The Thread of Life: Toraja Reflections on the Life Cycle

The Thread of Life: Toraja Reflections on the Life Cycle. Douglas W. Hollan and Jane C. Wellenkamp. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1996. 239 pp.     

生命条形码与生命之树

生命条形码和生命之树的研究与应用在近十年内备受关注,成为生命科学研究领域的两个热点。本文综述了生命条形码和生命之树的概念来源、研究现状、面临问题与解决方案,并对其发展前景进行了展望。生命之树概念的形成有着悠久的历史渊源,DNA条形码的提出和实施则只有十年的历史,两者均得益于测序技术和生物信息技术的蓬勃发展;但两者的目的不同,生命条形码技术旨在实现对物种的快速鉴定,而生命之树研究的主要目的则是重建生命世界的起源和进化历史以及各生物类群之间的亲缘关系,因此应根据两者不同的目标任务而采取相应的发展思路和顶层设计。本文针对目前生命条形码和生命之树研究领域遇到的瓶颈和问题进行了阐述,并提出了相应的解决方案。最后,作者建议我国学者抓住机遇．与多个领域的学者和工程技术人员广泛合作,推动DNA条形码鉴定技术和生命之树理论研究的快速发展。     

Ruth Landes: A Life in Anthropology

Ruth Landes:. Life in Anthropology . Sally Cole. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. 299 pp.     

Elsie Clews Parsons: Inventing Modern Life

Elsie Clews Parsons: Inventing Modern Life. Desley Deacon. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. 520 pp.     

Chechnya: Life in a War-Torn Society

Chechnya: Life in a War-Torn Society. Valery Tishkov. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. 284 pp.     

Life Exposed: Biological Citizenship after Chernobyl

Life Exposed: Biological Citizenship after Chernobyl. Adriana Petryna. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. xvii. 264 pp.     

Life at the edge

Extremophiles: Microbial Life in Extreme Environments (1998). Koki Horikoshi and William D. Grant (Eds). Wiley-Liss, 311 pp. hardback; ISBN 0 471 02618 2 ($134.50)     

Anthropology and Individual Lives: The Story of the Life History and the History of the Life Story

Life Stories: The Creation of Coherence . Charlotte Linde.
Storied Lives: The Cultural Politics of Self-Understanding . George C. Rosenwald and Richard L. Ochberg, eds.     

Grandmother's Grandchild: My Crow Indian Life

Grandmother's Grandchild: My Crow Indian Life. Alma Hogan Snell and Becky Matthews. eds.; foreword by Peter Nabokov. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. 213 pp.     

Life cycle management: UNEP-workshop

On August 30, 2001, the first in a series of planned global workshops on Life Cycle Management was organized in Copenhagen by UNEP in cooperation with dk-TEKNIK. The workshop provided an international forum to share experiences on LCM. The specific purpose of the workshop was to define the focus of a possible UNEP programme on Life Cycle Management under the UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative. Life Cycle Management has been defined by the SETAC Europe Working Group on LCM as an integrated framework of concepts, techniques and procedures to address environmental, economic, technological and social aspects of products and organizations to achieve continuous environmental improvement from a life cycle perspective. Life Cycle Management has been requested as an additional component for the Life Cycle Initiative by business organizations as well as governments in order to provide practical approaches for management systems in this area. The breakout groups of the workshop focussed on the role of integrating environmental management practices, concepts and tools in a life cycle perspective, on the integration of socio-economic aspects of sustainability in life cycle approaches, including the definition of adequate indicators for these aspects, on the communication strategies to promote life cycle thinking, and on the demand side of LCA. The workshop closed with a consensus that the UNEP/ SETAC Life Cycle Initiative should really include a programme on Life Cycle Management with the proposed areas of work. UNEP in cooperation with SETAC should function as a global catalyser of knowledge transfer and cooperation on life cycle approaches. The key issue behind all activities would be the promotion of Life Cycle Thinking since all break-out groups mentioned the importance of well-prepared communication strategies. Another interesting outcome of the workshop is the clear interest of different stakeholders in the consideration of social and institutional effects of products, in addition to environmental and economic impacts, i.e. a sustainable development perspective.     

The Indomitable Miss Pink: A Life in Anthropology

The Indomitable Miss Pink:. Life in Anthropology. Julie Marcus. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2001. 340 pp.     

Curandero: A Life in Mexico Folk Healing

Curandero:. Life in Mexico Folk Healing . Eliseo "Cheo" Torres with Timothy L. Sawyer Jr. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005 (paperback). 170 pp.     

Corbett Mack: The Life of a Northern Paiute

Corbett Mack: The Life of. Northern Paiute. As told by Michael Hittman. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996. 391 pp.     

Life in the Pueblo: Understanding the Past through Archaeology

Life in the Pueblo: Understanding the Past through Archaeology. Kathryn Kamp. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1998.224pp.     

Life histories of some species of Rotifera Bdelloidea

Nine species of Rotifera Bdelloidea have been cultured under laboratory conditions. The species were collected from two different environments: one group from water courses, the other from terrestrial mosses. Life tables have been determined and population dynamics parameters have been calculated. The characteristics of the life history seem to be related to the natural environmental conditions of the species. The patterns of reproductive output may develop as adaptations to different selective pressures: species from unpredictable environments face the probability of leaving no young at all, while species from stable environments are less conservative in their energy budget. Life characteristics are discussed from the point of view of adaptive strategies.     

The Social Life of Trees: Anthropological Perspectives on Tree Symbolism

The Social Life of Trees: Anthropological Perspectives on Tree Symbolism. Laura Rival. ed. New York: Berg Publishers, 1998.315 pp.     

Women at the Center: Life in a Modern Matriarchy

Women at the Center: Life in. Modern Matriarchy . Peggy Reeves Sanday. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002. xv + 270 pp.     

In the Arms of Africa: The Life of Colin Turnbull

In the Arms of Africa: The Life of Colin Turnbull. Roy Richard Grinker. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. 368 pp.     

Two Languages at Work: Bilingual Life on the Production Floor

Two Languages at Work: Bilingual Life on the Production Floor. Tara Goldstein. New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997. 277 pp.     

A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine

. Year in the Life of. Shinto Shrine. John K. Nelson. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996. 286 pp.