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Cover -- A Note on the Author -- Dedication -- Title -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Great Acceleration -- Future Perfect? -- 1. Permanent Revolution -- Chips with Everything -- A Quick History of Disruption -- Schumpeter's Children -- The Customer is Always Right -- The Revenge of the Dinosaurs -- Today Silicon Valley, Tomorrow the World -- 2. Quick Reactions -- Brain Candy -- Attention Deficit? -- Stressed Out -- Chained to the Desk -- Sleepless Nights -- The Road To Recovery -- 3. Fast Friends -- The Legend of Zelda -- Growing up Fast -- The Curse of Oversharing -- The Quickening of Desire -- The Swipe is Right -- The Automation of Adoration -- No Such Thing as Society? -- 4. The Art of Acceleration -- Kings of Convenience -- Sinking Deeper -- The Shock of the New -- Following the Crowd -- Watering the Grass Roots -- Playing the Game -- Who Needs Humans Anyway? -- 5. Tomorrow's News Today -- Squeezing the Press -- Speeding Up, Dumbing Down -- Talking Heads -- The Case for Disruption -- Quantity and Quality -- The Next Generation of News -- 6. The Pace of Politics -- The Permanent Campaign -- Governing in a Hurry -- Men of Destiny -- Judging by Appearances -- Riding the Tiger -- Getting Better Government -- Reinventing Government -- Future Imperfect -- 7. Time is Money -- Short Term, Short Sight -- Market Mayhem -- Hot Money -- The Triumph of the Nerds -- Trading at the Speed of Light -- The Case for the Defence -- The Flash Crash -- Mending the Market -- 8. Planet Express -- The Great Deceleration -- Delivering The Goods -- Going Global -- Slicker Cities -- 9. Racing to Destruction? -- Appetite For Destruction -- Global Summer Time -- Planet Of Plenty -- From Feast to Famine -- Reaching the Limits? -- Acceleration to the Rescue -- The Future's Bright -- Conclusion - Fast Forward -- Grey Planet -- A World of Possibilities

Preface -- Contents -- Introduction to Belowground Defence Strategies in Plants -- Part I: General Principles of Belowground Defence Strategies -- Belowground Defence Strategies in Plants: Parallels Between Root Responses to Beneficial and Detrimental Microbes -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Study of Root-Microbe Interactions -- 2.1 Plant Systems -- 2.2 Microbial Systems -- 2.2.1 Foliar Fungal Pathogens -- 2.2.2 Oomycete Pathogens -- 3 Can I Stay or Must I Go? Parallels in Root Responses to Beneficial and Detrimental Microbes at the Tissue Level -- 3.1 Nutrition Status

Large public screens have now become a ubiquitous part of the contemporary cityscape. Far from being simply oversized televisions, the media experts contributing to Ambient Screens and Transnational Public Spaces put forward a strong case that such screens could serve as important sites for cultural exchange. Advances in digital technology spell the possibilities of conducting mobile modes of interaction across national boundaries, and in the process expose the participants to novel sensory experiences, giving rise to a new form of public culture. Understanding this phenomenon calls for a reco

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: "The Body Is a Resonant Chamber" -- Chapter 1 Imaginary Spaces of Conciliation and Reconciliation: Art, Curation, and Healing -- Chapter 2 Intergenerational Sense, Intergenerational Responsibility -- Chapter 3 this is what happens when we perform the memory of the land -- Chapter 4 Witnessing In Camera: Photographic Reflections on Truth and Reconciliation -- Chapter 5 "Aboriginal Principles of Witnessing" and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Preface to the English Edition - A World of Prisons -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue - Where It All Begins -- Introduction - The Expanding Prison -- Notes -- 1 - For Whom the Cell Fills -- Notes -- 2 - A Well-Kept Public Secret -- Notes -- 3 - Ye Who Enter Here -- Notes -- 4 - Life in Prison: A User's Manual -- Notes -- 5 - In the Nature of Things -- Notes -- 6 - A Profession in Search of Honor -- Notes -- 7 - Violent, All Too Violent -- Notes -- 8 - Rights, Interrupted -- Notes -- 9 - Land of Order and Security -- Notes -- 10 - The Never-Ending Punishment

Cover -- Digital Kids - Edition Digital Culture 4 -- Inhalt -- Contents -- Vorwort -- Wettbewerbe 4 Kids -- Mechatronische Workshops für Kinder -- Youtube - Jugend-TV -- Mehr als Spiele -- Support für digitale Pioniere -- Die Angst vor dem Bild -- Digital Kids - Edition Digital Culture 4 -- Contents -- Preface -- Contests 4 Kids -- Mechatronic Workshops for Kids -- Youtube - YouthTV -- More than Games -- Support for Digital Pioneers -- The Fear of the Image -- Visual Context -- Glossar / Glossary -- Anhang / Annex -- Inhalt / Index -- Institutionen / Institutions -- Wettbewerbe / Competitions -- Statistik und Studien / Statistics and Surveys -- Literatur / Further Reading -- Software und Kreativ-Apps / Software and Creative Apps -- Tutorials -- Bildnachweis / Picture Credits -- Fussnoten / Footnotes -- Impressum / Colophon

In recent years, society has focused more and more attention on the period between active working age and old age (or the "Third Age"). This book reports the results of an experiential home research project in which inhabitant-based information on housing experiences was gathered in order to help housing designers and planners make their products feel "homier". What is the relationship between housing and experiences of home? What makes housing feel "homey"? What things are necessary in an apartment to make it a real home?The data consist of group discussions which took place in South Ostrobothnia, Finland. The most crucial factors in homey housing proved to be human relationships and the sense of independence in life management. Home functionality, aesthetics, the role of building, movables and culture, as well as the influence of nature and the environment, are also shown to be key elements of homeyness.The concluding chapter differentiates four discourses of housing and ageing. Home is understood as building and possessions, but it can also have emotional content: it is about memories and feelings. Furthermore, it is seen as interaction between the self and surroundings and as a complicated concept of multiple homes varying in time and space

The digital age is also a surveillance age. Today, computerized systems protect and manage our everyday life; the increasing number of surveillance cameras in public places, the computerized loyalty systems of the retail sector, geo-localized smart--phone applications, or smart traffic and navigation systems. Surveillance is nothing fundamentally new, and yet more and more questions are being asked:. Who monitors whom, and how and why?. How do surveillance techniques affect socio-spatial practices and relationships?. How do they shape the fabrics of our cities, our mobilities, the spaces of the everyday?. And what are the implications in terms of border control and the exercise of political power? Surveillance and Space responds to these modern questions by exploring the complex and varied interactions between ...

Digital Media: Human-Technology Connection examines the technologically textured world through case studies that illustrate the way humans and technology connect with each other and the world. An interdisciplinary array of sources from philosophy, postphenomenology, philosophy of technology, media studies, media ecology, and film studies shows that digital media and its content are not neutral. This technology textures the world in multiple and varied ways that transform human abilities, augment experience, and pattern the world.

This book examines globalization using the concept of space to contextualize discussion of global issues. The growth of population, the increase of human activity, and the usage of new spaces contribute to the complexity and challenges of global issues.