Stockholm And Beyond

Author : Nathaniel Ian Miller
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316592567

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The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven by Nathaniel Ian Miller Pdf

In this "briskly entertaining" (New York Times Book Review), "transporting and wholly original" (People Magazine) novel, one man banishes himself to a solitary life in the Arctic Circle, and is saved by good friends, a loyal dog, and a surprise visit that changes everything. In 1916, Sven Ormson leaves a restless life in Stockholm to seek adventure in Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago where darkness reigns four months of the year and he might witness the splendor of the Northern Lights one night and be attacked by a polar bear the next. But his time as a miner ends when an avalanche nearly kills him, leaving him disfigured, and Sven flees even further, to an uninhabited fjord. There, with the company of a loyal dog, he builds a hut and lives alone, testing himself against the elements. The teachings of a Finnish fur trapper, along with encouraging letters from his family and a Scottish geologist who befriended him in the mining camp, get him through his first winter. Years into his routine isolation, the arrival of an unlikely visitor salves his loneliness, sparking a chain of surprising events that will bring Sven into a family of fellow castoffs and determine the course of the rest of his life. Written with wry humor and in prose as breathtaking as the stark landscape it evokes, The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven is a testament to the strength of our human bonds, reminding us that even in the most inhospitable conditions on the planet, we are not beyond the reach of love. #1 Indie Next Pick Finalist for the Vermont Book Award Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004328471

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Identity Formation and Diversity in the Early Medieval Baltic and Beyond by Anonim Pdf

In Identity Formation and Diversity in the Early Medieval Baltic and Beyond, the Viking World in the East is made more heterogeneous. Baltic Finnic groups, Balts and Sami are integrated into the history dominated by Scandinavians and Slavs. Interaction in the region between Eastern Middle Sweden, Finland, Estonia and North Western Russia is set against varied cultural expressions of identities. Ten scholars approach the topic from different angles, with case studies on the roots of diversity, burials with horses, Staraya Ladoga as a nodal point of long-distance routes, Rus’ warrior identities, early Eastern Christianity, interaction between the Baltic Finns and the Svear, the first phases of ar-Rus dominion, the distribution of Carolingian swords, and Dirhams in the Baltic region. Contributors are Johan Callmer, Ingrid Gustin, Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson, Valter Lang, John Howard Lind, Marika Mägi, Mats Roslund, Søren Sindbaek, Anne Stalsberg, and Tuukka Talvio.

Author : Ole Waever,Pierre Lemaitre,Elzbieta Tromer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1989-10-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349202805

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European Polyphony: Perspectives beyond East-West Confrontation by Ole Waever,Pierre Lemaitre,Elzbieta Tromer Pdf

This study deals with the internal socio-political changes that the traditional political structures have not been able to incorporate, the perspectives of the superpowers and surveys of the debate on European security in each of 11 states. The book begins and ends with a theoretical overview.

Author : Francesco Aletta,Jian Kang
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783039282722

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Promoting Healthy and Supportive Acoustic Environments: Going beyond the Quietness by Francesco Aletta,Jian Kang Pdf

This book gathers 14 original contributions published in an IJERPH Special Issue that deal with the perception of environmental sounds and how such sounds are likely to affect human quality of life and well-being and the experience of a place. The research focus over the years has been gradually shifting from treating sound simply as “noise” and something that cities should get rid of to a potential “resource” to promote and support community life in public spaces. Three main topics or “needs” to be addressed by researchers and practitioners emerged from this Special Issue: (1) the need to re-think “quietness” in cities as something that goes beyond the mere “pursuit of silence”, (2) the need to integrate additional contextual factors in the characterization and management of urban acoustic environments for public health, and (3) the need to consider the acoustic quality of indoor spaces as opposed to an outdoor-only perspective. The contributions collected in this book will hopefully trigger new questions and inform the agenda of future researchers and practitioners in the environmental acoustics domain.

Author : Margaret E. Keck,Kathryn Sikkink
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801471292

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Activists beyond Borders by Margaret E. Keck,Kathryn Sikkink Pdf

In Activists beyond Borders, Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink examine a type of pressure group that has been largely ignored by political analysts: networks of activists that coalesce and operate across national frontiers. Their targets may be international organizations or the policies of particular states. Historical examples of such transborder alliances include anti-slavery and woman suffrage campaigns. In the past two decades, transnational activism has had a significant impact in human rights, especially in Latin America, and advocacy networks have strongly influenced environmental politics as well. The authors also examine the emergence of an international campaign around violence against women.

Author : Laurence Monnais,David Wright
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442629615

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Doctors beyond Borders by Laurence Monnais,David Wright Pdf

Doctors beyond Borders provides an essential historical perspective on the transnational migration of health care practitioners.

Author : Hillevi Lenz Taguchi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135217860

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Going Beyond the Theory/Practice Divide in Early Childhood Education by Hillevi Lenz Taguchi Pdf

This book identifies the gaps needing to be bridged to achieve a more inclusive and 'just' early childhood education, in relation to class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, race, disabilities and age, and explores various ways of bridging these gaps.

Author : Kristín Loftsdóttir,Lars Jensen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317157687

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Crisis in the Nordic Nations and Beyond by Kristín Loftsdóttir,Lars Jensen Pdf

With discourses of ’crisis’ and ’disaster’ featuring strongly in contemporary discourses on contemporary society, this book brings together critical perspectives from across the humanities and social sciences to explore the idea of ’crisis’ as inherently related to power dynamics and the formation of different subjectivities and identities within the Nordic countries and globally. This volume emphasizes the importance of investigating the interrelationship of three crises - social, economic and environmental - as these address the interlinked surfaces of the same reality, and it examines the negative connotations of the notion of crisis, whilst also raising the question of when and why something becomes identified as crisis, and for whom. With chapters on media representations of crisis and the global context of crisis discourses, the crisis of national identities and their mobilization in response, and environmental crisis, as well as the interrelationship between the social and the environmental and the different positioning of individuals in relation to power, this volume offers an understanding of crisis as a multivocal symbol of the present. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology, history, cultural studies, literature and political science.

Author : Don Zillman,Catherine Redgwell,Yinka Omorogbe,Lila K. Barrera-Hernández
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191559761

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Beyond the Carbon Economy by Don Zillman,Catherine Redgwell,Yinka Omorogbe,Lila K. Barrera-Hernández Pdf

The present energy economy, with its heavy dependence on fossil fuels, is not sustainable over the medium to long term for many interconnected reasons. Climate change is now recognized as posing a serious threat. Energy and resource decisions involving the carbon fuels therefore play a large role in this threat. Fossil fuel reserves may also be running short and many of the major reserves are in politically unstable parts of the world. Yet citizens in nations with rapidly developing economies aspire to the benefits of the modern energy economy. China and India alone have 2.4 billion potential customers for cars, industries, and electrical services. Even so, more than half of the world's citizens still lack access to energy. Decisions involving fossil fuels are therefore a significant part of the development equation. This volume explains how the law can impede or advance the shift to a world energy picture significantly different from that which exists today. It first examines the factors that create the problems of the present carbon economy, including environmental concerns and development goals. It then provides international and regional legal perspectives, examining public international law, regional legal structures, the responses of international legal bodies, and the role of major international nongovernmental actors. The book then moves on to explore sectoral perspectives including the variety of renewable energy sources, new carbon fuels, nuclear power, demand controls, and energy efficiency. Finally, the authors examine how particular States are, could, or should, be adapting legally to the challenges of moving beyond the carbon economy.

Author : Karin Grelz
Publisher : Almqvist & Wiksell International
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015058122253

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Beyond the Noise of Time by Karin Grelz Pdf

"This is a Ph.D. dissertation. Although quite a few researchers have pointed to the significance of the childhood theme in Tsvetaeva's work, no systematic analysis of her work has been done from this perspective. Nor have her childhood reminiscences been treated as a thematically consistent whole, but have rather been read as instances of the poet's prose in general. The present study examines Marina Tsvetaeva's memories of childhood in the context of her work and in the context of the cultural and political reality to which these reminiscences refer and in which they were written - i.e., Russia around the turn of the century and the Russian emigre world of 1930-1937. The study also touches upon the symbolic and allegorical dimension of the texts - Tsvetaeva's ""otherspeak"" in her prose. It is shown that the central scenes of these texts author's narrative of childhood also appears to have been a suitable medium for articulating controversial aesthetic statements and taking a stand for a historical past and literary tradition that at the time seemed doomed to oblivion."

Author : United States. Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Environmental engineering
ISBN : MINN:31951D00813478X

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Stockholm and Beyond by United States. Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment Pdf

And recommendations -- Human settlements: planning and management of human settlements for environmental quality -- Resource management: environmental aspects of natural resource management -- Pollutants: identification and control of pollutants and nuisances of broad international significance -- Education: Educational, informational, social, and cultural aspects of environmental problems -- Development: development and the environment -- Institutional arrangements: institutional arrangements and the declaration on the human environment -- Appendix-List of witnesses.

Author : Gianluca Tornese,Annalisa Deodati,Lukas Plachy
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9782832547427

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Short Stature: Beyond Growth Hormone by Gianluca Tornese,Annalisa Deodati,Lukas Plachy Pdf

Short stature refers to a height less than two standard deviations below the mean for a given age and gender. The effective investigation of short stature pathology in children combines clinical assessment, to view symptoms and bodily dysfunctions; endocrine assessment, to determine hormone levels and sensitivity; and increasingly advanced genetic analysis. Many children of short stature do not have an identified underlying pathology, thus assigned as having idiopathic short stature (ISS). Consequently, the ISS population can be subdivided into those with ‘normal variants’ of growth, termed familial short stature (FSS) and non-familial short stature (NFSS), including constitutional delay of growth and puberty (CDGP). These categories can then separate from that of children with ISS who show a different etiology.

Author : Simon Surguladze,Anthony J. Montgomery,Eka D. Chkonia,Antigonos Sochos
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9782832519264

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Burnout in the Health, Social Care and Beyond: Integrating Individuals and Systems by Simon Surguladze,Anthony J. Montgomery,Eka D. Chkonia,Antigonos Sochos Pdf

Author : Ryan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0980435269

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Stockholm and Beyond by Ryan Pdf

Author : Rick Steves
Publisher : Rick Steves
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781641714297

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Rick Steves Snapshot Stockholm by Rick Steves Pdf

With Rick Steves, Stockholm is yours to discover! This slim guide excerpted from Rick Steves Scandinavia includes: Rick's firsthand, up-to-date advice on Stockholm's best sights, restaurants, hotels, and more, plus tips to beat the crowds, skip the lines, and avoid tourist traps Top sights and local experiences: Explore charming Old Town, atmospheric Gamla Stan, and trendy Södermalm. Sample authentic Swedish meatballs, visit the Skansen open-air folk museum, treat yourself to a Swedish massage, and take a cruise through the stunning archipelago Helpful maps and self-guided walking tours to keep you on track With selective coverage and Rick's trusted insight into the best things to do and see, Rick Steves Snapshot Stockholm is truly a tour guide in your pocket. Exploring beyond Stockholm? Pick up Rick Steves Scandinavia for comprehensive coverage, detailed itineraries, and essential planning information.