“…For Cave has bet the rest of the crew that he can spend a winter on this Arctic island…”

“…The houses considered in this volume range from longhouses in Borneo to the meeting-houses of the Maori of New Zealand and from the magnificent houses of the Minangkabau of Sumatra to the simpler dwellings of the population of Goodenough Island in Papua New Guinea. Together these papers indicate common features of domestic design from island South-East Asia to Melanesia and the Pacific. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front Cover -- Half Title Page -- Series Page -- Full Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms -- Introduction -- The State: Looking Down on JAWS -- Experiencing JAWS: Views from Below -- Overview of the Book -- 1 | Background: The Long Build-Up -- Meteorology as Science in Nineteenth-Century North America -- Meteorology and Arctic Stations -- Weather, the Great War, and the Air Age -- The Second World War, Meteorology, and a New Northern Focus -- 2 | Negotiating JAWS, 1945-47 -- Finding Funding -- Canadian Concerns -- Sovereignty, Security, and Science -- Operation Nanook (1946) -- Compromise and Cooperation -- Reaching an Agreement -- 3 | Situating the First Stations, 1947-48 -- Slidre Fiord (Eureka Sound), Ellesmere Island, 80 15'N., 86 11'W. -- Task Force 68 Ventures North -- Resolute, Cornwallis Island, 74 70'N., 94 54'W. -- 4 | Finishing the Network, 1948-50 -- Isachsen, Ellef Ringnes Island, 78 46'40' N., 103 31'40' W. -- Mould Bay, Prince Patrick Island, 76 14'16'N., 119 20'28'W. -- Resupplying the Stations: The Trials of Task Force 80 -- Early Life at the Stations -- Adapting to the Environment -- Canadian Capabilities, Sovereignty, and the Resupply Missions of 1949-50 -- Alert, Ellesmere Island, 82 30'06'N., 62 19'47'W. -- 5 | Who Did the Stations Need... and Who Did TheyGet? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Part I: technical territory -- Introduction -- Assembling technical territory -- Part II: how to do things with territory -- Countering the protestor in Hong Kong -- Filtering the migrant on Christmas Island -- Constructing the nation in Singapore -- Part III: the future of territory -- From the cloud to the edge -- Unmaking and remaking territory…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…II : [Odes ; Nouvelles odes ; Odes et ballades ; Ode a la colonne ; Articles divers ; Voyage aux Alpes ; Han d'Islande ; Bug-Jargal (II) ; Amy Robsart ; Portefeuille ; Dossier]. - Indices. - En el lomo: édition chronologique, 1821-1827…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Urban oligarchs : panels and patronage in the church of the Holy Dominica at Zadar -- The church of St Lawrence and the platea comunis at Zadar -- Royal patronage in the church of St Mary at Biskupija -- The rule of law : the church of SS Peter and Moses at Solin -- Regina and her screen : the church of St Michael on the island of Koločep…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Our first steps, our ancestors -- The pathway of the Greeks -- Toward a creator of the created -- Copernicus and his revolution -- Galileo and the birth pangs of modern science -- The age of rationalism : principal protagonists, Descartes and Newton -- The stars look down on us -- A myriad of island universes -- Journey without end…”
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“… La ruota delle meraviglie, film realizzato dall’infaticabile Woody Allen, presenta una storia complicata, come lo è la situazione della famiglia arroccata ai piedi della ruota panoramica che domina il luna park di Coney Island. Due coniugi non più..…”