E-book Global Legitimacy Crises : Decline and Revival in Multilateral Governance

Legitimacy is a common theme in political and social research. It is conventionallyseen to play a fundamental role in any political system. Discussions of what it doesto social and political life have occupied deep minds in sociology, philosophy, andpolitical science.¹ Yet the most commonly stated reason to care about legitimacy inpolitical analysis comes down to a belief about its effects. Le…

E-book Primary Physical Science Education : An Imaginative Approach to Encoun…

This open access book is the first of two volumes that integrates a study of direct encounters with Primary Forces of Nature, Wind, Light, Rain, Heat and Cold, Water, etc., with imaginative narrative forms of communication. The approach developed in this book shows how the growth of cognitive tools (first of mythic and then of romantic forms of understanding) lets children make sense of experie…

E-book Syntax of Dutch

Dutch is an official language in the Netherlands, Belgium-Flanders, Surinam, Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles. With about 22 million native speakers it is one of the world?s greater languages. It is taught and studied at more than 175 universities around the world (source: taalunieversum.org). Furthermore, Dutch is one of the most well-studied living languages; research on it has had …

E-book Organizing for Independence: Secessionist Protest, Organizational Chan…

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E-book Game, World, Architectonics : Transdisciplinary Approaches on Structur…

This anthology comprises written versions as well as extended case studies of talks from the international two-day workshop “Architectonics of Game Worlds—On Aesthetics and Mechanics, Spaces and Places, Rhythms and Philosophies” at the University of Cologne in March 2019. The contributors do not only come from across Europe but also cover diverse research disciplines thro…

E-book Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things A…

When asked simple questions about global trends?what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is increasing; how many girls finish school?we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers. In Factfulness, Professor …

E-book Internal Crowdsourcing in Companies : Theoretical Foundations and Prac…

The research landscape in the area of forecasting and assessing working conditionshas become increasingly difficult to understand. There are plenty of identifiedreasons, drivers and catchwords to describe a systemic transformation. Individual-and subject-specific approaches to describe and understand the changes to work arebeing developed in almost every scientific discipline, as well as by (ec…

E-book Nocturnal Fabulations: Ecology, Vitality and Opacity in the Cinema of …

When the Immediations book series at Open Humanities Press was launched, it was done with Gilles Deleuze’s concept of the intercessor1 in mind. We were looking for a way to give voice to a kind of collaboration that would work from within the weave of research and writing, a collaboration that would give texture to a voice (or a multiplicity of voice) toward a conversation to come. A conversa…

E-book Performance Spaces and Stage Technologies : A Comparative Perspective …

This article aims to analyze the composition and structure of street theatersin Chang’an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty in the early 9th century, mainlybased on the novelThe Tale of Li Wa(???).The Tale of Li Wais a love storywritten by Bai Xingjian, a scholar-official; however, it was adapted from astreet play performed by wandering entertainers in Chang’an (Seo 1987b: 476-505).The Tale o…

E-book 70 Years of Levothyroxine

n the opening chapter of this book, we consider the history of the therapeutic use of levothyroxine (LT4). Recognition of the therapeutic value of LT4 emerged from experience gained from, essentially, empirical administration by physicians of crude thyroid extracts to people with advanced sequelae of hypothyroidism [1–4]. These clinical experiments arose from early studies of people w…