)
This open access book discusses and analyses competing views and social implications of gestational surrogacy, which is making inroads as an option for parenthood as well as a work opportunity for women. It provides a rich ...
Evidence-based Positron Emission Tomography
(2020)
This open access book summarizes the findings of recent evidence-based articles (meta-analyses) on the use of positron emission tomography (PET) for various clinical indications. It is divided into five main sections, ...
Chapter 8 Painful Experience and Constitution of the Intersubjective Self
(2021)
In this paper, we discuss how phenomenology might cogently express
the way painful experiences are layered with complex intersubjective meaning. In
particular, we propose a critical conception of pain as an intricate ...
Mergers and Alliances in Higher Education: International Practice and Emerging Opportunities
(2015)
Higher Education; Educational Policy and Politics; International and Comparative Education
Counter-Terrorism, Ethics and Technology
(2021)
This open access book brings together a range of contributions that seek to explore the ethical issues arising from the overlap between counter-terrorism, ethics, and technologies. Terrorism and our responses pose some of ...
Proof and Proving in Mathematics Education
(2012)
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Fashion Figures
(2017)
STEM careers; girls; preteen; YA; mathlete; fashionista; math; middle school
Win in Chinese Courts
(2023)
This open access book aims to provide an initial but comprehensive roadmap for the Chinese civil litigation system. It starts with some basic concepts of the Chinese judicial system (e.g., court system, case numbering, ...
The Crisis for Young People
(2017)
education; NEET; widening participation