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Börsrätt är ett allmänt begrepp för regleringen av värdepappersmarknaden. I Sverige började börsrätten utvecklas i samband med EU-inträdet i mitten av 1990-talet. Under senare år har den genomgått en omfattande och snabb förändring. Utvecklingen betingas bland annat av de många EU-rättsliga direktiv och förordningar som successivt arbetas fram, globaliseringen av värdepappersmarknaden, finansmarknadens kriser samt finansiell och teknisk innovation.För alla som på något sätt utsätts för den massiva utvecklingen på värdepappersmarknaden söker denna bok åstadkomma en sammanhållen plattform av information som utgångspunkt för praktisk tillämpning och utbildning. Läsaren får i denna femte upplaga såväl en uppdaterad presentation av de aktuella regelverken som en god inblick i praktik och systematik, genom bidrag från experter verksamma på värdepappersmarknaden. Exempel på börsrättsliga områden som beskrivs är:• notering, emissioner och prospekt• kontoföring, clearing och avveckling• information, insynspersoners rapportering och flaggning• tillsyn, övervakning och sanktioner• investerarskydd och minoritetsskydd• offentliga uppköpserbjudanden• återköp och incitamentsprogram • bolagsstyrning och hållbarhetsrapportering.Börsrätt vänder sig till ledande befattningshavare på börsbolag, advokater, revisorer, bolagsjurister och rådgivare som kommer i kontakt med börsrättsliga frågor samt till studerande på specialkurser på juristutbildningar, finansiell ekonomi och affärsjuridiska program.

Cennino Cenninis Boken om målarkonsten från början av 1400-talet har inte tidigare funnits i svensk översättning från italienskan. Sigurd Möllers översättning från 1948 var gjord via franskan och behäftad med de fel som besvärar Victor Mottez franska version från 1858 och sonen Henry Mottez utökade nyutgåva från 1911. Den föreliggande texten bygger på Fabio Frezzatos edition från 2003. I vissa fall har de två äldsta manuskripten konsulterats. När konservator Karin Forsberg började sin nyöversättning, fick hon veta att Bo Ossian Lindberg vid Åbo Akademi under sin tid i Lund hade utarbetat en översättning i manuskript. Hon tog kontakt, och nu började kommenterade Cennini-kapitel gå som ytpost mellan Italien och Finland och en livlig korrespondens per e-post uppstod. Till slut kom översättarna fram till en text som bägge kunde godkänna. Bägge står för notkommentarerna, men Forsberg har skrivit de fylliga inledningarna om Cennini och hans tid och miljö. Lindberg har läst och kommenterat allt, och ibland lagt till eller tagit bort något. Boken är rikt illustrerad, också med nygjorda teckningar, som demonstrerar annars svårförståeliga saker, till exempel hur man enligt Cennini skall skära till en fjäderpenna, eller vilka proportioner han ansåg att en perfekt manskropp skall ha. Översättarna har bemödat sig om att behålla Cenninis talspråksmässiga ton och hans direkta du-relation till läsaren. De vill också att läsaren skall kunna följa Cenninis handfasta beskrivningar steg för steg, så att de förstår vad målningar från italiensk senmedeltid består av och hur de är uppbyggda.

DEN OKUVLIGA VILJAN är berättelsen om Carl Ossian Johnson född 1878 som vid 11 års ålder begav sig hemifrån. Han visste redan då vad han ville med sitt liv, se världen, bli framgångsrik och förmögen. Vi följer honom från uppväxtåren i Växjö genom hans äventyrsrika liv till lands och till sjöss. I Sverige, Sydafrika och på Antarktis farvatten. Från skeppspojke till skapandet av ett av världen största fiskeriföretag, Irvin&Johnson Ltd. Han rörde sig i en turbulent tid med boerkrig och världskrig vilket starkt påverkade hans enorma företagsbyggande likväl som hans röriga privatliv. DEN OKUVLIGA VILJAN berättar också om hans kärlekar, äktenskap, familjerelationer och besvikelse.

Under ett helt liv står en akademiker inför många val som får betydelse för livslönen: vad, var och när studerar man? Vad innebär arbetslöshet direkt efter studierna? Lönar det sig att vänta eller ska man ta första bästa jobb? När i livet bildar man familj? Har det någon betydelse för lönen om man är gift? Blir investeringen i utbildning någonsin lönsam? Livslön är ett begrepp med många aspekter. Storleken på den samlade lönen och inkomsten under ett helt liv påverkas förutom av en mängd individuella val även av politiska beslut. Staten påverkar genom utbildning, arbetsmarknadsinsatser, skatter och studiemedelssystem, och arbetsmarknaden genom lönebildning och arbetstillfällen. En informativ och vägledande bok för specialister, opinionsbildare och alla som vill veta mer om begreppet livslön.

This is the first modern edition of all Macpherson's Ossianic poetry, including Fragments of Ancient Poetry, Fingal and Temora - as well as his accompanying prefaces and dissertations, and Hugh Blair's Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian. Based on the 1765 text of the Works of Ossian, major variants from the other editions are included, together with a comprehensive register of Ossianic names.

The art of the past can seem very far away, obscured both by time and by knotty academic theory. Foregrounding the experience of the contemporary viewer, Look Again shows how this need not be the case. Ossian Ward’s simple, ten-step programme acts as an aid to looking, breaking down the often obscure strategies of the Old Masters into intuitive categories – from Art as Honesty to Art as Vision. Look Again’s novel approach is influenced by John Berger’s Ways of Seeing, but is here updated for the art world of the 21st century. Key to this book is an emphasis on ways of experiencing Old Masters – more than just looking. Just as contemporary art should be judged by how it moves us, cajoles us and envelops us, so too can the great paintings of the world be seen as immersive, captivating, even participatory experiences. Ward does not deny the specific complexities and barriers associated with looking at art from other eras. Instead he offers readers a new formula to help illuminate this kind of art. His method not only provides the viewer with the tools to interpret a work of art, but also assumes that we hold some of this knowledge within ourselves already. In other words, everyone can share the enriching experience of Old Master paintings.

James Macpherson's The Poems of Ossian (1760-1763) were one of the publishing sensations of the eighteenth century. Macpherson's supposed discovery of the epic poet Ossian in the Scottish Highlands provoked fascination and controversy in equal measure. His vision of a romantic Celtic past of melancholy heroes and mournful bards made an immediate impact on all aspects of eighteenth-century culture across Europe and influenced at least two generations of poets, novelists, painters and composers.Many of the most important documents of the Ossian phenomenon have hitherto only been accessible in a handful of British research libraries. This collection brings these documents for the first time to a wider audience.Other titles available in this series include, Shakespeare Imitations, Parodies and Forgeries (May 2004, 3 volumes, £350) and Romanticism and Science (2002, 5 volumes, £550).

James Macpherson's famous hoax, publishing his own poems as the writings of the ancient Scots bard Ossian in the 1760s, remains fascinating to scholars as the most successful literary fraud in history. This study presents the fullest investigation of his deception to date, by looking at the controversy from the point of view of Samuel Johnson. Johnson's dispute with Macpherson was an argument with wide implications not only for literature, but for the emerging national identities of the British nations during the Celtic revival. Thomas M. Curley offers a wealth of genuinely new information, detailing as never before Johnson's involvement in the Ossian controversy, his insistence on truth-telling, and his interaction with others in the debate. The appendix reproduces a rare pamphlet against Ossian written with the assistance of Johnson himself. This book will be an important addition to knowledge about both the Ossian controversy and Samuel Johnson.

This study examines the relationship between Enlightenment and romance through the work of James Macpherson and in particular his The Poems of Ossian. By re-reading Macpherson's work in ways not restricted by the sterile and by now largely settled debates over authenticity, Moore establishes Ossian's credentials to be considered as romance, in its manner of construction, its represented sensibility, and in its engagement with the potentialities and limitations of eighteenth-century discourses of sympathy and society. An increasing amount has been written on Macpherson over the last ten or so years, and at last it seems possible to talk about The Poems of Ossian without reference to questions of authenticity or charges of forgery. Yet the polarised debate over the authenticity of the Poems has been superseded by equally polarised arguments about such matters as the cultural significance and politics of Ossian, arguments in which the poems have been used as a convenient peg on which to hang various, often predetermined, positions. Fresh and groundbreaking, this study recentres Ossian revisionism by providing an account of a series of works increasingly talked about, but still little read or understood.

Henry Ossian Flipper was one of the nineteenth-century West's most remarkable individuals. The first African American graduate of West Point, he served four years in the West as a cavalry officer but was court-martialed and dismissed from the service in 1882. He spent the rest of his long life attempting to clear his name. Flipper's record of accomplishment was significant for any individual in any time, and for a nineteenth-century black American it was phenomenal. As historian Quintard Taylor points out, in his post-Army career Flipper was a surveyor, cartographer, civil and mining engineer, interpreter, translator, historian, inventor, newspaper editor, special agent for the Justice Department, deputy U.S. mineral surveyor, aide to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, and consultant to the secretary of the interior. His work carried him to Mexico, Venezuela, and Spain, and he left a record of achievement that demonstrates his enormous talent and unrelenting effort.The Colored Cadet at West Point contains Taylor's biographical essay, Flipper's account of his career at West Point, and a new index prepared for this volume.

As Americans geared up for World War II, each state responded according to its economy and circumstances—as well as the disposition of its citizens. This book considers the war years in Iowa by looking at activity on different home fronts and analyzing the resilience of Iowans in answering the call to support the war effort.With its location in the center of the country, far from potentially threatened coasts, Iowa was also the center of American isolationism—historically Republican and resistant to involvement in another European war. Yet Iowans were quick to step up, and Lisa Ossian draws on historical archives as well as on artifacts of popular culture to record the rhetoric and emotion of their support.Ossian shows how Iowans quickly moved from skepticism to overwhelming enthusiasm for the war and answered the call on four fronts: farms, factories, communities, and kitchens. Iowa's farmers faced labor and machinery shortages, yet produced record amounts of crops and animals—even at the expense of valuable topsoil. Ordnance plants turned out bombs and machine gun bullets. Meanwhile, communities supported war bond and scrap drives, while housewives coped with rationing, raised Victory gardens, and turned to home canning.The Home Fronts of Iowa, 1939–1945 depicts real people and their concerns, showing the price paid in physical and mental exhaustion and notes the heavy toll exacted on Iowa's sons who fell in battle. Ossian also considers the relevance of such issues as race, class, and gender—particularly the role of women on the home front and the recruitment of both women and blacks for factory work—taking into account a prevalent suspicion of ethnic groups by the state's largely homogeneous population.The fact that Iowans could become loyal citizen soldiers—forming an Industrial and Defense Commission even before Pearl Harbor—speaks not only to the patriotism of these sturdy midwesterners but also to the overall resilience of Americans. In unraveling how Iowans could so overwhelmingly support the war, Ossian digs deep into history to show us the power of emotion—and to help us better understand why World War II is consistently remembered as “the Good War.”

Two days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt addressed the nation by radio, saying, 'We are all in it-all the way. Every single man, woman, and child is a partner in the most tremendous undertaking of our American history.' So began a continuing theme of the World War II years: the challenges of wartime would not be borne by adults alone. Men, women, and children would all be involved in the work of war.The struggles endured by American civilians during the Second World War are well documented, but accounts of the war years have mostly deliberated on the grown-ups' sacrifices. In The Forgotten Generation: American Children and World War II, Lisa L. Ossian explores the war's full implications for the lives of children. In thematic chapters, the author delves into children's experiences of family, school, play, work, and home, uncovering the range of effects the war had on youths of various ethnicities and backgrounds.Since the larger U.S. culture so fervently supported the war effort, adults rarely sheltered children from the realities of the war and the trials of life on the home front. Children listened for news of battles over the radio, labored in munitions factories, and saved money for war bonds. They watched enlisted men-their fathers, uncles, and brothers-leave for duty and worried about the safety of soldiers overseas. They prayed during the D-Day invasion, mourned President Roosevelt's death, and celebrated on V-J Day . . . all at an age when such sharp events are so difficult to understand. Ossian draws from a multitude of sources, including the writings of 1940s children, to demonstrate the great extent of these young people's participation in the wartime culture.World War II transformed a generation of youths as no other experience of the twentieth century would, but somehow the children at home during the war-compressed between the 'Greatest Generation' and the 'Baby Boomers'-slipped into the margins of U.S. history. The Forgotten Generation: American Children and World War II remembers these children and their engagement in 'the most tremendous undertaking' that the war effort came to be. By bringing the depth of those experiences to light, Ossian makes a compelling contribution to the literature on American childhood and the research on this remarkable period of U.S. history.

The intellectual scope and cultural impact of British writers cannot be assessed without reference to their 'European' fortunes. This collection of 20 essays, prepared by an international team of scholars, critics and translators, records the ways in which Macpherson's Ossian has been received, translated and published in different areas of Europe. The Ossian poems caused a sensation on their first appearance in the early 1760's. Indeed, there is hardly a major Romantic poet on whom they failed to make a significant impression. The essays brought together in this volume explore the reception of Ossian in a wide range of European countries, in both literary and non-literary forms of reception and in the work of both individual writers and national literary cultures.

After graduating as the first black from West Point in 1877, Henry O. Flipper was dismissed from the U. S. Army in 1882 following a financial scandal. He went on to enjoy a career as a land surveyor, scholar of mining and land laws, congressional alde, and writer and translator. Black Frontiersman is Flipper's account of his service with the Tenth U. S. Cavalry in Texas and Oklahoma and the years that followed. Flipper's memoir was first published in 1963 as Negro Frontiersman, edited by Theodore Harris. For this revised edition, Harris has added a new introduction, expanded the endnotes, and added previously unpublished material. Henry O. Flipper was posthumously vindicated, his discharge changed to honorable, and his body reburied with military honors.