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Urban Climates is the first full synthesis of modern scientific and applied research on urban climates. The book begins with an outline of what constitutes an urban ecosystem. It develops a comprehensive terminology for the subject using scale and surface classification as key constructs. It expl... More

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the workshops which complemented the 20th Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD, held in September 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference and workshops were held online. The 43 pape... More

Volume 12 of the EYIEL focuses on “The Future of Dispute Settlement in International Economic Law”. While new forms of dispute settlement are emerging, others are in deep crisis. The volume starts off with reflections on Dispute Settlement and the World Trade Organisation, most prominently the crisi... More

Written by four authors from different disciplinary backgrounds, this reader promotes a commitment to an intersectional approach to teaching race, class, gender and sexuality. Unlike most books of its kind, it highlights the duality of privilege and oppression and the effects that race, gender, and... More

In the 1970s, feminist slogans proclaimed "Sisterhood is powerful," and women's historians searched through the historical archives to recover stories of solidarity and sisterhood. However, as feminist scholars have started taking a more intersectional approach--acknowledging that no woman is simply... More

Remnants of early films often have a story to tell. As material artifacts, these film fragments are central to cinema history, perhaps more than ever in our digital age of easy copying and sharing. If a digital copy is previewed before preservation or is shared with a researcher outside the purview ... More

This volume examines the historical connections between the United States’ Reconstruction and the country’s emergence as a geopolitical power a few decades later. It shows how the processes at work during the postbellum decade variously foreshadowed, inhibited, and conditioned the development of the... More

Organic agriculture world-wide allows farmers to produce healthy food with low levels of external inputs, and often shortens the value chains, giving farmers a higher share of the consumer dollar. This book reports on long-term comparative organic farming systems research trials carried out over the... More

Dieses Buch schafft zum ersten Mal Transparenz und Verständnis zum Thema Nachhaltigkeit und Digitalisierung in der deutschen Immobilienbranche. Hierbei handelt es sich um zwei Megatrends im Markt, die die kommenden Jahre, vielleicht sogar Jahrzehnte, bestimmen werden. Zum Ersten befindet sich die ge... More

​Verschiedene Wege führen zum Glück – finden Sie Ihren!Dieses  Buch richtet sich an alle Menschen, die sich mit dem Thema Glück für sich und andere beschäftigen, und zeigt, dass das Glück oft näher und greifbarer ist als gedacht. Für jeden bedeutet Glück etwas anderes und jeder Mensch darf dabei ... More

Umfassendes, gut strukturiertes Lehrbuch zum Management von FamilienunternehmenDieses Lehrbuch bietet einen schnellen und gut strukturierten Einstieg in das komplexe Themengebiet des operativen Managements von Familienunternehmen. Die Autoren stellen die Besonderheiten dieser Unternehmensart umfasse... More

Dieses Fallstudienbuch bietet auf der Basis von zwölf praxisnahen Fällen einen Überblick über das komplexe Fachgebiet des Managements von Familienunternehmen. Es greift dabei die Themenbereiche des bereits in zweiter Auflage erschienenen Lehrbuchs der Herausgeber auf und illustriert diese zusätzlich... More