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Sapiens : en kort historik över mänskligheten

AvYuval Noah Harari

Häftad, Svenska, 2018

(60)

219 kr

"En hisnande spaningstur genom mänsklighetens historia ... Sapiens är full av aha-upplevelser och bygger på breda insikter i naturvetenskap, antropologi och samhällsvetenskap."Lars Linder, DN"Det är en väldigt underhållande, tankeväckande och välskriven bok. Harari rör sig flytande och självsäkert över hela det akademiska fältet. Biologi möter antropologi som möter arkeologi och filosofi och teologi och historia. Han har humor, vilket gör honom i sammanhanget ganska originell, och han har också en känsla för dramatik."Patrik Svensson, Sydsvenskan"Djärv och fängslande."Isabelle Ståhl, Svenska Dagbladet"Provocerande, filosofiskt avancerat, stundtals mycket intressant, men ibland rent fjantigt ... underhållande men ibland häpnadsväckande stolliga historik över mänskligheten."Björn Gunnarsson, GP"Den är lysande. Troligtvis den bästa boken om mänsklighetens historia - och då jag har läst väldigt många."Henning Mankell

Sapiens är en storslagen berättelse om människans ursprung, nutid och framtid. Historikern Yuval Noah Harari tar oss med från Homo sapiens första steg på jorden, då vi var ett däggdjur bland alla andra, till idag när vi står som världens obestridda härskare - med makt att både skapa och utplåna liv.För cirka 70 000 år sedan var jorden befolkad av minst sex olika mänskliga arter. Ingen av dem hade någon större inverkan på den globala ekologin. Idag har bara en art överlevt - Homo sapiens. Hur blev det så? En del av hemligheten bakom framgångarna är att vi är det enda djur som kan prata om saker som existerar enbart i vår egen fantasi, såsom gudar, nationer, pengar och mänskliga rättigheter. Om detta och mycket mer handlar denna internationella bästsäljare som ger nytt bränsle åt diskussionen om vårt gemensamma förflutna och planetens framtid.Professor Yuval Noah Harari (född 1976) är verksam vid Hebreiska universitetet i Jerusalem och slutförde sin doktorsavhandling vid University of Oxford. Hans specialområde är världens historia och makrohistoriska processer. Harari har publicerat ett flertal böcker och artiklar och hans filmade föreläsningar om världens historia har blivit en stor succé på Youtube.

Bibliotekarien Jenny Lindh i DN rekommenderar:"Jag är så upphetsad över att Yuval Noah Hararis Sapiens nu kommer på svenska. Hans maffiga - och utmanande - bok om människan är så innehållsrik att den är hopplös att sammanfatta: "En makrohistorisk exposé över homo sapiens utveckling", försökte jag häromkvällen, varpå sällskapet omedelbart föll i djup REM-sömn. Därför ett par nedslag: Homo Sapiens är en mördarmaskin. Mänskliga rättigheter är en fantasi. Ja, kanske handlar Sapiens framför allt om just fantasin, den föreställningsförmåga som gjort oss till världens härskare. Sagan om människan är intimt förbunden med fiktion."Jenny Lindh i M-magasin:Högsta betyg MMMMM, oumbärlig."Årets bästa? Hur blev människan människa? Hur kan en ynklig tvåfotning utan klor och huggtänder dominera alla andra djur och människoarter? Briljante forskaren Yuval Noah Harari skriver Sapiens historia och finner, vackert nog, att vår vinnande egenskap stavas fantasi. Konsten att föreställa sig det osynliga har skapat religioner, pengar, imperier och vårt herravälde. Men vem betalar priset? Vårens, kanske årets fackbok gnistrar av lärdom och perfekt för diskussionskvällarna."

”Jag önskar att skolböckerna hade haft samma entusiasm, självförtroende och vigör som Yuval Noah Harari har när de berättar om mänsklighetens utveckling.”Kristian Ekenberg, Örnköldsviks Allehanda

”Sapiens: En kort historik över mänskligheten” är en spännande och skrämmande bok.”Bo Gustavsson, UNT

”Hans övergripande och välformulerade exposé är som gjord för underhållning.”Åsa Maria Hellman, Borås Tidning

”Harari kombinerar forskningsrön från många olika områden till ett verkligt ambitiöst, men också mycket imponerande verk … Hararis historik är minst sagt häpnadsväckande. Infallsvinklarnas mångfald gör att verket levererar nytt, ruskigt fascinerande tankegods på rullande band … Allt detta framför Harari med en tydlig, smidig och pedagogisk text – här finns varken något luddigt tänkt eller sagt. Den svenska översättningen kan man dessutom inte kalla annat än lyckad.”Sebastian Köhler, Affärsmagasinet Forum"Boken styrka är storskaligheten; författarens fascinerande framfart genom historien kan göra läsaren fartblind, men erbjuder samtidigt ett helikopterperspektiv över de långa utvecklingslinjerna och många jämförelser av världshistoriens olika kulturer som ger perspektiv på vårt samhälle."Gustav Holmberg, BTJ

"Djärv, mångfacetterad och provokativ utmanar Sapiens allt vi trodde att vi visste om att vara människa: våra tankar, våra handlingar, vår styrka … och vår framtid."The Independent"Harari kan skriva. … verkligen, verkligen skriva med intelligens, klarhet, elegans, och en underbar känsla för metaforer."The Times"Den här fascinerande boken kan inte sammanfattas; du måste helt enkelt läsa den."Financial Times

Där solen aldrig går ned : hur världens mest sorgsna land gjorde världen syndigare

AvHenrik Brandão Jönsson

Pocket, Svenska, 2022

(17)

89 kr

"Brandão Jönsson noterar, som den reporter han är, i första hand det konkreta han ser och hör. Och snart inser jag att en genuin livsnjutare för pennan." Göran Greider, Dagens Nyheter

"Reportageboken ”Där solen aldrig går ned” gör världen större för de många, många läsare den förtjänar." Göteborgs-Posten

"Brandão Jönsson slösar med oväntade upplysningar, skriver lättläst och personligt, det går undan. Det känns som Jorden runt på 80 dagar”, Akademiledamoten Per Wästberg

"Ett både fängslande och lärorikt reportage. Brandão Jönsson träffar intressanta människor, levandegör miljöer, blandar in sig själv och sin egen historia på en lagom nivå och knyter ihop det hela elegant i alla delar." Aftonbladet

"Där solen aldrig går ned är inte bara ett underhållande resereportage utan sju historie- och geografilektioner som får världen att hänga ihop på ett nytt sätt." Arbetaren

"Hans blick är säker för galghumor av en sort som sämre skribenter brukar misslyckas med genom att bara bli roliga”." Svenska Dagbladet

"Vilken fantastisk läsupplevelse!" Benjamin Elfors, podcasten Kunskap bit för bit

"Tråkigt har man aldrig i Brandão Jönssons sällskap, och svärtan finns alltid med. Hans bok om den lusofona världen fyller en stor lucka i bokhyllan." Dagens Nyheter

Med avstamp i de sju dödssynderna beger sig Henrik Brandão Jönsson ut på en jordenruntresa för att skildra den osannolika historien om hur ett av Europas fattigaste länder en gång i tiden var världens mäktigaste nation.

Genom upptäcktsresorna spred Portugal sin kultur och sitt språk över världen. Idag är portugisiskan världens sjätte största språk och talas av en kvarts miljard människor på fyra av jordens sex kontinenter. Ändå hör vi sällan om den delen av världen. Hur kommer det sig?

I sju kapitel berättar journalisten Henrik Brandão Jönsson om arvet efter det globala imperiet. Han besöker de forna portugisiska kolonierna och upptäcker att de blivit sina grannländers syndiga motpoler: i Goa har droger och frosseri fått fäste, i spelhålan Macao har pengar och girighet tagit över, i Brasilien breder lättjan ut sig. Alltmedan Portugal känner avund inför allt hon skapat utomlands, men inte fått till på hemmaplan.

"Det myllrande rika materialet där Jönsson korsklipper mellan resor i nutid och nedstigningar i det fjärran förflutna får form och framåtriktad energi, så att Jönssons främsta kvalitet - blicken för den konkreta detaljen som skapar sinnlig närvarokänsla - får fritt spelrum." Göteborgs-Posten

"Inspirerande och intressant skildring av en mycket inflytelserik global kultur.” BTJ

"Där solen aldrig går ned är också en historisk upptäcktsresa som utmynnar i en uppgörelse med den portugisiska självbilden som den goda kolonialmakten." Göteborgs-Posten

"Sju kunniga och inspirerande resereportage. /.../Genom möten och intervjuer med infödda blir den samtida situationen av de gamla kolonierna levande. De historiska och politiska sambanden blir tydliga." Miljömagasinet

"Utifrån sju territorier där man talar portugisiska berättas en historia om kolonialkrig, slavhandel och gränslös girighet. Inget man utan vidare återger med friskt humör. Ändå lyckas Henrik Brandão Jönsson göra just det. Hans blick är säker för galghumor av en sort som sämre skribenter brukar misslyckas med genom att bara bli roliga." Svenska Dagbladet

Sapiens

THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER

AvYuval Noah Harari

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

(56)

141 kr

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'Interesting and provocative... It gives you a sense of how briefly we've been on this Earth' Barack ObamaWhat makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers, Yuval Noah Harari challenges everything we know about being human.Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it: us.In this bold and provocative book, Yuval Noah Harari explores who we are, how we got here and where we're going.**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**PRAISE FOR SAPIENS:'Jaw-dropping from the first word to the last... It may be the best book I've ever read' Chris Evans'Startling... It changes the way you look at the world' Simon Mayo'I would recommend Sapiens to anyone who's interested in the history and future of our species' Bill GatesOver 2 million copies sold since publication [Nielsen BookScan UK, Circana BookScan US, April 2024]

Together

A Manifesto Against a Heartless World

AvEce Temelkuran

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

125 kr

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Now is the time for the new, the beautiful and the humane.In Together, award-winning political thinker, author and poet Ece Temelkuran provides an inspiring manifesto for change by revealing fresh possibilities for the better world we might want to live in and gives us a new vocabulary for the political action that the twenty-first century demands.Above all, this book will challenge you to have faith in the other human beings we share this planet with, to turn away from an uncaring world and instead build a new one with compassion.

Dawn of Everything

A New History of Humanity

AvDavid Graeber,David Wengrow

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

(6)

198 kr

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARFINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022'Pacey and potentially revolutionary' Sunday Times 'Iconoclastic and irreverent ... an exhilarating read' The GuardianFor generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a reaction to indigenous critiques of European society, and why they are wrong. In doing so, they overturn our view of human history, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery and civilization itself.Drawing on path-breaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we begin to see what's really there. If humans did not spend 95 per cent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful possibilities than we tend to assume.The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision and faith in the power of direct action.'This is not a book. This is an intellectual feast' Nassim Nicholas Taleb'The most profound and exciting book I've read in thirty years' Robin D. G. Kelley

Hillbilly Elegy

The Internationally Bestselling Memoir from Trump’s Vice-President of the United States

AvJ. D. Vance

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

(13)

168 kr

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER / OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD THE AMERICAN VICE PRESIDENT'S ORIGIN STORY ‘Essential reading for this moment in history’ New York Times 'You will not read a more important book about America this year' Economist ‘Brilliant … offers an acute insight into the reasons voters have put their trust in Trump’ Observer J. D. Vance grew up in the hills of Kentucky. His family and friends were the people most of the world calls rednecks, hillbillies or white trash.In this deeply moving memoir, Vance tells the story of his family’s demons and of America’s problem with generational neglect. How his mother struggled against, but never fully escaped, the legacies of abuse, alcoholism, poverty and trauma. How his grandparents, ‘dirt poor and in love’, gave everything for their children to chase the American dream. How Vance beat the odds to graduate from Yale Law School. And how America came to abandon and then condescend to its white working classes, until they reached breaking point. ‘A beautiful memoir but it is equally a work of cultural criticism about white working-class America … Vance offers a compelling explanation for why it’s so hard for someone who grew up the way he did to make it … a riveting book’ Wall Street Journal ** Now a major-motion picture directed by Ron Howard and starring Amy Adams, Glenn Close, and Gabriel Basso **

Exotic No More, Second Edition

Anthropology for the Contemporary World

AvJeremy Macclancy

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

263 kr

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In this new edition of the anthropological classic Exotic No More, some of today's most respected anthropologists demonstrate the tremendous contributions that anthropological theory and ethnographic methods can make to the study of contemporary society. With chapters covering a wide variety of subjects--the economy, religion, the sciences, gender and sexuality, human rights, music and art, tourism, migration, and the internet--this volume shows how anthropologists grapple with a world that is in constant and accelerating transformation. Each contributor uses examples from their adventurous fieldwork to challenge us to rethink some of our most firmly held notions. This fully updated edition reflects the best that anthropology has to offer in the twenty-first century. The result is both an invaluable introduction to the field for students and a landmark achievement that will set the agenda for critical approaches to the study of contemporary life.Contributors: Ruben Andersson, Philippe Bourgois, Catherine Buerger, James G. Carrier, Marcus Colchester, James Fairhead, Kim Fortun, Mike Fortun, Katy Gardner, Faye Ginsburg, Roberto J. Gonz lez, Tom Griffiths, Chris Hann, Susan Harding, Faye V. Harrison, Laurie Kain Hart, Richard Jenkins, George Karandinos, Christopher M. Kelty, Melissa Leach, Margaret Lock, Jeremy MacClancy, Sally Engle Merry, Fernando Montero, Matt Sakakeeny, Anthony Alan Shelton, Christopher B. Steiner, Richard Ashby Wilson

Don't Forget We're Here Forever

A New Generation's Search for Religion

AvLamorna Ash

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

145 kr

Why are young people finding their way back to faith?'One of those books I find myself being (excuse the pun) evangelical about, pressing it into friends' hands like a Gideon's Bible' Sunday Times'Spellbinding . . . An incredible exploration of how young people are navigating the complex world we find ourselves in today' Katy Hessel, author of The Story of Art without Men*A TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER**A TELEGRAPH, GQ, NEW YORKER AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR*When several of her friends turned to faith in their twenties, Lamorna Ash sensed the beginnings of a phenomenon. In our fractured age, a new generation was rediscovering Christianity for itself.In this urgent and lyrical adventure, Ash embarks on a journey across Britain to meet the young people wrestling with faith today. Taking us from ancient abbeys to modern meeting houses, silent retreats to garrulous Bible classes, Don' t Forget We're Here Forever explores our need for community and nourishment of the soul.'One of our most talented young writers' Telegraph'It is not surprising that at a time like this, people should turn to older sources of meaning. Don't Forget We're Here Forever is therefore a book for our moment' Irish Times'A rare and arresting book' New Statesman

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Connector

Living with Experimental Neuroprosthetics

AvAlexandra Middleton

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

(1)

302 kr

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In The Connector, Alexandra Middleton examines how the frontiers of experimental medical science are always the everyday lived experiences for patients and their families and communities. Drawing on fieldwork and interviews conducted in Swedish labs and clinics that develop neuromusculoskeletal protheses, as well as in the homes of patients enrolled in clinical trials as they live with these new forms of prosthetics, Middleton shows how patients’ sensory experiences and domestic worlds become key spaces of scientific knowledge production that extend well beyond their visits to the lab. Through storytelling that centers the patients’ embodied knowledge and labor, along with the scientists who work closely with them, Middleton depicts how “connection” entails inhabiting the liminal space between ideation and materialization, a space punctuated not only by breakthroughs and breakdowns, but the slow work of the everyday. The Connector critically examines where biomedical innovation, scientific discovery, and the “cutting edge” come from in ways that foreground the importance of the domestic spaces in which experimental science take place.

Exercised

The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health

AvDaniel Lieberman

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

141 kr

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'Endlessly fascinating and full of surprises. Easily one of my books of the year' BILL BRYSONThe myth-busting science behind our modern attitudes to exercise: what our bodies really need, why it matters, and its effects on health and wellbeing. In industrialized nations, our sedentary lifestyles have contributed to skyrocketing rates of obesity and diseases like diabetes. A key remedy, we are told, is exercise - voluntary physical activity for the sake of health. However, most of us struggle to stay fit, and our attitudes to exercise are plagued by misconceptions, finger-pointing and anxiety.But, as Daniel Lieberman shows in Exercised, the first book of its kind by a leading scientific expert, we never evolved to exercise. We are hardwired for moderate exertion throughout each day, not triathlons or treadmills. Drawing on over a decade of high-level scientific research and eye-opening insights from evolutionary biology and anthropology, Lieberman explains precisely how exercise can promote health; debunks persistent myths about sitting, speed, strength and endurance; and points the way towards more enjoyable and physically active living in the modern world.'Myth-busting, illuminating, brilliant - Lieberman will completely change the way you think about your body' Professor ALICE ROBERTS, presenter of Our Incredible Human Journey

Horse, the Wheel, and Language

How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World

AvDavid W. Anthony

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

(2)

351 kr

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Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? Until now their identity has remained a tantalizing mystery to linguists, archaeologists, and even Nazis seeking the roots of the Aryan race. The Horse, the Wheel, and Language lifts the veil that has long shrouded these original Indo-European speakers, and reveals how their domestication of horses and use of the wheel spread language and transformed civilization. Linking prehistoric archaeological remains with the development of language, David Anthony identifies the prehistoric peoples of central Eurasia's steppe grasslands as the original speakers of Proto-Indo-European, and shows how their innovative use of the ox wagon, horseback riding, and the warrior's chariot turned the Eurasian steppes into a thriving transcontinental corridor of communication, commerce, and cultural exchange.He explains how they spread their traditions and gave rise to important advances in copper mining, warfare, and patron-client political institutions, thereby ushering in an era of vibrant social change. Anthony also describes his fascinating discovery of how the wear from bits on ancient horse teeth reveals the origins of horseback riding. The Horse, the Wheel, and Language solves a puzzle that has vexed scholars for two centuries--the source of the Indo-European languages and English--and recovers a magnificent and influential civilization from the past.

Weirdest People in the World

How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous

AvJoseph Henrich

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

(1)

198 kr

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'A landmark in social thought. Henrich may go down as the most influential social scientist of the first half of the twenty-first century' MATTHEW SYEDDo you identify yourself by your profession or achievements, rather than your family network? Do you cultivate your unique attributes and goals? If so, perhaps you are WEIRD: raised in a society that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic. Unlike most who have ever lived, WEIRD people are highly individualistic, nonconformist, analytical and control-oriented. How did WEIRD populations become so psychologically peculiar? What part did these differences play in our history, and what do they mean for our collective identity? Joseph Henrich, who developed the game-changing concept of WEIRD, uses leading-edge research in anthropology, psychology, economics and evolutionary biology to explore how changing family structures, marriage practices and religious beliefs in the Middle Ages shaped the Western mind, laying the foundations for the world we know today. Brilliant, provocative, engaging and surprising, this landmark study will revolutionize your understanding of who - and how - we are now. 'Phenomenal ... The only theory I am aware of that attempts to explain broad patterns of human psychology on a global scale' Washington Post'You will never look again in the same way at your own seemingly universal values' Uta Frith, Professor of Cognitive Development, University College London

Guns, Germs, and Steel

The Fates of Human Societies

AvJared Diamond

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

(6)

119 kr

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Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this “artful, informative, and delightful” (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, a classic of our time, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond dismantles racist theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for its broadest patterns.The story begins 13,000 years ago, when Stone Age hunter-gatherers constituted the entire human population. Around that time, the developmental paths of human societies on different continents began to diverge greatly. Early domestication of wild plants and animals in the Fertile Crescent, China, Mesoamerica, the Andes, and other areas gave peoples of those regions a head start at a new way of life. But the localized origins of farming and herding proved to be only part of the explanation for their differing fates. The unequal rates at which food production spread from those initial centers were influenced by other features of climate and geography, including the disparate sizes, locations, and even shapes of the continents. Only societies that moved away from the hunter-gatherer stage went on to develop writing, technology, government, and organized religions as well as deadly germs and potent weapons of war. It was those societies, adventuring on sea and land, that invaded others, decimating native inhabitants through slaughter and the spread of disease.A major landmark in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way in which the modern world, and its inequalities, came to be.

After the Ice

A Global Human History, 20,000 - 5000 BC

AvSteven Mithen

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

210 kr

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A fantastic voyage through 15,000 years of history that laid the foundations for civilisation as we know it by award-winning science writer Steven Mithen.Twenty thousand years ago Earth was in the midst of an ice age. Then global warming arrived, leading to massive floods, the spread of forests and the retreat of the deserts. By 5,000 BC a radically different human world had appeared. In place of hunters and gatherers there were farmers; in place of transient campsites there were towns. The foundations of our modern world had been laid and nothing that came after - the Industrial Revolution, the atomic age, the internet - have ever matched the significance of those events. AFTER THE ICE tells the story of climate change's impact during this momentous period - one that also saw the colonisation of the Americas and mass extinctions of animals throughout the world. Drawing on the latest cutting-edge research in archaeology, cognitive science, palaeontology, geology and the evolutionary sciences, Steven Mithen creates an evocative, original and remarkably complete picture of minds, cultures, lives and landscapes through 15,000 years of history.

Origins of Judaism

An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal

AvYonatan Adler

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

252 kr

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Groundbreaking research that utilizes archaeological discoveries and ancient texts to revolutionize our understanding of the beginnings of Judaism “A bravura study.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) Throughout much of history, the Jewish way of life has been characterized by strict adherence to the practices and prohibitions legislated by the Torah: dietary laws, ritual purity, circumcision, Sabbath regulations, holidays, and more. But precisely when did this unique way of life first emerge, and why specifically at that time? In this revolutionary new study, Yonatan Adler methodically engages ancient texts and archaeological discoveries to reveal the earliest evidence of Torah observance among ordinary Judeans. He examines the species of animal bones in ancient rubbish heaps, the prevalence of purification pools and chalk vessels in Judean settlements, the dating of figural representations in decorative and functional arts, evidence of such practices as tefillin and mezuzot, and much more to reconstruct when ancient Judean society first adopted the Torah as authoritative law. Focusing on the lived experience of the earliest Torah observers, this investigative study transforms much of what we thought we knew about the genesis and early development of Judaism.

Svenska folksägner

AvBengt af Klintberg

Häftad, Svenska, 2015

(3)

312 kr

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I bondesamhällets muntliga diktning är det folksägnerna som säger mest om hur folk trodde och tänkte förr. De handlar ofta om tillvarons övernaturliga, fantastiska sidor, om människors möten med näck, skogsrå, vittror och troll. Bengt af Klintberg har gjort ett urval av typiska sägner från alla de svenska landskapen, och han presenterar dem närmare i en sakkunnig inledning.

Folklig botanik

AvIngvar Svanberg

Inbunden, Svenska, 2023

285 kr

I alla tider har föreställningar knutits till vilda och odlade växters undergörande och läkande kraft. Träd, gräs, örter och ormbunkar har spelat en viktig roll vid såväl kyrkliga som världsliga festligheter, vid uppvaktandet av det motsatta könet och som hjälpmedel för att förutsäga framtiden. Dessutom har de använts för ändamål som i dag ofta fallit i glömska: som livsmedel, kryddor, djurfoder, kosmetika, byggnadsmaterial, redskap, textilier, leksaker med mera.

Denna bok är något av en etnobiologisk bibel. Med hjälp av ett rikt källmaterial ur botaniska inventeringar, folkminnessamlingar, reseberättelser och topografiska skildringar har Ingvar Svanberg skrivit en uppslagsbok som ger svar på det mesta om vår folkliga flora.

Ingvar Svanberg har givit ut en rad böcker i ämnet etnobiologi, det vill säga studiet av människans bruk av och föreställningar om växter och djur i det förindustriella samhället.

Den andra upplagan är en omarbetning och uppdatering av utgåvan som kom ut 2011.

Antropologi ur ett pragmatiskt perspektiv

AvImmanuel Kant

Häftad, Svenska, 2025

243 kr

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"Antropologi ur ett pragmatiskt perspektiv" var den sista bok Immanuel Kant publicerade (1798). Den baserar sig på hans mångåriga och välbesökta offentliga föreläsningar i antropologi – och blev den av hans böcker som sålde mest i sin första upplaga. Enligt Kant handlar hans filosofi ytterst om den till synes enkla frågan "Vad är människan?". När han här griper sig an den ur ett "pragmatiskt perspektiv", betyder det att han tar sikte på vad människan "som fritt handlande varelse gör eller kan och bör göra av sig själv". Han vill lära sina läsare om deras förmågor och mänskliga möjligheter, hur de kan övervinna sina tillkortakommanden och närma sig sin "bestämmelse", vilket för Kant innebär att utveckla sig till världsmedborgare. Vi möter i boken en annan Kant än den stränge systematikern. Han visar sig från sin humoristiska och ironiska sida, citerar flitigt såväl antika som samtida författare och delar ut levnadsråd. Men vi möter också en tänkare fast i tiden, som trots sin universalism inte undkom typiska inskränktheter och fördomar."Antropologi ur ett pragmatiskt perspektiv" är översatt av Jim Jakobsson och försedd med en efterskrift av den norske filosofen och idéhistorikern Nils Gilje.

Mushroom at the End of the World

On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

AvAnna Lowenhaupt Tsing

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

213 kr

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"A poetic and remarkably fertile exploration of the relationship between human beings and the natural environment."—Pankaj Mishra, The Guardian"I'm very grateful to have this book."—Ursula K. Le GuinThe acclaimed and award-winning book about what a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planetA Flavorwire and Times Higher Education Book of the YearMatsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world—and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees, matsutake helps forests to grow in daunting places. It is also an edible delicacy in Japan, where it sometimes commands astronomical prices. In all its contradictions, matsutake offers insights into areas far beyond just mushrooms and addresses a crucial question: what manages to live in the ruins we have made? A tale of diversity within our damaged landscapes, The Mushroom at the End of the World follows one of the strangest commodity chains of our times to explore the unexpected corners of capitalism. Here, we witness the varied and peculiar worlds of matsutake commerce: the worlds of Japanese gourmets, capitalist traders, Hmong jungle fighters, industrial forests, Yi Chinese goat herders, Finnish nature guides, and more. These companions also lead us into fungal ecologies and forest histories to better understand the promise of cohabitation in a time of massive human destruction.By investigating one of the world's most sought-after fungi, The Mushroom at the End of the World presents an original examination into the relation between capitalist destruction and collaborative survival within multispecies landscapes, the prerequisite for continuing life on earth.

Kreativa förflyttningar : musikaliska flöden i 1960 och 1970 talets Sverige

Häftad, Svenska, 2022

229 kr

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"Allt var liksom i rörelse." Så sammanfattar musikgruppen Blå Tåget det svenska 1960-talet. Men vad innebär det att allt var i rörelse? I den här boken undersöker fyra musiketnologer några av de estetiska, ideologiska, geografiska och inte minst kulturella förflyttningar som skedde i det svenska musiklivet under årtiondena kring 1970. Med förflyttningar i fokus nystar de i hur fältinspelningar från sextiotalets Bosnien kom att hamna i ett svenskt arkiv och sedan hittade tillbaka, hur olika slags rörligheter i sextiotalets populärmusik lett till möten och sammanflätningar, hur en svensk balalajkaorkester kom att utvecklas till sinnebilden av autentiskt musicerande, hur en fysisk plats och dess publik kom att forma en hel musikscen, och hur föreställningar om det folkliga - som ärligt och äkta, ursprungligt och utopiskt - formades och förhandlades vid musikfester, stämmor och i en rörelse mellan stad och land.

Författarna Sverker Hyltén-Cavallius, Karin Eriksson, Dan Lundberg och Madeleine Modin ingick i forskningsprojektet Kreativa förflyttningar vid Svenskt visarkiv.

Invitation to a Banquet

The Story of Chinese Food

AvFuchsia Dunlop

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

160 kr

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WINNER OF THE FORTNUM AND MASON FOOD BOOK AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE ANDRE SIMON AWARD‘A brilliant, passionate and spellbinding tour de force’ Claudia RodenThe epic tale of the world's most sophisticated gastronomic culture, told through a banquet of thirty Chinese dishesChinese was the earliest truly global cuisine. When the first Chinese labourers began to sojourn and settle abroad, restaurants appeared in their wake. Yet Chinese food has the curious distinction of being both one of the world's best-loved culinary traditions and one of the least understood. For more than a century, the overwhelming dominance of a simplified form of Cantonese cooking ensured that few foreigners experienced anything of its richness and sophistication - but today that is beginning to change.In this book, the James Beard Award-winning cook and writer Fuchsia Dunlop explores the history, philosophy and techniques of China's rich and ancient culinary culture. Each chapter examines a classic dish, from mapo tofu to Dongpo pork, knife-scraped noodles to braised pomelo pith, to reveal a singular aspect of Chinese gastronomy, whether it's the importance of the soybean, the lure of exotic ingredients or the history of Buddhist vegetarian cuisine. Meeting local food producers, chefs, gourmets and home cooks as she tastes her way across the country, Fuchsia invites readers to join her on an unforgettable journey into Chinese food as it is made, cooked, eaten and considered in its homeland.Weaving together historical scholarship, mouth-watering descriptions of food and on-the-ground research conducted over the course of three decades, Invitation to a Banquet is a lively, landmark tribute to the pleasures and mysteries of Chinese cuisine.

Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us about the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans

AvMichaeleen Doucleff

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

(2)

249 kr

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The Dawn of Everything

A New History of Humanity

AvDavid Graeber,David Wengrow

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

(1)

378 kr

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Patriarchs

How Men Came to Rule

AvAngela Saini

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

137 kr

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023 A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR FOR POLITICS 2023 ‘I learned something new on every page of this totally essential book’ Sathnam Sanghera ‘By thinking about gendered inequality as rooted in something unalterable within us, we fail to see it for what it is: something more fragile that has had to be constantly remade and reasserted.’ In this bold and radical book, award-winning science journalist Angela Saini goes in search of the true roots of gendered oppression, uncovering a complex history of how male domination became embedded in societies and spread across the globe from prehistory into the present.Travelling to the world’s earliest known human settlements, analysing the latest research findings in science and archaeology, and tracing cultural and political histories from the Americas to Asia, she overturns simplistic universal theories to show that what patriarchy is and how far it goes back really depends on where you are.Despite the push back against sexism and exploitation in our own time, even revolutionary efforts to bring about equality have often ended in failure and backlash. Saini ends by asking what part we all play – women included – in keeping patriarchal structures alive, and why we need to look beyond the old narratives to understand why it persists in the present.

The Notebook

A History of Thinking on Paper: A New Statesman and Spectator Book of the Year

AvRoland Allen

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

(1)

166 kr

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A New Yorker Book of the Year 2024A Ryan Holiday '(Very) Best Book I Read in 2024''Excellent' Ian Samson, TLS'From plans for flying machines to philosophy - the remarkable joy of jotting things down' Guardian'Surprisingly revealing' The Sunday TimesWe see notebooks everywhere we go. But where did this simple invention come from? How did they revolutionise our lives, and why are they such powerful tools for creativity? And how can using a notebook help you change the way you think?In this wide-ranging story, Roland Allen reveals all the answers. Ranging from the bustling markets of medieval Florence to the quiet studies of our greatest thinkers, he follows a trail of dazzling ideas, revealing how the notebook became our most dependable and versatile tool for creative thinking. He tells the notebook stories of artists like Leonardo and Frida Kahlo, scientists from Isaac Newton to Marie Curie, and writers from Chaucer to Henry James. We watch Darwin developing his theory of evolution in tiny pocketbooks, see Agatha Christie plotting a hundred murders in scrappy exercise books, and learn how Bruce Chatwin unwittingly inspired the creation of the Moleskine.On the way we meet a host of cooks, kings, sailors, fishermen, musicians, engineers, politicians, adventurers and mathematicians, who all used their notebooks as a space for thinking and to shape the modern world.

Status Game

On Human Life and How to Play it

AvWill Storr

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

137 kr

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‘Will Storr is one of our best journalists of ideas … The Status Game might be his best yet’ James Marriott, Books of the Year, The Times What drives our political and moral beliefs? What shapes our bitterest conflicts and wildest dreams? What makes you, you? Across the world, from Papua New Guinea to Tokyo and Manhattan, humans compete for status. Through games of dominance, virtue and success, it’s an obsession that has driven the best and worst of us: the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as well as spree killers and tyrants at the gates of Europe. But what makes status an all-consuming prize? And how can we wield our desire for it to improve our relationships, win social media battles and be the best in the workplace?A breathtaking rethink of human psychology, The Status Game will change how you see others – and how you see yourself.

Homo Deus

‘An intoxicating brew of science, philosophy and futurism’ Mail on Sunday

AvYuval Noah Harari

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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141 kr

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**THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER**Sapiens showed us where we came from. In our increasingly uncertain times, Homo Deus shows us where we're going.'Spellbinding' GuardianThe world-renowned historian and intellectual Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century and beyond - from overcoming death to creating artificial life.It asks the fundamental questions: how can we protect this fragile world from our own destructive power? And what does our future hold?'Even more readable, even more important, than his excellent Sapiens' Kazuo Ishiguro'Homo Deus will shock you. It will entertain you. It will make you think in ways you had not thought before' Daniel Kahneman, bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow

Designs for the Pluriverse

Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds

AvArturo Escobar

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

(1)

289 kr

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In Designs for the Pluriverse Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory and practice aimed at channeling design's world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing that are deeply attuned to justice and the Earth. Noting that most design-from consumer goods and digital technologies to built environments-currently serves capitalist ends, Escobar argues for the development of an “autonomous design” that eschews commercial and modernizing aims in favor of more collaborative and placed-based approaches. Such design attends to questions of environment, experience, and politics while focusing on the production of human experience based on the radical interdependence of all beings. Mapping autonomous design’s principles to the history of decolonial efforts of indigenous and Afro-descended people in Latin America, Escobar shows how refiguring current design practices could lead to the creation of more just and sustainable social orders.

Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

AvTom Wolfe

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

149 kr

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Tom Wolfe's genre-defining magical mystery tour through the 1960s published in Vintage Classics for the first time to mark its fiftieth anniversary.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JARVIS COCKERIn the summer of 1964, author Ken Kesey and his Merry Band of Pranksters set out on an awesome social experiment like no other. Blazing across America in their day-glo schoolbus, doped up and deep ‘in the pudding’, the Pranksters’ arrival on the scene – anarchic, exuberant and LSD-infused – would turn on an entire counter-culture, and provide Tom Wolfe with the perfect free-wheeling subject for this, his pioneering masterpiece of New Journalism.'The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is not simply the best book on the hippies, it is the essential book...the pushing, ballooning heart of the matter' New York Times

Wärend och wirdarne

AvGunnar Olof Hyltén-Cavallius

Häftad, Svenska, 2019

(4)

260 kr

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Wärend och wirdarne är en nästan mytomspunnen bok, vars stora inflytande går långt bortom dess egentliga ämnesområde. Den får anses vara Hyltén-Cavallius, även kallad den svenska etnografins fader, främsta verk. Trots delvis omstridda teorier fortsätter boken att tjusa läsarna, inspirera forskarna och framförallt utgöra en veritabel guldgruva av uppteckningar om folks föreställningar, vanor och traditioner i Sverige genom tiderna. Författaren har sitt eget uppväxtområde Wärend (och dess folk wirdarna) som utgångspunkt, men han berör även övriga Sverige och Norden, och innehållet är relevant för alla svenskar med intresse för vårt lands folk och historia.Båda delarna av verket presenteras här samlat i en volym, med delvis moderniserat språk. Boken är illustrerad.”Våra förfäder, ehuru okonstlade barn av naturen, var nämligen inga råa barbarer. Tvärtom vittnar alla spår, att de var ett andligen begåvat folk, med sinne för vad som är stort i tanke och handling. Detta folk är då väl värt att studeras i de minnen, som det lämnat i arv åt efterkommande. Ty det är i vårdandet av vårt nationella arv, som vi har att söka fäderneslandets framtid.”Högintressant för alla historieintresserade. (Bygd och natur, nr 3, 2019)