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International Labour Organization and Global Social Governance
(2021)
This open access book explores the role of the ILO (International Labour Organization) in building global social governance from multiple and mutually complementary perspectives. It explores the impact of this UN´s oldest ...
Multimodal Texts in Disciplinary Education
(2021)
This open access book provides an introduction to multimodality and the role of multimodal texts in today’s education. Presenting a comprehensive framework for analysing and working with multimodal texts in disciplinary ...
Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Southeast Asia: Innovations and Policies for Mountainous Areas
(2013)
Sustainable Development; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Agriculture
Die österreichische Gesellschaft während der Corona-Pandemie
(2022)
In diesem Buch untersuchen Soziolog*innen und Umfrageforscher*innen erstmals systematisch in zehn fundierten Beiträgen die gesellschaftlichen Auswirkungen der Corona-Krise in Österreich. Datengrundlage des Sammelbandes, ...
The Political Economy of Non-Western Migration Regimes
(2022)
This open access book contributes new theoretical and comparative insights on migrant agency, undocumentedness and informality in non-Western, non-democratic migration regimes. The book is conceived as a critical reflection ...
Promoting Social Dialogue in European Organizations: Human Resources Management and Constructive Conflict Management
(2015)
Industrial, Organisational and Economic Psychology; Social Policy; Political Science, general
Die beharrliche Mitte – Wenn investive Statusarbeit funktioniert
(2022)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch untersucht vor dem Hintergrund der kulturell hegemonialen Rolle der Mittelschichten in westlichen Gesellschaften sowie angesichts zeitdiagnostischer Behauptungen, dass „die Mitte" zunehmenden ...
Chapter 5 Aspergillosis
(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 ...
Civil and Environmental Engineering for the Sustainable Development Goals
(2022)
This open access volume collects emerging issues in Environmental and Civil Engineering, originating from outstanding doctoral dissertations discussed at Politecnico di Milano in 2021. The advanced innovative insights ...
Der Glaube an Big Data
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch geht Marco Lünich der Annahme verbreiteter Glaubensüberzeugungen von der Qualität und Wirkmächtigkeit von Big Data nach und analysiert die miteinander in Bezug stehenden gesellschaftlichen ...
Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in the Seaflower Biosphere Reserve
(2025)
This open access book addresses the following topics for the Seaflower Biosphere Reserve (BR) in the Colombian Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia, and Santa Catalina, in the southwest Caribbean Sea, which is the world’s ...
Muslim*innen- und Islamfeindlichkeit
(2023)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch zeigt, dass feindliche Einstellungen gegenüber Muslim*innen oder als Muslim*innen markierten Menschen und gegenüber der Religion des Islams oftmals nur wenig differenziert betrachtet werden. Die ...
Modes of Bio-Bordering
(2021)
This open access book explores how biometric data is increasingly flowing across borders in order to limit, control and contain the mobility of selected people, namely criminalized populations. It introduces the concept ...
African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation
(2021)
This open access book discusses current thinking and presents the main issues and challenges associated with climate change in Africa. It introduces evidences from studies and projects which show how climate change adaptation ...
Chapter 7 An Experience Much Worse Than Rape
(2016)
It is the first monograph-length study of the force-feeding of hunger strikers in English, Irish and Northern Irish prisons. It examines ethical debates that arose throughout the twentieth century when governments authorised ...
Public Systems Modeling
(2022)
This is an open access book discusses readers to various methods of modeling plans and policies that address public sector issues and problems. Written for public policy and social sciences students at the upper undergraduate ...
New Frontiers in Social Innovation Research
(2015)
Social Policy, Politics and Economics of Welfare, Business and Management, Innovation, Sociology, Economic Sociology, Politics, Citizenship, Social Policy and Welfare
Digital Transformation of Learning Organizations
(2021)
This open access volume provides insight into how organizations change through the adoption of digital technologies. Opportunities and challenges for individuals as well as the organization are addressed. It features four ...
Revisiting Migrant Networks
(2022)
This open access book provides new conceptualisations on the networks of migrants and their descendants in accessing the labour market. Although references to social networks are common in discussions of migration, simplified ...
EU Foreign Policy in a Fragmenting International Order
(2025)
This open access book delves into the responses of EU actors, such as member states, institutions, and political groups in the European Parliament, to the fragmentation of the liberal international order (LIO). The analytical ...
Female Employment and Gender Gaps in China
(2021)
This open access book investigates female employment and the gender gap in the labor market and households during China’s economic transition period. It provides the reader with academic evidence for understanding the ...
Irregularising Human Mobility
(2025)
This is an open access book. What is the history and current state of play of EU law and policy covering irregularised human mobility? What has been the role and contributions of the 2019-2024 European Commission as regards ...
Mastering Uncertainty in Mechanical Engineering
(2021)
This open access book reports on innovative methods, technologies and strategies for mastering uncertainty in technical systems. Despite the fact that current research on uncertainty is mainly focusing on uncertainty ...
Spectral Geometry of Graphs
(2024)
This open access book gives a systematic introduction into the spectral theory of differential operators on metric graphs. Main focus is on the fundamental relations between the spectrum and the geometry of the underlying ...
Particle Physics Reference Library
(2020)
This first open access volume of the handbook series contains articles on the standard model of particle physics, both from the theoretical and experimental perspective. It also covers related topics, such as heavy-ion ...
The Cost of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
(2017)
This open access book is the first comparative study of public, voluntary and private asylums in nineteenth-century Ireland. Examining nine institutions, it explores whether concepts of social class and status and the ...
Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement – A Global Assessment for Sustainable Development
(2016)
environmental economics; biodiversity; sustainable development
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 ...
Digitalisierung souverän gestalten
(2021)
Dieses Buch ist eine Open-Access-Publikation unter einer CC BY 4.0 Lizenz. Wie können wir die digitale Transformation in der Wirtschaft bewältigen und dabei die Souveränität von allen Beteiligten fördern? Dieser Frage ...
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 ...
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. ...
Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming
(2020)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2020, which was planned to be held during June 8-12, 2020, at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark. ...
X-Ray Contrast Media: Overview, Use and Pharmaceutical Aspects
(2018)
X-Ray; Radiography; Imaging; Radiology
Safer Healthcare
(2016)
Health Administration; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk; Quality of Life Research; Practice and Hospital Management
Undocumented Migrants and their Everyday Lives
(2021)
This open access monograph provides an overview of the everyday lives of undocumented migrants, thereby focusing on housing, employment, social networks, healthcare, migration trajectories as well as their use of the ...
Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage
(2021)
This open access book offers an interdisciplinary perspective and presents various case studies on music as ICH, highlighting the importance and functionality of music to stimulating social innovation and entrepreneurship. ...
The Mathematics Education of Prospective Secondary Teachers Around the World
(2017)
Mathematics Education; Teaching; Teacher Education
Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine
(2018)
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book breaks new ground by situating animals and their diseases at the very heart of modern medicine. In demonstrating their historical significance as subjects and ...
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 ...
Migration to and from Welfare States
(2021)
This open access book explores the role of family, public, market and third sector welfare provision for individual and households’ decisions regarding geographical mobility. It challenges the state-centred approach in ...
Africa-Europe Research and Innovation Cooperation
(2018)
Africa; EU; Cooperation; Policy; Partnership; Agriculture; Climate Change; Science; Development; Evidence-based policy; Networks; Funding; Engagement
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, ...
Der patentrechtliche Schutz von Daten und seine Grenzen
(2024)
Daten verfügen als digitale Güter über enormes Innovationspotential. Die Möglichkeit der Patentierung von Daten ist jedoch bisher weitgehend unerforscht. Ausgehend von einem patentrechtlich definierten Datenbegriff entwickelt ...
Demanding a Radical Constitution
(2025)
This open access book documents the critical thinking and political actions that generated one of the world’s most progressive national constitutions, presented to the Chilean public in 2022. Although that text was ultimately ...
Von alternativen Paradigmen zur umfassenden Transformation
(2021)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch zeigt Katharina Schleicher, dass Nachhaltigkeitsprojekte oftmals in kleinen Nischen verbleiben, anstatt mit ihren alternativen Paradigmen umfassenden Politikwandel anzustoßen. Wie dieser Schritt ...
Cultures of Witchcraft in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present
(2017)
This volume is a collection based on the contributions to witchcraft studies of Willem de Blécourt, to whom it is dedicated, and who provides the opening chapter, setting out a methodological and conceptual agenda for the ...
Computer Vision Metrics
(2014)
Computer science
Explanatory Models, Unit Standards, and Personalized Learning in Educational Measurement
(2023)
The papers by Jack Stenner included in this book document the technical details of an art and science of measurement that creates new entrepreneurial business opportunities. Jack brought theory, instruments, and data ...
Safety in the Digital Age
(2023)
This open access book gathers authors from a wide range of social-scientific and engineering disciplines to review challenges from their respective fields that arise from the processes of social and technological transformation ...
Human Flourishing
(2023)
This open access book presents a novel multidisciplinary perspective on the importance of human flourishing. The study of the good life or Eudaimonia has been a central concern at least since Aristotelian times. This ...
Cyber Security
(2022)
This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Annual Conference on Cyber Security, CNCERT 2021, held in Beijing, China, in AJuly 2021. The 14 papers presented were carefully reviewed ...
Connecting Mathematics and Mathematics Education
(2021)
This open access book features a selection of articles written by Erich Ch. Wittmann between 1984 to 2019, which shows how the “design science conception” has been continuously developed over a number of decades. The ...
Chapter Acknowledgements
(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 ...
Qualitative Research in European Migration Studies
(2018)
This open access book covers the main issues, challenges and techniques concerning the application of qualitative methodologies to the study of migration. It discusses theoretical, epistemological and empirical questions ...
3D Research Challenges in Cultural Heritage V
(2025)
This open access book presents a collection of papers focussing on 3D digitisation in the domain of cultural heritage. The use of data acquisition technologies in digitising cultural heritage holds great potential for ...
Scaling-up Higher Order Thinking
(2023)
This open access book addresses the evasive problem of why truly effective educational innovation on a wide scale is so difficult to achieve, and what leaders may do about this. Examining the case of system-wide reform ...
Inclusive Cities and Global Urban Transformation
(2025)
This open access book addresses the problem of global urban development that excludes various groups of people from the benefits of urban growth and sustainable development. Using the intersectionality and agency of urban ...
Making Ammonia
(2022)
This Open Access book discusses the progress of science and the transfer of scientific knowledge to technological application. It also identifies the factors necessary to achieve this progress. Based on a case study of the ...
Social and Economic Vulnerability of Roma People
(2021)
This open access volume provides an understanding of the different aspects of success, school continuity and social mobility among European Roma, including the motives justifying the high rates of school dropout and failure ...
Insurance Distribution Directive
(2021)
This open access volume of the AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation offers the first comprehensive legal and regulatory analysis of the Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD). The IDD came into force ...