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Konstantin den stores liv var dramatiskt som få. Född under så osäkra omständigheter, att vi inte ens kan säga vilket år, klättrar han till makten i början av 300-talet. I en tid då romerska kejsare inte blir långlivade kommer han att regera längst av alla och under tiden skriver han om historien. På vägen ser han visioner, erövrar Rom, mördar sin hustru och son, och bjuder in till det ekumeniska mötet i Nicaea 325. Flera för framtiden avgörande händelser inträffar under hans tid. Han grundar bland annat Konstantinopel och skapar därmed förutsättningar för romarrikets överlevnad i ytterligare tusen år. Men framför allt vänder han sig till kristendomen. Kejsarens kors är en biografi över Konstantin den store som bygger på den senaste forskningen och som går i nära dialog med de antika källorna. Genom olika ögonblicksbilder skapas ett sammansatt porträtt av en härskare som både kan framstå som en hänsynslös politiker och en genomtänkt teolog. När 1700-års jubileet av kyrkomötet i Nicaea firas av kristna världen över blir hans levnadsöde en viktig referenspunkt, som ger möjlighet att reflektera vidare över relationen mellan politik och religion.

I november 1657 ingår länsmansdottern Hanna Barkhe äktenskap på Kronborgs slott med ungerske furstesonen Gábor av Rakoczy. Bröllopsnatten blir allt annat än förväntat. Frederik III av Danmark dansar och ler, men bara för att dölja oro och fara för landet. Den starka fästningen Frederiksodde har fallit för Sverige, och Karl X Gustav har svurit att förinta hela Danmark. Frans Barkhe, länsman på Helsingborgs slottslän, vet att förra älskarinnan Elna Johansdotter vill honom och hans dyre son illa, och hon har hemlig ammunition. Han vet däremot inte att både dottern Magde och amman Lykke riskerar avrättning. Familjekorsets förbannelse, som går långt tillbaka, slår allt hårdare mot familjen Barkhe. Nere i Kronborgs djupa källarvalv, kasematterna, sluts en ohelig och ödesdiger allians ... Bodil Mårtensson, deckardrottningen som tog Sverige med storm i de historiska spänningsromanerna Barkhes döttrar och Barkhes son, är tillbaks med sista delen i trilogin om familjen Barkhe. En gripande skildring av människors liv i det krigshärjade 1650-talets Skåne. Kärlek, krig och intriger.

I perioder är det naturligt att vara rejält stressad och vi är byggda för att klara det. Stress är något som varierar i livet, från lite till mycket, och hur stressad man än är kan man inte »bli galen« av stress.

Men om det som var tänkt att bara vara en period istället övergår till något långvarigt säger till sist kroppen eller huvudet ifrån. Stress har blivit en del av vår vardag och stressrelaterad ohälsa är idag den vanligaste orsaken till långtidssjukskrivning.

När kraven är många i livet kan vi ibland tappa riktningen och börja prioritera »borden« och »måsten«. Vi kanske minskar kontakten med vänner och familj och får mindre tid till att göra kreativa och roliga saker. Det finns risk att vi dränerar oss själva på energi och missar tillfällen för återhämtning.

Tid att leva hjälper dig som har problem med stress att återta kontrollen över ditt liv. Du kommer att få hjälp med att hantera den ofrånkomliga stressen som är en del av livet – och att förändra den stress som är möjlig att göra någonting åt.

Boken är upplagd som ett program som du kan följa vecka för vecka och som ger ökad förståelse om vad stress är och hur man kan hantera den.

Krisstöd är en grundbok i krishantering skriven för blivande och yrkesverksamma sjuksköterskor, poliser, socionomer, psykologer, läkare och andra som möter människor som drabbats av svåra händelser i sitt dagliga arbete eller vid större olyckor och katastrofer. Med levande och konkreta exempel beskriver Sara Hedrenius och Sara Johansson hur man arbetar med Psykologisk första hjälp för att stärka människors motståndskraft. Barns och ungas reaktioner och behov ägnas extra omsorg, samt hur man som personal kan ta hand om sig själv och varandra.

Den omvälvande kunskapsutvecklingen inom krisstöd har helt förändrat synen på vad som faktiskt hjälper barn och vuxna vid svåra händelser. Debriefing rekommenderas till exempel inte längre i det akuta skedet – internationell konsensus och Socialstyrelsen förordar i stället Psykologisk första hjälp.Utifrån aktuell forskning och egna praktiska erfarenheter förklarar författarna till boken Krisstöd hur vi reagerar vid svåra händelser, från allvarliga sjukdomsbesked till större katastrofer. Med levande och konkreta exempel beskriver de hur man arbetar med Psykologisk första hjälp för att stärka människors motståndskraft. Barns och ungas reaktioner och behov ägnas extra omsorg, samt hur man som personal kan ta hand om sig själv och varandra.

Denna grundbok om krisstöd är skriven för blivande och yrkesverksamma sjuksköterskor, poliser, socionomer, psykologer, läkare, personalvetare och andra som möter människor i det akuta skedet av svåra händelser i sitt dagliga arbete eller vid större olyckor och katastrofer.

Sara Hedrenius och Sara Johansson är fil.kand. respektive fil.mag. i psykologi med vidareutbildning i psykotraumatologi. De är verksamma vid Röda Korset, och har bland annat arbetat vid tsunamikatastrofen i Thailand och terrordåden i Oslo och på Utøya. Sara Hedrenius överlevde Estonias förlisning 1994.

Krisstöd är faktagranskad av Per-Olof Michel, docent i katastrofpsykiatri och f.d. överdirektör vid Kunskapscentrum för katastrofpsykiatri. Förordet är skrivet av Ulrika Årehed Kågström, generalsekreterare för svenska Röda Korset

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”Här finns avgörande kunskap för sjukvård, polis och socialtjänst att ta till sig och förstå. Boken utstrålar värme, lugn och omtanke.”Carin Götblad, nationell samordnare mot våld i nära relationer, f.d. länspolismästare i Stockholms län.

”Detta är en viktig bok. Läs den! För barnens skull och för din egen.” Malin Alfvén, leg. psykolog med inriktning mot barn och föräldrar, mottagare av Stora Psykologpriset 2011.

A rich visual history of Architectural Digest, published for the magazine’s 100th anniversary Architectural Digest at 100 celebrates the best from the pages of the international design authority. The editors have delved into the archives and culled years of rich material covering a range of subjects.Ranging freely between present and past, the book features the personalspaces of dozens of private celebrities like Barack and Michelle Obama,David Bowie, Truman Capote, David Hockney, Michael Kors, and Diana Vreeland, and includes the work of top designers and architects like Frank Gehry, David Hicks, India Mahdavi, Peter Marino, John Fowler, Renzo Mongiardino, Oscar Niemeyer, Axel Vervoordt, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Elsie de Wolfe. Also included are stunning images from the magazine’s history by photographers such as Bill Cunningham, Horst P. Horst, Simon Upton, Francois Dischinger, Francois Halard, Julius Shulman, and Oberto Gili.

I november år 1657 ingår länsmansdottern Hanna Barkhe äktenskap på Kronborgs slott med ungerske furstesonen Gábor av Rakoczy. Bröllopsnatten blir allt annat än förväntat. Kung Frederik III av Danmark ses dansa och le där, men bara för att dölja oro och fara för landet. Den starka fästningen Frederiksodde har fallit för Sverige och kung Karl X Gustav, som svurit att förinta Danmark när han väl når Köpenhamn. Frans Barkhe, länsman på Helsingborgs slottslän, vet att före detta älskarinnan Elna Johansdotter vill både honom och hans dyre son illa, och hon har hemlig ammunition. Han vet däremot inte att både dottern Magde och amman Lykke riskerar avrättning. Familjekorsets förbannelse, som går långt tillbaka i tiden, slår allt hårdare mot familjen Barkhe. Nere i Kronborgs djupa källarvalv, kasematterna, sluts en ohelig och ödesdiger allians ... Barkhes kors är den tredje och sista delen i den spännande historien om Frans Barkhe.

Kors och tvärs i fjällen - I MINNET GÖMT. 70 år av regelbundna vistelser i fjällstugan i Borka / Kittelfjäll ger många minnen. Huvudspåret är kamratgänget som under många år samlades för vandringar, ofta med utgångspunkt från Borkastugan - men också både längre mot norr eller söder, samt in i Norge. Boken handlar inte bara om Borkatuffingarna och deras vandringar utan också om mycket annat som hänt i fjälltrakterna, som när flyktingar tog sig över fjällen under andra världskriget. Men även små inslag av andra berättelser i vars fotspår vi följt. Som om den förste turisten i fjällen - den enögde vargjägaren – Trollhättepojkar - när pesten kom eller prästfrun, som Carl von Linné påstod horade med regementskvartermästaren. Något om fjällorienteringar och förstås många egna upplevelser med familj och nära vänner. Boken är en utökning av en tidigare utgåva som endast tilldelades fjällvandrargänget. Den handlade om en veckolång tur runt Sulitelma 1979. Den fick titeln I SKUGGAN AV ETT KRIG och återges på de 30 första sidorna. Den gången var det sista som lästes på löpsedlarna när gänget lämnade bebyggelsen, att nu blir det nytt världskrig och det med kärnvapen

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 2001The highly-acclaimed first edition of this book chronicled the rise and fall of witchcraft in Europe between the twelfth and the end of the seventeenth centuries. Now greatly expanded, the classic anthology of contemporary texts reexamines the phenomenon of witchcraft, taking into account the remarkable scholarship since the book's publication almost thirty years ago.Spanning the period from 400 to 1700, the second edition of Witchcraft in Europe assembles nearly twice as many primary documents as the first, many newly translated, along with new illustrations that trace the development of witch-beliefs from late Mediterranean antiquity through the Enlightenment. Trial records, inquisitors' reports, eyewitness statements, and witches' confessions, along with striking contemporary illustrations depicting the career of the Devil and his works, testify to the hundreds of years of terror that enslaved an entire continent.Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, Thomas Hobbes, and other thinkers are quoted at length in order to determine the intellectual, perceptual, and legal processes by which "folklore" was transformed into systematic demonology and persecution. Together with explanatory notes, introductory essays-which have been revised to reflect current research-and a new bibliography, the documents gathered in Witchcraft in Europe vividly illumine the dark side of the European mind.

Comprising more than seven hundred articles totalling more than one million words, the Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment is a unique and comprehensive reference work on the entire range of philosophic and social changes wrought by the Enlightenment. It is available in both print and as an e-reference text from Oxford's Digital Reference Shelf. The Enlightenment is here defined as the 'long eighteenth century', from the rise of Descarte's disciples in 1670 to the Restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in France in 1815, including themes central to the ongoing history of Europe and the United States. These include increasing secularisation and a critical attitude toward inherited authority, the extension of scientific method beyond the physical sciences to law and economics, a broadened commitment to the ethical criterion of utility, an expansion of the dimensions of human life deemed subject to reform and human control, a disdain for sectarian religious strife and for its diversely perceived causes, and an elevation of the theme of 'toleration' among the concerns of the Western conscience. The four volumes draw together the resources of a select group of editors, advisers, and contributors and provides fresh perspectives on recent scholarship in such areas as gender history and the history of popular culture. Clearly written and well balanced this reference work offers students, scholars, and other readers an up-to-date reference tool that, for the first time, places the entire range of Enlightenment studies into an authoritative encyclopedic format. This work brings together the people and places that played a role in the Enlightenment, explains the movement's concepts and themes, and describes its impact on areas as diverse as politics, religion, science, philosophy, society, and art. This definitive work presents and assesses the subject in many thematic and geographical areas, including:BLTransnational communication, including such topics as the diffusion of texts, the Republic of Letters, languages and translation, censorship and press freedom, and the Grand Tour.BLThe Enlightenment in Iberian, Ibero-American, Scandinavian, Jewish, Russian, and Eastern European culture.BLMaterial culture, especially the 'history of the book', and the resonance of the Enlightenment in more popular culture.BLThe impact of world exploration and contact on eighteenth-century life and letters.BL'Secondary' and 'provincial' centres of intellectual and cultural activity, such as Milan, Saint Petersburg, and Philadelphia.BLThe history of Enlightenment studies, including recent theoretical and methodological approaches, and the scope of current interpretations and debates.These dramatic developments inform the more than one hundred articles that comprise the encyclopedia and are reflected in the work's synoptic outline, which covers such conceptual categories as biographies, cities, concepts, education, major schools of thought, and nations and states. Intended for the non-specialist as well as the specialist, with both wide-ranging and up-to-date coverage, the encyclopedia will prove a powerful reference tool for undergraduates, graduate students, advanced scholars, and general readers alike. An extensive system of cross-references, a synoptic outline of contents, and a comprehensive topical index provide easy access to networks of related articles. Each entry is signed by the contributor and the work is illustrated with photographs, line drawings, and maps. Authoritative, comprehensive, and accessible, the Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment is an invaluable and indispensable addition to personal, public, academic, and research libraries.

"With intimacy as the foundational principle of our existence, we can build a life based on what we truly need, not what we think we need or have been told we need. By embracing the practice of radical intimacy, I can confidently promise my readers a personal revolution of self-acceptance, appreciation, vitality, and confidence. And without fail, mind-blowing, soul-stirring, earth-shattering sex follows." -Zoë KorsPart practical guide, part client stories, part personal narrative, Zoë Kors draws on her experience as a sex and intimacy coach, thought leader, and relationship writer in sharing her powerful and practical methodology for nurturing and sustaining our intimate relationships over time. She addresses the essential truth that is almost universally missed in discussions of sex and intimacy: We can meet each other only to the extent that we can meet ourselves. Kors guides the reader on a five-part journey through nine areas of opportunity for deepening intimacy with themselves, their partner, and their world, inviting them to embrace emotional, physical, and energetic self-mastery, which is required to skillfully relate with others. At the conclusion of each part, there are a collection of experiential exercises which support the reader in embodying the concepts they've just read. Voice-driven, accessible, and with the right amount of tough love, Radical Intimacy takes the mystery out of human connection. From academia and science to mysticism and self-development, Kors delivers a rich and varied understanding of human sexuality and intimacy through the lens of the body, brain, heart, spirit, and culture.

Although most historians have sought the roots of atheism in the history of "free thought," Alan Charles Kors contends that attacks on the existence of God were generated above all by the vitality and controversies of orthodox theistic culture itself. In this first volume of a planned two-volume inquiry into the sources and nature of atheism, he shows that orthodox teachers and apologists in seventeenth-century France were obliged by the logic of their philosophical and pedagogical systems to create many models of speculative atheism for heuristic purposes. Unusual in its broad sampling of the religious literature of the early-modern learned world, this book reveals that the "great fratricide" among bitterly competing schools of Aristotelian, Cartesian, and Malebranchist Christian thought encouraged theologians to refute each other's proofs of God and to depict the ideas of their theological opponents as atheistic. Such "fratricide" was not new in the history of Christendom, but Kors demonstrates that its influence was dramatically amplified by the expanding literacy of the seventeenth century.Capturing the attention of the reading public, theological debate provided intellectual grounds for the disbelief of the first generation of atheistic thinkers. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Students of the Enlightenment have long assumed that the major movement towards atheism in the Ancien Regime was centered in the circle of intellectuals who met at the home of Baron d'Holbach during the last half of the eighteenth century. This major critical study shows, contrary to the accepted views, that in fact, atheism was not the common bond of a majority of the members and that, far from being alienated figures, most of the members were privileged and publicly successful citizens devoted to peaceful and gradual reform. Alan Charles Kors determines the coterie's membership and discovers it to have been a diverse assemblage of philosophes, men of letters, and scientists. Analyzing the thought and behavior of those members who lived past 1789, the author argues that the hostility to the Revolution expressed by the coterie's survivors was fully consistent with their world view. Originally published in 1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Although most historians have sought the roots of atheism in the history of "free thought," Alan Charles Kors contends that attacks on the existence of God were generated above all by the vitality and controversies of orthodox theistic culture itself. In this first volume of a planned two-volume inquiry into the sources and nature of atheism, he shows that orthodox teachers and apologists in seventeenth-century France were obliged by the logic of their philosophical and pedagogical systems to create many models of speculative atheism for heuristic purposes. Unusual in its broad sampling of the religious literature of the early-modern learned world, this book reveals that the "great fratricide" among bitterly competing schools of Aristotelian, Cartesian, and Malebranchist Christian thought encouraged theologians to refute each other's proofs of God and to depict the ideas of their theological opponents as atheistic. Such "fratricide" was not new in the history of Christendom, but Kors demonstrates that its influence was dramatically amplified by the expanding literacy of the seventeenth century.Capturing the attention of the reading public, theological debate provided intellectual grounds for the disbelief of the first generation of atheistic thinkers. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Students of the Enlightenment have long assumed that the major movement towards atheism in the Ancien Regime was centered in the circle of intellectuals who met at the home of Baron d'Holbach during the last half of the eighteenth century. This major critical study shows, contrary to the accepted views, that in fact, atheism was not the common bond of a majority of the members and that, far from being alienated figures, most of the members were privileged and publicly successful citizens devoted to peaceful and gradual reform. Alan Charles Kors determines the coterie's membership and discovers it to have been a diverse assemblage of philosophes, men of letters, and scientists. Analyzing the thought and behavior of those members who lived past 1789, the author argues that the hostility to the Revolution expressed by the coterie's survivors was fully consistent with their world view. Originally published in 1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Atheism was the most fundamental challenge to early-modern French certainties. Leading educators, theologians and philosophers labelled such atheism as manifestly absurd, confident that neither the fact nor behaviour of nature was explicable without reference to God. The alternative was a categorical naturalism. This book demonstrates that the Christian learned world had always contained the naturalistic 'atheist' as an interlocutor and a polemical foil, and its early-modern engagement and use of the hypothetical atheist were major parts of its intellectual life. In the considerations and polemics of an increasingly fractious orthodox culture, the early-modern French learned world gave real voice and eventually life to that atheistic presence. Without understanding the actual context and convergence of the inheritance, scholarship, fierce disputes, and polemical modes of orthodox culture, the early-modern generation and dissemination of absolute naturalism are inexplicable. This book brings to life that Christian learned culture, its dilemmas, and its unintended consequences.

Atheism was the most foundational challenge to early-modern French certainties. Theologians and philosophers labelled such atheism as absurd, confident that neither the fact nor behaviour of nature was explicable without reference to God. The alternative was a categorical naturalism, whose most extreme form was Epicureanism. The dynamics of the Christian learned world, however, which this book explains, allowed the wide dissemination of the Epicurean argument. By the end of the seventeenth century, atheism achieved real voice and life. This book examines the Epicurean inheritance and explains what constituted actual atheistic thinking in early-modern France, distinguishing such categorical unbelief from other challenges to orthodox beliefs. Without understanding the actual context and convergence of the inheritance, scholarship, protocols, and polemical modes of orthodox culture, the early-modern generation and dissemination of atheism are inexplicable. This book brings to life both early-modern French Christian learned culture and the atheists who emerged from its intellectual vitality.

Atheism was the most fundamental challenge to early-modern French certainties. Leading educators, theologians and philosophers labelled such atheism as manifestly absurd, confident that neither the fact nor behaviour of nature was explicable without reference to God. The alternative was a categorical naturalism. This book demonstrates that the Christian learned world had always contained the naturalistic 'atheist' as an interlocutor and a polemical foil, and its early-modern engagement and use of the hypothetical atheist were major parts of its intellectual life. In the considerations and polemics of an increasingly fractious orthodox culture, the early-modern French learned world gave real voice and eventually life to that atheistic presence. Without understanding the actual context and convergence of the inheritance, scholarship, fierce disputes, and polemical modes of orthodox culture, the early-modern generation and dissemination of absolute naturalism are inexplicable. This book brings to life that Christian learned culture, its dilemmas, and its unintended consequences.

Atheism was the most foundational challenge to early-modern French certainties. Theologians and philosophers labelled such atheism as absurd, confident that neither the fact nor behaviour of nature was explicable without reference to God. The alternative was a categorical naturalism, whose most extreme form was Epicureanism. The dynamics of the Christian learned world, however, which this book explains, allowed the wide dissemination of the Epicurean argument. By the end of the seventeenth century, atheism achieved real voice and life. This book examines the Epicurean inheritance and explains what constituted actual atheistic thinking in early-modern France, distinguishing such categorical unbelief from other challenges to orthodox beliefs. Without understanding the actual context and convergence of the inheritance, scholarship, protocols, and polemical modes of orthodox culture, the early-modern generation and dissemination of atheism are inexplicable. This book brings to life both early-modern French Christian learned culture and the atheists who emerged from its intellectual vitality.