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Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum
(2017)
This book explores how the body was investigated in the late nineteenth-century asylum in Britain. As more and more Victorian asylum doctors looked to the bodily fabric to reveal the ‘truth’ of mental disease, a whole host ...
Model and Mathematics: From the 19th to the 21st Century
(2022)
This open access book collects the historical and medial perspectives of a systematic and epistemological analysis of the complicated, multifaceted relationship between model and mathematics, ranging from, for example, the ...
Fading Foundations
(2017)
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book addresses the age-old problem of infinite regresses in epistemology. How can we ever come to know something if knowing requires having good reasons, and reasons ...
Professoren mit Migrationshintergrund
(2021)
Ole Engel untersucht in diesem Open-Access-Buch erstmalig auf der Grundlage einer großen Studie die Bildungs-/Berufsverläufe, die Arbeitssituation, internationale Aktivitäten sowie die gesellschaftliche Teilhabe von ...
Co-governed Sovereignty Network
(2021)
This open access book introduces MIN, a novel networking architecture to implement the sovereign equality of all countries in the cyberspace. Combining legal theory and network technology, it first discusses the historical ...
Familial Feeling
(2021)
This open access book discusses British literature as part of a network of global entangled modernities and shared aesthetic concerns, departing from the retrospective model of a postcolonial “writing back” to the centre. ...
In-Home Medication
(2025)
This is an open access book. This book provides a distinctive perspective on the daily utilization and consumption of medicines and drugs. It seamlessly integrates the research traditions of the medical and pharmaceutical ...
Uncertainty in Pharmacology
(2020)
This volume covers a wide range of topics concerning methodological, epistemological, and regulatory-ethical issues around pharmacology. The book focuses in particular on the diverse sources of uncertainty, the different ...
Perspectives on Nuclear Medicine for Molecular Diagnosis and Integrated Therapy
(2016)
nuclear medicine; diagnostic radiology
Researching Elites and Power
(2020)
This open access book describes how elite studies theoretically and methodologically construct their object, i.e. how particular conceptualizations of elites are turned into research practice using different methods for ...
Agricultural Implications of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident: The First Three Years
(2016)
Environmental Monitoring/Analysis; Agriculture; Plant Sciences; Ecology
Proceeding of 2021 International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Applications
(2022)
This open access proceedings includes original, unpublished, peer-reviewed research papers from the International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Applications (WCNA2021), held in Berlin, Germany on ...
Researching Central Asia
(2024)
This open access book explores some of the struggles and challenges that researchers and practitioners face when conducting research in the Central Asian research setting. Written for scholars still in the planning stages ...
Rethinking Graduate Employability in Context
(2023)
This open access book offers critical, multidisciplinary analyses on graduate employability. The book examines employability at the macro, meso and micro levels: higher education policy, the labour market, higher education ...
Social Statistics and Ethnic Diversity: Cross-National Perspectives in Classifications and Identity Politics
(2015)
Migration; Population Economics; Sociology, general; Political Science; Human Geography
Educating Students to Improve the World
(2020)
This open access book addresses how to help students find purpose in a rapidly changing world. In a probing and visionary analysis of the field of global education Fernando Reimers explains how to lead the transformation ...
Market Engineering
(2021)
This open access book provides a broad range of insights on market engineering and information management. It covers topics like auctions, stock markets, electricity markets, the sharing economy, information and emotions ...
Habitats and Biota of the Gulf of Mexico: Before the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Volume 1: Water Quality, Sediments, Sediment Contaminants, Oil and Gas Seeps, Coastal Habitats, Offshore Plankton and Benthos, and Shellfish
(2017)
environmental management; marine; freshwater sciences
Die vielen Gestalten des Thomas Hobbes in der Deutung von Carl Schmitt und Leo Strauss
(2022)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch stellt eine Untersuchung der Rezeption der politischen Philosophie Thomas Hobbes’ durch Carl Schmitt und Leo Strauss dar. Dies erfolgt zum einen anhand der Kontextualisierung, zum anderen durch eine ...
Opening Science: The Evolving Guide on How the Internet is Changing Research, Collaboration and Scholarly Publishing
(2014)
Job Careers in Science and Engineering; Computers and Society; Communication Studies; Web 2.0 and interoperability; Scientific micro blogging; Social networking platforms; Creative commons; Dynamic publication ...
Philosophy of Astrophysics
(2023)
This is an open access book. This book, the first edited collection of its kind, explores the recent emergence of philosophical research in astrophysics. It assembles a variety of original essays from scholars who are ...
Chapter Acknowledgements
(2015)
This book is the first account of self-harming behaviour in its proper historical and political context. The rise of self-cutting and overdosing in the 20th century is linked to the sweeping changes in mental and physical ...
Solidarity in Europe
(2018)
solidarity in Europe; transnational solidarity; political sociology; citizen responses to crisis; asylum policies; refugee crisis; attitudes towards European Union
Digital Humanism
(2022)
This open access book deals with cultural and philosophical aspects of artificial intelligence (AI) and pleads for a “digital humanism”. This term is beginning to be en vogue everywhere. Due to a growing discontentment ...
Indian Literature and the World
(2017)
Moves beyond restrictive Anglocentric approaches Features contributions from a spectrum of academics, from early career researchers to key names in the fieldAddresses areas such as translation studies as well as postcolonial ...
Energy Citizenship
(2025)
This open access book develops a deeper understanding of an increasingly applied term across policy cycles and academic discourses, ‘energy citizenship’. It provides the reader with five distinct chapters, with each in ...
New Methods for Measuring and Analyzing Segregation
(2017)
demographic techniques; quantitative research methods; segregation; bias; distribution
Methods for Analysing and Reporting EQ-5D Data
(2020)
This open access book is the first published guide about how to analyse data produced by the EQ-5D, one of the most widely used Patient Reported Outcomes questionnaires world wide. The authors provide practical, clear and ...
Big Data in Bioeconomy
(2021)
This edited open access book presents the comprehensive outcome of The European DataBio Project, which examined new data-driven methods to shape a bioeconomy. These methods are used to develop new and sustainable ways to ...
Transformational Change for People and the Planet
(2022)
This Open Access book deals with the pressing question of how to achieve transformational change that reconciles development with environmental sustainability. It particularly focuses on the role of evaluation in finding ...
Re-engineering the Uptake of ICT in Schools
(2015)
Information Systems and Communication Service; Education, general
The Heterogeneity of Cancer Metabolism
(2021)
This open access volume will introduce recent discoveries in cancer metabolism since the publication of the first edition in 2018, providing readers with an up-to-date understanding of developments in the field. Genetic ...
The Living Environmental Education
(2023)
This open access book is designed and written to bridge the gap on the critical issues identified in environmental education programs in Asian countries. The world and its environments are changing rapidly, and the public ...
Koordination und Kompromiss in föderalen Bildungssystemen
(2022)
In vielen Ländern bereitet traditionell das Gymnasium auf die Lehramtsausbildung vor. Diese multimethodische Open Access Studie befasst sich mit der umkämpften Institutionalisierung eines zweiten, alternativen Zugangswegs ...
High Density Lipoproteins
(2015)
Pharmacology/Toxicology; Molecular Medicine; Human Physiology; Immunology; Cell Biology
Participative Urban Health and Healthy Aging in the Age of AI
(2022)
This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on String Processing and Information Retrieval, ICOST 2022, held in Paris, France, in June 2022. The 15 full papers and 10 ...
Urban Inequality and Segregation in Europe and China
(2021)
This open access book explores new research directions in social inequality and urban segregation. With the goal of fostering an ongoing dialogue between scholars in Europe and China, it brings together an impressive team ...
Organization in Biology
(2024)
This open access book assesses the prospects of (re)adopting organization as a pivotal concept in biology. It shows how organization can nourish biological thinking and practice, by reconnecting with the idea of biology ...
Rethinking Sustainability Towards a Regenerative Economy
(2021)
This open access book is based on work from the COST Action “RESTORE - REthinking Sustainability TOwards a Regenerative Economy'', and highlights how sustainability in buildings, facilities and urban governance is crucial ...
Chapter Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
(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 ...