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During the period of the Enlightenment, the word home could refer to a specific and defined physical living space, the location of domestic life, and a concept related to ideas of roots, origins, and retreat. The transformations that the Enlightenment encouraged created the circumstances for the concept of home to change and develop in the following three ways. First to influence homemaking were the literary and cultural manifestations that included issues around attitudes to education, social order and disorder, sensibility, and sexuality. Secondly, were the roles of visual and material culture of the home that demonstrated themselves through print, portraiture, literature, objects and products, and dress and fashion. Thirdly, were the industrial and sociological aspects that included concepts of luxury, progress, trade and technology, consumption, domesticity, and the notions of public and private spaces within a home.The chapters in this volume therefore discuss and reflect upon issues relating to the home through a range of approaches. Enlightenment homes are examined in terms of signification and meaning; the persons who inhabited them; the physical buildings and their furniture and furnishings; the work undertaken within them; the differing roles of men and women; the nature of hospitality, and the important role of religion in the home. Taken together they give a valuable overview of the manners, customs, and operation of the Enlightenment home

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- I: An Overview of Sustainable Agriculture -- 1: A History of Sustainable Agriculture -- 2: Making Agriculture a Sustainable Industry -- 3: International Goals and the Role of the International Agricultural Research Centers -- 4: Sustainable Agriculture in the United States -- 5: Society's Stake in Sustainable Agriculture -- 6: Sustainability: An Opportunity for Leadership -- II. Components of Sustainable Agricultural Systems -- 7: Soil Nutrient Management in the United States -- 8: Crop Rotations in Sustainable Agricultural Systems -- 9: Ecological and Agronomic Characteristics of Innovative Cropping Systems -- 10: Biotechnology and Crop Breeding for Sustainable Agriculture -- 11: Pest Management in Sustainable Agricultural Systems -- 12: Evolving Strategies for Managing Weeds -- 13: Conservation Tillage in Sustainable Agriculture -- 14: Pasture Management -- 15: Role of Animals in Sustainable Agriculture -- Ill. The Importance of Integration in Sustainable Farming Systems -- 16: The Importance of Integration in Sustainable Agricultural Systems -- 17: Integrated Farming System of Lautenbach: A Practical Contribution toward Sustainable -- 18: Research on Integrated Arable Farming and Organic Mixed Farming in the Netherlands -- IV. Sustainable Agricultural Systems in the Tropics -- 19: Ecological Agriculture in China -- 20: Sustainable Agricultural Systems in Tropical Africa -- 21: Ecological Considerations for the Future of Food -- 22: Understanding the Basis of Sustainability for Agriculture in the Tropics: Experiences in Latin America -- 23: Sustainable Agricultural Systems in the Humid Tropics of South America -- 24: Sustaining Agriculture: The Indian Scene -- V. Policy Development for the Low-input Sustainable Agriculture Program.

This is a book review of "The Politics of Furniture: Identity, Diplomacy and Persuasion in Post-War Interiors". Freddie Flore and Carmine McAtee (eds.), Routledge, 2017. ISBN 1472453557, 9781472453556. This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Journal of Design History, following peer review. The version of record EDWARDS, C., 2017. The politics of furniture: Identity, diplomacy and persuasion in post-war interiors. Journal of Design History, 30(3), pp.335-336. is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epx020

This article suggests that Australia could benefit from observing more closely Singapore's current development strategy. The production of labour intensive manufactures primarily by foreign firms and for export formed the core of Singapore's successful economic advance in the 1960s and 1970s. While a factor endowment strength—comparatively cheap labour—lay behind this achievement, the Singapore government actively supplemented this strength by creating a business environment highly favourable to the needs of foreign investors.With full employment and rising wage levels since then, Singapore lost its comparative advantage in the production of low wage manufactures to other East Asian countries. Recently, its development has been based more on created than inherited advantages. The Singapore government argues that the resources crucial to sustained per capita income advance in middle and higher income countries are not natural resources but rather information, technology, investible funds, research and development (R&D) spending and professional people. Singapore aims to develop its business environment to attract such resources to Singapore.The government's vision for Singapore is a nation where the share of professional and highly skilled manpower in the workforce rises over time. This employment goal informs the government's approach to all policy matters: infrastructure development, education, urban development, microeconomic reform, taxation, fiscal, monetary and exchange rate policy, support for manufacturing and service activities, and attitudes to foreign investors.By comparison with Australia, Singapore has a very level playing field. The government sees no conflict between intervening to attempt to create competitive advantage while vigorously pursuing microeconomic reforms to make the playing field in Singapore still more level.