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Induced resistance offers the prospect of broad spectrum,
long-lasting and potentially environmentally-benign disease and
pest control in plants. Induced Resistance for Plant Defense 2e
provides a comprehensive account of the subject, encompassing the
underlying science and methodology, as well as research on
application of the phenomenon in practice. The second edition of
this important book includes updated coverage of cellular aspects
of induced resistance, including signalling and defenses, costs and
trade-offs associated with the expression of induced resistance,
research aimed at integrating induced resistance into crop
protection practice, and induced resistance from a commercial
perspective. Current thinking on how beneficial microbes induce
resistance in plants has been included in the second edition. The
14 chapters in this book have been written by
internationally-respected researchers and edited by three editors
with considerable experience of working on induced resistance. Like
its predecessor, the second edition of Induced Resistance for Plant
Defense will be of great interest to plant pathologists, plant cell
and molecular biologists, agricultural scientists, crop protection
specialists, and personnel in the agrochemical industry. All
libraries in universities and research establishments where
biological, agricultural, horticultural and forest sciences are
studied and taught should have copies of this book on their
shelves.
In the Renaissance and early modern periods, there were lively
controversies over why things happen. Central to these debates was
the troubling idea that things could simply happen by chance. In
France, a major terrain of this intellectual debate, the chance
hypothesis engaged writers coming from many different horizons: the
ancient philosophies of Epicurus, the Stoa, and Aristotle, the
renewed reading of the Bible in the wake of the Reformation, a
fresh emphasis on direct, empirical observation of nature and
society, the revival of dramatic tragedy with its paradoxical theme
of the misfortunes that befall relatively good people, and growing
introspective awareness of the somewhat arbitrary quality of
consciousness itself. This volume is the first in English to offer
a broad cultural and literary view of the field of chance in this
period. The essays, by a distinguished team of scholars from the
U.S., Britain, and France, cluster around four problems: Providence
in Question, Aesthetics and Poetics of Chance, Law and Ethics, and
Chance and its Remedies. Convincing and authoritative, this
collection articulates a new and rich perspective on the culture of
sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France.
From 9/11 to the Snowden leaks, stories about surveillance
increasingly dominate the headlines. But surveillance is not only
'done to us' - it is something we do in everyday life. We submit to
surveillance, believing we have nothing to hide. Or we try to
protect our privacy or negotiate the terms under which others have
access to our data. At the same time, we participate in
surveillance in order to supervise children, monitor other road
users, and safeguard our property. Social media allow us to keep
tabs on others, as well as on ourselves. This is the culture of
surveillance. This important book explores the imaginaries and
practices of everyday surveillance. Its main focus is not
high-tech, organized surveillance operations but our varied,
mundane experiences of surveillance that range from the casual and
careless to the focused and intentional. It insists that it is time
to stop using Orwellian metaphors and find ones suited to
twenty-first-century surveillance -- from 'The Circle' or 'Black
Mirror.' Surveillance culture, David Lyon argues, is not detached
from the surveillance state, society and economy. It is informed by
them. He reveals how the culture of surveillance may help to
domesticate and naturalize surveillance of unwelcome kinds, and
considers which kinds of surveillance might be fostered for the
common good and human flourishing.
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted life as we knew it. Lockdowns,
self-isolation and quarantine have become a normal part of everyday
life. Pandemic surveillance allows governments and corporations to
monitor and surveil the spread of the virus and to make sure
citizens follow the measures they put in place. This is evident in
the massive, unprecedented mobilization of public health data to
contain and combat the virus, and the ballooning of surveillance
technologies such as contact-tracing apps, facial recognition, and
population tracking. This can also be seen as a pandemic of
surveillance. In this timely book, David Lyon tracks the
development of these methods, examining different forms of pandemic
surveillance, in health-related and other areas, from countries
around the world. He explores their benefits and disadvantages,
their legal status, and how they relate to privacy protection, an
ethics of care, and data justice. Questioning whether this new
culture of surveillance will become a permanent feature of
post-pandemic societies and the long-term negative effects this
might have on social inequalities and human freedoms, Pandemic
Surveillance highlights the magnitude of COVID-19-related
surveillance expansion. The book also underscores the urgent need
for new policies relating to surveillance and data justice in the
twenty-first century.
Before imagination became the transcendent and creative faculty
promoted by the Romantics, it was for something quite different.
Not reserved to a privileged few, imagination was instead
considered a universal ability that each person could direct in
practical ways. To imagine something meant to form in the mind a
replica of a thing--its taste, its sound, and other physical
attributes. At the end of the Renaissance, there was a movement to
encourage individuals to develop their ability to imagine vividly.
Within their private mental space, a space of embodied, sensual
thought, they could meditate, pray, or philosophize. Gradually,
confidence in the self-directed imagination fell out of favor and
was replaced by the belief that the few--an elite of writers and
teachers--should control the imagination of the many.
This book seeks to understand what imagination meant in early
modern Europe, particularly in early modern France, before the
Romantic era gave the term its modern meaning. The author explores
the themes surrounding early modern notions of imagination
(including hostility to imagination) through the writings of such
figures as Descartes, Montaigne, Francois de Sales, Pascal, the
Marquise de Sevigne, Madame de Lafayette, and Fenelon.
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted life as we knew it. Lockdowns,
self-isolation and quarantine have become a normal part of everyday
life. Pandemic surveillance allows governments and corporations to
monitor and surveil the spread of the virus and to make sure
citizens follow the measures they put in place. This is evident in
the massive, unprecedented mobilization of public health data to
contain and combat the virus, and the ballooning of surveillance
technologies such as contact-tracing apps, facial recognition, and
population tracking. This can also be seen as a pandemic of
surveillance. In this timely book, David Lyon tracks the
development of these methods, examining different forms of pandemic
surveillance, in health-related and other areas, from countries
around the world. He explores their benefits and disadvantages,
their legal status, and how they relate to privacy protection, an
ethics of care, and data justice. Questioning whether this new
culture of surveillance will become a permanent feature of
post-pandemic societies and the long-term negative effects this
might have on social inequalities and human freedoms, Pandemic
Surveillance highlights the magnitude of COVID-19-related
surveillance expansion. The book also underscores the urgent need
for new policies relating to surveillance and data justice in the
twenty-first century.
In 2013, Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA and its partners had
been engaging in warrantless mass surveillance, using the internet
and cellphone data, and driven by fear of terrorism under the sign
of security . In this compelling account, surveillance expert David
Lyon guides the reader through Snowden s ongoing disclosures: the
technological shifts involved, the steady rise of invisible
monitoring of innocent citizens, the collusion of government
agencies and for-profit companies and the implications for how we
conceive of privacy in a democratic society infused by the lure of
big data. Lyon discusses the distinct global reactions to Snowden
and shows why some basic issues must be faced: how we frame
surveillance, and the place of the human in a digital world.
Surveillance after Snowden is crucial reading for anyone interested
in politics, technology and society.
The study of surveillance is more relevant than ever before. The
fast growth of the field of surveillance studies reflects both the
urgency of civil liberties and privacy questions in the war on
terror era and the classical social science debates over the power
of watching and classification, from Bentham to Foucault and
beyond. In this overview, David Lyon, one of the pioneers of
surveillance studies, fuses with aplomb classical debates and
contemporary examples to provide the most accessible and up-to-date
introduction to surveillance available.
The book takes in surveillance studies in all its breadth, from
local face-to-face oversight through technical developments in
closed-circuit TV, radio frequency identification and biometrics to
global trends that integrate surveillance systems internationally.
Surveillance is understood in its ambiguity, from caring to
controlling, and the role of visibility of the surveilled is taken
as seriously as the powers of observing, classifying and judging.
The book draws on international examples and on the insights of
several disciplines; sociologists, political scientists and
geographers will recognize key issues from their work here, but so
will people from media, culture, organization, technology and
policy studies. This illustrates the diverse strands of thought and
critique available, while at the same time the book makes its own
distinct contribution and offers tools for evaluating both
surveillance trends and the theories that explain them.
This book is the perfect introduction for anyone wanting to
understand surveillance as a phenomenon and the tools for analysing
it further, and will be essential reading for students andscholars
alike.
From 9/11 to the Snowden leaks, stories about surveillance
increasingly dominate the headlines. But surveillance is not only
'done to us' - it is something we do in everyday life. We submit to
surveillance, believing we have nothing to hide. Or we try to
protect our privacy or negotiate the terms under which others have
access to our data. At the same time, we participate in
surveillance in order to supervise children, monitor other road
users, and safeguard our property. Social media allow us to keep
tabs on others, as well as on ourselves. This is the culture of
surveillance. This important book explores the imaginaries and
practices of everyday surveillance. Its main focus is not
high-tech, organized surveillance operations but our varied,
mundane experiences of surveillance that range from the casual and
careless to the focused and intentional. It insists that it is time
to stop using Orwellian metaphors and find ones suited to
twenty-first-century surveillance -- from 'The Circle' or 'Black
Mirror.' Surveillance culture, David Lyon argues, is not detached
from the surveillance state, society and economy. It is informed by
them. He reveals how the culture of surveillance may help to
domesticate and naturalize surveillance of unwelcome kinds, and
considers which kinds of surveillance might be fostered for the
common good and human flourishing.
New ID card systems are proliferating around the world. These may
use digitized fingerprints or photos, may be contactless, using a
scanner, and above all, may rely on computerized registries of
personal information. In this timely new contribution, David Lyon
argues that such IDs represent a fresh phase in the long-term
attempts of modern states to find stable ways of identifying
citizens.
New ID systems are "new" because they are high-tech. But their
newness is also seen crucially in the ways that they contribute to
new means of governance. The rise of e-Government and global
mobility along with the aftermath of 9/11 and fears of identity
theft are propelling the trend towards new ID systems. This is
further lubricated by high technology companies seeking lucrative
procurements, giving stakes in identification practices to agencies
additional to nation-states, particularly technical and commercial
ones. While the claims made for new IDs focus on security,
efficiency and convenience, each proposal is also controversial.
Fears of privacy-loss, limits to liberty, government control, and
even of totalitarian tendencies are expressed by critics.
This book takes an historical, comparative and sociological look
at citizen-identification, and new ID cards in particular. It
concludes that their widespread use is both likely and, without
some strong safeguards, troublesome, though not necessarily for the
reasons most popularly proposed. Arguing that new IDs demand new
approaches to identification practices given their potential for
undermining trust and contributing to social exclusion, David Lyon
provides the clearest overview of this topical area to date.
Examples, crucial links between discourse and society's view of
reality, have until now been largely neglected in literary
criticism. In the first book-length study of the rhetoric of
example, John Lyons situates this figure by comparing it with more
frequently studied tropes such as metaphor and synecdoche,
discusses meanings of the terms example and exemplum, and proposes
a set of descriptive concepts for the study of example in early
modern literature. Tracing its paradoxical nature back to
Aristotle's Rhetoric, Lyons shows how exemplary rhetoric is caught
between often competing aims of persuasive general statement and
accurate representation. In French and Italian texts of the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries this dual task was rendered
still more challenging by a transition to new sources of examples
as the age of discovery brought increased emphasis on observation.
The writers of this period were aware of a crisis in exemplary
rhetoric, a situation in which serious questions were raised about
how authors and audience would find a common ground in interpreting
representative instances. Lyons's focus on the strategy of example
leads to new readings of six major writers--Machiavelli, Marguerite
de Navarre, Montaigne, Pascal, Descartes, and Marie de Lafayette.
Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the
latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of
Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original
texts of these important books while presenting them in durable
paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy
Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage
found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905.
Examples, crucial links between discourse and society's view of
reality, have until now been largely neglected in literary
criticism. In the first book-length study of the rhetoric of
example, John Lyons situates this figure by comparing it with more
frequently studied tropes such as metaphor and synecdoche,
discusses meanings of the terms example and exemplum, and proposes
a set of descriptive concepts for the study of example in early
modern literature. Tracing its paradoxical nature back to
Aristotle's Rhetoric, Lyons shows how exemplary rhetoric is caught
between often competing aims of persuasive general statement and
accurate representation. In French and Italian texts of the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries this dual task was rendered
still more challenging by a transition to new sources of examples
as the age of discovery brought increased emphasis on observation.
The writers of this period were aware of a crisis in exemplary
rhetoric, a situation in which serious questions were raised about
how authors and audience would find a common ground in interpreting
representative instances. Lyons's focus on the strategy of example
leads to new readings of six major writers--Machiavelli, Marguerite
de Navarre, Montaigne, Pascal, Descartes, and Marie de
Lafayette.
Originally published in 1990.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these
important books while presenting them in durable paperback
editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly
increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the
thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since
its founding in 1905.
In this lively and accessible study, David Lyon explores the
relationship between religion and postmodernity, through the
central metaphor of "'Jesus in Disneyland.'"
In 2013, Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA and its partners had
been engaging in warrantless mass surveillance, using the internet
and cellphone data, and driven by fear of terrorism under the sign
of security . In this compelling account, surveillance expert David
Lyon guides the reader through Snowden s ongoing disclosures: the
technological shifts involved, the steady rise of invisible
monitoring of innocent citizens, the collusion of government
agencies and for-profit companies and the implications for how we
conceive of privacy in a democratic society infused by the lure of
big data. Lyon discusses the distinct global reactions to Snowden
and shows why some basic issues must be faced: how we frame
surveillance, and the place of the human in a digital world.
Surveillance after Snowden is crucial reading for anyone interested
in politics, technology and society.
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