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Digital Guinea Pigs
Narrative Non-fiction2020 · 208 pp

Digital Guinea Pigs

Gaute Brochmann

Norwegian society is in the midst of a comprehensive digitalisation process whose front line is primary education. Developments have taken place without research into or examination of the consequences for either education or public health. The compulsory introduction of iPads for children as young as six is happening entirely without parental involvement, debate or any kind of qualified knowledge, claims architect, editor and father of three, Gaute Brochman. Digital Guinea Pigs attempts to trace the history and reasoning behind the choices that are made, to give a status report on the current situation – and to foresee the future consequences of an increasingly digitalised school life. The result is a hard-hitting polemic that will spark heated discussions around dinner tables and force the politicians responsible to answer for their choices. Is it really true that the children of today need more digital expertise? Or is it rather the case that they already possess this expertise and are in sore need of other, complementary skills, such as the capacity for deep thinking and prolonged concentration?

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Deterring Dementia
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2020 · 320 pp

Deterring Dementia

Andreas Engvig

Why is it that some of us have good memories throughout our life whereas others have much poorer memories? In one study 72 per cent of respondents aged 30 to 70 said that fear of memory loss was their greatest source of anxiety about aging. Close to 100,000 Norwegians have age-related dementia and the number is constantly climbing. What if we could influence our biological age and pursue a lifestyle that kept our brain healthy for longer? Age-related dementia implies loss of memory, judgement and the capacity to take care of ourselves. There is no shortcut or magic pill for avoiding dementia, but diseases and lifestyle-related issues such as obesity, diabetes, social isolation, high blood pressure and hearing loss contribute to the development of dementia. The processes that lead to dementia and memory loss arise several decades before the symptoms emerge, so early prevention is crucial. But there is a dementia deterrent! This book contains a three-step method with concrete advice to give you a good memory and keep your brain healthy for longer. Take control of your aging process, prepare your brain and prevent dementia within the boundaries set by your own genes. Learn how you can strengthen your neurons, keep the arteries to your brain healthy and ensure the good maintenance of your brain. You’ll be motivated to adopt habits and take steps that reduce the age-related forms of dementia, and you’ll get a slightly better life along the way because you’ll achieve better brain health. The book sums up all the research about what can affect the development of dementia and how we can maintain a good memory throughout our lives. This is a research-based, practical handbook that will help readers make lifestyle and health choices that will keep their brain healthy for longer. Deterring Dementia is interesting for anyone who are curious about what memory is, and what affects memory. The book conveys in an easy and amusing way the scientific foundation of how you can maintain memory in the best way, as long as you have a healthy brain. The Norwegian National Health Association

The Great Game
Narrative Non-fiction2020 · 288 pp

The Great Game

Bår Stenvik

Sci fi writers and philosophers used to be the ones worrying about artificial intelligence. Nowadays, the warnings are coming from technologists like Elon Musk and are expounded in serious newspapers. Computers have already pretty much taken over the world. Not as autocratic despots, but in the form of thousands of little helpers that control your car, tell you where to eat, what to buy and what music you’ll like. From morning to night, smart systems manage everything from what you see on your Facebook feed to plans for future TV series extrapolated from your viewing habits. All this we are already used to, and we barely think of it as ‘artificial intelligence’. But how are our lives actually shaped by the algorithms? And what lies just around the corner? Artificial intelligence is discussed as a decisive factor in the struggle for world domination between the US and China. In Norway, we debate whether new technology will save or destroy the welfare state. All those of us bringing up the next generation wonder how to equip them to survive in tomorrow’s job market and cope with their daily interaction with social media. This book seeks out expertise and examines the field in search of pointers.

A Japanese Spring
Narrative Non-fiction2020 · 256 pp

A Japanese Spring

Ina Strøm

Journalist and author Ina Strøm writes intimately, engagingly and with liberating honesty about her attempt to understand the Japanese and fit into a country that is so far removed from Norway in so many ways. Japan’s captivating history is elegantly interwoven into the text, whose action moves in parallel from south to north, and from ancient times to the present day. A Dream of the EastA Japanese spring awakens a deeper interest for the many paradoxes of Japanese culture, and anything that stir under the cultural surface.The easy changes between Strøm´s own experiences as well as the facts she digs up from the past makes for an entertaining read. Strøm places her self firmly in the middle: “I look at the Japanese and feel like a stranger. Then turn around and look at the tourists and feel almost equally strange.” She uses her self as the red thread on the journey, writing about the people she meets and the experiences that she makes, while reflecting on her own reactions. She allow her self to be both amazed and frustrated about the norms and prejudice, especially when it comes to the narrow expectations regarding family- and gender issues.KLASSEKAMPEN From the starting point on the tropical island Ishigaki - with her fingers in the dirt on a plantation owned by a widow with five boyfriends - until she lands in the north, looking for the native tribe Ainue, Strøm give us a rich portrayal of Japan with an abundance of smell and taste. She is a writer that takes it all in, that dare to be moved. The result is a fresh and original piece of travel literature.DAGENS NÆRINGSLIV

A Brief Introduction to the Crusades
Narrative Non-fiction2020 · 200 pp

A Brief Introduction to the Crusades

Pål Berg Svenungsen

Few phenomena from European medieval history are as controversial and debated as the Crusades. While attitudes toward the Crusades during the Middle Ages were largely overwhelmingly positive, subsequent reactions have been deeply divided: ranging from positive admiration to moral condemnation. The Crusades have been held up both as an example to follow and as a perversion of religion. Furthermore, the term 'crusade' has acquired an alternative meaning in everyday language, where it has been emptied of its original religious content and is instead used to refer to any good cause. This book aims to provide the reader with a better understanding of what the medieval Crusades actually were, as well as to highlight the central role crusades have played – and, to some extent, still play – in European history. «It is a truly excellent book—modest in size, but filled with interesting reflections and a thorough examination of several important aspects of the medieval crusades that most other scholars have either forgotten or simply taken no interest in (…) it is a well-written book with many new, important, and often surprising perspectives—solidly grounded in extensive research. It should definitely be included in university medieval studies curricula and can, moreover, be warmly recommended for general reading for pleasure.Kurt Villads Jensen, Historisk tidsskrift“(…) well-written and informative, managing to provide an overview of a highly complex historical topic in an easily accessible manner (…) All in all, A Brief Introduction to the Crusades is a superb book that can be both enjoyed and put to good use by a broad readership, from schoolchildren to pensioners. Because it is appropriately detailed while remaining easy to read and clear, this is a book Norwegian readers need, and one that Norwegian literature truly benefits from.”Steffen Hope, Heimen

Dynamism
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2020 · 224 pp

Dynamism

Kristian Hall

Is your goal to become a better project manager? Or clear up your e-mail system? Or do you want to become a football trainer, write a book or paint a picture? Whatever it is you want to achieve, at work or in your private life, big or small, the basic tools are the same. In 15 concrete steps, you’ll learn to be more dynamic. And this is what you’ll achieve once you have taken all the steps: You’ll work smarter than before You’ll postpone things less and prioritise better You’ll become more productive and efficient You’ll become a better problem-solver You’ll know where to find help when you’re facing adversity Plus many other benefits and tools besides. Make use of them, feel the joy of achievement and know that you’re a long way towards doing what you want to get done.

Sacred Animals
Narrative Non-fiction2020 · 416 pp

Sacred Animals

Tor Åge Bringsværd

Tor Åge Bringsværd´s beautiful, intriguing and critically acclaimed anthologies Woof and Giddy-Up where collections about the cultural history of the dog and the horse. About the animals place in myths, legends and adventures around the globe. In Sacred Animals he writes about the animals place in the images we have of how everything has come to be. It has become a vital and rich book where Bringsværd in his typical way pours his knowledge and enthusiasm in his presentation and tales of fourteen different holy animals. These are the animals you find in the book:MonkeyBear CoyoteSpiderElephantWhaleCatCow/OxMouse /RatRavenTortoiseSnakeTiger Wolf

Honestly
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2020 · 400 pp

Honestly

Kirsten Holtmon Resaland / Astrid Nylander Almaas

The ultimate young people’s guide to coping with life and mental health. Honestly is a thorough book that provides young people with knowledge and advice that can help ease their path through life. Read, among others, about identity, feelings and thoughts, self-image, body and sex, you and other people, when life gets tough and mental illnesses.Is there such a thing as dangerous thoughts? What makes You You, and what are your best qualities? Can falling in love change us? And what do you do if a friend is having troubled times? What is the difference between being afraid and having anxiety? What can you do about gossip, bad mouthing and general drama? What are sexual fantasies? How do we react when something really painful happens? Why do we believe in fake news? Is it normal to be grumpy for no reason? Everybody has stuff going on beneath the surface. There’s nothing wrong with that – it’s normal; and it’s what makes us humans different and exciting. This is a book that you do not have to read from cover to cover. You can simply look topics that you might be interested in - or have a need for. You can read about topics like Identity, Feelings and thoughts, Self-Image, Body and Sex. In Honestly you get thorough answers from a psychologist and a doctor, talking straight forwardly about being a human being. It is also a great reference book for anyone close to young people today; Parents, teachers and others, who want to know more and understand. Winner of RIKSMÅLSPRISEN 2020. Astrid Nylander Almaas (b. 1975) is Head Physician at the Ahus-hospital in Oslo, specialized in Paediatrics. She has a doctorate in how nutrition affects the development of the brain in Children. Since 2016 she has been part of the NRK TV-show "What is Wrong with You?".Kirsten Holtmon Resaland (b.1980) is a specialist in the psychiatry of children and young adults and has worked with the psychic health of youth for many years.The book is illustrated by Kristine A. Sand.

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What Do the Russians Want from Norway?
Narrative Non-fiction2020 · 240 pp

What Do the Russians Want from Norway?

Bernhard L. Mohr

When relations between Russia and the West cooled after the annexation of Crimea in 2014, it looked for a while as if Norwegian-Russian co-operation would be fine. Yet over the past three years, Russia has engaged in a series of actions targeting Norway and Norwegian interests: the spying charge against Frode Berg and the raid on the Norwegian University Centre in St Petersburg; frequent fighter jet and bomber missions along the coast of Norway and major military exercises close to the border; the refusal of visas to Norwegian business leaders and politicians; and the public exposure of diplomats. What is it about Norway’s behaviour that has provoked the Russian bear? What relationship do Russia’s political leadership really want to have with us? And what do ordinary Russians think about Norway, the only neighbouring country with which Russia has never engaged in armed conflict? In this book, Russia expert Bernhard L. Mohr tries to find out how Norway appears to have ended up high on the Kremlin’s agenda. His Russian sources are many, from leading politicians and diplomats, through journalists and experts to young Russians urbanites. The book also takes the temperature of Russia in 2020 – a country where there appears to be an increasingly wide gap between the leaders and the population, and between the generations. Journalist and editor Bernhard L. Mohr has been monitoring Russia closely since the turn of the millennium. His previous book, Why Do Russians Vote for Putin? (2017) enjoyed an extremely positive reception from critics and readers alike. Well written, nuanced and full of insightMohr takes us behind the facades, into the homes and into the Russian way of thinking – far beyond the clichés about the vodka drinking, spontaneous and emotional Russian most into showing off strength. Russia is not synonymous with the regime of Putin. That Mohr also have a vivid drive in is his writing, as well as him being a grand storyteller, makes for a joyful reading.VÅRT LAND

How to be a (Scandinavian) Feminist
Narrative Non-fiction2020 · 176 pp

How to be a (Scandinavian) Feminist

Marta Breen

The award-winning Norwegian author Marta Breen has written a number of books on feminism, music and women's history. Among them is the comic book Women in battle (2018), which has been sold to 26 territories so far. For the past couple of years she has given lectures on equality and gender roles in countries such as Serbia, Germany, England, Russia, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Brazil. On these travels, Marta Breen has noticed that there is a lot of uncertainty associated with the term feminism, and that many women simply do not dare to take this word in their mouths. In this manual she explains many myths and misunderstandings about feminism. At the same time, she gives the reader good tips on how to achieve more equality in life - and love.

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Creativity
Narrative Non-fiction2020 · 304 pp

Creativity

Hilde Østby

Creativity has in the last century been linked primarily to artists with a relaxed relationship to alcohol, fun STD´s and a wild and extroverted way of life. But what is creativity, really? What drives creativity, and how can we all learn how to be more creative?There are more than enough books that would like to give you the instructions on how to be creative. This is not that type of book. Creativity is a book that combines brand new brain research on creativity, the cultural history of creativity and an analysis on society, as well as the experience of a number of creative people. It is a narrative exploration of creativity, as well as a criticism of society. It is a counterpart to a society that wants to measure everything, where everyone feels the pressure to perform and become a celebrity.With this book the author tries to make messing about, boredom and trying and failure the new gold standard: Because when AI and the climate crisis arrives, we will have to be very creative! And creativity lives in a very strange place, what the researchers call DMN, also known as daydreaming. Into the Rabbit hole!The starting point for this epistle book is the bicycle accident that the author was involved in on the banks of the Aker River in Oslo. She literally hit the wall – or more precisely the bridgehead – and had to reconstruct her self after being smashed. The process ends up as a defence letter for the playful human and it´s fragile brain.MORGENBLADET Personal and and well-copmposed about creativityIn her search for the nature of creativity, Hilde Østby combines form and content in a way that is both gripping and full of insight.DAGSAVISEN The view from SaturnIn Creativity, Hilde Østby makes sense out of an ocean of new connections by drawing the lines between brain science and the experiences of creative people.BLA Bokvennen Charm Prose!Hilde Østby has delivered a well-composed and very entertaining book about popular science. A deliberate portioning of the details in her personal story and striking comments along the way, make the theoretical insights come alive.KLASSEKAMPEN

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Wine with a Taste of Nature
Cook Books / Narrative Non-fiction2020 · 128 pp

Wine with a Taste of Nature

Johan Setnes

The Wine Book is your gateway to a new world of experiences and flavours infused with the summer sun. Fruits and berries from the garden, and sweet delicacies from the forests and mountains are excellent raw materials for winemaking. All the different berries you can pick give a special character to the wine you make. Wine based on berries and fruit is delicious with meat, but also for use in marinades and sauces. Imagine game marinated in crowberry wine! In this book, you’ll learn about the properties and flavour palettes of the different raw materials, and their areas of application. And you’ll get a thorough introduction to the art of winemaking from somebody who really knows his stuff – from dealing with raw materials and the fermentation process to storage and safekeeping. You’ll also find plenty of suggestions for what kinds of food go best with the different wines and which flavours you can combine. A veritable treasure trove of tastes.