Adult Learning & the Challenges of the 21st Century was the title of Theme One at the fifth UNESCO conference on Adult Education in Hamburg Jul...

This volume is an additional contribution to the description of the mortality of the oldest-old in the post-war era, begun with volume 1 by the sam...

This publication examines the Amsterdam Treaty negotiated by the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) 1996-97. It looks at the preferences of the mai...

Local government takes upon itself important tasks and are prime movers in the implementation of new developments in most welfare societies. How it...

The crisis of the welfare state in present days in Scandinavian countries is a major inspiration behind this collection of papers by nine scholars ...

Who hasn't heard of elderly people "in their second childhood" -- or of children who "grow old before their time"? Expressions such as these bear w...

Research into the impact of the Cold War in the Nordic countries has boomed since the end of the Cold War itself. The end of the conflict has made ...

Over the last few decades, various international and cross-cultural partnerships have been established, often with impressive speed, to facilitate ...

Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Symposium organised by the Centre for the Study of Vernacular Literature in the Middle Ages held at th...

Since 1945 Denmark's policy towards Europe has become one of the most important issues, if not the most important issue, in Danish politics. Why is...

Flateyjarbók is the name given to GKS 1005 fol., a manuscript now housed at the Àrni Magnússon Institute (Stofnun Àrna Magnússonar á Íslandi) in Re...

This volume by Väino Kannisto, former United Nations advisor on demographic and social statistics, is the first in the Odense Monographs on Populat...

In the moral and spiritual vacuum left in Russia by the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989-91 some of the thinkers who first opposed the Leninist rev...

In the Tour de France of 1998, for the first time ever, political forces intervened to lay bare the comprehensive doping practices of popular athle...

On 14 December 1999 Professor Mogens N Pedersen completed his sixtieth year. The day was celebrated by his friends and colleagues by the publicatio...

Five papers explore the cultural traditions of Germany, including its Danish connections, and Britain, with its Gaelic and Anglo-Norman connections.

This is an anthology about technology's role in the modernisation process. It is written by a European group of historians of technology. Technolog...

Book & CD-ROM. International comparisons of mortality aimed at revealing age-specific and time-specific differences in survival between Denmark...

The storied realms of exceptional longevity are scrutinised in this volume. The vast majority of reputed centenarians in the past, and most countri...

This book is designed for newcomers to the English spoken and written in Ireland. Features: Over 500 headwords, including words of Irish (Gaelic) o...

During the last twenty years five folk high schools have been established in Bangladesh. They represent the first schools of this kind founded in a...

Foreign observers of American culture have always been puzzled by the invocation in all kinds of unlikely contexts of judicial authority, by the co...

This is a book about politics, writing and thinking in the American South from the 1930's to the 1990's. The period is considered in three frames o...

The essays in this anthology approach literature as communicative structures dependent on media and on rhetorical and narrative modes. Ranging from...

Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium organised by the Centre for the Study of Vernacular Literature in the Middle Ages held at the Od...

Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (CPT) have been developing as an academic discipline over the last 30 years or so, but its impact on health ...

For the first time ever in English, this book presents a wide range of approaches to Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) and his works, thereby pro...

With a rapid technological change and an increasing number of health technologies emerging in contrast to scarcity of the resources, the decision-m...

Luxdorph's collection has a triple source value in terms of the history of art, the history of civilisation and the history of science. On this bac...

Children's work is a controversial subject both in the sciences of sociology and history. It does not accord well with the modern idea of a good ch...

Co-operation among western European states in the period after World War II has followed two paths. A traditional intergovernmental path demanding ...

This monograph reviews the epidemiological, demographic, and biological basis of population models of human mortality. These investigations were mo...

The aim of this book is to uncover non-Western immigrants' integration and living conditions in Denmark and Germany comparatively. The results are ...

The past, we know, informs us. Its texture has been just as real to its time as we feel the present to be for us. And yet, despite its immense impo...

Text in English and Danish. A persistent theme of the 20th century has been a critique of metaphysics. But the limitations of this critique are man...

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The nomination process has been called "the secret garden of politics"-- and for good reasons. The process by which candidates for election are bei...

For over a century the mosaic floors of the late "Roman Villa" in Halikarnassos have captured attention of scholars, and this volume contains a bro...

This book honours a Danish linguist central to the field of foreign language pedagogy in her country and is arranged in four sections that reflect ...

Book & Disk. This volume is an array of demographic data which can often be pictured in an intelligible and graphically striking way by a shade...

In the Nordic countries regions and regionalism have played a central role in politics, administration, economic and cultural life for a long time....

God is not dead, after all. Not, that is, if we are to subscribe to a number of trends in contemporary philosophy. This is all the more remarkable ...

In the 16th and 17th centuries, the states of Europe underwent a series of changes which created the foundation for the state of today. The Nordic ...

This is the first monograph of the Domitii Ahenobarbi and fills a gap in our knowledge of the Roman aristocracy. The study is more than a tradition...

In 1995 the Turkish authorities made an important discovery on the Salmakis Promontory west of the entrance to the harbour of Bodrum -- ancient Hal...

In recent years, administrative leadership of local governments has responded to the pressures generated by financial strain, control from central ...

Sixteen contributions by fellow linguists include papers on the English progressive; predication and the nominal clause; the use of mood and modal ...