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This is an anthology about technology's role in the modernisation process. It is written by a European group of historians of technology. Technological modernisation is very much a question of transferring technology from an innovating culture to ...

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This volume by Vaino Kannisto, former United Nations advisor on demographic and social statistics, is the first in the "Odense Monographs on Population Aging". It is fitting that Kannisto is the first author because the core set of data ...

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This title features the proceedings of the Seventeenth International Symposium organised by the Centre for the Study of Vernacular Literature in the Middle Ages held at the Odense University on 16-18 November 1992.

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The illegal press in Denmark opposing German occupation grew to impressive size and influence by the end of World War II. But its origins were modest, springing up from the small banned Danish Community Party and informal friendship groups in 1941.

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The storied realms of exceptional longevity are scrutinized in this volume. The vast majority of reputed centenarians in the past, and most countries even today, lived less than 100 years. On the other hand, the number of genuine long-livers is ex...

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Co-operation among western European states in the period after World War II has followed two paths. A traditional intergovernmental path demanding no transfer of formal national sovereignty and the integration path aiming at creating "an ever...

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This volume is an additional contribution to the description of the mortality of the oldest-old in the post-war era, begun with volume 1 by the same author. While the first publication was essentially a time series studies, the present one is a li...

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This book is designed for newcomers to the English spoken and written in Ireland. It features: over 500 headwords, including words of Irish (Gaelic) origin and English words no longer current in England, or used differently in Ireland; examples fr...

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This volume combines a number of examinations of alternative therapies, in widely diverging contexts, under the title of communication. The contributions discuss the difficult question of communication or non-communication between East and West, o...

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The articles in this final volume fall into two main themes, lifestyle and medical paradigms. By using lifestyle as the point of departure for describing the use and users of alternative treatment, research moves beyond the traditional scientific ...

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This title presents text in French.

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Children's work is a controversial subject both in the sciences of sociology and history. It does not accord well with the modern idea of a good childhood - that children actually work. Children ought to spend their time playing and attending scho...

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Five papers (one in German) explore the cultural traditions of Germany, including its Danish connections, and Britain, with its Gaelic and Anglo-Norman connections. They consider songs of praise and blame and the repertoire of the gestour, minstre...

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For more than a century the mosaic floors of the late "Roman Villa" in Halikarnassos have captured attention of scholars, and the present volume of Halicarnassian Studies contains a broad spectrum of contributions on architecture and the...

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This contains sixteen contributions by fellow linguists that include papers on the English progressive; predication and the nominal clause; the use of mood and modal verbs in Italian and Danish; some Norwegian discourse particles and their English...

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Critique of metaphysics has been a persistent theme of the 20th century philosophy. But the limitations of this critique are manifesting themselves more and more clearly. Among these limitations is the fact that both inner and outer nature have fo...

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The Soviet Union in our time is in the throes of constant change. This applies not only to political developments but also to popular consciousness. There is a change in the mentality of the populace as doomsday visions continue to be broadcast, w...

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God is not dead, after all. Not, that is, if we are to subscribe to a number of trends in contemporary philosophy. This is all the more remarkable in the light of a long tradition in philosophy dating back to the 18th Century Enlightenment, dictat...

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This is Volume 4 in the Odense Monographs on Population Aging series, the only publication series in the world that describes the special field of demography research on age. This volume in the series presents a large bouquet of shaded contour map...

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The crisis of the welfare state in present day Scandinavian countries is a major inspiration behind this collection of papers by nine scholars specializing in intellectual and social history, in women's studies and the history of gender in Sweden,...

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Presents revised papers from a May 1997 conference hosted by the Humanities Research Center, Odense University, Denmark. Contributors from many fields discuss issues of sustainability, biodiversity, indigenous peoples and the protection of nature,...

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This book honours a Danish linguist central to the field of foreign language pedagogy in her country and is arranged in four sections that reflect her interests. The structure of the book is intended to reflect Kirsten Haastrup's research interest...

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The literature of the American South has for the last sixty some years argued about its revered stoic heritage, lingered on the region's bi-racial identity, and eventually dealt openly with existential questions. Frames of Southern Minds has chapt...

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Local government takes upon itself important tasks and is a prime mover in the implementation of new developments in most welfare societies. How it is managed itself is clearly not an unimportant matter, but it is something we know comparatively l...

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The conference was held in English, and all 45 papers are also in English, reflecting the goal of making the Danish writer better known and understood elsewhere in the world. Besides the plenary lectures, they cover biography, affinities, and infl...

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Describes the status of clinical pharmacology and therapeutics (CPT) in 28 European countries, with material on the nature and organization of CPT in each country. Chapters give details on each center of CPT, with information on main interests of ...

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While not quite on a par with Mel Brooks' 2,000 Year-Old Man, this volume reports on some folks who've been around for a long time. Contributors to 15 papers indicate that such longevity rarely existed prior to the 19th century. Appends statistica...

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Poulsen (health economics, U. of Southern Denmark), after discussing the international theoretical and historical development of the form of policy research that examine the short- and long-term social consequences of the application of certain te...

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Growing out of a conference of the same name held in Odense in 1997, this collection of 11 articles attempts to shed light on the mutual relationship that exists between these ages of life. Its focus is on preconceptions of age and the ways people...

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The past, we know, informs us. Its texture has been just as real to its time as we feel the present to be for us. And yet, despite its immense importance for establishing and understanding our identity, the reality of the past is curiously inacces...

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