Co-Creativity and Engaged Scholarship : Transformative Methods in Social Sust…

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Worldwide Perspectives on Geographical Indications = Crossed views between re…

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Women Poets, Male Publishers = Myth vs. Market in Post-1960s Britain

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Well-being During the Pandemic = Comparative Perspectives from the Global Nor…

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Voicing Consent = Sex Workers, Sexual Violation and Legal Consciousness in Cr…

This open access book draws on an international research project, using extensive and multiple methods to explore unwanted sexual contact and violence in sex work populations. A project delivered by a large team of sex workers, peer researchers, and academics, and with practitioner input over a four-year period, the central question they explore is: how do social, legal, and judicial contexts s…

Verhaltensökonomische Aspekte bei Entscheidungen = Theorie und experimentell…

In diesem Open-Access-Buch werden Analyseergebnisse komplexer Abwägungsentscheidungen vorgestellt. Insbesondere werden verhaltensökonomische Aspekte wie Muster vorhersehbarer und doch hartnäckiger Fehlentscheidungen berücksichtigt. Zunächst wird ein Newsvendor-typisches, jedoch besser generalisierbares Entscheidungsproblem vorgestellt. Das Anwendungsbeispiel ist der Aufbau von Recyclingkap…

Understanding Past Earthquakes

This open access book presents the state of the art in research on the characteristics of past earthquakes. It presents an overview of contemporary developments, their use cases, and practical considerations, with the aim of introducing readers to recently developed methodologies as well as the sources, derivation, and handling of their uncertainties. The disparate fields of seismology, stratig…

Understanding Crime Trends in a Hybrid Society = The Digital Drift

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