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Vaccines, Medicines and COVID-19
(2022)
This open access book is a collection of research papers on COVID-19 by Germán Velásquez from 2020 and early 2021 that help to answer the question: How can an agency like the World Health Organization (WHO) be given a ...
Perspectives on Digital Humanism
(2022)
This open access book aims to set an agenda for research and action in the field of Digital Humanism through short essays written by selected thinkers from a variety of disciplines, including computer science, philosophy, ...
Education in China and the World
(2024)
This open access book provides a comprehensive overview of education in China, covering 12 critical topics including basic education, higher education, professional education, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and ...
Digitale Medien in Lehr-Lern-Konzepten der Lehrpersonenbildung in interdisziplinärer Perspektive
(2025)
Der open access Sammelband zeigt auf, wie digitalisierungsbezogene Kompetenzen von Studierenden und Dozierenden der Lehrpersonenbildung auf Basis interdisziplinären Zusammenwirkens von Bildungswissenschaften und Fachdidaktiken ...
Measuring Emission of Agricultural Greenhouse Gases and Developing Mitigation Options using Nuclear and Related Techniques
(2021)
This open access book is an outcome of the collaboration between the Soil and Water Management & Crop Nutrition Section, Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Department of Nuclear Sciences ...
Analyse von Transferprozessen in der Entwicklung des Bruchzahlbegriffs
(2021)
Sebastian Kollhoff rekonstruiert und analysiert in diesem Open-Access-Buch in einer Feldstudie mit Fünftklässlerinnen und Fünftklässlern Transferprozesse in der Entwicklung von Grundvorstellungen zu Brüchen. Anhand von ...
Marine Exploration and Exploitation of Hydrocarbons
(2025)
The book analyzes the environmental regulation of upstream marine exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbons, at the international, regional MERCOSUR and Argentine national level. It uses the concept of normative integration ...
The Impact of Covid-19 on the Institutional Fabric of Higher Education
(2023)
This open access book assesses how the Covid-19 pandemic caught higher education systems throughout the world by surprise. It maps out the responses of higher education institutions to the challenges and strategic opportunities ...
Landscapes of Lifelong Learning Policies across Europe
(2022)
This open access book explores different landscapes of Lifelong Learning policies (LLP), producing case-based examinations of their institutional, discursive, and relational dimensions. Across Europe, young people develop ...
Women’s Private Practices of Knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe
(2024)
This open access book explores knowledge practices by five women from different European contexts. Contributors document, analyze, and discuss how women employed practices of privacy to pursue knowledge that did not ...
Die emotionale Erfahrung des Asyls
(2021)
In dieser Open-Access-Publikation gibt Klaus Behnam Shad einen vertieften Einblick in die (Selbst-)Unterwerfung Geflüchteter und fokussiert ihre affektive Identitätsneukonstruktionen, d. h. die individuelle Auseinandersetzung ...
Hybride Medialität
(2025)
In diesem Open Access Buch wird in einer Zeit, in der digitale Medien zunehmend an Bedeutung gewinnen, die dynamische Interaktion innerhalb digitaler Praxisgemeinschaften am Beispiel von Let’s Play-Videos auf YouTube ...
Migration, Agriculture and Rural Development
(2020)
This open access short reader looks into the dynamics which have reshaped rural development and human landscapes in European agriculture and the role of immigrant people. Within this framework it analyses contemporary rural ...
Continental Philosophy of Technoscience
(2022)
The key objective of this volume is to allow philosophy students and early-stage researchers to become practicing philosophers in technoscientific settings. Zwart focuses on the methodological issue of how to practice ...
Handbook of Pathogens and Diseases in Cephalopods
(2019)
The aim of this open access book is to facilitate the identification and description of the different organs as well as pathogens and diseases affecting the most representative species of cephalopods focussed on Sepia ...
Emerging Threats of Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology
(2021)
Synthetic biology is a field of biotechnology that is rapidly growing in various applications, such as in medicine, environmental sustainability, and energy production. However these technologies also have unforeseen risks ...
The Entrepreneurial Society
(2020)
This open access book is an outcome of the EU’s Horizon 2020 project ‘Financial and Institutional Reforms for an Entrepreneurial Society’ (FIRES). Building on historical, economic and legal analysis, and combining methods ...
A Guide to Responsible Research
(2023)
This Open Access book is a guide to good, responsible research at each step of the process of research discovery, so that a researcher at the beginning of a scientific career has a clear pathway to doing good research and ...
Risk Communication for the Future
(2018)
The conventional approach to risk communication, based on a centralized and controlled model, has led to blatant failures in the management of recent safety related events. In parallel, several cases have proved that actors ...
Nordic e-Infrastructure Tomorrow
(2025)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration Conference, NeIC 2024, which took place in Tallinn, Estonia, in May 2024. The 14 papers included in this book were carefully ...
Theoretical and Practical Advances in Computer-based Educational Measurement
(2019)
This open access book presents a large number of innovations in the world of operational testing. It brings together different but related areas and provides insight in their possibilities, their advantages and drawbacks. ...
Wildland Fire Smoke in the United States
(2022)
This open access book synthesizes current information on wildland fire smoke in the United States, providing a scientific foundation for addressing the production of smoke from wildland fires. This will be increasingly ...
Bioeconomy and Global Inequalities
(2021)
This open access book focuses on the meanings, agendas, as well as the local and global implications of bioeconomy and bioenergy policies in and across South America, Asia and Europe. It explores how a transition away from ...
Collection Care
(2025)
This open access book compiles the contributions of the conference Collection Care: New Challenges in Environmental Monitoring, Risk Assessment and Risk Management. The conference held within the framework of the EU’s ...
Richter über internationale Gerichte?
(2020)
Das Open-Access-Buch untersucht am Beispiel des Europäischen Gerichtshofs für Menschenrechte (EGMR) und des Interamerikanischen Menschenrechtsgerichtshofs (IAGMR), welche Rolle innerstaatliche Gerichte bei der Umsetzung ...
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. ...
Implementing Industry 4.0 in SMEs
(2021)
This open access book addresses the practical challenges that Industry 4.0 presents for SMEs. While large companies are already responding to the changes resulting from the fourth industrial revolution , small businesses ...
Mediation in der Wissenschaft
(2026)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch begründet den besonderen Wert der Mediation in der Wissenschaft. Zunächst hilft Mediation einer guten Kommunikations- und Fehlerkultur. Die Methoden der Mediation unterstützen aber auch Perspektivwechsel ...
Future Skills
(2020)
Dieses Open Access-Buch analysiert veränderte Grundkoordinaten der Hochschulbildung weltweit und stellt die Frage, wie Hochschulbildung sich entwickeln muss, um in einer Welt globaler Herausforderungen, sich immer schneller ...
Innovation, Sustainability and Management in Motorsports
(2021)
“There’s probably no better sport than Formula E to present and study the science and practice of innovation within (motor)sport, and this book is a must read for those active within this fascinating area”. - Dr. Kristof ...
An Evolutionary Story of Agency
(2026)
This open access book exposes the role of "agency" in the history of life. Agency is understood as the capacity of an organism to act, make decisions, and exercise control over its actions in order to achieve goals or to ...
Energy Justice Across Borders
(2020)
Philosophy; Engineering ethics; Energy policy; Energy and state; Economic geography; Renewable energy resources; Sustainable development; Energy systems
Life Cycle Analysis Based on Nanoparticles Applied to the Construction Industry
(2025)
This open access book describes in the recent years, there has been a notable upsurge in the use of nanomaterials, particularly within the construction and building sectors. The incorporation of nanoparticles introduces ...
Themenkarrieren in der Wissenschaft
(2022)
Diese Open-Access-Publikation ist ein Plädoyer, das Verständnis von Themenkarrieren als integralen Bestandteil der Wissenschaft zu vertiefen und für die Reflexion wissenschaftlicher und planerischer Praxis zu nutzen. Welchen ...
Biodiversity of the Gulf of Guinea Oceanic Islands
(2022)
This open access book presents a comprehensive synthesis of the biodiversity of the oceanic islands of the Gulf of Guinea, a biodiversity hotspot off the west coast of Central Africa. Written by experts, the book compiles ...
Post-Digital, Post-Internet Art and Education
(2021)
This open access edited volume provides theoretical, practical, and historical perspectives on art and education in a post-digital, post-internet era. Recently, these terms have been attached to artworks, artists, exhibitions, ...
The Human Right to Democracy in Multilevel Systems at a Time of Democratic Backsliding: Global, Regional and European Union Perspectives
(2026)
This open access book takes stock of the current situation of the human right to democracy in multilevel systems of government - at a time of renewed struggles with antidemocratic forces (democratic backsliding). It tries ...
The Case Against Climate Doom
(2025)
By highlighting the social, political and technological progress already made, this open access book presents an optimistic outlook for a transition to a climate-neutral world and successful adaptation to climate change. ...
14th International Congress for Applied Mineralogy (ICAM2019)
(2019)
This open access proceedings of the 14th International Council for Applied Mineralogy Congress (ICAM) in Belgorod, Russia cover a wide range of topics including applied mineralogy, advanced and construction materials, ore ...
Explainable Artificial Intelligence
(2026)
This open access five-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second World Conference on Explainable Artificial Intelligence, xAI 2025, held in Istanbul, Turkey, during July 2025. The 96 revised full papers ...
A City Cannot Be a Work of Art
(2024)
This open access book connects Jane Jacobs's celebrated urban analysis to her ideas on economics and social theory. While Jacobs is a legend in the field of urbanism and famous for challenging and profoundly influencing ...
Computational Cognitive Modeling and Linguistic Theory
(2020)
This open access book introduces a general framework that allows natural language researchers to enhance existing competence theories with fully specified performance and processing components. Gradually developing ...
Solving Ordinary Differential Equations in Python
(2024)
This open access volume explains the foundations of modern solvers for ordinary differential equations (ODEs). Formulating and solving ODEs is an essential part of mathematical modeling and computational science, and ...
Inclusion, Education and Translanguaging
(2020)
This open access book is designed as an international anthology on the broader subject of inclusion, education, social justice and translanguaging. Prefaced by Ofelia García, the volume unites conceptional and empirical ...
Road to Net Zero
(2023)
With this open access book, delve into the insights of respected leaders from academia and industry as they unravel the intricacies of sustainability-driven business transformation. This meticulously curated edited volume ...
Computer Aided Verification
(2023)
The open access proceedings set LNCS 13964, 13965, 13966 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2023, which was held in Paris, France, in July 2023. ...
Agroforestry as Climate Change Adaptation
(2024)
This open access book provides multidisciplinary perspectives on the potential of agroforestry to mitigate the negative impacts of climate change on cocoa production. Against the backdrop of increasingly precarious farmer ...
Investor-State Dispute Settlement and National Courts
(2020)
This open access book examines the multiple intersections between national and international courts in the field of investment protection, and suggests possible modes for regulating future jurisdictional interactions between ...
Software Business
(2024)
This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Business, ICSOB 2023, which was held in Lahti, Finland, during November 27–29, 2023. The special theme of ICSOB ...
Doing Indefinite Time
(2023)
This open access book provides insights into the everyday lives of long-term prisoners in Switzerland who are labelled as ‘dangerous’ and are preventatively held in indefinite, probably lifelong, incarceration. It explores ...
Global Pathways to Education
(2022)
In this open access volume, the editors identify the trajectories and patterns displayed by education systems and investigate the causes of change from a global and historical perspective. The contributors argue that the ...
The Impact of Individual Expertise and Public Information on Group Decision-Making
(2021)
In this open-access-book the author concludes that expertise could be the key factor for global and interconnected problems. Experimental results have shown that expertise was a stronger predictor than public information ...
Migration, Urbanity and Cosmopolitanism in a Globalized World
(2021)
This open access book draws a theoretically productive triangle between urban studies, theories of cosmopolitanism, and migration studies in a global context. It provides a unique, encompassing and situated view on the ...
Sociology in Mexico
(2024)
This open access book presents a condensed history of Sociology in Mexico from its origins, through to the middle of the 19th century and up to the present day. The book analyses the interaction between sociology and the ...
Knowledge and Civil Society
(2022)
This open access book focuses on the role of civil society in the creation, dissemination, and interpretation of knowledge in geographical contexts. It offers original, interdisciplinary and counterintuitive perspectives ...
Transforming Urban Food Systems in Secondary Cities in Africa
(2023)
Countries across Africa are rapidly transitioning from rural to urban societies. The UN projects that 60% of people living in Africa will be in urban areas by 2050, with the urban population on the continent tripling over ...
Vessel Health and Preservation: The Right Approach for Vascular Access
(2019)
This Open access book offers updated and revised information on vessel health and preservation (VHP), a model concept first published in poster form in 2008 and in JVA in 2012, which has received a great deal of attention, ...
Rechtliche Implikationen Profiling-basierter Preispersonalisierung
(2023)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch untersucht, inwieweit Anbieter im Online-Vertrieb das technische Erkenntnisverfahren Profiling zum Zwecke der Preispersonalisierung einsetzen und welche rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen dabei gelten. ...
Japan’s Humanitarian Aid Toward Myanmar After the 2021 Coup
(2025)
This open access book delves into Japan's humanitarian aid efforts in Myanmar following the military coup of February 2021. As Myanmar faces political upheaval and growing humanitarian challenges, Japan's response has been ...
Disrupting Buildings
(2023)
The world’s extant building stock accounts for a significant portion of worldwide energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. In 2020, buildings and construction accounted for 36% of global final energy consumption ...
Bridging the Gap Between AI and Reality
(2026)
This open access book constitutes revised selected papers from the Second International Conference on Bridging the Gap between AI and Reality, AISoLA 2024, which took place in Crete, Greece, in October/November 2024. The ...
Wadi Flash Floods
(2022)
This open access book brings together research studies, developments, and application-related flash flood topics on wadi systems in arid regions. The major merit of this comprehensive book is its focus on research and ...
Geographies of the University
(2018)
This open access volume raises awareness of the histories, geographies, and practices of universities and analyzes their role as key actors in today’s global knowledge economy. Universities are centers of research, teaching, ...
Handbook of Diversity Competence
(2025)
This open access handbook provides the most current overview of the discussion on diversity competence, with a focus on Europe. Diversity competence has become a key area of interdisciplinary study because of the increasingly ...
Crisis Reporters, Emotions, and Technology
(2019)
This open access book explores the emotional labour of crisis reporters in an original style that combines fictional and factual narrative. Exploring how journalists make sense of their emotional experience and development ...
Die Theorien in der Kulturproduktion
(2024)
Kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliches Wissen hat über die letzten 50 Jahre eine beständige Verbreitung erfahren und wurde zu einem festen Bestandteil gegenwärtiger Gesellschaften. Dies bezieht sich allerdings nicht nur auf ...
Core Values and Decision-Making for Sustainable Business
(2024)
This open access volume discusses the core values and decision-making for sustainable business in general, and includes research findings and country cases on addressing challenges. It emphasizes the importance of adapting ...
Worldwide Perspectives on Geographical Indications
(2025)
Geographical Indications (GI) are distinctive signs that associate products of quality and reputation with their place or area of production and thereby help identify and distinguish such products on the market. In July ...
Die Finanzierung von Desinformation
(2025)
Desinformation und Verschwörungstheorien haben in den letzten Jahren deutlich Aufschwung erhalten, da ihre Verbreitung in den sozialen Medien und anderen Online Plattformen sehr schnell und effektiv sein kann. In zurückliegenden ...
Transformation Thermotics and Extended Theories
(2023)
This open access book describes the theory of transformation thermotics and its extended theories for the active control of macroscopic thermal phenomena of artificial systems, which is in sharp contrast to classical ...
Multivariate Statistical Machine Learning Methods for Genomic Prediction
(2022)
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license This open access book brings together the latest genome base prediction models currently being used by statisticians, breeders and data scientists. It provides an accessible ...
Beyond 100: The Next Century in Geodesy
(2023)
This open access book contains 30 peer-reviewed papers based on presentations at the 27th General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG). The meeting was held from July 8 to 18, 2019 in Montreal, ...
The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies
(2020)
This open access handbook, the first of its kind, provides a comprehensive and carefully curated multidisciplinary and genre-spanning view of the state of the field of Critical Menstruation Studies, opening up new directions ...
Statistical Population Genomics
(2020)
This open access volume presents state-of-the-art inference methods in population genomics, focusing on data analysis based on rigorous statistical techniques. After introducing general concepts related to the biology of ...
The Contemporary Construction of the Chinese Form of Marxist Literary Criticism
(2023)
This open access book is the first comprehensive and systematic study of Chinese Marxist literary criticism as an independent theoretical form. It discusses and describes the theoretical features of the Chinese form of ...
Value Sets for EQ-5D-5L
(2022)
This open access book provides an essential guide to value sets for anyone working with EQ-5D-5L data. The EQ-5D-5L is one of the most widely used health related quality of life questionnaires around the world, with ...
Single-Event Effects, from Space to Accelerator Environments
(2025)
This book describes the fundamental concepts underlying radiation-induced failure mechanisms in electronic components operating in harsh environments, such as in space missions or in particle accelerators. In addition to ...
Ireland's Long Economic Boom
(2024)
This Open Access book examines the long economic boom experienced in Ireland between the late 1980s and 2007, analysing why this boom occurred. The book situates Ireland as a relative latecomer to economic development, ...
International Reflections on the Netherlands Didactics of Mathematics
(2020)
This open access book, inspired by the ICME 13 Thematic Afternoon on “European Didactic Traditions”, takes readers on a journey with mathematics education researchers, developers and educators in eighteen countries, who ...
Nature-Based Flood Risk Management on Private Land
(2019)
This open access book addresses the various disciplinary aspects of nature-based solutions in flood risk management on private land. In recent decades, water management has been moving towards nature-based solutions. These ...