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The Girl in the Eagle's Talons

A Lisbeth Salander Novel

By: Karin Smirnoff

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The Girl in the Eagle's Talons

A Lisbeth Salander Novel

By: Karin Smirnoff

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Lisbeth Salander returns, in a trailblazing new installment to the bestselling Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series • Also known as the Millennium series “Lisbeth Salander is back—and maybe better than ever. Karin Smirnoff’s take is both respectful of the past and ready for the future—altogether remarkable.” —Lee Child, author of No Plan B Change is coming to Sweden’s far north: its untapped natural resources are sparking a gold rush with the criminal underworld leading the charge. But it’s not the prospect of riches that brings Lisbeth Salander to the small town of Gasskas. She has been named guardian to her niece Svala, whose mother has disappeared. Two things soon become clear: Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager—and she’s being watched. Mikael Blomkvist is also heading north. He has seen better days. Millennium magazine is in its final print issue, and relations with his daughter are strained. Worse still, there are troubling rumors surrounding the man she’s about to marry. When the truth behind the whispers explodes into violence, Salander emerges as Blomkvist’s last hope. A pulse-pounding thriller, The Girl in the Eagle’s Talons sees Salander and Blomkvist navigating a world of conspiracy and betrayal, old enemies and new friends, ice-bound wilderness and the global corporations that threaten to tear it apart.

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073524667X

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My European Family

The First 54,000 Years

By: Karin Bojs

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My European Family

The First 54,000 Years

By: Karin Bojs

Karin Bojs grew up in a small, broken family. At her mother's funeral she felt this more keenly than ever. As a science journalist she was eager to learn more about herself, her family and the interconnectedness of society. After all, we're all related. And in a sense, we are all family. My European Family tells the story of Europe and its people through its genetic legacy, from the first wave of immigration to the present day, weaving in the latest archaeological findings. Karin goes deep in search of her genealogy; by having her DNA sequenced she was able to trace the path of her ancestors back through the Viking and Bronze ages to the Neolithic and beyond into prehistory, even back to a time when Neanderthals ran the European show. Travelling to dozens of countries to follow the story, she learns about early farmers in the Middle East and flute-playing cavemen in Germany and France, and a whole host of other fascinating characters. This book looks at genetics from a uniquely pan-European perspective, with the author meeting dozens of geneticists, historians and archaeologists in the course of her research. The genes of this seemingly ordinary modern European woman have a truly fascinating story to tell, and in many ways it is the true story of Europe. At a time when politics is pushing nations apart, this book shows that, ultimately, our genes will always bind us together.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472941497

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The pain profile in fibromyalgia

Painomic studies of pain characteristics and proteins in blood

By: Karin Wåhlén

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The pain profile in fibromyalgia

Painomic studies of pain characteristics and proteins in blood

By: Karin Wåhlén

Chronic widespread pain (CWP), including fibromyalgia (FM), is a complex pain condition, where little is known about the molecular mechanisms contributing to its pathophysiology. To date, there are no established biomarkers for CWP/FM. This thesis has investigated potential molecular mechanisms and biomarkers in blood for chronic pain in women with CWP/FM. Furthermore, investigations are made to evaluate whether common pain characteristics such as pain intensity, sensitivity, and psychological distress in CWP/FM are correlated with specific proteins in blood. The pain profile of CWP/FM, which includes the plasma proteome and clinical characteristics, is analyzed using proteomics, advanced multivariate statistics, and bioinformatics. The results from paper I, III, and IV indicate that there are prominent systemic changes related to immunity, inflammation, and metabolic processes in women with CWP/FM compared to healthy controls. Furthermore, paper II and III show that in CWP/FM, pain intensity is related to protein profiles involved in immunity processes, psychological distress with metabolic and immunity processes, and pain sensitivity with inflammatory processes. In paper IV, the plasma proteome is investigated before and after a 15 weeks resistance exercise intervention in FM and healthy controls. Both at baseline and post exercise in FM and controls, prominent protein alterations are found that are involved in immunity, stress, mRNA stability, and muscle structure development. Exercise seems to influence clinical characteristics and circulating proteins in FM. Furthermore, specific plasma proteome profile is found related to grade of chronification, pain sensitivity, and improved muscle force of the quadriceps muscle. To summarize, the results from this thesis suggest that in CWP/FM there might be a dysregulation in the biological processes involved in the immune system and metabolic processes, which are tightly linked to several proteins in the complement system and blood coagulation cascade. These results shed light on potential ongoing mechanisms involved in the pathophysiology of the complex pain condition CWP/FM. This type of biomarker research has a large potential in increasing knowledge about mechanisms involved in CWP/FM and can hereby open for better clinical understanding and management of this and other chronic pain states. The clinical value of collecting a blood sample and measuring stable pain mechanism markers in combination with evaluation of anamnesis and clinical examination would in the future help clinicians and patients receive a faster and more precise diagnosis and ultimately better treatment strategies. Långvarig smärta har blivit vanligare bland befolkningen och är idag ett stort hälsoproblem. Ca 1 av 10 drabbas av generaliserad smärta (engelska: chronic widespread pain, CWP) dvs smärta spridd över hela kroppen. Fibromyalgi (FM), som ingår i CWP drabbar ca 1-4% av befolkningen och är vanligare bland kvinnor än män. Det är vanligt att personer med CWP/FM utöver sin spridda smärta även upplever trötthet, sömnsvårigheter, depression, ångest, ökad smärtkänslighet och stelhet av muskler och leder. Symtomen har i sin tur stor påverkan på arbetsförmåga, hälsa och livskvalitet. Idag är dem bakomliggande orsakerna för CWP/FM ofullständigt kartlagda och det finns inga markörer som på ett objektivt sätt kan fastställa diagnos. Syftet med denna avhandling är att undersöka hur proteiner i blod skiljer sig åt mellan kvinnor med CWP/FM och friska kvinnliga kontroller. Vidare har syftet varit att undersöka om kliniska variabler, till exempel smärtintensitet, smärtkänslighet och psykologisk belastning (ångest/depression), har ett samband med proteinmönster i blod. Slutligen har effekten av ett 15 veckors träningsprogram och dess påverkan på proteiner i blod samt kliniska variabler hos kvinnor med FM och friska kontroller analyserats. I studie I, III, och IV studerades proteinmönstret i blod mellan CWP/FM och kontroller. Resultatet visade att flertalet proteiner kunde urskilja CWP/FM gruppen från kontrollerna. Dessa proteiner var involverade i flertalet förlopp i kroppen bland annat inflammation, metabolism och immunförsvar. I studie II och III undersöktes om det funna proteinmönstret i blod hade något samband med smärtintensitet, smärtkänslighet och psykologisk belastning hos denna specifika CWP/FM grupp. Resultatet visade att det fanns ett specifikt proteinmönster kopplat till respektive undersökt variabel. Smärtintensitet var relaterat till proteiner involverade i immunförsvar; smärtkänslighet var relaterat till proteiner inom inflammation; och psykologisk belastning var relaterat till proteiner inom metabolism och immunförsvar. I studie IV studerades proteinmönstret i blod före och efter 15 veckors styrketräning hos FM samt friska kontroller. Resultaten visade att det fanns förändringar i specifika proteiner involverade i flertalet förlopp i kroppen bland annat stress, processer för muskelstrukturutveckling samt immunförsvar. Vidare sågs även ett specifikt mönster av proteiner som kunde relateras till smärtans varaktighet (dvs hur länge man levt med smärta), smärtkänslighet samt förbättrad muskelstyrka i lårmuskeln. Styrketräning visade sig ha en positiv effekt på flera av de rapporterade symtomen hos FM gruppen och till viss del påverkades även proteinmönstret. Sammanfattningsvis har studierna i denna avhandling visat att i denna specifika CWP/FM grupp finns skillnader i proteinmönstret i blod jämfört med friska kontroller. Det funna proteinmönstret är främst involverat i olika förlopp inom blodkoagulation samt olika komponenter kopplade till immunförsvaret. Genom identifieringen av dessa specifika proteinmönster i blodet hos CWP/FM kan det bidra till ökad förståelse av bakomliggande sjukdomsmekanismer hos denna patientgrupp. Detta kan i framtiden bidra till underlättandet av diagnosticering, behandling, rehabilitering och slutligen skapa kliniska verktyg i form av smärtmarkörer vid utredning av olika långvariga smärttillstånd.

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Linköping University Electronic Press

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9179297838

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Discourses of Religion and Secularism in Religious Education Classrooms

By: Karin Kittelmann Flensner

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Discourses of Religion and Secularism in Religious Education Classrooms

By: Karin Kittelmann Flensner

This book answers the question on how students and teachers talk about religion when the mandatory and nonconfessional school subject of Religious Education is on the schedule in the “world’s most secular country” To do this, it analyses discourses of religion as they occur in the classroom practice. It is based on findings from participant observation of Religious Education lessons in several upper secondary schools in Sweden. The book discusses different aspects of the role and function of nonconfessional integrative Religious Education in an increasingly pluralistic, multireligious, yet also secularized society, at a general level. It looks at the religious landscape, different perspectives on school subjects, various models and the development of Religious Education, and discourses of religion of a secularist, spiritual and nationalistic nature. Religious Education is a school subject that manoeuvres in the midst of a field that on the one hand concerns crucial knowledge in a pluralistic society, and on the other hand deals with highly contested questions in a society characterized by diversity and secularity. In the mandatory, integrative and non-confessional school subject of Religious Education in Sweden, all students are taught together regardless of religious or secular affiliation. The subject deals with major world religions, important non-religious worldviews and ethics, from a non-confessional perspective. Thus, in the classroom, individuals who identify with diverse religious and non-religious worldviews, with a different understanding of what religion could be and what it might mean to be religious, are brought together. The book examines questions raised in this pluralistic context: What discourses of religion become hegemonic in the classroom? How do these discourses affect the possibility of reaching the aim of Religious Education which concerns understanding and respect for different ways of thinking and living in a society characterized by diversity?

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Springer

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3319609491

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Yoga for Women

Gain Strength and Flexibility, Ease PMS Symptoms, Relieve Stress, Stay Fit Through Pregnancy, Age Gracefully

By: Karin Björkegren

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Yoga for Women

Gain Strength and Flexibility, Ease PMS Symptoms, Relieve Stress, Stay Fit Through Pregnancy, Age Gracefully

By: Karin Björkegren

Give the gift of yoga to the special woman in your life wife, girlfriend, best friend, mother, or...

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Skyhorse Publishing Inc.

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1616082607

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Bruno Mathsson

By: Dag Widman,Bruno Mathsson,Karin Winter,Nina Stritzler-Levine,Åke E:son Lindman

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Bruno Mathsson

By: Dag Widman,Bruno Mathsson,Karin Winter,Nina Stritzler-Levine,Åke E:son Lindman

A complete survey of the life and work of master designer Bruno Mathsson, whose archetypal Modernist chair is admired worldwide The sensuously undulant lines of Bruno Mathsson's furniture designs made him one of the leading figures of Swedish modernism in the 1930s. Chairs that adapted to their occupant with graceful natural curves became his trademark and have been in continuous production for more than fifty years. In his less familiar architectural work, Mathsson (1907-1988) applied the same principles of innovative comfortable living. Throughout his work the connections between design and ergonomics, aesthetics and innovative materials, energy saving and environmental concerns resonate for designers today. This book surveys Mathsson's output as an architect and designer as well as his relationships with American architects and designers including Frank Lloyd-Wright, Charles and Ray Eames, and Hans Knoll. Extensive illustrations include unpublished photographs of his Mathsson's work in situ.

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Yale University Press

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0300121911

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9780300121919

Online teaching practices

Sociomaterial matters in higher education settings

By: Karin Bolldén

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Online teaching practices

Sociomaterial matters in higher education settings

By: Karin Bolldén

The aim of this study was to describe and analyse online teaching practices in the Swedish higher education context. The study had an online ethnographic approach and was based on empirical data on the teaching in two university courses. The study rested primarily on observational data but interviews and available documents also formed the basis for analysis. Empirical data were analysed with a perspective of practice theory – a perspective within a sociomaterial account. The results showed that online teaching was characterised by an embodied sociomaterial practice. The teacher’s body could be understood as both multiple and closely interwoven with technology. Furthermore, the teacher’s body was used in the teaching situation to reduce technological complexity but also, along with other forms of materiality, to prefigure what kind of teaching would take place. Teacher interventions in online environments could furthermore be understood as relational to both technology (that is the virtual material arrangement) and teachers’ doings and sayings (that is the teaching practice). Teacher interventions were aimed at making the arrangement intelligible for the students. The study showed that teacher interventions arranged both students and information and communication technology (ICT) in order to make them work as a teaching practice. The teaching practice that emerged was characterised as an interplay between virtual materiality and social practice, where asymmetricrelations between teachers and the ICT prevailed.

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Linköping University Electronic Press

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9175191237

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9789175191232

Inorganic Substances. 2015

By: Pierre Villars,Karin Cenzual,Roman Gladyshevskii

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Inorganic Substances. 2015

By: Pierre Villars,Karin Cenzual,Roman Gladyshevskii

Since the discovery of X-ray diffraction in 1913 over 100 000 different inorganic substances (also called compounds or phases) have been structurally characterized. The aim of this reference work is to provide the researcher with a comprehensive compilation of all up to now crystallographically identified inorganic substances in only one volume. All data have been processed and critically evaluated by the "Pauling File" editorial team using a unique software package. Each substance is represented in a single row containing information adapted to the number of chemical elements.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110311747

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9783110311747

Handbook

By: Pierre Villars,Karin Cenzual,Roman Gladyshevskii

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Handbook

By: Pierre Villars,Karin Cenzual,Roman Gladyshevskii

The aim of this reference work is to provide the researcher with a comprehensive compilation of all up to now crystallographically identified inorganic substances in only one volume. All data have been processed and critically evaluated by the "Pauling File" editorial team using a unique software package. Each substance is represented in a single row containing information adapted to the number of chemical elements.

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3110436558

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Missing

By: Karin Alvtegen

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Missing

By: Karin Alvtegen

Can murder and mercy go hand in hand? In The Grand Hotel, a homeless woman charms a businessman into paying for dinner and a room. When his dead body is discovered the following morning she becomes the prime suspect. When a second person is killed in similar circumstances, Sybilla, having left her comfortable middle-class upbringing for the anonymity of the streets, becomes the most wanted person in Sweden . . . Missing is a gripping, multi-faceted thriller; more than a murder-hunt, it is also something more profound : an individual's journey to self-awareness and hope.

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Canongate Books

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184767688X

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Jewish Interpretation of the Bible

Ancient and Contemporary

By: Karin Hedner Zetterholm

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Jewish Interpretation of the Bible

Ancient and Contemporary

By: Karin Hedner Zetterholm

Although Jewish tradition gives tremendous importance to the Hebrew Bible, from the beginning Jewish interpretation of those scriptures has been practiced with remarkable freedom. Karin Hedner Zetterholm offers a clear and concise introduction to the legal, theological, and historical presuppositions that shaped the dominant stream of rabbinic interpretation, including Mishnah, Talmud, and Midrashim, discussing specific examples of different interpretive methods. She then explores the contours of Jewish biblical interpretation evident in the New Testament and the legacy of ancient traditions in the way different Jewish movements read the Bible today. Students of the history of biblical interpretation and of Judaism will find this an important and engaging resource.

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Fortress Press

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0800697987

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Death of a Carpet Dealer

By: Karin Wahlberg

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Death of a Carpet Dealer

By: Karin Wahlberg

The brutal murder of a Swedish carpet dealer on a business trip to Turkey is the start of a story about an unknown daughter, an exclusive carpet and—as always when Karin Wahlberg writes—the everyday life and dreams of the people we meet in her stories.

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Stockholm Text

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918717314X

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9789187173141

Consuming Media

Communication, Shopping and Everyday Life

By: Johan Fornäs,Karin Becker,Erling Bjurström,Hillevi Ganetz

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Consuming Media

Communication, Shopping and Everyday Life

By: Johan Fornäs,Karin Becker,Erling Bjurström,Hillevi Ganetz

Inspired by Walter Benjamin's classical Arcades Project, Consuming Media is a pioneering exploration of the interface between communication, shopping and everyday life. Based on a six-year study by over a dozen scholars on a specific site, it analyses the links between power, media and consumption in contemporary urban culture.Illustrated with rich ethnographic detail, Consuming Media scrutinises four main media circuits - print media, media images, sound and motion, and hardware machines - to assess how media texts and technologies are selected, purchased and used.Exploring the relations between different media, the nature of cultural citizenship and the power relations of public space, Consuming Media presents an ethnography of globalisation and develops a new approach to understanding media consumption.

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Routledge

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1000180719

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The Girl in the Eagle's Talons

The Girl in the Eagle's Talons

My European Family

My European Family

The pain profile in fibromyalgia

The pain profile in fibromyalgia

Discourses of Religion and Secularism in Religious Education Classrooms

Discourses of Religion and Secularism in Religious Education Classrooms

Yoga for Women

Yoga for Women

Bruno Mathsson

Bruno Mathsson

Online teaching practices

Online teaching practices

Inorganic Substances. 2015

Inorganic Substances. 2015

Handbook

Handbook

Missing

Missing

Jewish Interpretation of the Bible

Jewish Interpretation of the Bible

Death of a Carpet Dealer

Death of a Carpet Dealer

Consuming Media

Consuming Media

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