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AvDolen Perkins-Valdez

Pocket, Svenska, 2024

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Finalist i Goodreads Choice Awards.

Utvald till en av Årets bästa böcker av Amazon.

"En stundtals outhärdligt stark berättelse som inte går att sluta läsa."

EXPRESSEN SÖNDAG

”Civil Townsend är klok nog att ifrågasätta sig själv och sina handlingar … det gör diskussionen än mer intressant.”

LOTTA OLSSON, DAGENS NYHETER

TA MIN HAND är en oförglömlig berättelse om kärlek och mod, systerskap och solidaritet, inspirerad av verkliga händelser. Det är en hoppfull påminnelse om att det ibland bara krävs en enda person för att göra skillnad.

Montgomery, Alabama, 1973. Den nyutexaminerade sjuksköterskan Civil Townsend kommer från en välbärgad familj och drömmer om att förändra världen. Hennes första jobb blir på en familjeplaneringsklinik där hon äntligen får göra det som ligger närmast hjärtat: att ge kvinnor friheten att ta kontrollen över sina kroppar och styra sina liv.

Hennes första patienter blir två unga systrar som bor tillsammans med sin farmor och pappa på landsbygden. Vid första hembesöket chockas Civil över den misär flickorna lever i. Det fallfärdiga skjulet där familjen bor består av ett enda litet rum utan rinnande vatten, och stanken är kväljande. Hon tar sig an systrarna och hjälper dem, men börjar snart fatta misstankar. Varför ska så unga flickor få preventivmedel, trots att de inte ens varit i närheten av pojkar ännu? När Civil inser att hon och hennes kollegor utnyttjas i en hänsynslös konspiration, tvingas hon välja mellan att lyda order eller riskera allt för att göra det rätta.

”Ta min hand är en juvel till bok.”

WASHINGTON POST

”Helt fantastisk! Civils beslutsamhet och motståndskraft genomsyrar boken. Jag jublade högt!”

BONNIE GARMUS, FÖRFATTARE TILL LEKTIONER I KEMI

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AvDolen Perkins-Valdez

Inbunden, Svenska, 2024

(2)

322 kr

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Finalist i Goodreads Choice Awards.

Utvald till en av Årets bästa böcker av Amazon.

"En stundtals outhärdligt stark berättelse som inte går att sluta läsa."

EXPRESSEN SÖNDAG

”Civil Townsend är klok nog att ifrågasätta sig själv och sina handlingar … det gör diskussionen än mer intressant.”

LOTTA OLSSON, DAGENS NYHETER

TA MIN HAND är en oförglömlig berättelse om kärlek och mod, systerskap och solidaritet, inspirerad av verkliga händelser. Det är en hoppfull påminnelse om att det ibland bara krävs en enda person för att göra skillnad.

Montgomery, Alabama, 1973. Den nyutexaminerade sjuksköterskan Civil Townsend kommer från en välbärgad familj och drömmer om att förändra världen. Hennes första jobb blir på en familjeplaneringsklinik där hon äntligen får göra det som ligger närmast hjärtat: att ge kvinnor friheten att ta kontrollen över sina kroppar och styra sina liv.

Hennes första patienter blir två unga systrar som bor tillsammans med sin farmor och pappa på landsbygden. Vid första hembesöket chockas Civil över den misär flickorna lever i. Det fallfärdiga skjulet där familjen bor består av ett enda litet rum utan rinnande vatten, och stanken är kväljande. Hon tar sig an systrarna och hjälper dem, men börjar snart fatta misstankar. Varför ska så unga flickor få preventivmedel, trots att de inte ens varit i närheten av pojkar ännu? När Civil inser att hon och hennes kollegor utnyttjas i en hänsynslös konspiration, tvingas hon välja mellan att lyda order eller riskera allt för att göra det rätta.

”Ta min hand är en juvel till bok.”

WASHINGTON POST

”Helt fantastisk! Civils beslutsamhet och motståndskraft genomsyrar boken. Jag jublade högt!”

BONNIE GARMUS, FÖRFATTARE TILL LEKTIONER I KEMI

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AvHanna Cechova

Häftad, Svenska, 2024

(3)

239 kr

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Den lilles skrik rister ända in i märgen, vad är det för fel? Det går inte att lugna honom, han verkar panikslagen och från vettet av smärta. Hans mamma lägger honom försiktigt på rygg i den mjuka sängen och söker med oroliga händer över hans kropp, hon måste hitta orsaken till hans förtvivlan. Under fingrarna buktar plötsligt ett bråck i ljumsken. Instinktivt ringer hon sjukhuset som guidar och hon lyckas få tillbaka bråcket. Det hjärtskärande skriket avtar genast och hon släpper ut en lång suck av lättnad och tacksamhet. Om det bara hade tagit slut där...

Att bli funkisförälder räknar nog ingen med, men vissa trillar handlöst rakt in i det. Under graviditetens långa förlopp dyker en mängd olika tankar upp, tankar som spretar i alla möjliga riktningar. Ofta är det nyfikna tankar, ivriga, spända och förväntansfulla. Men så klart en del ängsliga också, det är en del av det hela. Oavsett är det omöjligt att förbereda sig på ett trauma med katastrofala följder som väntar gömt bakom ett hörn.

När livet tar en oväntad vändning, börjar skena i fel riktning och det otänkbara är ett faktum, så skakar marken under fötterna och likt en brutal jordbävning så raseras allt runt omkring en. Trots det måste energin infinna sig, kampen få ta plats och livet få fortsätta. För alternativet är otänkbart. För det mesta i alla fall...

Det här är en skildring som allt för sällan får ta plats i rampljuset. Du får följa med på en resa med tvära kast, starka känslor, gripande ögonblick och en unik inblick i en funkisförälders speciella värld.

Diamond Hill

Totally unputdownable and evocative literary fiction

AvKit Fan

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

127 kr

Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar

'A rapid-fire debut with a cinematographer's eye for detail... Fan strikes a deft balance between agile set-pieces and lingering beauty.' Naoise Dolan 'A vivid, powerful portrait of a vanishing world.' David Nicholls'Do you know what it was like here? You wouldn't believe the glamour. We had our own film studio, redbrick houses for the stars, even Jackie Chan. Now look at us - the Hollywood of the Orient will soon be gone altogether.'1987, Hong Kong. Trying to outrun his demons, a young man who calls himself Buddha returns to the bustling place of his birth. He moves into a small Buddhist nunnery in the crumbling neighbourhood of Diamond Hill, where planes landing at the nearby airport fly so close overhead that travellers can see into the rooms of those below.As Buddha begins to care for the nuns and their neighbours, this pocket of the old city is vanishing. Even the fiery Iron Nun cannot prevent the frequent landslides that threaten the nunnery she fights for, and in the nearby shanty town, a faded film actress who calls herself Audrey Hepburn is hiding a deep secret and trying to survive with her teenage daughter who has a bigger fish to fry.But no one arrives in Diamond Hill by accident, and Buddha's ties to this place run deeper than he is willing to admit. Can he make peace with his past and survive in this disappearing city?Beautifully written and utterly compelling, Diamond Hill is a gorgeous love letter that perfectly captures a lost place, filled with unforgettable characters. If you love books by Hanya Yanagihara, Colm Tóibín and Ocean Vuong, you'll adore this haunting and evocative novel.What people are saying about Diamond Hill:'The best debut I've read in ages... A glorious luminosity to the writing and the reading experience is rather like looking into a kaleidoscope and giving it several twirls.' Cathy Rentzenbrink 'A gripping and highly accomplished debut... A thoroughly enjoyable and profound exploration of powerlessness, identity and the evolution of a city.' Guardian'Fan is an exuberant chronicler of a lost time and place... It's a timely consideration of Hong Kong's recent past.' The Times'An exhilarating and original tale, Diamond Hill marks award-winning Fan as a writer to watch.' Cosmopolitan 'Fan creates a textured, unsettled portrait of a territory facing a decisive ending... The dark drama that unfolds is an elegy to that vanished vanishing world.' The Wall Street Journal'Gleams with pleasurable insights... Memorable moments are sketched by a poet's hand.' South China Morning Post

Diamond Hill

Totally unputdownable and evocative literary fiction

AvKit Fan

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

187 kr

Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar

'A rapid-fire debut with a cinematographer's eye for detail... Fan strikes a deft balance between agile set-pieces and lingering beauty.' Naoise Dolan 'A vivid, powerful portrait of a vanishing world.' David Nicholls'Do you know what it was like here? You wouldn't believe the glamour. We had our own film studio, redbrick houses for the stars, even Jackie Chan. Now look at us - the Hollywood of the Orient will soon be gone altogether.'1987, Hong Kong. Trying to outrun his demons, a young man who calls himself Buddha returns to the bustling place of his birth. He moves into a small Buddhist nunnery in the crumbling neighbourhood of Diamond Hill, where planes landing at the nearby airport fly so close overhead that travellers can see into the rooms of those below.As Buddha begins to care for the nuns and their neighbours, this pocket of the old city is vanishing. Even the fiery Iron Nun cannot prevent the frequent landslides that threaten the nunnery she fights for, and in the nearby shanty town, a faded film actress who calls herself Audrey Hepburn is hiding a deep secret and trying to survive with her teenage daughter who has a bigger fish to fry.But no one arrives in Diamond Hill by accident, and Buddha's ties to this place run deeper than he is willing to admit. Can he make peace with his past and survive in this disappearing city?Beautifully written and utterly compelling, Diamond Hill is a gorgeous love letter that perfectly captures a lost place, filled with unforgettable characters. If you love books by Hanya Yanagihara, Colm Tóibín and Ocean Vuong, you'll adore this haunting and evocative novel.What people are saying about Diamond Hill:'The best debut I've read in ages... A glorious luminosity to the writing and the reading experience is rather like looking into a kaleidoscope and giving it several twirls.' Cathy Rentzenbrink 'A gripping and highly accomplished debut... A thoroughly enjoyable and profound exploration of powerlessness, identity and the evolution of a city.' Guardian'Fan is an exuberant chronicler of a lost time and place... It's a timely consideration of Hong Kong's recent past.' The Times'An exhilarating and original tale, Diamond Hill marks award-winning Fan as a writer to watch.' Cosmopolitan 'Fan creates a textured, unsettled portrait of a territory facing a decisive ending... The dark drama that unfolds is an elegy to that vanished vanishing world.' The Wall Street Journal'Gleams with pleasurable insights... Memorable moments are sketched by a poet's hand.' South China Morning Post

Russian Theory of Activity

Current Applications To Design and Learning

AvGregory Bedny,David Meister

Inbunden, Engelska, 1997

2 230 kr

Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar

The opening of the former Soviet Union to the West has provided an opportunity to describe Russian human factors/ergonomics and to compare American theories and methods with it. Although this book is principally dedicated to describing the theory of activity as it applies to issues of design and training, it is also offered to a general audience of psychologists and interested lay readers. This theory studies the goal-directed behavior of man and attempts to integrate the cognitive, motivational, and behavioral aspects of activity into a holistic system. Such fundamental notions as goal, action, and self-regulation are described and analyzed from totally different theoretical points of view. This is the first comprehensive, systematic description of the theory of activity in the English language. Existing attempts to translate the theory of activity into English suffer from certain limitations. Among them, the theory of activity -- considered one of the more important accomplishments of Soviet psychological science -- has an extensive history dating back to the work of Vygotsky and his students. Subsequent development of the theory by other well-known Soviet psychologists and psychophysiologists took place within different schools with some significant differences. In the former Soviet Union, psychological theory could not be advanced unconnected to Marxist-Leninist ideology. Accordingly, theoretical formulations were subject to their own version of "political correctness." Books published in this field were addressed only to other scientists with backgrounds in the field. Moreover, the translation of the technical terms in Russian psychology frequently resist translation in the absence of the context of the debates in which they were being used. Thus, simple translation of books in this field as they were written in a specialized and politicized environment for Russian audiences is really not a particularly sensible or worthwhile undertaking. This book is addressed in the first instance to Western psychologists. It compares, among other things, analyses of work from the former Soviet Union with the work from the West. Applications of activity theory to design and learning were paramount in the Soviet Union. Using their own theoretical perspective, the authors provide a comparative analysis of the various schools working in activity theory. They hope that this book may facilitate the exchange of ideas between Russian psychological scientists and Western psychologists working in ergonomics, human factors, industrial/organizational psychology, education, learning, and related areas where the theory of activity may find general application.This book's authors attempt to provide a contribution not only to science but also to history. Western researchers have strongly influenced Russian work, but because of negative political pressure in the former USSR, the flow of concepts was one-sided. Russian ergonomists received so much from American and Western sources that it is now important to give something back. Despite the considerable similarity between Russian and American theories and methods, the special "spin" the former put on their work may stimulate new thinking on the part of their American colleagues.

Russian Theory of Activity

Current Applications To Design and Learning

AvGregory Bedny,David Meister

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

836 kr

Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar

The opening of the former Soviet Union to the West has provided an opportunity to describe Russian human factors/ergonomics and to compare American theories and methods with it. Although this book is principally dedicated to describing the theory of activity as it applies to issues of design and training, it is also offered to a general audience of psychologists and interested lay readers. This theory studies the goal-directed behavior of man and attempts to integrate the cognitive, motivational, and behavioral aspects of activity into a holistic system. Such fundamental notions as goal, action, and self-regulation are described and analyzed from totally different theoretical points of view. This is the first comprehensive, systematic description of the theory of activity in the English language. Existing attempts to translate the theory of activity into English suffer from certain limitations. Among them, the theory of activity -- considered one of the more important accomplishments of Soviet psychological science -- has an extensive history dating back to the work of Vygotsky and his students. Subsequent development of the theory by other well-known Soviet psychologists and psychophysiologists took place within different schools with some significant differences. In the former Soviet Union, psychological theory could not be advanced unconnected to Marxist-Leninist ideology. Accordingly, theoretical formulations were subject to their own version of "political correctness." Books published in this field were addressed only to other scientists with backgrounds in the field. Moreover, the translation of the technical terms in Russian psychology frequently resist translation in the absence of the context of the debates in which they were being used. Thus, simple translation of books in this field as they were written in a specialized and politicized environment for Russian audiences is really not a particularly sensible or worthwhile undertaking. This book is addressed in the first instance to Western psychologists. It compares, among other things, analyses of work from the former Soviet Union with the work from the West. Applications of activity theory to design and learning were paramount in the Soviet Union. Using their own theoretical perspective, the authors provide a comparative analysis of the various schools working in activity theory. They hope that this book may facilitate the exchange of ideas between Russian psychological scientists and Western psychologists working in ergonomics, human factors, industrial/organizational psychology, education, learning, and related areas where the theory of activity may find general application.This book's authors attempt to provide a contribution not only to science but also to history. Western researchers have strongly influenced Russian work, but because of negative political pressure in the former USSR, the flow of concepts was one-sided. Russian ergonomists received so much from American and Western sources that it is now important to give something back. Despite the considerable similarity between Russian and American theories and methods, the special "spin" the former put on their work may stimulate new thinking on the part of their American colleagues.

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