Authors:Magnus Bostrom, Mikael Klintma,
Publisher: Palgrave Macmilla
Keywords: consumption, public, life, consumerism, labelling, standards, product, eco
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-11-15
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 0230537375
ISBN-13: 9780230537378

Introduction: Green Consumerism, Green Labelling? The Historical Context Key Trends Green Labels and other Eco-Standards: A Definition The Consumers Role: Trusting, Reflecting or Influencing? Our Cases Sceptical and Encouraging Arguments Policy Contexts and Labelling Three Framing Strategies: From a Complex Reality to a Categorical Label Organizing the Labelling Dealing with Mutual Mistrust Green Labelling and Green Consumerism: Challenges and Horizons

Author: Mikael S. Adolphson
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Keywords: premodern, japan, warriors, courtiers, power, monks, gates
Number of Pages: 472
Published: 2000-07
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0824823346
ISBN-13: 9780824823344

The political influence of temples in premodern Japan, most clearly manifested in divine demonstrations--where rowdy monks and shrine servants brought holy symbols to the capital to exert pressure on courtiers--has traditionally been condemned and is poorly understood. In an impressive examination of this intriguing aspect of medieval Japan, the author employs a wide range of previously neglected sources to argue that religious protest was a symptom of political factionalism in the capital rather than its cause. It is his contention that religious violence can be traced primarily

Author: Mikael Hörnqvist
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: context, ideas, empire, machiavelli
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 2004-12-13
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0521839459
ISBN-13: 9780521839457

Exploring both the political and intellectual contexts within which Machiavelli’s political vision was formed, Mikael Hornqvist stresses the classical and rhetorical character of Machiavelli’s thought. He analyzes his preoccupation with glory and liberality in relation to the revival of Roman ideas of triumphalism. The result is a revealing account of the formation of Machiavelli’s characteristic preoccupations.Book DescriptionMikael Hornqvist’s study of the political theory of Machiavelli not only offers an original and challenging reading of a number of celebrated tex

Author: Mikael Niemi
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Keywords: vittula, music, popular
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2004-10-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1583226591
ISBN-13: 9781583226599

“A blissfully eccentric, fiction-enhanced memoir. . . . His prose buzzes with wonder, fearlessness and ecstatic ignorance: the sensations of youth. Each chapter is an epic in miniature.”—Hugo Lindgren, The New York Times Magazine“Haunting and glorious . . . Niemi’s finest achievement is to have created a world poised between an adult’s fantastic memories of childhood and a child’s naïve dreams of his future. Graceless sentiments like disillusionment or regret are never allowed to trespass upon Pajala’s icy rivers and twilit woods. The future remains a frantic hallucination, wh

Author: Mikael K.-J. Johansson
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: control, notes, information, lecture, sciences, computational, linear, systems, piecewise, approach
Number of Pages: 230
Published: 2002-12-05
List price: $149.00
ISBN-10: 3540441247
ISBN-13: 9783540441243

This book presents a computational approach to the analysis of nonlinear and uncertain systems. The main focus is systems with piecewise linear dynamics. The class of piecewise linear systems examined has nonlinear, possibly discontinuous dynamics, and allows switching rules that incorporate memory and logic. These systems may exhibit astonishingly complex behaviors. Some aspects of the successful theory of linear systems and quadratic criteria are extended here to piecewise linear systems and piecewise quadratic criteria. The book also describes numerical procedures for assessing stability, c

Author: Mikael Wiberg
Publisher: Information Science Publishing
Keywords: supportive, technologies, practice, theories, society, interaction
Number of Pages: 358
Published: 2004-10
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 1591405319
ISBN-13: 9781591405313

New information technologies enable us to interact with each other in totally new ways. The Interaction Society: Theories, Practice and Supportive Technologies provides readers with a rich overview of the emerging interaction society enabled by these new information and communication technologies (ICT). Readers will gain a theoretically deep understanding of the core issues related to the character of the emerging interaction society, be exposed to empirical case studies that can help to understand the impact of this emergence through analysis of concrete examples, and benefit from description

Author: Mikael Wiberg
Publisher: Information Science Publishing
Keywords: supportive, technologies, practice, theories, society, interaction
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 2004-10
List price: $84.95
ISBN-10: 1591405300
ISBN-13: 9781591405306

New information technologies enable us to interact with each other in totally new ways. The Interaction Society: Theories, Practice and Supportive Technologies provides readers with a rich overview of the emerging interaction society enabled by these new information and communication technologies (ICT). Readers will gain a theoretically deep understanding of the core issues related to the character of the emerging interaction society, be exposed to empirical case studies that can help to understand the impact of this emergence through analysis of concrete examples, and benefit from description