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Global Perspectives on Recognising Non-formal and Informal Learning: Why Recognition Matters
(2015)
Professional & Vocational Education; Lifelong Learning/Adult Education; Educational Policy and Politics; Assessment, Testing and Evaluation
Transdisziplinär und transformativ forschen: Eine Methodensammlung
(2018)
transdisziplinäre Forschung; transformative Forschung; partizipative Forschung; Reallabore; Realexperimente; Methodologie; Methodik; Methodensammlung; Co-Design und Co-Produktion; Partizipation; Nachhaltigkeitsforschung; ...
Zero Distance
(2022)
This open access book offers a new management meta-theory to replace Taylorism. It presents a new paradigm in management thinking and a new, practical organizational model for implementing it in our personal and working ...
Health Dimensions of COVID-19 in India and Beyond
(2022)
This open access book addresses the multiple health dimensions posed by the COVID-19 pandemic in India and other countries including nine in Asia, five in Sub-Saharan Africa, and New Zealand. It explores the impact of the ...
How Designers Are Transforming Healthcare
(2024)
This is an open access book. How Designers are Transforming Healthcare is a bold manifesto for change, demonstrating the value of a strategic design-led approach. Drawing on a rich array of real-world projects, this book ...
Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems: 24th International Conference, TACAS 2018, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2018, Thessaloniki, Greece, April 14-20, 2018, Proceedings, Part II
(2018)
computer architecture; computer software selection and evaluation; formal logic; formal methods; model checker; model checking; multi core processors; program compilers; programming languages; semantics; software ...
Between Protection and Harm
(2025)
This open access book dissects the current narratives of ‘vulnerability’ in asylum laws and policies, by unpacking the meanings, productions, and performances, of ‘vulnerability’ in different contexts, from countries of ...
Social Theory of Fear
(2010)
Fear has long served elites. They rely on fear to keep and expand their privileges and control the masses. In the current crisis of the capitalist world system, elites in the United States, along with other central countries, ...
The Great Disruptor
(2020)
Dieser Open Access-Band untersucht aus kultur- und medienwissenschaftlicher Perspektive das öffentliche Auftreten von Donald Trump und nimmt dabei insbesondere in den Blick, wie der US-amerikanische Präsident an der ...
Perspectives on European Earthquake Engineering and Seismology: Volume 2
(2015)
Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences
Life Skills Education for Youth
(2022)
This open access volume critically reviews a diverse body of scholarship and practice that informs the conceptualization, curriculum, teaching and measurement of life skills in education settings around the world. It ...
Land-Use Modelling in Planning Practice
(2011)
This book provides an overview of recent developments and applications of the Land Use Scanner model. Internationally recognized as among the best of its kind, this versatile model can be applied at a national level for ...
Chapter Introduction
(2015)
The study of early modern cancer is significant for our understanding of the period’s medical theory and practice. In many respects, cancer exemplifies the flexibility of early modern medical thought, which managed to ...
Introduction to Scientific Programming with Python
(2020)
This open access book offers an initial introduction to programming for scientific and computational applications using the Python programming language. The presentation style is compact and example-based, making it suitable ...
Becoming A Young Farmer
(2024)
This open access book is based on a multi-country collaborative research project focussing on Canada, China, India, and Indonesia. It responds directly and concretely to concerns about the generational sustainability of ...
LGBTQ+ Intimacies in Southern Europe
(2023)
This Open Access book argues that Southern European countries offer valuable, though historically overlooked, knowledge regarding intimate citizenship. Guided by the fundamental sociological question of how change takes ...
Towards Interoperable Research Infrastructures for Environmental and Earth Sciences
(2020)
This open access book summarises the latest developments on data management in the EU H2020 ENVRIplus project, which brought together more than 20 environmental and Earth science research infrastructures into a single ...
Freshwater Governance for the 21st Century
(2017)
water policy; water governance; water management; environmental law; environmental sciences; international relations
Joe Pawsey and the Founding of Australian Radio Astronomy
(2023)
This open access book is a biography of Joseph L. Pawsey. It examines not only his life but the birth and growth of the field of radio astronomy and the state of science itself in twentieth century Australia. The book ...
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 ...
EU Citizenship Beyond Urban Centres
(2023)
This open access book provides in-depth and comparative analyses of how young people in peripheral areas in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania perceive EU citizenship. It also informs the reader about ...
Brainlesion: Glioma, Multiple Sclerosis, Stroke and Traumatic Brain Injuries
(2022)
This two-volume set LNCS 12962 and 12963 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 7th International MICCAI Brainlesion Workshop, BrainLes 2021, as well as the RSNA-ASNR-MICCAI Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) ...
Engaging with Human Rights
(2024)
Making human rights a reality requires that various types of domestic actors take measures, which is often demanding, all the more so in federal systems. This open access book, Engaging with Human Rights: How Subnational ...
A Philosophical Examination of Social Justice and Child Poverty
(2015)
This book examines child poverty as a topic of social justice. The authors develop a theory of social justice for children based within the capability approach, apply it to the injustice of child poverty and propose a ...
Gender and Cultural Mediation in the Long Eighteenth Century
(2024)
This open access book explores the transnational and transoceanic dimensions of the debate on gender and women's cultural agency and mediation in the long eighteenth century. It aims to decenter perspectives on traditional ...
Forest Bioeconomy and Climate Change
(2022)
This edited open access volume explores the role of forest bioeconomy in addressing climate change. The authors put a particular focus on planetary boundaries and how the linear, growth-oriented economy, is coupled with ...
The Cost of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
(2017)
This open access book is the first comparative study of public, voluntary and private asylums in nineteenth-century Ireland. Examining nine institutions, it explores whether concepts of social class and status and the ...
Using Social Theory in Higher Education
(2024)
This open access book offers a unique and refreshing view on working with social theory in higher education. Using engaging first-person accounts coupled with critical intellectual analysis, the authors demonstrate how ...
Transformation Towards Sustainability
(2024)
The global environmental crisis, technological developments, the COVID-19 pandemic, and ongoing economic and political globalization are just a few of the developments that are massively increasing the pressure for ...
Formalization of Banking Supervision
(2022)
This open access book is the first attempt to elaborate the formalization phase of banking supervision in eight developed countries—USA, Japan, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, France, and UK. This innovative study ...
Attachment Ventilation Theory
(2023)
This open access book systematically summarizes the current research progress of attachment ventilation, covering vertical wall attachment, column attachment, and adaptive attachment ventilation. Attachment ventilation is ...
Building Trust in Startup Communication
(2024)
This open access book explores the intriguing narrative of Nikola Corporation's startup journey in this insightful case study, examining its rapid ascent and subsequent decline from both a narrative and argumentative ...
The Spanish Model for Smart Tourism Destination Management
(2024)
This is an open access handbook that guides destinations on their journey to becoming Smart Tourism Destinations (STDs). Developed by SEGITTUR, a distinguished Spanish State company, and aligned with academia represented ...
Reimagining Science Education in the Anthropocene
(2022)
This open access edited volume invites transdisciplinary scholars to re-vision science education in the era of the Anthropocene. The collection assembles the works of educators from many walks of life and areas of practice ...
Einführung in die Ethik
(2021)
Das Open Access-Lehrbuch bietet eine allgemeinverständliche, aber wissenschaftlichen Ansprüchen genügende Einführung in die philosophische Ethik. Es erläutert den Begriff der Ethik, ihre zentralen Probleme, ihre geschichtliche ...
Computer Aided Verification
(2019)
The open access two-volume set LNCS 11561 and 11562 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2019, held in New York City, USA, in July 2019. The 52 full ...
Sustainability Standards and Global Governance
(2020)
This open access book focuses on the issue of sustainability standards from the perspective of both global governance frameworks and emerging economies. It stems from the recognition that the accelerated pace of economic ...
Principles and Practice of Emergency Research Response
(2024)
Unlocking the Future of Infectious Disease Research Response In a world where emerging infectious diseases constantly threaten humanity, advances in science and technology promise defense against future pathogens before ...
The Teleological and Kalam Cosmological Arguments Revisited
(2022)
A prominent issue in many contemporary philosophy of religion debates concerns whether the universe has a Designer. This book moves the discussion ahead in a significant way by devising an original deductive formulation ...
An Introduction to the Mechanics of Incompressible Fluids
(2022)
This open access book allows the reader to grasp the main bulk of fluid flow problems at a brisk pace. Starting with the basic concepts of conservation laws developed using continuum mechanics, the incompressibility of a ...
Sensor Technologies
(2013)
Computer science
Mercury Pollution in Minamata
(2018)
Methylmercury poisoning; Minamata disease; Methylmercury emission; Methylmercury intoxication; Pollution-related disease; Neurological syndrome; Chemical factory pollution; Chisso Corporation
Data Privacy and Trust in Cloud Computing
(2021)
This open access book brings together perspectives from multiple disciplines including psychology, law, IS, and computer science on data privacy and trust in the cloud. Cloud technology has fueled rapid, dramatic technological ...
Freiwilliges Engagement in Deutschland: Der Deutsche Freiwilligensurvey 2014
(2017)
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging
Multivariate Statistical Analysis in the Real and Complex Domains
(2022)
This book explores topics in multivariate statistical analysis, relevant in the real and complex domains. It utilizes simplified and unified notations to render the complex subject matter both accessible and enjoyable, ...
Forensic Genetics in the Governance of Crime
(2020)
This open access book uses a critical sociological perspective to explore contemporary ways of reformulating the governance of crime through genetics. Through the lens of scientific knowledge and genetic technology, Machado ...
Marine Pollution – Monitoring, Management and Mitigation
(2023)
The study of marine environments inevitably involves considering the problem of marine pollution, which includes questions that focus on the essential need to ensure the long-term health of these exceptional ecosystems and ...
Contemporary Turkey at a Glance
(2014)
Turkish Studies; Turkish Politics, Society and Culture; Turkish Citizenship; Turkish Minorities; Muslim Identity; Turkish Diaspora
Evidence and Expertise in Nordic Education Policy
(2022)
This open access book explores how policy makers draw on national, regional and international expertise in issuing school reform within five Nordic countries. In an era of international comparison, policy makers are expected ...
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 ...
Systems Biology
(2023)
This open-access textbook is an excellent introduction to systems biology, which has developed rapidly in recent years. It discusses the processes in living organisms in an integrated way, enabling the reader to understand ...
Reviving Classical Liberalism Against Populism
(2024)
This open access book by Nils Karlson explores the strategies used by left- and right-wing populists to make populism intelligible, recognizable, and contestable. It presents a synthesized explanatory model for how populists ...
The Future of Consumption
(2024)
This open access book presents three future consumption trends—technology, sustainability, and wellbeing—and discusses what impact those trends will have on the ways we shop. What will be important to the consumers of the ...
Design for Electromagnetic Compatibility--In a Nutshell
(2023)
This open access book provides practicing electrical engineers and students a practical – and mathematically sound – introduction to the topic of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC). The author enables readers to understand ...
Surgery in and around the Orbit
(2023)
This OpenAccess - textbook sheds new light on pathology in and around the orbit, which is typically an area where many medical disciplines overlap. Each physician brings a specific expertise, but the goal should be that ...
The Archaeology of Europe’s Drowned Landscapes
(2020)
This open access volume provides for the first time a comprehensive description and scientific evaluation of underwater archaeological finds referring to human occupation of the continental shelf around the coastlines of ...
Shaping the Future of Biological Education Research
(2024)
This open access volume is a collection of full papers based on the peer-reviewed presentations accepted for the European Researchers in Didactics of Biology, ERIDOB 2022 conference. ERIDOB aims to bring together researchers ...
Threats to Our Ocean Heritage: Bottom Trawling
(2024)
This open access book focuses on the destruction of our Ocean Heritage from bottom trawling. It brings together the natural and cultural sides of the marine environment to further our understanding of the importance of ...
Technik – Kultur – Bildung
(2023)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch geht der Autor der Frage nach, warum Technik als wesentlicher Bestandteil der Kultur in der Bildung nur eine untergeordnete Bedeutung hat und begründet mit Hilfe technikphilosophischer Analysen ...
Diversity and Evolution of Butterfly Wing Patterns: An Integrative Approach
(2017)
nymphalid; ecology; evolution; genetics; mimicry