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    • Reimers, Fernando M. (2021)
      This open access book is a comparative analysis of recent large scale education reforms that broadened curriculum goals to better prepare students for the 21st century. The book examines what governments actually do when ...
    • Halonen, Tarja; Liukkunen, Ulla (2021)
      This open access book explores the role of the ILO (International Labour Organization) in building global social governance from multiple and mutually complementary perspectives. It explores the impact of this UN´s oldest ...
    • Tveito, Aslak; Mardal, Kent-Andre; Rognes, Marie E. (2021)
      This open access volume presents a novel computational framework for understanding how collections of excitable cells work. The key approach in the text is to model excitable tissue by representing the individual cells ...
    • Beck, Hans Peter; Charitos, Panagiotis (2021)
      The essays in this open access volume identify the key ingredients for success in capitalizing on public investments in scientific projects and the development of large-scale research infrastructures. Investment in science ...
    • Adams, Nikolaus A.; Schröder, Wolfgang; Radespiel, Rolf; Haidn, Oskar J.; Sattelmayer, Thomas; Stemmer, Christian; Weigand, Bernhard (2021)
      This open access book presents the findings of Collaborative Research Center Transregio 40 (TRR40), initiated in July 2008 and funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Gathering innovative design concepts for thrust ...
    • Sng, Chelvin C. A.; Barton, Keith (2021)
      This open access book covers all aspects of minimally invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS) and provides detailed information on each MIGS device, including its mechanism of action; patient selection; implantation techniques; ...
    • Takagi, Tsuyoshi; Wakayama, Masato; Tanaka, Keisuke; Kunihiro, Noboru; Kimoto, Kazufumi; Ikematsu, Yasuhiko (2021)
      This open access book presents selected papers from International Symposium on Mathematics, Quantum Theory, and Cryptography (MQC), which was held on September 25-27, 2019 in Fukuoka, Japan. The international symposium MQC ...
    • Amelung, Nina; Granja, Rafaela; Machado, Helena (2021)
      This open access book explores how biometric data is increasingly flowing across borders in order to limit, control and contain the mobility of selected people, namely criminalized populations. It introduces the concept ...
    • Lorenz, Astrid; Anders, Lisa H. (2021)
      This open access book provides an in-depth look into the background of rule of law problems and the open defiance of EU law in East Central European countries. Current illiberal trends and anti-EU politics have the potential ...
    • Pilný, Ondřej; van den Beuken, Ruud; Walsh, Ian R. (2021)
      Based on extensive archival research, this open access book examines the poetics and politics of the Dublin Gate Theatre (est. 1928) over the first three decades of its existence, discussing some of its remarkable productions ...
    • Elleström, Lars (2021)
      This open access book promotes the idea that all media types are multimodal and that comparing media types, through an intermedial lens, necessarily involves analysing these multimodal traits. The collection includes a ...
    • Elleström, Lars (2021)
      This open access book promotes the idea that all media types are multimodal and that comparing media types, through an intermedial lens, necessarily involves analysing these multimodal traits. The collection includes a ...
    • Morley, Dawn A.; Jamil, Md Golam (2021)
      This open access book critiques real world learning across both the curriculum and extracurricular activities. Drawing on disciplines as diverse as business, health, fashion, sociology and geography, the editors and authors ...
    • McNamee, Terence; Muyangwa, Monde (2021)
      This open access book on the state of peacebuilding in Africa brings together the work of distinguished scholars, practitioners, and decision makers to reflect on key experiences and lessons learned in peacebuilding in ...
    • Lynn, Theo; Mooney, John G.; van der Werff, Lisa; Fox, Grace (2021)
      This open access book brings together perspectives from multiple disciplines including psychology, law, IS, and computer science on data privacy and trust in the cloud. Cloud technology has fueled rapid, dramatic technological ...
    • Hardon, Anita (2021)
      This open access book explores how young people engage with chemical substances in their everyday lives. It builds upon and supplements a large body of literature on young people’s use of drugs and alcohol to highlight the ...
    • Hilton, Claire (2021)
      This open access book explores the history of asylums and their civilian patients during the First World War, focusing on the effects of wartime austerity and deprivation on the provision of care. While a substantial body ...
    • Lahusen, Christian; Zschache, Ulrike; Kousis, Maria (2021)
      This open access collection is devoted to an in-depth, qualitative analysis of practices of cross-national solidarity in response to the current political and social crises, from citizens’ initiatives to networks of ...
    • Perez-Garcia, Manuel (2021)
      This open access book considers a pivotal era in Chinese history from a global perspective. This book’s insight into Chinese and international history offers timely and challenging perspectives on initiatives like “Chinese ...
    • Reinders, James; Ashbaugh, Ben; Brodman, James; Kinsner, Michael; Pennycook, John; Tian, Xinmin (2021)
      Learn how to accelerate C++ programs using data parallelism. This open access book enables C++ programmers to be at the forefront of this exciting and important new development that is helping to push computing to new ...