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Aldrig ensam
New York 1909 Aldrig hade väl Charlotta Hellberg trott att högen av hästdynga på Fifth Avenue skulle ge henne en karriär långt mer framgångsrik än hon någonsin vågat drömma om hemma i Fjällbacka. Bland operasångare, industripampar och charmiga kommunister hittar hon den frihet hon drömt om sedan hon var liten. Systern Sigrid söker istället ett stabilt liv som maka och mor, men bekymren hopar sig då det inte blir några barn. Hon har allt, men ändå inget, och hennes Alexander är sig inte lik. Deras yngsta syster, läraren Rut, väljer att stanna kvar nära Fjällbacka, där de mest utsatta barnen behöver henne i skolan och de nämnder hon är invald i. Barnauktionerna gör henne förtvivlad, och till sist finns ingen annan råd än att ingripa själv. Att hjälpa dem som har det svårt gör det lättare att bära hemligheten hon döljer för omvärlden. När de alla förenas i New York är ingenting som det en gång har varit och katastrofen är skrämmande nära.
Raid and Reconciliation
Around the turn of the twentieth century, the formation of the U.S.-Mexico border through the rise of capitalism brought new forms of violence, this time codified in law, land surveys, and capitalist land and resource regimes—the markers of modernity and progress that were the hallmarks of Gilded Age America and Porfirian Mexico. Military units, settlers, and boosters dispossessed Southern Apache peoples of their homelands and attempted to erase the histories of Mexican colonists in the Lower Mimbres Valley region. As a result, people of multiple racial and national identities came together to forge new border communities. In Raid and Reconciliation Brandon Morgan examines the story of Pan...
Logistics in the Falklands War
A military logistics expert analyzes the detailed coordination employed by the British during the Falklands War in 1982. While many books have been written on the Falklands War, this is the first to focus on the vital aspect of logistics. The challenges were huge: the lack of preparation time, the urgency, the huge distances involved, and the need to requisition ships from trade to name but four. After a brief discussion of events leading to Argentina’s invasion, the book details the rush to re-organize and deploy forces, dispatch a large task force, the innovative solutions needed to sustain the task force, the vital staging base at Ascension Island, the in-theatre resupply, the set-backs...
The Political Life of Urban Streetscapes
Streetscapes are part of the taken-for-granted spaces of everyday urban life, yet they are also contested arenas in which struggles over identity, memory, and place shape the social production of urban space. This book examines the role that street naming has played in the political life of urban streetscapes in both historical and contemporary cities. The renaming of streets and remaking of urban commemorative landscapes have long been key strategies that different political regimes have employed to legitimize spatial assertions of sovereign authority, ideological hegemony, and symbolic power. Over the past few decades, a rich body of critical scholarship has explored the politics of urban ...
Swedish Folk Tales
Humorous tales, cautionary tales, tall tales, fairy tales, heroic tales – the depths of Swedish folklore hold all of the above and more besides. From cunning folk and helpful Tomtar, to sinister Näcken and the Stallos of Sami legend (and with plenty of romance and derring-do in-between), this book covers centuries' worth of Sweden's folk tales, telling stories that have never been translated into English as well as several oral tales published in writing for the first time.
Nordic Mythologies: Interpretations, Intersections, and Institutions
A collection of essays by leading scholars of Nordic Mythology.
España por favor
Tre saker händer samtidigt i Fjällfors: Mias man dör, Nooras dotter blir gravid och Lotta tvingas flytta hem till sin exman i Luleå. Bostäder ska säljas på en övermättad marknad, där elpriserna skjutit i höjden och räntekostnaderna är svindlande till och med för ett hus i Norrlands inland. Hur går det nu med de tre bästisarnas dröm om Spanien? Skulle inte livet bli bättre efter 60? I kyrkokören sjunger Lotta Y viva España så högt att Gud kan höra henne, på pizzerian jobbar Pedro som får änkan Mia att dåna, och när Noora spår sig får hon veta att Spanien och en änglabutik kanske inte är en lysande idé just nu. Men så kommer stumma 81-åriga Dolores med sin ha...
Corporate Standardization Management and Innovation
Standardization is no longer a technical activity. Rather, most large firms as well as policymakers and many other public sector entities have realized the economic and political relevance of information and communication technology standards. Accordingly, an increasing number of firms and public authorities experience the need to properly manage their standardization activities. Corporate Standardization Management and Innovation is an essential reference source that discusses various aspects that relate to the management of standardization in private firms and the public sector and identifies good practices in the internal and external management of standardization activities. Focusing around research areas such as digital market, global business, and business strategy, this book is designed to assist academics, practitioners, and researchers in the identification of good practices in management of standardization activities.
Wonder-full Experiences in Music Education
The question of how musical coordination in a school wind band is addressed by pedagogues was qualitatively reconstructed using videographic interaction analysis. A process of Hervorhebungspraktik ('practice' of 'highlighting') was observed, which gradually brought musical elements out of their temporal context and into collective perception, allowing both atmospheric interaction with content and the growth of professional vision. A process of deconstruction and reintegration takes place as musical elements, now present in collective consciousness, withdraw back into the piece as a whole. This necessitates an educational approach emphasizing not only the elements themselves, but the relation...
Swedish and German Liberalism
At the start of the twentieth century, political parties had the potential to focus grass-roots interest in the development of modern, democratic nation-states. Yet all the new parties were met with suspicion across Europe, particularly among liberals. These popular misgivings and the way the liberals nevertheless managed to build a party are the subject of this book. In this book, historian Martin Åberg argues that because of liberalisms individualistic traits, which left liberals less susceptible to political organisation on a mass basis, party members had to come to an uneasy compromise between individual and collective action. Åberg compares two regions -- Värmland in Sweden and Schleswig-Holstein in Germany -- which historically both had a significant liberal presence. Despite its organisational shortcomings, liberalism in Sweden paved the way for the peaceful democratisation of the state. In Germany, however, liberalism turned conservative, foreshadowing the extreme nationalism and Nazism that was to come. Åberg argues that the peculiarities of organisational behaviour go some way to explain the very different outcomes.
