Tous les ebooks de la collection "Divers Seghers" -

Identification of fishes by their otoliths in 3D

Collectif

The otolith, a calcified structure in the inner ear of fish, evolves throughout the life of an individual and is generally used to estimate the age of the fish. So how do we analyse this tiny mineral particle, and what does it tell us about each species of fish?This...

Transport Transitions: Advancing Sustainable and Inclusive Mobility

Collectif

This is an open access book. It gathers the proceedings of the 10th edition of Transport Research Arena (TRA 2024), held on 15-18 April, 2024, in Dublin, Ireland. Contributions cover a wide range of research findings, methodological aspects, technologies and policy...

Connecting Philosophy and Public Administration

Edoardo Ongaro

This open access book provides a novel framework for understanding the connections between philosophy and public administration. It proposes four key directions of inquiry to help better understand the relationship between these two areas of research and practice:...

Praziquantel

Thomas Spangenberg

This open-access book provides a comprehensive reference on the discovery and development of praziquantel. It presents the full research and development (R&D) journey of this essential anthelmintic drug, combining foundational science with practical insights. The...

Metabolic Neuropsychiatry

Judith M. Ford , Dost Öngür

This open access book provides an interdisciplinary perspective on energy metabolism in the brain and body in neuropsychiatric disorders and suggests future research directions. Multiple lines of evidence indicate that energy metabolism is aberrant in the body and brain...

Proceedings of the MULTINOVA: First International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Engineering, Healthcare and Sciences (ICAIEHS-2025)

Collectif

This open access volume presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Engineering, Healthcare and Sciences (ICAIEHS-2025). It explores the transformative role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) across diverse domains. It covers...

The Swedish Missionary Society and Sámi Schooling, c. 1835–1920

Björn Norlin

This open access book offers a thorough examination of the most important ac­tor in schooling children from the Indigenous Sámi during the nineteenth century, namely the Swedish Missionary Society (SMS). In the late 1830s, the SMS created its first schools...

Death of a Cheerleader

Marina Evans

A Ghost Hunter's Guide to Solving a Murder

F.H. Petford

Puppetry and Dramaturgy

Didier Plassard

This open access book presents the results and conclusions of research conducted by the author, and assisted by a team of young researchers brought together in the PuppetPlays project funded by the European Research Council. It is the first international survey to...

100+ Teaching Sparks

Hervé-Léonard Marie

"Spark your teaching with 100+ creative ideas to make every lesson shine!"Looking for fresh inspiration? Our new e-book 100+ Teaching Sparks: Unlock your Creativity to Make your Lessons Shine is here to help you transform everyday lessons into engaging, memorable...

NTPC Transactions on Energy Research (NTER 2025)

Anil Kumar Das , Prahlad Halder , Subrata Sarkar , S. Shaswattam

The open access volume titled NTPC Transactions on Energy Research (NTER 2025) is a collection of technical papers related to different domains of the power sector. It provides a glimpse of the research and scientific activities in several key areas of the power sector,...

Climate Obstruction

Christian Downie , Jennifer Jacquet , Carlos R. S. Milani , J. Timmons Roberts

Large-scale assessments, such as those by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), have been crucial in advancing our understanding of climate change. They have affirmed that reducing greenhouse-gas emissions is urgently needed to avoid its disastrous...

Corporate Social Responsibility in Football Associations

Mehtap Cengiz

This Open Access book examines how football’s governing bodies translate their public CSR commitments into everyday practice. Focusing on UEFA, the German Football Association (DFB) and a representative regional federation, it traces CSR from continental...

A Digital Europe for Citizens

Graça Enes , Tiago Morais Rocha , Inês Neves

This "open access" book presents the Proceedings of the First International Conference “A Digital Europe for Citizens”, which was organised by the Jean Monnet Module DigEUCit, “A Digital Europe for Citizens. Constitutional and Policymaking...

The Human Right to Democracy in Multilevel Systems at a Time of Democratic Backsliding: Global, Regional and European Union Perspectives

Thomas Giegerich

This open access book takes stock of the current situation of the human right to democracy in multilevel systems of government - at a time of renewed struggles with antidemocratic forces (democratic backsliding). It tries to answer three questions: (1) Is there a human...

Farming and Social Inclusion in Japan

Hiroyuki Tsunashima

This open access book is about a recent movement toward the “partnership between agriculture and social welfare” in Japan, which has been based on the idea that the shorthanded agricultural sector offers job opportunities to the people excluded from the...

Adults in Play with Children

Ann Farrell , Malin Nilsen , Niklas Pramling , Cecilia Wallerstedt

This is an Open access book.This work addresses the presence and participation of adults in play with children. Rather than discussing this issue on ideological ground, the international contributions build on empirical data and report research conducted in many...

Loan Risk Management of Commercial Real Estate Debt Funds

Wilhelm Hammel

This open-access publication examines the organisational mechanisms that enable the commercial real estate industry to better withstand economic headwinds and more quickly recover from downturns. With geographic focus on the United Kingdom and Germany, it sheds light on...

Memories Set in Stone—How Visitors Make Sense of Memorials

Larissa Hugentobler

In this open access book, Larissa Hugentobler explores the world of public memorials: highly visible, and at times contentious, media, which communicate a nation’s values and ideals – its public memory. By celebrating a selection of a nation’s history,...