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Just Managing? What it Means for the Families of Austerity Britain

Mark O'Brien and Paul Kyprianou

At a time when the impact of austerity is more relevant than ever, Just Managing? cuts through the debates and sloganeering to give some of the real people behind the headlines and statistics a chance to tell their stories. It tracks the lives of thirty working families in Liverpool over one year, as they struggle to manage on incomes at or around the National Minimum Wage.

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Open Education: International Perspectives in Higher Education

Patrick Blessinger and TJ Bliss (eds.)

This insightful collection of essays explores the ways in which open education can democratise access to education for all. It is a rich resource that offers both research and case studies to relate the application of open technologies and approaches in education settings around the world.

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Searching for Sharing: Heritage and Multimedia in Africa

Daniela Merolla and Mark Turin (eds.)

In a world where new technologies are being developed at a dizzying pace, how can we best approach oral genres that represent heritage? Taking an innovative and interdisciplinary approach, this volume explores the idea of sharing as a model to construct and disseminate the knowledge of literary heritage with the people who are represented by and in it.

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Security in a Small Nation: Scotland, Democracy, Politics

Andrew W. Neal (ed.)

The 2014 Referendum on Scottish independence sparked debate on every dimension of modern statehood. In this volume Andrew Neal has collated a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives on security and constitutional change in Scotland and the UK, including writing from experts in foreign policy analysis, intelligence studies, parliamentary studies, and journalism.

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The Infrastructure Finance Challenge

Ingo Walter (ed.)

The global interconnectedness of the world’s economies, along with the torrid pace of urbanization in the developing world, lead to urgent and manifestly complex issues about infrastructure. This monograph takes on some of the fundamental questions in this area, attempting to clarify how to think about the boundaries of what is meant by ‘infrastructure’, its pricing, its potential adverse effects and its financing.

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Tolerance: The Beacon of the Enlightenment

Translated by Caroline Warman, et al.

Inspired by Voltaire’s advice that a text needs to be concise to have real influence, this anthology contains fiery extracts by forty eighteenth-century authors, from the most famous philosophers of the age to those whose brilliant writings are less well-known. These passages are immensely diverse in style and topic, but all have in common a passionate commitment to equality, freedom, and tolerance.

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Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry: Reinventing the Canon

Katharine Hodgson, Joanne Shelton and Alexandra Smith (eds.)

The canon of Russian poetry has been reshaped since the fall of the Soviet Union. A multi-authored study of changing cultural memory and identity, this revisionary work charts Russia’s shifting relationship to its own literature in the face of social upheaval.

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What Works in Conservation 2017

William J. Sutherland, Lynn V. Dicks, Nancy Ockendon, Rebecca K. Smith (eds.)

Is planting grass margins around fields beneficial for wildlife? Which management interventions increase bee numbers in farmland? Does helping migrating toads across roads increase populations? How do you reduce predation on bird populations? What Works in Conservation has been created to provide practitioners with answers to these and many other questions about practical conservation.

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Welcome to Open Book Publishers

103 titles published
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We are a Social Enterprise run by scholars who are committed to making high-quality research available to readers around the world. We publish monographs and textbooks in all areas, and offer the academic excellence of a traditional press, with the speed, convenience and accessibility of digital publishing. All our books are available to read for free online. We also publish bespoke Series for Universities and Research Centers and invite librarians to further Open Access publishing by joining our Membership Programme.

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We are delighted that our project has been shortlisted for the 2017 WISE Awards, which recognizes education projects from around the globe for their innovative approach to solve the real-world obstacles to education. This is the second time we have been nominated for the Awards, having been previously recognised in 2014. We are also very proud to have achieved a 9/10 social impact score in the SE100 Rankings 2016.

We were the winner of the 2013 IFLA/Brill Open Access award for initiatives in open access monograph publishing. IFLA (The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) and Brill jury were impressed by Open Book Publishers' serious effort to publish high quality monographs on an open access basis. The Accelerating Science Award Program (ASAP) blue ribbon panel of industry experts selected OBP to be one of seven high-impact Open Access organizations, among journal publishers and content providers.

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We are a nonprofit independent publisher with no institutional backing. Open Book relies on sales and donations to continue publishing high-quality and free to read titles. We gratefully acknowledge the generous support of the Polonsky Foundation, the Thriplow Charitable Trust, the Jessica E. Smith and Kevin R. Brine Charitable Trust and The Progress Foundation.

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