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Kategorier: Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management Historia Historia och arkeologi Historia: särskilda händelser och ämnen Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria
As countries experience structural transformation, a large portion of the rural population migrates to urban areas. A recurring question within social scientific fields, including economics, sociology, and economic history, is whether these migrants witness economic returns from relocating. This dissertation approaches…
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • This magisterial and acclaimed history offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, through its expansion under Stalin, to its collapse in the era of glasnost.
“A tragic testimony to how evil ideologically inspired dictatorships…
The Natural Menopause Method is a complete one-stop guide to the perimenopause and menopause, covering everything from recognising symptoms to managing relationships and understanding which treatments really work. Author Karen Newby takes a wholistic approach to Midlife and the biological and social challenges it…
In this sparkling romance, two professors with a complicated past get a second chance to prove history won’t repeat itself. Assistant professor Clara Fernsby is nothing if not driven. She’s wanted to teach history since she was fourteen, and she hasn’t let anything stand in her way-not even the love…
Sometimes history seems like a laundry list of malevolent monarchs, pompous presidents and dastardly dictators. But are they really the ones in the driving seat? Sapiens: A Graphic History – The Masters of History takes us on an immersive and hilarious ride through the human past to discover the forces that…
Kategorier: Agronomi och lantbruk Alkoholdrycker Drycker Handelsträdgårdsodling Livsstil, hobby och fritid Mat och dryck Teknik, ingenjörsvetenskap etc. Vin Vinodling
Meet thirteen visionaries of natural wine, who are each leading the way towards a low-carbon future: the ones who have scrapped the tractor and never open their soil; the winegrower in the middle of the city who only sells locally, transports her wines by bike and reuses the bottles; and the wine importer who sails…
The entirety of the human brain's 4-billion-year story can be summarised as the culmination of five evolutionary breakthroughs, starting from the very first brains, all the way to the modern human brains. Each breakthrough emerged from new sets of brain modifications, and equipped animals with a new suite of…
Kategorier: Guider till museer och historiska platser Konst Konst: teman och motiv Livsstil, hobby och fritid Reseguider Resor och platser Utställningskataloger och konstsamlingar
A selection of treasures from the Maria Sk?odowska-Curie Museum in Warsaw, the only biographical museum in the world devoted to the Nobel laureate.
Kategorier: Historia Historia och arkeologi Historia: särskilda händelser och ämnen Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria
This thesis explores the analytical relationship between geoism, also known as left-libertarianism, and libertarian anarchism. Geoists argue that private property in land is unjust since no one has created the land. Furthermore, they contend that such landownership is the root cause of many social problems, generating…
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024
’[A] wise and insightful novel about identity and family’ The Times, Book of the Day’An epic family odyssey… Ambitious and compelling’ Guardian, Book of the Day’A rich, sprawling saga… This Strange Eventful History may be Messud’s…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: mysterier och övernaturligt Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Faktaböcker barn och ungdom Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: fantasy och magisk realism
“Incredibly immersive. The newest installment to the Miss Peregrine universe is stunning.”A deluxe companion to the #1 bestselling Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series. Everything you need to know about the peculiar world, written by Miss Peregrine herself. A gloriously rich and utterly…
The de Havilland DH.106 Comet was the first jet airliner. Prototypes first flew in 1949, deliveries of production aircraft began in 1951, and the type entered commercial service in 1952.
It was expected to deliver great prestige and prosperity to the postwar British aerospace industry, but the Comet’s reputation…
Third in a series of hardcover boxed sets celebrating the literary achievement of Christopher Tolkien, featuring double-sided dustjackets. Set 3 contains The Return of the Shadow, The Treason of Isengard, The War of the Ring, and Sauron Defeated (Books 6-9 of The History of Middle-earth).
The Return of the Shadow is…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
I have taken up the old chronicles and the history of Sweden’s oldest family, how members of this family were involved in shaping Sweden’s history, one of the most famous Fale helped Erik Knutsson to the king’s throne and is probably the same person as the fictional Arn, This Fale had decisive role…
This report examines the historical image of Sweden in the United States against the backdrop of recent debates on how Sweden is portrayed abroad. The Swedish–American relationship is important for Sweden – culturally, economically, and politically. This is highly relevant given current security concerns and Sweden’s…
Kategorier: Antologier Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Historia Historia och arkeologi Historia: särskilda händelser och ämnen Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria
I vår antologi Dåtid, nutid & framtid samlas 19 författare, alla med anknytning till Kivik och Vitemölla på Österlen, för att fritt tänka kring tid och Kiviks Museums devis. Det är 19 olika essäer med allt från lokalhistoriska funderingar till globala utmaningar, företagsekonomi, att förverkliga sina drömmar,…
Based on the eponymous viral Twitter account, Museum Bums, a celebration of classical art, history, and shapely derrieres, encourages readers to learn something new while still managing to have a chuckle. What do Hieronymus Bosch, the Roman cult of Antinous, and the peach emoji all have in common? But of course, butts,…
Kategorier: Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Läromedel Läromedel: geografi Läromedel: samhällsorienterande ämnen och humaniora
Part of the well-loved series Mad for Geography, explore different landscapes with over 50 pages of activities! Ages 6+.
Kategorier: Idéhistoria Kulturvetenskap Kulturvetenskap och medievetenskap Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
In this bold new follow-up to Confronting Leviathan, David Runciman unmasks modern politics and reveals the great men and women of ideas behind it. What can Samuel Butler’s ideas teach us about the oddity of how we choose to organise our societies? How did Frederick Douglass not only expose the horrors of…
A riveting story about uncovering family secrets and the power of forgiveness, set in India and the United States, from the bestselling author of Reese’s Book Club pick Honor
Remy Wadia left India for the United States long ago, carrying his resentment of his mother with him. He has now returned to Bombay to…
The first book to explore B-side’s influence that transformed pop and allowed artists freedom of experimentation.
“I found this book amazing. I read it through quickly because it was so interesting, then turned around and read much of it again.”—Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and bestselling author of Thinking Fast & Slow
“I’ve been recommending A Brief History of…
Eighty years on, D-Day The Oral History is a fresh and significant new history of arguably the most important day of the 20th Century.
On 6th June 1944, the Allied invasion began. For hours, wave after wave of soldiers, sailors, and airmen crossed the channel and stormed the Normandy coast, fighting to gain a foothold…
A beautifully crafted, enriching saga inspired by East Asian mythology, The Melancholy of Untold History is Minsoo Kang’s debut novel, steeped in history like R.F. Kuang’s Babel, epic in scope like Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land, and lyrically exciting like David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas,…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
Welcome to The Museum of Witchcraft, an eclectic exploration of witchcraft and magic through 100 objects, practices and symbols.
Every sense is tingling. Even the dust here is rich, imbued with the past. It’s cold, and quiet, so why don’t you feel completely alone? On your skin, you can feel the subtle…
Rome as you’ve never seen it before – brazenly unconventional, badly behaved and ever so feminine.
’Hugely entertaining and illuminating’ -Elodie Harper, author of The Wolf Den
A WATERSTONES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023
Here’s how the history of the Roman Empire usually goes…
We kick…
Kategorier: Konst
Welcome, adventurer! Journey through fifty years of Dungeons and Dragons with this illustrated gift book.
Take a walk through fifty years of the beloved fantasy role-playing game – often referred to as the ’single most influential game of all time’.
Illustrated throughout with rarely-seen images and…
The Applied History course at the Stockholm School of Economics highlights the importance of history for understanding today’s world order. It teaches students how a deep historical understanding, a ”historical sensibility”, can expand their knowledge of contemporary policy issues while providing…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion.
First revealed to Westerners in the chronicles of Marco Polo, Japan was a…
Kategorier: Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Bilderböcker Bilderböcker med särskilda figurer Bilderböcker, pysselböcker och pedagogiska böcker 0–5 år Pedagogiska böcker 0–5 år Pedagogiska böcker 0–5 år: uppleva världen Pysselböcker, målarböcker och leksaksböcker Pysselböcker: leta och hitta
Discover artefacts from around the world and throughout history on a day out to the museum with the Cat Family in this charming lift-the-flap book.
The fourth volume of the «Yearbook on History and Interpretation of Phenomenology: Vocations, Social Identities, Spirituality: Phenomenological Perspectives» presents variety of contemporary authors who explore the problem of vocation and closely related phenomena of personal, social, cultural (and transcultural)…
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
The original Book of the Grail was written early in the 13th century, but only fragments of the manuscript survive. Originally titled The High History of the Holy Graal, this book was compiled in 1866 from a 16th-century copy of the original that was written in French by an anonymous author. This is the most complete…
Kategorier: Familj och hälsa Graviditet, förlossning och barnavård Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Råd till föräldrar
PREGNANCY: A GUIDE TO NATURAL THERAPIES gives in one volume naturopathic information specific to pregnancy that has not been available before.
In an informative and easy-to-read way this book gives nutritional advice and information for pregnant women on the wide safe range of complementary remedies available for…
A Natural Theology of the Arts contends that the arts are theological by their very nature and not simply when they are explicitly religious – thereby constituting a distinctive kind of ’natural theology’. Borrowing from science the stance of ’critical realism’ to justify truth claims in…
The seventh-century CE Hebrew work Sefer Zerubbabel (Book of Zerubbabel), composed during the period of conflict between Persia and the Byzantine Empire for control over Palestine, is the first full-fledged messianic narrative in Jewish literature. Martha Himmelfarb offers a comprehensive analysis of this rich but…
Disenchanted with the mainstream environmental movement, a new, more radical kind of environmental activist emerged in the 1980s. Radical environmentalists used direct action, from blockades and tree-sits to industrial sabotage, to save a wild nature that they believed to be in a state of crisis. Questioning the…
The truth of Chan Buddhism – better known as ”Zen” – is regularly said to be beyond language, and yet Chan authors – medieval and modern – produced an enormous quantity of literature over the centuries. To make sense of this well-known paradox, Patriarchs on Paper explores several…
A History of Religion in America: From the First Settlements through the Civil War provides comprehensive coverage of the history of religion in America from the pre-colonial era through the aftermath of the Civil War. It explores major religious groups in the United States and the following topics:
• Native American…