OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2025)The book dissects the European Union’s regulatory failure to address abusive informal debt-collection practices, revealing an industry where consumers are left vulnerable to aggressive tactics and inadequate protections. ...
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(2025)This book aims to increase knowledge about (i) the key drivers of domestic saving rates in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA); (ii) whether alternative approaches, such as pension funds or fintech, could provide new solutions to ...
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(2025)This book examines how the legendary Scandinavian past is ‘remembered’ in two late medieval Icelandic saga manuscripts. Drawing on insights from cultural memory studies and material philology, it situates them in their ...
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(2025)How did the late Roman Empire operate in rural areas? Taxes and Authority in the Late Antique Countryside analyzes the social and administrative mechanics of the fiscal regime in late antique Egypt by focusing on key actors. ...
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(2025)The terms "figure" and "ground" became fundamental to art-historical analysis. But is this dichotomy suited to describe premodern art and? This volume calls into question long-standing habits of seeing and understanding ...
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(2025)In the 1930s, the rise of fascism forced dozens of philosophers to flee to the United States. How did immigrant scholars such as Rudolf Carnap, Max Horkheimer, and Alfred Schütz influence the development of philosophy? And ...
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(2025)This transformative volume bridges the rich texture of modern China's history with the innovative realm of network analysis, bringing forth a fresh perspective that captures the heartbeat of a nation in flux. By leveraging ...
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(2025)In the practices of teaching and learning in the academy of the early modern age, epochal factors intervene, such as the rupture of the religious-ideological unity of the West, the spread of the printing press, the rise ...
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(2025)This edited volume collects the proceedings of the second of two conferences organized by the Typarabic project. It presents the research results of the project, with a focus in this second volume on decorative features ...
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(2025)This book is dedicated to the Finnish terminology of art music. Starting with a historical and structural presentation of the relevant vocabulary, the focus is on a discourse-linguistic multilevel analysis of texts on key ...
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(2025)Concealing Agents addresses the invisibilization and concealment of people, knowledge and ideas in history and historiography. With studies ranging from modern to contemporary history, language and translation studies, and ...
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(2025)The concept of cultural technology is currently undergoing a decisive transformation: the shift from apparatus to environment. Cultural technologies can no longer be thought of in relation to specific individual objects ...
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(2025)This edited volume is a comprehensive exploration of the bodies and embodiments of spirits, their (im-)materialities, and their bodily transformations. It focuses on the embodied experiences of asymmetrical dependencies ...
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(2025)The ongoing climate change, rampant biodiversity loss, omnipresent pollution and waste accumulation around the world can no longer be overlooked or denied. As a consequence, “sustainability” has become a buzzword – but ...
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(2025)This treatise introduces Gestaltungsmetrik as a con¬ceptual framework for studying and designing infor¬mal spaces, from image and Gestaltung to anatomy and materials. In mathematics and physics, the nexus between movement ...
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(2025)Gustav Landauer (1870–1919) is considered an important representative of German-speaking anarchism. This book asks whether Landauer can also be seen as a Jewish intellectual and how he fits into the Jewish cultural history ...
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(2025)This volume brings together annotated editions and interpretations of Early Modern literature about tobacco, beer, wine, and coffee. It includes New Latin and German panegyric poems praising Tokaji wine or beer from ...
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(2025)Building on the conversation series "Humanities for Humans," this volume introduces prominent academics in a manner that breaks down barriers between campuses and the general public. Sharing about their life journeys and ...
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(2025)One change in late antiquity was the emergence of a trend toward a minor historiography in the form of lists and chronicles that were regularly edited and continued in a decentralized manner. This study gives a historical ...
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(2025)Conspiracy theories are on the rise, especially on social media. This study examines how conspiracy theories are communicated in video format. It provides an overview of formats, thematic structure, and multimodal patterns ...
