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What My Body Remembers

By: Agnete Friis

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Twisty and brimming with the emotional power of beautifully drawn characters, the solo debut by the coauthor of The Boy in the Suitcase is a brooding and atmospheric thriller that sets a young mother on a collision course with her past in order to save her son's future. Ella Nygaard, 27, has been a ward of the state since she was seven years old, the night her father murdered her mother. She doesn’t remember anything about that night or her childhood before it—but her body remembers. The PTSD-induced panic attacks she now suffers incapacitate her for hours at a time, sometimes days. After one particularly bad episode lands Ella in a psych ward, she discovers her son, Alex, has been taken from her by the state and placed with a foster family. Desperate not to lose her son, Ella kidnaps Alex and flees to the seaside town in northern Denmark where she was born. Her grandmother’s abandoned house is in grave disrepair, but she can live there for free until she can figure out how to convince social services that despite everything, she is the best parent for her child. But being back in the small town forces Ella to confront the demons of her childhood—the monsters her memory has tried so hard to obscure. What really happened that night her mother died? Was her grandmother right—was Ella’s father unjustly convicted? What other secrets were her parents hiding from each other? If Ella can start to remember, maybe her scars will begin to heal—or maybe the truth will put her in even greater danger.

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Soho Press

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1616956038

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9781616956035

Policy instrument evaluation

A tool for increasing efficiency in environmental policy

By: Bahr, Emelie Von,Mørkrid, Geir Vasseljen,Sipiläinen, Kristian,Madsen, Peter G,Friis-Jensen, Sandra

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Policy instrument evaluation

A tool for increasing efficiency in environmental policy

By: Bahr, Emelie Von,Mørkrid, Geir Vasseljen,Sipiläinen, Kristian,Madsen, Peter G,Friis-Jensen, Sandra

What role do evaluations for environmental policies have in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden? And could evaluations be better implemented in order to create and uphold effective and efficient environmental policies? These are the two questions this study aims at answering. The study focuses on three main areas in regard to ex-ante and ex-post evaluations for environmental policies: Organisation, guidelines and specific evaluations. As a result of the analysis, a number of lessons learnt for the three investigated areas are found and a set of recommendations on how to improve the evaluation of environmental policies in the Nordic countries in the future are provided.

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Nordic Council of Ministers

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9289359358

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9789289359351

Plants and vegetation of NW Ethiopia

A new look at Rodolfo E.G. Pichi Sermolli’s results from the ‘Missione di Studio al Lago Tana’, 1937

By: Ib Friis,Sebsebe Demissew,Odile Weber,Paulo van Breugel

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Plants and vegetation of NW Ethiopia

A new look at Rodolfo E.G. Pichi Sermolli’s results from the ‘Missione di Studio al Lago Tana’, 1937

By: Ib Friis,Sebsebe Demissew,Odile Weber,Paulo van Breugel

Pichi Sermolli’s work with his more than 2750 collections of plants from nearly 150 localities on the Lake Tana expedition in Ethiopia in 1937 was interrupted by World War II, but completed in 1947 at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and the British Museum (Natural History), UK. It resulted in preliminary accounts of the vegetation published 1938-40 and a taxonomically arranged account in 1951, all in Italian. Pichi Sermolli’s observations are difficult to locate due to the imperfect maps of the time, but in this book the authors have reconstructed the sequence of the collections, georeferenced the localities, and updated the identifications of the species. By reconstructing Pichi Sermolli’s observations, it is possible to draw conclusions about the vegetation and compare with a recent model of the vegetation of Ethiopia. According to this, the vegetation of the Lake Tana Basin was a complex mosaic of woodland, scrub, forest, farmland and lake shore vegetation now difficult to interpret in detail. Pichi Sermolli’s study of the vegetation in the Semien Mountains demonstrated for the first time the zonation of Ericaceous woodland and Afroalpine vegetation, within which he distinguished Carex monostachya bogs, Afroalpine grasslands with Lobelia rhynchopetalum, and stony and rocky Afroalpine vegetation. This book interprets Pichi Sermolli’s observations in English and compares them with modern knowledge of the region, partly obtained by the present authors’ own field work. It demonstrates how Pichi Sermolli’s studies form a valuable contribution to the understanding of the Ethiopian flora and vegetation.

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Firenze University Press

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8855186337

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9788855186339

José Emilio Pacheco and the Poets of the Shadows

By: Ronald J. Friis

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José Emilio Pacheco and the Poets of the Shadows

By: Ronald J. Friis

Jose Emilio Pacheco (1939- ) is Mexico's foremost living poet, and a major figure in contemporary Latin American poetry. Jose Emilio Pacheco and the Poets of the Shadows examines the dynamic of literary influence and the question of literary origins in Pacheco's first six books of poetry (1960s to mid-1980s). Ronald J. Friis appropriates Bloom's theory of poetic influence to investigate how Pacheco deploys literary allusions and intertextual references as a means of decentering the traditional centrality of the figure of the author. The poets of the shadows to which the title refers include Pacheco's precursors from prior generations of Mexican and Latin American literature, particularly Jorge Luis Borges, Alfonso Reyes, and Octavio Paz."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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Bucknell University Press

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0838754929

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9780838754924

Invisible Murder

By: Lene Kaaberbol,Agnete Friis

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Invisible Murder

By: Lene Kaaberbol,Agnete Friis

The second installment in the bestselling Danish crime series starring Red Cross nurse Nina Borg, following Fall 2011's New York Times–bestselling The Boy in the Suitcase In the ruins of an abandoned Soviet military hospital in northern Hungary, two impoverished Roma boys are scavenging for old supplies or weapons to sell on the black market when they stumble upon something more valuable than they ever could have anticipated. The resulting chain of events threatens to blow the lives of a frightening number of people. Meanwhile, in Denmark, Red Cross nurse Nina Borg puts her life and family on the line when she tries to treat a group of Hungarian Gypsies who are living illegally in a Copenhagen garage. What are they hiding, and what is making them so sick? Nina is about to learn how high the stakes are among the desperate and the deadly.

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Soho Press

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1616951710

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9781616951719

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What My Body Remembers

What My Body Remembers

Policy instrument evaluation

Policy instrument evaluation

Plants and vegetation of NW Ethiopia

Plants and vegetation of NW Ethiopia

José Emilio Pacheco and the Poets of the Shadows

José Emilio Pacheco and the Poets of the Shadows

Invisible Murder

Invisible Murder

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