There is hardly anything as easy to talk about and so difficult to practice as leadership. This is an intelligent and well-formulated book on an ub...

This book is written for people working in and on projects. It covers the gamut for the simple, everyday project to the enormously complex research...

Community work has been a part of social work in the Nordic Countries since the 1970's. This book addresses the development of community work and t...

Who came throughout the ages, from Irish thralls to Somali refugees? How did the various types of state and resident population at any time react t...

The book is based on the premise that it is difficult, if not impossible, to manage a modern business or public organisation without at least some ...

What is causing climate change? What can be done about it? The answers are closely connected to the ways that we obtain and use energy. Energy is a...

This book questions the much vaunted thesis of Nordic homogeneity by launching a comparative re-examination of the institutional structures, politi...

With a separate chapter on each laureate, readers learn about their distinctive origins and personalities and, of course, the remarkable achievemen...

The Ormen Lange field is situated in the Norwegian Ocean, 120 kilometres west of the Møre coast. Discovered in 1997, it represents Norway's second ...

This book gives insights into the most recent developments in research on judgement and decision-making. It contains contributions from some of the...

In contrast to most studies of minority, majority relations, the author does not focus on minority groups but on the conventional wisdom of the pol...

This book reflects the maritime law as found in the Nordic countries, and gives a broad introduction to a modern and updated maritime law system. S...

This book is about the multifarious nature of water and how communities have to protect and manage this vital resource. The difficulty of solving p...

This book describes the Norwegian welfare state, which is founded on a strong work ethic and egalitarianism and boosted by the oil revenue from the...