This book argues that in the South Pacific Islands, land formerly held by community groups under traditional forms of tenure is now often being privatised. The authors present case studies from four countries, and examine parallels from other regions experiencing comparable socio-economic forces.

An anthropological study of this cohesive group which prefers to struggle against modern civilization than change a traditional way of life

Overzicht van leven en werk van de Franse chemicus en bacterioloog (1822-1895).

Since its inception in World War II, the clinical trial has evolved into a standard procedure in determining therapeutic efficacy in many Western industrial democracies. Its features include a "control" group of patients that do not receive the experimental treatment, the random allocation of patients to either the experimental or control group, and the use of blind assessment so that the researchers do not know which patients are in either group. Even though it has been only within the past generation that the clinical trial has moved to the forefront of medical research, comparative statistics in a therapeutic context has a much longer history. From that history J. Rosser Matthews chooses to discuss three crucial debates: that among clinicians before the Parisian Academy of Medicine in 1837, the debate in the German physiological literature during the 1850s, and, in the early twentieth century, the debate over the bacteriologist's diagnostic technique involving the "opsonic index." Matthews demonstrates that despite the very real differences separating clinician, physiologist, and bacteriologist, they all shared an antipathy toward the methods of the statistician. Since they viewed medical judgment as a form of "tacit knowledge," they downplayed the concerns of the medical statistician who was attempting to make medical inference into something explicit and quantitative. Only when "medical decision-making" moved from the cloistered confines of professional medical expertise into the arena of open political debate could the medical statistician (and the clinical trial) gain the upper hand.

Around 50,000 British people buy second homes abroad each year. Among the popular destinations are France, Spain, Italy and Portugal. This book on buying a property in Portugal has been written by someone who has already done it themselves. Use their experience to learn about the mistakes you can avoid. CONTENTS: 1. Why Portugal? 2. Where? 3. What to buy? 4. Finding property/making a start 5. Renting whilst you look 6. The people involved 7. The process 8. Buying timeshare/property to let 9. Renovating or building your own 10. Money matters 11. Before you go 12. Portuguese systems 13. Daily life 14. Enjoying life in Portugal 15. Changing your mind

Identity 2.0 is the follow-up title to the now sold-out Total Idetity book. Whereas the previous title showcased the projects of the design studio Total Identity , this new book takes a much broader perspective. From the viewpoint of identity, it looks at current and future issues that influence businesses, institutions and service-oriented organizations. The book connects identity - as the driving force behind innovation and change processes - to social and economic topics, illustrated with cases and the opinions of creative and business companies that have participated in projects with Total Identity or have an interesting view on those topics.