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Vaccines, Medicines and COVID-19
(2022)
This open access book is a collection of research papers on COVID-19 by Germán Velásquez from 2020 and early 2021 that help to answer the question: How can an agency like the World Health Organization (WHO) be given a ...
Perspectives on Digital Humanism
(2022)
This open access book aims to set an agenda for research and action in the field of Digital Humanism through short essays written by selected thinkers from a variety of disciplines, including computer science, philosophy, ...
Education in China and the World
(2024)
This open access book provides a comprehensive overview of education in China, covering 12 critical topics including basic education, higher education, professional education, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and ...
Digitale Medien in Lehr-Lern-Konzepten der Lehrpersonenbildung in interdisziplinärer Perspektive
(2025)
Der open access Sammelband zeigt auf, wie digitalisierungsbezogene Kompetenzen von Studierenden und Dozierenden der Lehrpersonenbildung auf Basis interdisziplinären Zusammenwirkens von Bildungswissenschaften und Fachdidaktiken ...
Measuring Emission of Agricultural Greenhouse Gases and Developing Mitigation Options using Nuclear and Related Techniques
(2021)
This open access book is an outcome of the collaboration between the Soil and Water Management & Crop Nutrition Section, Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Department of Nuclear Sciences ...
Analyse von Transferprozessen in der Entwicklung des Bruchzahlbegriffs
(2021)
Sebastian Kollhoff rekonstruiert und analysiert in diesem Open-Access-Buch in einer Feldstudie mit Fünftklässlerinnen und Fünftklässlern Transferprozesse in der Entwicklung von Grundvorstellungen zu Brüchen. Anhand von ...
Marine Exploration and Exploitation of Hydrocarbons
(2025)
The book analyzes the environmental regulation of upstream marine exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbons, at the international, regional MERCOSUR and Argentine national level. It uses the concept of normative integration ...
The Impact of Covid-19 on the Institutional Fabric of Higher Education
(2023)
This open access book assesses how the Covid-19 pandemic caught higher education systems throughout the world by surprise. It maps out the responses of higher education institutions to the challenges and strategic opportunities ...
Landscapes of Lifelong Learning Policies across Europe
(2022)
This open access book explores different landscapes of Lifelong Learning policies (LLP), producing case-based examinations of their institutional, discursive, and relational dimensions. Across Europe, young people develop ...
Women’s Private Practices of Knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe
(2024)
This open access book explores knowledge practices by five women from different European contexts. Contributors document, analyze, and discuss how women employed practices of privacy to pursue knowledge that did not ...
Die emotionale Erfahrung des Asyls
(2021)
In dieser Open-Access-Publikation gibt Klaus Behnam Shad einen vertieften Einblick in die (Selbst-)Unterwerfung Geflüchteter und fokussiert ihre affektive Identitätsneukonstruktionen, d. h. die individuelle Auseinandersetzung ...
Hybride Medialität
(2025)
In diesem Open Access Buch wird in einer Zeit, in der digitale Medien zunehmend an Bedeutung gewinnen, die dynamische Interaktion innerhalb digitaler Praxisgemeinschaften am Beispiel von Let’s Play-Videos auf YouTube ...
Migration, Agriculture and Rural Development
(2020)
This open access short reader looks into the dynamics which have reshaped rural development and human landscapes in European agriculture and the role of immigrant people. Within this framework it analyses contemporary rural ...
Continental Philosophy of Technoscience
(2022)
The key objective of this volume is to allow philosophy students and early-stage researchers to become practicing philosophers in technoscientific settings. Zwart focuses on the methodological issue of how to practice ...
Handbook of Pathogens and Diseases in Cephalopods
(2019)
The aim of this open access book is to facilitate the identification and description of the different organs as well as pathogens and diseases affecting the most representative species of cephalopods focussed on Sepia ...
Emerging Threats of Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology
(2021)
Synthetic biology is a field of biotechnology that is rapidly growing in various applications, such as in medicine, environmental sustainability, and energy production. However these technologies also have unforeseen risks ...
The Entrepreneurial Society
(2020)
This open access book is an outcome of the EU’s Horizon 2020 project ‘Financial and Institutional Reforms for an Entrepreneurial Society’ (FIRES). Building on historical, economic and legal analysis, and combining methods ...
A Guide to Responsible Research
(2023)
This Open Access book is a guide to good, responsible research at each step of the process of research discovery, so that a researcher at the beginning of a scientific career has a clear pathway to doing good research and ...
Risk Communication for the Future
(2018)
The conventional approach to risk communication, based on a centralized and controlled model, has led to blatant failures in the management of recent safety related events. In parallel, several cases have proved that actors ...
Nordic e-Infrastructure Tomorrow
(2025)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration Conference, NeIC 2024, which took place in Tallinn, Estonia, in May 2024. The 14 papers included in this book were carefully ...
Theoretical and Practical Advances in Computer-based Educational Measurement
(2019)
This open access book presents a large number of innovations in the world of operational testing. It brings together different but related areas and provides insight in their possibilities, their advantages and drawbacks. ...
Wildland Fire Smoke in the United States
(2022)
This open access book synthesizes current information on wildland fire smoke in the United States, providing a scientific foundation for addressing the production of smoke from wildland fires. This will be increasingly ...
Bioeconomy and Global Inequalities
(2021)
This open access book focuses on the meanings, agendas, as well as the local and global implications of bioeconomy and bioenergy policies in and across South America, Asia and Europe. It explores how a transition away from ...
Collection Care
(2025)
This open access book compiles the contributions of the conference Collection Care: New Challenges in Environmental Monitoring, Risk Assessment and Risk Management. The conference held within the framework of the EU’s ...
Richter über internationale Gerichte?
(2020)
Das Open-Access-Buch untersucht am Beispiel des Europäischen Gerichtshofs für Menschenrechte (EGMR) und des Interamerikanischen Menschenrechtsgerichtshofs (IAGMR), welche Rolle innerstaatliche Gerichte bei der Umsetzung ...
Biographical Life Course Research
(2023)
This open access book explores an approach that connects individual and societal processes throughout history and shifting trends in sociological perspectives, influenced by C. Wright Mills’ theories of time and temporality. ...
Implementing Industry 4.0 in SMEs
(2021)
This open access book addresses the practical challenges that Industry 4.0 presents for SMEs. While large companies are already responding to the changes resulting from the fourth industrial revolution , small businesses ...
Mediation in der Wissenschaft
(2026)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch begründet den besonderen Wert der Mediation in der Wissenschaft. Zunächst hilft Mediation einer guten Kommunikations- und Fehlerkultur. Die Methoden der Mediation unterstützen aber auch Perspektivwechsel ...
Future Skills
(2020)
Dieses Open Access-Buch analysiert veränderte Grundkoordinaten der Hochschulbildung weltweit und stellt die Frage, wie Hochschulbildung sich entwickeln muss, um in einer Welt globaler Herausforderungen, sich immer schneller ...
Innovation, Sustainability and Management in Motorsports
(2021)
“There’s probably no better sport than Formula E to present and study the science and practice of innovation within (motor)sport, and this book is a must read for those active within this fascinating area”. - Dr. Kristof ...
An Evolutionary Story of Agency
(2026)
This open access book exposes the role of "agency" in the history of life. Agency is understood as the capacity of an organism to act, make decisions, and exercise control over its actions in order to achieve goals or to ...
Energy Justice Across Borders
(2020)
Philosophy; Engineering ethics; Energy policy; Energy and state; Economic geography; Renewable energy resources; Sustainable development; Energy systems
Life Cycle Analysis Based on Nanoparticles Applied to the Construction Industry
(2025)
This open access book describes in the recent years, there has been a notable upsurge in the use of nanomaterials, particularly within the construction and building sectors. The incorporation of nanoparticles introduces ...
Themenkarrieren in der Wissenschaft
(2022)
Diese Open-Access-Publikation ist ein Plädoyer, das Verständnis von Themenkarrieren als integralen Bestandteil der Wissenschaft zu vertiefen und für die Reflexion wissenschaftlicher und planerischer Praxis zu nutzen. Welchen ...
Biodiversity of the Gulf of Guinea Oceanic Islands
(2022)
This open access book presents a comprehensive synthesis of the biodiversity of the oceanic islands of the Gulf of Guinea, a biodiversity hotspot off the west coast of Central Africa. Written by experts, the book compiles ...
Post-Digital, Post-Internet Art and Education
(2021)
This open access edited volume provides theoretical, practical, and historical perspectives on art and education in a post-digital, post-internet era. Recently, these terms have been attached to artworks, artists, exhibitions, ...
The Human Right to Democracy in Multilevel Systems at a Time of Democratic Backsliding: Global, Regional and European Union Perspectives
(2026)
This open access book takes stock of the current situation of the human right to democracy in multilevel systems of government - at a time of renewed struggles with antidemocratic forces (democratic backsliding). It tries ...
The Case Against Climate Doom
(2025)
By highlighting the social, political and technological progress already made, this open access book presents an optimistic outlook for a transition to a climate-neutral world and successful adaptation to climate change. ...
14th International Congress for Applied Mineralogy (ICAM2019)
(2019)
This open access proceedings of the 14th International Council for Applied Mineralogy Congress (ICAM) in Belgorod, Russia cover a wide range of topics including applied mineralogy, advanced and construction materials, ore ...
Explainable Artificial Intelligence
(2026)
This open access five-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second World Conference on Explainable Artificial Intelligence, xAI 2025, held in Istanbul, Turkey, during July 2025. The 96 revised full papers ...