The idea for the book started to develop seriously in 1999. We then contacted a number of people we knew were interested in the topic. We engaged in all kinds of face-to-face, e-mail and telephone conversations and started to put the book together seriously in 2000. As a part of the process we also built in two seminars which took place in the first half of 2001. One of these was held in Tampere, Finland, and the other in Huddersfield, UK. Approximately half the contributors were able to come to the Tampere seminar and the other half to Huddersfield. By this point we had all drafted our different papers and we spent many hours together discussing, developing and refining our thinking. The seminars proved very enjoyable, very instructive and very helpful both in terms of putting the book together and in terms of developing our thinking