This anthology deals with the changing state of the arts and the incorporation and relevance of the aesthetic dimension in daily life in general. T...

This book is an investigation into the phenomenology of prose. The first section deals with two champions in the modern history of prose: Montaigne...

Consumer interests and concerns reveal themselves in different forms of consumer organisation. In this book, the agenda of affluent consumers in po...

This book argues that history may, by definition, be an imperialist science or a quintessentially Western form of discourse. Finn Fuglestad thinks ...

One of the most central questions in European politics today is the complex relationship between Turkey and the European Union. To better understan...

Intercultural communication is a complex phenomenon and deserves cross-disciplinary studies in order to shed some light on the processes. In this b...

This interdisciplinary anthology with five Russian and six Norwegian contributors discusses the forgotten Norwegian businessman Jonas Marius Lied's...

As one of the dominating names in Western literature, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) has also been read and studied with great enthusiasm in the Nordi...

This anthology springs out of a productive environment that in recent years has been created in Norway for research into the art of Edvard Munch. C...

This book is a collection of articles about communication and ethics in the field of medicine and health care. Common to all the articles is that t...

This book analyses the remarkably close relationship between the British and Norwegian Labour parties and two of their leaders, Haakon Lie and Deni...

In this volume, three Norwegian and three English scholars probe the issue of the role of intellectuals in the two countries following World War II...

The establishment of international human rights has resulted in a radical change in the relation between minority groups and states. Modern democra...

This book highlights some of the main issues currently being discussed within the international academic debate on organised crime: What constitute...

Who were the new social groups situated between the top and bottom of society, between capitalists and workers, between the bourgeoisie and the com...

How is sickness absences influenced by experienced illness, disease and social context? How should basic concepts like illness, disease and sicknes...

Japanese culture appears to be found 'everywhere' in the West today. Sushi, sudoku, origami, sumo, manga, anime, and pókemon have become familiar i...

This book presents some of the most important public health topics to be faced in the 21st century. The authors do not only analyse the challenges,...