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The Business of Densification
(2024)Affordable housing shortage and social exclusion have become severe societal problems across the globe. Increasing numbers of people are suffering from social eviction and displacement due to urban densification, modernization, rising rents, and intense housing commodification. Vulnerable resident groups – such as old-aged or households with children – who often live in old housing stocks planned to be densified, renovated, or upgraded ...Monograph -
The Politics of Cyber-Security
(2024)International Studies IntensivesBy combining theoretical discussions with real-world examples, The Politics of Cyber-Security offers readers valuable insights into the role of cyber-security in the realm of international politics. In the face of persistent challenges stemming from the exploitation of global cyberspace, cyber-security has risen to the forefront of both national and international political priorities. Understanding the intricacies and dynamics of ...Monograph -
Interdisciplinary Practices in Higher Education
(2024)Drawing on eight crowdsourced cases, Interdisciplinary Practices in Higher Education demonstrates the range and diversity in approaches to teaching, learning and collaborating across disciplinary and institutional borders. The cases explore everyday challenges within interdisciplinary higher education experiences such as designing study programmes, planning curricula, ensuring sufficient assessment and feedback for diverse groups of ...Monograph -
Nonlinear Optics on Ferroic Materials
(2024)The use of nonlinear optics for the study of ferroics, that is, magnetically, electrically or otherwise spontaneously ordered and switchable materials has witnessed a remarkable development since its inception with the invention of the laser in the 1960s. This book on Nonlinear Optics on Ferroic Materials reviews and advances an overarching concept of ferroic order and its exploration by nonlinear-optical methods. In doing so, it brings ...Monograph -
Trésors d'herbiers
(2024)Une collection de planches d’herbiers est un trésor végétal à la beauté double : intrinsèque, fruit de l’aventure fascinante de la plante, de son évolution, de ses multiples adaptations ou de ses propriétés diverses, et de celle de son récolteur, scientifique, passionné, voyageur ou simple curieux ; extrinsèque, de par la splendeur de l’échantillon, du soin apporté par le collectionneur et de sa mise en valeur par le conservateur. C’est ...Monograph -
Sicherheit und Zuverlässigkeit im Bauwesen
(2023)Sicherheit ist eines der wesentlichen Stichworte unserer Zeit, nicht zuletzt auch im Bauwesen. Das Buch durchleuchtet diesen Aspekt in großer thematischer Breite. Als entscheidende Voraussetzung für die Schaffung von Sicherheit im Bauwesen werden im ersten Teil Methoden der Gefährungsanalyse und Elemente der Massnahmenplanung behandelt. Weiter findet sich eine Einführung in das elementare Grundwissen der Statistik und Wahrscheinlichkeitslehre ...Monograph -
Geochemischer Bodenatlas der Schweiz
(2023)Chemische Elemente im Boden, welche über die Nahrungskette aufgenommen werden, können je nach Konzentrationsbereich und Bioverfügbarkeit für Lebewesen essentiell sein oder schädlich wirken. Nebst dem Ausscheiden von Gebieten mit potentieller Belastung ist die Kenntnis der typischen Gehalte von Spurenelementen in den Oberböden der Schweiz für Kontroll- und Vollzugsaufgaben von zentraler Bedeutung. Das Bundesamt für Umwelt hat in Zusammenarbeit ...Monograph -
Classical and Quantum Parametric Phenomena
(2023)This book provides an overview of the phenomena arising when parametric pumping is applied to oscillators. These phenomena include parametric amplification, noise squeezing, spontaneous symmetry breaking, activated switching, cat states, and synthetic Ising spin lattices. To understand these effects, we introduce topics such as nonlinear and stochastic dynamics, coupled systems, and quantum mechanics. Throughout the book, we keep these ...Monograph -
Divine Money
(2023)Zakat giving or mutual aid is a sacred practice in Islam. Where government and public safety nets fail, zakat serves as a form of social security in Muslim communities. In Divine Money, Emanuel Schaeublin shows how zakat institutions and direct zakat donations function in contemporary Palestine. Based on his ethnographic fieldwork in the city of Nablus, Schaeublin traces zakat flows as they provide critical support to households living ...Monograph -
De ruimte die we delen
(2023)Inspired by philosopher Hannah Arendt, Hans Teerds outlines in this extended essay how the built environment conditions people and thereby has an impact on the personal and social lives of its inhabitants, as well as affects the political vitality of human communities. Architectural and urban Design intervene in a world that is shared, the world-in-common, to use a term from Arendt. Precisely that turns architecture and its related ...Monograph