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Poker

The Parody of Capitalism

By: Ole Bjerg

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Poker is an extraordinary worldwide phenomenon with major social, cultural, and political implications, and Poker: The Parody of Capitalism investigates the game of poker as a cultural expression of significance not unlike art, literature, film, or music. Tracing the history of poker and comparing the evolution of the game to the development of capitalism, Ole Bjerg complicates prevalent notions of “casino capitalism” and correspondingly facile and simplistic comparisons of late capitalism and poker. By employing Slavoj Žižek’s threefold distinction between imaginary-symbolic-real as a philosophical framework to analyze poker and to understand the basic strategies of the game, Bjerg explores the structural characteristics of poker in relation to other games, making a clear distinction between poker and other gambling games of pure chance such as roulette and craps. With its combination of social theory and empirical research, Poker offers an engaging exploration of a cultural trend. "Poker is a theoretically sophisticated, highly original and innovative treatment of a contemporary social phenomenon, and contributes greatly to our understanding of the nature of contemporary capitalism." —Charles Livingstone, Monash University Australia

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University of Michigan Press

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0472027999

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The Boat of Longing

By: Ole Edvart Rølvaag

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The Boat of Longing

By: Ole Edvart Rølvaag

The story of Nils Vaag and his travels from a poor region of Norway to urban Minnesota in 1912.

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Minnesota Historical Society Press

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0873511840

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Coping with Distances

Producing Nordic Atlantic Societies

By: Jørgen Ole Bærenholdt

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Coping with Distances

Producing Nordic Atlantic Societies

By: Jørgen Ole Bærenholdt

The Nordic Atlantic area has seen remarkable examples of social formations in areas that many would perceive as too remote to allow the construction of functioning communities. But through innovations, networking and the formation of identities people have coped with distances, thus continuously rebuilding societies in Northern Norway, Iceland, the Faroes, and Greenland. Living conditions in the Nordic Atlantic are so extreme that one might ask whether the notion of society is applicable under these circumstances. The author argues that, yes, there is a meaningful way of comprehending these social formations, which is through the spatial and temporal practices that produce, reproduce, stabilize, destabilize and change them. He introduces the concept of coping, which means neither mastering nor adapting but relates to in-between strategies and tactics reflected in practices of securing people’s way of life under conditions that are never totally under their control.

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Berghahn Books

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Value Chains and Resilient Coastal Communities in the Nordic Atlantic

By: Hovgaard, Gestur,Bærenholdt, Jørgen Ole,Lebel, Julien,Bjørkan, Maiken,Kassahun Temesgen, Amsale,Eyþórsson, Grétar Þór,Þorgrímsdóttir, Sigríður K.,Bogadóttir, Ragnheiður,Gaini, Firouz,Nymand Larsen, Joan,Ingimundarson, Jón Haukur

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Value Chains and Resilient Coastal Communities in the Nordic Atlantic

Available online: https://pub.norden.org/temanord2022-555/ This report presents new and updated knowledge about Nordic coastal communities and their socio-economic situation. We investigate key structures and value chains in eight coastal communities in Greenland, Iceland, the Faroes, and Norway. The report highlights local variations in the interaction between value chains and local resilience and provides a comparative perspective. The report uncovers new trends and important development characteristics for Nordic coastal communities, with diversification, continued household-based activities and person-specific factors found to be key for success in business life and for resilience at the local level. Our results also call into question some of the challenges and conventional truths facing coastal community development in a period where solutions are being sought for sustainability and the climate challenge.

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Nordic Council of Ministers

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9289374373

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Handbook of Immunoblotting of Proteins

By: Ole J. Bjerrum,Niels H. H. Heegaard, M.D.

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Handbook of Immunoblotting of Proteins

By: Ole J. Bjerrum,Niels H. H. Heegaard, M.D.

This volume provides complete details of the various immunoblotting procedures. It serves as the researcher's companion in the laboratory, with detailed, step by step descriptions and ready-to-use recipes. All technical aspects and important experimental applications are thoroughly described. Volume II focuses on experimental and clinical applications, including: Monoclonal antibodies Mapping of epitopes Characterization of carbohydrate antigens Methods of native blotting and isolation of antibodies directly from blots Employing xeno-, allo-, and auto-antibodies

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CRC Press

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0849305500

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Towards a Philosophy of Critical Mathematics Education

By: Ole Skovsmose

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Towards a Philosophy of Critical Mathematics Education

By: Ole Skovsmose

In Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell gives a description of different forms of suppression. We learn about the telescreens placed everywhere, through which it is possible for Big-Brother to watch the inhabitants of Oceania. However, it is not only important to control the activities of the inhabitants, it is important as well to control their thoughts, and the Thought Police are on guard. This is a very direct form of monitoring and control, but Orwell also outlines a more imperceptible and calculated line of thought control. In the Appendix to Nineteen Eighty-Four Orwell explains some struc tures of 'Newspeak', which is going to become the official language of Oceania. Newspeak is being developed by the Ministry of Truth, and this language has to substitute 'Oldspeak' (similar to standard English). Newspeak should fit with the official politics of Oceania ruled by the Ingsoc party: "The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc, but to make all other modes of thought impos sible. It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought - that is, a thought diverging from the principles of Ingsoc - should be literally unthink able, at least as far as thought is dependent on words.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9401735565

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Translations of Security

A Framework for the Study of Unwanted Futures

By: Trine Villumsen Berling,Ulrik Pram Gad,Karen Lund Petersen,Ole Wæver

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Translations of Security

A Framework for the Study of Unwanted Futures

By: Trine Villumsen Berling,Ulrik Pram Gad,Karen Lund Petersen,Ole Wæver

This book scrutinizes how contemporary practices of security have come to rely on many different translations of security, risk, and danger. Institutions of national security policies are currently undergoing radical conceptual and organisational changes, and this book presents a novel approach for how to study and politically address the new situation. Complex and uncertain threat environments, such as terrorism, climate change, and the global financial crisis, have paved the way for new forms of security governance that have profoundly transformed the ways in which threats are handled today. Crucially, there is a decentralisation of the management of security, which is increasingly handled by a broad set of societal actors that previously were not considered powerful in the conduct of security affairs. This transformation of security knowledge and management changes the meaning of traditional concepts and practices, and calls for investigation into the many meanings of security implied when contemporary societies manage radical dangers, risks, and threats. It is necessary to study both what these meanings are and how they developed from the security practices of the past. Addressing this knowledge gap, the book asks how different ideas about threats, risk, and dangers meet in the current practices of security, broadly understood, and with what political consequences. This book will be of interest to students of critical security studies, anthropology, risk studies, science and technology studies and International Relations. The Open Access version of this book, available at: https://www.routledge.com/Translations-of-Security-A-Framework-for-the-Study-of-Unwanted-Futures/Berling-Gad-Petersen-Waever/p/book/9781032007090 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license

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1000452182

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Deconstructing Scandinavia's "Achievement Generation"

A Youth Mental Health Crisis?

By: Ole Jacob Madsen

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Deconstructing Scandinavia's "Achievement Generation"

A Youth Mental Health Crisis?

By: Ole Jacob Madsen

In this book, Professor Ole Jacob Madsen analyses the implications of Scandinavia's current concern for the mental health problems of adolescents, said to be struggling in the face of increasing demands for achievement and success. It critically examines our understanding of this so-called “achievement generation”, questioning whether today’s youth are really worse off than previous generations and how we have come to believe that this is so. The author’s wide-ranging investigation draws on a large body of research, as well as considering socio-political, historical and regional factors that might be affecting the resilience and mental health among young people. It also provides original psycholinguistic studies of popular media concepts associated with these issues including: “the achievement generation”, “pathological perfection” and “the good girl syndrome”. Deconstructing Scandinavia’s “Achievement Generation” presents an engaging contribution to key debates around therapeutic culture and society in the 21st century. It will appeal to students and scholars of critical and social psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy; as well as to those working in education, social work and mental health.

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3030725553

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Norway in the Second World War

Politics, Society and Conflict

By: Ole Kristian Grimnes

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Norway in the Second World War

Politics, Society and Conflict

By: Ole Kristian Grimnes

Covering political, military, economic and social history, Norway in the Second World War is the most authoritative book on the subject in the English language. This innovative study describes how the Germans conquered Norway in 1940 and the type of government that was then imposed. German organisations such as the Wehrmacht, the SS and the civilian Reichskommissariat are all presented, along with how they operated during the occupation. Ole Kristian Grimnes examines the Norwegian Nazi Party and the important role that it played during the period, as well as analysing how the Norwegian economy became integrated into the German war economy. The Norwegian resistance (including the Communists) and the Norwegian government-in-exile are explored in detail, while a separate chapter on the Holocaust in both Norwegian and international contexts is also included. As such, Norway in the Second World War is the definitive text on war and Nazi occupation in a nation that has been sorely neglected by the literature in the field until now.

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1350214620

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Mobility and Place

Enacting Northern European Peripheries

By: Jørgen Ole Bærenholdt,Brynhild Granås

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Mobility and Place

Enacting Northern European Peripheries

By: Jørgen Ole Bærenholdt,Brynhild Granås

The Northern peripheries of Europe, which are covered by this book, are associated with remoteness, the frontier, isolated communities, colonialism and resource extraction. Recently, huge projects in petroleum and hydropower have been located there, and the region has become better known as an attractive tourist destination. Although these spaces are perceived as being marginal, they are inhabited and linked into globalization and international agendas. This book examines how people live in such remote spaces in an emerging global world of connectivity, interdependency, mobility and non-linear dynamics. The various case studies examine a wide range of experiences, ranging from tourists and local settlers to those who migrate for labour in old or new industries, or to pursue the hybrid urban/rural life of the periphery. In this book, mobility and place come together. The analyses demonstrate how mobility and place mutually constitute each other and how specific relationships between the two aspects are crucial in the making of societies. The authors study attempts to reinvent places, together with connections and the opening of 'new scapes' in order to sustain businesses, municipalities and people's livelihood.

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1317095081

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Treatment Methods for Waste to be Landfilled

By: Ole Hjelmar

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Treatment Methods for Waste to be Landfilled

By: Ole Hjelmar

The legal framework establishes criteria for the acceptance of waste at landfills. That means that certain types of waste require specific treatment prior to landfilling in order to meet the waste acceptance criteria (WAC). This project presents a compilation and evaluation of existing information on treatment methods and technology for selected types of "problem waste" that does not comply with WAC. For some waste types the same treatment methods may be applied to improve their properties in relation to reuse. Three waste streams were selected: bottom ash and residues from air pollution control from municipal solid waste incinerator, and shredder residues. Residues from air pollution control and from shredder constitute real problems in relation to landfilling, while the problems for bottom ash are more related to reuse. A brief discussion on the properties and treatment options for ashes from the incineration of biofuels (wood chips or straw) is also included. The report describes the landfill WAC in each of the Nordic countries. Next, the waste properties that may have to be improved to comply with the acceptance criteria are discussed, and a general overview of available waste treatment principles is given. Finally the properties, the potential problems associated with compliance with the landfill WAC, and the treatment options are described for each of the three waste streams. The treatment methods are described and evaluated in terms of technical efficiency, limitations, economy and compliance with appropriate landfill WAC.

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Nordic Council of Ministers

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9289319453

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The Battle of Copenhagen 1801

Nelson and the Danes

By: Ole Feldbæk

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The Battle of Copenhagen 1801

Nelson and the Danes

By: Ole Feldbæk

Written by the leading Danish authority on the period, this splendid work brings to life Nelson's historic victory immortalised by his so famously turning a blind eye to his superior's order to halt operations. As well as describing the brilliance of the British tactics, the work fascinatingly reveals the desperate action and great bravery displayed by the Danish defenders who suffered appallingly in the fighting.

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Casemate Publishers

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0850528755

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The Politics of African Industrial Policy

A Comparative Perspective

By: Lindsay Whitfield,Ole Therkildsen,Lars Buur,Anne Mette Kjær

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The Politics of African Industrial Policy

A Comparative Perspective

By: Lindsay Whitfield,Ole Therkildsen,Lars Buur,Anne Mette Kjær

This book engages in the debate on growth versus economic transformation and the importance of industrial policy, presenting a comprehensive framework for explaining the politics of industrial policy. Using comparative research to theorize about the politics of industrial policy in countries in the early stages of capitalist transformation that also experience the pressures of elections due to democratization, this book provides four in-depth African country studies that illustrate the challenges to economic transformation and the politics of implementing industrial policies.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107105315

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Dinosaurs Or Dynamos?

The United Nations and the World Bank at the Turn of the Century

By: Helge Ole Bergesen,Leiv Lunde

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Dinosaurs Or Dynamos?

The United Nations and the World Bank at the Turn of the Century

By: Helge Ole Bergesen,Leiv Lunde

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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185383632X

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Multimodal Usability

By: Niels Ole Bernsen,Laila Dybkjær

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Multimodal Usability

By: Niels Ole Bernsen,Laila Dybkjær

This preface tells the story of how Multimodal Usability responds to a special challenge. Chapter 1 describes the goals and structure of this book. The idea of describing how to make multimodal computer systems usable arose in the European Network of Excellence SIMILAR – “Taskforce for cre- ing human-machine interfaces SIMILAR to human-human communication”, 2003– 2007, www. similar. cc. SIMILAR brought together people from multimodal signal processing and usability with the aim of creating enabling technologies for new kinds of multimodal systems and demonstrating results in research prototypes. Most of our colleagues in the network were, in fact, busy extracting features and guring out how to demonstrate progress in working interactive systems, while claiming not to have too much of a notion of usability in system development and evaluation. It was proposed that the authors support the usability of the many multimodal pro- types underway by researching and presenting a methodology for building usable multimodal systems. We accepted the challenge, rst and foremost, no doubt, because the formidable team spirit in SIMILAR could make people accept outrageous things. Second, h- ing worked for nearly two decades on making multimodal systems usable, we were curious – curious at the opportunity to try to understand what happens to traditional usability work, that is, work in human–computer interaction centred around tra- tional graphical user interfaces (GUIs), when systems become as multimodal and as advanced in other ways as those we build in research today.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1848825536

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In Doubt

- about Language, Mathematics, Knowledge and Life-Worlds

By: Ole Skovsmose

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In Doubt

- about Language, Mathematics, Knowledge and Life-Worlds

By: Ole Skovsmose

Virtual worlds and other virtual environments offer an adaptable context for applied and situated learning experiences. In this book, educators, instructional designers, librarians, administrators and scholars reflect on how to leverage constructivist, authentic, collaborative and complex interactive educational experiences through the use of these multisensory environments.

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BRILL

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9460910289

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Regions and Powers

The Structure of International Security

By: Barry Buzan,Ole Wæver

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Regions and Powers

The Structure of International Security

By: Barry Buzan,Ole Wæver

This book develops the idea that since decolonisation, regional patterns of security have become more prominent in international politics. The authors combine an operational theory of regional security with an empirical application across the whole of the international system. Individual chapters cover Africa, the Balkans, CIS Europe, East Asia, EU Europe, the Middle East, North America, South America, and South Asia. The main focus is on the post-Cold War period, but the history of each regional security complex is traced back to its beginnings. By relating the regional dynamics of security to current debates about the global power structure, the authors unfold a distinctive interpretation of post-Cold War international security, avoiding both the extreme oversimplifications of the unipolar view, and the extreme deterritorialisations of many globalist visions of a new world disorder. Their framework brings out the radical diversity of security dynamics in different parts of the world.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521891116

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Economic Institutions and Democratic Reform

A Comparative Analysis of Post-communist Countries

By: Ole Nørgaard

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Economic Institutions and Democratic Reform

A Comparative Analysis of Post-communist Countries

By: Ole Nørgaard

This book will be essential and challenging reading for political scientists and economists as well as policymakers in NGOs. such as aid agencies and the institutions of the EU."--BOOK JACKET.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1782541497

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Positron Annihilation in Chemistry

By: Ole E. Mogensen

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Positron Annihilation in Chemistry

By: Ole E. Mogensen

The only critical discussion available on the chemistry of the two "strange" light particles, the positron and positronium, with much space devoted to the excess electron. Positron annihilation allows the investigation of many unusual phenomena in the reaction kinetics of the positron, positronium, and excess electron, and in radiation chemistry and physics, while also providing important information on defects in solids.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642851231

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Governing the Global Polity

Practice, Mentality, Rationality

By: Iver B. Neumann,Ole Jacob Sending

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Governing the Global Polity

Practice, Mentality, Rationality

By: Iver B. Neumann,Ole Jacob Sending

Governmentality offers an explanation for the 21st century global web of power relations

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University of Michigan Press

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0472050931

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Participatory Design

By: Susanne Bødker,Christian Dindler,Ole Sejer Iversen

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Participatory Design

By: Susanne Bødker,Christian Dindler,Ole Sejer Iversen

This book introduces Participatory Design to researchers and students in Human–Computer Interaction (HCI). Grounded in four strong commitments, the book discusses why and how Participatory Design is important today. The book aims to provide readers with a practical resource, introducing them to the central practices of Participatory Design research as well as to key references. This is done from the perspective of Scandinavian Participatory Design. The book is meant for students, researchers, and practitioners who are interested in Participatory Design for research studies, assignments in HCI classes, or as part of an industry project. It is structured around 11 questions arranged in 3 main parts that provide the knowledge needed to get started with practicing Participatory Design. Each chapter responds to a question about defining, conducting, or the results of carrying out Participatory Design. The authors share their extensive experience of Participatory Design processes and thinking by combining historical accounts, cases, how-to process descriptions, and reading lists to guide further readings so as to grasp the many nuances of Participatory Design as it is practiced across sectors, countries, and industries.

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Springer Nature

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3031022351

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Topology Optimization

Theory, Methods, and Applications

By: Martin Philip Bendsoe,Ole Sigmund

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Topology Optimization

Theory, Methods, and Applications

By: Martin Philip Bendsoe,Ole Sigmund

The topology optimization method solves the basic enginee- ring problem of distributing a limited amount of material in a design space. The first edition of this book has become the standard text on optimal design which is concerned with the optimization of structural topology, shape and material. This edition, has been substantially revised and updated to reflect progress made in modelling and computational procedures. It also encompasses a comprehensive and unified description of the state-of-the-art of the so-called material distribution method, based on the use of mathematical programming and finite elements. Applications treated include not only structures but also materials and MEMS.

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3662050862

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Classica et Mediaevalia vol.49

By: Ole Thomsen

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Classica et Mediaevalia vol.49

By: Ole Thomsen

Classica et Mediaevalia - Volume 49

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Museum Tusculanum Press

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8772895357

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Security

A New Framework for Analysis

By: Barry Buzan,Ole Wæver,Jaap de Wilde

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Security

A New Framework for Analysis

By: Barry Buzan,Ole Wæver,Jaap de Wilde

Sets out a comprehensive framework of analysis for security studies, examining the distinctive character and dynamics of security in five sectors: military, political, economic, environmental, and societal. It rejects traditionalists' case for restricting security in one sector, arguing that security is a particular type of politics applicable to a wide range of issues, and offers a constructivist operational method for distinguishing the process of securitization from that of politicization. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Lynne Rienner Publishers

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1555877842

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Computer Studies of Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena

By: Ole G. University of Southern Denmark

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Computer Studies of Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena

By: Ole G. University of Southern Denmark

This book is based on research carried out by the author in close collabora tion with a number of colleagues. In particular, I wish to thank Per Bak, A. John Berlinsky, Hans C. Fogedby, Barry Frank, S. 1. Knak Jensen, David Mukamel, David Pink, and Martin Zuckermann for fruitful and extremely stimulating cooperation. It is a pleasure for me to note that active interaction with most of these colleagues is still continuing. The work has been performed at several different institutions, notably the Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Denmark, and the Depart ment of Physics, University of British Columb~a, Canada. I wish to thank the Department of Chemistry at Aarhus University for providing me with splen did research facilities over the years. From May 1980 to August 1981, I visited the Department of Physics at the University of British Columbia and I would like to express my sincere gratitude to members ofthe department for provi ding me with excellent working conditions. My special thanks are due to Professor Myer Bloom who introduced me to the field of phase transitions in biological membranes and in whose biomembrane group I found an extre mely stimulating scientific atmosphere happily married with a most agreeable social climate. During the last two years when a major part ofthis work was carried out, I was supported by AlS De Danske Spritfabrikker through their Jubilreumsle gat of 1981. Their support is gratefully acknowledged.

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3642697097

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The Complete History of the Black Death

By: Ole Jørgen Benedictow

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The Complete History of the Black Death

By: Ole Jørgen Benedictow

Completely revised and updated for this new edition, Benedictow's acclaimed study remains the definitive account of the Black Death and its impact on history. The first edition of The Black Death collected and analysed the many local studies on the disease published in a variety of languages and examined a range of scholarly papers. The medical and epidemiological characteristics of the disease, its geographical origin, its spread across Asia Minor, the Middle East, North Africa and Europe, and the mortality in the countries and regions for which there are satisfactory studies, are clearly presented and thoroughly discussed. The pattern, pace and seasonality of spread revealed through close scrutiny of these studies exactly reflect current medical work and standard studies on the epidemiology of bubonic plague. Benedictow's findings made it clear that the true mortality rate was far higher than had been previously thought. In the light of those findings, the discussion in the last part of the book showing the Black Death as a turning point in history takes on a new significance. OLE J. BENEDICTOW is Professor of History at the University of Oslo.

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1783275162

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Cognition and the Built Environment

By: Ole Möystad

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Cognition and the Built Environment

By: Ole Möystad

Cognition and the Built Environment argues that interacting with our built environment, as users and as architects, is a cognitive process. It claims that architecture, in its form and meaning, is a basic, embodied level of human cognition. The assumption is that we and our built environment together form an intelligent system, a cognitive feedback loop between us and the world of which we are part. With this as a vantage point, the book discusses the meaning and intelligence of concrete architectural environments as well as the agency of the architect, of his client and of the user. The inquiry oscillates between abstract thought, topological models and cognitive semiotics, between pragmatist philosophy and the professional practice of planning cities, developing projects and using objects. Architecture serves more complex purposes than our caves, paths and landmarks did. Written for students and academics of urban design, urban planning and architectural theory, Cognition and the Built Environment argues that human cognition feeds on the interaction between thought, agency and built environment, and that architecture is the spatial form of this interaction.

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1317282841

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American Leadership in World Affairs

Vietnam and the Breakdown of Consensus

By: Ole R. Holsti,James N. Rosenau

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American Leadership in World Affairs

Vietnam and the Breakdown of Consensus

By: Ole R. Holsti,James N. Rosenau

This book, first published in 1984, provides a wealth of original evidence that explores not only the impact of the Vietnam War on the beliefs of American leaders – the ‘lessons’ they believed had been learnt by Americans from the conflict in Vietnam.

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1000504581

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9781000504583

Travelling Through Education

Uncertainty, Mathematics, Responsibility

By: Ole Skovsmose

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Travelling Through Education

Uncertainty, Mathematics, Responsibility

By: Ole Skovsmose

This is a personal notebook from a conceptual travel. But, in a different sense, it also represents a report on travelling. The main part of the manuscript was written in Brazil, Denmark and England, whilst notes have also been inspired by visits to other countries. So, the book not only represents conceptual travel, it also reflects seasons of real travelling.

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BRILL

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9087903626

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9789087903626

The Reception of Paul the Apostle in the Works of Slavoj Žižek

By: Ole Jakob Løland

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The Reception of Paul the Apostle in the Works of Slavoj Žižek

By: Ole Jakob Løland

This is the first book devoted entirely to exploring Žižek's peculiar kind of Paulinism. It seeks to provide a full map of the Marxist philosopher’s interpretations of Paul and critically engage with it. As one of several radical leftists of European critical thought, Žižek embraces the legacy of an ancient apostle in fascinating ways. This work considers Žižek's philosophical and political readings of Paul through the lens of reception history, and argues that through this recent philosophical turn to Paul, notions of the historical and philosophical are reproduced and negotiated anew.

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Springer

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3319917285

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9783319917283

The Therapeutic Turn

How psychology altered Western culture

By: Ole Jacob Madsen

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The Therapeutic Turn

How psychology altered Western culture

By: Ole Jacob Madsen

In what ways has psychology become more influential in Western society? In this book author Ole Jacob Madsen considers the notion of a ‘Therapeutic Turn’ in Western culture – the tendency for psychology to permeate ever new spheres within society. The Therapeutic Turn evaluates the increasing prevalence of psychology in several areas of Western society: Western consumer culture, contemporary Christianity, self-help, sport and politics. Madsen proposes that there are problematic aspects to this development which are seldom recognised due to a widely held assumption that ‘the more psychology, the better for everyone’. A recurring concern with psychological solutions is that they often provide individual solutions to structural problems. As a result, psychologists may be inadvertently increasing the burden on the shoulders of the people they are meant to help and, at the same time, our capacity to understand individual suffering in the light of major historical and political changes in society is becoming increasingly clouded. The Therapeutic Turn presents an accessible and engaging critique of the influence of psychology within Western society. It will appeal to a broad audience of students, academics and lay readers interested in this aspect of modernity and contemporary society, and it will also be of great interest to practitioners and therapists.

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1317699904

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9781317699903

The Black Death and Later Plague Epidemics in the Scandinavian Countries:

Perspectives and Controversies

By: Ole Jørgen Benedictow

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The Black Death and Later Plague Epidemics in the Scandinavian Countries:

Perspectives and Controversies

By: Ole Jørgen Benedictow

This monograph represents an expansion and deepening of previous works by Ole J. Benedictow - the author of highly esteemed monographs and articles on the history of plague epidemics and historical demography. In the form of a collection of articles, the author presents an in-depth monographic study on the history of plague epidemics in Scandinavian countries and on controversies of the microbiological and epidemiological fundamentals of plague epidemics.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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8376560476

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9788376560472

Doing Things with Things

The Design and Use of Everyday Objects

By: Ole Dreier

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Doing Things with Things

The Design and Use of Everyday Objects

By: Ole Dreier

It has been claimed that the natural sciences have abstracted for themselves a 'material world' set apart from human concerns, and social sciences, in their turn, constructed 'a world of actors devoid of things'. While a subject such as archaeology, by its very nature, takes objects into account, other disciplines, such as psychology, emphasize internal mental structures and other non-material issues. This book brings together a team of contributors from across the social sciences who have been taking 'things' more seriously to examine how people relate to objects. The contributors focus on every day objects and how these objects enter into our activities over the course of time. Using a combination of different theoretical approaches, including actor network theory, ecological psychology, cognitive linguistics and science and technology studies, the book argues against the standard notion of objects and their properties as inert and meaningless and argues for the need to understand the relations between people and objects in terms of process and change.

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1317148576

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9781317148579

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