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A different and surprising book about being adopted. Geir Follevåg himself is adopted, and through comics and texts by Nietzsche he provides an alternative version of identity. Follevåg criticizes what he reckons to be a negative understanding of adoption and adoptees: "adoptees lack roots, adoptees lack pieces in their identity, adoptees have an incomplete life story" and so on. By turning to philosophy, especially existentialist thinkers like Nietzsche and Sartre, rather than the socialanthropological and psychological studies dominating the research on adoption today, he argues against the understanding that adoptees are by definition "lackful" human beings. 
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The history of cultural conceptions of time - the root to many cultural conflicts and misunderstandings. This book takes the reader from the times of the medieval monks to the virtual world. It is also a travel in space, from the jungles of Borneo to the globalized factory.
Written in a vivid style and rich in examples and anecdotes, All the time of the world proves a penetrating analysis of human values in today´s world.

Anders Johansen is Professor of Media at the University of Bergen.
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A warm and seductive description of the history and culture, politics and mentality of the famous island. All the myths about the revolution are buried – and new myths are given life. Never before has any country, culture, nation or piece of history been given such a vivid presentation. Bye and Hoel’s classic can be read as a travelogue as well as a political thriller. Through the exposition of history and personal encounters the authors approach the Cuban affirmation of life as well as the lies of life. At close range we meet conquistadors of Cuba and the heroes of the revolution, Che Guevara’s idealism and Fidel Castro’s wilfulness.
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The year is 1801. Norway is a colony of Denmark, without is own king and flag. This is the age of enlightenment, and the church is working hard to make people throw away their superstitions. Draug is meddling between the historical realities and a world of fairytales – between Norwegian history and local myths.
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What are the strategies of the seducer? Our culture has many accounts of seduction, including myths telling about power, charm, love and attraction. Knut Stene-Johansen raises the question of what seduction really is and whether we can learn the art of the seducer.
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In this book, the son of the assassinated elected president, Aslan Maskhadov, gives a unique insight into the conflict between Russia and Chechnya. Father and son fought side by side against the Russian forces in the first Chechen war 1994-96, and won. Maskhadov was elected president in January 1997.

The victory was turned into tragedy when the Russians returned.  Following the start of the Second Chechen War in 1999 and the fall of Grozny in 2000, Maskhadov was leading the guerrilla resistance against the Russian army. Three years after the Russians took over as administrators in Chechnya, Maskhadov was killed in March 2005. In the meantime he had proclaimed a peace and requested Russia to stop the bloodshed.

The president’s story is told by his son. He describes the war in the Caucasian mountains, and provides a unique insight into the whole region and the nation’s struggle for independence. The book’s fundament is a personal voice and a great longing, but it is not just a one sided story. Many of the unknown aspects of the warfare are revealed for the very first time.

Aslan Maskhadov was not primarily a soldier; he was just defending his country against occupation. All his life he was concerned with negotiation. Before being murdered, Anzor’s father gave his son an assignment he has never forgotten: Inform the world about the genocide in Chechnya! This book is his strong depiction from within.

Anzor Maskhadov (b. 1975) participated in the first Chechen war. He has been given political asylum in Norway. Translated from Russian by Ivar Dale, edited by Per Anders Todal in cooperation with the author.        

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For more than five thousand years the heart has been a great mystery in human life. This book tells the story about our understanding of the heart from the antiquity up to recent years.
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Conflicts are results of every day human behavior.  They are not only a source of fear and violence, but also a stepping stone to mutual understanding.  Conflict mediation is a voluntary and respectful way of solving problems before they grow out of hand.  This book focuses on different kinds of mediation; family, business, and social related, seen from a nordic perspective.  Is there a way of managing conflicts that is characteristic for the nordic countries? 
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This informative book shows us how to understand and enjoy a great variety of images, from the classic painting to photographs, triptychs and cd-covers. Lien and Larsen present 100 images from modern history and give us a fascinating veiw of details and underlying stories that will make your next visit to a museum or a gallery a completely new experience.
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This book is a photographic image of America – as seen through the eyes of Norwegian immigrants. Many have been interested and much has been written about the Norwegian US emigration, but few have focused on the images as historical sources.
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Lidio Dominguez was a student of theology in Buenos Aires when the military coup took place in Argentina. He immediately engaged himself forcibly in the countermovement in Argentina and Paraguay.
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This book examines the song texts of Leonard Cohen and draws out the characteristic features of Cohen´s development as a songwriter. But above all Aadland brings to the fore the consequences of Cohen’s lyrics, the monomaniacal use of the love song, and the diversity and complexity of the songwriter’s overall treatment of the theme of love.
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During World War II Asbjørn Sunde was Norway’s most important sabotage leader. With unparallelled audacity he and his men, mostly veterans from the Spanish Civil War, destroyed industrial plants and infrastructure vital to the German military effort. His cell ran greater risks and lost more men than any other Norwegian resistance unit. However, because Sunde was a Communist he and his work were hushed down. Few of Sunde’s men were ever honoured after the war. On the contrary, they were persecuted for being Communists. Men in the Dark gives you the spectacular story of the Socialist Resistance in Norway. A thriller memoir!
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It was in the age of enlightenment that our modern concept of man was founded. The human being was by far the most studied object in the 18th century. This book is a standard work on the enlightenment written by some of Norways finest scholars. It is buildt up as a catalogue, inspired by the great french encyclopedia.
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 Siemens is now listed as one of the most corrupt companies in the world. The U.S. Security and Exchange Commission have started a formal investigation, the company is blacklisted in Nigeria and under investigation in Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland, Italy, Greece and Germany. This intense and well documented book gives insight into and new knowledge about the massive disclosures of Siemens’ way of doing business. It is also a sad confirmation of how weakly whistleblowers are protected in Europe. 
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Opera! A rough guide is an introduction to the world of opera and a journey through 17 of the greatest compositions in history. The travel starts with Claudio Monteverdis Orfeo and ends almost 400 years later with Nixon in China. For each opera Per Olav Reinton tells us about the historical context and the composer. Nina Krohn guides us through the music in such a way that we become familiar with the best known figures and musical highlights in the history of opera.
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The complete and authorized story of the Iraqi programme for aquiring weapons of mass destruction,  told by those who directed it.  Engaging in their criticism of the regime, the authors offer their most severe criticism of US foreign politics and the UN-inspectors,  convincingly demonstrating that the WMD-programme was closed down as early as in 1991.

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In the ruins of the traditional political institutions and parties, 14 out of 19 countries in Latin America has been ruled by various forms of left governments the last decade.

This book presents five of the new leaders: Hugo Chávez, Lula da Silva, Evo Morales, Rafael Correa and Fernando Lugo.

Together they tell the North American president that the Pax Americana, is over. Are we now facing a real American peace, or perhaps a Pax Americana Latino?
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An atheist and a priest investigate what various religions and views of life say about the issue. But they keep getting on the wrong track. A vacuum cleaner bag is missing, an atopic eczema is spreading … The real life is constantly leading them away from the main issue. Can Zen Buddhism teach us anything about chaos control? And what can Rastafarianism impart about the art of living?
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Marianne Ihlen was 22 years old when she arrived on the Greek island of Hydra with Axel Jensen. After some time Axel left her and their young son for another woman. One day she meets Leonard Cohen who introduces himself and wants to sit at the same table. This is the beginning of a love story that would last throughout most of the 60's, and take them to Oslo, Montreal, New York, and again to Hydra. During these years Leonard Cohen wrote some of his best known texts and songs. The book is a highly interesting account of the 1960's and the international artist colony living on Hydra.
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 Marianne Ihlen was 22 years old when she arrived on the Greek island of Hydra with Axel Jensen. After some time Axel left her and their young son for another woman. One day she meets Leonard Cohen who introduces himself and wants to sit at the same table. This is the beginning of a love story that would last throughout most of the 60's, and take them to Oslo, Montreal, New York, and again to Hydra. During these years Leonard Cohen wrote some of his best known texts and songs. The book is a highly interesting account of the 1960's and the international artist colony living on Hydra.
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A Cultural History of Warfare.

This book invites us to eyewitness twelve of the most spectacular battles in world history, but it also gives a bird´s eye view of the history leading up to today´s warfare. The book opens with Alexander the Great destroying Dareios outside of Bagdad. It ends with US tanks rolling across the same desert 2300 years later.

Richly illustrated.

 

Karl Jakob Skarstein (b. 1970) cand. philol from the University of Bergen. His book The war against the Sioux (Spartacus 2005) was very well received among the critics. He has also written books on Norwegian soldiers in the American civil war.

 
Contents (selection):

Gaugamela 331 f. Kr.
Magnesia 190 f.Kr.
Farsalos 48 f kr. 
Hattin 1187
Pavia 1525
Panipat 1526
Austerlitz 1805
Gettysburg 1863
Mukden 1905
Moscow 1941
Iraq 2003

 
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This book gives a chronological view of the complex history of ideas, arranged in five categories:
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An analysis of American foreign politics and US attempts to make a new
world order after the fall of Communism.
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Modern travel writing is about meeting ”the other”, the foreign culture. Arne Melberg has written an essayistic wandering through travel writing from Joseph Conrad to Dag Solstad. He gives attention to the specific literary strategies of these texts: how does one navigate between life and literature,  facts and fiction?
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