Introduction. Dennis Day and Johannes Wagner: Objects, Bodies and Work Practice Transcription Conventions Part 1: The Role of Objects for the Progressivity of Action Chapter 1. Maurice Nevile: Objects of Agreement - Placing Pins to Progress Collaborative Activity in Custom Dressmaking Chapter 2. Anne-Sylvie Horlacher: Workplace Asymmetries and Object-Passing in Hair Salons Chapter 3. Chiara M. Monzoni, Basil Sharrack, Markus Reuber: Informing and Demonstrating: Manipulating Objects and Patients' Participation in Shared-Decision-Making Part 2: Spatial Aspects of Objects in Interaction Chapter 4. Dennis Day and Gitte Rasmussen: Interactional Consequences of Object Possession in Institutional Practices Chapter 5. Elwys De Stefani: Ordering and Serving Coffee in an Italian Café: How Customers Obtain 'Their' Coffee Part 3: Objects in the Service of Preparing for a Possible Future Chapter 6.

Trine Heinemann and Barbara Fox: Dropping Off or Picking Up?: Professionals' Use of Objects as a Resource for Determining the Purpose of a Customer Encounter. Chapter 7. Maurice Nevile and Johannes Wagner: Objects in Motion: 'I'm Just Behind You' and Other Warnings in Forklift Truck Driving Part 4: Objects as Interactional Accomplishments Chapter 8. Mie Femø Nielsen: Adjusting or Verbalizing Visuals in ICT Mediated Professional Encounters Chapter 9. Spencer Hazel and Kristian Mortensen: Designedly Incomplete Objects as Elicitation Tools in Classroom Interaction Chapter 10. Giolo Fele: Olfactory Objects. Recognizing, Describing, and Assessing Smells During Professional Tasting Sessions Postscript. Aug Nishizaka: Thing and Space.