Publications
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Collective Memory, Marginality, and Spatial Politics in Urban Indonesia.
(2025)
This volume presents three important themes for the study of Indonesian politics, cultures, and urban space: 1) urban regeneration and collective memory, 2) marginality and the other archives, 3) mood, medium, and media. ...
Towards Effective Flow Control and Mitigation of Shock Effects in Aeronautical Applications
(2025)
This open-access book reports on both experimental and numerical findings from the H2020-funded project TEAMAero (Towards Effective Flow Control and Mitigation of Shock Effects in Aeronautical Applications). It covers novel ...
Lenin and the Making of the Soviet State
(2007)
Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870 - 1924) led the first successful revolt against market-based liberal democracy and founded the Soviet State in 1917, serving as the new nation s chief architect and sole ruler for the next five ...
Telecommunication Economics
(2012)
This book constitutes a collaborative and selected documentation of the scientific outcome of the European COST Action IS0605 Econ@Tel "A Telecommunications Economics COST Network" which run from October 2007 to October ...
Global Citizenship Education
(2020)
This open access book takes a critical and international perspective to the mainstreaming of the Global Citizenship Concept and analyses the key issues regarding global citizenship education across the world. In that ...
Data-Driven Fault Detection and Reasoning for Industrial Monitoring
(2022)
This open access book assesses the potential of data-driven methods in industrial process monitoring engineering. The process modeling, fault detection, classification, isolation, and reasoning are studied in detail. These ...
Information—Consciousness—Reality
(2019)
This open access book chronicles the rise of a new scientific paradigm offering novel insights into the age-old enigmas of existence. Over 300 years ago, the human mind discovered the machine code of reality: mathematics. ...
Die Praxis kollektiven Handelns
(2019)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch präsentiert ein praxistheoretisches Konzept, das die Analyse verschiedener Aspekte und Formen kollektiven Handelns ermöglicht. Im Zentrum steht die Erweiterung des Handlungsverständnisses bei Anthony ...
Lifelong Learning, Young Adults and the Challenges of Disadvantage in Europe
(2023)
This open access book challenges international policy ‘groupthink’ about lifelong learning. Adult learning – too long a servant of business competitiveness – should be reimagined as central to democratic society. Young ...
Cybersecurity of Digital Service Chains
(2022)
This open access book presents the main scientific results from the H2020 GUARD project. The GUARD project aims at filling the current technological gap between software management paradigms and cybersecurity models, the ...
Outdoor Learning and Play
(2021)
This Open Access book examines children’s participation in dialectical reciprocity with place-based institutional practices by presenting empirical research from Australia, Brazil, China, Poland, Norway and Wales. Underpinned ...
Uncertain Curiosity in Artistic Research, Philosophy, Media and Cultural Studies
(2025)
This open access edited volume is based on the premise that entanglements between current societal, political, technological, ecological, and cultural transformations cannot be sufficiently understood without transforming ...
Children's Exploration and Cultural Formation
(2020)
This open access book examines the educational conditions that support cultures of exploration in kindergartens. It conceptualises cultures of exploration, whether those cultures are created through children’s own engagement ...
Co-creating Digital Public Services for an Ageing Society
(2021)
This open access book attends to the co-creation of digital public services for ageing societies. Increasingly public services are provided in digital form; their uptake however remains well below expectations. In particular, ...
Acculturation of Korean New Zealander Youth
(2025)
This open access book explores the acculturation, identity development, and cultural reconnection of newer-generation (1.5- and second-generation) Korean New Zealander youth who grew up in New Zealand after the 1990s. Based ...
How Megaprojects Are Damaging Nigeria and How to Fix It
(2022)
Since 1960, two-thirds of very large governmental projects in Nigeria have not only failed, but been abandoned mid-course. This presents a bigger failure rate than mega projects elsewhere, and yet there is no available ...
Circularity Assessment: Macro to Nano
(2023)
This open access book attempts to provide a perspective on the circularity assessment at different levels of the systemic hierarchy and advocates better resource management for a sustainable future. It demonstrates how ...
Produktivitätsmanagement 4.0
(2021)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch sind aktuelle Praxisbeispiele und Handlungsempfehlungen zur Gestaltung von Arbeit und Produktivität in der digitalisierten Welt beschrieben. Die Beispiele wurden von Unternehmen und wissenschaftlichen ...
Transnational Solidarity in Times of Crises
(2021)
This open access collection is devoted to an in-depth, qualitative analysis of practices of cross-national solidarity in response to the current political and social crises, from citizens’ initiatives to networks of ...
Encounters and Practices of Petty Trade in Northern Europe, 1820–1960
(2022)
This open access book uncovers one important, yet forgotten, form of itinerant livelihoods, namely petty trade, more specifically how it was practiced in Northern Europe during the period 1820–1960. It investigates how ...
Memory and the Gothic Aesthetic in Film
(2025)
This open access book defines the cinematic Gothic as an aesthetics of memory and exile. Guided by three intersecting concepts – memory, travelling, and touch – it suggests that the cross-border movements of exiles, émigrés, ...
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in India
(2022)
This open access book addresses self-care on sexual and reproductive health and rights and HIV prevention and treatment in the most marginalized and vulnerable communities. Case studies and personal narratives are used to ...
Microplastic in the Environment: Pattern and Process
(2022)
This open access book examines global plastic pollution, an issue that has become a critical societal challenge with implications for environmental and public health. This volume provides a comprehensive, holistic analysis ...
Metabolic Neuropsychiatry
(2025)
This open access book provides an interdisciplinary perspective on energy metabolism in the brain and body in neuropsychiatric disorders and suggests future research directions. Multiple lines of evidence indicate that ...
Global Political Demography
(2021)
This open access book draws the big picture of how population change interplays with politics across the world from 1990 to 2040. Leading social scientists from a wide range of disciplines discuss, for the first time, all ...
Wheat Improvement
(2022)
This open-access textbook provides a comprehensive, up-to-date guide for students and practitioners wishing to access in a single volume the key disciplines and principles of wheat breeding. Wheat is a cornerstone of food ...
Mobile Edge Computing
(2022)
This is an open access book. It offers comprehensive, self-contained knowledge on Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), which is a very promising technology for achieving intelligence in the next-generation wireless communications ...
Computational Methods für die Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften
(2023)
Mit Computational Methods lassen sich digitale Welten wissenschaftlich erforschen und gestalten. Das Open-Access-Lehrbuch vermittelt zunächst grundlegende Kompetenzen für die automatisierte Erhebung und Aufbereitung von ...
Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming – Workshops
(2025)
This open access book constitutes revised selected papers from the workshops held at the 25th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2024, which took place in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, during June 04-07, ...
Digital Public Health
(2025)
This comprehensive open access book gives an overview of the core issues in digital public health, with a strong emphasis on prevention, population health, and health systems. It covers a broad spectrum of topics, ranging ...
Corporate Finance for Long-Term Value
(2023)
This open access textbook offers a guide to corporate finance for modern companies that want to create long-term value. Drawing on recent literature on sustainable companies, it starts by analysing the Sustainable Development ...
Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Applications
(2025)
This open access book includes original, peer-reviewed research papers from the 2023 International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Applications (WCNA 2023), held in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, from ...
Ermittlung der Teilhabeförderung und des Finanzierungsbedarfs bei Chronisch Mehrfachgeschädigt/Mehrfachbeeinträchtigt Abhängigkeitskranken
(2023)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch dokumentiert die Entwicklung des personenzentrierten Bedarfserfassungsinstrumentes „IBUT-CMA“ auf Grundlage der ICF. Ziel war es, die Bedarfe praxisnah zu erfassen, eine direkte, leistungsgerechte, ...
TikTok – Memefication und Performance
(2025)
Gegenstand des interdisziplinären Open-Access-Bandes ist die Videoplattform TikTok, die als eines der meistgenutzten Sozialen Netzwerke große gesellschaftliche Relevanz entfalten konnte und insbesondere in (außer-)schulischen ...
City, Citizen, Citizenship, 400–1500
(2024)
This open access book explores how medieval societies conversed about the city and citizen in texts, visual imagery and material culture. It adopts a long-term, interdisciplinary, and cross-cultural perspective, bringing ...
Soziale Netzwerke und politische Partizipation
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch untersucht Stefanie Lütters, inwieweit Sozialkapital die verzerrte Inanspruchnahme politischer Teilhaberechte erklärt. Denn entgegen der demokratischen Idealvorstellung von politischer Gleichheit ...
Nanosafety
(2025)
Nanosafety encompasses a spectrum of multidisciplinary studies, including nanotoxicology, immunotoxicology, genotoxicity, and epigenetic effects. Nanomaterials, with their unique properties and diverse applications, have ...
How AI Impacts Urban Living and Public Health
(2019)
This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on String Processing and Information Retrieval, ICOST 2019, held in New York City, NY, USA, in October 2019. The 15 full papers ...
Japan Nutrition
(2022)
This Open Access auto-translation book demonstrates a time series of nutrition improvement in Japan since the introduction of nutrition sciences to Japan about 150 years ago. The chapters present the historical event where ...
The FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022
(2025)
This open access book presents a collection of case studies to analyse the FIFA World Cup 2022 held in Qatar, which revealed several complex aspects related to global football – its organization, its community, its related ...