Norway's Rolf Jacobsen is one of Europe's most acclaimed writers yet, as Robert Bly points out in his introduction: "This magnificent poet is so little known in the United States." This bilingual edition, which selects the best work from Jacobsen's ten volumes, will help remedy that situation.Three [...]
Considered the father of modern Norwegian poetry, Jacobsen's work records the extraordinary changes that take place as we move from an agrarian to an industrial society. This book gathers work from all his published books.
"Jacobsen is not an idylic poet, but a voice that warns against a[...]
Innovation is an oft-heard buzzword in both public and private sectors concerned with the organisation and delivery of services to vulnerable individuals. This thoughtful volume explores what innovation might actually involve in the context of contemporary human services. Highlighting both the impor[...]
Take a detailed look into the brutal anti-partisan warfare in Yugoslavia during the Second World War. The SS war against the partisans, dubbed Bandenkampf (literally fight against bandits) at the time, differed greatly from the conventional war at the front. The 24. Waffen-Gebirgs [Karstjager]-Divis[...]
The Old Testament is a collection of writings which came into being over a period of more than a thousand years in the history of the people of Israel and which reflect the life of the people in this period. Therefore, there is a reciprocal relationship between the writings or "books" of the Old Tes[...]
In 1876 Rolf Johnson and his family left Illinois for Phelps County, Nebraska. There they faced the challenges of pioneering on the Great Plains: digging wells, building sod houses, ploughing and planting crops, and fighting prairie fires. Johnson's diary goes beyond individual conquest, however, an[...]
Examines partitions and covers of graphs and digraphs, latin squares, pairwise balanced designs with prescribed block sizes, ranks and permanents, extremal graph theory, Hadamard matrices and graph factorizations. This book is designed to be of interest to applied mathematicians, computer scientists[...]
Is the Grand Old Man re-emerging? More than twenty years after the collapse of Communism, and in the midst of the crisis of Capitalism, Karl Marx' ideas, at least in part, are back en vogue. He is often invoked, yet in a way that is ignorant of him or his work. In this biography, which received the [...]
The originator of rolfing talks about the process and its techniques, her own life, and the proper functioning of the human body[...]
A warm and wise self-portrait of the woman who originated the therapy that bears her name. Here, Ida Rolf tells about her life, about the wonder of the human body, about life in general, and about Rolfing in particular, explaining her technique of manipulating muscle tissue to allow the body to come[...]
Entrepreneurship and creativity are undoubtedly linked. Researchers examining the relationship between the two will find the Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and Creativity to be an instructive collection with specially commissioned contributions from leading scholars and an international pe[...]
In recent years, several new concepts have emerged in the field of stratospheric ozone depletion, creating a need for a concise in-depth publication covering the ozone-climate issue. This monograph fills that void in the literature and gives detailed treatment of recent advances in the field of stra[...]
This book examines the implementation of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) programs in schools across Europe. It describes and analyzes how individual countries and the region as a whole have established teaching and learning methods to help students develop the competencies needed to be p[...]
This book presents the design of steel structures using finite element methods (FEM)according to the current state of the art in Germany and the rest of Europe. After a short introduction on the basics of the design, this book illustrates the FEM with a focus on internal forces, displacements, criti[...]
Boka omhandler romansk kunst, som er den første epoken i middelalderkunsten. Den ser på romansk arkitektur i Tyskland, Italia, Frankrike, Spania, Portugal, Storbritannia, Skandinavia og Sentral-Europa. Den tar også for seg romanske skulpturer, kirkeportalen i middelalderen og dens rettshistoriske[...]
The Italian Renaissance is among the most glamorous epochs of European art. Art historians as well as a wide public are fascinated by three centuries of exceptionally prolific artistic creation that produced works of international fame such as Michelangelo's frescos in the Sistine Chapel. For this w[...]
The Gothic period is one of the first epochs in art history from which artworks of all kinds have been preserved: from cathedrals, castles, and palaces to masterful paintings and the most filigree works of goldsmiths. This book displays the breadth and richness of a unique craftsmanship. Specific co[...]
Ny utgave med oppdatert fagstoff etter de siste endringene i fagetBoka dekker kompetansemålene for programfaget Produksjon. Faktabok og oppgavebok tar for seg emnene produksjonsprosessen, sponfraskillende bearbeiding, sammenføyning og materiallære. Den gir en grunnleggende innføring i disse emne[...]
Denne fjerdeutgaven er gjennomgående oppdatert og revidert både når det gjelder nye forskningsresultater og emner i norsk ernæringspolitisk debatt.I tillegg til litteraturreferanser i hvert kapittel er boken supplert med henvisninger til aktuell ernæringsinformasjon på internett, og boken inne[...]
En hilsen fra menigheten til fadderne. Inneholder en vakker illustrasjon og en kort tekst om hva dåpen er og om hva det er å være fadder. Finnes i bokmål og nynorsk utgave.[...]
Idag bor 1,8 miljoner människor av utländskt ursprung i Sverige och 10 procent av vår befolkning är född utanför landets gränser. Sverige är idag ett mångkulturellt samhälle. I denna bok ger Christer Lundh och Rolf Ohlsson bakgrunden till dagens situation.
Från krigsslutet till b[...]
?Under skapande av instrument har händernas arbete anslutit mig till nuet och tanken underkastat sig närvaron. I en inre okuvlighet som bor i vår sårbarhet uppstod dikter. Och frågan: Finns det ett varande tillgängligt inom oss som är oåtkomligt för yttre strukturer och omständigheter, kan[...]
De flesta företag satsar enorma summor på att knyta nyckelkunder till sig som står för en betydande del av företagets intäkter. Att förlora dessa kunder är ofta förödande. Det finns ett tanke- och arbetssätt som minimerar risken för att detta sker: Key Account Management!
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