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A Philosophical Examination of Social Justice and Child Poverty
(2015)
This book is open access under a CCBY license. This book investigates child poverty from a philosophical perspective. It identifies the injustices of child poverty, relates them to the well-being of children, and discusses ...
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 ...
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 ...
Critical Landscape Planning during the Belt and Road Initiative
(2021)
This open access book traces the development of landscapes along the 414-kilometer China–Laos Railway, one of the first infrastructure projects implemented under China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and which is due for ...
Socioeconomic Inequality and Educational Outcomes
(2019)
This open access book focuses on trends in educational inequality using twenty years of grade 8 student data collected from 13 education systems by the IEA’s Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) between 1995 and ...
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 ...
The Psychology Of Economic Inequality
(2025)
This open access book interrogates psychology’s contributions to our understanding of economic inequality. In the UK, the US and in many other countries, a high level of economic inequality is now one of the major problems ...
Understanding China’s School Leadership
(2020)
This open access book outlines key terms of China’s school leadership in Chinese political and legal, financial, administrative, and cultural contexts. It reveals and interprets the real meaning of these practical terms ...
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 ...
Successful Global Collaborations in Higher Education Institutions
(2020)
This open access book presents deep investigation to the manifold topics pertaining to global university collaboration. It outlines the strategies King Abdulaziz University has employed to rise in global rankings, and the ...
Understanding Risks and Uncertainties in Energy and Climate Policy
(2019)
This open access book analyzes and seeks to consolidate the use of robust quantitative tools and qualitative methods for the design and assessment of energy and climate policies. In particular, it examines energy and climate ...
Particle Physics Reference Library
(2020)
This third open access volume of the handbook series deals with accelerator physics, design, technology and operations, as well as with beam optics, dynamics and diagnostics. A joint CERN-Springer initiative, the “Particle ...
Critical Issues in Head and Neck Oncology
(2021)
This open access book discusses the most current issues in head and neck cancer with a focus on current trends such as biomarkers, precision medicine and immunotherapy. New approaches in the diagnosis such as liquid biopsies ...
Sepsis Management in Resource-limited Settings
(2019)
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. It constitutes a unique source of knowledge and guidance for all healthcare workers who care for patients with sepsis and septic shock in resource-limited settings. More ...
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 ...
Revisualising Intersectionality
(2022)
Revisualising Intersectionality offers transdisciplinary interrogations of the supposed visual evidentiality of categories of human similarity and difference. This open-access book incorporates insights from social and ...
Mesoscale Analysis of Hydraulics
(2021)
This open access book presents a series of complicated hydraulic phenomena and related mechanism of high-speed flows in head-head dam. According to the basic hydraulic theory, detailed experiments and numerical simulations, ...
Chapter Reading together
(2017)
Every region of India is and has been multilingual, with speakers of
different languages and speakers of multiple languages. But literary
‘multilingual locals’ are often more fragmented than we think. While
multilingualism ...
Revolution and Witchcraft
(2023)
Ideas influence people. In particular, extremely well-developed sets of ideas shape individuals, groups, and societies in far-reaching ways. This book establishes these “idea systems” as an academic concept. Through three ...
Enabling Sustainable Energy Transitions
(2020)
This open access book reframes sustainable energy transitions as being a matter of resolving accountability crises. It demonstrates how the empirical study of several practices of legitimation can analytically deconstruct ...
Arching in Piled Embankments Including the Effects of Reinforcement and Subsoil
(2025)
This Open access book examined the performance of the reinforced piled embankments in both plane strain and three-dimensional conditions. The arching mechanisms involved in the piled embankments have been investigated by ...
Energy Poverty, Practice, and Policy
(2022)
This Open Access book examines the implications of welfare policy for energy poverty and engages with key conceptual debates at the forefront of energy demand research. Academic work on energy poverty has rarely been brought ...
Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Strategies in Japan
(2025)
This open access book presents the latest Japanese research for the projection of climate change impacts and the evaluation of adaptation policies, with a particular focus on the S-18 Project—a nationwide, interdisciplinary ...
Gemeinsam Musizieren
(2023)
Wenn Menschen miteinander musizieren, koordinieren und synchronisieren sie ihre Handlungen so präzise, dass sie ein hörbares Kollektivgebilde konstruieren: Gemeinsame Musik. Das ist eine herausragende Leistung, die ein ...
Spationomy
(2020)
This open access book is based on "Spationomy – Spatial Exploration of Economic Data", an interdisciplinary and international project in the frame of ERASMUS+ funded by the European Union. The project aims to exchange ...
Managing Protected Areas
(2024)
This open access book brings together 16 specially commissioned chapters drawn from a range of different professional-practitioner and academic global perspectives on the importance of the relationship between people and ...
Anti-Microbial Resistance in Global Perspective
(2020)
‘The Maternal Sepsis Intervention has had a profound impact on maternal mortality and antibiotic use whilst also reducing hospital costs. The Ministry of Health is keen to explore opportunities to extending the lessons ...
Teaching and Learning with Research Cognitive Theory
(2025)
This open access volume explores the transformative role of Research Cognitive Theory (RCT) in education, emphasizing its application in fostering curiosity, creativity, innovation, problem-solving skills, and cognitive ...
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 ...
Künstliche Intelligenz in der Forschung
(2022)
Dieses Buch ist eine Open Access Publikation. Der lange gehegte Traum von künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) wird in unserer Alltagswelt zunehmend Realität. Damit verbinden sich hohe gesellschaftliche Erwartungen, aber auch ...
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 ...
Inter-group Relations and Migrant Integration in European Cities: Changing Neighbourhoods
(2016)
Migration; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns); Political Science
Decolonising Blue Spaces in the Anthropocene
(2021)
This open access book crosses disciplinary boundaries to connect theories of environmental justice with Indigenous people’s experiences of freshwater management and governance. It traces the history of one freshwater crisis ...
Exceptional Lifespans
(2021)
How long can humans live? This open access book documents, verifies and brings to life the advance of the frontier of human survival. It carefully validates data on supercentenarians, aged 110+, and semi-supercentenarians, ...
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 ...
Kantian Ethics and the Attention Economy
(2024)
In this open access book, Timothy Aylsworth and Clinton Castro draw on the deep well of Kantian ethics to argue that we have moral duties, both to ourselves and to others, to protect our autonomy from the threat posed by ...
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 ...
Green Infrastructure and Climate Change Adaptation
(2022)
This open access book introduces the function, implementation and governance of green infrastructure in Japan and other countries where lands are geologically fragile and climatologically susceptible to climate change. It ...
Volunteered Geographic Information
(2024)
This open access book includes methods for retrieval, semantic representation, and analysis of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), geovisualization and user interactions related to VGI, and discusses selected topics ...
Thermocapillary Convection in Microgravity
(2025)
This open access book overviews cutting-edge research on thermocapillary convection driven by temperature dependence of surface tension. A notable feature of the book is that it is concerned with a series of experiments ...
EASyQuart - Energieeffiziente Auslegung und Planung dezentraler Versorgungsnetze von Stadtquartieren
(2024)
Das Open-Access-Buch bietet ein Entscheidungshilfesystem für die Beheizung/Kühlung von Stadtteilen durch oberflächennahe geothermische Ressourcen. Die Energieversorgung von Stadtquartieren spielt eine Schlüsselrolle bei ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Regulating the Metaverse Economy
(2024)
This open access book examines regulating an environment that has no jurisdiction, is fully anonymous and infinitely vast? Welcome to the Metaverse, an online virtual reality that is expected to add billions to the global ...
The Responsible University
(2019)
This book explores how the notion of the responsible university manifests itself at various levels within Nordic higher education. As the impetus of the knowledge society has catapulted the higher education sector to the ...
Duale Schriftnutzung: Brailleschrift und Schwarzschrift
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch werden die schriftsprachlichen Kompetenzen von Schülerinnen und Schülern mit dualer Schriftnutzung untersucht. Von einem dualen Schriftspracherwerb spricht man, wenn Kinder oder Jugendliche mit ...
New Living Cases on Corporate Governance
(2021)
This unique open access book features a selection of Living Cases on Corporate Governance, which were developed and compiled by chairpersons, members of the board of directors, and CEOs in various countries, working in ...
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 ...
Global Challenges in Cardiovascular Prevention in Populations with Low Socioeconomic Status
(2025)
Cardiovascular Prevention (CVP) has included important technological advances and determined improvements in morbidity and mortality since the last 70 and 60 years. However, in populations with socioeconomic limited resources ...
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 ...
The Ethics of Cybersecurity
(2020)
This open access book provides the first comprehensive collection of papers that provide an integrative view on cybersecurity. It discusses theories, problems and solutions on the relevant ethical issues involved. This ...
Louisiana's Response to Extreme Weather
(2020)
Earth sciences; Natural disasters; Climate change; Coasts; Environmental management; Environmental law; Environmental policy; Social justice; Human rights
Rational Use of Intravenous Fluids in Critically Ill Patients
(2024)
This open access book, published by Springer under the Open Access CC BY 4.0 Licence in collaboration with the International Fluid Academy (IFA, www.fluidacademy.org), explores rationalized intravenous fluid therapy for ...
Modern IoT Onboarding Platforms for Advanced Applications
(2023)
This is an open access book. The book starts with an introductory IoT overview related to its selected scope of applications. There is no doubt that digitalization solutions from Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things ...
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 ...
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 ...
Machine Learning for Cyber Physical Systems
(2019)
This Open Access proceedings presents new approaches to Machine Learning for Cyber Physical Systems, experiences and visions. It contains some selected papers from the international Conference ML4CPS – Machine Learning for ...
The Sanitation Triangle
(2022)
This open access book deals with global sanitation, where SDG 6.2 sets a target of enabling access to sanitation services for all, but has not yet been achieved in low- and middle-income countries. The transition from the ...
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 ...
Enhanced Living Environments
(2019)
This open access book was prepared as a Final Publication of the COST Action IC1303 “Algorithms, Architectures and Platforms for Enhanced Living Environments (AAPELE)”. The concept of Enhanced Living Environments (ELE) ...
Transport Transitions: Advancing Sustainable and Inclusive Mobility
(2025)
This is an open access book. It gathers the proceedings of the 10th edition of Transport Research Arena (TRA 2024), held on 15-18 April, 2024, in Dublin, Ireland. Contributions cover a wide range of research findings, ...
Safety Cultures, Safety Models
(2018)
The objective of this book is to help at-risk organizations to decipher the “safety cloud”, and to position themselves in terms of operational decisions and improvement strategies in safety, considering the path already ...
Closing Rice Yield Gaps in Asia
(2023)
This open access book contributes not only to the scientific literature on sustainable agricultural development and in particular rice agriculture but also is highly valuable to assist practitioners, projects, and policymakers ...
Teaching Multiplication with Lesson Study
(2021)
This open access book is intended to assist teachers, teacher trainers, curriculum designers, editors and authors of textbooks in developing strategies to teach the multiplication of natural numbers based on the experience ...
The Rise of China’s Innovation Economy
(2024)
This open access book provides a comprehensive review of technological innovation in China, focusing on some existing challenges and the debate on the role of public policies in promoting innovation. Technological innovation ...
Das zukunftsfähige Familienunternehmen
(2024)
Die Zukunftsfähigkeit eines Unternehmens, also das langfristige Überleben bei adäquatem Erfolg, erfordert finanzielle Nachhaltigkeit (finanzielle Stärke), eine robuste Strategie und resiliente Leistungserstellung sowie ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Biographical Life Course Research
(2023)
This open access book explores an approach that connects individual and societal processes throughout history and shifting trends in sociological perspectives, influenced by C. Wright Mills’ theories of time and temporality. ...
Mapping selfies and memes as Touch
(2022)
This open access book offers a rich and nuanced analysis of digitally networked socialities as culturally meaningful relationships of Touch. Focusing on the ways Touch is practised in everyday social interactions serves ...
Under Pressure?
(2025)
This open access book gathers different case studies of resilience and coping strategies in hunter-gatherer societies who were confronted with natural hazards. Joined in this book, authors display a range of strategies how ...
Social Protection in Latin America
(2024)
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of social protection in Latin America, its origins, institutions, and outcomes. The chapters are organised in three groups. The earlier chapters discuss in turn appropriate methods, ...
Social Accountability Initiatives in Morocco, Tunisia, and Lebanon
(2024)
This Open Access Pivot represents the first extensive exploration of social accountability within the Arab world following the 2011 Arab uprisings. Drawing on insights from development studies, comparative politics, and ...
Creativity and Critique in Digital Learning and Teaching
(2025)
This open access edited collection is aimed at educators, student services staff, and university management. It is timely in adopting a forward-facing view of various aspects of digital teaching and learning in business ...
Cultural Policy is Local
(2023)
This Open Access edited collection calls for a greater understanding of ‘the local’ within the ways the arts, culture and creative practices are governed, promoted, regulated, resourced and valued. Cultural policy studies ...
Governance of Arctic Shipping
(2020)
This open access book is a result of the Dalhousie-led research project Safe Navigation and Environment Protection, supported by a grant from the Ocean Frontier Institute’s the Canada First Research Excellent Fund (CFREF). ...
Transforming Gender Equality and Inclusion Within Higher Education in Ireland
(2025)
This open access book thematically reflects on and analyses the nature of change and transformation with respect to gender equality, inclusion and diversity across higher education in Ireland, from the perspectives of those ...
Knowledge and Institutions
(2018)
This open access book bridges the disciplinary boundaries within the social sciences to explore the role of social institutions in shaping geographical contexts, and in creating new knowledge. It includes theorizations as ...
Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods
(2026)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Automated Reasoning with AnalyticTableaux and Related Methods, TABLEAUX 2025, held in Reykjavik, Iceland, during September 27–29, ...
Improving Psychiatric Care for Older People
(2017)
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book tells the story of Barbara Robb and her pressure group, Aid for the Elderly in Government Institutions (AEGIS). In 1965, Barbara visited 73-year-old Amy Gibbs ...
Rotorcraft Certification by Simulation and Analysis
(2025)
This open access book presents the steps necessary for the application of rotorcraft flight modelling and simulation and analysis in support of certification for compliance with EASA CS-27 and CS-29, SUBPART B—FLIGHT and ...
Dinaric Perspectives on TIMSS 2019
(2022)
This open access book brings together national experts from across the Dinaric region to rigorously review IEA’s Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2019 grade four data to develop a multidimensional ...
Medienprojekte im Mathematikunterricht
(2023)
Daniel Barton entwickelt auf Grundlage theoretischer Rahmenmodelle hinsichtlich emotionaler und motivationaler Faktoren von Lernprozessen ein Unterrichtsprojekt im Rahmen des Mathematikunterrichts der Sekundarstufe I. In ...
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 ...
Shoulder Fractures in Context
(2025)
This open access book offers comprehensive coverage of all relevant aspects of shoulder fractures, also known as fractures of the proximal humerus, with a special focus on existing controversies in their treatment. Throughout ...
Stochastic Transport in Upper Ocean Dynamics II
(2024)
This open access proceedings volume brings selected, peer-reviewed contributions presented at the Third Stochastic Transport in Upper Ocean Dynamics (STUOD) 2022 Workshop, held virtually and in person at the Imperial College ...
Semantic Systems. In the Era of Knowledge Graphs
(2020)
This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Semantic Systems, SEMANTiCS 2020, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in September 2020. The conference was held virtually ...
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 ...
Habitable Future
(2025)
This open-access book presents a multidisciplinary approach to the design of living spaces from an age-friendly perspective, in line with the Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) paradigm, which promotes the integration of assistive ...
Introduction to CRISPR-Cas9 Techniques
(2025)
This open-access textbook provides an in-depth introduction into the CRISPR-cas9 technology and explores its use across the gamut of biological model systems. As the subject has risen from a significant new discovery to a ...
Accelerating the Socio-Ecological Transition
(2025)
This book explores the key principles and challenges of implementing the socio-ecological transition, with a particular focus on Quebec, Canada. It addresses these issues from both research and educational perspectives, ...
Global History and New Polycentric Approaches
(2018)
Rethinking the ways global history is envisioned and conceptualized in diverse countries such as China, Japan, Mexico or Spain, this collections considers how global issues are connected with our local and national ...
Transparenz öffentlicher Einkaufsdaten in Deutschland
(2021)
In dieser Open-Access-Publikation beschreibt Britta Reuter auf Basis einer umfassenden Analyse der internationalen Forschungsergebnisse rund um die Öffnung öffentlicher Verwaltungs- und Einkaufsdaten sowie einer empirischen ...
Updates on Myopia
(2020)
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This open access book discusses basic clinical concepts of myopia, prevention of progression and surgical treatments for myopia and pathological myopia. It also summarises ...
Principles and Pedagogies in Jewish Education
(2022)
This book is aimed at improving contemporary educational practice by rooting it in clear analytical thinking. The book utilizes the analytic approach to philosophy of education to elucidate the meaning of the terms ...
Teaching for Excellence and Equity
(2019)
This open access book examines the interrelationship of national policy, teacher effectiveness, and student outcomes with a specific emphasis on educational equity. Using data from the IEA’s Trends in International Mathematics ...
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 ...
Methodological Approaches to Societies in Transformation
(2021)
This open access book provides methodological devices and analytical frameworks for the study of societies in transformation. It explores a central paradox in the study of change: making sense of change requires long-term ...