“…In 2005 British supermarkets sent half a million tonnes of edible food to landfill - the whole food sector put together sent 17 million tonnes. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. - Pacific Century Cyberworks Connect Kiosk Shops, 2004-2007 / James Law Cybertecture - DIM mobile retail unit, Uniglo Pop-Up Store, 2005 / LOT-EK - Big M, 2000; Unipart Structure, 2005; Smirnoff Cube, 2006 / Inflate - Airtecture Air Hall, 1996-2000; Airquarium, 2000 / Festo - Dyson Mobile Exhibition Pavilion, 2004 / FTL Design Engineering Studio - Screen Machine 2, 2004 / Toutenkamion - Bathing Ship, Berlin, Germany, 2005 / AMP arquitectos / Wilk-Salinas - U2 Vertigo Tour Stage Set, 2005-2006; The Rolling Stones Bigger Bang Tour Stage Set, 2005-2007 - Superbowl Half-Time Shows, 2001,2002, 2004, 2006 / Mark Fisher - Harley-Davidson Machine Tent, 2002 / FTL Design Engineering Studio - Valhalla, 2000 / Rudi Enos - Portable House, 2007 / Office Mobile Design - micro-compact home, 2005 / Richard Horden - Caravan of the future, 2007 / Paul Burchill and Herve Delaby - Mobile dwelling unit, 2003 / LOT-EK - Mobile museums, 2004, 2006 / Public Art Lab - Classrooms of the future, 2007 / Gollifer Langston Architects - Animaris Rhinoceros transport, 2004 / Theo Jansen - Karaza Theatre, Sendai and Tokyo, Japan, 1987-1988 / Tadao Ando Architect and Associates - ISS TransHAB, 1997-2000 / NASA - Halley VI, 2004-2010 / Faber Maunsell - BHP Geological Survey Camp, Nortwest Territories, Canada,1993-1994 / Weatherhaven…”

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“…The human genome encompasses ≈ 860 G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) including 374 non-chemosensory GPCRs. Half of these latter GPCRs recognize (neuro)peptides as natural ligands. …”

“…Consigned to oblivion for centuries, many of these manuscripts were sold in the second half of the nineteenth century to the National Library of Russia in St Petersburg, where they remained inaccessible to most scholars until the end of the Cold War. …”

“…Rice is the staple food of more than half of the world's population - more than 3.5 billion people depend on rice for more than 20% of their daily calories. …”

“…Notwithstanding the huge work carried out during half a century to reform the Spanish prison system, Cadalso’s figure has not been studied in depth by the law and social historiography. …”

“…The ideas of ​​an organic improvement and of a racial selection of peoples originated in the utopias of eugenics and racism that were developed in the second half of the nineteenth century in Germany and Europe. …”

“…Each year in the United States, almost a half million people get sick from C. difficile, and approximately 29,000 patients died within 30 days of its initial diagnosis. …”

“…Deindustrialization progressed as a slow but powerful march across the second half of the twentieth century. In this book, big changes in cultural identities are explained as the outcome of long-term economic developments. …”

“…McKenna's presence at the hub of political life in the first half of the century is now clear: in the radical Liberal governments of 1905–16, where he acted as a lightning conductor for the party; during the war, where he served as the Prime Minister's deputy and the principal voice for restraint in the conduct of the war; and as chairman of the world's largest bank, where until his death in office aged eighty, he prompted progressive policies to deal with the issues of war debt, trade, mass unemployment, and the return to gold…”

“…At present, 124 species are known from the island, of which almost half are endemic. Such an extraordinary level of endemism makes Sri Lankan dragonflies an exceptionally interesting group for studies in biodiversity, zoogeography, phylogeny and ecology. …”

“…In the early development of the modern Italian state, individual orphanages were a reflection of the intertwining of politics and charity.Nearly half of the children who lived in the cities of the late Italian Renaissance were under fifteen years of age. …”

“…An imposing literary figure in America and Europe during the first half of the twentieth century, Ludwig Lewisohn (1882-1955) struggled with feelings of alienation in Christian America that were gradually resolved by his developing Jewish identity, a process reflected in hundreds of works of fiction, literary analysis, and social criticism. …”

“…It excavates a period either hidden or removed from view, the second half of the nineteenth century and the first few decades of the twentieth. …”

“…It is quite possible that the attacks to which the traditional notion of meaning has been subjected, from various sides, and the appearance of a whole series of doctrines or tendencies which could be grouped under the convenient general designation of " semantic skepticism ”appear afterwards as having constituted one of the major events, not to say the major event, of the philosophy of the second half of the twentieth century. By "semantic skepticism", I mean an attitude which can range from the simple challenge of the possibility of submitting a notion like that of "meaning" to a theoretical treatment appropriate to the outright negation of the existence of semantic facts that it might be a question of explaining with the help of some theory.On the other hand, it is only too fair to note that the recent period has also been distinguished, on the other hand, by forms no less typical of exaggerated confidence in the possibilities that the theory of signification offers to philosophy today. - the most remarkable of which being represented by the idea, of which Michael Dummett will have been the most convinced and the most talented defender, that the theory of meaning could have reached since Frege the status of new paradigm of first philosophy …”

“…The results of analyses of anthropological remains pertaining to 57 inhumations − more than half of the bodies were oriented SE-NW and the majority buried in a crouched position on the left side − are complemented by 14C-dates and isotope-analyses…”

“…This new approach to the history of motherhood examines the role the female body played in defining motherhood from the mid-eighteenth century through the first half of the nineteenth century, demonstrating that physical representations or perceptions of the body were crucial to defining motherhood in different ways both for mothers themselves and for American culture at large…”

“…All have contributed to consolidating a North Korean regime of truth, bringing into existence a set of assumptions and shared understandings that have been regarded as true over the last half century. Basing her work on a study of these linguistic and discursive domains, Ryang explores the ways in which power, truth, and self are indissolubly connected by function as well as efficacy and how language plays a key role in sustaining their validity. …”

“…John Jacob Astor was the best-known and most important American businessman for more than a half-century. His career encompassed the country's formative economic years from the precarious days following the American Revolution to the emergence of an urban-centered manufacturing economy in the late 1840s. …”