OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2025)This book offers a critical and interdisciplinary exploration of large language models (LLMs), examining how they reshape our understanding of language, cognition, and society. Drawing on philosophy of language, linguistics, ...
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(2025)Resonant Space constellates the martial, ritual, and theatrical elements of the Chinese martial arts with the practice of contemporary theatre and dance. This interdisciplinary approach blends the embodied experiences of ...
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(2025)Renewed attention to the language of ancient documentary sources – above all Greek papyri – has opened new paths in linguistic research. Rays of Language: Linguistic Perspectives on Non-Literary Papyri and Related Sources ...
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(2025)This book presents the results of the latest phase of a 50-year longitudinal study of two villages in eastern Finland: Sivakka and Rasimäki. The current study is based on new materialist approaches in social sciences and ...
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(2025)The Finnish legislative language has a centuries-long history, with roots extending to the time before written Finnish. The oldest translations of legal texts were made in the late 16th century, and legislative language ...
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(2025)Literary culture was adopted in Finland during the Middle Ages. The literary languages of Finnish society were Latin, Swedish, and Low German. Finnish-language literary culture gradually built on this foundation. In the ...
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(2025)In Writing Class, Magnus Nilsson offers a groundbreaking exploration of how contemporary Swedish literature responds to the rise of precarious labour. Focusing on literary portrayals of working-class experiences of ...
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(2025)The Swedish public administration was profoundly transformed in the years around 1990. The “market” was introduced into policy areas that had previously chiefly been considered the responsibility of society. The book Grå ...
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(2025)This volume brings together scholars from archaeology, historical linguistics and comparative mythology to explore how early Indo-European communities imagined death and what lies beyond. From poetic visions of the afterlife ...
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(2025)This book defends the value of literary reading by focusing on the knowledge and experiences literature affords. It begins with a close analysis of the sense of intimacy involved in literary reading. The book’s principal ...
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(2025)This monograph in Swedish examines how Constantinople (Istanbul) emerges as a multilingual literary world in fiction and travel writing between 1878 and 1922. Drawing on recent international research in literary multilingualism, ...
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(2025)In recent years, literacy promotion initiatives have increasingly turned their attention to the very youngest children. Libraries host storytimes for infants, child health centres direct new parents to reading resources, ...
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(2025)Cities become lived and meaningful places through the actions of both human and more-than-human inhabitants, and through tangible and intangible features. While cities are subject to planning and regulation, they are also ...
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(2025)Literary history is typically written from the standpoint of preserved and canonised works, while many lesser-known authors, texts and forms of writing remain overlooked or lost in the margins. This volume takes a ...
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(2025)Richter, Rozhdestvensky, Gutman, Sokolov, Kremer, Kagan. During the Cold War, more Soviet musicians performed in Finland than in any other Western country. Many of them numerous times. What made small Finland such an ...
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(2025)The world stands at a crossroads. The next decade will determine whether we avoid climate, biodiversity, and economic catastrophe – or unlock a new era of sustainable, resilient, and inclusive growth. The Growth Story of ...
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(2025)Tito Colliander (1904–1989), a Finnish-Swedish writer, became known to his readers for his fluent memoirs but also as an Orthodox religious writer and teacher. A much less known part of his career was his activity with the ...
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(2025)Twists and turns, cycles and circulations: Cultural environmental change in the North The Kalevalaseura’s one hundred and fourth Yearbook, Käänteet ja kierrot – Kulttuuriset ympäristömuutokset pohjoisessa examines the ...
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(2025)A generation ago, the so-called Washington Consensus laid out a series of dos and don’ts for policymakers around the world. Today, that vision is recognised as having fallen short in a number of ways – particularly in its ...
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(2026)Leistung ist ein zentrales Prinzip des Sports, das weit über das Gewinnen hinausgeht. Carina Eichele zeigt auf Basis qualitativer Interviews anschaulich, wie vielfältig Leistung erlebt und gestaltet wird. Es geht zusätzlich ...
