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Den här boken är en hyllning till skönlitteraturens rikedom och till den sociologiska fantasin.

Skönlitteraturen illustrerar samhällsvetenskapliga kärnresonemang, den väcker nya frågor om människans existentiella villkor och den sprider nytt ljus över vårt sätt att se på världen. Men trots att samhällsvetenskapen kan sägas ha uppstått under samma epok som den moderna litteraturen, och trots att de har fascinationen inför samhället och det s­ociala samspelet gemensamt, så har skönlitteraturen märkligt nog inte någon naturlig plats i samhällsvetarens verktygslåda.

Sociologi genom litteratur tjänar både som en reflektion över samhällsvetenskapens egenart och som en inbjudan till samhällsvetare att använda skönlitteraturen som ett fönster mot den sociala verkligheten.

Bokens redaktörer, Christofer Edling och Jens Rydgren, är professorer i sociologi vid Lunds respektive Stockholms universitet. Författarna representerar flera generationer av i dag verksamma svenska sociologer.

Medverkande författare: Ola Agevall, Göran Ahrne, Patrik Aspers, Reza Azarian, Paavo Bergman, Stina Bergman Blix, Alexandra Bogren, Christofer Edling, Hedvig Ekerwald, Marie Evertsson, Mats Franzén, Magnus Haglunds, Carl-Göran Heidegren, Antoinette Hetzler, Bo Isenberg, Magnus Karlsson, Jonas Lindström, Gunnar Olofsson, Anders Persson, Abby Peterson, Jens Rydgren, Lambros Roumbanis, Lisbeth Stenberg, Lotta Stern, Mikaela Sundberg, Stefan Svallfors, Richard Swedberg, Maria Törnqvist, Denny Vågerö, Åsa Wettergren, Malin Åkerström.

Obehaget. Pinan. Livsfaran.

Astrid Gyllenstråhle är fyrtiosju år, ensamstående och barnlös. Hon arbetar på ett äldreboende i Luleå och driver på fritiden bloggen Conspirare med egna reportage. Astrid är ensam om att reagera på det stora antalet dödsfall på sitt arbete, men börjar nysta i det och upptäcker att det inte bara är där som ovanligt många dör. Snart är det uppenbart att någon inte vill att hon gräver i det här, och inte har några som helst skrupler att röja henne ur vägen. Men hjälp kommer från oväntade håll, och tillsammans med den yngre polisen Axel Wirén fortsätter hon undersöka orsaken till de många dödsfallen. Astrid har kommit något stort på spåren, som tar henne till oanade platser.

Vad är viktigt i livet? Hur klarar man sig genom motgångar och livssorger? Hur lyckas man med det man älskar mest?

När journalisten Kaj Kunnas upplevde en svår period i sitt liv visste han att det var dags att göra något nytt. Kunnas sade upp sig och har sedan dess fokuserat på egna projekt. Ett av dessa resulterade i en serie djupgående samtal med intressanta finländare, både mer och mindre kända, även i Sverige och internationellt.

I Samtal om livet bjuder Kunnas läsaren på fjorton gripande, djupa och inspirerande samtal, om värderingar, överlevnad, förebilder, förlust, förändring och rädsla.

I boken samlas de för en svenskspråkig läsekrets mest intressanta samtalen så här långt. Med finns möten med bland andra president Tarja Halonen, hockeyprofilen Toni Söderholm, rockstjärnan Michael Monroe, skidkungen Iivo Niskanen, rättsläkaren Helena Ranta, designern Jorma Uotinen, fotbollstränaren Markku Kanerva och musikern Tuomas Holopainen från ett av Finlands största band någonsin, Nightwish.

Housing problems have become increasingly complex in the Global South. An increased pressure to upgrade older stock, to provide adequate infrastructure, and bring city amenities to urban peripheries compounds the continued need for new housing of a decent standard. This comprehensive volume spans nine countries, simultaneously analyzing innovative housing policies and questioning the idea of innovation in this arena. The authors describe three persistent, global challenges to contemporary policy: the inherent difficulty in mass-producing housing of decent quality with access to the city; the challenge of community-based upgrading programmes, which often fail to benefit those who are worst off; and the political root of housing policies, which don’t always consider the diverse needs of populations at the expense of the least powerful.

This volume raises questions about what many consider the two most successful areas of housing policy in the Global South: the community-based land sharing programmes for redevelopment in South-East Asia and the finance-driven social housing programmes in Latin America. The authors examine mass housing production programmes, incremental development processes, community-based urban upgrading, the legal structure of condominiums, and land-sharing policies, while also highlighting challenges to policy learning across contexts.

This book will be of great interest to students, researchers and those involved with contemporary housing policies, particularly in the Global South. It was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Housing Policy.

Housing problems have become increasingly complex in the Global South. An increased pressure to upgrade older stock, to provide adequate infrastructure, and bring city amenities to urban peripheries compounds the continued need for new housing of a decent standard. This comprehensive volume spans nine countries, simultaneously analyzing innovative housing policies and questioning the idea of innovation in this arena. The authors describe three persistent, global challenges to contemporary policy: the inherent difficulty in mass-producing housing of decent quality with access to the city; the challenge of community-based upgrading programmes, which often fail to benefit those who are worst off; and the political root of housing policies, which don’t always consider the diverse needs of populations at the expense of the least powerful.

This volume raises questions about what many consider the two most successful areas of housing policy in the Global South: the community-based land sharing programmes for redevelopment in South-East Asia and the finance-driven social housing programmes in Latin America. The authors examine mass housing production programmes, incremental development processes, community-based urban upgrading, the legal structure of condominiums, and land-sharing policies, while also highlighting challenges to policy learning across contexts.

This book will be of great interest to students, researchers and those involved with contemporary housing policies, particularly in the Global South. It was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Housing Policy.

Chapters combine basic mechanistic knowledge with true applications; Topics covered include neuromuscular fatigue, neuromuscular training, and musculoskeletal loading, and special chapters examine recently developed research methodologies used during natural locomotion: high speed ultrasonography (US) and transmagnetic electrical stimulation (TMES).

An important addition to the reference collections of biomechanists, sports medicine specialists, sport scientists, and graduate students in these areas, this volume is also appropriate for advanced level coaches and sport physiotherapists.

Chapters combine basic mechanistic knowledge with true applications; Topics covered include neuromuscular fatigue, neuromuscular training, and musculoskeletal loading, and special chapters examine recently developed research methodologies used during natural locomotion: high speed ultrasonography (US) and transmagnetic electrical stimulation (TMES).

An important addition to the reference collections of biomechanists, sports medicine specialists, sport scientists, and graduate students in these areas, this volume is also appropriate for advanced level coaches and sport physiotherapists.

Atomic spectrometric techniques and ICP-MS are frequently used in trace element analysis in many laboratories. For those using them, or utilizing the analysis results obtained, it is essential to understand about the instrumental methods involved.

Spectrochemical Analysis by Atomic Absorption and Emission provides this knowledge, by describing both the theory of atomic spectroscopy and all the major atomic spectrometric techniques (AAS, Flame-AES, Plasma AES, AFS, and ICP-MS), including basic concepts, instrumentation and applications.

Chapters also cover: Sample preparation methods; Instrument components; Hyphenated analysis techniques.

Revised and fully updated, the book continues to be highly practical and wide in scope and contains illustrations which aid understanding. Spectrochemical Analysis by Atomic Absorption and Emission is ideal for students and their lecturers, but will also be useful for practitioners who already use the techniques but would like to know more about the insides of the ''black box''.

In a parallel or future Estonia, whose language has been outlawed and its native population deported after the invasion by the Russian Tsardom, Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol is resurrected, Christ-like, bringing phantasmagoric mayhem to the sleepy town of Viljandi.

By the end of the story, four evangelists will have emerged from the novel’s ragtag cast of Russian- speaking beatniks, bohemians, booksellers, blaggers, and Beatles- maniacs to write their subversive Gogol Gospels in the local insane asylum, despite efforts to thwart them on the part of the mysterious Murka, heroine of a criminal underworld ballad and agent of the Tsardom’s secret police. By turns exuberant, grotesque, erudite, oneiric, hilarious, mystical, psychedelic, and dystopian, Gogol’s Disco tells the parable of a small nation, whose gigantic neighbor quite literally consigns its literature to the latrine, only for it to rise from the dead in a literarily spectacular apocalypse in the best traditions of Bulgakov and magic realism.