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This article looks back to a paper written by the author and Phil Thomas in 2000 on socio‐legal studies and reflects on what has changed in the world of socio‐legal studies since then. It then turns to the continued modesty of the claims that socio‐legal studies researchers make for their work. The suggestion made is that socio‐legal studies forms a social ecology in what is termed the 'hyphen‐space' and that through this space social ecology theory allows much larger claims to be made about how actors and issues at different levels and scales relate to each other. To this end, the article takes an issue, an artefact, and a broad classification of 'people' within the sphere of international commercial law to illustrate how social ecology can be used to broaden the claims that research makes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In my own research, ancestry genetics is being used by Legacy African Americans to reconnect with lost relatives both in continental Africa and within the Americas, bridging 400+ years of forced estrangement and cultural erasure. Quite far if we are willing to objectively evaluate this ancestral data, view these genomes within a larger, more egalitarian, and evolutionary context, and recognize that interpretations of genetic identities, by scientists and non-scientists alike, will always be fluid, dynamic, and subject to the vicissitudes of the sociocultural environment. It could be argued, for example, that genetic ancestry data cuts through the traditional notions of biological race since genome wide human diversity is more complex than the template afforded by biological race. [Extracted from the article]

The discipline of geography struggles to engage with urban futures on terms that are meaningful to the world's urban majority. This paper reflects the need to open up empirically grounded dialogue on aspirations and their complex connections to perceptions of possibility and temporality. Drawing on research carried out in two medium‐sized cities overlooked by research (Bharatpur, Nepal; Zarqa, Jordan), this paper speaks back to contemporary discourse surrounding urban life and futurity. These two projects explore aspirations located within people's everyday attempts to secure urban presents and carve out spaces for the immediate future within the realm of their control. Urban futures, it is argued, need to be imagined from the perspective of the communities experiencing the complexities and uncertainties of the urban present first‐hand, and who tailor their aspirations and expectations accordingly. In both Bharatpur and Zarqa, "grey space" proves successful in framing the roles of influence, control, and management of power in determining possibility. In Bharatpur, residents learned that only by working together in neighbourhood groups could they begin to influence the local authority to provide certain aspects of physical infrastructure – the paved roads that residents had particularly hoped for. In Zarqa, residents turn to a variety of formal channels – political and developmental – in their attempts to reverse locally manifesting urban decay and provide much‐needed green spaces for the local community. In both contexts, these local, collectively‐held aspirations are deeply linked to local perceptions of possibility, which in turn are a direct result of governance structures seeking to maintain particular urban relations and to control the pace and space of urban development. The discipline of geography struggles to engage with urban futures on terms that are meaningful to the world's urban majority. This paper reflects the need to open up empirically grounded dialogue on aspirations and their complex connections to perceptions of possibility and temporality by drawing on research carried out in two medium‐sized cities overlooked by research (Bharatpur, Nepal; Zarqa, Jordan). These two projects explore aspirations located within people's everyday attempts to secure urban presents and carve out spaces for the immediate future within the realm of their control. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Brett Story, whose prison in I Twelve Landscapes i (Story 2016) and I Prison Land i (Story 2019) was deeply influential in writing my book, adroitly notes in her review that the political economy and geographic dispersion of carceral geography crystallizes in real-time crime datacenters. The result is, as Story notes, crime datacenters constitute the 21 SP st sp century's panoptic towers. Digitize and Punish: Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age by Brian Jefferson, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2020, 264 pp., paperback $34.65 (ISBN 978-1517909239). [Extracted from the article]

Summary This study presents the carbon footprint of a paperback book for which the cover and inside papers were produced in the United States and printed in Canada. The choice of paper mills for both cover and page papers was based on criteria such as percentage of recycled content in the pulp mix, transport distances (pulp mill to paper mill, paper mill to print), and technologies. The cradle-to-gate assessment of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions follows recognized guidelines for carbon footprint assessment. The results show that the production of 400,000 books, mainly distributed in North America, would generate 1,084 tonnes carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2-eq), or 2.71 kilograms (kg) CO2-eq per book. The impact of using deinked market pulp (DMP) is shown here to be detrimental, accounting for 54% of total GHG emissions and being 32% higher than reference virgin Kraft pulp. This supports findings that DMP mill GHG emissions strongly correlate with the carbon intensity of the power grid supplying the pulp mill and that virgin Kraft mills that reuse wood residue and black liquor to produce heat and electricity can achieve lower GHG emissions per tonne of pulp produced. Although contrary to common thinking, this is consistent with the Paper Task Force 2002 conclusion for office paper (the closest paper grade to writing paper or fine paper) (EDF 2002a). To get a cradle-to-grave perspective, three different end-of-life (EOL) scenarios were analyzed, all of which included a harvested wood product (HWP) carbon storage benefit for 25 years. The GHG offset concept within the context of the book editor's 'carbon-neutral' paper claims is also discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Biochar from Biomass and Waste: Fundamentals and Applications Edited by Y.S. Ok, D. Tsang, N. Bolan & Novak, J. eds, Elsevier, Cambridge, 2019, 462 pp, paperback £64.36, ISBN 9780128117293; e-book £64.64, ISBN 9780128117309 Simple searches of ISI journals reveal over 5,000 articles that reference biochar in the context of soils. Although previous books have been firmly oriented toward basic research on interactions between biochars and soil, or some more practical aspects of direct soil application, this new book clearly aims at specific applications where biochar offers added value. [Extracted from the article]

The article features publishing company Penguin Books Ltd. and its success in the commercial and public sector in Great Britain. The article looks at public reading consumption after World War I and II, the circulation of paperback books, as well as the impact of publisher Allen Lane Williams Lane on the publishing industry.

Suggests that the texts of the mass market paperback romance novels in the U.S. had ultimately reinforced rather than challenged traditional notions of sexual propriety. Efforts of the House of Representatives to investigate the influence of paperback romance novels on the society in 1952; Reasons for the high demand for paperback romance novels; Growth of the paperbound publishing industry in 1939.

Es ist eher die Zusammenstellung und die Hinweise zu den Versuchen, die einen Mehrwert ergeben. GLO:OLB/01jun21:ciuz202170307-gra-0100.jpg PHOTO (COLOR): . gl Endlich ein Heft für Schülerversuche in der Mittelstufe möchte man sagen - nicht immer nur die vereinzelten Versuche in den Chemiebüchern, die manchmal sogar in die Spalten ganz am Rand gezwängt werden als lästige Unterbrechung der Theorie. Die Einbeziehung von handelsüblichen Plaquetests ist dabei die ausschlaggebende Idee, die bei den Schülerinnen und Schülern garantiert einen bleibenden Eindruck hinterlässt. [Extracted from the article]