Buddhist Encounters and Identities Across East Asia

Encounters, networks, identities and diversity are at the core of the history of Buddhism. They are also the focus of Buddhist Encounters and Identities across East Asia, edited by Ann Heirman, Carmen Meinert and Christoph Anderl. While long-distance networks allowed Buddhist ideas to travel to all parts of East Asia, it was through local and trans-local networks and encounters, and a diversity…

The Fight against Systemic Corruption

This open access book examines the interplay between public and private sectors in Latin America's biggest market. It is the result of the binational research project “Organizational Crime and Systemic Corruption in Brazil” funded by the DFG and FAPESP (2018-2023). Its contributions analyze anticorruption, political finance, and how for-profit organizations manage illegality

Care in Healthcare

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Sago Palm

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Techlash

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The Psychodynamics of Enlightened Leadership

This open access book provides a comprehensive look at the pluses and minuses of leadership in times of an unparalleled crisis, such as the COVID-19 global pandemic. It examines the COVID-19 crisis in terms of psychodynamics, crisis management, and especially from the standpoint of complex, messy systems. It analyses how leaders need to think and act differently to cope better with—and potent…

Maritime Mobilities in Anglophone Literature and Culture

This open access edited collection explores various aspects of how oceanic im/ mobilities have been framed and articulated in the literary and cultural imagination. It covers the entanglements of maritime mobility and immobility as they are articulated and problematized in selected literature and cultural forms from the early modern period to the present. In particular, it brings cultural mobil…

Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy

This Open Access book, Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy: 1678-1865, examines literary and visual representations of piracy beginning with A.O. Exquemelin’s 1678 Buccaneers of America and ending at the onset of the US-American Civil War. Examining both canonical and understudied texts—from Puritan sermons, James Fenimore Cooper’s The Red Rover, and Herman Mel…

Digital gestützte Lehre

Dieses Open-Access-Buch versammelt Arbeiten, die im Rahmen von New Normal entstanden sind. New Normal - das ist ein vom Bayerischen Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst und der Vereinigung der Bayerischen Wirtschaft gefördertes Entwicklungs- und Forschungsprojekt mit dem Ziel, digitale und analoge Lehre zukunftsfähig miteinander zu verbinden. Vier verschiedene Ansätze werden in dem …

Demystifying Internet of Things Security

Break down the misconceptions of the Internet of Things by examining the different security building blocks available in Intel Architecture (IA) based IoT platforms. This open access book reviews the threat pyramid, secure boot, chain of trust, and the SW stack leading up to defense-in-depth. The IoT presents unique challenges in implementing security and Intel has both CPU and Isolated Secu…