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The Materiality of Nothing explores the invisible, intangible and transient materials and objects of everyday life and the relationships we have with them. Drawing on over 15 years of original, empirical research, it builds on growing research on the everyday, and unites the established field of material culture and materiality with emerging sociological studies exploring notions of nothing and the unmarked. The chapters cover topics such as lost property, museum curation, plastic microfibres, thrift, music and even hair, illuminating how invisible and intangible materials conjure memories, meanings and identities, inextricably binding us to other people, places and things. In turn, the book also engages with issues of sustainability and consumption, raising questions regarding society's increasing need for material accumulation and posing some alternatives.

Intro -- Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- No Plan(et) B -- A Big Problem -- Problem: Food -- Waste Not, Want Not -- Go Meat-Free! -- Season's Eatings -- Go Local -- Grow Your Own -- Natural Nosh -- Choose to Reuse -- Glossary and Index -- Back Cover.

The legacy of the Versailles Treaty -- Mussolini's 'Roman Empire' -- German foreign policy from Stresemann to Hitler -- International implications of the Spanish Civil War -- Soviet foreign policy 1918-1941 -- Chamberlain, Churchill and the appeasement debate -- Diplomatic and political objectives of the Axis powers -- Diplomatic and military objectives of the Allied powers -- Origins of the Cold War in Europe -- Suez 1956 : Anglo French humiliation as Cold War America asserts it power -- Origins of European integration after 1945 -- Why Britain did not join the EEC in the 1950's -- How Britain joined the EEC in 1973 -- 1973 enlargement : Denmark and Ireland join but not Norway -- De Gaulle, Brandt and relations with USA and USSR -- From customs union to Werner Report, 1957-1970 -- 1970's crisis and the abandonment of the Werner Plan -- Jacques Delors, the Single Market, Eastern Europe and German unification -- Margaret Thatcher : Resisting Delors and opposing the Maastricht Treaty.

Chapter 1- Intergenerational Dialogues -- Chapter 2- The Squares -- Chapter 3- The New York City General Assembly -- Chapter 4- Day One -- Chapter 5- Our Park -- Chapter 6- This Is What Democracy Looks Like -- Chapter 7- Direct Action -- Chapter 8- Media for the 99% -- Chapter 9- Allies -- Chapter 10- Race in OWS -- Chapter 11- Gender in OWS -- Chapter 12- Structure -- Chapter 13- The Eviction -- Chapter 14- Occupy Somewhere -- Chapter 15- Money in the Movement -- Chapter 16- All Our Grievances Are Connected -- Chapter 17- All Roads Lead to Wall Street -- Chapter 18- Occupy the World Social Forum -- Chapter 19- Informal Elites -- Chapter 20-The Founders -- Chapter 21- Power and Leadership -- Chapter 22- Co-option -- Chapter 23- Repression -- Chapter 24- Neo-fascism -- Chapter 25- Conclusion -Building the New Society.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- 1 R -- The R Console and R Scripts -- R Libraries -- Reading and Viewing Data in R -- Missing Data -- Variable and Data Set Types -- Descriptive Statistics and Graphics in R -- Summary -- 2 Theoretical Underpinnings of Regularization Methods -- The Need for Variable Selection Methods -- The Lasso Estimator -- The Ridge Estimator -- The Elastic Net Estimator -- The Adaptive Lasso -- The Group Lasso -- Bayesian Regularization -- Inference for Regularization Methods -- Summary -- 3 Regularization Methods for Linear Models -- Linear Regression -- Fitting Linear Regression Model with R -- Assessing Regression Assumptions Using R -- Variable Selection without Regularization -- Stepwise Regression -- Application of Stepwise Regression Using R -- Best Subsets Regression -- Application of Best Subsets Regression Using R -- Regularized Linear Regression -- Lasso Regression -- Ridge Regression -- Elastic Net Regression -- Bayesian Lasso Regression -- Bayesian Ridge Regression -- Adaptive Lasso Regression -- Group Lasso Regression -- Comparison of Modeling Approaches -- Summary -- 4 Regularization Methods for Generalized Linear Models -- Logistic Regression for Dichotomous Outcome -- Fitting Logistic Regression with R -- Regularization with Logistic Regression for Dichotomous Outcomes -- Logistic Regression with the Lasso Penalty -- Logistic Regression with the Ridge Penalty -- Penalized Logistic Regression with the Bayesian Estimator -- Adaptive Lasso for Dichotomous Logistic Regression -- Grouped Regularization for Dichotomous Logistic Regression -- Logistic Regression for Ordinal Outcome -- Regularized Ordinal Logistic Regression -- Regression Models for Count Data -- Regularized Count Regression -- Cox Proportional Hazards Model -- Regularized Cox Regression -- Summary.

The aftermath of World War II sent thousands of Estonian refugees into Europe. The years of Estonian independence (1917-1940) had given them a taste of freedom and so relocation to displaced person (DP) camps in post-war Germany was extremely painful. One way in which Estonians dealt with the chaos and trauma of WWII and its aftermath was through choral singing. Just as song festivals helped establish national identity in 1869, song festivals promoted cultural cohesiveness for Estonians in WWII displaced person camps. A key turning point in hope for the Estonian DPs was the 1947 Augsburg Song Festival, which is the center point of this book. As Estonian DPs dispersed to Australia, Canada, Europe, and the United States these choirs and song festivals gave Estonians the resilience to retain their identity and to thrive in their new homes. This history of Estonian WWII DP camp choirs and song festivals is gathered from the stories of many courageous individuals and filled with the tenacious spirit of the Estonian singing culture. This work contributes to an understanding of immigration, identity, and resilience and is particularly important within the field of music regarding music and healing, music and identity, historical musicology, ethnomusicology, and music and politics.