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Mathematische Überraschungen
(2025)
Dieses Buch ist Open-Access und bietet viele mathematische Überraschungen. Es gibt viele faszinierende Ergebnisse, die nicht in Lehrbüchern erscheinen, obwohl sie mit guten Kenntnissen der Sekundarschulmathematik zugänglich ...
Informal Livelihoods and Governance in South Africa
(2022)
This open access book offers a compelling account of everyday life, livelihoods, and governance in post-apartheid South Africa among the urban poor and marginalized, anchored in and through a critique of the concept of ...
Business and Biodiversity
(2025)
This open access book presents useful knowledge and lessons that derive from on-the-ground activities and contributes to policy recommendations, focusing on the reciprocal connections between business and biodiversity in ...
Stable Isotopes in Tree Rings
(2022)
This Open Access volume highlights how tree ring stable isotopes have been used to address a range of environmental issues from paleoclimatology to forest management, and anthropogenic impacts on forest growth. It will ...
Arzneimittel-Kompass 2021
(2021)
Der Arzneimittel-Kompass, der sowohl als Open-Access-Publikation als auch als gedrucktes Buch erscheint, widmet sich in seiner ersten Ausgabe dem Schwerpunktthema „Hochpreisige Arzneimittel – Herausforderung und Perspektiven“. ...
Die Europäisierung der öffentlichen Rechnungslegung
(2025)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch leistet einen normativen Beitrag für die Entwicklung der European Public Sector Accounting Standards (EPSAS) und knüpft an deren Status Quo im Jahr 2024 an. Die öffentliche Rechnungslegung ist von ...
Design Participation
(2025)
This open access book Design Participation presents doable and demonstrated ways by which design can become a major contributor to social and environmental change. This entails a shift from seeking to define solutions to ...
Digital Entrepreneurship
(2021)
This open access book explores the global challenges and experiences related to digital entrepreneurial activities, using carefully selected examples from leading companies and economies that shape world business today and ...
Religion and Governance in England’s Emerging Colonial Empire, 1601–1698
(2022)
This open access book explores the role of religion in England's overseas companies and the formation of English governmental identity abroad in the seventeenth century. Drawing on research into the Virginia, East India, ...
Good Research Practice in Non-Clinical Pharmacology and Biomedicine
(2020)
This open access book, published under a CC BY 4.0 license in the Pubmed indexed book series Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology, provides up-to-date information on best practice to improve experimental design and quality ...
Die Resiliente Stadt
(2024)
Resilienz ist das Konzept der Stunde. Die Coronakrise, die Flutkatastrophe im Ahrtal und die Energieknappheit haben Resilienz an die Spitze der politischen Agenda gesetzt. Auch für die Stadtentwicklung gilt Resilienz als ...
Variant Construction from Theoretical Foundation to Applications
(2019)
This open access book presents theoretical framework and sample applications of variant construction. The first part includes the components variant logic, variant measurements, and variant maps, while the second part ...
Social Development in the World Bank
(2021)
This open access book honors the work of Michael Cernea, who was the World Bank’s first professional sociologist, by taking on and extending his arguments for "putting people first.” Cernea led a community of social ...
Energy Poverty
(2018)
EVALUATE is a multi-sited study, involving extensive research across a variety of cities and countries. Focusing primarily on four Central and
Eastern European cities (Budapest, Gdańsk, Prague and Skopje) the project
has ...
Agroecology Now!
(2021)
This open access book develops a framework for advancing agroecology transformations focusing on power, politics and governance. It explores the potential of agroecology as a sustainable and socially just alternative to ...
Low Field Pediatric Brain Magnetic Resonance Image Segmentation and Quality Assurance
(2025)
This open access LNCS volume 15515 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First MICCAI Challenge on Low Field Pediatric Brain Magnetic Resonance Image Segmentation and Quality Assurance, LISA 2024, Held in Conjunction ...
Proceedings of the United Nations/Germany Workshop on the International Space Weather Initiative
(2026)
This open access book presents peer reviewed articles from the United Nations/Germany Workshop on International Space Weather Initiative (ISWI 2024) held from 10 to 15 June at Neustrelitz, Germany. It highlights the current ...
Primary and Secondary Education During Covid-19
(2022)
This open access edited volume is a comparative effort to discern the short-term educational impact of the covid-19 pandemic on students, teachers and systems in Brazil, Chile, Finland, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Portugal, ...
Geometric Quantization and Applications to Fields and Fluids
(2024)
This open access book explains geometric quantization from a physicist’s perspective. After presenting the general formalism, it delves into several examples reflecting current research interests in high-energy physics and ...
Proofs and Research Programmes: Lakatos at 100
(2025)
This open access book offers new insights into issues raised in philosophy of mathematics and in philosophy of science by Imre Lakatos. Lakatos was one of the most significant philosophers of the 20th Century, and his ideas ...
Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures
(2024)
The two open access volumes LNCS 14574 and 14575 constitute the proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures, FOSSACS 2024, which took place in Luxembourg ...
National Constitutions in European and Global Governance: Democracy, Rights, the Rule of Law
(2019)
This two-volume book, published open access, brings together leading scholars of constitutional law from twenty-nine European countries to revisit the role of national constitutions at a time when decision-making has ...
Non-Territorial Autonomy
(2023)
This Open Access textbook is a result of the work of ENTAN – the European Non-Territorial Autonomy Network. It provides students with a comprehensive analysis of the different aspects and issues around the concept of ...
Vulnerable Households in the Energy Transition
(2023)
This open access book explores the energy transition / energy poverty nexus in the European Union, including the implications of the transition and related policies for the household sector. Written by experts on energy ...
Austenitic TRIP/TWIP Steels and Steel-Zirconia Composites
(2020)
This open access book presents a collection of the most up-to-date research results in the field of steel development with a focus on pioneering alloy concepts that result in previously unattainable materials properties. ...
Media-Related Out-of-School Contact with English in Germany and Switzerland
(2023)
This open access book aimes to close a critical research gap in understanding how frequently German-speaking adolescents come into contact with the English language through various media channels, such as television, books, ...
Die Akte/n
(2025)
Was in der Welt gelten oder als Tatbestand verbürgt sein soll, muss aktenkundig sein, denn die Behörden der ›verwalteten Welt‹ entscheiden über unsere Wirklichkeit, Identität und Handlungsmacht im ›Medium‹ der Akten. Diese ...
The Challenges of Religious Literacy
(2020)
This open access book presents religious literacy as the main explanatory factor when dealing with certain ethnic groups that attract stereotypes which gloss over other personal factors such as age, class, gender and ...
Datenschutz als Vermögensrecht
(2020)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch untersucht die Autorin die Fortentwicklung des Datenschutzrechts zu einem Datenhandelsrecht. Sie stellt dar, wie Personendaten bereits heute gehandelt werden können und wo sich Problemfelder ...
Human-Centered Services Computing for Smart Cities
(2024)
This open-access book compiles seven monographs from researchers at the forefront of services computing and artificial intelligence for smart cities. This is structured into three thematic parts: service composition, big ...
From War to Peace in the Balkans, the Middle East and Ukraine
(2019)
This open access book focuses on the origins, consequences and aftermath of the 1995 and 1999 Western military interventions that led to the end of the most recent Balkan wars. Though challenging problems remain in Bosnia, ...
Knowledge from a Human Point of View
(2020)
This open access book – as the title suggests – explores some of the historical roots and epistemological ramifications of perspectivism. Perspectivism has recently emerged in philosophy of science as an interesting new ...
Medical Imaging Systems
(2018)
This open access book gives a complete and comprehensive introduction to the fields of medical imaging systems, as designed for a broad range of applications. The authors of the book first explain the foundations of system ...
Charting Spiritual Care
(2020)
This open access volume is the first academic book on the controversial issue of including spiritual care in integrated electronic medical records (EMR). Based on an international study group comprising researchers from ...
Sex in Cetaceans
(2023)
Sex in Cetaceans provides an up-to-date review of multi-faceted aspects related to mating and reproduction in toothed and baleen whales. This open access book begins with discussions of sexual selection and anatomical ...
Educational Theory in the 21st Century
(2022)
This open access book reviews the effects of the twenty-first century scientific-technological and social developments on the educational theory. The first part handles the subject, focusing on technology and educational ...
Sustainable Aging
(2025)
This open access book discusses three areas in which Germany has long-standing experience and solutions that are valuable for other countries—care education, care insurance and standards for age-friendly city neighborhoods. ...
Special Topics in Information Technology
(2020)
This open access book presents nine outstanding doctoral dissertations in Information Technology from the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Information Technology has ...
Drones and the Creative Industry
(2018)
This open access, interdisciplinary book presents innovative strategies in the use of civil drones in the cultural and creative industry. Specially aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), the book offers valuable ...
Workers, Managers, Productivity
(2020)
This open access book provides a glimpse into the Japanese management technique known as “Kaizen,” and the ways it has been disseminated around the developing world. The novelty of this book is three-fold: it provides a ...