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In Each Other’s World
Narrative Non-fiction / Children's Books2021 · 192 pp

In Each Other’s World

Penelope Lea

Penelope Lea is a powerful, young voice in the climate debate both in Norway and abroad. She has sat on the board of Eco Agents, led the Children’s Climate Panel, launched numerous appeals and now she has been chosen as a UNICEF ambassador – at the age of just 17. In her work, Penelope has met people with different approaches to what we can do about the climate issue, and the book draws together all these encounters. The interviews offer a broad understanding of different aspects of the climate issue, while giving a general, personal overview of Penelope’s work as a climate activist. Kristian Hammerstad has produced illustrated portraits of all the interviewees. This book is aimed at socially engaged 12-18-year-olds.

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The School of Life
Narrative Non-fiction2021 · 416 pp

The School of Life

Inge Eidsvåg

Is Norway a better society to live in today than in the 1950s? Inge Eidsvåg believes it is – on the whole things have gone in the right direction, at least from the point of view of material standards of living. At the same time, we are in the process of sawing off the branch we’re sitting on. Eidsvåg’s generation is the first to have become aware of the climate crisis – and they are the last ones who will escape its impact. That is the backdrop to this report from the school of life, the school that may make us a bit wiser but ultimately takes the lives of all its students. The School of Life is Inge Eidsvåg’s journey from the realm of childhood to the narrow paths of old age, and a settling of accounts with Norwegian society, from the 1950s to the present day.

Iceland
Narrative Non-fiction2021 · 336 pp

Iceland

Kirsti MacDonald Jareg

Volcanoes and glaciers, sandy deserts and geysers. In this cultural-historical tour around the coast of Iceland, readers encounter stories from the past and tales of modern-day Icelanders. The struggle against the aluminum industry’s river dams. The sudden arrival of mackerel in Icelandic waters. The story of the Iceland sweater’s symbolic power and the role it played during the financial crisis.In this book we meet bards, researchers and bird catchers - and ask how it is possible to live on an island where the tectonic plates collide and puddles boil. An exciting travelogue - communicated in a vivid way!With Iceland - a travel guide the author conveys a considerable knowledge about the specific history of Icelandic settlement, the rich and fascinating saga literature, and not least the drama of the last decades. The Political, Social and the natural geographical drama that really separates Iceland from the rest of Northern Europe. All of this is conveyed by the author in a vivid and inspiring way. *****TØNSBERGS BLADJareg has written an original and rewarding travelogue. It requires a little concentration to get into it - but in return it gives you exceptionally good insight into the very soul of Iceland. *****VAGABOND Jareg is both playful and knowledgeable. You will not get a closer look at Iceland than what you get in this book - unless you travel there yourself. Torbjørn Færøvik - Travel author

I will Help You
Narrative Non-fiction2021 · 208 pp

I will Help You

Vigdis J. Reisæter

Vigdis J. Reisæter found her dream job as a nurse but gave up after ten years. In this book, she opens a door on everyday life in an old people’s home, telling powerful tales of people’s lived lives that do not appear in budgets or patients’ records. She directs a spotlight on the conditions nurses need to provide proper care and, by extension, on the way we care for the elderly in Norway today. This is her story.

Psychology at Work
Narrative Non-fiction2021 · 144 pp

Psychology at Work

Carina Carl / Rebekka Egeland

Management is psychology, claim psychologists Carina Carl and Rebekka Egeland. You will always bring your personality with you into your management role and that is where psychology gets interesting – because we humans aren’t as rational as we’d like to think. Every new situation is unique, just as every human being is unique and everyone’s environment is constantly changing. The realisation that times may change but humans don’t mean that everybody should know something about how our brains work, what primary and secondary emotions are, and how relationships affect all communications and every management style. Early relationships are also significant when it comes to how you talk to yourself and manage yourself. And you must manage yourself before you can manage others. Psychology at Work places less importance on the theories and models of organisational psychology than on the development of personality, relationships, communication, life choices and values. In that respect, the book is just as interesting for anybody with a job and a workplace to go to as for managers. Carina Carl is a psychologist working on many platmorms, amongst them the Noia podcast. Rebekka Egeland was Young Manager of the Year in 2018. The two of them are passionately dedicated to explaining psychology to ordinary people in an easy-to-grasp way and both have written several books. This is the second book they have written together. They each run their own practices.

Let´s go Outside!
Narrative Non-fiction / Children's Books2021 · 216 pp · Age 3 - 12

Let´s go Outside!

Cecilie Skog

In Let's go Outside! Cecilie Skog shows us how to bring nature back into our everyday lives in a fun, simple and manageable way. In this colourful, richly illustrated book, we learn about the nature around us, get tips for activities and things that we can make, eat and look at, and are offered inspiration for using nature in daily life. This is a book for all children, and also any parent who needs tips and tricks for making nature a part of everyday life again.

Life
Narrative Non-fiction2021 · 192 pp

Life

Dag O. Hessen

What is life and how did it come about? In Life, Dag O. Hessen tries to build a bridge between the existential wonder we all feel and the prominent scientists who have attempted to give us concrete answers to these vast questions. The result is an ambitious but fittingly unpretentious and engaging tale of the jaw-dropping series of chances that led to the diversity of life on Earth today. Life is a plea to the reader to be grateful for the winning ticket that every one of us has drawn, and a hope that a greater understanding of the millions of flukes that resulted in the planet’s diversity will also give us a stronger motivation to protect it.

Reynard – Creator, Helper, Trickster, Demon
Narrative Non-fiction2021 · 160 pp

Reynard – Creator, Helper, Trickster, Demon

Tor Åge Bringsværd

Tor Åge Bringsværd offers up countless tales about foxes in myths, religion and fairytales. Over three thousand years and across five continents, we follow the trail of the fox in the stories humans tell. The book is a treasure chest of tales – wise, scary, funny, and so captivating that readers will barely notice how much they are learning along the way. As well as being an uncommonly productive and well-loved author, Tore Åge Bringsværd is a children’s author, dramatist and editor, and one of our foremost communicators of mythology and popular beliefs.

Min insta-tur
Narrative Non-fiction2021 · 192 pp

Min insta-tur

Julie Bjanes

Min insta-tur av instagram-profilen Julie Bjanes gir deg inspirasjon til hvordan du selv kan nyte turlivet og vakre eventyr i Norge.Julie Bjanes er et ordentlig turmenneske, og liker å ha det gøy utendørs. Hun drar gjerne med seg de flotteste kjolene i skapet opp på fjelltoppene.Boken guider både deg som aldri har gått tur før, og deg som har gått mange turer. Det er ikke alltid du trenger så mange kilometer eller høydemeter før du kan finne de flotteste utsiktene. I boken får du tips til 50 turer du kan gå alene, med unge og med eldre. Tips fra hvor du skal parkere, til hvor du får kjøpt den beste tursnacksen, og hvor og hvordan du skal få de beste bildene. Denne boken forenkler og senker terskelen for tur. Så enkelt at du kan scanne QR kode som guider deg til riktig plass.Kanskje er det første gang du skal planlegge en norgesferie, eller du har allerede saumfart landet og trenger tips til noen nye plasser. Min insta-tur er en enkel, anvendelig og svært severdig bok! Målet er at du sitter igjen med noen fantastiske minner fra turene og bilder du stolt kan vise frem.

My Fault
Narrative Non-fiction2021 · 240 pp

My Fault

Abid Raja

Norwegian Minister of Culture Abid Raja has been called loud, dominant and a poser. But his life has in large parts been the opposite: Hiding pain and the handicap he was born with. Hiding from the violence and the bullying. And hiding his feelings for his one true love.His feeling of guilt - a mixture of shame and fear, has stopped him from acknowledging many of the other feelings he as a person is equipped with. The only thing he at one point was feeling was rage and anger. When he, as a grown up, sought help from a female psychologist to find a way to control his temper, she asked him: "Do you have any idea about where this anger comes from? Is there something else in your life that is the real issue that spark this anger?"This is the brutally honest story about Abid Raja´s turbulent journey to rise above his class, his year long fight to be with the woman he loves and the painful liberation from shame, guilt and exclusion. Important, well written and very good - ******NETTAVISENA deeply moving and honest self-biography. One of the most important books that have been written about growing up between two cultures in Norway. MORGENBLADETA Painful and shocking, as well as impressive and inspiring self-biography.VG

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The Neighbours
Narrative Non-fiction2021 · 224 pp

The Neighbours

Anne-Britt Harsem

In this book, Utøya’s neighbours give their own account of how they experienced 22nd July 2011 – on-the-spot witness statements from people who did life-saving work while police and support personnel waited. In this powerful yet sober book, Anne Britt Harsem gives a voice to their stories, letting them tell us what happened on 22nd July and in the time that followed, and how it has changed their lives.

Nansen and the Airships
Narrative Non-fiction2021 · 424 pp

Nansen and the Airships

Lars Frode Larsen

Airships were a potentially liberating project for Fridtjof Nansen. At the same time, they combined the fields of endeavour in which he had been active throughout his life to date. They appealed to the adventurer in him as well as to the humanist and scientist. For the first time, this book tells the tale of Fridtjof Nansen and Aeroarctic. In this pioneering work, Lars Frode Larsen gets to grips with Nansen’s commitment to leading a scientific expedition to the Polar region with airships – a journey that never came to fruition. It is a dramatic story, a tale rife with complications and tensions at the personal, scientific, financial and political level.