OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2025)The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) presents a striking paradox: vast natural and mineral wealth coexist with persistent poverty, weak infrastructure and fragile institutions. Kiyala’s four-part scholarly book explores ...
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(2025)This scholarly book delves into the critical developmental challenges Africa faces in striving to achieve the United Nations’ sustainable development goals (SDGs) and the African Union’s Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want. ...
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(2025)Taking an original, in-depth approach, this book investigates the forms and functions of metareference in videogames. Drawing on a rich body of research in game studies, transmedial narratology, and neighbouring disciplines, ...
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(2020)In its first edition, winner of the 2016 Edward Sapir Book Prize from the Society for Linguistic Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association Discourse Analysis Beyond the Speech Event introduces a new approach ...
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(2025)Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine was a defining moment for international law and its ability to maintain international peace and security. This book highlights the principles, methods and systems in place to regulate ...
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(2025)Informed by theory and full of practical advice, this key title offers a clear route to education for sustainable development (ESD) whilst questioning how we reconcile participatory, inclusive processes and the urgency of ...
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(2025)Based on the EU-funded project RESET (Redesigning Equality and Scientific Excellence Together) and written by members of seven European partner universities representing different disciplines, this book combines theory and ...
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(2025)While the Is-Ought Gap has recently been a topic of growing interest, most contributions are firmly fixed on logical, often quite technical accounts of the autonomy thesis. This book defends two complementary autonomy ...
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(2025)Beyond Health Capacity: Spatial Practices in Inclusive Design sheds light on the systemic challenges communities with limited access to medical support and health maintenance have endured. It emphasizes how approaching ...
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(2025)Public Procurement Pathways inaugurates a new research-based series on public procurement. The volume brings together an introduction and five peer-reviewed chapters that examine how Norwegian contracting authorities deploy ...
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(2025)Kaum eine Studie zum Deutschen Kaiserreich kommt ohne einen Verweis auf die »Preußischen Jahrbücher« als einflussreicher Stimme der Zeit aus, deren Herausgeber Hans Delbrück keine Kontroverse scheute. Jonas Kleins systematische ...
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(2025)Mit Fokus auf Infrastruktur- und postsozialistischer Transformation widmet sich Laura Marie Höss zwei vieldiskutierten Themen der Geschichtswissenschaft und sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung zu Infrastrukturen: Sie ...
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(2025)Als AIDS in den 1980er Jahren in Westdeutschland sichtbar wurde, existierte bereits eine ausdifferenzierte Schwulenbewegung. Durch AIDS waren schwule Männer mit einer radikalen Veränderung ihrer Lebenswelt konfrontiert. ...
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(2025)This volume critically interrogates non-Western frameworks within environmental humanities, seeking to challenge and deconstruct dominant Western paradigms. Through a range of interdisciplinary contributions, the book ...
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(2025)This volume explores the deep connections between literature and botany, examining how plants shape cultural narratives, ecological thought, and human imagination. From ancient myths to contemporary ecocriticism, the ...
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(2025)In an era of climate emergency and political upheaval, heritage demands radical rethinking. This volume confronts the Enlightenment-rooted dualisms that fragment heritage into opposing categories. By embracing posthumanist ...
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(2025)When the Portuguese arrived at the mouth of the Zaire River in 1483, two vibrant normative regimes came into contact. The European traders, missionaries, and soldiers who followed the first explorers brought a jurisdictional ...
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(2025)Scholarship on ancient Greek law has diversified in recent years. Conceptual challenges from the division between History of Law and Ancient History have subsided. Also, as the conversation unfolds, new sources hailing ...
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(2024)Die Frühe Neuzeit war in sprachlicher Hinsicht von komplexen, mitunter gegenläufigen Entwicklungen geprägt. Der Hochschätzung der alten Sprachen in Bildung und Gelehrsamkeit stand der Aufstieg der modernen Sprachen gegenüber, ...
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(2025)This book enables a proper understanding of tensegrity structures. It contains both theoretical background and examples. First, a geometrically non-linear model and the methods used to evaluate the behavior of tensegrity ...
