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The Virtues of Green Marketing
(2023)
This open access book explores the idea that corporate rhetoric can be a force for good. In developing a new framework for analysis and discussion of green marketing, the authors argue that corporate environmental rhetoric ...
Memory and the Gothic Aesthetic in Film
(2025)
This open access book defines the cinematic Gothic as an aesthetics of memory and exile. Guided by three intersecting concepts – memory, travelling, and touch – it suggests that the cross-border movements of exiles, émigrés, ...
ESA Science Programme Missions
(2025)
This work got its start by trying to answer the question "how do you evaluate the scientific performance of the ESA's Science Programme missions?" For many years, the decision makers responsible for the content of the ESA ...
Russia's Turn to the East
(2018)
Development studies; Russia; Far East; International affairs; Energy; Shanghai cooperation organization; Economic development; Security policy; Multilateral organizations; Diplomacy; Regionalism; Russian–European ...
Microplastic in the Environment: Pattern and Process
(2022)
This open access book examines global plastic pollution, an issue that has become a critical societal challenge with implications for environmental and public health. This volume provides a comprehensive, holistic analysis ...
The Demography of Disasters
(2021)
This open access book provides worldwide examples demonstrating the importance of the interplay between demography and disasters in regions and spatially. It marks an advance in practical and theoretical insights for ...
Global Political Demography
(2021)
This open access book draws the big picture of how population change interplays with politics across the world from 1990 to 2040. Leading social scientists from a wide range of disciplines discuss, for the first time, all ...
Chapter Conclusion
(2015)
Statistically, women appear to suffer more frequently from depressive and anxiety disorders, featuring more regularly in primary care figures for consultations, diagnoses and prescriptions for psychotropic medication. This ...
Chapter 1 What Was Cancer? Definition, Diagnosis and Cause
(2015)
The study of early modern cancer is significant for our understanding of the period’s medical theory and practice. In many respects, cancer exemplifies the flexibility of early modern medical thought, which managed to ...
AVENUE21. Automatisierter und vernetzter Verkehr: Entwicklungen des urbanen Europa
(2020)
Gegenstand dieser Open Access Publikation sind die Auswirkungen automatisierter und vernetzter Fahrzeuge auf die Europäische Stadt sowie die Voraussetzungen, unter denen diese Technologie einen positiven Beitrag zur ...
Computational Methods für die Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften
(2023)
Mit Computational Methods lassen sich digitale Welten wissenschaftlich erforschen und gestalten. Das Open-Access-Lehrbuch vermittelt zunächst grundlegende Kompetenzen für die automatisierte Erhebung und Aufbereitung von ...
Sozioanalyse in der pädagogischen Arbeit
(2021)
Sabrina Rutter zeigt in dieser Open-Access-Publikation auf, inwiefern handlungsleitende Orientierungen von Lehrkräften in der Schule ungleichheitsrelevant werden und mit habitus- und milieuspezifischen Logiken zusammenhängen. ...
Higher Education in Romania: Overcoming Challenges and Embracing Opportunities
(2022)
This open access book includes a series of relevant policy research articles, elaborared in the framework of the “Quality in higher education: internationalisation and databases to enhance the Romanian education system” ...
Data-Driven Fault Detection and Reasoning for Industrial Monitoring
(2022)
This open access book assesses the potential of data-driven methods in industrial process monitoring engineering. The process modeling, fault detection, classification, isolation, and reasoning are studied in detail. These ...
Circularity Assessment: Macro to Nano
(2023)
This open access book attempts to provide a perspective on the circularity assessment at different levels of the systemic hierarchy and advocates better resource management for a sustainable future. It demonstrates how ...
A Fair Share of Tax
(2018)
Tax compliance; Reciprocity; Ethnography; Economic anthropology; Welfare; Exchanges; Taxpayer; Marcel Mauss; Swedish Tax Agency; quid-pro-quo exchange; Fiscal anthropology; Swedish tax; Behavioural economics; ...
Cybersecurity of Digital Service Chains
(2022)
This open access book presents the main scientific results from the H2020 GUARD project. The GUARD project aims at filling the current technological gap between software management paradigms and cybersecurity models, the ...
Social Biases During Covid 19
(2023)
This open acess book focuses on a critical aspect of pandemic behavior, which is how important information is communicated. It examines how the press and other entities may bias the dissemination of this information, and ...
Illiberal Trends and Anti-EU Politics in East Central Europe
(2021)
This open access book provides an in-depth look into the background of rule of law problems and the open defiance of EU law in East Central European countries. Current illiberal trends and anti-EU politics have the potential ...
The Challenge of Chance
(2016)
Human Genetics; Philosophy of Science; Probability Theory
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery for the Clinician
(2021)
This is an open access book with CC BY 4.0 license. This comprehensive open access textbook provides a comprehensive coverage of principles and practice of oral and maxillofacial surgery. With a range of topics starting ...
Early Childhood Policies and Systems in Eight Countries: Findings from IEA's Early Childhood Education Study
(2016)
Educational policy; Early childhood systems; Aims of early childhood education; Education reform
Social Exclusion in Later Life
(2021)
Drawing on interdisciplinary, cross-national perspectives, this open access book contributes to the development of a coherent scientific discourse on social exclusion of older people. The book considers five domains of ...
Towards Bayesian Model-Based Demography
(2022)
This open access book presents a ground-breaking approach to developing micro-foundations for demography and migration studies. It offers a unique and novel methodology for creating empirically grounded agent-based models ...
Telecommunication Economics
(2012)
This book constitutes a collaborative and selected documentation of the scientific outcome of the European COST Action IS0605 Econ@Tel "A Telecommunications Economics COST Network" which run from October 2007 to October ...
Encounters and Practices of Petty Trade in Northern Europe, 1820–1960
(2022)
This open access book uncovers one important, yet forgotten, form of itinerant livelihoods, namely petty trade, more specifically how it was practiced in Northern Europe during the period 1820–1960. It investigates how ...
New Social Mobility
(2022)
This open access book comparatively analyses intergenerational social mobility in immigrant families in Europe. It is based on qualitative in-depth research into several hundred biographies and professional trajectories ...
Global Perspectives on Educational Innovations for Emergency Situations
(2022)
This open access book focuses on making the transition from in-person, classroom education to other feasible alternative modes and methodologies to deliver education at all levels. The book presents and analyzes research ...
Transnational Solidarity in Times of Crises
(2021)
This open access collection is devoted to an in-depth, qualitative analysis of practices of cross-national solidarity in response to the current political and social crises, from citizens’ initiatives to networks of ...
Experimental Studies in Learning Technology and Child–Computer Interaction
(2022)
This book is about the ways in which experiments can be employed in the context of research on learning technologies and child–computer interaction (CCI). It is directed at researchers, supporting them to employ experimental ...
Diversity nutzen und annehmen
(2022)
Das Open-Access-Buch bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über relevante psychologische Konzepte des Diversity Managements. Das Buch stellt verschiedene Forschungsarbeiten vor, die Wechselwirkungen und Einflussvariablen von ...
Soziale Netzwerke und politische Partizipation
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch untersucht Stefanie Lütters, inwieweit Sozialkapital die verzerrte Inanspruchnahme politischer Teilhaberechte erklärt. Denn entgegen der demokratischen Idealvorstellung von politischer Gleichheit ...
Onward Migration and Multi-Sited Transnationalism
(2023)
This open access book brings novel perspectives to the scholarship on transnational migration. The book stresses the complexity of migration trajectories and proposes multi-sited field studies to capture this complexity. ...
Global, Regional, and Local Dynamics in the Yemen Crisis
(2020)
This international relations study investigates the underlying causes of the Yemen crisis by analyzing the interactions of global, regional, and local actors. At all phases, GCC member states played a key role, from political ...
Chapter 7 He that Hath an Ill-Name Is Half-Hanged: The Anatomical Legacy of the Criminal Corpse
(2016)
Those convicted of homicide were hanged on the public gallows before being dissected under the Murder Act in Georgian England. Yet, from 1752, whether criminals actually died on the hanging tree or in the dissection room ...
Empire Under the Microscope
(2022)
This open access book considers science and empire, and the stories we tell ourselves about them. Using British Nobel laureate Ronald Ross (1857-1932) and his colleagues as access points to a wider professional culture, ...
Points of Entanglement in French Caribbean Travel Writing (1620-1722)
(2023)
This open-access book investigates Francophone Caribbean literature by exploring and analyzing French seventeenth-century travel writings. The book argues for a literary re-examination of the representation of the early ...
Liquidity, Markets and Trading in Action
(2022)
This open access book addresses four standard business school subjects: microeconomics, macroeconomics, finance and information systems as they relate to trading, liquidity, and market structure. It provides a detailed ...
Complications in Neurosurgery II
(2024)
This Open Access book on Complications in Neurosurgery contains the proceedings of the 2nd ICCN conference held in Mumbai in 2019. The work illustrates and discusses key point of intra- and postoperative complications ...
Sustainable Enterprise Value Creation
(2022)
This Open Access book provides a practical guide to the creation of sustainable enterprise value and implementation of the principles of stakeholder capitalism for corporate boards and management teams. The authors argue ...