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Citizen Participation in the Information Society
(2022)
This open access book examines how digital technologies are used to promote citizen participation in democratic urban development. It assesses the emergence, use, applicability and functions of digital modes of citizen ...
Learning Skilled Trades in the Workplace
(2025)
This open access book describes and explains a fifty-year-old woman’s process of developing trade competences. Drawing from daily journal entries, photographs, interviews from 10 fabrication shops, and online forums about ...
eIoT
(2019)
This open access book explores the collision between the sustainable energy transition and the Internet of Things (IoT). In that regard, this book’s arrival is timely. Not only is the Internet of Things for energy applications, ...
Makers at School, Educational Robotics and Innovative Learning Environments
(2021)
This open access book contains observations, outlines, and analyses of educational robotics methodologies and activities, and developments in the field of educational robotics emerging from the findings presented at FabLearn ...
Scripting Farming Simulator with Lua
(2024)
Create mods using the popular game Farming Simulator with Lua, a versatile scripting language that can run on various platforms and applications. This open access book is best suited for programmers who want to learn how ...
Applying the Kaizen in Africa
(2018)
At present, how to develop industries is a burning issue in Africa, where population growth remains high and economic development has thus far failed to provide sufficient jobs for many, especially young people and women. ...
Is it French? Popular Postnational Screen Fiction from France
(2023)
This book investigates the recently accelerated phenomenon of mainstream French film and serial television’s remarkable popularity not only within but – more novelly for European audiovisual narratives – outside the domestic ...
Arab Americans in the United States
(2024)
This open access book provides a unique perspective on the relationship between immigration, culture, and health. It presents a cross-cultural perspective between culture and illness. It touches upon identity struggles, ...
Argumentationsstrategien chinesischer Deutschlerner/-innen
(2024)
Dieses Open-Access Buch versucht, die Frage warum sich L1- und L2-Texte meistens leicht voneinander unterscheiden lassen, selbst wenn keine sprachlichen Fehler vorhanden sind, am Beispiel von chinesischen fortgeschrittenen ...
Diseases of the Brain, Head and Neck, Spine 2024-2027
(2024)
This open access book offers an essential overview of brain, head and neck, and spine imaging. Over the last few years, there have been considerable advances in this area, driven by both clinical and technological developments. ...
Diseases of the Chest, Heart and Vascular System 2025-2028
(2025)
This open access book offers an essential overview of chest, heart and vascular system imaging. Over the last few years, there have been considerable advances in this area, driven by both clinical and technological ...
Effective Theories in Physics
(2012)
This open access book… There is significant interest in the Philosophy of Science community to understand the role that "effective theories" have in the work of forefront science. The ideas of effective theories have been ...
Bearing Witness
(2021)
This open access book is the biography of one of Britain’s foremost animal welfare campaigners and of the world of activism, science, and politics she inhabited. In 1964, Ruth Harrison’s bestseller Animal Machines triggered ...
Gongsheng Across Contexts
(2024)
This open access book sheds light on the term gongsheng/kyōsei, which is used in Chinese and Japanese to not only translate “symbiosis” in biology but also broadly deployed in philosophical, social and political contexts. ...
African Linguistics after #RhodesMustFall
(2025)
This open access book explores the link between African languages, decolonisation and transformation. It has its origins in a survey of students and instructors at higher education institutions both inside and outside ...
Diskurs und Materialität
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird unter Rückgriff auf einen multimodalen Diskursbegriff das Vorgehen für eine soziotechnisch fundierte Dispositivanalyse entwickelt, die auf die produktive Rolle von Materialität in Diskursen ...
Symbiotic Intelligence
(2025)
This open access book is a compilation of selected papers from The 6th International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2024). The work focuses on novel techniques for computational design and ...
Asylum and Nonreligion
(2024)
This open access Palgrave Pivot explores the experiences of nonreligious asylum seekers in Northern Europe. While religious persecution is often cited as a reason for seeking asylum, nonbelievers also face significant ...
Linear Algebra Done Right
(2024)
Now available in Open Access, this best-selling textbook for a second course in linear algebra is aimed at undergraduate math majors and graduate students. The fourth edition gives an expanded treatment of the singular ...
Aufstiegschancen von Frauen
(2025)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch beschäftigt sich mit den Einflüssen auf die Karrierewege von Frauen, die in der Beratungsbranche höhere Führungspositionen erreicht haben. Die Gleichberechtigung zwischen Männern und Frauen ist in ...
Transnational and Transatlantic Perspectives on the Balkans, 1850–1918
(2025)
This book considers the position and historiography of the western Balkans in modern Europe. It challenges the linear narrative that the region was 'Europeanised' in the twentieth century - that is, brought into a wider ...
Grey Systems Analysis
(2025)
This open access book is the 2nd edition involving the update on data, methods and models of Grey Systems. It covers up-to-date theoretical and applied advances in grey systems from across the world, and vividly presents ...
Improving a Country’s Education
(2021)
This open access book compares and contrasts the results of international student assessments in ten countries. The OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) released the results of its 2018 assessment ...
Decarbonize Urban Heating System
(2024)
This is an open access book. The double-carbon target has been one of the main motivations and goals for China's social and economic development. The building sector is one of the most important sectors to achieve energy ...
Pedagogies for Later-Life Music Learning and Participation
(2025)
This open access book presents evidence-based participant and facilitator perspectives on later-life music learning and participation. The chapters explore the principles and practices that can facilitate and support ...
European Guide to Power System Testing
(2020)
This book is an open access book. This book provides an overview of the ERIGrid validation methodology for validating CPES, a holistic power system testing method. It introduces readers to corresponding simulation and ...
Innovative Models for Sustainable Development in Emerging African Countries
(2020)
This open access book explores key issues and presents recent case studies in areas of importance for the transition to a circular model of development in emerging African countries that will minimize resource consumption ...
Evidence Based Global Health Manual for Preterm Birth Risk Assessment
(2022)
This is an open access book. In this open access book the NIHR Global Health research group on preterm birth, PRIME, prioritizes the development of prenatal risk assessment guidance for preterm birth. This book is based ...
Gender Equality, Climate Action, and Technological Innovation for Sustainable Development in Africa
(2024)
This open access book explores the intersection of gender and climate change, suggests ways in which innovative technologies can accelerate climate relief actions, and offers strategies for integrating climate change ...
Advances in Energy System Optimization
(2020)
The papers presented in this open access book address diverse challenges in decarbonizing energy systems, ranging from operational to investment planning problems, from market economics to technical and environmental ...
The Diversity Of Worldviews Among Young Adults
(2022)
This open access volume features a data-rich portrait of what young adults think about the world. It collects the views of students in higher education from various cultural regions, religious traditions, linguistic groups, ...
The Huawei and Snowden Questions
(2018)
This open access book answers two central questions: firstly, is it at all possible to verify electronic equipment procured from untrusted vendors? Secondly, can I build trust into my products in such a way that I support ...
Rassismus in der Polizei
(2022)
Der Open Access-Band arbeitet das Themenfeld Polizei und Rassismus umfassend auf. In 33 Beiträgen werden behandelt: • Grundlagen zum Phänomen Rassismus, • relevante Befunde zur Polizei als Organisation und zu ihrer Praxis, ...
New Drivers of Division
(2025)
This open access book provides recent trends of urbanization and inequality in Africa and Asia. It addresses the inequality challenges of urbanization and large-scale rural-to-urban migration. It answers questions around ...
Ethnomusicology, Queerness, Masculinity
(2024)
This open access book explores the disciplinary, disciplined, and recent interdisciplinary sites and productions of ethnomusicology and queerness, arguing that both academic realms are founded upon a destructive ...
Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions
(2024)
This open access book includes a selection of innovative contributions presented at the 4th international conference “Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions 2022”, held in Bolzano, Italy in July 2022. Featuring ...
Computational Physiology
(2024)
This open access volume compiles student reports from the 2023 Simula Summer School in Computational Physiology. The reports provide an overview of some tools available to model physiology in excitable tissues across scales ...
Machine Learning in Sports
(2025)
This open access book provides cutting-edge work on machine learning in sports analytics, emphasizing the integration of computer vision, data analytics, and machine learning to redefine strategic sports analysis. This ...
Stem Cell Transplantations Between Siblings as Social Phenomena
(2022)
This open access book offers insights in short- and long-term experiences from families with bone marrow transplantations between minor siblings. It is based on the first extended qualitative study with 17 families about ...
Chapter 8 Categorising What We Study and What We Analyse, and the Exercise of Interpretation
(2018)
A lot of qualitative researchers have a healthy wariness about straightforward categorisation
and modelling endeavours undertaken by quantitative researchers. Too
often, variables and measurements are too rigid in ...