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    • Inskip, Sarah; Hughes, Jason (2026)
      Throughout human history there are arguably few plants that have had such a significant impact on the lives of people as tobacco. Yet, despite its unparalleled dissemination across human societies, histories of the plant, ...
    • Taylor, Yvette (2026)
      Queer in a Wee Place explores identity, inequality and belonging in animated conversations about how queerness moves through place – and how place, in turn, shapes queer lives. Building on interdisciplinary sexualities ...
    • Yiping, Cai (2026)
      Using empirical data from communities and stakeholders across Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean this open access book provides crucial insights into the profound and multidimensional implications ...
    • Maguire, Muireann (2025)
      Through case studies of émigré literary translators and editors, t his open access book traces how Russian literature kindled the American imagination in the 20th century. In the 19th century, American literature was invaded ...
    • Secomandi, Fernando; Verbeek, Peter-Paul (2026)
      Through a collection of essays, this open access book brings together perspectives on philosophy of technology and design. Taking stock of recent changes in technology – including recently emerging digital tools like AI – ...
    • Tripathi, Siddharth; Richter, Solveig (2025)
      This new open access handbook combines conceptual thinking with empirical illustrations to understand the trajectories of conflict and violence in our world. Peace and Conflict Studies were broadly founded in the Northern ...
    • Thompson, Mark C. (2026)
      All too often, Saudi Vision 2030 is associated outside the Kingdom solely with mega-projects such as ‘Neom’ and ‘The Line’. But how the Vision is being realized through ‘real life’ situations and issues is frequently ...
    • Armonda, Alex J. (2025)
      This open access book sets out from Paulo Freire’s claim that the problem-posing model of education works as a “kind of psychoanalysis,” and deploys a Lacanian perspective to rearticulate the theoretical and practical ...
    • Ruhela, Shanya; Hrynkiv, Olga; Lavrijssen, Saskia (2026)
      This open access book examines adaptive regulatory frameworks to tackle the emerging risks and opportunities of the digital transformation in the critical sectors of energy and finance. With contributions from leading ...
    • Papatsiba, Vassiliki; Marginson, Simon (2025)
      This open access book examines the effects of Brexit on UK higher education, based on the largest academic research project conducted in the UK across 12 universities in all four nations. The Brexit decision in 2016 has ...
    • Griller, Stefan; Huber, Florian; Riekmann, Sonja Puntscher (2026)
      This open access book analyses the fiscal constitutions of developed, democratic Western federations that can offer a model for a future EU fiscal federalism, and draws lessons for the EU. The 2009-08 sovereign debt crisis ...
    • Orrù, Elisa; Poscher, Ralf (2026)
      This open access book offers a clear and concise overview of leading conceptions of data protection and privacy, exploring their social value through philosophical theorisations and European and US-American legal perspectives. ...
    • Citeroni, Nicole (2026)
      This open access book asks whether international economic crime can qualify as an international crime and be prosecuted as such. Taking a four-part approach to the question, it traces the origins of the concept of international ...
    • Sung, Kyungeun; Moalosi, Richie (2026)
      Exploring themes of design and production, products and systems, and making and consumption, this open access volume provides new theories, perspectives, approaches and research findings at the cutting edge of global ...
    • Cheterian, Vicken (2026)
      The Second Nagorno-Karabakh War in 2020 was a major armed conflict between the two modern, regular armies of Armenia and Azerbaijan. This open access book examines the causes, and consequences of the war Second Nagorno-Karabakh ...
    • Street, Sarah; Bergfelder, Tim; Farmer, Richard; Halsall, Eleanor; Harris, Sue; Lefeuvre, Morgan; Keating, Carla Mereu; O'Rawe, Catherine (2026)
      This open access book investigates film studios in Britain, France, Germany and Italy between the 1930s and 1960s. During this time, studios faces unprecedented challenges including wartime disruptions, post-war fragmentation, ...
    • Finger, Valentina (2026)
      Mirrors in the early modern playhouse function as figures of theatricality, reflecting gender dynamics and challenging sovereign power, in this open-access study of their use as stage props and rhetorical devices in plays ...
    • Cebataviciute, Roberta; Kaya-Liesegang, Özge; Hinterwaldner, Inge (2026)
      Honest, diverse, perhaps even surprising – Oral Contemporaries offers insights into the professional fields of alumnae and alumni of art history at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). The different career paths ...
    • Geimer, Marcus; Wissenschaftlicher Verein für Mobile Arbeitsmaschinen, WVMA (2025)
      The book contains the conference proceedings of the 8th symposium MOBILE MACHINES on February 18, 2025 in Karlsruhe. Ten papers report on the state of research and development in the field of mobile machinery. The papers ...
    • Braun, Niklas; Wagner, Oliver; Stängle, Peter; Volk, Rebekka; Gehring, Marco (2026)
      The aim of the NukPlaRStoR project is to develop a planning tool that is specifically tailored to the needs of nuclear decommissioning projects. An optimising planning approach is to be developed using mathematical methods ...