Publications
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A City Cannot Be a Work of Art
(2024)
This open access book connects Jane Jacobs's celebrated urban analysis to her ideas on economics and social theory. While Jacobs is a legend in the field of urbanism and famous for challenging and profoundly influencing ...
Computational Cognitive Modeling and Linguistic Theory
(2020)
This open access book introduces a general framework that allows natural language researchers to enhance existing competence theories with fully specified performance and processing components. Gradually developing ...
Solving Ordinary Differential Equations in Python
(2024)
This open access volume explains the foundations of modern solvers for ordinary differential equations (ODEs). Formulating and solving ODEs is an essential part of mathematical modeling and computational science, and ...
Inclusion, Education and Translanguaging
(2020)
This open access book is designed as an international anthology on the broader subject of inclusion, education, social justice and translanguaging. Prefaced by Ofelia García, the volume unites conceptional and empirical ...
Road to Net Zero
(2023)
With this open access book, delve into the insights of respected leaders from academia and industry as they unravel the intricacies of sustainability-driven business transformation. This meticulously curated edited volume ...
Computer Aided Verification
(2023)
The open access proceedings set LNCS 13964, 13965, 13966 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2023, which was held in Paris, France, in July 2023. ...
Agroforestry as Climate Change Adaptation
(2024)
This open access book provides multidisciplinary perspectives on the potential of agroforestry to mitigate the negative impacts of climate change on cocoa production. Against the backdrop of increasingly precarious farmer ...
Investor-State Dispute Settlement and National Courts
(2020)
This open access book examines the multiple intersections between national and international courts in the field of investment protection, and suggests possible modes for regulating future jurisdictional interactions between ...
Software Business
(2024)
This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Business, ICSOB 2023, which was held in Lahti, Finland, during November 27–29, 2023. The special theme of ICSOB ...
Doing Indefinite Time
(2023)
This open access book provides insights into the everyday lives of long-term prisoners in Switzerland who are labelled as ‘dangerous’ and are preventatively held in indefinite, probably lifelong, incarceration. It explores ...
Global Pathways to Education
(2022)
In this open access volume, the editors identify the trajectories and patterns displayed by education systems and investigate the causes of change from a global and historical perspective. The contributors argue that the ...
The Impact of Individual Expertise and Public Information on Group Decision-Making
(2021)
In this open-access-book the author concludes that expertise could be the key factor for global and interconnected problems. Experimental results have shown that expertise was a stronger predictor than public information ...
Migration, Urbanity and Cosmopolitanism in a Globalized World
(2021)
This open access book draws a theoretically productive triangle between urban studies, theories of cosmopolitanism, and migration studies in a global context. It provides a unique, encompassing and situated view on the ...
Sociology in Mexico
(2024)
This open access book presents a condensed history of Sociology in Mexico from its origins, through to the middle of the 19th century and up to the present day. The book analyses the interaction between sociology and the ...
Knowledge and Civil Society
(2022)
This open access book focuses on the role of civil society in the creation, dissemination, and interpretation of knowledge in geographical contexts. It offers original, interdisciplinary and counterintuitive perspectives ...
Transforming Urban Food Systems in Secondary Cities in Africa
(2023)
Countries across Africa are rapidly transitioning from rural to urban societies. The UN projects that 60% of people living in Africa will be in urban areas by 2050, with the urban population on the continent tripling over ...
Vessel Health and Preservation: The Right Approach for Vascular Access
(2019)
This Open access book offers updated and revised information on vessel health and preservation (VHP), a model concept first published in poster form in 2008 and in JVA in 2012, which has received a great deal of attention, ...
Rechtliche Implikationen Profiling-basierter Preispersonalisierung
(2023)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch untersucht, inwieweit Anbieter im Online-Vertrieb das technische Erkenntnisverfahren Profiling zum Zwecke der Preispersonalisierung einsetzen und welche rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen dabei gelten. ...
Japan’s Humanitarian Aid Toward Myanmar After the 2021 Coup
(2025)
This open access book delves into Japan's humanitarian aid efforts in Myanmar following the military coup of February 2021. As Myanmar faces political upheaval and growing humanitarian challenges, Japan's response has been ...
Disrupting Buildings
(2023)
The world’s extant building stock accounts for a significant portion of worldwide energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. In 2020, buildings and construction accounted for 36% of global final energy consumption ...
Bridging the Gap Between AI and Reality
(2026)
This open access book constitutes revised selected papers from the Second International Conference on Bridging the Gap between AI and Reality, AISoLA 2024, which took place in Crete, Greece, in October/November 2024. The ...
Wadi Flash Floods
(2022)
This open access book brings together research studies, developments, and application-related flash flood topics on wadi systems in arid regions. The major merit of this comprehensive book is its focus on research and ...
Geographies of the University
(2018)
This open access volume raises awareness of the histories, geographies, and practices of universities and analyzes their role as key actors in today’s global knowledge economy. Universities are centers of research, teaching, ...
Handbook of Diversity Competence
(2025)
This open access handbook provides the most current overview of the discussion on diversity competence, with a focus on Europe. Diversity competence has become a key area of interdisciplinary study because of the increasingly ...
Crisis Reporters, Emotions, and Technology
(2019)
This open access book explores the emotional labour of crisis reporters in an original style that combines fictional and factual narrative. Exploring how journalists make sense of their emotional experience and development ...
Die Theorien in der Kulturproduktion
(2024)
Kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliches Wissen hat über die letzten 50 Jahre eine beständige Verbreitung erfahren und wurde zu einem festen Bestandteil gegenwärtiger Gesellschaften. Dies bezieht sich allerdings nicht nur auf ...
Core Values and Decision-Making for Sustainable Business
(2024)
This open access volume discusses the core values and decision-making for sustainable business in general, and includes research findings and country cases on addressing challenges. It emphasizes the importance of adapting ...
Worldwide Perspectives on Geographical Indications
(2025)
Geographical Indications (GI) are distinctive signs that associate products of quality and reputation with their place or area of production and thereby help identify and distinguish such products on the market. In July ...
Die Finanzierung von Desinformation
(2025)
Desinformation und Verschwörungstheorien haben in den letzten Jahren deutlich Aufschwung erhalten, da ihre Verbreitung in den sozialen Medien und anderen Online Plattformen sehr schnell und effektiv sein kann. In zurückliegenden ...
Transformation Thermotics and Extended Theories
(2023)
This open access book describes the theory of transformation thermotics and its extended theories for the active control of macroscopic thermal phenomena of artificial systems, which is in sharp contrast to classical ...
Multivariate Statistical Machine Learning Methods for Genomic Prediction
(2022)
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license This open access book brings together the latest genome base prediction models currently being used by statisticians, breeders and data scientists. It provides an accessible ...
Beyond 100: The Next Century in Geodesy
(2023)
This open access book contains 30 peer-reviewed papers based on presentations at the 27th General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG). The meeting was held from July 8 to 18, 2019 in Montreal, ...
The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies
(2020)
This open access handbook, the first of its kind, provides a comprehensive and carefully curated multidisciplinary and genre-spanning view of the state of the field of Critical Menstruation Studies, opening up new directions ...
Statistical Population Genomics
(2020)
This open access volume presents state-of-the-art inference methods in population genomics, focusing on data analysis based on rigorous statistical techniques. After introducing general concepts related to the biology of ...
The Contemporary Construction of the Chinese Form of Marxist Literary Criticism
(2023)
This open access book is the first comprehensive and systematic study of Chinese Marxist literary criticism as an independent theoretical form. It discusses and describes the theoretical features of the Chinese form of ...
Value Sets for EQ-5D-5L
(2022)
This open access book provides an essential guide to value sets for anyone working with EQ-5D-5L data. The EQ-5D-5L is one of the most widely used health related quality of life questionnaires around the world, with ...
Single-Event Effects, from Space to Accelerator Environments
(2025)
This book describes the fundamental concepts underlying radiation-induced failure mechanisms in electronic components operating in harsh environments, such as in space missions or in particle accelerators. In addition to ...
Ireland's Long Economic Boom
(2024)
This Open Access book examines the long economic boom experienced in Ireland between the late 1980s and 2007, analysing why this boom occurred. The book situates Ireland as a relative latecomer to economic development, ...
International Reflections on the Netherlands Didactics of Mathematics
(2020)
This open access book, inspired by the ICME 13 Thematic Afternoon on “European Didactic Traditions”, takes readers on a journey with mathematics education researchers, developers and educators in eighteen countries, who ...
Nature-Based Flood Risk Management on Private Land
(2019)
This open access book addresses the various disciplinary aspects of nature-based solutions in flood risk management on private land. In recent decades, water management has been moving towards nature-based solutions. These ...