OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2024)This book offers a comprehensive examination of the factors affecting corporate capital structures across 12 European Union countries, focusing on the influence of country-specific, industry-specific and firm-size-related ...
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(2023)As the concluding chapter of the book, ‘Contemporary Design Education in Australia: Creating Transdisciplinary Futures’, this chapter draws on cases from across the book while seeking to advance conversations on ...
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(2023)There has been a systemic shift in contemporary design professions, with the concomitant need for placing the requisite 21st-century skills and capabilities for such professions at the forefront of curriculum design. This ...
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(2011)This book presents a history of the self-report crime survey as a method of criminological inquiry, describing how it was born within a distinct moral framework by pioneers out to show that crime was very prevalent and, ...
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(2018)Liberal democracy appears in crisis. From the rise of ‘law and order’ and ever tougher forms of means-testing under ‘austerity politics’ to the outcome of Britain’s referendum on leaving the EU, commentators have argued ...
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(2025)This book discusses existing and future trends concerning the development of migratory policies between local and global levels, to understand the challenges and gaps in the protection of migrants. The collection explores ...
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(2025)This book presents hard facts, drawn from extensive research, to highlight our unsustainable consumption of the Earth’s resources and the limitations of the UK’s current management of waste and recycling. Setting out ...
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(2024)This book explores the deep contestations of the liberal script in the contemporary United States from a variety of perspectives. The US is today confronted with a crisis of democracy because of a profound ideological and ...
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(2024)The margins of early modern bibles are filled with explanatory notes that have long been denounced as seditious, traitorous, and dangerous. Little attention has been paid to the actual use of these margins by their ...
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(2024)Examines how primary social ties fueled economic growth South Korea's rapid industrialization occurred with the rise of powerful chaebǒl (family-owned business conglomerates) that controlled vast swaths of the nation's ...
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(2024)The present study investigates the generation of a flame kernel in the polydisperse spray of a complex fuel under the influence of turbulent flow and under subatmospheric conditions in order to contribute to a better ...
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(2024)Digital development using target values and criteria is necessary to reduce the development costs and duration of a vehicle. For this reason, a methodology is developed, from problem formulation and model creation to target ...
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(2024)This work presents a data mining framework applied to industrial heattreatment (bainitization and case hardening) aiming to optimize processes and reduce costs. The framework analyses factors such as material, production ...
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(2025)This book explores the social forces among and between online aggressors that affect the expression and perpetration of online hate. Its chapters illustrate how patterns of interactive social behavior reinforce, magnify, ...
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(2025)Activist networks throughout Europe developed the concept of precarity at the turn of the 21st century. Retail chain employees, freelancers, cultural workers, caregivers and university adjuncts alike, including those labeled ...
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(2025)This book focuses on the role of popular music in the rise of populism in Europe, centring on the music-related processes of sociocultural normalisation and the increasing prevalence of populist discourses in contemporary ...
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(2024)Mithilfe der poetologischen Diskriminierung des Wunderbaren gelingt es der Gattung Roman, sich als kulturelles Leitmedium der anbrechenden Moderne zu konstituieren. Gleichzeitig lässt sich beobachten, dass in Romane immer ...
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(2024)In the Gorgias Plato offers a synthesis of what he thinks about the bitter conflict between philosophical and non-philosophical approaches to one’s responsibilities in private and public life. This book contributes to a ...
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(2024)This book examines material and multi-sensorial expressions of Shiʿi Islam in diverse, and understudied demographic and geographic contexts.It engages with conceptual debates and makes several propositions that push the ...
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(2024)Carolingian Medical Knowledge and Practice explores the practicality and applicability of the medical recipes recorded in early medieval manuscripts. It takes an original, dual approach to these overlooked and understudied ...
