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    • Hancock, Philip; Tyler, Melissa (2025)
      This open access book focuses on the distinctive experiences of freelance and self-employed live performers in the UK’s live entertainment industries It provides an in-depth account of their working lives during COVID-19, ...
    • Halonen, Maija; Albrecht, Moritz; Kuhmonen, Irene (2025)
      This Open Access book explores sustainability transitions with a focus on their influence on the relationships between cores and peripheries, the rural and the urban, and the large and the small-scale. The societal changes ...
    • Pacelli, Vincenzo (2025)
      This open access book is a groundbreaking exploration of systemic risk in modern financial systems. Through its theoretical and empirical investigations, it reveals the multidimensionality of systemic risk, the transmission ...
    • Biswas, Debajyoti; Ryan, John C. (2025)
      This open access book offers an introduction to the field of the environmental humanities in India. The environmental humanities, often referred to as ‘EH’, are a multifaceted, relatively new, and swiftly evolving field ...
    • Magazzini, Tina; Eleftheriadou, Marina; Triandafyllidou, Anna (2025)
      This open access book explains why southern European countries with significant Muslim communities have experienced few religiously inspired violent attacks – or have avoided the kind of securitised response to such attacks ...
    • Fraillon, Julian; Rožman, Mojca (2025)
      This open access book presents the conceptual and operational foundations of the IEA International Computer and Information Literacy Study (2023), which is designed to assess how well students are prepared for study, work, ...
    • Parrilli, Davide M. (2025)
      This open access book equips designers with a deeper understanding of informational privacy, emphasizing why and how designers should design services that respect and enhance people’s privacy. The solution to these issues ...
    • Hartmann, Betti; Kunz, Jutta (2023)
      This open access book provides graduate students and scientists with fundamental knowledge on the mechanics of granular suspensions as well as on the mathematical and numerical techniques that can be adopted to investigate ...
    • Bartoli, Stefano; Cortese, Francesco; Sartelli, Massimo; Sganga, Gabriele (2025)
      Infections in surgery, commonly known as surgical site infections (SSIs), are complications that may occur after a surgical procedure. SSIs represent a serious problem leading to increased morbidity, mortality, and healthcare ...
    • Raven, Will (2025)
      This open access textbook introduces beginning undergraduate students and high school students to the world of quantum mechanics and atomic spectroscopy. Requiring no previous knowledge of physics and no math beyond basic ...
    • Guo, Huadong (2024)
      This open access book showcases the innovative practices of Big Earth Data methods through a collection of global comprehensive case studies to monitor and evaluate indicators for seven SDGs, i.e., zero hunger (SDG 2), ...
    • Muchie, Mammo; Baskaran, Angathevar; Tang, Mingfeng (2024)
      This open access book brings together researchers from a variety of disciplines to explore science, technology, and innovation cooperation between China and African countries by using different perspectives. The growing ...
    • Graf, Anne (2025)
      Dieses Open-Access-Buch knüpft an aktuelle Themen zur Transformation der Alltagsmobilität an. Es leistet einen Beitrag zur Frage, wie und wann Menschen ihre Mobilität multimodal gestalten, also verschiedene Verkehrsmittel ...
    • Haqiqi, Iman; Hertel, Thomas W. (2025)
      This is an open access book. Crafted for both the economist and the curious mind, this book introduces a novel approach to blending economic and biophysical sciences to enable multi-scale analysis of a range of sustainability ...
    • Ivanov, Vitalii; Evtuhov, Artem; Dehtiarov, Ivan; Trojanowska, Justyna (2025)
      This open access book offers a guide to core principles and practices of manufacturing engineering. It covers the design of, together with technological and measurement issues for, technical systems. Locating charts and ...
    • Dou, Lirong; Wen, Zhixin; Wang, Zhaoming (2024)
      This open access book presents the evaluation of undiscovered oil and gas resources and reserves growth in 468 basins around the world, as well as the potential of unconventional recoverable resources of seven types, ...
    • Staub, Sabina (2025)
      In diesem Open-Access-Buch werden rekonstruierbare Normen zur Diskussion gestellt, innerhalb derer Kinder zu Kindergarten- und Schulkindern werden und die in der Regel nicht reflexiv zugänglich sind. Um herauszufinden, ...
    • Crato, Nuno; Patrinos, Harry Anthony (2025)
      This open access book compares and analyses the results in twelve countries of the two latest international student assessments: Progress in International Reading Literacy Study 2021 (PIRLS) and the Programme for International ...
    • Sivertsen, Gunnar; Langfeldt, Liv (2025)
      This open access volume addresses major challenges in research policy and provides advice on how to approach them. With chapters designed as accessible policy briefs, the book serves as an essential resource for new actors ...
    • Huang, Minchao; Wu, Jianjun; Li, Jian; Cheng, Yuqiang (2025)
      This open access book focuses on the field of aerospace propulsion theory and engineering. The book takes the solar thermal thruster as the research object, has carried on the solar thermal thruster working process theoretical ...