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This open access book will guide qualitative researchers in the social sciences with little to no coding experience in leveraging large language models (LLMs). Responding to a lack of instructional materials that recognize the need to equip qualitative researchers with...
This open access book takes a deep dive into the depths of modern engineering practice. With wit, precision, and just the right amount of indignation, this book exposes the creeping rot behind today’s glossy prototypes, frameworks, standards, and fads. From the...
This open access book provides innovative strategies for equitable and sustainable urban governance, with a strong emphasis on the key role of local governments as central actors in shaping urban futures. It provides readers with a comprehensive look into modern city...
This open access book includes original, peer-reviewed research papers from the 2024 International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Applications (WCNA 2024), held in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, from December 20 to 22, 2024. The topics covered...
This open access book examines the innovation and inheritance of Cantonese opera singing styles in Hong Kong from the 1930s to the 1970s. It delves into the background and current state of Cantonese opera singing, focusing on its inheritance and localization. The study...
This book provides an accessible introduction to the American legal system and is a vital resource to anyone interested in understanding how this social system works. Its focus is on law in practice, the role of the law in American society, and how the social context...
This open access book offers a critical examination of large-scale, state-led green industrial policies, with a particular focus on the European Union. Drawing on empirical evidence from sectors such as ethanol, hydrogen, wind power, and biogas, it reveals how...
This open access book presents a groundbreaking new perspective on European imperialism in Africa, by focusing on the role of Dutch private entrepreneurs in colonial activities during the so-called ‘Scramble for Africa’. Distinguishing between a state-based...
The open access book gives an overview of novel research findings in the field of humans interaction with embodied technologies. It provides a deep understanding of technologies, scientific methods, and studies on human's interaction with embodied technologies, such as...
This Open Access book examines the rise of political correctness as a cultural and normative force that has reshaped public discourse, legal norms, and democratic values. The author argues that what began as a movement for inclusion and respect has evolved into a system...
This is an open access book. Economic statistics can make people see the economic activities more widely. It can make people see the economic activities of the region, surrounding areas, the whole country, other countries and even the whole world. Economic statistics...
This is an open access book. The Communication Forum of Teacher Training and Education Faculty Leaders (CFTTEFL) was established on January 29, 2005 in Solo, Central Java. Until now, the forum has 29 members of Teacher Training and Education Faculty from state...
This Open Access book explores the role and agency of stories and storytelling in understanding places and in revealing how places tell stories. It addresses themes of colonialism, more-than-human agency, environment, atmospheres, borders, dwelling, enchantment,...
This Open-Access-Book bundles the knowledge gained from 12 years of research in a joint project (CRC/TRR 129 funded by DFG) on the subject of oxyfuel combustion of solid fuels. Oxyfuel combustion uses an atmosphere of CO2, H2O and O2, which fundamentally changes...
This open-access volume consists of papers presented at the conference “Thirty Years of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC): Histories, Achievements, Challenges”, held in Berlin, 5–6 October 2023, as well as of additional contributions. The...
This book is an open access. Welcome to the 2025 International Conference on Electronics, Electrical and Grid Technology (ICEEGT2025)The 2025 International Conference on Electronics, Electrical and Grid Technology (ICEEGT 2025) will be held in the vibrant city of Kuala...
This is an open access book. In a world of growing uncertainty and transformation, every nation strives to achieve sustainable development and elevate its position on the global stage.This pursuit necessitates a synergistic integration between technological and...
This open access book explores how socialist and post-colonial states envisioned and practised democracy for themselves after the Second World War. While scholarship on democracy has tended to focus on Western political traditions, this book demonstrates that the...
Following Italy’s unification in 1861, the new state faced the complex task of achieving political, administrative and cultural cohesion, which also required a unified body of knowledge about the national territory and its natural environment. This book explores how...
This open access book analyses Latin American countries’ state capacity based on these countries’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. The causes and consequences of uneven state capacity have been a popular academic debate in social welfare provision during...
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