Death and Digital Media provides a critical overview of how people mourn, commemorate and interact with the dead through digital media. It maps the historical and shifting landscape of digital death, considering a wide range of social, commercial and institutional responses to technological innovations. The authors examine multiple digital platforms and offer a series of case studies drawn from North America, Europe and Australia. The book delivers fresh insight and analysis from an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing on anthropology, sociology, science and technology studies, human-computer interaction, and media studies. It is key reading for students and scholars in these disciplines, as well as for professionals working in bereavement support capacities.

Media across the Asia-Pacific region are at once social, locative and mobile. Social in that these media facilitate public and interpersonal interaction, locative in that this social communication is geographically placed, and mobile in so much as the media is ever-present. The Asia-Pacific region has been pivotal in the production, shaping and consumption of personal new media technologies and through social and mobile media we can see emerging certain types of personal politics that are inflected by the local. The six case studies that inform this book-Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai, Manila, Singapore and Melbourne-offer a range of economic, socio-cultural, and linguistic differences, enabling the authors to provide new insights into specific issues pertaining to mobile media in each city. These include social, mobile and locative media as a form of crisis management in post 3/11 Tokyo; generational shifts in Shanghai; political discussion and the shifting social fabric in Singapore; and the erosion of public and private, and work and leisure paradigms in Melbourne. Through its striking case studies, this book sheds new light on how the region and its contested and multiple identities are evolving, and concludes by revealing the impact of mobile media on how place is shaped, as well as shaping, practices of mobility, intimacy and a sense of belonging. Employing comprehensive, cross-disciplinary frameworks from theoretical approaches such as media sociology, ethnography, cultural studies and media and communication studies, Online@AsiaPacific will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Asian culture and society, cybercultures, new media studies, communication studies and internet studies.

Media across the Asia-Pacific region are at once social, locative and mobile. Social in that these media facilitate public and interpersonal interaction, locative in that this social communication is geographically placed, and mobile in so much as the media is ever-present. The Asia Pacific region has been pivotal in the production, shaping and consumption of personal new media technologies and through social and mobile media we can see emerging certain types of personal politics that are inflected by the local.

The six case studies that inform this book Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai, Manila, Singapore and Melbourne offer a range of economic, socio-cultural, and linguistic differences, enabling the authors to provide new insights into specific issues pertaining to mobile media in each city. These include social, mobile and locative media as a form of crisis management in post 3/11 Tokyo; generational shifts in Shanghai; political discussion and the shifting social fabric in Singapore; and the erosion of public and private, and work and leisure paradigms in Melbourne. Through its striking case studies, this book sheds new light on how the region and its contested and multiple identities are evolving, and concludes by revealing the impact of mobile media on how place is shaped, as well as shaping, practices of mobility, intimacy and a sense of belonging.

Employing comprehensive, cross-disciplinary frameworks from theoretical approaches such as media sociology, ethnography, cultural studies and media and communication studies, "Online@AsiaPacific" will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Asian culture and society, cybercultures, new media studies, communication studies and internet studies.

This title aims to provide introductory and concluding surveys of the subject of farms, trees and farmers. Two central parts explore trends in farmer tree-growing and the factors which influence decision-making. Eight case studies cover, among other topics, the need for tree products, market access, the allocation of land and labour, and exposure to risk. In showing why farmers decide to grow or not grow trees, it seeks to increase the reader's knowledge about farming systems and to provide a guide to encouraging farm forestry throughout the world.

This title aims to provide introductory and concluding surveys of the subject of farms, trees and farmers. Two central parts explore trends in farmer tree-growing and the factors which influence decision-making. Eight case studies cover, among other topics, the need for tree products, market access, the allocation of land and labour, and exposure to risk. In showing why farmers decide to grow or not grow trees, it seeks to increase the reader's knowledge about farming systems and to provide a guide to encouraging farm forestry throughout the world.

Death and Digital Media provides a critical overview of how people mourn, commemorate and interact with the dead through digital media. It maps the historical and shifting landscape of digital death, considering a wide range of social, commercial and institutional responses to technological innovations. The authors examine multiple digital platforms and offer a series of case studies drawn from North America, Europe and Australia. The book delivers fresh insight and analysis from an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing on anthropology, sociology, science and technology studies, human-computer interaction, and media studies. It is key reading for students and scholars in these disciplines, as well as for professionals working in bereavement support capacities.

La France, depuis 1973, a fait de grands e./forts pour reduire sa dependance energetique~' tlle en fera plus encore a l'avenir et il n 'est pas hors de portee, dans le long terme, de couvrir la moitie de nos besoins par la production nationale d'energie. Nous ny parviendrons cependant que par de vastes programmes technologiques, des investissements accrus - et il nous faudra encore importer la moitie de notre energie, la quasi totalite du petrole necessaire. L 'economie franfaise, nos entreprises, l'ensemble de leurs personneIs, devront donc plus que jamais " communiquer" avec ceux qui, partout dans le monde, ont les memes ambitions. C'etait devancer l'evenement que de lance" en 1971 un dictionnaire anglais-franfais des termes petroliers,' c'est a nouveau construire l'avenir que de publier cette seconde edition dont le vaste champ, technique, economique, financier, juridique, repond si bien aux besoins de lecteurs qui n 'appartiennent pas a la seule profession petroliere. Qu 'il me soit permis d'en feliciter les auteurs, en soulignant le soin extreme qu 'ils ont mis a donner a chaque terme son exacte equivalence dans notre langue. F. de Wissocq Avant-Propos A l'origine, au cours des annees 50 et 60, Fabio Zubini avait remge un lexique des termes petroliers anglais interessant surtout le raffinage et la chimie du petroie. Le bon accueil reserve a cet ouvrage, en italien d'abord (1969), puis a sa version fran~aise (1971), conduisit finalement a " remettre l'ouvrage sur le metier ".

Assassin's Reign, the fourth in The Civil War Chronicles, Michael Arnold's acclaimed series of historical thrillers, sees battle-scarred hero Captain Stryker, 'the Sharpe of the Civil War', in the fight of his life. 'Stands in comparison with the best of Cornwell' Yorkshire Post The forces of King Charles are victorious; their Parliamentarian enemies in deep crisis. In the west, the crucial port city of Bristol has fallen, and Royalist eyes fall quickly upon neighbouring Gloucester. Its walls are weak, its garrison under strength, and its governor - Sir Edward Massie - suspected of harbouring sympathy for the King. Stryker and his men are with the army as it converges on Gloucester, still reeling from the loss of a close friend at the bloody Battle of Stratton. Ordered to infiltrate the rebel city on a mission to discover whether Massie will indeed surrender, Stryker reluctantly embarks upon his most desperate mission yet. But Gloucester's defenders are more resolute than any had imagined, and catastrophe soon befalls him. With his life seemingly forfeit, Stryker is spared by an unlikely saviour; Vincent Skaithlocke, his former commander. The mercenary has returned to England to fight for Parliament, and offers Stryker his protection. As old friends adjust to life fighting for opposing sides, Stryker begins to question his own loyalties . . . but a chance discovery makes him realise that all in Gloucester is not what it seems, for a hidden menace threatens his own life, and that of King Charles himself.

Devil's Charge, the second in The Civil War Chronicles, Michael Arnold's acclaimed series of historical thrillers, sees battle-scarred hero Captain Stryker, 'the Sharpe of the Civil War', fight for his honour. 'Stands in comparison with the best of Cornwell' Yorkshire Post England stands divided: king against Parliament, town against country, brother against brother. For Captain Stryker, scarred hero of a dozen wars, the rights and wrongs of the cause mean little. His loyalties are to his own small band of comrades - and to Queen Henrietta Maria's beautiful and most deadly agent, Lisette Gaillard. So when Prince Rupert entrusts him with a secret mission to discover what has happened to Lisette and the man she was protecting - a man who could hold the key to Royalist victory - nothing, not false imprisonment for murder, ambush, a doomed siege or a lethal religious fanatic will stand in his way. A Sunday Times Historical Fiction Book of the Year

Die Histochemie hat ein fast unubersehbares Arsenal von Methoden zur Stoff- ortung im histologischen Praparat bereitgestellt. Die histochemische Grundlagen- forschung entwickelt in rascher Folge weitere spezielle Verfahren, die fur die topo- chemische Analyse licht- und elektronenmikroskopischer Objekte eingesetzt werden koennen. Die beeindruckenden Moeglichkeiten histochemischer Gewebsuntersuchung haben zu breiter Anwendung auf den verschiedensten Gebieten, vor allem auch in der klinischen Medizin, gefuhrt. Dies hat zur naturlichen Folge, dass haufig histochemisch zunachst unerfahrenes technisches Hilfspersonal mit der Praparatherstellung befasst ist und dass auch die wissenschaftliche Interpretation der Ergebnisse oft auf unzu- reichenden Erfahrungsgrundlagen erfolgt. So erklart es sich, dass so viele histoche- mische Befunde veroeffentlicht werden, die der Kritik nicht standhalten. Aus vielfaltigen Erfahrungen bei der Zusammenarbeit auf dem Gebiet der ange- wandten Histochemie ergibt sich, dass insbesondere der Mediziner vielen z. T. elemen- taren Schwierigkeiten gegenubersteht. Das exakte Nacharbeiten von Methoden anhand der ausgezeichneten Werke, die fur diesen Zweck bereits zur Verfugung stehen, genugt offensichtlich nicht, die histochemische Praxis auf eine sichere Grund- lage zu stellen. Von dem Gedanken ausgehend, dass Verstandnis fur den Mechanismus der einzelnen speziellen histochemischen Reaktionen zwar selbstverstandlich notwendig, aber allein nicht ausreichend ist, dass vielmehr Einsicht in die allgemeinen Grund- prinzipien histologisch-histochemischer Arbeitsweisen geweckt werden musse, wurde das vorliegende Werk konzipiert. Der Akzent der Darstellung liegt auf der Behand- lung der methodischen Grundmoeglichkeiten. Deren Systematisierung fuhrt zu einer Methodologie im eigentlichen Sinn, in deren Rahmen jede spezielle Methode die Wertigkeit einer Anwendung oder eines Beispiels hat.