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  • HINDUISM IN THE WORLD
    KNUT A. JACOBSEN
    This book explores Hindu religion from a global perspective and investigates the presence of Hindu religious traditions and some of their diversity worldwide. Hindu traditions are on the move and are established in many new locations around the world, and old and new traditions are continuously changing and being invented and reinvented. The chapters of the book explore these p...

    $1,160.00

  • LECTURES ON POLITICAL ECONOMY (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    KNUT WICKSELL
    First published in English in 1935, this Routledge Revival is a reissue of Volume II of Knut Wicksell's Lectures on Political Economy. This volume deals with his contribution to macroeconomics, through an explication of economic theory and principle relating specifically to money, both in terms of functions and value, with a particular emphasis upon currency and credit. This vo...

    $800.00

  • LECTURES ON POLITICAL ECONOMY (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    KNUT WICKSELL
    First published in English in 1934, this Routledge Revival is a reissue of Volume I of Swedish economist Knut Wicksell's hugely influential work two volume work on political economy, a text which influenced a generation of economists. Concerned predominiantly with a mathematical treatment of issues of economic theory, the first volume deals specifically the theory of value, the...

    $1,200.00

  • SOCIAL JUSTICE PEDAGOGIES IN HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION
    GÖRAN GERDIN / WAYNE SMITH / ROD PHILPOT / KATARINA SCHENKER / KJERSTI MORDAL MOEN / SUSANNE LINNÉR / KNUT
    This book makes the case that school Health and Physical Education (HPE) can make a unique contribution to young people’s physical, emotional and social health outcomes when teachers of HPE engage in pedagogies for social justice that emphasise inclusion, democracy and equity. Drawing on observations and teacher interviews across Sweden, Norway and New Zealand, the book explore...

    $1,160.00

  • THE EMERGENCE OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
    SOGNER, KNUT
    Corporate governance is not just about models of best practice organisation or prescriptions following laws or social conventions. Corporate governance is also about persons of power seeking performance, and they do so in ways that transcend structures and pre-conceived notions of the structural set-up of the business. This book emphasises the decision-making dimensions of corp...

    $1,160.00

  • BRINGING THE PEOPLE BACK IN
    KNUT DØRUM
    The formation of states in early modern Europe has long been an important topic for historical analysis. Traditionally, the political and military struggles of kings and rulers were the favoured object of study for academic historians. This book highlights new historical research from Europe’s northern frontier, bringing ‘the people’ back into the discussion of state politics, ...

    $1,160.00

  • ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF SOUTH ASIAN RELIGIONS
    KNUT A. JACOBSEN
    The Routledge Handbook of South Asian Religions presents critical research, overviews, and case studies on religion in historical South Asia, in the seven nation states of contemporary South Asia: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives, and in the South Asian diaspora. Chapters by an international set of experts analyse formative developments, r...

    $1,320.00

  • TOWARDS AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF WEALTH
    THEODOROS RAKOPOULOS / ‎KNUT RIO
    Aiming to redefine the concept of wealth, which has too often been reduced to merely ‘accumulated assets’, this book views wealth primarily as a question of reproduction, relational flows and life vitality. The authors therefore outline wealth as a triangular phenomenon between capital, the commons and power. Viewing wealth as firstly a product of relational capacities, the boo...

    $1,200.00

  • STAGING AND RE-CYCLING
    JOHN KEEFE / KNUT OVE ARNTZEN
    In Staging and Re- cycling , John Keefe and Knut Ove Arntzen re-visit and reappraise a selection of their work to explore how the retrieval, re-approaching and re-framing of material can offer pathways for new work and new thinking. The book includes a collection of reprinted and first-published (although previously presented) textual material interspersed with editorial materi...

    $1,120.00

  • ASSESSMENT OF READING IN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
    JENNY LENKEIT / KNUT SCHWIPPERT
    This book brings together contributions from different scholarly contexts that address a diverse range of focused topics, as well as empirical and conceptual perspectives, on research with international studies. Some chapters focus on technical aspects, exploring opportunities for drawing causal inferences from the data, and investigating biases originating in distributional sc...

    $1,160.00

  • DIE WEIBER AM BRUNNEN
    KNUT HAMSUN
    Thomas Mann sagte über den 1920 erschienenen Roman Knut Hamsuns, der im selben Jahr den Literaturnobelpreis erhielt: »Im ganzen: die 400 Seiten sind gedrängt voll von allen Reizen, technischen Verschlagenheiten, dichterischen Intensitäten und intimen Erschütterungen« ...

    $39.70

  • LOOK BACK ON HAPPINESS, THE LAST JOY
    KNUT HAMSUN
    Published in Norway in 1912, The Last Joy (Den Siste Glaede) appears at an important transition point in Hamsun’s career, as he moved any from his intense observations of individual characters to focus on a broader canvas of small town and farm life social units of the Norwegian culture. If Hunger (1890) represents the epitome Hamsun’s focus on the individual, his works of the ...

    $39.70

  • HUNGER
    KNUT HAMSUN
    Hunger (Norwegian: Sult) is a novel by the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun published in 1890. Extracts from the work had previously been published anonymously in the Danish magazine Ny Jord in 1888. The novel has been hailed as the literary opening of the 20th century and an outstanding example of modern, psychology-driven literature. Hunger portrays the irrationality of the human...

    $39.70

  • GROWTH OF THE SOIL
    KNUT HAMSUN
    Growth of the Soil (Norwegian Markens Grøde), is a novel by Knut Hamsun which won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. It follows the story of a man who settles and lives in rural Norway. First published in 1917, it has since been translated from Norwegian into languages such as English. The novel was written in the popular style of Norwegian new realism, a movement domin...

    $39.70

  • SHALLOW SOIL
    KNUT HAMSUN
    Novel from the late 19th and early 20th century Norwegian author who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. Hamsun was a leading Norwegian author who saw humankind and nature united in a strong, sometimes mystical bond. This connection between the characters and their natural environment is exemplified in the novels Pan, and the epic Growth of the Soil, for which Ha...

    $39.70

  • MOTHWISE
    KNUT HAMSUN
    Excerpt: “Marie van Loos, housekeeper at the Vicarage, stands by the kitchen window looking out far up the road. She knows the couple there by the fence—knows them indeed, seeing ’tis no other than Telegraph-Rolandsen, her own betrothed, and Olga the parish clerk’s daughter. It is the second time she has seen those two together this spring—now what does it mean? Save that Jomfr...

    $39.70

  • PAN
    KNUT HAMSUN
    Pan is an 1894 novel by Norwegian author Knut Hamsun. He wrote it while living in Paris and in Kristiansand, Norway. It remains one of his most famous works. Lieutenant Thomas Glahn, a hunter and ex-military man, lives alone in a hut in the forest with his faithful dog Aesop. Upon meeting Edvarda, the daughter of a merchant in a nearby town, they are both strongly attracted to ...

    $39.70

  • THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF SURGERY
    KNUT HÆGER
    Throughout its development, from an ancient craft of magic and religion to a field of science and technology, surgery has inspired strong feelings--hope and admiration, fear and censure, but never indifference. Here, for the first time-- in The Illustrated History of Surgery--is a readable and chronological account, across the whole spectrum of world history, of the development...

    $1,480.00

  • TOP TIPS FOR GPS
    KNUT SCHROEDER
    For GPs and practice managers the challenge of the NHS reforms is to understand the business context in which general practice operates. Of the many skills learned from commerce and industry needed for the development of an effective strategy, business planning has been demonstrated to bring important benefits to the practice. However, for many the concept is necessary but unfa...

    $860.00

  • NORWAY
    KNUT HEIDAR
    Norway is by history and culture very much a Scandinavian nation with its own unique profile. This book analyzes the factors that have shaped the sociocultural fabric of Norwegian politics. One of the most important themes Heidar analyzes is the power of the periphery, both in social as well as geographic terms. In the geographic sense, Norway is a small nation, and although it...

    $1,460.00

  • COMPETITIVENESS AND KNOWLEDGE
    KNUT INGAR WESTEREN / HANAS CADER / MARIA DE FÁTIMA SALES / JAN OLE SIMILÄ / JEFFERSON STADUTO
    In the twenty-first century technology has become global, and firms compete using knowledge and capital. The ‘traditional firm’ has a need for innovation and depends on efficient knowledge management to improve productivity. This book examines five firms that produce the same commodity, white chicken meat, in different parts of the world and under very different conditions. It ...

    $1,200.00

  • YOGA IN MODERN HINDUISM
    KNUT A. JACOBSEN
    The Sāṃkhyayoga institution of Kāpil Maṭh is a religious organisation with a small tradition of followers which emerged in the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century in Bengal in India around the renunciant and yogin Hariharānanda Āraṇya. This tradition developed during the same period in which modern yoga was born and forms a chapt...

    $1,260.00

  • SELECTED PAPERS ON ECONOMIC THEORY
    KNUT WICKSELL
    This volume, originally published in 1958, contains a selection of the most important and interesting articles by Knut Wicksell, which had hitherto only been published in Swedish. They cover Wicksell’s views on Economics and monetary theory, his theory of production and distribution, some review articles on the works of Pareto, Böhm-Bawerk, Carl Menger and Bowley and some paper...

    $1,100.00

  • VALUE, CAPITAL AND RENT
    KNUT WICKSELL
    Knut Wicksell is acknowledged to be the precursor and prophet of modern macroeconomic theory and he provided some of its chief elements a generation before their power and significance were properly recognized. This book, originally published in German in 1893 and in English in 1954 brought time into the previously timeless theory of value and income distribution. The theory of...

    $1,160.00

  • YOUNG SIKHS IN A GLOBAL WORLD
    KNUT A. JACOBSEN / KRISTINA MYRVOLD
    In attempting to carve out a place for themselves in local and global contexts, young Sikhs mobilize efforts to construct, choose, and emphasize different aspects of religious and cultural identification depending on their social setting and context. Young Sikhs in a Global World presents current research on young Sikhs with multicultural and transnational life-styles and consi...

    $1,240.00

  • OBJECTS OF WORSHIP IN SOUTH ASIAN RELIGIONS
    KNUT A. JACOBSEN, MIKAEL AKTOR AND KRISTINA MYRVOLD
    Objects of worship are an aspect of the material dimension of lived religion in South Asia. The omnipresence of these objects and their use is a theme which cuts across the religious traditions in the pluralistic religious culture of the region. Divine power becomes manifest in the objects and for the devotees they may represent power regardless of religious identity. This book...

    $1,360.00

  • LECTURES ON POLITICAL ECONOMY (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    KNUT WICKSELL
    Known as the "economist's economist" for his work on creating a synthetic economic theory, Swedish economist Knut Wicksell was a controversial, but highly influential figure in modern economic thought. His contributions to marginal productivity theory, income distribution and, most notably, his theory of interest would come to have a profound impact upon twentieth century econo...

    $2,400.00

  • PILGRIMAGE IN THE HINDU TRADITION
    KNUT A. JACOBSEN
    Salvific space is one of the central ideas in the Hindu traditions of pilgrimage, and concerns the ability of space, especially sites associated with bodies of water such as rivers and lakes, to grant salvific rewards. Focusing on religious, historical and sociological questions about the phenomenon, this book investigates the narratives, rituals, history and structures of salv...

    $1,520.00

  • MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISES AND INNOVATION
    MARTIN HEIDENREICH / CHRISTOPH BARMEYER / KNUT KOSCHATZKY / JANNIKA MATTES / KATHARINA KRÜTH / ELISABETH
    The crucial actors of a global knowledge-based economy are multinational enterprises (MNEs). MNEs depend on the embeddedness in an institutional framework; their competitive advantage depends on the cross-border utilisation of regional and national capabilities. The innovativeness of a company is therefore based also on regional innovation systems. Multinational Enterprises and...

    $1,360.00

  • BIOLOGICAL SEQUENCE ANALYSIS USING THE SEQAN C++ LIBRARY
    ANDREAS GOGOL-DÖRING / KNUT REINERT
    An Easy-to-Use Research Tool for Algorithm Testing and DevelopmentBefore the SeqAn project, there was clearly a lack of available implementations in sequence analysis, even for standard tasks. Implementations of needed algorithmic components were either unavailable or hard to access in third-party monolithic software products. Addressing these conc ...

    $2,060.00


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