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    • Erdbeer, Robert Matthias; Hagenmeyer, Veit; Stierstorfer, Klaus (2025)
      This open access book reconfigures Energy Transition as a global discourse from a multidisciplinary perspective. Energy Transition is not only one of the most daring technological endeavours of the present, it is also its ...
    • Husz, Orsi (2025)
      This open access book explores the history of how banks and banking services have become part of everyday life. Taking welfare state Sweden as its setting, the book identifies key cultural challenges and shows how banks ...
    • Mariel, Petr; Campbell, Danny; Sandorf, Erlend Dancke; Meyerhoff, Jürgen; Vega-Bayo, Ainhoa; Blevins, Rebecca (2025)
      This open access book offers advice and practical guidance for conducting discrete choice experiments (DCEs) in environmental valuation. It covers essential aspects of designing, implementing, and analysing choice experiments. ...
    • Al Naimiy, Hamid M. K.; Bettayeb, Maamar; Gharaibeh, Fakir Al; Elmehdi, Hussein M.; Shehadi, Ihsan A. (2025)
      This open-access book presents the proceedings of the first 1st International Conference on Applied Research in Humanities & Social Sciences (ARHSS) held from Oct 31 to Nov 02, 2023, at the University of Sharjah, United ...
    • Jenkins-Smith, Hank C.; Weible, Christopher M. (2025)
      This open access book provides an updated and integrated analysis of the Advocacy Coalition Framework, more than thirty years after its conception. First devised in the 1980s to help explain change within public policy ...
    • Mückenberger, Ulrich; Fechner, Heiner; Dingeldey, Irene (2025)
      This open access book simultaneously addresses both the segmenting and the egalitarian function of individual labour law, in almost all countries of the world, in some chapters following up from its origin to the present. ...
    • Perles-Ivars, Ángel F.; Fuster-López, Laura; Bosco, Emanuela (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 ...
    • Ziai, Aram; Jha, Praveen; Lümmen, Jule (2025)
      This open access book points at some of the problematic aspects of international partnerships that continue to be shaped by colonialism. A “global partnership for sustainable development” is the 17th of the Sustainable ...
    • Tsinghua University, Building Energy Research Center (2025)
      This open access book focuses on China’s building energy consumption and CO2 emissions, to discuss the status quo of China’s building energy in four categories, their characteristics and technologies to improve energy ...
    • Ng, Simon; Scholz, Jason Beaufort; Abbass, Hussein A. (2025)
      This open access book is a multidisciplinary examination of swarm systems including swarm robotics. The book starts with a multidisciplinary consultation performed by the editors with participants from academia, industry ...
    • Kelly, Brendan (2025)
      This Open Access book explores the emergence of mindfulness from Buddhist tradition and its incorporation into contemporary mental health and social care. Mindfulness is a powerful technique, but it needs to be applied ...
    • Krüger, Viggo; Murphy, Kathleen M. (2025)
      This open access book draws on recent developments in children’s rights, particularly concerning the child’s right to participation, provision and protection. Since 1989, the UNCRC has become a catalogue of rights that ...
    • Hesselmans, Marthe; Stellinga, Bart; El-Dardiry, Ramy; François, Danique; Bijleveld, Catrien (2025)
      This open access book shows how governments can motivate companies to make a positive impact on society and why this is necessary in light of today’s pressing social, economic and environmental challenges and transitions. ...
    • Golden, Brighid (2025)
      This open access book shares a two-part conceptual framework for critical global learning which weaves together theory and practice. The author shares the outcomes of her research and experiences developing students’ ...
    • Petty, Sheila (2025)
      This open access book investigates how flows of knowledge that arise from the African continent travel and are transformed through new contexts of presentation and engagement in new locations. Through case studies on ...
    • Creech, Andrea; Enright, Colin (2025)
      This open access book presents evidence-based participant and facilitator perspectives on later-life music learning and participation. The chapters explore the principles and practices that can facilitate and support ...
    • Hattori, Ryuji (2025)
      This open access book examines the life and work of Koki Hirota, who served as Japan's foreign minister and prime minister from 1933 to 1938 - the period that saw the final Japanese diplomatic attempts at achieving a modus ...
    • Roos, Michael; Hunecke, Marcel; Weiss, Matthias; Werbeck, Nicola; Wittowsky, Dirk (2025)
      Genossenschaftliche Organisation von Mobilität ist eine soziale Innovation und ein vielversprechender Ansatz für eine effiziente Mobilität der Zukunft. Genossenschaften spielen in der Nachhaltigkeitstransformation eine ...
    • Erbe, Christine; Thomas, Jeanette A. (2025)
      This open-access book offers a profound exploration of the acoustic world of animals. Organized into nine chapters by taxonomy—invertebrates, insects, amphibians, reptiles, fishes, birds, and mammals (subterranean, ...
    • Böni, Pascal; Kröncke, Tim (2025)
      Investing is simple in theory, yet difficult in practice. Investors give up returns and often unknowingly increase risk by falling for one or more of the investment myths. This open access book explores why countless ...