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Systemleichtbau für die Luftfahrt
(2022)
essentials liefern aktuelles Wissen in konzentrierter Form. Die Essenz dessen, worauf es als „State-of-the-Art“ in der gegenwärtigen Fachdiskussion oder in der Praxis ankommt. essentials informieren schnell, unkompliziert ...
Civil Society Responses to Changing Civic Spaces
(2023)
This open access book contributes to thriving debates in academic as well as professional circles about the role of civil society in shrinking civic spaces, rising authoritarianism and right-wing populism, conflicts, fragile ...
Global History with Chinese Characteristics
(2021)
This open access book considers a pivotal era in Chinese history from a global perspective. This book’s insight into Chinese and international history offers timely and challenging perspectives on initiatives like “Chinese ...
Management of Hydropower Enterprises
(2025)
This open access book highlights the hydropower potential of the Dadu River watershed in Sichuan province, Southwest China, and an important part of the flood control system for the Changjiang (Yangtze) River. Ensuring the ...
2050 China
(2021)
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. This book is arranged and developed around the theme of “2050 China,” it analyzes the factors and advantages of the Chinese road to socialist modernization, explores ...
Enabling Asia to Stabilise the Climate
(2015)
Sustainable Development
Pentecostalism and Witchcraft
(2017)
charismatic Christianity; Holy Spirit; demonology; evangelism; indigenous Pentecostal movements; ethnography
Technical Universities
(2020)
This Open Access book analyses the past, present and future of the technical university as a single faculty independent institution. The point of departure is a view of changing academic realities, through which the identity ...
Interdisciplinary Explorations of Postmortem Interaction
(2022)
In the present as in the past, the dead have been deployed to promote visions of identity, as well as ostensibly wider human values. Through a series of case studies from ancient Egypt through prehistoric, historic, and ...
Migration and Pandemics
(2022)
This open access book discusses the socio-political context of the COVID-19 crisis and questions the management of the pandemic emergency with special reference to how this affected the governance of migration and asylum. ...
Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
(2021)
This open access two-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2021, which was held during March 27 – April 1, ...
Brand Content und Brand Image
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch schlägt Matthias Albisser eine Konzeptualisierung von Brand Content als Botschaften der Unternehmenskommunikation vor, die gleichberechtigt eine Unternehmensperspektive (Imageaufbau) und eine ...
Resilient Governance of Urban Redevelopment
(2023)
To examine the origins, characteristics, and outcomes of resilient governance with Chinese characteristics, this open access book takes Guangzhou, a typical Chinese city from 1990 to 2015, as an example. Through participant ...
Stem Cells in Neuroendocrinology
(2016)
Neurosciences, Endocrinology
The Importance and Value of Older Employees
(2021)
This open access book makes a contribution to our understanding of one of the social challenges facing many western nations i.e. the challenge of an ageing population. It specifically addresses the issue of competence among ...
Sensor Technologies
(2013)
Computer science
Pro Git (Second Edition)
(2014)
Computer science
iCity. Transformative Research for the Livable, Intelligent, and Sustainable City
(2022)
This open access book presents the exciting research results of the BMBF funded project iCity carried out at University of Applied Science Stuttgart to help cities to become more liveable, intelligent and sustainable, to ...
Chapter 4 A Few Deaths from Hunger Is Nothing
(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 ...
Knowledge Graphs and Big Data Processing
(2020)
This open access book is part of the LAMBDA Project (Learning, Applying, Multiplying Big Data Analytics), funded by the European Union, GA No. 809965. Data Analytics involves applying algorithmic processes to derive insights. ...
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 ...