OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2022)This volume is the first of its kind to discuss social welfare issues using case studies from a broad range of Southern European countries, both large and small, a decade after the financial crisis. It identifies similarities ...
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(2026)While technological innovation has long reshaped artistic and cultural practices, the rise of generative AI (Gen AI) represents an unprecedented disruption due to its scale, speed, and capacity to produce outputs that can ...
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(2026)Power, Knowledge, and Covid-19: The Making of a Scientific Orthodoxy shows, step by step, how a dominant scientific line on Covid-19 was built and defended – and what it left out. Through tightly argued case studies, Alex ...
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(2024)This volume provides a concise synthesis of human-animal relations over time, charting shifting attitudes towards animals from domestication to the present day. It asks how non-human species have shaped human history, and ...
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(2025)This book examines how rewilding and species reintroductions play a crucial role in conservation and ecological restoration in Britain. The book examines how humans think about and interact with our environment and nature, ...
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(2026)This book investigates the uneasy coexistence of two current policy pathways within international development: to monetize aid and simultaneously to localize it. It explores these paths through the experiences of the ...
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(2025)Health Anxiety and the Quest for Safety critically examines how psychological and sociocultural processes influence anxiety and safety-seeking behaviour concerning perceived health risks in globalised information societies. ...
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(2021)The Power of Responsive Educational Leadership examines how educational leaders might respond to global challenges such as the environment, technology, inequity, the health crisis, and the stability of democracy. It draws ...
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(2026)This book examines the realities of the functioning of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) along with the actual cooperation with other stakeholders in the EU and in the Member States. The protection of financial ...
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(2026)Nearly a decade into a devastating conflict, Yemen stands at a crossroads, grappling with destruction, socio-economic decline, and political deadlock. This edited volume provides a comprehensive and insightful exploration ...
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(2017)Given the urgency of environmental problems, how we communicate about our ecological relations is crucial. Environmental Communication Pedagogy and Practice is concerned with ways to help learners effectively navigate and ...
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(2024)Towards A New Christian Political Realism presents a new theoretical approach to understanding the role of religion in international relations, considering the strengths of Christian realism, classical realism, and neorealism, ...
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(2024)Providing insights, ideas, strategies and compassion, this book offers a new way of looking at self-care for educators experiencing exhaustion and stress, or who may simply be feeling more tired than they should be. Drawing ...
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(2026)This compilation of original, peer-reviewed papers takes a multidisciplinary approach to address a diverse range of topics in the humanities and social sciences. It explores traditional knowledge systems and their relevance ...
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(2026)This article traces the history of water rescue in the Netherlands and the pivotal role of the Apeldoorn Rescue Brigade. Founded in 1934, the brigade gained (inter)national fame with its innovative “Auto te water” course, ...
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(2026)Despite the strict neutrality of the Netherlands in the First World War, several ambulances were sent with the approval of the Dutch government, to the warring countries to help and care for the wounded. This also applied ...
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(2026)A seemingly simple hand fire pump from 1778 opens up the history of the so-called ‘Van Marum pump.’ The author shows that the true inventor was not Martinus van Marum (1750–1837) but the instrument maker Jan Paauw (Leiden, ...
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(2026)In commemoration of the work performed by its ambulance units during the Franco-Prussian War, the Netherlands Red Cross issued a memorial poster. It portrayed a nurse hovering above the battlefield, expelling the demon of ...
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(2026)During the Cold War the Netherlands took precautions to protect its people from potential disasters, in particular nuclear threats. The Civil Defence Corps was established in 1952 and was divided into reconnaisance and ...
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(2026)In the summer of 1914, the Netherlands Red Cross sent four ‘Plague Ambulances’ to the Dutch East Indies to help combat a plague epidemic that had been raging there since 1911. Twelve older, experienced nurses were recruited ...
