Publications
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The Palgrave Handbook of Sexuality Education
(2016)
This authoritative, state-of-the-art Handbook provides an authoritative overview of issues within sexuality education, coupled with ground-breaking discussion of emerging and unconventional insights in the field. With 32 ...
Beyond Media Borders, Volume 1
(2021)
This open access book promotes the idea that all media types are multimodal and that comparing media types, through an intermedial lens, necessarily involves analysing these multimodal traits. The collection includes a ...
Historical Background of Wang Yang-ming’s Philosophy of Mind
(2020)
This open access book offers comprehensive information on Wang Yang-ming’s life, helping readers identify and grasp the foundations on which his philosophy was established. Though a great man, Wang had an extremely difficult ...
Dynamics of Japan’s Trade and Industrial Policy in the Post Rapid Growth Era (1980–2000)
(2020)
This open access book provides an in-depth examination of Japan's policy responses to the economic challenges of the 1980s and '90s. While MITI's earlier role in promoting rapid growth has been addressed in other studies, ...
Politische Urteilsbildung von Jugendlichen zu komplexen Problemstellungen einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung
(2025)
Das vorliegende Open-Access-Buch ist an der Schnittstelle der Didaktik der Politischen Bildung, der Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung und der empirischen Bildungsforschung verortet. Es wird der Frage nachgegangen, wie ...
Land Tenure Security and Sustainable Development
(2022)
This open access book presents a nuanced and accessible synthesis of the relationship between land tenure security and sustainable development. Contributing authors have collectively worked for decades on land tenure as ...
Multimedia Forensics
(2022)
This book is open access. Media forensics has never been more relevant to societal life. Not only media content represents an ever-increasing share of the data traveling on the net and the preferred communications means ...
Foundations of Quantum Theory: From Classical Concepts to Operator Algebras
(2017)
Quantum physics; Mathematical physics; Matrix theory; Algebra
The Physics of the B Factories
(2017)
Physics
Organizing for Sustainability
(2021)
This upper-level Open Access textbook aims to educate students and professionals on how to develop business models that have a positive impact on people, society, and the social and ecological environment. It explores a ...
Internalisierbare Mengenbilder im individualisierten Mathematikunterricht
(2022)
In diesem Open.Access-Buch wird gezeigt, dass eine verminderte Fähigkeit zur Simultanerfassung eine Ursache von Rechenschwäche sein kann. Mathematische Lernschwierigkeiten offenbaren sich häufig schon im frühen ...
The Social Construction of Death
(2014)
Thanatological research in the social sciences and the humanities acknowledges that death is culturally and socially embedded. The idea of the social construction of death has been taken on board, albeit slowly, by the ...
Wicked Problems in Public Policy
(2022)
This is an open access book. This book offers the first overview of the ‘wicked problems’ literature, often seen as complex, open-ended, and intractable, with both the nature of the ‘problem’ and the preferred ‘solution’ ...
Weather & Climate Services for the Energy Industry
(2018)
Climate Change; Climate Forecasting; Energy Industry; Climate Risk Management; Meteorology
Empowering At-Risk Youth in and Through Vocational Education
(2025)
This open access book presents insights on the resiliency strategies of at-risk vocational education and training (VET) students in the field of learning, employment and social integration, in the Baltic countries and ...
Medical Missionaries and Colonial Knowledge in West Africa and Europe, 1885-1914
(2023)
This open access book offers an entangled history of hygiene by showing how knowledge of purity, health and cleanliness was shaped by evangelical medical missionaries and their encounters with people in West Africa. By ...
Cultural Heritage in a Changing World
(2016)
Cultural Heritage; Cultural Economics; Cultural Studies; Archaeology; Information Storage and Retrieval; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)
Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
(2022)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, FASE 2022, which was held during April 4-5, 2022, in Munich, Germany, as part of the ...
Entertainment-Education Behind the Scenes
(2021)
This Open Access book tracks the latest trends in the theory, research, and practice of entertainment-education, the field of communication that incorporates social change messaging into entertaining media. Sometimes called ...
Sustainable Energy Access for Communities
(2022)
This open access book examines the transition to sustainable energy systems in emerging cities. Experts from around the world present case studies from different countries and discuss efforts were needed for achieving the ...
Gender and Migration
(2022)
This open access short reader offers a critical review of the debates on the transformation of migration and gendered mobilities primarily in Europe, though also engaging in wider theoretical insights. Building on empirical ...
Preclinical MRI of the Kidney
(2021)
This Open Access volume provides readers with an open access protocol collection and wide-ranging recommendations for preclinical renal MRI used in translational research. The chapters in this book are interdisciplinary ...
Semiotics in Mathematics Education
(2016)
Mathematics Education
Digital Transformation in Norwegian Enterprises
(2022)
This open access book presents a number of case studies on digital transformation in Norway, one of the fore-runners in the digital progress index established by the European Commission in 2020. They explore the process ...
Climate Risk in Africa
(2021)
This open access book highlights the complexities around making adaptation decisions and building resilience in the face of climate risk. It is based on experiences in sub-Saharan Africa through the Future Climate For ...
Reliability and Validity of International Large-Scale Assessment
(2020)
This open access book describes and reviews the development of the quality control mechanisms and methodologies associated with IEA’s extensive program of educational research. A group of renowned international researchers, ...
Towards an Emissions Trading System in Mexico: Rationale, Design and Connections with the Global Climate Agenda
(2022)
This Open Access book provides detailed information about the incoming Mexican Emissions Trading System, including an analysis on why the system was implemented, how the system was designed, how it operates, how it could ...
Die Wirtschaft im Wandel
(2021)
In diesem Open-Access-Sammelband fassen die besten Studierenden der Universität St. Gallen die wichtigsten Ergebnisse von ausgewählten Publikationen in führenden wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fachzeitschriften zusammen. ...
A Time for Metabolism and Hormones
(2016)
Human Physiology, Endocrinology, Cell Biology, Neurosciences
Nostalgia and Hope: Intersections between Politics of Culture, Welfare, and Migration in Europe
(2020)
This open access book shows how the politics of migration affect community building in the 21st century, drawing on both retrogressive and progressive forms of mobilization. It elaborates theoretically and shows empirically ...
Chapter 18 Surgery, Imperial Rule and Colonial Societies (1800–1930)
(2018)
The following chapter is concerned with the ways in which political, social
and cultural contexts shape the performance and perceptions of surgery, especially
under nineteenth-century colonial empires.
Re-Configurations
(2021)
This edited volume is an open access title and assembles both the historical consciousness and transformation of the MENA region in various disciplinary and topical facets. At the same time, it aims to go beyond the MENA ...
NL ARMS Netherlands Annual Review of Military Studies 2020
(2021)
This open access volume surveys the state of the field to examine whether a fifth wave of deterrence theory is emerging. Bringing together insights from world-leading experts from three continents, the volume identifies ...
Educational Perspectives on Mediality and Subjectivation
(2022)
This open access book examines the complex relationship between education, media and power. Exploring the entanglement of education media and power structures, the contributions use various examples and case studies to ...
Research, Ethics and Risk in the Authoritarian Field
(2018)
research ethics; authoritarian countries; research methodology; research in the authoritarian field; risk and field research; ethics and field research; authoritarianism; advice for field research; research ...
Database Principles and Technologies – Based on Huawei GaussDB
(2023)
This open access book contains eight chapters that deal with database technologies, including the development history of database, database fundamentals, introduction to SQL syntax, classification of SQL syntax, database ...
Novel Developments for Sustainable Hydropower
(2022)
This open access book presents (selected) new and innovative developments for sustainable and fish-friendly hydropower. It offers unique insights into the challenges, practices and policies of hydropower developments across ...
Firm Competitive Advantage Through Relationship Management
(2021)
Relationship management (RM) is an essential part of business, but its success as a business model can be hard to measure, with some firms embracing a model that is truly relationship-orientated, while others claim to be ...
Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in Digital Finance
(2022)
This open access book presents how cutting-edge digital technologies like Big Data, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Blockchain are set to disrupt the financial sector. The book illustrates how recent ...
Visions of DNA Nanotechnology at 40 for the Next 40
(2023)
This open access book provides a unique and state-of-the-art view on DNA nanotechnology with an eye toward future developments. Intended as a tribute to Nadrian C. Seeman, who founded the field of DNA nanotechnology, the ...