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  • Modern-Day Vikings

    A Pracical Guide to Interacting with the Swedes

    by Christina Johansson Robinowitz, Lisa Werner Carr ...
    "This is the bible for anyone being transferred to Sweden!" - Magnus Moliteus, Executive Director, Invest in Sweden AgencyModern-Day Vikings provides a window into what one world traveler called the most American of European countries: Sweden. Yet, surface similarities between the two nations conceal essential differences. Christina Robinowitz and Lisa Werner Carr provide insights and strategies ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • The Almost Nearly Perfect People

    Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia

    by Michael Booth ...
    **The Christian Science Monitor's #1 Best Book of the YearA witty, informative, and popular travelogue about the Scandinavian countries and how they may not be as happy or as perfect as we assume, “The Almost Nearly Perfect People offers up the ideal mixture of intriguing and revealing facts” (Laura Miller, Salon).Journalist Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians for more than ten years, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Empire of Things

    How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First

    by Frank Trentmann ...
    The epic history of consumption, and the goods that have transformed our lives over the past 600 yearsWhat we consume has become the defining feature of our lives: our economies live or die by spending, we are treated more as consumers than workers, and even public services are presented to us as products in a supermarket. In this monumental study, acclaimed historian Frank Trentmann unfolds the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Viking Economics

    How the Scandinavians Got It Right-and How We Can, Too

    by George Lakey ...
    Liberals worldwide invoke Scandinavia as a promised land of equality, while most conservatives fear it as a hotbed of liberty-threatening socialism. But the left and right can usually agree on one thing: that the Nordic system is impossible to replicate elsewhere. The US and UK are too big, or too individualistic, or too . . . something.In Viking Economics George Lakey dispels these myths. He ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • A Concise History of Sweden

    by Neil Kent ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    Neil Kent's book sweeps through Sweden's history from the Stone Age to the present day. Early coverage includes Viking hegemony, the Scandinavian Union, the Reformation and Sweden's political zenith as Europe's greatest superpower in the seventeenth century, while later chapters explore the Swedish Enlightenment, royal absolutism, the commitment to military neutrality and Pan-Scandinavianism. The ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

  • Happy as a Dane

    10 Secrets of the Happiest People in the World

    by Malene Rydahl ...
    This international bestseller shows why the Danes are happy and how we can be, too.For decades Denmark has ranked at the top of the world’s happiness surveys. How is it that these 5.6 million Danes are so content when they live in a country that is dark and cold nine months of the year and where income taxes are at almost 60 percent? At a time when talk across the Western world is focused on ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The World's Best Place Norway and the Norwegians

    by Solveig Torvik ...
    The United Nations says Norway is the world's best place to live. So what's it like to live there? Who are these people, and what are their civic and cultural values? An unblinking look at celebrated, and uncelebrated, aspects of this paradoxical socialist welfare state by a Norwegian-American journalist. ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Liberating Sápmi

    Indigenous Resistance in Europe’s Far North

    by Gabriel Kuhn ...
    The Sámi, who have inhabited Europe’s far north for thousands of years, are often referred to as the continent’s “forgotten people.” With Sápmi, their traditional homeland, divided between four nation-states—Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia—the Sámi have experienced the profound oppression and discrimination that characterize the fate of indigenous people worldwide: their lands have been ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Scandinavia since 1500

    by Byron J. Nordstrom ...
    Though marked by certain geographical, linguistic, and cultural differences, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and the Faroe Islands are united by a common bond and a shared history. This history comes richly to life in this up-to-date and thorough account of modern Scandinavia.Structuring his history along the lines of traditional European chronology-Renaissance, Early Modern, Modern, ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • The A to Z of Norway

    by Jan Sjåvik ...
    Series series The A to Z Guide Series
    One of the smallest countries in Europe, Norway has created for itself a position in the world community, which is completely out of proportion to the size of its population. Originally the home of sub-Arctic hunters and gatherers, then of ferocious Vikings, it lost perhaps half of its population to the Black Death in 1349, ended up in a union with Denmark that lasted until 1814, and then became ... Read more

    $62.29 CAD

  • Switzerland - Culture Smart!

    The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

    by Kendall Hunter, Culture Smart! ...
    Series series Culture Smart!
    Don't just see the sights—get to know the people.Set aside your preconceptions of postcard scenery, chocolate and cheese, faceless bankers, and spotless cities. The real Switzerland is anything but bland. This small, multilingual, and fiercely independent country at the heart of Europe is full of surprises.Culture Smart! Switzerland reveals the human dimension of this enigmatic country. It ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The A to Z of Denmark

    by Professor Alastair H. Thomas ...
    Series series The A to Z Guide Series
    Denmark is the oldest monarchy in Europe. At different points in its history, Denmark's boundaries have encompassed England, Sweden, West Africa, India, and the West Indies. Despite its changing and relatively small boundaries, Denmark has played a much larger part in the politics of Europe than might be expected. Additionally, through its territories (Faroe Islands and Greenland), Denmark has ... Read more

    $62.29 CAD