The king of plams. This is Martius' magnificent work on the varieties of palm tree. On 15 December 1868, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, Professor of Botany at the University of Munich and director of the Royal Botanic Garden, was carried to his grave in a coffin covered with fresh palm leaves. [...]

Boken er en innføring i jazzens historie. Den skildrer hvordan møtet mellom afrikanske og europeiske musikktradisjoner skapte nye uttrykksformer. Den gir en beskrivelse av ulike stilarter og hva som kjennetegner dem, og trekker frem noen av jazzhistoriens fremste utøvere. Et eget kapittel present[...]

En pigg 100-åring jubilerar!

1911 grundade de två nationalekonomerna Eli Heckscher och Gösta Bagge en ny politisk tidskrift i Sverige. Det var så den liberalkonservativa tidskriften Svensk Tidskrift såg dagens ljus. Ett händelserikt sekel kom att ge underlag för en samhällskritik [...]

Föreställningen om att människan har

en dold insida som bär på sanningen om

hennes väsen är en av de mest seglivade

i den västerländska kulturen. Det parapornografiska

manifestet är en rasande,

jublande uppgörelse med denna förestäl[...]

'Looking back at The Libertines is like catching flashes of sunlight between buildings as you race by on a train. An old film reel where the spools are weathered and worn, leaving empty frames on the screen!'[...]

What do we do when things go wrong? A quick fix can hide the problem rather than solve it. To make real progress we need to take time for the slow fix.[...]

The story of Emma and Carl Jung's highly unconventional marriage, their relationship with Freud, and their part in the early years of Psychoanalysis.[...]

We live in the age of speed. We strain to be more efficient, to cram more into each minute, each hour, each day. Since the Industrial Revolution shifted the world into high gear, the cult of speed has pushed us to a breaking point. Consider these facts: Americans on average spend seventy-two minutes[...]