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Decidim, a Technopolitical Network for Participatory Democracy
(2024)
This Open Access book explains the philosophy, design principles, and community organization of Decidim and provides essential insights into how the platform works. Decidim is the world leading digital infrastructure for ...
Hardy Inequalities on Homogeneous Groups
(2019)
This open access book provides an extensive treatment of Hardy inequalities and closely related topics from the point of view of Folland and Stein's homogeneous (Lie) groups. The place where Hardy inequalities and homogeneous ...
Global Internet of Things and Edge Computing Summit
(2025)
This Open Access book constitutes the proceedings from the First Global Internet of Things and Edge Computing Summit, GIECS 2024, held in September 24–25, 2024, in Brussels, Belgium. The 12 full papers presented here were ...
Artificial Intelligence for a Better Future
(2021)
This open access book proposes a novel approach to Artificial Intelligence (AI) ethics. AI offers many advantages: better and faster medical diagnoses, improved business processes and efficiency, and the automation of ...
Achieving Zero Hunger in India
(2024)
This open access volume discloses rich set of findings and policy recommendations for India towards achieving the SDG 2.1 target of zero hunger by 2030. Through its fourteen chapters, it takes an integrated approach by ...
Atlas of Global Change Risk of Population and Economic Systems
(2022)
This book is open access and illustrates the spatial distribution of the global change risk of population and economic systems with the maps of environment, global climate change, global population and economic systems, ...
Mein Tod. Fiktionales und faktuales Erzählen des eigenen Todes
(2025)
Dies ist ein Buch im Open Access. - Der eigene Tod ist nicht zu bewältigen. Die Textsorte ‚Erzählung‘ ermöglicht aufgrund ihrer Eigenschaften jedoch die Bewältigung von Erfahrungen, die dem Tod ähneln sollen. Fiktionalem ...
Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
(2019)
This book is Open Access under a CC BY licence. The LNCS 11427 and 11428 proceedings set constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, ...
Adapting to Climate Change in Modern Policing
(2025)
This open access brief explores the profoundly accelerating impact of climate change on law enforcement globally. Drawing on the concept of climatisation, it examines how, on one hand, rising temperatures, extreme weather ...
The Aspect-Sensitive Agent Omission in Mandarin
(2025)
This open access book aims to provide an explanatory account for the phenomenon of absent external arguments in Mandarin Chinese. It starts from the observation that although expletivizing an agent is considered impossible ...
Systematic Reviews in Educational Research
(2020)
In this open access edited volume, international researchers of the field describe and discuss the systematic review method in its application to research in education. Alongside fundamental methodical considerations, ...
Economic Evaluation of Sustainable Development
(2019)
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book presents methods to evaluate sustainable development using economic tools. The focus on sustainable development takes the reader beyond economic growth to ...
Die Lehrperson als Golem oder Galatea
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch geht es um Kompetenzerwartungen von Lernenden an Lehrpersonen und deren Bedeutung für die Lehr-Lern-Interaktion. Die Lehr-Lern-Interaktion ist ein aufeinander bezogenes Handeln von mindestens ...
Anatomie des Amoklaufs
(2021)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch widerlegt Madlen Sell die weit verbreitete Annahme, dass es sich bei School Shootings um Amokläufe handelt. Vielmehr ähneln School Shootings hinsichtlich der langen und zum Teil minutiösen ...
S-BPM in the Wild
(2015)
This is the first book to present field studies on the application of subject-oriented business process management (S-BPM). Each case presents a specific story and focuses on an essential modeling or implementation issue, ...
Land Policies in Europe
(2025)
Land is a scarce resource. How can conflicting claims to land be reconciled? How can more housing be provided and, at the same time, the ecological goal of reducing land take be met? In many European countries, land-use ...
Process Mining Workshops
(2022)
This open access book constitutes revised selected papers from the International Workshops held at the Third International Conference on Process Mining, ICPM 2021, which took place in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, during ...
Transformative-Emancipatory Pedagogy (TEP) to Reimagine Education
(2025)
This book advocates for a paradigm shift in education through Transformative-Emancipatory Pedagogy (TEP)—a dynamic framework grounded in humanistic, humanizing, and decolonial philosophies. TEP promotes holistic, inclusive, ...
Contemporary Nordic Literature and Spatiality
(2020)
This open access collection offers a detailed mapping of recent Nordic literature and its different genres (fiction, poetry, and children’s literature) through the perspective of spatiality. Concentrating on contemporary ...
The Forum of Federations Handbook of Fiscal Federalism
(2023)
This open access handbook compares fiscal federalism arrangements in eleven federal/ decentralized countries. Each chapter examines an individual country, laying out its constitutional design as relates to fiscal powers ...
Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
(2019)
This book is Open Access under a CC BY licence. This book, LNCS 11429, is part III of the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2019, ...
Computational Physiology
(2022)
This open access volume compiles student reports from the 2021 Simula Summer School in Computational Physiology. Interested readers will find herein a number of modern approaches to modeling excitable tissue. This should ...
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 ...
Urban Inequality and Segregation in Europe and China
(2021)
This open access book explores new research directions in social inequality and urban segregation. With the goal of fostering an ongoing dialogue between scholars in Europe and China, it brings together an impressive team ...
Transforming Food Systems for a Rising India
(2019)
This open access book examines the interactions between India’s economic development, agricultural production, and nutrition through the lens of a “Food Systems Approach (FSA).” The Indian growth story is a paradoxical ...
Organization in Biology
(2024)
This open access book assesses the prospects of (re)adopting organization as a pivotal concept in biology. It shows how organization can nourish biological thinking and practice, by reconnecting with the idea of biology ...
Sozialpädagogische Subjekt- und Adressierungspraktiken
(2025)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch entwickelt Julian Sehmer einen Ansatz, mit dem sich die (Re)Produktion von sozialen Normen und ethisch-normativen Ordnungen und deren Bedeutung in sozialpädagogischen Praxen rekonstruieren lassen. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Safe Performance in a World of Global Networks
(2024)
This open access book provides an analytical and critical outlook, by leading scholars, of the impact of various trends in the quality of collaboration and resulting safety outcomes that arise from the evolution of traditional ...
Business Ethics and Critical Consultant Jokes
(2023)
This open access book offers four ways to enrich traditional research methods in business ethics. By looking at critical jokes and cartoons on management consultants, their business practice and their clients’ demands, ...
The Future of Transport Between Digitalization and Decarbonization
(2020)
Energy systems are rapidly transitioning towards decarbonization, thanks in part to innovative digital technologies and changing mobility demands. This open access book examines the decarbonization and digitalization ...
Sustainability Objectives in Competition and Intellectual Property Law
(2024)
This open access volume of LIDC contributions focuses on how competition and intellectual property laws incorporate sustainability objectives. Businesses are increasingly embracing sustainability objectives, driven by the ...
Tensor Network Contractions
(2020)
Tensor network is a fundamental mathematical tool with a huge range of applications in physics, such as condensed matter physics, statistic physics, high energy physics, and quantum information sciences. This open access ...
The Inclusive Circular Economy
(2026)
This open access book is a multi-disciplinary effort to address the complex socio-economic issues and the substantial environmental pressure that the expected large-scale migration will exert on cities in the near future. ...
Taxation, International Cooperation and the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda
(2021)
This open access volume addresses the link between international taxation, the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and the medium-term revenue strategy concept. It also analyses how countries and governments can reinforce ...
Hipsterism
(2023)
This Open-Access-book utilises Hipsterism to demonstrate modes of identity, collectivity, conceptions and a whole spectrum of activities with varying degrees of commitment in contemporary society. Analysed through the lens ...
System Lightweight Design for Aviation
(2024)
This open access book presents technologies and methods of lightweight system design to support future low-emission aviation in achieving climate targets. It will be shown how reduction of weight and aerodynamic drag affects ...
Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers’ Integration in European Labour Markets
(2021)
This open access book discusses how, and to what extent, the legal and institutional regimes and the socio-cultural environments of a range of European countries (the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Italy, ...
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 Palgrave Handbook of International Energy Economics
(2022)
This open access handbook is distinguished by its emphasis on international energy, rather than domestic energy policies or international geopolitic aspects. Addressing key topics such as energy production and distribution, ...
Enabling and Safeguarding Personalized Medicine
(2025)
This open-access volume provides a comprehensive guide to the most pressing challenges arising from the technologies that enable personalized medicine. It brings together theoretical, empirical, and case study-based ...
Co-Creativity and Engaged Scholarship
(2022)
This open access book explores creative and collaborative forms of research praxis within the social sustainability sciences. The term co-creativity is used in reference to both individual methods and overarching research ...
Urban Planning Against Poverty
(2020)
This open access book revisits the theoretical foundations of urban planning and the application of these concepts and methods in the context of Southern countries by examining several case studies from different regions ...
Transforming Education Outcomes in Africa
(2019)
Good education changes lives. It is therefore unsurprising that improved schooling plays a central part in most development strategies. At the same time, the expansion of school attainment alone is not sufficient to guarantee ...
Pentecostalism and Witchcraft
(2017)
charismatic Christianity; Holy Spirit; demonology; evangelism; indigenous Pentecostal movements; ethnography
Brunei Darussalam’s Economic Transition in a Shifting Global Asia
(2025)
This is an Open Access book. The international political economy is confronted by a number of overlapping crises. These include the climate emergency, rapid technological advancement, the high volume of globalised trade ...
Evaluation der Besonderen Versorgung nach § 140a SGB V
(2023)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch werden die politischen Ziele der Ambulantisierung und der sektorengleichen Vergütung den aktuellen Herausforderungen in der Chirurgie gegenübergestellt. Die unzureichend an die steigenden Kosten ...
Literatur und mediale Öffentlichkeiten
(2025)
Das vorliegende Open-Access-Buch geht der Frage nach, welchen Ort und welche Rolle zeitgenössische Literaturen in mediatisierten, kommerziell umkämpften und transnational vernetzten Öffentlichkeiten einnehmen. Die Fallstudien ...
World Protests
(2022)
This is an open access book. The start of the 21st century has seen the world shaken by protests, from the Arab Spring to the Yellow Vests, from the Occupy movement to the social uprisings in Latin America. There are periods ...
Engineering Research Infrastructures for European Synergies
(2025)
This open access book highlights the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of earthquake engineering, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the International Workshop in ...
Green Economy in the Transport Sector
(2022)
This open access book is interdisciplinary and provides cross-sectoral and multi-dimensional exploration of sustainable development and transportation in South Africa. Drawing on work from different disciplines, the book ...
Zusammenwirken von natürlicher und künstlicher Intelligenz
(2021)
Dieses Open Access Buch erläutert, wie das Zusammenwirken von Menschen, Tieren und Pflanzen einerseits und Maschinen andererseits mit der zunehmenden Digitalisierung und durch das Zusammenwirken von natürlicher und künstlicher ...
The Belt and Road Initiative Green Development Case Studies Report 2020
(2022)
This is an Open Access book. In accordance with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, it showcases 17 projects under the framework of Belt & Road Initiative (BRI). These projects cover ninefields, namely, biodiversity ...
Gender Equality, Climate Action, and Technological Innovation for Sustainable Development in Africa
(2024)
This open access book explores the intersection of gender and climate change, suggests ways in which innovative technologies can accelerate climate relief actions, and offers strategies for integrating climate change ...
The Legacy of Felix Klein
(2019)
This open access book provides an overview of Felix Klein’s ideas, highlighting developments in university teaching and school mathematics related to Klein’s thoughts, stemming from the last century. It discusses the ...
Reimagining Science Education in the Anthropocene, Volume 2
(2024)
This volume, a follow up to Reimagining Science Education in the Anthropocene (2021), continues a transdisciplinary conversation around reconceptualizing science education in the era of the Anthropocene. Drawing educators ...
Measurement and Control of Charged Particle Beams
(2003)
From the reviews: "This book is a very welcome and valuable addition to the accelerator literature. As noted by the authors, there is relatively little material in the book specifically for low-energy machines, but industrial ...
The Art of Sustainable Performance
(2020)
This open access book revisits common notions on how to select and recruit the right employees. It reveals that the secret of successful individuals and teams lies in a combination of talent and four important performance ...
Web and Internet Economics
(2017)
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Web and Internet Economics, WINE 2017,
held in Bangalore, India, in December 2017.
The 28 full and 6 short papers presented ...
Semantic Systems. The Power of AI and Knowledge Graphs
(2019)
This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Semantic Systems, SEMANTiCS 2019, held in Karlsruhe, Germany, in September 2019. The 20 full papers and 8 short papers ...
Sustainability, Human Well-Being, and the Future of Education
(2019)
This open access book explores the key dimensions of a future education system designed to enable individuals, schools, and communities to achieve the twin twenty-first century challenges of sustainability and human ...
Female Employment and Gender Gaps in China
(2021)
This open access book investigates female employment and the gender gap in the labor market and households during China’s economic transition period. It provides the reader with academic evidence for understanding the ...
Colloids and the Depletion Interaction
(2024)
This open access book provides a detailed exploration of the phase behaviour of, and interfacial properties in, complex colloidal mixtures (e.g., clay, milk, blood). Insights into colloids have been at the heart of many ...
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 ...
Cyber Security
(2020)
This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Annual Conference on Cyber Security, CNCERT 2020, held in Beijing, China, in August 2020. The 17 papers presented were carefully reviewed ...
Crisis Response in Higher Education
(2022)
This open access book explores the impact of Covid-19 on universities, and how students, staff, faculty and academic leaders have adapted to and dealt with the impact of the pandemic. Drawing on experiences from Britain, ...
Modern Mathematics Education for Engineering Curricula in Europe
(2018)
This open access book provides a comprehensive overview of the core subjects comprising mathematical curricula for engineering studies in five European countries and identifies differences between two strong traditions of ...
Taxation in the Digital Era
(2026)
This open access edited volume discusses the impact of digitalization on taxation, using the Swedish welfare state model as a lens through which to examine the disruptive effect of new technologies on traditional tax models. ...
Nuclear Risks and Arms Control - Problems and Progresses in the Time of Pandemics and War
(2023)
This open access book is based on the conference organised by Accademia dei Lincei and the US National Academy of Sciences and supported by the Italian Ministero degli Affari Esteri. It was attended by about 60 scientists ...
Rethinking Sustainability Towards a Regenerative Economy
(2021)
This open access book is based on work from the COST Action “RESTORE - REthinking Sustainability TOwards a Regenerative Economy'', and highlights how sustainability in buildings, facilities and urban governance is crucial ...
The Exhibitor as Producer
(2025)
This open access book seeks answers to a series of questions about the little studied subject of prologues or theatrical presentations in American movie theaters from the late 1910s to the mid-1920s. How did prologues ...
Mastering Uncertainty in Mechanical Engineering
(2021)
This open access book reports on innovative methods, technologies and strategies for mastering uncertainty in technical systems. Despite the fact that current research on uncertainty is mainly focusing on uncertainty ...
Data and Text Processing for Health and Life Sciences
(2019)
This open access book is a step-by-step introduction on how shell scripting can help solve many of the data processing tasks that Health and Life specialists face everyday with minimal software dependencies. The examples ...
From Assessing to Conserving Biodiversity
(2019)
This open access book features essays written by philosophers, biologists, ecologists and conservation scientists facing the current biodiversity crisis. Despite increasing communication, accelerating policy and management ...
Wohnen in Gesundheit
(2025)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird die Coronapandemie in besonderen Wohneinrichtungen der Eingliederungshilfe im sozialwissenschaftlichen Blick erfasst. Die Lagebeschreibung spiegelt verschiedene Perspektiven: die Einschätzungen ...
Creating the University of the Future
(2024)
This open accesspublication presents a global panorama of institutional strategies, academic programs, scholarly insights as well as teaching and learning practices taking stock of the Future Skills Turn taking place in ...
Wertschöpfung hybrid gestalten
(2023)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch ist die Digitalisierung von Geschäftsmodellen anhand von Praxisbeispielen beschrieben. Dies umfasst einerseits die Entwicklung digitaler bzw. hybrider Geschäftsmodelle und andererseits die ...
Cyber Security
(2019)
This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Annual Conference on Cyber Security, CNCERT 2018, held in Beijing, China, in August 2018. The 14 full papers presented were carefully ...
Risks, Resilience and Interdependency
(2025)
This open access book is a collection of selected papers from the 3rd Tsinghua Area Studies forum by the Institute for International and Area Studies (IIAS) at Tsinghua University in Beijing, theming at “Developing Countries ...