Publications

Abstracts of the 1st European Conference on Chemistry for Life Sciences on “Understanding the Chemical Mechanisms of Life”, which took place in Rimini, Italy on 4-8 October 2005.

This is the book of abstracts on the meeting of Working Group 4 ‘Integration and Application of Phytotechnologies” that took place in Verneuil-en-Halatte (France) on 15-17 October 2008.

This book is a collection of essays on social networks, social capital, and kinship in historical and contemporary rural societies. They span a wide range of European countries and historical situations, from early modern Flanders and Italy to present-day Austria and Armenia. All the essays describe in detail how people on the countryside connected with one another in formal or informal relations. In doing so, the authors use and critically discuss methods of historical interpretation, social network analysis, and econometrics.

European scholars and policy stakeholders are concerned that, in an ever-more complex digital media ecology, the demands on audiences to become media literate are growing. While stakeholders work to develop new initiatives, academic research is vital both to inform and critique. Entitled “Media literacy: Ambitions, policies and measures” and edited by Sonia Livingstone, this report brings together experts from different perspectives to generate a timely account of media literacy in Europe.