University Press of Southern Denmark - Böcker

Madison Jones is the author of eleven novels, among them are "The Innocent", "An Exile" (film: "I Walk the Line"), "A Cry of Absence", "Season of the Strangle", and "Nashville 1864: The Dying ...

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Over recent decades, the concept of literacy has been an important field of discussion in Medieval and Early Modern studies, and questions concerning the uses of literacy, the number of literates, differing writing systems, modes of communication ...

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Jan Aagaard and Lars Erslev Andersen discuss the evolution of the global terrorist landscape during the past three decades. The most profound developments they identify are, first, the shift in the gravity of terrorism from the Syrian-controlled B...

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In comparison with other occupied countries Danish sport had the most widespread collaboration with the Germans during World War II. This book shows that the first years of the German occupation of Denmark became a "golden age" of Danish...

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"Innocence Lost" examines how the matter of a number of cartoon drawings came to figure prominently on the international agenda. The book provides a description of the situation in the Middle East, including the background of the critica...

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So far, research on the welfare state has usually neglected children and childhood. In the rare attempts to include childhood in welfare state analysis, too much emphasis was placed on children as future adults. However, only a full recognition of...

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Children's spaces are widening - culturally and socially: socially their spaces are more often multilocal, and culturally they are enlarged through mobility in the globalised and virtual spaces in the mediatised world. Children's times are also le...

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The Israeli Memory Struggle analyzes changes of Israeli imaginations of history and identity through the 1990s. This particular decade of Israeli history was characterized by significant cultural clashes and vigorous debates over Jewish-Israeli hi...

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Because of its rapid growth, ubiquitous popular culture, and global power, almost everyone knows many things about the United States. But often these many facts float about rather freely. For those who need a chronology and orientation mixed with ...

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This volume celebrates the 40th anniversary of the journal "American Studies in Scandinavia", which began publication in 1967. This book is an invitation to develop a dialogue across the Atlantic. For too long European scholars have watc...

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On the occasion of Hans Christian Andersen's bicentenary the theme chosen was Hans Christian Andersen between Children's Literature and Adult Literature. At previous conferences focus had been exclusively on Andersen as poet and writer for adults,...

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Several critics have been intrigued by the gap between late Victorian poetry and the more "modern" poetry of the 1920s. This book attempts to get to grips with the watershed by analysing one school of poetry and criticism written in the ...

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"Halicarnassian Studies" is a series concerned with Halikarnassos and Karia in all aspects: art and archaeology, philology, epigraphy and history. The purpose of the series is to publish results of recent investigations and field work as...

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This thesis is an empirical investigation of the distribution of health care in Danish population. The purpose is to analyse income-related inequality in health and health care in Funen County, Denmark 2000 and 2001. Concentration indices will be ...

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Qualitative methods are used to an increasing extent in market research, evaluation, consultancy, education, and social research. Students in many disciplins use qualitative methods in their reports and dissertations. However, qualitative research...

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The issue of doping in sport was once of interest only to aficionados of elite sports. Nowadays, it is a matter of intense public scrutiny that spans the worlds of health, medicine, sports, politics, technology, and beyond. In keeping with this te...

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Dr Poul Chr Matthiessen, Denmark's foremost professor of demography, is presenting a broad overview of the process of immigration to Denmark and the integration of immigrants into Danish society. He examines a number of related topics such as immi...

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Death is a subject which has always been high on the philosophical agenda. But strangely enough the historically and traditionally most important aspect of that subject -- the so-called transcendent problem of death (i.e. the question of what actu...

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This introduction is tailored for a one or two term undergraduate course on North American English pronunciation. The book assumes no prior knowledge of the study of speech sounds, but guides the reader step-by-step through the main concepts and m...

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This is a selection of essays in stylistics by John M Dienhart (1939-2004) which are now collected for the first time. The essays investigate a variety of linguistic aspects of texts from different genres: from punning riddles and other kinds of h...

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This book approaches the famous star in a manner that recognizes the impossibility of ever locating the "real" Marilyn Monroe. It gets close to the actress by discussing the chameleonic performances of Marilyn as woman, star, and text. L...

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Pausanias' Description of Greece is the only or at least the most important source to more than 60 percent of the oracular tales. This makes the work crucial to everybody, who wishes to study the oracular tales in the form they have been handed do...

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What is the relationship between science and politics in the Nordic welfare states? What role have experts played in the development of the Nordic model and who were the experts? Based on in-depth analysis of the historical facts of the welfare st...

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Researching adult learning combines the very best presentations from the Third Nordic Conference on Adult Learning. This volume covers the broad field of adult education. The contributions come from researchers in Northern Europe and include a Sou...

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The essays in this book are a selection of papers delivered at the symposium Creating the Medieval Saga in Bergen 2005. The essays have been revised after discussion with respondents and other members of the audience, and further refined in exchan...

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The economic and political roles of towns in the Nordic late Middle Ages -- with Lubeck as the major hub in an extensive network -- have long been recognised and studied: be it in histories of nations, the Hanse, or individual towns. In such accou...

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The first part of this study presents a broad outline of the establishment of the parts of speech, with special emphasis on prepositions, in Ancient Greece, and of the further development in the Roman age, including the long shadow cast by Donatus...

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This book focuses on the theory and practice of doing business in Brazil within a supply chain management context. The book is divided into six chapters. Chapter one reflects on why one should do business in Brazil. Brazil is a hotspot for doing b...

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In public debate and academic writings the American and European welfare states are often portrayed as inhabiting completely different welfare regimes. However, if we take a closer look at the historical development of the European welfare state w...

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The Icelandic scholar and antiquarian Arni Magnusson (1663-1730) - Arnas Magnaeus in Latinised form - spent much of his life building up what is by common consent the single most important collection of early Scandinavian manuscripts in existence....

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