A handbook of the world's conifers / / by Aljos Farjon

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910165142203321
• Autore: Farjon Aljos
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Boston : , : Brill, , 2017
• ISBN: 90-04-32451-8
• Edizione: [Second, revised edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1,153 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 585
• Soggetti: Conifers; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- The conifers of the world, an introduction -- The distribution and ecology of conifers -- The economic importance of conifers -- The conservation of conifer diversity -- Synopsis of families and genera -- Taxonomic treatment of families, with keys to families and genera -- Taxonomic treatment of genera and species -- Appendix -- Glossary -- References -- Lists of illustrations -- Index to botanical names of conifers.
• Sommario/riassunto: A 2017 Choice Magazine "Outstanding Academic Title" Conifers are known to everyone as a conspicuous kind of evergreen trees or shrubs that feature prominently in gardens and parks as well as in many managed forests in the cool to cold temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Numerous books have been written about them and continue to appear, mostly with a bias towards these uses in Europe and North America. This second edition, revised and updated, of A Handbook of the World's Conifers is departing from this traditional approach in that it includes all the world's 615 species of conifers, of which some 200 occur in the tropics. It gives as much information about these and the Southern Hemisphere conifers as about the better known species, drawing on research into the taxonomy, biology, ecology, distribution and uses by the author over nearly 35 years. The result is a truly encyclopedic work, a true handbook of all the world's conifers, richly illustrated by the author with his line drawings and photographs taken from the natural habitats of the species.; A 2017 Choice Magazine \'Outstanding Academic Title\' Conifers are known to everyone as a conspicuous kind of evergreen trees or shrubs that feature prominently in gardens and parks as well as in many managed forests in the cool to cold temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Numerous books have been written about them and continue to appear, mostly with a bias towards these uses in Europe and North America. This second edition, revised and updated, of A Handbook of the World's Conifers is departing from this traditional approach in that it includes all the world's 615 species of conifers, of which some 200 occur in the tropics. It gives as much information about these and the Southern Hemisphere conifers as about the better known species, drawing on research into the taxonomy, biology, ecology, distribution and uses by the author over nearly 35 years. The result is a truly encyclopedic work, a true handbook of all the world's conifers, richly illustrated by the author with his line drawings and photographs taken from the natural habitats of the species.

The Post-Socialist Internet : How Labor, Geopolitics and Critique Produce the Internet in Lithuania / Migle Bareikyte

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910831595703321
• Autore: Bareikyte Migle (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Deutschland)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2022
• ISBN: 3-8394-5956-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (253 pages)
• Collana: Digitale Gesellschaft ; 43
• Disciplina: 015.41053
• Soggetti: Internet; Society; Politics; Sociology of Media; Sociology of Technology; Digital Media; Media Studies
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Preface and Acknowledgments 7 List of Figures and Tables 11 Abbreviations and Acronyms 13 1. Introduction 17 2. Everyday Infrastructuring 71 3. Geopolitical Imaginaries 133 4. Critical Negotiations 197 5. Implications for Situating the Internet as Infrastructure: 223 Bibliography 231
• Sommario/riassunto: How is the Internet produced as an infrastructure in post-socialist Lithuania? Migle Bareikyte contributes to the growing field of STS and media studies with a distinct focus on Eastern Europe. She situates the Internet development in Lithuania's telecom industry with the exploration of its labor practices, geopolitical imaginaries, and critical negotiations from a bottom-up perspective. Bareikyte further explores how fieldwork-based research can foster new theorizations of media infrastructures. Finally, she argues for a situated investigation of new places and actors beyond the United States and Western Europe-such as post-socialist regions-in order to explore the diversity of media infrastructures.