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    • Misiune, Ieva; Depellegrin, Daniel; Egarter Vigl, Lukas (2022)
      This edited volume aims to widen the discussion about the diversity of human-nature relationships and valuation methods and to stimulate new perspective that are needed to build a more sustainable future, especially in ...
    • Schütte, Patricia M.; Schulte, Yannic; Schönefeld, Malte; Fiedrich, Frank (2022)
      In diesem Open-Access-Buch werden Erfahrungen zur Zusammenarbeit und zum Wissensmanagement verschiedenster staatlicher, gemeinnütziger und privater Akteure in der Flüchtlingslage 2015/16 aufbereitet, mit praxisnahen ...
    • Jacobs, Klaus; Kuhlmey, Adelheid; Greß, Stefan; Klauber, Jürgen; Schwinger, Antje (2022)
      Der Pflege-Report, der jährlich in Buchform und als Open-Access-Publikation erscheint, rückt im Schwerpunkt 2022 jene Pflegebedürftigen in den Mittelpunkt, die nicht wie im „Normalfall“ aus altersassoziierten Gründen ...
    • Nynäs, Peter; Keysar, Ariela; Kontala, Janne; Kwaku Golo, Ben-Willie; Lassander, Mika T.; Shterin, Marat; Sjö, Sofia; Stenner, Paul (2022)
      This open access volume features a data-rich portrait of what young adults think about the world. It collects the views of students in higher education from various cultural regions, religious traditions, linguistic groups, ...
    • Ahlbeck, Jutta; Östman, Ann-Catrin; Stark, Eija (2022)
      This open access book uncovers one important, yet forgotten, form of itinerant livelihoods, namely petty trade, more specifically how it was practiced in Northern Europe during the period 1820–1960. It investigates how ...
    • Rechnitzer, Tanja (2022)
      This open access book provides the first explicit case study for an application of the method of reflective equilibrium (RE), using it to develop and defend a precautionary principle. It thereby makes an important and ...
    • Daniotti, Bruno; Lupica Spagnolo, Sonia; Pavan, Alberto; Bolognesi, Cecilia Maria (2022)
      This open access book describes a BIM-based toolkit that has been developed according to the latest research activities on building information modelling and semantic interoperability to optimize the building process. It ...
    • Bandola-Gill, Justyna; Grek, Sotiria; Tichenor, Marlee (2022)
      This open access book conceptualises the Sustainable Development Goals as epistemic infrastructures that connect numbers, networks and governing paradigms.The book approaches quantification not merely as a tool for governing, ...
    • Sorg, Christoph (2022)
      It would have been hard to miss the pivotal role debt has played for contentious politics in the last decades. The North Atlantic Financial Crisis, Global Recession and European Debt Crisis - as well as the recent waves ...
    • Christopher, Roy (2022)
      The physical body has often been seen as a prison, as something to be escaped by any means necessary: technology, mechanization, drugs and sensory deprivation, alien abduction, Rapture, or even death and extinction. Taking ...
    • du Plessis-Schneider, Sharon (2022)
      Our social interactions are driven by complex biopsychic processes that are complicated by the fact that humans are individuals and at the same time members of one or more social systems, such as schools. This book contributes ...
    • Baier, Florian; Borrmann, Stefan; Hefel, Johanna; Thiessen, Barbara (2022)
      Promoting and preserving social cohesion has become a central challenge for European societies. Based on contributions from the first trinational conference of DGSA, OGSA and SGSA, this book addresses both the meaning of ...
    • Anderson, Michael Alan (2022)
      This chapter centers on the genre of antiphons, which are concise liturgical melodies that frame the recitation of a psalm or groups of psalms in the offices. It begins by charting their conventional pairing with psalms ...
    • Anderson, Michael Alan (2022)
      "This study uncovers the musical foundations and performance suggestions of books of hours, guides to prayer that were the most popular and widespread books of the late Middle Ages. Exploring a variety of musical genres ...
    • Kaunert, Christian; Ezeokafor, Edwin (2022)
      This book analyses securitization processes outside of the West, with a focus on Africa. The aim of the volume is to develop an original analytical framework to explain the securitization-neo-patrimonialism dynamics ...
    • Burford, Gale; Braithwaite, John; Braithwaite, Valerie (2019)
      In Restorative and Responsive Human Services, Gale Burford, John Braithwaite, and Valerie Braithwaite bring together a distinguished collection providing rich lessons on how regulation in human services can proceed in ...
    • Sätre, Ann-Mari (2019)
      This book provides an overview of poverty and well-being in Russia. Increasing poverty rates during the 1990s were followed by greater attention to social policies in the 2000s and increased efforts to engage people in ...
    • Liikanen, Ilkka; Scott, James; Sotkasiira, Tiina (2016)
      The collapse of the Soviet Union has had profound and long-lasting impacts on the societies of Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus and Central Asia, impacts which are not yet fully worked through: changes in state-society ...
    • Rose, Els (2022)
      What makes a happy city? How can a city respond adequately and resiliently to a crisis disrupting civic society? Answers to these timeless questions differ through time. A Miracle of St Martin – Utrecht a Happy City tells ...
    • Beyerer, Jürgen; Zander, Tim (2022)
      2021, the annual joint workshop of the Fraunhofer IOSB and KIT IES was hosted at the IOSB in Karlsruhe. For a week from the 2nd to the 6th July the doctoral students extensive reports on the status of their research. The ...