By Night The Mountain Burns recounts the narrator's childhood on a remote island off the West African coast, living with his mysterious grandfather, several mothers and no fathers. We learn of a dark chapter in the island's history: a bush fire destroys the crops, then hundreds perish in a cholera o[...]

Om livet, arbeidet og den store, umulige kjærligheten

Imot naturen er en undersøkelse av arbeidet; arbeidet i fabrikken, kjærlighetsarbeidet, skrivearbeidet. Arbeidet for å leve et liv i samsvar med samfunnet og naturen. Men hva er naturlig, og hvorfor trekkes fortelleren mot det umul[...]

Många längtar efter vila, men vad är det - mer än att inte arbeta? Hur får vi ihop vårt behov av vila med allt ansvar och med känslan av att inte riktigt räcka till? Hur handskas vi med vilans ärkefiender Oro, Leda och Rastlöshet?

Tomas Sjödin tar oss med in i vilans värld och utf[...]

"Det mänskliga livet lutar. Det är inte riktigt i våg. Oftast tänker man inte på det, men ibland känns det väldigt tydligt. Allt faller plötsligt åt ett oväntat håll ..."

Under drygt tretton år har Tomas Sjödin skrivit i Göteborgsposten. Många är de läsare som genom åren nic[...]

Combining poetry and a memoir of his childhood in Sweden in one volume, For the Living and the Dead once again demonstrates Tomas Transtromer's gift for capturing and grounding the elusive, luminous details of our modern world. A work that bridges the space between those real and unreal elements of [...]

BEHAVIOR IN ORGANIZATIONS, 9/e, by Shani and Lau, is a paperback text that takes a hands-on, experiential approach (learning-by-doing or learning-in-action) to organizational behavior. The majority of the exercises, role-playing simulations, and cases were developed in and for management training wo[...]

Enormous leaps forward in the efficiency and the economy of solar cells are being made at a furious pace. New materials and manufacturing processes have opened up new realms of possibility for the application of solar cells. Crystalline silicon cells are increasingly making way for thin film cells, [...]

Tomas O'Crohan was born on the Great Blasket Island in 1856 and died there in 1937, a great master of his native Irish. He shared to the full the perilous life of a primitive community, yet possessed a shrewd and humorous detachment that enabled him to observe and describe the world.[...]

This book provides the reader with a comprehensive set of instructions and examples of how to perform a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) of a health intervention. Developed out of a course run by Jordan Louviere at the University of Technology, Sydney, entitled An Introduction to Stated Preference Discre[...]

This textbook presents organization theory in an exciting new way, moving away from a traditional linear historical narrative approach, to present students with an approach that offers both relevancy and appeal. The authors take a practice-based approach, identifying questions, problems and issues t[...]

Tomas Sedlacek has shaken the study of economics as few ever have. Named one of the "Young Guns" and one of the "five hot minds in economics" by the Yale Economic Review, he serves on the National Economic Council in Prague, where his provocative writing has achieved bestseller status. How has he do[...]