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Age by Suresh Rattan 9788771847352
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $7.77Suresh Rattan's birth certificate reads "1955". At his age, signs of decline inevitably creep in, but Suresh doesn't feel that old. In fact, he feels twenty years younger. He can even explain why. No... -
Trelleborg Søren Michael Sindbæk 9788775976317
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.07When Trelleborg was excavated in the 1930s as the first of the great ring fortresses of the Viking Age, it was a true archaeological enigma. Why was it built, and by whom? Today we know that the... -
Careers by Rie Thomsen 9788775976089
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $7.77What does having a career mean, and should we always follow our dreams? In this critical and thought-provoking book, Rie Thomsen and Tristram Hooley challenge the myths and ideals surrounding careers... -
Why Europe? by Jorgen Moller 9788775970018
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $13.95Why Europe? What made Western and Central Europe, long an economic and political backwater compared with the other great agrarian civilisations of Eurasia, the cradle of modernity? This short book... -
Folklore in the Nordic World Thomas A DuBois 9788775972289
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.89Folklore, defined as the informal customs, beliefs, verbal art, and vernacular crafts of any particular folk group, is an indelible part of human culture. The study of it emerged out of the romantic... -
Stochastic Dynamics by Zili Zhang 9788771842326
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.35Buildings, bridges and tunnels are continuously exposed to forces of nature such as wind, waves, earthquakes and even traffic. Because these forces are hard to predict and model, it is also hard to... -
Harbingers of 20th-Century Neo-classicism by Finn Egeland Hansen 9788771847116
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.11This book proposes a new theory about the neo-classical style in music. The Danish emeritus professor Finn Egeland Hansen has chosen three different composers - the French Camille Saint-Saens and... -
Conflict Resolution in the Nordic World by Peter Munk Christiansen 9788775970049
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.89This book examines the model developed in the Nordic countries for handling labor market relations between employers and employees - a model that has secured flexible and well-functioning labor... -
Energy of the Nordic World by Mogens Rüdiger 9788772198668
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.89Norway and Sweden are among the biggest consumers of energy per capita, yet the Nordic nations also lead the world in clean power production and have ambitious goals of decarbonizing their energy... -
In-Between: Exploring Small Cracks of Everyday Life by Karen Ida Dannesboe 9788772191386
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.35In-Between: Exploring Small Cracks of Everyday Life is an anthology comprising contributions from a group of social scientists all preoccupied with the possibilities and potentials of working... -
Ritual Performance in the Viking Age: Proceedings of the 39th Interdisciplinary Viking Symposium, 20 Th May 2022, Aarhus University Søren M. Sindbæk 9788775974689
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.92The performance of rituals is a key component in understanding the culture of Late Iron-Age and Viking-Age Scandinavia, which was marked by tremendous social and religious transformations. New... -
Underwater Archaeology and Cultural Resources: Methodology, Preservation and Communication. a Dialogue Between Denmark and Greece by Sanne Hoffmann 9788775978359
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.35Denmark and Greece both possess vast territorial waters that hold irreplaceable tangible cultural heritage including shipwrecks and submerged settlements. These countries have therefore been at the... -
Urban Planning in the Nordic World by Ellen Braae 9788772197241
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.89Urban planning is a keystone in the materialization of the Nordic welfare states. That is not to say that there is one particular city form or planning practice that is synonymous with the emerging... -
Democratization in the Nordic World by David Andersen 9788775972098
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.89The Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Norway, and Sweden) enjoy some of the happiest populations and highest standards of living in the world, thanks in part to stable, democratic systems of... -
Questions: Between identity and difference by Pia Lauritzen
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788771842258Author Pia LauritzenFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint -
Peoplehood in the Nordic World by Ove Korsgaard 9788772197258
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.89What do we mean when we say "the people"? In a Nordic context, the word "people" was historically associated not with members of a sovereign nation but of a household, church, or state. The term... -
Ants by Hans Joachim Offenberg 9788771848137
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $7.77Famed for its industriousness and its urge to conquer, this race practises farming and uses chemical weapons. Humans? No, ants! Joachim Offenberg, a myrmecophile researcher at Aarhus University,... -
Sami Art and Aesthetics: Contemporary Perspectives by Svein Aamold 9788771842524
RRP: $48.24Booksplease Price: $41.54During the last five decades we have witnessed an increase in activity among artists identifying themselves as Sami, the only recognised indigenous people of Scandinavia. At the same time, art and... -
Economic Performance by Torben M. Andersen 9788772193274
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.89The Nordic model rests on two pillars: the social safety net and the provision of services like education, childcare, and healthcare for all. It can also be characterized as an "employment model,"... -
Happiness by Christian Bjornskov 9788772193250
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.89Many experts attribute the Nordic region's high levels of happiness to factors such as greater relative national wealth, wellfunctioning institutions, or the welfare state model. Instead, economist... -
Equality by Carsten Jensen 9788772193267
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.89Rising inequality is one of the most prominent characteristics of the modern age of globalized economies. To some observers, inequality is a natural consequence of economic growth that ought to be... -
Children's Literature in the Nordic World by Nina Christensen
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.89This volume introduces an international readership to the role books have played in the lives and upbringing of young people in the Nordic countries from the 1750s until today. Charlotte Appel and... -
What did the Sarcophagus of Symmachus Look Like?: Late Antique Pagan Sarcophagi by Niels Hannestad 9788771847437
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $13.95This book concerns the chronology of Roman mythological sarcophagi. The traditional chronology assumes a peak in production during the reign of Gallienus (AD 259-268) that fades away in the reign of...