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  • Mobilities on the Margins

    Creative Processes of Place-Making

    Edited by Björn Thorsteinsson, Katrín Anna Lund, Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson, Guðbjörg R. Jóhannesdóttir ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book examines places on the margins and the dynamics through which a marginal position of a place is created. Specifically, it explores how places, mostly in sparsely populated areas, often perceived as immobile and frozen in time, come into being and develop through interference of everyday mobilities and creative practices that cut across the spheres of culture and nature as ... Read more

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  • Untangling the Intangible

    Reconstructing Ideologies, Beliefs, and Religion in the Past

    Edited by Kathryn MacFarland, Erik G. Johannesson ...
    In Untangling the Intangible a diverse group of authors focuses on new and rigorous ways to approach religion, beliefs, and ideology in archaeology. Reconstructing the human experience from archaeologically recovered materials is a complex task that can only benefit by making use of all available avenues of inquiry. To that end, the authors of this volume model inclusive discussions that recognize ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • The History of Iceland

    by Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson ...
    Series series The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations
    Based upon the most recent research, this thought-provoking, up-to-date survey of the history of Iceland provides unique insight into the challenges facing a small nation in a globalized world.In more recent times, Iceland has faced other major challenges, most notably its economic fall in 2008 when a nationwide failure of its financial systems eroded it from its former position as one of the most ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Blood, Fire, Death

    The Swedish Metal Story

    by Ika Johannesson, Jon Jefferson Klingberg ...
    Series series Extreme Metal
    In the early 1990s, Swedish death metal revolutionized the international music scene. Suddenly, the mild-mannered Scandinavian country found itself at the forefront of a new movement with worldwide impact thanks to bands such as Entombed, Dismember, and At the Gates. The birth of black metal drove the culture to even greater extremes, featuring a rawer, darker sound and non-ironic death-worship. ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Murder in the Glen

    by Jo Johannesson ...
    Series Book 2 - Bonnie Blackthorn Investigates
    A murderous romp around the Scottish Highlands with DI Bonnie Blackthorn and her gangly bagman DS Ben Munro in hot pursuit of, well, those being hotly pursued. ... Read more

    $11.05 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Niels Lyhne

    by Jens Peter Jacobsen ...
    Translated by Tiina Nunnally ...
    Niels Lyhne is an aspiring poet, torn between romanticism and realism, faith and reason. Through his relationships with six women—including his young widowed aunt, a seductive free spirit, and his passionate cousin who marries his friend—his search for purpose becomes a yielding to disillusionment. One of Danish literature's greatest novels, with nods to Kierkegaard and a protagonist some critics ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Tourism Entrepreneurship

    Knowledge and Challenges for a Sustainable Future

    Edited by Desiderio J. García-Almeida, Guðrún Þóra Gunnarsdóttir, Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson, Thorhallur Orn Gudlaugsson ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book explores how entrepreneurship can be a driving force for the tourism industry and a solution to various sustainability issues that the sector is experiencing, such as employment and inclusion issues and the social and environmental impact of tourism. Based on the premise that the energising force of entrepreneurship in the tourism industry positively affects the supply of tourism and ... Read more

    $256.99 CAD

  • Entanglement in Spin Chains

    From Theory to Quantum Technology Applications

    Edited by Abolfazl Bayat, Sougato Bose, Henrik Johannesson ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book covers recent developments in the understanding, quantification, and exploitation of entanglement in spin chain models from both condensed matter and quantum information perspectives. Spin chain models are at the foundation of condensed matter physics and quantum information technologies and elucidate many fundamental phenomena such as information scrambling, quantum phase transitions, ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Tourism Employment in Nordic Countries

    Trends, Practices, and Opportunities

    Edited by Andreas Walmsley, Kajsa Åberg, Petra Blinnikka, Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Viewed through a politico-economic lens, Nordic countries share what is often referred to as the ‘Nordic model’, characterised by a comprehensive welfare state; higher spending on childcare; more equitable income distribution; and lifelong-learning policies. This edited collection considers these contexts to explore the complex nature of tourism employment, thereby providing insights into the ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Co-Creating Tourism Research

    Towards Collaborative Ways of Knowing

    Edited by Carina Ren, Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson, René van der Duim ...
    Series series Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
    Co-creation has become a buzzword in many social science disciplines, in business and in tourism studies. Given the prominence of co-creation, surprisingly little discussion has evolved around its implications for research practices and knowledge production as well as what challenges there are for fulfilling the promise of co-creation in tourism research.This book aims to contribute to this ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

  • Una Sancta

    Why Are We Still Separated?

    by Cormac Brian O'Duffy ...
    The unity of the Christian church in the world has been broken many times, with major schisms between East and West in the Great Schism of 1054 and the Western schism between Catholics and Lutherans which resulted in 1530. The Western schism at the Reformation occurred at the Augsburg Diet in 1530, when Catholics theologians and leaders of the German Reformation movement failed to agree on the ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Liberal Disorder, States of Exception, and Populist Politics

    Edited by Valur Ingimundarson, Sveinn Jóhannesson ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Democratic Crisis
    Liberal democracy is in trouble. This volume considers the crosscutting causes and manifestations of the current crisis facing the liberal order.Over the last decade, liberal democracy has come under mounting pressure in many unanticipated ways. In response to seemingly endless crisis conditions, governments have turned with alarming frequency to extraordinary emergency powers derogating the rule ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD