Jul i kommunhuset - en julhälsning från Jonas Karlsson
I Jonas Karlssons finurliga julhälsning skildrar han med sin sedvanliga pricksäkerhet och med ett stort mått av humor kontorslivets vedermödor under några hektiska veckor i december.
Det lackar mot jul i kommunhuset och ledningen [...]
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?Häng en skylt på den skyldige!? Jonas Karlssons nya kortroman Jag är en tjuv berättar historien om när säkerhetsansvarige Roland oturligt nog lyckas ertappa en av snattarna på köpcentret och tvingas utföra en bestraffning han önskar han aldrig hade hittat på. Om hur [...]
I Boken om Böcker har vi samlat berättelser från författare, förläggare, översättare, antikvariatbokhandlare, en biblioterapeut och en präst. Boken är uppdelad i två delar, där den första innehåller tre berättelser om Borrby Bokby och den andra delen handlar om bokens betydelse för f[...]
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Written with the same light-hearted satirical voice as Jonas Jonasson's bestselling debut novel, 'The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared', 'The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden' is another picaresque tale of how one person's actions can have far-reaching - even global -[...]
A wildly picaresque new novel from Jonas Jonasson, the author of the internationally bestselling The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and DisappearedIn a tiny shack in the largest township in South Africa, Nombeko Mayeki is born. Put to work at five years old and orphaned at ten, she quic[...]
This comprehensive work is truly the first textbook in the field of dramaturgy. Most of the material-much of it by leaders in all areas of the theater-was commissioned for this collection, rather than being reprinted. Its currency and importance cannot be overestimated. A review of the history of dr[...]
When a waiting world learned on April 12, 1955, that Jonas Salk had created a vaccine that could prevent poliomyelitis, he became a hero overnight. Jubilation erupted worldwide, with Salk as the focus. Born in a New York tenement, humble in manner, Salk had all the makings of a twentieth-century ico[...]
The Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees adopted on 28 July 1951 in Geneva provides the most comprehensive codification of the rights of refugees yet attempted. Consolidating previous international instruments relating to refugees, the 1951 Convention with its 1967 Protocol marks a cornerst[...]
The Oxford Handbook of Project Management presents and discusses leading ideas in the management of projects. Positioning project management as a domain much broader and more strategic than simply 'execution management', this Handbook draws on the insights of over 40 scholars to chart the developmen[...]
Value theory, or axiology, looks at what things are good or bad, how good or bad they are, and, most fundamentally, what it is for a thing to be good or bad. Questions about value and about what is valuable are important to moral philosophers, since most moral theories hold that we ought to promote [...]
Discusses the ethical implications of modern technology and examines the responsibility of humanity for the fate of the world.[...]
The nature of global governance is changing, as are the standards by which we judge its legitimacy. Whereas international institutions were long the exclusive preserve of national governments, the past decades have witnessed a gradual and partial shift from interstate cooperation to more complex for[...]
In the West, we have identified only four basic tastes -- sour, sweet, salty, and bitter -- that, through skillful combination and technique, create delicious foods. Yet in many parts of East Asia over the past century, an additional flavor has entered the culinary lexicon: umami, a fifth taste impr[...]
Over the past decade, carbon trading has emerged as the industrialized world's primary policy response to global climate change despite considerable controversy. With carbon markets worth $144 billion in 2009, carbon trading represents the largest manifestation of the trend toward market-based envir[...]
The authors of Thoughtful Interaction Design go beyond the usual technical concerns of usability and usefulness to consider interaction design from a design perspective. The shaping of digital artifacts is a design process that influences the form and functions of workplaces, schools, communication,[...]
'Karaoke Capitalism' is a book about people - management for mankind - the individuals prepared to grasp the microphone and express themselves.[...]
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