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Shipping and Globalization in the Post-War Era
(2019)
This open access book belongs to the Maritime Business and Economic History strand of the Palgrave Studies in Maritime Economics book series. This volume highlights the contribution of the shipping industry to the ...
Anthropologies of Global Maternal and Reproductive Health
(2022)
This open access edited book brings together new research on the mechanisms by which maternal and reproductive health policies are formed and implemented in diverse locales around the world, from global policy spaces to ...
The Global Lives of German Migrants
(2021)
Based on the German case, this open access book highlights the increasing flows of migration and the internationalisation of individual life courses. It analyses the experiences of migration across four central domains - ...
The Role of Smallholder Farms in Food and Nutrition Security
(2020)
This open access book discusses the current role of smallholders in connection with food security and poverty reduction in developing countries. It addresses the opportunities they enjoy, and the constraints they face, by ...
Stochastic Transport in Upper Ocean Dynamics III
(2025)
This open-access proceedings volume brings selected, peer-reviewed contributions presented at the Fourth Stochastic Transport in Upper Ocean Dynamics (STUOD) 2023 Workshop, held at IFREMER in Plouzané, France, September ...
Die Fragen der Opfer im Strafprozess
(2023)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch bietet zunächst eine kompakte Übersicht über Viktimisierungserleben und -bewältigung und stellt die Grundlagen der Verfahrensgerechtigkeitsforschung vor. Es skizziert die Entwicklung der ...
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, ...
Building an Olive-Shaped Society
(2024)
This open access book offers a comprehensive analysis of China’s way of economic development balancing between efficiency and equity, striving to investigate existing challenges and to discuss the role of fiscal policies ...
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 ...
Asia-Pacific Fishing Livelihoods
(2022)
This open access book explores fishing livelihoods in the context of the wider contexts in which they are embedded. Drawing on case studies from across the Asia-Pacific region, the book highlights how fishing livelihoods ...
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 ...
Particle Accelerator Physics
(2015-01-01)
This book by Helmut Wiedemann is a well-established, classic text, providing an in-depth and comprehensive introduction to the field of high-energy particle acceleration and beam dynamics.
The present 4th edition has been ...
Sensitivity Analysis: Matrix Methods in Demography and Ecology
(2019)
This open access book shows how to use sensitivity analysis in demography. It presents new methods for individuals, cohorts, and populations, with applications to humans, other animals, and plants. The analyses are based ...
An Interdependent Approach to Happiness and Well-Being
(2024)
This open access book examines an interdependent approach to happiness and well-being, one that contrasts starkly with dominant approaches that have originated from Western culture(s). It highlights the diversity of potential ...
Taking the EU to Court
(2020)
This open access book provides an exhaustive picture of the role that annulment conflicts play in the EU multilevel system. Based on a rich dataset of annulment actions since the 1960s and a number of in-depth case studies, ...
Cycling Through the Pandemic
(2024)
This open access book provides insight on how the tactical urbanism has the capacity to influence change in mobility practices such as cycling. COVID-19 crisis prompted the public authorities to rethink the use of public ...
European Narratives on Remote Working and Coworking During the COVID-19 Pandemic
(2023)
This open access book offers a multidisciplinary and comprehensive perspective regarding the immediate and long-term effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on coworking spaces in the European Region. The current pandemic has ...
Realising Linguistic, Cultural and Educational Rights Through Non-Territorial Autonomy
(2023)
This volume assesses Non-Territorial Autonomy (NTA) in terms of its practical capacity to support the linguistic, cultural, and educational rights of national minority groups across Europe. The fact that 2023 marks the ...
Golden Years of Australian Radio Astronomy
(2021)
The evolution of Australian radio astronomy from 1945 to 1960 has been studied in detail by numerous historians of science in recent years. This Open Access book is the first to present an overview of this remarkable chapter ...
The Bluefin Tuna Fishery in the Bay of Biscay
(2019)
This open access book is an original contribution to the knowledge on fishing and research associated with one of the most enigmatic fish of our seas: bluefin tuna, Thunnus thynnus (L.). Based on available evidence, it ...
Acceptance and Diffusion of Connected and Automated Driving in Japan and Germany
(2025)
This open access book gives comprehensive empirical insights on connected and automated driving (CAD) of road transport vehicles which leads to the driver being partially or completely replaced by automation. The current ...
Unterstütztes Wohnen und Teilhabe
(2024)
Das Buch fasst die Forschung zum unterstützten Wohnen und zur Teilhabe von Menschen mit intellektueller Beeinträchtigung zusammen und weist Richtungen für die inhaltliche und methodische Weiterentwicklung. Im ersten Teil ...
Neighbourhoods in Transition
(2022)
This open access book is focused on the intersection between urban brownfields and the sustainability transitions of metreopolitan areas, cities and neighbourhoods. It provides both a theoretical and practical approach to ...
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 ...
Loan Risk Management of Commercial Real Estate Debt Funds
(2025)
This open-access publication examines the organisational mechanisms that enable the commercial real estate industry to better withstand economic headwinds and more quickly recover from downturns. With geographic focus on ...
Human Factors in Privacy Research
(2023)
This book covers topics needed to be considered in research around usable privacy. The book starts from a psychological perspective and introduces readers to basic behavioral theories and models that can explain end-user ...
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 ...
Designing Sustainable Technologies, Products and Policies
(2018)
This open access book provides insight into the implementation of Life Cycle approaches along the entire business value chain, supporting environmental, social and economic sustainability related to the development of ...
Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
(2024)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, FASE 2024, held in conjunction with ETAPS 2024 which took place in Luxembourg in ...
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 ...
Die Big-Data-Debatte
(2020)
In dieser Open-Access-Publikation analysieren die Autoren die öffentliche Debatte um Chancen und Risiken von Big Data und diskutieren die konkreten Implikationen in verschiedenen Lebensbereichen. In einer repräsentativen ...
The Advisory Roles of Political Scientists in Europe
(2022)
This open access book centres on the advisory roles of political scientists in Europe. Based on a cross-national survey, the book offers a comparative analysis of the viewpoints and activities of university-based political ...
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. ...
The Mathematical Theory of Semantic Communication
(2025)
This Open Access Book explores how classical information theory’s focus on syntactic information has limited the further development of communication science. Recently, communication technologies that handle and transmit ...
Die unsichtbaren Folgen des Extraktivismus
(2024)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch beschäftigt sich mit Umweltproblemen, die selbst im Kontext der heutigen globalen ökologischen Krise weitgehend gesellschaftlich unsichtbar bleiben, da sie ihre oftmals schwerwiegenden sozial-ökologischen ...
Staatsbildung und Legitimation im Himalaya
(2024)
Mit diesem Open-Access-Buch zeigt Stefan Lüder auf, dass die Geschichte der Himalaya-Region mit der übrigen Welt weitaus verflochtener ist als bisher angenommen wird. Die historische Legitimationsforschung ist bisher durch ...
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 ...
Shaping Natural History and Settler Society
(2019)
This book explores the life and work of Mary Elizabeth Barber, a British-born settler scientist who lived in the Cape during the nineteenth century. It provides a lens into a range of subjects within the history of knowledge ...
History and Speculative Fiction
(2024)
This open access book demonstrates that despite different epistemological starting points, history and speculative fiction perform similar work in “making the strange familiar” and “making the familiar strange” by taking ...
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 ...
Blockchain, Crypto Assets, and Financial Innovation
(2025)
This open access book provides a decade-spanning, meticulously curated collection of research that showcases groundbreaking advances in blockchain, cryptocurrency, digital finance, and market volatility. Through empirical ...
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 ...
Biometric Identification, Law and Ethics
(2021)
This book is open access. This book undertakes a multifaceted and integrated examination of biometric identification, including the current state of the technology, how it is being used, the key ethical issues, and the ...
Noncomplainer-Management im BtB-Marketing
(2024)
In diesem Open Access-Buch untersucht Dr. Fabio-Yannick Laschet unter Berücksichtigung der konstitutiven Besonderheiten des Business-to-Business-Marketings spezifische Determinanten des Noncomplainer-Verhaltens sowie ...
Cold War Civil Defence in Western Europe
(2022)
This open access edited collection brings together established and new perspectives on Cold War civil defence in Western Europe within a common analytical framework that also facilitates comparative and transnational ...
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. ...
Special Topics in Information Technology
(2024)
This open access book presents outstanding doctoral dissertations in Information Technology from the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Information Technology has always ...
Organic Waste Composting through Nexus Thinking
(2020)
Organic waste composting is another excellent example to demonstrate the power and the benefits of nexus thinking. Even though organic waste composting itself is not a new topic, those who want to start a new project or ...
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 ...
Process Mining Workshops
(2025)
This book constitutes the revised accepted papers of several workshops which were held in conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Process Mining, ICPM 2024, held in Lyngby, Denmark, during October 2024. The ...
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 ...
Chapter Gender Dynamics. An Introduction to Norbert Elias’s Process-Sociological Approach to Gender Relations
(2025)
The text introduces the application of Norbert Elias’s process-sociological approach to gender studies, emphasizing its relevance in understanding gender dynamics over long-term societal developments. Despite Elias’s ...
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 ...
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 ...
Circular Migration and the Rights of Migrant Workers in Central and Eastern Europe
(2020)
By adopting a rights-based approach, this open access book sheds light on the different legal and policy instruments that have been adopted to implement circular migration policies in the EU and their consequences for the ...
Sex Differences in Reading and Math Test Scores of Children
(2024)
This open access book examines why reading and math test scores for boys and girls have differed since the origins of testing in the United States. It details the pattern of differences that have remained largely unchanged ...
QPLEX: A Computational Modeling and Analysis Methodology for Stochastic Systems
(2025)
This book introduces QPLEX, a powerful computational framework designed for modeling and analyzing nonstationary stochastic systems with large state spaces. The methodology excels at rapidly and accurately generating ...
Fundamentals of Clinical Data Science
(2019)
This open access book comprehensively covers the fundamentals of clinical data science, focusing on data collection, modelling and clinical applications. Topics covered in the first section on data collection include: data ...
The Institutional Compass: Method, Use and Scope
(2022)
This open access book presents a new generation multi-criteria, multi-stake holder, decision aide, called an "institutional compass". Based on hard data, the compass tells us what quality-direction we are heading in as an ...
New Directions in Digitalisation
(2025)
This open access book brings together experts from both EU competition law as well fundamental rights backgrounds, discussing the most recent developments in EU legislation on digitalisation. Most prominently, it explores ...
Governing the Pandemic
(2021)
This open access book offers unique insights into how governments and governing systems, particularly in advanced economies, have responded to the immense challenges of managing the coronavirus pandemic and the ensuing ...
People or Property
(2024)
This open access book explores the intersection of property law, relocation, and resettlement processes in the United States and among communities that grapple with migration as an adaptation strategy. As communities face ...
Sociology of Interdisciplinarity
(2022)
This Open Access book builds upon Science and Technology Studies (STS) and provides a detailed examination of how large-scale energy research projects have been conceived, and with what consequences for those involved in ...
Animating Unpredictable Effects
(2021)
Uncanny computer-generated animations of splashing waves, billowing smoke clouds, and characters’ flowing hair have become a ubiquitous presence on screens of all types since the 1980s. This Open Access book charts the ...
Sustainability, AI and Innovation: Proceedings of the Applied Research in Humanities & Social Sciences (ARHSS 2023)
(2025)
This open-access book presents the proceedings of the first 1st International Conference on Applied Research in Humanities & Social Sciences (ARHSS) held from Oct 31 to Nov 02, 2023, at the University of Sharjah, United ...
Community Nursing in Österreich
(2025)
Dieses Open Access Buch bietet eine Einführung in die Hintergründe, Methoden und Konzepte von Community (Health) Nursing, einer innovativen und praxisorientierten Weiterentwicklung in der Gesundheitsversorgung in Österreich. ...
In die falsche Richtung?
(2025)
Latein hat die frühe Neuzeit als Sprache der internationalen Kommunikation, der Wissenschaften, der Schule und der Kirche geprägt. Man schrieb allerdings nicht nur Latein, sondern übertrug auch Texte aus allen Epochen und ...
The Logical Writings of Karl Popper
(2022)
This open access book is the first ever collection of Karl Popper's writings on deductive logic. Karl R. Popper (1902-1994) was one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century. His philosophy of science ...
The Prevent Duty in Education
(2020)
This open access book explores the enactment, impact and implications of the Prevent Duty across a range of educational contexts. In July 2015 the UK became the first country to place a specific legal requirement on those ...
Putting PIRLS to Use in Classrooms Across the Globe
(2022)
This open access book provides teachers with approaches to strengthen reading comprehension instruction based on scientific research and evidence-based didactic principles. In this volume, the Progress in International ...
Quantitative Sustainability
(2024)
This open access book focuses on how scientific methodologies can help industrial managers, entrepreneurs and policymakers handle the 17 Sustainable Development Goals in an efficient and realistic way. It also offers an ...
Equity, Equality and Diversity in the Nordic Model of Education
(2020)
Does the Nordic model of education still stand by its original principles and safeguard education for all? This Open Access volume is a carefully crafted collection of chapters that investigate the different aspects of ...
Die Grenzen der EU
(2021)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch blickt auf die Hintergründe der Politik der Freizügigkeit in Europa und diskutiert die Folgen. Die europäische Integration veränderte die Migrationsverhältnisse erheblich: Zwischen den EU-Mitgliedstaaten ...
Pediatric and Lifespan Data Science
(2025)
This open access book will address the unique requirements and technological tools for analysis of data across the lifespan, from childhood through advanced age. Topics such as sepsis, hospital-acquired infections, mental ...
Von einem Traum getrieben
(2022)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch beschreibt das Leben und die Leistungen des norwegischen Ingenieurs und Physikers Rolf Widerøe. Zu seinen vielen bahnbrechenden Leistungen auf dem Gebiet der Beschleunigerphysik gehören unter anderem ...
Arbeit in der digitalisierten Welt
(2021)
Das vorliegende Open-Access-Buch umfasst Beiträge aus 29 Verbundvorhaben sowie dem begleitenden Verbundprojekt „TransWork“. Im Rahmen des Förderschwerpunkts „Arbeit in der digitalisierten Welt“ des Bundesministeriums für ...
Ritualisierende Agency in Todesritualen
(2024)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch werden anhand von ethnographischen Fallbeobachtungen mit 16 Ritualleiter*innen folgende Fragen beantwortet: Wie positionieren sich Leitende von Todesritualen, die ausserhalb einer religiösen ...
Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2022
(2022)
This open access book presents the proceedings of the International Federation for IT and Travel & Tourism (IFITT)’s 29th Annual International eTourism Conference, which assembles the latest research presented at the ...
Building the Inclusive City
(2020)
This Open Access book is an anthropological urban study of the Emirate of Dubai, its institutions, and their evolution. It provides a contemporary history of disability in city planning from a non-Western perspective and ...
Data for Social Good
(2023)
This open access book provides practical guidance for non-profits and community sector organisations about how to get started with data analytics projects using their own organisations’ datasets and open public data. The ...
Trends in Cerebrovascular Surgery and Interventions
(2021)
This is an open access proceeding book of 9th European-Japanese Cerebrovascular Congress at Milan 2018. Since many experts from Europe and Japan had very important and fruitful discussion on the management of Cerebrovascular ...
Recovering Civility during COVID-19
(2021)
This Open Access book examines many of the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic through the distinctive lens of civility. The idea of civility appears often in both public and academic debates, and a polarized political ...
Trade Unions on YouTube
(2019)
This open access book investigates how trade unions representing different social classes use YouTube videos for renewal purposes. Information and communication technology has undoubtedly offered new opportunities for ...
Skills Development for Inclusive and Sustainable Growth in Developing Asia-Pacific
(2013)
Focusing on the Asia-Pacific region, which in recent years has been the engine of global economic growth , this volume surveys trends and prospects in technical and vocational education and training (TVET) with particular ...
Agency and Causal Explanation in Economics
(2020)
This open access book provides an exploration of the consequences of the ontological differences between natural and social objects (sometimes described as objects of nature and objects of thought) in the workings of causal ...
'The Bell Curve' in Perspective
(2024)
This open access book examines the implications of The Bell Curve for the social, economic, and political developments of the early 21st century. Following a review of the reception of The Bell Curve and its place in the ...
Open Skies
(2020)
This open access book on the history of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory covers the scientific discoveries and technical innovations of late 20th century radio astronomy with particular attention to the people and ...
Detectors in High-Energy Physics Experiments
(2025)
This open access textbook explores the physics of detectors used in high-energy physics and heavy ion physics experiments. In addition to presenting fundamental principles, physics laws, and working techniques, the author ...
Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
(2020)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, FASE 2020, which took place in Dublin, Ireland, in April 2020, and was held as Part ...
Datenwirtschaft und Datentechnologie
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch stehen die wirtschaftliche Verwertung von Daten und die dazu gehörenden technischen und organisatorischen Prozesse und Strukturen in Unternehmen im Fokus. Es behandelt Themen wie Datenmonetarisierung, ...
Selbststudium im digitalen Wandel
(2021)
Selbststudium ist ein wichtiges Element im Zuge der Digitalisierungsbestrebungen an Hochschulen. Das Projekt optes widmet sich dem digitalen, begleiteten Selbststudium im Fach Mathematik. Es bietet mit seinen webbasierten ...
Gender Differences in Computer and Information Literacy
(2019)
This open access book presents a systematic investigation into internationally comparable data gathered in ICILS 2013. It identifies differences in female and male students’ use of, perceptions about, and proficiency in ...
Migrants with a Precarious Status
(2024)
This open access book is an exploration of city responses to migrants with a precarious status in Europe. It provides new evidence and analysis from research on three cities in Austria, Germany and the UK: Vienna, Frankfurt ...
The Hackable City
(2019)
This open access book presents a selection of the best contributions to the Digital Cities 9 Workshop held in Limerick in 2015, combining a number of the latest academic insights into new collaborative modes of city making ...
Japan’s Arduous Rejuvenation as a Global Power
(2019)
This open access book assesses the profound impact of Japan’s aspirations to become a great power on Japanese security, democracy and foreign relations. Rather than viewing the process of normalization and rejuvenation as ...
Uncertainty in Engineering
(2022)
This open access book provides an introduction to uncertainty quantification in engineering. Starting with preliminaries on Bayesian statistics and Monte Carlo methods, followed by material on imprecise probabilities, it ...
Erwerbsarbeit von Müttern und frühkindliche Fremdbetreuung
(2022)
Dies ist ein Open-Access-Buch. Der Band bietet eine wirtschaftswissenschaftlich und psychologisch fundierte Herleitung von Wohlfahrtseffekten, die durch den zunehmenden Erwerbsumfang von Müttern und der daraus resultierenden ...
Legal Perspectives for a Sustainable Circular Economy
(2026)
The open access book invites readers to critically address the new model of a Sustainable Circular Economy also from the legal point of view, tracing new perspectives in order to fairly orient the law in this systemic ...
Politische Bildung in Aktion
(2021)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch geht Steve Kenner der Frage nach, inwiefern sich politische Bildungsprozesse aus den Partizipationserfahrungen junger Menschen rekonstruieren lassen. Er begleitete politische Jugendinitiativen ...
Intercultural Competence and Pragmatics
(2024)
This Open Access book examines the link between intercultural competence (IC) and pragmatics by asking frontline modern foreign language teachers in higher education teaching a variety of languages (e.g., Dutch, English, ...