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Difficult Death

The Life and Work of Jens Peter Jacobsen

By: Morten Høi Jensen

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Difficult Death

The Life and Work of Jens Peter Jacobsen

By: Morten Høi Jensen

Beautifully written and incisive, this is the first English biography of a major Scandinavian author who is ripe for rediscovery While largely unknown today, Danish writer and Darwin translator Jens Peter Jacobsen was the leading prose writer in Scandinavia in the late nineteenth century and part of a generation that included Henrik Ibsen, Knut Hamsun, and August Strindberg. His novels Marie Grubbe and Niels Lyhne as well as his stories and poems were widely admired by writers such as Rainer Maria Rilke, Thomas Mann, and James Joyce. Despite his untimely death from tuberculosis at the age of thirty-eight, Jacobsen became a cult figure to an entire generation and continues to occupy an important place in Scandinavian cultural history. In this book, Morten Høi Jensen gives a moving account of Jacobsen’s life, work, and death: his passionate interest in the natural sciences, his complicated and nuanced attitude to his own atheism, and his painful descent toward an early death. Carefully researched and sympathetically imagined, this is an evocative portrait of one of the most influential and gifted writers of the nineteenth century.

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Yale University Press

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0300233639

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9780300233636

Courts and Power in Latin America and Africa

By: B. Wilson,S. Gloppen,R. Gargarella,Morten Kinander,E. Skaar

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Courts and Power in Latin America and Africa

By: B. Wilson,S. Gloppen,R. Gargarella,Morten Kinander,E. Skaar

Why do courts hold political power-holders accountable in some democratic and democratizing countries, but not in others? And, why do some courts remain very timid while others - under seemingly similar circumstances - become 'hyper-active'? This is valuable contribution to the ongoing debate over the issue of democratic accountability.

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239

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Springer

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113710029X

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9781137100290

The Ontological Turn

An Anthropological Exposition

By: Martin Holbraad,Morten Axel Pedersen

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The Ontological Turn

An Anthropological Exposition

By: Martin Holbraad,Morten Axel Pedersen

This book provides the first systematic presentation of anthropology's 'ontological turn', placing it in the landscape of contemporary social theory.

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355

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Cambridge University Press

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1107103886

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9781107103887

Forty-Nine Steps

Forty-Nine Steps in a Male Midlife Crisis

By: Morten Meldgaard

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Forty-Nine Steps

Forty-Nine Steps in a Male Midlife Crisis

By: Morten Meldgaard

This book testifies to one aspect of existence, namely the reality of a so-called “Inner life”. It is about creating, establishing, and evolving an inner life as a basis of hope. It is about nurturing and maintaining a healthy relationship with yourself and your spirit. A rich inner life is cardinal to the well-being of any human, and this book is about that. In the humdrum of everyday life; e-mails, iPad policies, mid-life crisis, menopause, budget-cuts, fake news, climate change, and what have you; this book is about hope. About building hope. Nurturing hope. Expressing hope. For what you might ask? That there might soon be a future, where we all realize that love is the highest expression of knowledge, truth, and progress. Our engine of survival.

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115

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Archway Publishing

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1480889555

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9781480889552

Biochemistry of Collagens, Laminins and Elastin

Structure, Function and Biomarkers

By: Morten Karsdal

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Biochemistry of Collagens, Laminins and Elastin

Structure, Function and Biomarkers

By: Morten Karsdal

Biochemistry of Collagens, Laminins, and Elastin: Structure, Function and Biomarkers, Third Edition provides current data on key structural proteins (collagens, laminins, and elastin), reviews on how these molecules affect pathologies, and information on how selected modifications of these proteins can result in altered signaling properties of the original extracellular matrix (ECM). Further, it discusses the novel concept that an increasing number of components of the extracellular matrix harbor cryptic signaling functions with ties to endocrine function, and how this knowledge may be used to modulate various pathologies, including fibrotic disease. This new edition has been expanded and revised to incorporate recent research advances. Several new chapters explore a range of chronic diseases in which the ECM and collagens, laminin and elastin are central players in disease modulation, including new chapters on lung, skin and intestinal disease, as well as cancers. The new edition also considers emerging analytical technologies that can detect biomarkers of ECM degradation, with discussion of protein quantification and detecting aging of collagens. - Provides an updated, comprehensive discussion of collagen and related structural proteins - Contains insights into biochemical interactions and changes to structural composition of proteins in disease states - Proves the importance of proteins for collagen assembly, function and durability - Examines details on how collagens play a key role in a range of chronic diseases - Offers approaches for protein quantification and detection of collagen aging

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586

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Elsevier

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0443156182

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9780443156182

Scandinavia and Bismarck

The Zenith of Scandinavianism

By: Morten Nordhagen Ottosen,Rasmus Glenthøj

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Scandinavia and Bismarck

The Zenith of Scandinavianism

By: Morten Nordhagen Ottosen,Rasmus Glenthøj

This book accounts for Scandinavian unification efforts in a time of great upheaval. The ideological repercussions of the European revolutions of 1848-1849 and the Crimean War (1853-1856) transformed both the international political system and nationalism into more realist types. The First Schleswig War (1848-1851) having nearly turned into one of Scandinavian unification, the influence of Scandinavianism extended into the Danish, Swedish and Norwegian courts, cabinets and parliaments, attracting interest from the great powers. The Crimean War offered another window of opportunity for Scandinavian unification, before the Danish-German conflict over the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein nearly united Scandinavia upon the outbreak of the Second Schleswig War in 1864. The ultimate failure of Scandinavianism in its unification efforts was not predetermined, although historiography has made it appear as such. Napoleon III, Cavour and Bismarck all actively contributed to plans for Scandinavian unification, the latter even declaring himself as very strongly Scandinavian. Rasmus Glenthj is Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern Denmark. Morten Nordhagen Ottosen is Professor of History at the Norwegian Defence University College.

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499

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Springer Nature

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3031465571

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9783031465574

Scandinavia After Napoleon

The Genesis of Scandinavianism

By: Morten Nordhagen Ottosen,Rasmus Glenthøj

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Scandinavia After Napoleon

The Genesis of Scandinavianism

By: Morten Nordhagen Ottosen,Rasmus Glenthøj

This is a stunning book about Scandinavianism, based on huge archival work, demonstrating that a unification nationalism was close to the success enjoyed by Italy and Germany. Another consideration deserves stark highlighting: this is the most exciting book in nationalism studies to have appeared for many years, offering a novel realist theory of nationalism that destroys many taken for granted assumptions, about the nineteenth century for surebut with implications quite as much for present circumstances as well. -John A. Hall, Professor emeritus, McGill This book explores the intellectual grounds of Scandinavianist ideology and its political development into a national unification movement. Denmark, Norway and Sweden were nearly annihilated during the Napoleonic Wars. The lesson learned was that survival was a matter of size. Whereas their union of 1814 offered Sweden-Norway geostrategic security tempered by fear of Russia, Denmark was the biggest territorial loser of the Napoleonic Wars and faced separatism connected to German nationalism in the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. This evolved into a national conflict that threatened Denmarks survival as a nation. Meanwhile, a new generation of Danes, Swedes and Norwegians had come to regard kindred language, culture and religion as a case for Scandinavian union that could offer protection against Russia and Germany. When the European revolutions of 1848 unleashed the First Schleswig War, the influence of Scandinavianism was such that it nearly turned into a Scandinavian war of unification. Rasmus Glenthj is Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern Denmark. Morten Nordhagen Ottosen is Professor of History at the Norwegian Defence University College.

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387

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Springer Nature

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303146561X

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9783031465611

Energy in the West Nordics and the Arctic: Case Studies

By: Rud, Jakob Nymann,Hørmann, Morten,Hammervold, Vibeke,Ásmundsson, Ragnar,Georgiev, Ivo,Dyer, Gillian,Andersen, Simon Brøndum,Jessen, Jes Erik,Kvorning, Pia,Brødsted, Meta Reimer

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Energy in the West Nordics and the Arctic: Case Studies

By: Rud, Jakob Nymann,Hørmann, Morten,Hammervold, Vibeke,Ásmundsson, Ragnar,Georgiev, Ivo,Dyer, Gillian,Andersen, Simon Brøndum,Jessen, Jes Erik,Kvorning, Pia,Brødsted, Meta Reimer

This project explores the energy systems and their development towards 2035 in the West Nordic areas and the Arctic. The objective of the project was to contribute to a knowledge base that can be shared and used in developing a sustainable and competitive energy systems that fulfil the goals and obligations for 2035 on climate, emissions and renewable shares. “Energy systems” in this case covers the potential for different renewable energy resources, infrastructure, the demand for energy in different sectors, and relevant policies. Along with the scenario analysis, five case studies have been developed: land transport; a small hybrid energy system in Igaliku, Greenland; electrification of fishing vessels; tourism; and the future energy system in Svalbard.

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Nordic Council of Ministers

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9289357045

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9789289357043

Collaborative Damage

An Experimental Ethnography of Chinese Globalization

By: Mikkel Bunkenborg,Morten Nielsen,Morten Axel Pedersen

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Collaborative Damage

An Experimental Ethnography of Chinese Globalization

By: Mikkel Bunkenborg,Morten Nielsen,Morten Axel Pedersen

Collaborative Damage is an experimental ethnography of Chinese globalization that compares data from two frontlines of China's global intervention—sub-Saharan Africa and Inner/Central Asia. Based on their fieldwork on Chinese infrastructure and resource-extraction projects in Mozambique and Mongolia, Mikkel Bunkenborg, Morten Nielsen, and Morten Axel Pedersen provide new empirical insights into neocolonialism and Sinophobia in the Global South. The core argument in Collaborative Damage is that the different participants studied in the globalization processes—local workers and cadres; Chinese managers and entrepreneurs; and the authors themselves, three Danish anthropologists—are intimately linked in paradoxical partnerships of mutual incomprehension. The authors call this "collaborative damage," which crucially refers not only to the misunderstandings and conflicts they observed in the field, but also to their own failure to agree about how to interpret the data. Via in-depth case studies and tragicomical tales of friendship, antagonism, irresolvable differences, and carefully maintained indifferences across disparate Sino-local worlds in Africa and Asia, Collaborative Damage tells a wide-ranging story of Chinese globalization in the twenty-first century.

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Cornell University Press

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1501759817

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9781501759819

The SAPRIN Report

An Assessment of the Empirical Analysis Supporting Main Conclusions

By: Espen Villanger,Siegfried Pausewang,Alf Morten Jerve,Chr. Michelsens institutt

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The SAPRIN Report

An Assessment of the Empirical Analysis Supporting Main Conclusions

By: Espen Villanger,Siegfried Pausewang,Alf Morten Jerve,Chr. Michelsens institutt

In 1996, the World Bank and a network of non-governmental organizations (SAPRIN) started cooperating on an evaluation of 15 years of structural adjustment programs (SAPs). The background of our paper is the criticism raised with respect to the scientific quality of the summary report produced by the SAPRIN network. We make two types of fairly simple "quality checks" of their conclusions. Firstly, are the findings and conclusions presented in the SAPRIN Report with respect to trends and changes in poverty indicators corroborated when we compare them with poverty indicators in the underlying country studies, standard reference literature and public statistics? We find a tendency to depict trends in poverty as being more severe than what generally is supported by available statistics. This may be attributed to the fact that participatory methods have generated the bulk of the empirical data collected in the SAPRI process. This is of course valid information, but its source and its representativity ought to have been better documented in the reports. Secondly, are the inferences about the causality and attributed effects of SAP plausible given other major factors that have impacted on the countries' economies in the period concerned? Neither the country studies nor alternative data sources support the conclusions in the SAPRIN Report that SAP caused increased poverty and unemployment in the countries concerned. Existing data for Ghana and Bangladesh indicate that poverty was reduced and social indicators improved during the period of study, despite a history of severe crisis both before and during the SAP. The major causes of the poor performance of Ecuador, especially in recent times, are probably related to the large external shocks. The scientific weaknesses of the SAPRIN Report notwithstanding, its contribution to the international development policy discourse must be assessed in a wider perspective. The work has given important information on how vulnerable groups.

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Difficult Death

Difficult Death

Courts and Power in Latin America and Africa

Courts and Power in Latin America and Africa

The Ontological Turn

The Ontological Turn

Forty-Nine Steps

Forty-Nine Steps

Biochemistry of Collagens, Laminins and Elastin

Biochemistry of Collagens, Laminins and Elastin

Scandinavia and Bismarck

Scandinavia and Bismarck

Scandinavia After Napoleon

Scandinavia After Napoleon

Energy in the West Nordics and the Arctic: Case Studies

Energy in the West Nordics and the Arctic: Case Studies

Collaborative Damage

Collaborative Damage

The SAPRIN Report

The SAPRIN Report

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