Publications
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Assessment of Climate Change over the Indian Region
(2020)
This open access book discusses the impact of human-induced global climate change on the regional climate and monsoons of the Indian subcontinent, adjoining Indian Ocean and the Himalayas. It documents the regional climate ...
Bioethics and the Holocaust
(2022)
This open access book offers a framework for understanding how the Holocaust has shaped and continues to shape medical ethics, health policy, and questions related to human rights around the world. The field of bioethics ...
Data Parallel C++
(2021)
Learn how to accelerate C++ programs using data parallelism. This open access book enables C++ programmers to be at the forefront of this exciting and important new development that is helping to push computing to new ...
Children's Life-Histories in Primary Schools
(2025)
This open access book explores schooling from the perspective of children via data from a longitudinal life-history study. It questions whether schooling creates an environment where all children to flourish; or whether a ...
Compliance and Initiative in the Production of Safety
(2024)
This open access book addresses the idea that there are two ways to go about achieving a safe working environment. The text challenges the prevailing notion that compliance with a rule system, imposed from the top of an ...
Civil Society Elites in the Italian Third Sector
(2025)
This open access book unveils the hidden elite of Italy's third sector, offering a rare glimpse into the lives and minds of civil society's most influential leaders. Bridging elite and civil society studies, it presents ...
European Parliament’s Political Groups in Turbulent Times
(2022)
This open access book provides the first ever authoritative collection of scholarly insights, based upon original research, into the political groups of the EP tackling the fundamental changes since the Lisbon Treaty and ...
Self as Method
(2023)
Despite China’s rise to the status of global power, many Chinese youths are anxious about their personal future, in large measure because the rapid changes have left them feeling adrift. This book, available in open access, ...
The Change Laboratory for Teacher Training in Entrepreneurship Education
(2019)
This open access book illustrates a new type of formative intervention for in-service teacher training in entrepreneurship education. The book describes a Change Laboratory and shows how teachers and workshop assistants ...
Bridging Governance, Public Support, Innovation, and Transparency
(2026)
Sustainable development can be achieved by organisations in a supportive environment that includes a culture of transparency, accountability and shared values. This short, open access contributed volume presents an overview ...
Human-Centred Economics
(2024)
This open access book examines the chronic underperformance of economies with respect to inclusion, sustainability and resilience. It finds that the standard liberal economic growth and development model has evolved over ...
Carbon Pricing in Japan
(2021)
This open access book evaluates, from an economic perspective, various measures introduced in Japan to prevent climate change. Although various countries have implemented such policies in response to the pressing issue of ...
Contextual Process Digitalization
(2020)
This open access book presents an overview and step-by-step explanation of process management. It starts with the individual participants’ perspectives on their work in a process and its structuring and harmonization, and ...
Sociology in Germany
(2021)
This open access book traces the development of sociology in Germany from the late 19th century to the present day, providing a concise overview of the main actors, institutional processes, theories, methods, topics and ...
Agent AI for Finance
(2025)
This open access book provides an overview of the current state of financial argument mining and financial text generation, and presents the authors’ thoughts on the blueprint for NLP in finance in the agent AI era. Financial ...
Häuser machen Schule
(2019)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch werden in einem methodisch unkonventionellen, quasi-archäologischen Vorgehen aus Architekturen von Schulhäusern die in ,Stein gehauenen‘ Sinnstrukturen rekonstruiert. In ihren Raum(an)ordnungen ...
Control and Protection of 100% Inverter-based Power Systems
(2025)
In this Open-Access book, voltage source converters (VSCs) as key components of sustainable energy systems based on wind power plants, photovoltaic power plants, battery energy systems, electric vehicles and heat pumps are ...
Sustainable Structures and Buildings
(2024)
This open access book includes detail on various structures, buildings, and building materials from different structural and sustainability perspectives. It describes how the building industry is vital for the achievement ...
Akademische Subjektivierung im Dispositiv neoliberaler Gouvernementalität
(2024)
In diesem Open-Access Buch wird die Transformation von traditionellen zu unternehmerischen Hochschulen unter einer neoliberalen Wissens- und Identitätspolitik untersucht. Vor dem Hintergrund einer Ökonomisierung der ...
Delusions in Context
(2018)
This open access book offers an exploration of delusions—unusual beliefs that can significantly disrupt people’s lives. Experts from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, including lived experience, clinical psychiatry, ...
Nordic Artificial Intelligence Research and Development
(2022)
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Symposium of the Norwegian AI Society, NAIS 2022, held in Oslo, Norway, during May 31–June 1, 2022. The 11 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed ...
Integrating Emerging Technologies into Education and Training: Proceedings of the 2nd ETELT 2024 Workshop
(2025)
This open access book compiles state-of-the-art research on the development and implementation of advanced learning technologies and AI-assisted tools, showing how they can transform the educational landscape and learning ...
The Belt and Road Initiative
(2025)
This open access book presents the main theme which advances the significance of cultural dialogue between China and Europe. The essence of the historical ties between China and Europe has resurfaced, much because of the ...
Trypanosomatids
(2020)
This volume explores the latest methods used by researchers to study different trypanosomatid parasites. These methods cover numerous disciplines, from organismal biology to molecular mechanism. The chapters in this book ...
Governing Social Protection in the Long Term
(2020)
This open access book examines the comparative evolution of social protection in Australia and New Zealand from 1890 to the present day, focusing on the relationship between employment relations and social policy. Utilising ...
Chapter Dynamic Dispatch for Method Contracts Through Abstract Predicates
(2017)
Dynamic method dispatch is a core feature of object-oriented programming by which the executed implementation for a polymorphic method is only chosen at runtime. In this paper, we present a specification and verification ...
Transport Transitions: Advancing Sustainable and Inclusive Mobility
(2025)
This is an open access book. It gathers the proceedings of the 10th edition of Transport Research Arena (TRA 2024), held on 15-18 April, 2024, in Dublin, Ireland. Contributions cover a wide range of research findings, ...
Übersetzungsräume – Raumübersetzungen / Translation Spaces – Spaces in Translation
(2025)
Der vorliegende Open Access-Band leuchtet den Zusammenhang von Übersetzung und Raum in spezifisch frühneuzeitlichen Untersuchungssettings exemplarisch aus. Dazu setzt er von zwei Seiten an: Erstens fragen Beiträge aus ...
Konzeptionen von Förderung, Selektion und Gerechtigkeit
(2019)
In diesem Open Access Buch wird in einer rekonstruktiven Vorgehensweise der Frage nachgegangen, inwiefern sich an Primarschulen kollektive/divergierende Orientierungen von Förderung und Selektion sowie dahinterliegende ...
Trendanalysen zur Weiterbildungsbeteiligung
(2025)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird untersucht, welche Muster bzw. Veränderungen der selbstinitiierten Teilnahme an beruflicher Weiterbildung sich im Trend identifizieren lassen. Bisherige Analysen, die die Teilnahme Beschäftigter ...
Addressing the Climate Crisis
(2022)
This open access book brings together a collection of cutting-edge insights into how action can and is already being taken against climate change at multiple levels of our societies, amidst growing calls for transformative ...
Energy Transformation in Lithuania
(2026)
This open access Brief investigates the issue of energy transformation in small countries without their own fossil resources. Using Lithuania as a case study, the Brief analyses energy transformation from both a municipal ...
Präventionsarbeit der Polizei als pädagogische Herausforderung
(2022)
Mit diesem Open-Access-Buch wird ein Beitrag zur Professionalisierung der Präventionsarbeit der Polizei geleistet. Polizeibeamtinnen und Polizeibeamten müssen in der täglichen Präventionspraxis unterschiedlichsten Erwartungen ...
Learning, Philosophy, and African Citizenship
(2022)
The book addresses the compelling questions concerning the ideals of African citizenship, the processes of learning to fulfill these ideals, and possibilities of education in fostering citizenship. Rather than advocating ...
Preparing for Life in a Digital World
(2020)
This Open Access book summarizes the key findings from the second cycle of IEA’s International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS), conducted in 2018. ICILS seeks to establish how well schools around the globe ...
Between Psychology and Philosophy
(2020)
This open access book discusses a variety of important but unprecedented ways in which psychology can be useful to philosophy. The early chapters illustrate this theme via comparisons between Chinese and Western philosophy. ...
The South China Sea: The Geo-political Epicenter of the Indo-Pacific?
(2025)
This open access book focuses on the geopolitical competition in the South China Sea, an area with highly concentrated choke points in the Indo-Pacific, presenting ideas and recommendations to manage this competition and ...
Chinese Water Systems
(2022)
This open-access book addresses latest Sino-German results of the joint research efforts within Major Water Program of the Chinese Government supported by German research funding. The Major Water Program aims at the ...
Parental Life Courses after Separation and Divorce in Europe
(2020)
This open access book assembles landmark studies on divorce and separation in European countries, and how this affects the life of parents and children. It focuses on four major areas of post-separation lives, namely (1) ...
Friendship Across the Seas
(2023)
This Open Access book describes the history of the relationship between the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), the heir to the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), and the United States Navy (US Navy), with a focus on the ...