OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2025)Remote and Roaming explores the practices, meanings, and politics of digital nomadism through extensive ethnographic fieldwork conducted across the globe. Digital nomads represent a growing class of highly mobile professionals ...
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(2025)In the 1920s and 30s, the young Finnish nation was sourcing wealth from its forests. Modern cellulose factories were erected at a time when trees were still being felled by hand. This divided period saw the Finnish author ...
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(2025)Nairobi, known as the Green City in the Sun, has taken shape through anti-urban ideologies that insist that the city cannot be home for most residents. Based on decades of experience in rapidly changing Nairobi, No Place ...
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(2025)The Caribbean port city of Veracruz is many things. It is where the Spanish first settled and last left the colony that would go on to become Mexico. It is a destination boasting the “happiest Carnival in the world,” nightly ...
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(2025)Despite the massive costs associated with data breaches, ransomware, viruses, and cyberattacks, most organizations remain thoroughly unprepared to safeguard consumer data. Over the past two decades, the insurance industry ...
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(2025)As part of this work, a special vehicle movement model is being developed for future parking applications. It uses standard sensor technology and requires hardly any additional computing power. An adaptive localization ...
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(2025)In recent decades, and through various channels, interest in the conglomerate of organizations grouped under the generic name of Tacuara has resurfaced. This can most likely be understood within the broader attention given ...
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(2025)By examining in-depth the content, form, and language of his prose from 1910 to 1920, this dissertation establishes that Sternheim’s prose, in its rejection of the bourgeois ideal of reality and personality, and the mimetic ...
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(2025)During the Cold War, Swedish investments in military research were massive. The research was significant for both the military and the society at large. However, not much is known about these expenditures and their impact. ...
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(2025)How do we know through atmospheres? How can being affected by an atmosphere give rise to knowledge? What role does somatic, nonverbal knowledge play in how we belong to places? Atmospheric Knowledge takes up these questions ...
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(2025)The UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003) has become a significant factor in shaping global cultural policy in the twenty-first century. It emphasises the role of communities, ...
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(2025)This book is the first comprehensive study of the twelve New Music Bureau poems by the influential poet-official Yuan Zhen 元稹 (779–831) in comparison with the response poems of Bai Juyi 白居易 (772–846). Its new perspective ...
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(2025)This book investigates youth employment programmes across nine African countries, providing important insights into the world’s youngest continent by population, in which 60% of people are aged under 25. By 2050, the labour ...
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(2025)This book explores how the demise of the traditional language of melancholy lies at the root of contemporary difficulties in engaging with darker aspects of human affective experience. Melancholy – or melancholia – was a ...
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(2025)This monograph shows the contribution of foster families to the system of social care for a child permanently or temporarily deprived of the biological family environment. Adopting a theoretical and empirical approach that ...
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(2025)This book explores cooperation between humans and animals in extreme environments and contends that understanding domestication is crucial to explaining how life is possible in such conditions. The chapters draw on work ...
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(2025)Grounded in strategic thinking and social science research, this textbook empowers students to confidently navigate skillful and effective science communication. Developed by leading science, health, and risk communication ...
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(2025)Rights-based ethics offer a conceptual framework to address the complex ethical issues of our time. This volume combines systematic and historical perspectives on rights-based ethics with discussions of a broad range of ...
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(2025)This book presents a comprehensive review of new research and practice-based insights from Nepal’s four decades of community forestry development, delving into when and how community-based management can lead to forest ...
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(2025)The pervasive role religion plays in immigration policy is universally acknowledged but not well understood. On the Significance of Religion in Immigration Policy explores the ways in which religion affects immigration ...
