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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...

A Ghost Hunter's Guide to Solving a Murder

F.H. Petford

Death of a Cheerleader

Marina Evans

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...

Comparative Studies on Chinese and Western Civilizations

Pan Yue

This open access book compares Chinese and Western civilizations from multiple perspectives, and it mainly consists of three parts that respectively compare the Warring States and ancient Greece, the Qin and Han dynasties and ancient Rome, and the Central Plains of...

The Inclusive Circular Economy

Martin De Jong , Liang Dong , Daan Schraven , Tong Xin

This open access book is a multi-disciplinary effort to address the complex socio-economic issues and the substantial environmental pressure that the expected large-scale migration will exert on cities in the near future. Emerging from a joint research project between...

An Evolutionary Story of Agency

Álvaro Moreno , Juli Peretó

This open access book exposes the role of "agency" in the history of life. Agency is understood as the capacity of an organism to act, make decisions, and exercise control over its actions in order to achieve goals or to navigate and interact with its environment. The...

Taxation in the Digital Era

Åsa Hansson , Joakim Wernberg

This open access edited volume discusses the impact of digitalization on taxation, using the Swedish welfare state model as a lens through which to examine the disruptive effect of new technologies on traditional tax models. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, it...

Integrative Forest Management and Silviculture

Dai Fukui , Toshiaki Owari , Satoshi N. Suzuki , Nobuaki Tanaka

This open access book presents the integrative forest management and silvicultural practices developed by the University of Tokyo Hokkaido Forest (UTHF) over the past six decades. Central to the UTHF’s approach is the Stand-based Silvicultural Management System...

Role of Ecosystem Services in Enabling Rural-Urban Synergies

Daniel Keech , Isabel Loupa-Ramos , Maria Rosario Partidario

This open access book elaborates on the role Ecosystem Services play in relation to establishing, and enhancing, rural-urban synergies. It draws on the concept of Ecosystem Services (ESS) as the ecological characteristics, functions, or processes that directly or...

The 9th International Conference on Advances in Construction Machinery and Vehicle Engineering

Yongming Bian , Yan Peng , Halgamuge Saman , Dingxuan Zhao

This open access book presents the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Advances in Construction Machinery and Vehicle Engineering (ICACMVE 2024), highlighting the latest advancements and innovative practices in the field. Focusing on the challenges in...

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...