Tag: Nordic

Free Download Animal Industries: Nordic Perspectives on the Exploitation of Animals since 1860
by Taina Syrjämaa, Marja Jalava
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3110787296 | 281 Pages | PDF | 4.86 MB

Free Download Torbjorn Bergman, Erik Damgaard, "Delegation and Accountability in European Integration: The Nordic Parliamentary Democracies and the European Union"
English | 2000 | ISBN: 0714650668, 0714681156 | EPUB | pages: 186 | 0.5 mb
Analyzing the effects of the European Union on national decision-making and the chain of delegation and accountability, the authors look at Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Iceland and Norway. The analyses are based on principal-agent perspective.

Free Download Annika Bünz, "Museum, Place, Architecture and Narrative: Nordic Maritime Museums’ Portrayals of Shipping, Seafarers and Maritime Commu"
English | ISBN: 1800733887 | 2022 | 206 pages | PDF | 72 MB
A characteristic trait of the maritime museums is that they are often located in a contemporary and/or historical environment from which the collections and narratives originate. The museum can thereby be directly linked to the site and its history. It is therefore vital to investigate the maritime museums in terms of relationships between landscape, architecture, museum and collections. This volume unravels the kinds of worlds and realities the Nordic maritime museums stage, which identities and national myths they depict, and how they make use of both the surrounding maritime environments and the architectural properties of the museum buildings.

Free Download Pertti Haapala, "Making Nordic Historiography: Connections, Tensions and Methodology, 1850-1970 "
English | ISBN: 1785336266 | 2017 | 332 pages | PDF | 1224 KB
Is there a "Nordic history"? If so, what are its origins, its scope, and its defining features? In this informative volume, scholars from all five Nordic nations tackle a notoriously problematic historical concept. Whether recounting Foucault’s departure from Sweden or tracing the rise of movements such as "aristocratic empiricism," each contribution takes a deliberately transnational approach that is grounded in careful research, yielding rich, nuanced perspectives on shifting and contested historical terrain.

Free Download Continuous Cover Forestry in Boreal Nordic Countries by Pasi Rautio, Johanna Routa, Saija Huuskonen, Emma Holmström, Jonas Cedergren, Christian Kuehne
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 (2025 Edition) | 295 Pages | ISBN : 3031704835 | 53.8 MB

Free Download Beginner’s Guide to Nordic-Style Carving: 22 Functional Projects Including Spoons, Bowls & Cups (Fox Chapel Publishing) Carve a Comb, Kuksa Cup, Wall Shelf, and More, Plus How to Work with Green Wood by Frank Egholm, Balder Egholm
English | May 14, 2024 | ISBN: 1497104211 | 48 pages | PDF | 30 Mb
Learn the tradition of Nordic-style woodcarving!22 projects for simple yet functional everyday itemsUse found wood from your own backyard to create a citrus reamer, spoon rack, dinner spoon, cake server, and moreStep-by-step photography and instructions to walk you through the projects and ensure success even for new woodcarversGreen wood preparation, carving, embellishing, and finishing techniques, plus info on proper tool use and woodgrainNordic-style woodcarving is steeped in tradition. Yet, it is a remarkably easy technique for beginners to learn and master!

Free Download Ainur Elmgren, "The Political Culture of Nordic Self-Understanding: Power Investigation"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1138939196, 1138099236 | EPUB | pages: 124 | 0.4 mb
‘Power investigation’, or the practice of power to legitimize itself through commissioned programmes of scientific enquiry, is a hallmark of Nordic democracy. Five power investigations have been conducted in the Nordic countries since 1972. The close connection to state power has not dissuaded prominent scholars from participating in them, nor have their findings evoked strong criticism. Combining politically guided perspectives with collaborative research, power investigations represent public events that typify the ostensibly open political culture of the Nordic countries, rather than simply existing as texts or as a politico-scientific genre. Although such investigations have been thought of as critical studies of power, the authors in this book show that their findings have varied greatly and that they have served as tools for wielding power. Whatever shortcomings they uncover, the utility of these investigations in suggesting transparency and self-reflection enhances the legitimacy of Scandinavian government. The investigations are persuasive exercises through which the commissioning authorities and those scholars hired to carry them out engage in a mutually beneficial exchange. Underlying this strategy is the perception, deeply embedded in Nordic political culture, that politics is a progressive, rational endeavour, and that identification with the state is an honourable role for academics.

Free Download Nordic Contributions in IS Research: 4th Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems, SCIS 2013, Oslo, Norway, August 11-14, 2013. Proceedings By Netta Iivari (auth.), Margunn Aanestad, Tone Bratteteig (eds.)
2013 | 105 Pages | ISBN: 3642398316 | PDF | 2 MB
This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 4th Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems (SCIS), held in Oslo, Norway, in August 2013. Participants were invited to discuss experiences of "digital living" within a multitude of empirical settings, covering questions like e.g. "how do people relate to each other when interaction is mediated through social networks?" or "what are the societal effects of ICT becoming ubiquitous in everyday situations?". The 6 papers accepted for presentation at the conference were selected from 18 submissions and address "digital living" from different perspectives.

Free Download Dr. Dieter K. Müller, Prof. Jarkko Saarinen, "Nordic Tourism: Issues and Cases"
English | 2008 | pages: 314 | ISBN: 1845410939, 1845410947 | PDF | 5,5 mb
Tourism is a major industry in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) as well as a growing field of academic study. For many cities and regions tourism is also increasingly recognised as being integral to economic, social and sustainable development. In addition, tourism also contributes to Nordic identity through destination promotion and tourism activities, including winter tourism and the tradition of access to common land, as well as specific forms of tourism, such as second homes. Nordic Tourism is the first comprehensive and accessible introduction to tourism in the region that links Nordic tourism research and concerns with key concepts in tourism studies. The book consists of eleven chapters dealing with issues ranging from, for example, marketing and policy to nature-based tourism, culture and the contribution of tourism to environmental change. The inclusion of case studies from leading Nordic researchers on specific destinations, attractions, resources, sectors and developments also provides a valuable learning tool for all students of tourism.

Free Download Thomas DuBois, "Nordic Religions in the Viking Age "
English | ISBN: 0812217144 | | 256 pages | PDF | 12 MB
The popular image of the Viking as a horn-helmeted berserker plying the ocean in a dragon-headed long boat is firmly fixed in history. Imagining Viking "conquerors" as much more numerous, technologically superior, and somehow inherently more warlike than their neighbors has overshadowed the cooperation and cultural exchange which characterized much of the Viking Age. In actuality, the Norse explorers and traders were players in a complex exchange of technology, customs, and religious beliefs between the ancient pre-Christian societies of northern Europe and the Christian-dominated nations surrounding the Mediterranean.