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…

Grassroots Politics and Oil Culture in Venezuela

This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book presents an ethnographic study of how grassroots activism in Venezuela during the Chávez presidency can be understood in relation to the country's history as a petro-state. Taking the contested relationship between the popular sectors and the Venezuelan state as a point of departure, Iselin Åsedotter Strønen explores …

Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This volume contains peer-reviewed papers from the Fourth World Landslide Forum organized by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), the Global Promotion Committee of the International Programme on Landslides (IPL), University of Ljubljana (UL) and Geological Survey of Slovenia in Ljubljana, Slovenia from May 29 to June 2, 2017. T…

Diversity and Evolution of Butterfly Wing Patterns

This book facilitates an integrative understanding of the development, genetics and evolution of butterfly wing patterns. To develop a deep and realistic understanding of the diversity and evolution of butterfly wing patterns, it is essential and necessary to approach the problem from various kinds of key research fields such as “evo-devo,” “eco-devo,” ”developmental genetics,” “e…

Think Big, Start Small

ieses Buch ist eine Open-Access-Publikation unter einer CC BY 4.0 Lizenz. Das vorliegende Buch handelt in erster Linie von der Erfolgsstory des StreetScooter, dem Elektronutzfahrzeug der Deutschen Post, leitet dabei aber eine neue Managementphilosophie für die Entwicklung von Innovationen ab, indem Entwicklungsprozesse radikal effizienter gestaltet werden. Von den Anfängen des Projekts, zu d…

Iconographic Research Poetry

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Norwegian Shipping in the 20th Century

This book is open access under a CC BY NC ND 4.0 license. This book belongs to the Maritime Business and Economic History strand of the Palgrave Studies in Maritime Economics book series. This open access book discusses how Norwegian shipping companies played a crucial role in global shipping markets in the 20th century, at times transporting more than ten per cent of world seaborne trade…