Publications
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Chapter Introduction
(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 ...
Internal Crowdsourcing in Companies
(2021)
This open access book examines the implications of internal crowdsourcing (IC) in companies. Presenting an employee-oriented, cross-sector reference model for good IC practice, it discusses the core theoretical foundations, ...
Mathematics Teacher Education in the Andean Region and Paraguay
(2018)
*THIS BOOK WILL SOON BE AVAILABLE AS OPEN ACCESS BOOK* This book is an excellent synthesis of the initial and continuing preparation for Mathematics Teaching in Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru, from which comparative ...
Advances in Automotive Production Technology – Towards Software-Defined Manufacturing and Resilient Supply Chains
(2023)
This volume of the series ARENA2036 compiles the outcome of the 2nd Stuttgart Conference on Automotive Production (SCAP2022). The peer-reviewed contributions in this book are arranged thematically in three parts and cover ...
The Seine River Basin
(2021)
This open access book reviews the water-agro-food and socio-eco-system of the Seine River basin (76,000 km2), and offers a historical perspective on the river’s long-term contamination. The Seine basin is inhabited by circa ...
Subjektunabhängige, analytische Unternehmensethik
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch beleuchtet Florian Fuchs den historischen Diskurs um eine Integration ethischer Fragestellungen in die betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung. Vor dem Hintergrund einer bisher fehlenden originären ...
The South Texas Health Status Review: A Health Disparities Roadmap
(2013)
Public Health; Epidemiology; Demography
Regional Geological Survey of Hanggai, Xianxia and Chuancun, Zhejiang Province in China
(2020)
This Open Access book introduces readers to the regional geology of Hanggai, Xianxia and Chuancun, the area between China's northern Zhejiang Province and southern Anhui Province and explores the strata, magmatic rocks and ...
Interlocal Adaptations to Climate Change in East and Southeast Asia
(2022)
This Open Access book’s main focus is agriculture and natural resource management, disaster risk reduction, and human resource development in the countries of East and Southeast Asia and Japan. Asia is one of the regions ...
Organizational, Motivational, and Cultural Contexts of Volunteering
(2022)
This open access book offers a comprehensive view of the phenomenon of volunteer work: it examines motivational factors and questions of corporate organization and the social environment. In particular, this is the first ...
Ray Tracing Gems II
(2021)
"The digital version of this book is available now for free – with the print version following very soon!
This Open Access book is a must-have for anyone interested in real-time rendering. Ray tracing is the holy ...
IAEA Atlas of Cardiac PET/CT
(2022)
This open access book presents a wide portfolio of examples of positron emission tomography coupled with computer tomography (PET/CT) studies in various cardiac conditions in order to provide a rationale for the implementation ...
Molecular Beams in Physics and Chemistry
(2021)
This Open Access book gives a comprehensive account of both the history and current achievements of molecular beam research. In 1919, Otto Stern launched the revolutionary molecular beam technique. This technique made it ...
The Cold War in the Classroom
(2019)
Education; Teaching; Education—History; Communication; Russia—History; Europe, Eastern—History; Historiography
Mathematics Teacher Preparation in Central America and the Caribbean
(2017)
*THIS BOOK WILL SOON BECOME AVAILABLE AS OPEN ACCESS BOOK* This book is an excellent synthesis of the initial and continuing preparation for Mathematics Teaching in Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic and Venezuela, ...
Interdisciplinary Nutritional Management and Care for Older Adults
(2021)
This open access book aims to primarily support nurses as leaders and champions of multimodal, Interdisciplinary nutrition care for older adults. A structured approach to fundamentals of nutrition care across Interdisciplinary ...
Handbuch Außenpolitik Österreichs
(2023)
Das Handbuch ist vollständig als Open Access Publikation verfügbar. Dieses Handbuch bietet eine umfassende Analyse der Außenpolitik Österreichs in der Zweiten Republik. Es behandelt die Rahmenbedingungen, Akteure und ...
Nordic Media Histories of Propaganda and Persuasion
(2023)
This open access edited volume shines new light on the history of propaganda and persuasion during the Nordic welfare epoch. A common analytical framework is developed that highlights transnational and transmedial perspectives ...
Healthcare, Frugal Innovation, and Professional Voluntarism
(2017)
healthcare; politics; poverty; aid; development; Africa
Access to Online Resources: A Guide for the Modern Librarian
(2018)
access management; online resources; library technology; access protocols; identity management; authentication; authorisation; troubleshooting; SAML
Recycling – ein Mittel zu welchem Zweck?
(2021)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch kritisiert Philipp Schäfer die Entwicklung der Circular Economy hin zu einem Selbstzweck. Um den Beitrag der Circular Economy zu einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung zu gewährleisten, muss sie stets ...
Chapter 2 A Prostitution of the Profession?
(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 ...
Sustainable Mobility for Island Destinations
(2022)
This open access book presents the findings of the CIVITAS DESTINATIONS project regarding the link between mobility and tourism in urban areas and the complications tourist destinations face in becoming more sustainable. ...
Plurinationality and epistemic justice
(2024)
This book examines interculturality in education in Ecuador at the crossroads between an educational model inherited from the colonial past, which still represents white and mestizo hegemony, and a vision of an alternative ...
North Sea Region Climate Change Assessment
(2016)
Atmospheric Sciences; Marine & Freshwater Sciences; Environmental Management
Hochschulreformen, Leistungsbewertungen und berufliche Identität von Professor*innen
(2021)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird ein differenziertes Bild der Folgen von „Bologna“, „Exzellenzinitiative“, Drittmittelwettbewerb und „New Public Management“ für die berufliche Identität von Professor*innen gezeichnet. Eine ...
Sustainable Commodity Use
(2022)
This open access book examines the governance and legal landscape of the global commodity sector. For that purpose, the author conceptualises both Global Commodity Governance (GCG) as well as Transnational Commodity Law ...
Agricultural Value Chains in India
(2022)
This open access book provides a clear holistic conceptual framework of CISS-F (competitiveness, inclusiveness, sustainability, scalability and access to finance) to analyse the efficiency of value chains of high value ...
Complicities
(2022)
This Open Access book offers a model of the human subject as complicit in the systems that structure human society and the human psyche which draws together clinical research with theory from both psychology and the ...
Operationalisation of Hybrid Peacebuilding in Asia
(2021)
This open access book explores common critiques in the literature of hybrid peacebuilding, especially the lack of connection between hybridity in theory and practice. Through using a complexity-informed framework, the ...
Epistemic Justice in Mental Healthcare
(2025)
This open access book explores epistemic justice in mental healthcare, bringing together perspectives from psychologists, psychiatrists, philosophers, activists, and lived experience researchers. Through eight chapters, ...
Guidebook to Carbon Neutrality in China
(2022)
This Open Access publication focuses on China’s goal of achieving peak carbon emissions in 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060. The book is the first to systematically build a framework combining a top-down and bottom-up ...
At Risk of Deprivation
(2024)
This open access book examines how and why various forms of climate (im)mobilities can impact people's objective and subjective well-being. Worsening climate impacts are forcing subsistence farmers worldwide to decide ...
Managing Distributed Cloud Applications and Infrastructure
(2020)
The emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT), combined with greater heterogeneity not only online in cloud computing architectures but across the cloud-to-edge continuum, is introducing new challenges for managing ...
The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain
(2017)
history of crime; capital punishment; medical humanities
Trends in Data Protection and Encryption Technologies
(2023)
This open access book reports the results of a study conducted in Switzerland in 2022 to provide an overview of the changing landscape of encryption and data protection technologies and their global usage trends. The Swiss ...
From Decoding Turbulence to Unveiling the Fingerprint of Climate Change
(2022)
This open access book serves as a reference for the key elements and their significance of Klaus Hasselmann's work on climate science and on ocean wave research, all based on a rigorous and deeply physical thinking. It ...
Reflections on the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident: Toward Social-Scientific Literacy and Engineering Resilience
(2015)
Nuclear Engineering; Environmental Science and Engineering; Social Sciences, general
DevOps for Digital Leaders
(2016)
DevOps; continuous delivery; software lifecycle; concurrent parallel testing; service management; ITIL; GRC; PaaS; containerization; API management; lean principles; technical debt; end-to-end automation; automation
Haptics: Science, Technology, Applications
(2022)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human Haptic Sensing and Touch Enabled Computer Applications, EuroHaptics 2022, held in Hamburg, Germany, in May 2022. The 36 regular ...