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A Brief Introduction to the First World War
Narrative Non-fiction2025 · 248 pp

A Brief Introduction to the First World War

Eirik Brazier

A Brief Introduction to the First World War provides a thorough yet highly accessible introduction to the complex and debated causes of the war. The book demonstrates how the conflict rapidly spread from Europe to the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, and shows how millions of people both within and outside Europe were directly and indirectly affected by this global struggle. Drawing on recent research, the book illustrates how the First World War became a total war that demanded the total mobilization of society's human and material resources, in both belligerent and neutral nations. Brazier shows how this resulted in a more active and interventionist state, and how ideas regarding state planning and the redistribution of resources went on to lay the foundation for new concepts of social organization. A Brief Introduction to the First World War provides the reader with an overview of a pivotal event in world history. The war's long-term influence on politics, society, and the economy cannot be overstated. It was a turning point in our modern history: understanding the causes and consequences of the First World War is therefore crucial to understanding the complexities of today's world.

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A Brief Introduction to the Viking Age
Narrative Non-fiction2025 · 200 pp

A Brief Introduction to the Viking Age

Bjørn Bandlien

A Brief Introduction to the Viking Age provides an overview of the latest research on Viking Age society, politics, warfare, worldview, religion, and economy. This period has fascinated people far beyond the Nordic region, including those who research it. The Vikings traveled as far as Central Asia in the east, North Africa in the south, and the American continent in the west – partly to plunder, but also to trade and establish towns and kingdoms. In this book, you can learn more about the magnificent ship burials, the exploitation of natural resources, the rich art and mythology, as well as the spectacular literary traces they left behind on runestones and in skaldic poetry. The book uses examples from various sources, both written and material, to highlight the nuances and variations between different regions, and what it was like to grow up and live in different social and ethnic groups – for example, as thralls, farmers, children, women, and Sámi. In this way, we are presented with a richer and more complex culture than the uncompromising warrior we meet in popular culture.

Not because it's easy
Narrative Non-fiction2025 · 396 pp

Not because it's easy

Henrik Syse / Jenny Helene Syse

This is a unique story of courage, friendship, competition, defeat and seemingly impossible victories. It is a story about setting goals, and about creating peace – and about how people who work together can achieve the seemingly impossible. In 1961, a human being traveled into space for the first time. Just a few years later, in 1969, two people landed on the surface of the moon. Both events were the result of an intense struggle and the competition between superpowers. Then the unexpected happened: In 1975, the arch-rivals the USA and the USSR met in space in an unprecedented demonstration of peaceful, interpersonal cooperation. Henrik and Jenny Helene Syse tell the story of the Apollo missions and the conquest of space. The scientific and the philosophical, the concrete and the visionary, go hand in hand in one of the most exciting stories of all time. We meet famous persons such as Yuri Gagarin, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Jim Lovell. But we also meet a large gallery of notable, but far less well-known, women and men who contributed to the fact that humans were able to leave their footprints on another celestial body. «... impressively dense with facts about the US's space race.»DAGBLADET

A story about setting goals – and creating peace
Understand Your Child Through Astrology
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2025 · 128 pp

Understand Your Child Through Astrology

Nina Skjemstad

Understand your child's unique personality through the principles of astrology Discover a new dimension in parenting with Understand Your Child Through Astrology. This insightful book combines astrological wisdom with modern knowledge to give a unique tool for understanding and supporting a child's individual development. Each child is a unique combination of heredity, environment and free will. By exploring a child's star sign, you can gain deeper understanding of the child's personality, needs and potential. It provides practical advice for strengthening a child's self-esteem, identity and coping abilities, while promoting empathy and respect in relationships. Understand Your Child Through the Astrology is not a book for putting children into boxes, but a tool for opening up new perspectives and insights. It encourages reflection and awareness, and gives you the opportunity to meet the child where they are, with understanding and love.

Friction
Narrative Non-fiction2025 · 189 pp

Friction

Øyvind Kvalnes

Friction is the form of dissent which leads to better decisions and results. Friction is a social phenomenon. It occurs everywhere humans meet. It provides useful resistance, and handling friction in a good way is crucial to avoid an argument escalating into a conflict leading to crimes or large lawyer’s bills. Through this book the reader becomes better equipped to understand what friction really means, why we need it and what is needed in order to mobilize the friction and keep things on the right keel. Friction is necessary to achieve good and correct results and decisions. Through current conflicts and examples from science, philosopher Øyvind Kvalnes shows how important voices of dissent are in order to achieve a good result. Without opposite opinions and dissent we cannot learn anything. This is however a power that needs to be controlled. Boundless friction can be scary and paralyze people from fear.

A Year of Birds
Narrative Non-fiction2025 · 192 pp

A Year of Birds

Torbjørn Ekelund

Sometimes you discover something new, or see something familiar in a new way. The space expands. The world gets bigger. A curtain is pulled aside, and you see into a parallel universe. With these words, a journey begins. Not across continents, but into the small things that surrounds us. When epilepsy forced journalist and amateur ornithologist Torbjørn Ekelund to abandon his plans for a globe-spanning bird book, his world shrank to the local woods of Maridalen, his garden, and a small cabin by the sea. But in that shrinking, something expanded. Told through a series of diary entries over the course of a year, A Year of Birds follows Ekelund’s growing awareness of the birds around him. At the beginning of the year, he knows almost nothing about birds. By the end of the year, he knows a little more. He watches blackbirds and bullfinches, observes gulls and geese, and lets the ordinary transform into the extraordinary through simple, sustained attention. This is a book about birds but also about perception, limitation, and the beauty of staying still. It is about discovering nature not in far-off landscapes, but right where you are. With warmth, humour, and a quiet existential undertone, A Year of Birds invites us to look more closely, live more attentively and see the world anew.

A poetic diary of everyday bird encounters
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Bird's-Eye View
Narrative Non-fiction2025 · 272 pp

Bird's-Eye View

Dag O. Hessen

Bird's-Eye View is a fascinating journey through two centuries of landscape changes and human intervention, seen through the eyes of migratory birds. By following their routes from 1825, 1925 and 2025, we get a unique and dramatic insight into how the landscape has changed over time, into the fragility and durability of nature, and how humans have shaped life on earth. Written by award-winning author and biologist Dag O. Hessen, the book combines scientific facts with gripping stories about bird species and their incredible migrations, and gives us a deeper understanding of nature's beauty and vulnerability. With a focus on European landscapes and birds of paradise, as well as personal stories from the rugged west coast of Norway, this is a book that informs and inspires. Bird's-Eye View is a tribute to the world of birds and a reminder of the importance of preserving our natural landscapes for future generations. «It is well-written, easy to read and fascinating - despite the fact that the content shows a bleak development. Hessen has a warmth towards nature, this time the migratory birds, and it is written with love, fond memories, recognisable depictions of bird sounds around us, bird boxes, hunting for beautiful bird eggs.»VG, five/six stars «Dag O. Hessen's book about the birds' threatened life is unique knowledge dissemination.» Klassekampen «A skilled and clear communicator.»Stavanger Aftenblad, five/six stars «The lives of birds are secretive – and precious. That is the feeling I am left with after reading biology professor Dag O. Hessen's book, which is perhaps not so much written for bird enthusiasts, as for readers who admittedly like birds, but who lack a bird book and binoculars – and who need to be initiated into their world.»Harvest

Blends science, history, and personal narrative
Ocean All Around
Narrative Non-fiction2025 · 285 pp

Ocean All Around

Kirsti MacDonald Jareg

Ocean All Around erases all national borders, and draws a living portrait of the North Atlantic ocean; the historical, cultural and genetical melting pot that shares a Norse and Celtic heritage. The reader gets up close and personal with the island people and their traditions, myths and histories, triumphs and tragedies which show how nature and ocean has shaped – and still shapes – life on the islands. For as long as people have inhabited the North Atlantic coast, they have shared the deeply human urge to explore the unknown. Humans should perhaps have been born with gills and webbed feet, because as soon as given the chance, they would sail out to sea, risking their lives. Before the current maps and borders were drawn, people would go island hopping between Norway and Shetland, Orkney and the Hebrides, the Isle of Man, Ireland, the Faroes and Iceland without having to think of passports and custom controls. They braved the waves in log boats, light currachs, clinker-built ships, fishing boats and schooners. They traded with each other and married each other, inspired each other or repressed each other. Islands are communities in miniature. When you’re surrounded by ocean as far as the eye can see, islanders are in the same boat, so to speak. They all depend on each other. To live on an island can be claustrophobic, romantic, windy, grim, lonely, frustrating, peaceful – but never boring.

Who controls my feed?
Narrative Non-fiction2025 · 204 pp

Who controls my feed?

Bår Stenvik

Why does your social media feed look the way it does? Who decides what we see all day long? Do we decide ourselves, is it people like Mark Zuckerberg, or is it AI? The author asks and answers questions such as "Why are conspiracy theories so popular online?" and "Does my phone listen to everything I say?"Who controls my feed? is a book for the whole family, helping us understand what's happening 'behind the screen' and how artificial intelligence and social media is increasingly taking control of our lives.

How to Save Democracy from Artificial Intelligence
Narrative Non-fiction2025 · 186 pp

How to Save Democracy from Artificial Intelligence

Henrik Skaug Sætra

What happens to democracy with the inreased use artificial intelligence? How does it change our perception about the world around us? When we use technology to organise and understand our fellow citizens and what they are saying? When we use AI to support, replace or change democratic processes? In this book author Sætra presents a thorough analysis of what a democracy is, and how AI is about to transform it into something else entirely. The book shows clearly how the fast-increasing use of AI in all parts of society inevitably affects democratic and political processes. This book is an important addition to the current and future discussions about how AI should be developed and applied. Everyone with a certain interest in politics and their role as a citizen will get an increased insight into how AI affects democracy. Developers and tech firms get insights that may persuade them from the biggest pitfalls. Politicians get useful background information about using the development of technology in a way that may benefit society.

No One Thinks Alone
Narrative Non-fiction2025 · 234 pp

No One Thinks Alone

Bjørn Gregory-Stærk

Is it too difficult in modern society to change your mind? Or too easy to simply adopt the mindset of those around you? Bjørn Stærk went from being deeply religious to becoming a Christian-friendly atheist in his youth. He later became a right-wing populist blogger, but moved towards the political center. He was on the verge of becoming a climate skeptic, but is today involved in the Green Party. In this book, he explores the question "What does it mean to change your mind?" What triggers a change of mind in ourselves and others, how does the change occur, and can we become better at it? Based on his own experiences, a diverse research literature and conversations with people such as Sidsel Wold, Paul Chaffey, Emil Erstad and his own father - who is a Christian conservative - Stærk takes the reader on a journey that challenges popular myths, such as that changing your mind is unusual or that people are too easily influenced. We think together with the groups we feel at home in, for better or for worse.

Nothing Will Ever Be The Same
Narrative Non-fiction2025 · 224 pp

Nothing Will Ever Be The Same

Gaute Børstad Skjervø

“For a long time, the adults believed that reason had won. That war was a thing of the past. That the future automatically meant democracy, freedom and peace. They told us the world would improve on its own. That idea is extremely naive. And it has cost our generation dearly,” writes Gaute Børstad Skjervø. He was just 16 years old when he survived the 22 of July terrorist attack by hiding in a crevice on the Utøya island. One of the older youths—just 20—told him that, being the youngest, he had to hide deepest in the crevice. Later, they swam for their lives as gunshots echoed across the island. After 22 July 2011, Skjervø became an involuntary expert on extremism and fascism. Today, he is the leader of the Norwegian Labour Youth Party (AUF) and one of the most promising young politicians in Norway. He still carries in him an anger which he wants to use to fight against the forces that took the lives of his friends, and to fight for the community. This is his personal story. A young man’s political awakening. And his powerful answer to the young people and parents who fear for the future: «I have seen the darkest in people, but also the brightest.» «AUF leader Gaute Børstad Skjervø writes well about a generation shaped by the crises of the 2000s – and their naive parents.»DAGENS NÆRINGSLIV «A razor-sharp political message in book form.»VG