Business & Social Sciences
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Neither Fish, Nor Fowl: Educational Broadcasting in Sweden 1930-2000 [Hardback]
Bengt Sandin (Author)
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ISBN: 9789185509157
Published by : Nordic Academic Press
Educational media has an immediate connection to education policies, new trends in schooling, child welfare, and pedagogical novelties. The transformation of the Swedish welfare state in the twentieth century was clearly visible in the structure a... .... Learn More -
Understanding Literacy in its Historical Contexts: Socio-Cultural History & the Legacy of Egil Johansson [Hardback]
Harvey J Graff (Editor)
£34.95Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9789185509072
Published by : Nordic Academic Press
For nearly 30 years the work of the Swedish Lutheran pastor and pioneering social historian Egil Johansson astonished the international scholarly world. Working initially with parish registers, especially examination registers, from northern Swede... .... Learn More -
Congestion Taxes in City Traffic: Lessons Learnt from the Stockholm Trial [Hardback]
Anders Gullberg (Editor)
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ISBN: 9789185509232
Published by : Nordic Academic Press
Traffic congestion in big cities is a growing problem, and in the Swedish capital of Stockholm a seven-month long trial period with congestion taxes was carried out in 2006. It has since been made a permanent system. In this book, the authors scru... .... Learn More -
Being There: New Perspectives on Phenomenology & the Analysis of Culture [Paperback]
Jonas Frykman (Editor)
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ISBN: 9789185509300
Published by : Nordic Academic Press
A group of ethnologists and anthropologists demonstrate creative ways of relating phenomenology to the study of culture. In a detailed introduction the reader is given an overview of how perspectives like 'being' and 'life-world' can be applied to... .... Learn More -
War & Peace in Transition: Changing Roles of External Actors [Hardback]
Karin Aggestam (Editor)
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ISBN: 9789185509225
Published by : Nordic Academic Press
The post-Cold War era is characterised by shifting patterns of war and peace. The new demands and challenges facing external actors, such as international peacekeeping forces and mediators, are therefore manifold. In this book the editors address ... .... Learn More -
Balkans in Focus: Cultural Boundries in Europe [Hardback]
Sanimir Resic (Editor)
£43.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9789189116382
Published by : Nordic Academic Press
With the different perspectives of eight academic sub-disciplines, the authors in the book discuss the complex weave of cultural links and the different religious and linguistic groups that have been living side by side in the Balkans for centurie... .... Learn More -
Europeans: Essays on Culture & Identity [Hardback]
Ake Daun (Editor)
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ISBN: 9789189116061
Published by : Nordic Academic Press
A collection of essays on national identity within Europe. .... Learn More -
Culture Unbound: Americanization & Everyday Life in Sweden [Paperback]
Tom O'Dell (Author)
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ISBN: 9789189116023
Published by : Nordic Academic Press
This book considers to what extent Americanization influences everyday life in Sweden. .... Learn More -
More than Mythology: Narratives, Ritual Practices & Regional Distribution in Pre-Christian Scandinavian Religions [Hardback]
Catharina Raudvere (Editor)
£32.95Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9789185509713
Published by : Nordic Academic Press
The religion of the Viking Age is conventionally identified through its mythology: the ambiguous character Odin, the forceful Thor, and the end of the world approaching in Ragnarök. But pre-Christian religion consisted of so much more than mythic ... .... Learn More -
Tracing Old Norse Cosmology: The World Tree, Middle Earth & the Sun in Archaeological Perspectives [Hardback]
Anders Andren (Author)
£29.95Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9789185509386
Published by : Nordic Academic Press
Old Norse religion is considered as one of the best-known pre-Christian religions in Europe, due to the rich and varied Icelandic literature from the 12th to the 14th century. Since the Icelandic texts are Christian there has been an ongoing debat... .... Learn More
