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Discover the University of Helsinki Open Access Books Collection

We are proud to work with the University of Helsinki to open 37 titles from researchers based at the University of Helsinki. The university had kindly funded this program to make research in the social sciences available to read for anybody around the globe.

Take a look at titles in Sociology, Politics Education and more, simply click on the subject area and book title to access.

Featured Books

**Analytical Psychology in a Changing World: The search for self, identity and community**

**Read Chapter 2**: Big Stories and Small Stories in the Psychological Relief Work after the Earthquake Disaster: Life and Death by Toshio Kawai

curriculum instruction Japan — **Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment in Japan**

**Read Chapter 2**: Historical Overview of Curriculum Development: National Control over Curriculum vs. School-Based Curriculum Development by Kanae Nishioka

**Read Chapter 5**: Read Chapter 5: Historical Overview of Lesson Study by Terumasa Ishii

Behavioral Science & Education

The Psychology of Study Success in Universities book cover — **The Psychology of Study Success in Universities**

**Dynamics in Education Politics : Understanding** **and explaining the Finnish case**

ethics — **A New Approach to Research Ethics : Using Guided Dialogue to Strengthen Research Communities**

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northern arch — **Northern Archaeology and Cosmology : A Relational View**

Arch, heritage — **Archaeology, Heritage and Ethics in the Western Wall Plaza, Jerusalem : Darkness at the End of the Tunnel**

married women in legal practice — **Married Women in Legal Practice : Agency and Norms in the Swedish Realm, 1350-1450**

american west — **The American West and the World : Transnational and Comparative Perspectives**

women and politeness — **Women and Politeness in Eighteenth-Century England : Bodies, Identities, and Power**

promoting heritage — **Promoting Heritage Language in Northwest Russia**

making sense of bad english — **Making Sense of “Bad English”: An Introduction to Language Attitudes and Ideologies**

the virgin mary — **The Virgin Mary across Cultures : Devotion among** **Costa Rican Catholic and Finnish Orthodox** **Women**

**Orthodox Christianity and Gender : Dynamics of Tradition, Culture and Lived Practice**

Social Sciences

Women's lived landscapes — **Women’s Lived Landscapes of War and Liberation in Mozambique : Bodily Memory and the Gendered Aesthetics of Belonging**

india — **Employment, Poverty and Rights in India**

geopolitics — **Geopolitics of the Knowledge-Based Economy**

artic — **Society, Environment and Human Security in the Arctic Barents Region**

public — **Public Participation, Science and Society : Tools for Dynamic and Responsible Governance of Research and Innovation**

well-being — **Reciprocal Relationships and Well-being : Implications for Social Work and Social Policy**

rethinking eu — **Rethinking EU Consumer Law**

law — **Law, Technology and Dispute Resolution : The Privatisation of Coercion**

Terrorism, criminal — **Terrorism, Criminal Law and Politics : The Decline of the Political Offence Exception to Extradition**

disgenerative — **Disintegrative Tendencies in Global Political Economy : Exits and Conflicts**

vivir — **Vivir Bien as an Alternative to Neoliberal Globalization: Can Indigenous Terminologies Decolonize the State?**

russia — **Russia–EU Relations and the Common Neighborhood : Coercion vs. Authority**

politics — **Memory Politics in Contemporary Russia : Television, Cinema and the State**

china and great power — **China and Great Power Responsibility for Climate Change**

intergenerational — **Intergenerational Family Relations : An Evolutionary Social Science Approach**

online hate — **Online Hate and Harmful Content : Cross-National Perspectives**

recoding life — **Recoding Life: Information and the Biopolitical**

morality — **Morality Made Visible: Edward Westermarck’s Moral and Social Theory**

muslim — **Wellbeing of Transnational Muslim Families: Marriage, Law and Gender**

undoing — **Undoing Homogeneity in the Nordic Region: Migration, Difference and the Politics of Solidarity**

enter culture — **Enter Culture, Exit Arts? : The Transformation of Cultural Hierarchies in European Newspaper Culture Sections, 1960–2010**