Publications
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New Metropolitan Perspectives
(2023)
This open access book conveys attention to the theme of transition towards resilience and sustainability and its evolutionary perspective that emphasizes the complexity and uncertainty that governments and society are ...
Migration and Discrimination
(2021)
This open access short reader provides a state of the art overview of the discrimination research field, with particular focus on discrimination against immigrants and their descendants. It covers the ways in which ...
Wohnen und Gesundheit im Alter
(2022)
Vor dem Hintergrund der demographischen Entwicklung unserer Gesellschaft nimmt der Open-Access-Sammelband die Wohnsituation älterer Menschen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der gesundheitlichen Situation in den Blick. ...
Parenting and Work in Poland
(2021)
The open access book provides a critical account of parenthood in Polish society. It uses a qualitative perspective to show how mothers and fathers engage with parenthood and also function in the labour market. Parenting ...
Martial Culture and Historical Martial Arts in Europe and Asia
(2023)
This open access book is the first publication to provide a comparative framework for the study of martial culture and historical martial arts in Europe and Asia, in particular in Italy and China. Due to the interdisciplinary ...
Social and Political Dimensions of Mathematics Education: Current Thinking
(2016)
Mathematics Education; Learning; Teaching
Chapter 3 ‘They May Strike Back at Society in a Vengeful Manner’
(2019)
Following the Second World War, adolescent medicine emerged in the United States as a speciality focussed on addressing the physical, social and psychological problems of teenagers. While acne had been thought of as an ...
Concepts, Frames and Cascades in Semantics, Cognition and Ontology
(2021)
This open access book presents novel theoretical, empirical and experimental work exploring the nature of mental representations that support natural language production and understanding, and other manifestations of ...
Nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung
(2021)
Dieses Open Access Buch thematisiert den Beitrag der Städte zur nachhaltigen Entwicklung. Die Autor*innen stellen die Agenda 2030 und die 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) vor, auf die sich die Mitgliedstaaten der ...
Fethullah Gülen’s Teaching and Practice
(2022)
This is the first book of its kind about the Turkish Muslim scholar, Fethullah Gülen, since the July 2016 events in Turkey, the trauma experienced by Gülen, and the disruption to initiatives inspired by his teaching, known ...
How to Build a Modern Tontine
(2022)
This open access book introduces the modern tontine and its applications in retirement and decumulation. Personal financial management in the later stages of life presents unique challenges, and renowned retirement planning ...
The Asian 21st Century
(2022)
This open access book consists of essays written by Kishore Mahbubani to explore the challenges and dilemmas faced by the West and Asia in an increasingly interdependent world village and intensifying geopolitical competition. ...
The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America
(2017)
economic inequality; neoliberal politics
Selbstverständnisse der Philosophiedidaktik zwischen Fachphilosophie und Interdisziplinarität
(2025)
Dieser Open Access-Band präsentiert die aktuellen Debatten über das Selbstverständnis der Philosophiedidaktik, ihre Beziehung zur Fachphilosophie und den Stellenwert bzw. das Wesen der Interdisziplinarität. Dies betrifft ...
Childlessness in Europe
(2017)
In recent decades, levels of childlessness have been increasing rapidly in most
European countries. German-speaking countries seem to be at the forefront of this
development, as more than 20% of the women living in ...
5th Symposium on Terrestrial Gravimetry: Static and Mobile Measurements (TG-SMM 2019)
(2023)
This open access volume contains the proceedings of the 5th Symposium on Terrestrial Gravimetry: Static and Mobile Measurements (TG-SMM2019) held in St. Petersburg, Russia, October 1 – 4, 2019. The symposium was hosted by ...
Punishing the Criminal Corpse, 1700-1840
(2017)
history of crime; medical humanities; capital punishment
Orthogeriatrics
(2021)
This new open access edition supported by the Fragility Fracture Network aims at giving the widest possible dissemination on fragility fracture (especially hip fracture) management and notably in countries where this ...
Prehistoric Wetland Sites of Southern Europe
(2025)
This is an open access book. Unique in its scope, this book provides for the first time a Southern European perspective on prehistoric wetland settlements and their natural environment. These are dwellings originally built ...
Chapter 10 Designing for Mental Health
(2019)
In 1953 the American Psychiatric Association established an Architectural Study Project in collaboration with the American Institute of Architects. The project brought together a wide range of experts from psychiatry and ...
Journeys Towards Intercultural Capability in Language Classrooms
(2022)
This open access book presents an account of five teacher educators who, over a two-year period, undertook a research project with five teachers of languages other than English in pre-secondary schools in New Zealand. Their ...
Capital Punishment and the Criminal Corpse in Scotland, 1740–1834
(2017)
This book provides the most in-depth study of capital punishment in Scotland between the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth century to date. Based upon an extensive gathering and analysis of previously untapped resources, ...
50 Years World Heritage Convention: Shared Responsibility – Conflict & Reconciliation
(2022)
This open access book identifies various forms of heritage destruction and analyses their causes. It proposes strategies for avoiding and solving conflicts, based on integrating heritage into the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable ...
Neonatal Brain Injury
(2024)
This Open Access book is the first to provide clinicians with practical guidelines to explain the most frequently occurring neonatal brain injuries to parents and caretakers. The brains of high-risk neonates are vulnerable ...
Chapter 5 Mapping Punishment: Provincial Places to Dissect
(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 ...
Künstliche Intelligenz in öffentlichen Verwaltungen
(2023)
Dieses Buch – eine Open-Access-Publikation mit freiem Online-Zugang – bietet eine verständliche und kompakte Einführung in die Nutzung von KI-Systemen in öffentlichen Verwaltungen. Es beantwortet folgende Fragen: Was ...
Innovation in Bayern
(2023)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch befasst sich mit der Einstellung der bayerischen Militärführung in Hinblick auf die Rezeption als auch Adaption technischer Innovation bzw. deren ersten praktischen Anwendung im Krieg von 1866. Das ...
The Onlife Manifesto
(2015)
Philosophy of Technology; R & D/Technology Policy; Media Sociology
Integrating Immigrants in Europe: Research-Policy Dialogues
(2015)
Migration; Knowledge - Discourse; Public Policy
Noncommutative Geometry and Particle Physics
(2025)
This book provides an introduction to noncommutative geometry and presents a number of its recent applications to particle physics. In the first part, we introduce the main concepts and techniques by studying finite ...
Improving Oncology Worldwide
(2022)
This open access book describes strategies and experiences of highly skilled professionals in improving oncology care worldwide. The book is structured into three main sections with several chapters each, reflecting the ...
Liberal Democracy
(2020)
This open access book aims to show which factors have been decisive in the rise of successful countries. Never before have so many people been so well off. However, prosperity is not a law of nature; it has to be worked ...
Bienen an der Hochschule
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch werden verschiedene Erfahrungen vorgestellt, die im Bienenprojekt „BEEsy Mission“ der Hochschule Pforzheim gesammelt wurden. Zukünftigen Projektverantwortlichen wird eine Hilfestellung bei der ...
Wissenschaft kommuniziert
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch steht der akademische Group-Talk als Format der wissenschaftsinternen Wissenskommunikation im Fokus. Group-Talk ist die Feldbezeichnung für das wöchentliche Arbeitstreffen einer teilnehmend ...
The Leading World’s Most Innovative Universities
(2021)
This open access book is unique in its contents. No other title in the book market has tackled this important subject. It introduces innovation as a way of practice for world-class universities. It, then, discusses the ...
Intel Galileo and Intel Galileo Gen 2
(2014)
Computer science
Secularization and China's Modernization
(2025)
This open access book examines from the perspective of secularization. Since the publication of Max Weber's Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism, how to realize modernization in developing countries has become ...
Structural Health Monitoring Damage Detection Systems for Aerospace
(2021)
This open access book presents established methods of structural health monitoring (SHM) and discusses their technological merit in the current aerospace environment. While the aerospace industry aims for weight reduction ...
Remote Sensing of Plant Biodiversity
(2020)
This Open Access volume aims to methodologically improve our understanding of biodiversity by linking disciplines that incorporate remote sensing, and uniting data and perspectives in the fields of biology, landscape ...
Better Work
(2021)
This Open Access book provides a thorough analysis of the quality of work in the Netherlands, and suggests policy proposals to promote and facilitate good work for more people. New technology, flexibilization and the ...