This book offers a rich ethnographic account of blue-collar workers' everyday life in a central Russian industrial town coping with simultaneous decline and the arrival of transnational corporations. 'Everyday Post-Socialism' demonstrates how people manage to remain satisfied, despite the crisis...

It is well established that ground-source heat pumps (GSHPs) require less external energy input than conventional heating and cooling systems for buildings because they exchange heat with the subsurface soil and rock, which has a steady temperature compared to that of the outside air. To address...

One of the first things you'll hear when arriving in Japan, as a scholar of informality, is that while Japanese society may look very formal, with everything strictly controlled and formalized, in fact it is not. Eventually, although the informal practices you're used to observing abroad do not...