Publications
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Towards Rethinking Politics, Policy and Polity in the Anthropocene
(2025)
Humankind faces two anthropogenic threats to its survival that are closely linked. The first is the end of the Holocene and the start of the Anthropocene, which was marked by the test of a nuclear bomb on 16 July 1945. In ...
Saving and Investment in the Twenty-First Century
(2021)
The economy of the 21st century in the OECD countries and in China, is characterized by a new phenomenon: the structural surplus of private savings in relation to private investment. This is true even in a situation of ...
Older Workers and Labour Market Exclusion Processes
(2023)
This open access book addresses the important and neglected question of older workers who are excluded from the labour market. It challenges post-capitalist discourses of active ageing with a focus on restrictive end-of-career ...
Policing in the Pacific Islands
(2023)
This open access book brings together insights into Pacific policing, conceptualising policing broadly as order maintenance involving the actions of multiple local, regional and international actors with sometimes competing ...
Handbook of Education Policy Studies
(2020)
This open access handbook brings together the latest research from a wide range of internationally influential scholars to analyze educational policy research from international, historical and interdisciplinary perspectives. ...
Migrants with Irregular Status in Europe
(2020)
This open access book explores the conceptual challenges posed by the presence of migrants with irregular immigration status in Europe and the evolving policy responses at European, national and municipal level. It addresses ...
Trailblazing in Entrepreneurship
(2017)
Entrepreneurship; Organization
Storytelling to Accelerate Climate Solutions
(2024)
The climate is changing faster than our cultural practices are adapting to it. This Open Access volume, co-edited by Emily Coren (a science communicator) and Hua Wang (a communication scientist), presents a survey of the ...
Inside Asylum Bureaucracy: Organizing Refugee Status Determination in Austria
(2018)
Based on a case study on the former Austrian Federal Asylum Agency, the book provides sociological insights on state action in the administration of asylum in a European context. It offers a novel perspective on public ...
Impacts of Study Abroad on Higher Education Development
(2024)
This open-access book is an exceptional contribution to the burgeoning fields of higher education development and higher education internationalization as it empirically examines the impact of the study abroad experiences ...
Nuclear Back-end and Transmutation Technology for Waste Disposal: Beyond the Fukushima Accident
(2015)
Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection; Nuclear Engineering; Particle and Nuclear Physics; Waste Management/Waste Technology; Industrial Pollution Prevention; Nuclear fuel cycle; Environmental radiation; Nuclear ...
Von Bauingenieurinnen und Sozialarbeitern
(2021)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch geht theoretisch und empirisch der Frage nach, wie Studien(fach)wahlen im Kontext von sozialem Milieu und sozialem Geschlecht entstehen und nutzt dazu das Habituskonzept nach Pierre Bourdieu und die ...
Managing Infodemics in the 21st Century
(2023)
This open access book on infodemic management reviews the current discussions about this evolving area of public health from a variety of perspectives. Infodemic management is an evidence-based practice underpinned by the ...
Chapter References
(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 ...
Habitats and Biota of the Gulf of Mexico: Before the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Volume 2: Fish Resources, Fisheries, Sea Turtles, Avian Resources, Marine Mammals, Diseases and Mortalities
(2017)
environmental management; marine; freshwater sciences
The Huawei and Snowden Questions: Can Electronic Equipment from Untrusted Vendors be Verified? Can an Untrusted Vendor Build Trust into Electronic Equipment?
(2018)
cyber security; IT management; computer science; computer engineering; digital vulnerability
Radiation Monitoring and Dose Estimation of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
(2014)
Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection; Environmental Health; Nuclear Energy; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution; Nuclear Chemistry; Fukushima nuclear plant ...
Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
(2023)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, FASE 2023, which was held during April 22-27, 2023, in Paris, France, as part of the ...
Women and Violence
(2015)
This edited collection explores the agency of women who do violence and have violence done to them. Topics covered include rape, pornography, prostitution, suicide bombing and domestic violence. The volume contributes to ...
Textbook of Patient Safety and Clinical Risk Management
(2021)
Implementing safety practices in healthcare saves lives and improves the quality of care: it is therefore vital to apply good clinical practices, such as the WHO surgical checklist, to adopt the most appropriate measures ...
Anti-Vivisection and the Profession of Medicine in Britain
(2017)
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book explores the social history of the anti-vivisection movement in Britain from its nineteenth-century beginnings until the 1960s. It discusses the ethical principles ...
Proceedings of Conference on Sustainable Traffic and Transportation Engineering in 2023
(2024)
This open access book discusses modern cutting-edge techniques and theoretical research in the domain of transportation engineering. As China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) gains momentum over these years, the construction ...
Basic Modeling and Theory of Creep of Metallic Materials
(2024)
This open access book features an in-depth exploration of the intricate creep behavior exhibited by metallic materials, with a specific focus on elucidating the underlying mechanical properties governing their response at ...
Progress in Landslide Research and Technology, Volume 3 Issue 1, 2024
(2024)
This open access book provides an overview of the progress in landslide research and technology and is part of a book series of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL). The book provides a common platform for the ...
Biofuels and Sustainability
(2018)
This open access book presents a comprehensive analysis of biofuel use strategies from an interdisciplinary perspective using sustainability science. This interdisciplinary perspective (social science-natural science) means ...
Scattering Amplitudes in Quantum Field Theory
(2024)
This open access book bridges a gap between introductory Quantum Field Theory (QFT) courses and state-of-the-art research in scattering amplitudes. It covers the path from basic definitions of QFT to amplitudes, which are ...
Accelerator-Driven System at Kyoto University Critical Assembly
(2021)
This open access book is a unique compilation of experimental benchmark analyses of the accelerator-driven system (ADS) at the Kyoto University Critical Assembly (KUCA) on the most recent advances in the development of ...
Special Topics in Information Technology
(2021)
This open access book presents thirteen outstanding doctoral dissertations in Information Technology from the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Information Technology ...
De sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period
(2020)
This open access book explores commentaries on an influential text of pre-Copernican astronomy in Europe. It features essays that take a close look at key intellectuals and how they engaged with the main ideas of this ...
Understanding Globalization, Global Gaps, and Power Shifts in the 21st Century
(2022)
This book aims to help readers make sense of our changing world by sharing the views of global thought leaders on some of the most important issues of our time, from US-China relations and global governance to climate ...
Chapter Conclusion: Death Is Only Their Desire
(2015)
The study of early modern cancer is significant for our understanding of the period’s medical theory and practice. In many respects, cancer exemplifies the flexibility of early modern medical thought, which managed to ...
Governing the Sustainable Development Goals
(2022)
This open access book conceptualises the Sustainable Development Goals as epistemic infrastructures that connect numbers, networks and governing paradigms.The book approaches quantification not merely as a tool for governing, ...
Programming Languages and Systems
(2022)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 31st European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2022, which was held during April 5-7, 2022, in Munich, Germany, as part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and ...
The Challenges of Nuclear Security
(2024)
This Open Access volume assembles experts from the United States and India to examine six issues essential to the safety and security of nuclear facilities, technologies, and materials: insider threats, organizational ...
Digitalisierung: Bildung | Technik | Innovation
(2017)
communications engineering; digital humanities; technology; information systems; networks
Synchronized Factories: Latin America and the Caribbean in the Era of Global Value Chains
(2014)
Global Value Chains; Offshoring; Linkages; FDI; International Trade; IADB
Chapter Bibliography
(2015)
Statistically, women appear to suffer more frequently from depressive and anxiety disorders, featuring more regularly in primary care figures for consultations, diagnoses and prescriptions for psychotropic medication. This ...
Informational Privacy for Service Design
(2025)
This open access book equips designers with a deeper understanding of informational privacy, emphasizing why and how designers should design services that respect and enhance people’s privacy. The solution to these issues ...
Model-Based Demography: Essays on Integrating Data, Technique and Theory
(2018)
Demography; Computer Modeling; Methodology; Theory; Quantitative analysis; Model-based view of science
Urinary Stents
(2022)
This open access book provides a concise overview of a range of aspects related to urinary stents. Sections within the work cover clinical and recent technological advancements in the field. Chapters feature detailed ...