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Emotions and Migration in Argentina at the Turn of the 20th Century (Hardcover): Maria Bjerg Emotions and Migration in Argentina at the Turn of the 20th Century (Hardcover)
Maria Bjerg
R3,049 Discovery Miles 30 490 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Revealing the lives of migrant couples and transnational households, this book explores the dark side of the history of migration in Argentina during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Using court records, censuses, personal correspondence and a series of case studies, Maria Bjerg offers a portrayal of the emotional dynamics of transnational marital bonds and intimate relationships stretched across continents. Using microhistories and case studies, this book shows how migration affected marital bonds with loneliness, betrayal, fear and frustration. Focusing primarily on the emotional lives of Italian and Spanish migrants, this book explores bigamy, infidelity, adultery, domestic violence and murder within official and unofficial unions. It reveals the complexities of obligation, financial hardship, sacrifice and distance that came with migration, and explores how shame, jealousy, vengeance and disobedience led to the breaking of marital ties. Against a backdrop of changing cultural contexts Bjerg examines the emotional languages and practices used by adulterous women against their offended husbands, to justify domestic violence and as a defence against homicide. Demonstrating how migration was a powerful catalyst of change in emotional lives and in evolving social standards, Emotions and Migration in Early Twentieth-century Argentina reveals intimate and disordered lives at a time when female obedience and male honour were not only paramount, but exacerbated by distance and displacement.

The Meaning of Being a Man (Hardcover): Ole Bjerg The Meaning of Being a Man (Hardcover)
Ole Bjerg
R786 Discovery Miles 7 860 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Groundwater 2000 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Groundwater Research, Copenhagen, Denmark, 6-8 June 2000... Groundwater 2000 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Groundwater Research, Copenhagen, Denmark, 6-8 June 2000 (Hardcover)
Poul L. Bjerg, Peter Engesgaard, Thomas D. Krom
R8,770 Discovery Miles 87 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

These proceedings, with cd-rom, present a comprehensive overview of advances in groundwater research. The five main topics covered are: aquifers and contaminant distribution; groundwater quality; natural attenuation; remediation technologies and groundwater protection. Groundwater 2000 is a useful resource to both scientists and to those working in the field.

Rethinking Education in Light of Global Challenges - Scandinavian Perspectives on Culture, Society, and the Anthropocene: Karen... Rethinking Education in Light of Global Challenges - Scandinavian Perspectives on Culture, Society, and the Anthropocene
Karen Bjerg Petersen, Kerstin von Brömssen, Gro Hellesdatter Jacobsen, Jesper Garsdal, Michael Paulsen, …
R1,212 Discovery Miles 12 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Rethinking Education in Light of Global Challenges discusses challenges to education in Scandinavian welfare states due to global trends like migration, neoliberal strategies, and the exploitation of nature. This anthology comprises case studies, theoretical articles, and reflective studies, grouped under the headings of Culture, Society, and the Anthropocene. This book directly addresses three interrelated global events and their implications for education as seen from Scandinavian perspectives: migration flows, increased cultural diversity, and (post)nationalism; the erosion of the welfare state and the global rise of neoliberalism; and the Anthropocene and environmental challenges arising in the wake of the global exploitation of natural ecosystems. In case studies, theoretical articles, and reflective studies, researchers from Nordic countries explore how education, education policy, and educational thinking in these countries are affected by these global trends, bringing to the fore the different roles education can play in addressing the various issues and different ways of reimagining education. This authoritative volume will be of great interest to researchers, academics, and students in the fields of sociology of education, migration and education, environmental education, and educational politics.

Parallax of Growth - The Philosophy of Ecology and Economy (Paperback): Bjerg Parallax of Growth - The Philosophy of Ecology and Economy (Paperback)
Bjerg
R564 Discovery Miles 5 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Parallax of Growth explores the ideas of economy and ecology and the factors that have put them on a collision course. Bjerg argues that our current mode of economic organization is characterized by an inherent 'debt drive', whereby the creation of money through the issuance of commercial bank credit has locked our economy into a vicious circle of forced growth and increasing debt. Parallax of Growth is not a catalogue of solutions to the ecological or the economic crisis. The book aims to shift the inquiry from 'what shall we do?' to 'why have we not already done it?' In order to address the challenges of our contemporary times of crisis, we need to understand how the idea of growth is deeply ingrained in the ideology as well as the organization of our society. The book aims to open the space for philosophical thinking about this important issue.

The Nordic Constitutions - A Comparative and Contextual Study (Hardcover): Helle Krunke, Bjoerg Thorarensen The Nordic Constitutions - A Comparative and Contextual Study (Hardcover)
Helle Krunke, Bjoerg Thorarensen
R2,894 Discovery Miles 28 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book analyses the Nordic constitutional systems of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden in a comparative context. It has two main aims: first to fill a gap in the literature by providing an accessible English language account of the Nordic constitutions, and second to provide a comparative analysis of them, revealing their similarities and differences within their political, historical and cultural contexts. In this respect, the book challenges the assumption that the Nordic countries form a homogeneous constitutional system due to their cultural and historical affinities, a view not necessarily supported by a close comparative examination. A key issue is EU membership -where the Nordic countries have made different choices at different times - and the book will show how this has affected the individual countries and whether a divide between EU member states (Denmark, Finland and Sweden) and non-members (Iceland and Norway) has appeared. Another key issue is how the ECHR has impacted the Nordic constitutional systems and whether the convention draws the Nordic systems closer to each other. The book represents a first of its kind in the English language, and will provide constitutional scholars with a valuable comparative resource on the Nordic region.

Rethinking Education in Light of Global Challenges - Scandinavian Perspectives on Culture, Society, and the Anthropocene... Rethinking Education in Light of Global Challenges - Scandinavian Perspectives on Culture, Society, and the Anthropocene (Hardcover)
Karen Bjerg Petersen, Kerstin Von Broemssen, Gro Hellesdatter Jacobsen, Jesper Garsdal, Michael Paulsen, …
R3,982 Discovery Miles 39 820 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Rethinking Education in Light of Global Challenges discusses challenges to education in Scandinavian welfare states due to global trends like migration, neoliberal strategies, and the exploitation of nature. This anthology comprises case studies, theoretical articles, and reflective studies, grouped under the headings of Culture, Society, and the Anthropocene. This book directly addresses three interrelated global events and their implications for education as seen from Scandinavian perspectives: migration flows, increased cultural diversity, and (post)nationalism; the erosion of the welfare state and the global rise of neoliberalism; and the Anthropocene and environmental challenges arising in the wake of the global exploitation of natural ecosystems. In case studies, theoretical articles, and reflective studies, researchers from Nordic countries explore how education, education policy, and educational thinking in these countries are affected by these global trends, bringing to the fore the different roles education can play in addressing the various issues and different ways of reimagining education. This authoritative volume will be of great interest to researchers, academics, and students in the fields of sociology of education, migration and education, environmental education, and educational politics.

Understanding Disability Throughout History - Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Iceland from Settlement to 1936 (Hardcover):... Understanding Disability Throughout History - Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Iceland from Settlement to 1936 (Hardcover)
Hanna Bjoerg Sigurjonsdottir, James Grice
R3,979 Discovery Miles 39 790 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Understanding Disability Throughout History explores seldom-heard voices from the past by studying the hidden lives of disabled people before the concept of disability existed culturally, socially and administratively. The book focuses on Iceland from the Age of Settlement, traditionally considered to have taken place from 874 to 930, until the 1936 Law on Social Security (Loeg um almannatryggingar), which is the first time that disabled people were referenced in Iceland as a legal or administrative category. Data sources analysed in the project represent a broad range of materials that are not often featured in the study of disability, such as bone collections, medieval literature and census data from the early modern era, archaeological remains, historical archives, folktales and legends, personal narratives and museum displays. The ten chapters include contributions from multidisciplinary team of experts working in the fields of Disability Studies, History, Archaeology, Medieval Icelandic Literature, Folklore and Ethnology, Anthropology, Museum Studies, and Archival Sciences, along with a collection of post-doctoral and graduate students. The volume will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies, history, medieval studies, ethnology, folklore, and archaeology.

The Sociology of Debt (Paperback): Max Haiven, Nicholas Gane, Joe Deville, Rosie Walker, Leila Dawney, Samuel Kirwan, Mark... The Sociology of Debt (Paperback)
Max Haiven, Nicholas Gane, Joe Deville, Rosie Walker, Leila Dawney, …
R756 Discovery Miles 7 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Over the course of the last ten years the issue of debt has become a serious problem that threatens to destroy the global socio-economic system and ruin the everyday lives of millions of people. This collection brings together a range of perspectives of key thinkers on debt to provide a sociological analysis focused upon the social, political, economic, and cultural meanings of indebtedness. The contributors to the book consider both the lived experience of debt and the more abstract processes of financialisation taking place globally. Showing how debt functions on the level of both macro- and microeconomics, the book also provides a more holistic perspective, with accounts that span sociological, cultural, and economic forms of analysis.

Night Shadows - The twisty, chilling new Forbidden Iceland thriller (Paperback): Eva Bjoerg Aegisdottir Night Shadows - The twisty, chilling new Forbidden Iceland thriller (Paperback)
Eva Bjoerg Aegisdottir; Translated by Victoria Cribb
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R207 Discovery Miles 2 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Icelandic detective Elma faces mortal danger as she investigates the death of a young man in a mysterious Akranes house fire, and a Dutch au pair's perfect placement turns deadly ... The breathtaking third instalment in the award-winning Forbidden Iceland series. ***WINNER of the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger*** 'Her best, boldest work to date: a mystery both merciless and compassionate, subtly eerie yet flat-out frightening, featuring a detective as complicated as Jo Nesbo's Harry Hole. This is virtuoso suspense writing' A J Finn 'Chilling and addictive, with a completely unexpected twist ... I loved it' Shari Lapena 'Another beautifully written novel from one of the rising stars of Nordic Noir' Victoria Selman _________________________ The small community of Akranes is devastated when a young man dies in a mysterious house fire, and when Detective Elma and her colleagues from West Iceland CID discover the fire was arson, they become embroiled in an increasingly perplexing case involving multiple suspects. What's more, the dead man's final online search raises fears that they could be investigating not one murder, but two. A few months before the fire, a young Dutch woman takes a job as an au pair in Iceland, desperate to make a new life for herself after the death of her father. But the seemingly perfect family who employs her turns out to have problems of its own and she soon discovers she is running out of people to turn to. As the police begin to home in on the truth, Elma, already struggling to come to terms with a life-changing event, finds herself in mortal danger as it becomes clear that someone has secrets they'll do anything to hide... ____________________________ 'A creepily compelling Icelandic mystery that had me hooked from page one. Night Shadows will make you want to sleep with the lights on' Heidi Amsinck 'I loved everything about this book: the characters, the setting, the storyline, an intricately woven cast ... this book had me utterly gripped!' J M Hewitt 'With the third release in the Forbidden Iceland series, Eva Bjoerg establishes herself as not just one of the brightest names in Icelandic crime fiction, but in crime fiction full stop. Night Shadows is an absolute must-read!' Nordic Watchlist 'The author writes so beautifully you are immediately immersed in the chilly surrounds ... a genuinely excellent novel' Liz Loves Books 'One of the most compelling contemporary writers of crime fiction and psychological suspense' Duncan Beattie,Fiction from Afar Praise for the Forbidden Iceland series: 'Fans of Nordic Noir will love this' Ann Cleeves 'Elma is a fantastic heroine' Sunday Times 'Complex, gripping and moving' The Times 'An exciting and harrowing tale' Ragnar Jonasson 'Eerie and chilling. I loved every word!' Lesley Kara 'Not only a full-fat mystery, but also a chilling demonstration of how monsters are made' The Times 'Beautifully written, spine-tingling and disturbing ... a thrilling new voice in Icelandic crime fiction' Yrsa Sigurdardottir 'As chilling and atmospheric as an Icelandic winter' Lisa Gray 'An unsettling and exciting read with a couple of neat red herrings to throw the reader off the scent' NB Magazine 'Chilling and troubling ... reminiscent of Jorn Lier Horst's Norwegian procedurals. This is a book that makes an impact' Crime Fiction Lover 'Elma is a memorably complex character' Financial Times 'The twist comes out of the blue ... enthralling' Tap The Line Magazine For fans of Ragnar Jonasson, Camilla Lackberg, Ruth Rendell, Gillian McAllister and Shari Lapen

Introduction to Pharmaceutical Analytical Chemistry 2e (Paperback, 2nd Edition): S Pedersen-Bjerg Introduction to Pharmaceutical Analytical Chemistry 2e (Paperback, 2nd Edition)
S Pedersen-Bjerg
R1,678 R1,571 Discovery Miles 15 710 Save R107 (6%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Die umfassend uberarbeitete 2. Auflage enthalt ein neues Kapitel zur chemischen Analyse von Biopharmazeutika, in dem die Identifizierung, Reinheitsprufung und die Analyse on Peptiden und proteinbasierten Formulierungen erlautert werden. Die neue Auflage bietet ebenfalls verbesserte farbige Abbildungen und Tabellen, eine gestraffte Kapitelstruktur und uberarbeitete Inhalte, die das Fachgebiet klarer und verstandlicher prasentieren. - Bietet eine Einfuhrung in die grundlegenden Konzepte der pharmazeutischen analytischen Chemie und Statistik. - Untersucht systematisch pharmazeutische Anwendungen, die in anderen Lehrbuchern zu dem Fachgebiet fehlen. - Untersucht verschiedene Analysetechniken, die in der Regel in Pharmalaboren zur Anwendung kommen. - Prasentiert Fragestellungen aus der Praxis, aktuelle praktische Beispiele und detaillierte Illustrationen. - Die aktualisierten Inhalte entsprechen den aktuellen europaischen und US-amerikanischen Arzneibuchvorschriften und -richtlinien.

Parallax of Growth - The Philosophy of Ecology and Economy (Hardcover): Bjerg Parallax of Growth - The Philosophy of Ecology and Economy (Hardcover)
Bjerg
R1,568 Discovery Miles 15 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Parallax of Growth explores the ideas of economy and ecology and the factors that have put them on a collision course. Bjerg argues that our current mode of economic organization is characterized by an inherent 'debt drive', whereby the creation of money through the issuance of commercial bank credit has locked our economy into a vicious circle of forced growth and increasing debt. Parallax of Growth is not a catalogue of solutions to the ecological or the economic crisis. The book aims to shift the inquiry from 'what shall we do?' to 'why have we not already done it?' In order to address the challenges of our contemporary times of crisis, we need to understand how the idea of growth is deeply ingrained in the ideology as well as the organization of our society. The book aims to open the space for philosophical thinking about this important issue.

El Sentido de Ser Hombre (Paperback): Jesús Suaste Cherizola El Sentido de Ser Hombre (Paperback)
Jesús Suaste Cherizola; Ole Bjerg
R397 Discovery Miles 3 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Meaning of Being a Man (Paperback): Ole Bjerg The Meaning of Being a Man (Paperback)
Ole Bjerg
R401 Discovery Miles 4 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Hacer dinero - Filosofía del capitalismo postcrédito (Paperback): Jesús Suaste Cherizola Hacer dinero - Filosofía del capitalismo postcrédito (Paperback)
Jesús Suaste Cherizola; Ole Bjerg
R424 Discovery Miles 4 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Meaning of Being a Man (Paperback): Ole Bjerg The Meaning of Being a Man (Paperback)
Ole Bjerg
R541 Discovery Miles 5 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Aarbog for Dansk Kulturhistorie (Hardcover): Poul Bjerge Aarbog for Dansk Kulturhistorie (Hardcover)
Poul Bjerge
R993 Discovery Miles 9 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Emotional Landscapes - Love, Gender, and Migration (Paperback): Marcelo J Borges, Sonia Cancian, Linda Reeder Emotional Landscapes - Love, Gender, and Migration (Paperback)
Marcelo J Borges, Sonia Cancian, Linda Reeder; Epilogue by Donna R. Gabaccia; Contributions by María Bjerg, …
R724 R676 Discovery Miles 6 760 Save R48 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Love and its attendant emotions not only spur migration—they forge our response to the people who leave their homes in search of new lives. Emotional Landscapes looks at the power of love, and the words we use to express it, to explore the immigration experience. The authors focus on intimate emotional language and how languages of love shape the ways human beings migrate but also create meaning for migrants, their families, and their societies. Looking at sources ranging from letters of Portuguese immigrants in the 1880s to tweets passed among immigrant families in today's Italy, the essays explore the sentimental, sexual, and political meanings of love. The authors also look at how immigrants and those around them use love to justify separation and loss, and how love influences us to privilege certain immigrants—wives, children, lovers, refugees—over others.   Affecting and perceptive, Emotional Landscapes moves from war and transnational families to gender and citizenship to explore the crossroads of migration and the history of emotion.   Contributors: María Bjerg, Marcelo J. Borges, Sonia Cancian, Tyler Carrington, Margarita Dounia, Alexander Freund, Donna R. Gabaccia, A. James Hammerton, Mirjam Milharčič Hladnik, Emily Pope-Obeda, Linda Reeder, Roberta Ricucci, Suzanne M. Sinke, and Elizabeth Zanoni

Emotional Landscapes - Love, Gender, and Migration (Hardcover): Marcelo J Borges, Sonia Cancian, Linda Reeder Emotional Landscapes - Love, Gender, and Migration (Hardcover)
Marcelo J Borges, Sonia Cancian, Linda Reeder; Epilogue by Donna R. Gabaccia; Contributions by María Bjerg, …
R2,530 R2,336 Discovery Miles 23 360 Save R194 (8%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Love and its attendant emotions not only spur migration—they forge our response to the people who leave their homes in search of new lives. Emotional Landscapes looks at the power of love, and the words we use to express it, to explore the immigration experience. The authors focus on intimate emotional language and how languages of love shape the ways human beings migrate but also create meaning for migrants, their families, and their societies. Looking at sources ranging from letters of Portuguese immigrants in the 1880s to tweets passed among immigrant families in today's Italy, the essays explore the sentimental, sexual, and political meanings of love. The authors also look at how immigrants and those around them use love to justify separation and loss, and how love influences us to privilege certain immigrants—wives, children, lovers, refugees—over others.   Affecting and perceptive, Emotional Landscapes moves from war and transnational families to gender and citizenship to explore the crossroads of migration and the history of emotion.   Contributors: María Bjerg, Marcelo J. Borges, Sonia Cancian, Tyler Carrington, Margarita Dounia, Alexander Freund, Donna R. Gabaccia, A. James Hammerton, Mirjam Milharčič Hladnik, Emily Pope-Obeda, Linda Reeder, Roberta Ricucci, Suzanne M. Sinke, and Elizabeth Zanoni

Emotions and Migration in Argentina at the Turn of the 20th Century (Paperback): Maria Bjerg Emotions and Migration in Argentina at the Turn of the 20th Century (Paperback)
Maria Bjerg
R1,215 Discovery Miles 12 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Revealing the lives of migrant couples and transnational households, this book explores the dark side of the history of migration in Argentina during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Using court records, censuses, personal correspondence and a series of case studies, Maria Bjerg offers a portrayal of the emotional dynamics of transnational marital bonds and intimate relationships stretched across continents. Using microhistories and case studies, this book shows how migration affected marital bonds with loneliness, betrayal, fear and frustration. Focusing primarily on the emotional lives of Italian and Spanish migrants, this book explores bigamy, infidelity, adultery, domestic violence and murder within official and unofficial unions. It reveals the complexities of obligation, financial hardship, sacrifice and distance that came with migration, and explores how shame, jealousy, vengeance and disobedience led to the breaking of marital ties. Against a backdrop of changing cultural contexts Bjerg examines the emotional languages and practices used by adulterous women against their offended husbands, to justify domestic violence and as a defence against homicide. Demonstrating how migration was a powerful catalyst of change in emotional lives and in evolving social standards, Emotions and Migration in Early Twentieth-century Argentina reveals intimate and disordered lives at a time when female obedience and male honour were not only paramount, but exacerbated by distance and displacement.

The Nordic Constitutions - A Comparative and Contextual Study (Paperback): Helle Krunke, Bjoerg Thorarensen The Nordic Constitutions - A Comparative and Contextual Study (Paperback)
Helle Krunke, Bjoerg Thorarensen
R1,468 Discovery Miles 14 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book analyses the Nordic constitutional systems of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden in a comparative context. It has two main aims: first to fill a gap in the literature by providing an accessible English language account of the Nordic constitutions, and second to provide a comparative analysis of them, revealing their similarities and differences within their political, historical and cultural contexts. In this respect, the book challenges the assumption that the Nordic countries form a homogeneous constitutional system due to their cultural and historical affinities, a view not necessarily supported by a close comparative examination. A key issue is EU membership -where the Nordic countries have made different choices at different times - and the book will show how this has affected the individual countries and whether a divide between EU member states (Denmark, Finland and Sweden) and non-members (Iceland and Norway) has appeared. Another key issue is how the ECHR has impacted the Nordic constitutional systems and whether the convention draws the Nordic systems closer to each other. The book represents a first of its kind in the English language, and will provide constitutional scholars with a valuable comparative resource on the Nordic region.

Historicizing the Uses of the Past - Scandinavian Perspectives on History Culture, Historical Consciousness, and Didactics of... Historicizing the Uses of the Past - Scandinavian Perspectives on History Culture, Historical Consciousness, and Didactics of History Related to World War II (Paperback)
Helle Bjerg, Claudia Lenz, Erik Thorstensen
R971 Discovery Miles 9 710 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book presents new developments in Scandinavian memory cultures related to World War II and the Holocaust by combining this focus with the perspective of history didactics. The theoretical framework of historical consciousness offers an approach linking individual and collective uses and re-uses of the past to the question how history can and should be taught. It also offers some examples of good practice in this field. The book promotes a teaching practice which, in taking the social constructivist notions of historical consciousness as a starting point, can contribute to self-reflecting and critical thinking - being fundamental for any democratic political culture.

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