Publications
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Vote Buying in Indonesia
(2019)
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book investigates the impact of vote buying on the accountability of democratic institutions and policy representation in newly democratic countries, with a focus ...
Indigenous Life Projects and Extractivism
(2019)
Exploring indigenous life projects in encounters with extractivism, the present open access volume discusses how current turbulences actualise questions of indigeneity, difference and ontological dynamics in the Andes and ...
Disrupting Finance
(2019)
This open access Pivot demonstrates how a variety of technologies act as innovation catalysts within the banking and financial services sector. Traditional banks and financial services are under increasing competition from ...
Climate-Smart Food
(2019)
This open access book asks just how climate-smart our food really is. It follows an average day's worth of food and drink to see where it comes from, how far it travels, and the carbon price we all pay for it. From our ...
The Climate-Smart Agriculture Papers
(2019)
Environment; Environmental management; Agriculture; Climate change; Soil science; Soil conservation; Environmental law; Environmental policy
Pro TBB
(2019)
This open access book is a modern guide for all C++ programmers to learn Threading Building Blocks (TBB). Written by TBB and parallel programming experts, this book reflects their collective decades of experience in ...
Nordic Mediation Research
(2018)
Alternative dispute resolution; Conflict resolution; Litigation; Children in mediation; Restorative justice; Victim offender mediation; Court-connected mediation
Primary Angioplasty
(2018)
Medicine; Cardiology
Visualizing Mortality Dynamics in the Lexis Diagram
(2018)
The goal of this book is simple: We would like to show how mortality dynamics can be visualized in the so-called Lexis diagram. To appeal to as many potential
readers as possible, we do not require any specialist knowledge. ...
Adaptive Strategies for Water Heritage
(2020)
This Open Access book, building on research initiated by scholars from the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Global Heritage and Development (CHGD) and ICOMOS Netherlands, presents multidisciplinary research that connects ...
Dignity in the 21st Century: Middle East and West
(2017)
Ethics; Islam; Non-Western Philosophy; Political Theory
The Culture of Capital Punishment in Japan
(2020)
This open access book provides a comparative perspective on capital punishment in Japan and the United States. Alongside the US, Japan is one of only a few developed democracies in the world which retains capital punishment ...
Purpose-driven Organizations
(2019)
A higher purpose is not simply about profit. Symbolising the motivations of our actions and efforts, it reflects something much more aspirational and contributes to our global society. This open access book offers novel ...
Research on Teaching and Learning Mathematics at the Tertiary Level
(2016)
Mathematics Education, Higher Education, Learning and Instruction, Teaching and Teacher Education
Built on Value
(2019)
Business; Management science; Management; Business enterprises—Finance; Manpower policy
Interdisciplinary Insights for Digital Touch Communication
(2020)
Communication is increasingly moving beyond ‘ways of seeing’ to ‘ways of feeling’. This Open Access book provides social design insights and implications for HCI research and design exploring digitally mediated touch ...
Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy
(2018)
This open access book looks at the dramatic history of ovariotomy, an operation to remove ovarian tumours first practiced in the early nineteenth century. Bold and daring, surgeons who performed it claimed to be initiating ...
Obsessed by a Dream
(2020)
This Open Access biography chronicles the life and achievements of the Norwegian engineer and physicist Rolf Widerøe. Readers who meet him in the pages of this book will wonder why he isn't better known. The first of ...
Multiple-Aspect Analysis of Semantic Trajectories
(2020)
This open access book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Workshop on Multiple-Aspect Analysis of Semantic Trajectories, MASTER 2019, held in conjunction with the 19th European ...
Framing in Sustainability Science
(2020)
This open access book offers both conceptual and empirical descriptions of how to “frame” sustainability challenges. It defines “framing” in the context of sustainability science as the process of identifying subjects, ...
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 ...
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, ...
Interface Oral Health Science 2014
(2015)
dentistry; oral and maxillofacial surgery; regenerative medicine; tissue engineering
Ranaviruses
(2015)
Animal Ecology; Environmental Health; Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management; Virology; Freshwater & Marine Ecology; Conservation Biology/Ecology
Transitions in Mathematics Education
(2016)
Mathematics Education; Learning; Teaching
Perspectives on European Earthquake Engineering and Seismology
(2015)
Civil Engineering; Natural Hazards; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences Industry Sec; 2ECEES; Earthquake Engineering; Performance Based Design and Earthquake Engineering; Irregular Buildings and ...
Digitale Transformation
(2018)
Dieses Open Access-Buch gibt eine Einführung in die Grundlagen der digitalen Transformation. Es werden aktuelle technologische Trends sowie Auswirkungen auf den Wettbewerb und die Geschäftsmodellentwicklung erläutert. ...
Chapter Introduction
(2013)
In this book, we discuss the changing medical and public profile of fungal infections in the period 1850–2000. We consider four sets of diseases: ringworm and athlete’s foot (dermatophytosis); thrush or candidiasis (infection ...
Renewing Local Planning to Face Climate Change in the Tropics
(2017)
climate vulnerability; urban resilience; climate change; adaptation; planning; environmental risk analysis; decision making; disaster risk reduction; tropical climate management
Performing Citizenship
(2019)
This open access book discusses how citizenship is performed today, mostly through the optic of the arts, in particular the performing arts, but also from the perspective of a wide range of academic disciplines such as ...
Diseases of the Chest, Breast, Heart and Vessels 2019-2022
(2019)
This open access book focuses on diagnostic and interventional imaging of the chest, breast, heart, and vessels. It consists of a remarkable collection of contributions authored by internationally respected experts, featuring ...
Ein neuer Gesellschaftsvertrag für eine nachhaltige Landwirtschaft
(2019)
Die Landwirtschaft in Deutschland, Europa und weltweit befindet sich in einem dramatischen Umbruchprozess. Einerseits bieten Liberalisierung und Marktöffnung, neue technologische Entwicklungen, die wachsende Weltbevölkerung ...
Communicating, Networking: Interacting: The International Year of Global Understanding - IYGU
(2016)
Communication Studies; Sustainable Development; Communications Engineering, Networks; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks
Wellbeing Economics
(2018)
Economists have long sought to maximise economic growth, believing this to be their best contribution to improving human welfare. That approach is not sustainable in the face of ongoing issues such as global climate change, ...
Collaboration in Designing a Pedagogical Approach in Information Literacy
(2020)
This Open Access book combines expertise in information literacy with expertise in education and teaching to share tips and tricks for the development of good information literacy teaching and training in universities and ...
Children and Peace
(2020)
This open access book brings together discourse on children and peace from the 15th International Symposium on the Contributions of Psychology to Peace, covering issues pertinent to children and peace and approaches to ...
Künstliche Intelligenz
(2019)
Dieses Buch ist eine Open-Access-Publikation unter einer CC BY 4.0 Lizenz. Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) klingt in aktuellen Debatten oft abstrakt und alltagsfremd. Doch die meisten Internetnutzerinnern und -nutzer sind ...
Loss and Damage from Climate Change
(2019)
This book provides an authoritative insight on the Loss and Damage discourse by highlighting state-of-the-art research and policy linked to this discourse and articulating its multiple concepts, principles and methods. ...
Chapter Dedication
(2013)
In this book, we discuss the changing medical and public profile of fungal infections in the period 1850–2000. We consider four sets of diseases: ringworm and athlete’s foot (dermatophytosis); thrush or candidiasis (infection ...
The Gene Ontology Handbook
(2017)
bioinformatics; biotechnology