Self help

A Healthier Lifestyle With Kristine Weber

Kristine Weber

Kristine Weber makes it easier for you to get fit. In her latest book she gives you new recipes for simple and healthy protein-rich food, plus her diet plans with calorie estimates and strength training programmes. Whether you want to maintain or build muscles or you want to lose weight and reduce your body mass index, Kristine Weber shows you how. The recipes are all gluten- and sugar-free, and they include everything from nourishing smoothies and good, satisfying breakfast and lunch menus to easy, protein-rich dinners and healthier, delicious desserts and snacks. The training programmes in the book are effective and fun: one for training in the gym and another for training at home or outdoors without special equipment. Kristine demonstrates how the exercises are done and gives you your own programmes.

Exercise Together

Lasse Tufte / Jørgine Massa Vasstrand

Team up with at friend and exercise together! It is social and effective to do your exercise together with someone. Join Funky-Gine and Lasse Tufte, and let them show you the best and coolest exercises. Anything from duo-push ups and knee-lifters with friend-resistance, to duo-squats and partner-burpees. Use your bodyweight to get stronger, leaner and guaranteed in better shape. Learn and be inspired by the experts. This book contains over 200 exercises.

Outdoor Exercises

Kristin Granum Rosebø

The best exercises for training outdoors – whether you are already active or have not done very much physical training before. Training outdoors is super-effective and fun. Lots of variety and accessible to all. This book is for you if you love nature, whether you prefer power training, interval training or covering the miles. Learn here how best to train outdoors – in the park, in the woods, in the mountains or by the water. Get started alone or with friends. It's about the pleasure of training and about making use of the body's own measures. There is a special chapter for you if you enjoy clocking up the miles. The possibilities are endless and Kristin gives you the best and most enjoyable exercises and specific 30-minute programmes. Each chapter is rounded off with its own training programme which you can take a photo of on your mobile phone – handy to take out with you.

Adventures in Memory

Ylva Berger / Hilde Østby

Take a plunge into the science of memory, together with sisters Hilde and Ylva Østby, in Diving for Seahorses.The writers explore the many facets of memory and how it influences our lives, both from a neuroscience perspective and through conversations with some of the most influential memory researchers of our time. They meet people with a special kind of memory – at both ends of the memory spectrum from mnemonists, actors and taxi drivers, to amnesiacs – and discover that most memories are transformed and some are best forgotten. In the middle of winter, they send divers deep into the Oslo fjord in search of where our memories are stored. They wonder if what lies at the heart of memory is what will change our future.Diving for Seahorses explains memory through personal and vivid tale telling, combining the best of two craftsmanships: Hilde is a novelist, and Ylva is a neuropsychologist.‘… readable and interesting. … Reading this book will leave you baffled about how complex memory is.’ FÆDRELANDSVENNEN‘Diving for seahorses is a unique book about memory … science and research presented with wit and energy.’ BOKSTAVER.NO

Naked and Alone

Tormod Huseby

Alene naken is an exceptionally warm, tolerant and insightful book about what really controls our behaviour. Tormod Huseby is a psychiatrist deeply engaged with his patients and colleagues. In the book he shows what becomes of our lives when we are not ourselves. Why do we not turn out as we were meant to be, and why as adults do we continue to conceal who we are? The author also explains how we can be affected when other people haven't been able to be their true selves – children, spouses, colleagues or friends. That can lead to weakened self-esteem in those of us who have been rejected by them. We can suffer loss of energy, conflict in relationships at work and worry about our friendships. We may also fear violence and terrorism. Through many stories from his meetings with people – and from his own life – he invites us to reflect on why we are who we are, why we make the choices we do, and how we can make different choices to enable us to find a life where we dare to be fully ourselves. ’Honest, open-hearted and well written reports of some of the problems and people a psychiatrist can meet in his everyday work.’AFTENPOSTEN

Calisthenics with Lasse Tufte

Lasse Tufte

Build up your strength and have fun training – indoors and out! There has been enormous growth in interest in weight-training and calisthenics. Now we have the book, written by the expert himself, Lasse Tufte, who demonstrates and explains the best exercises in the ‘calisthenics bible.' The exercises are all illustrated, and they are divided into categories such as warming up, legs, the backs of the thighs, stomach and pulling exercises. He also includes his own practical and enjoyable programmes, which can be seen as games as well as training. Outdoor calisthenics is a social activity – and free! This book is perfect both for new beginners who need to have the exercises demonstrated and for more advanced participants who want to develop further and learn more. Lasse Tufte lectures on calisthenics and street workout and is recognised both nationally and internationally for his role in sports development as an organiser, exponent, judge, developer of facilities, lecturer and consultant.

A Good Decision

Nils Tore Meland

Why did I buy a flat with a balcony when I really needed a garage? Which candidate shall I employ? Do we need a turnaround at work? Should I set up this project? These are important questions with major consequences. Decisions are to do with making choices and putting an end to uncertainty and doubt. Unfortunately, an overwhelming mass of good research indicates that more than half of all our decisions turn out badly. Most of us think that it is difficult to make complex choices which involve risk and serious consequences. We put off and wait, or we just leave things as they are. We base our decisions on too much, too little or incorrect information. So we identify too few possibilities and propose inadequate solutions. Or we simply solve the wrong problem. Those who use a little more time, especially at the start of the decision process, identify more opportunities and formulate better solutions. In the whole process they make quicker and better choices, up to six times better in fact. Good decision-making can be both learned and practised to a high standard, and the process can be both exciting and fun. This book will give you seven practical steps towards better decision-making. ’A superbly good book about decision-making. An example for future authors of non-fiction’Elin Ørjaseter ’ … one of the year’s most exciting Norwegian books on management’HR Norge ’… a fantastic book for all who want to develop their skills at making better decisions … which many will get great benefit from reading.’ Hans-Petter Nygård-Hansen ’some of the best I have read on the subject. The book is so elegantly written that the main message never becomes boring.’Edvard Noer Bjørge

A Whole Person in Half a Body

Anne Grethe Solberg

Anne Grethe Solberg was shot by her ex-husband eight years ago. One shoulder and arm had to be amputated, and her hip was shot to pieces. It was uncertain whether she would survive, and whether she would be able to walk. She was certainly not expected to be able to run a marathon. In this book she tells the dramatic story of the shooting episode. She relates how she saved her life by playing dead. Not least, she describes what happened after the shooting; how she escaped from the scene of the shooting and how she was saved. She has a strong survival instinct. She wants to look after her children, work and pay the bills herself. She develops strategies for self-mastery, and as she herself is a coach, she coaches herself in the recovery period after the shooting. After an impressive amount of practice, Anne Grethe teaches herself to walk. However, it becomes apparent that it is easier to run. She decides to run a marathon and she writes grippingly about her progress to the New York Marathon. Finally, she shares her ten strategies for self-mastery which we can all make use of. A story of self-mastery, strong will, hard work and a strong wish to survive in order to be able to make a difference.

Harvest Outdoor Handbook

This book is about enjoying the outdoors with children and all the enjoyable, exciting and educational activities you can find there. It comes to us from the editors who publish the magazine Harvest on the internet: Torbjørn Ekelund, Simen Tveitereid, Kjetil Østli and Anders Aakre. Like many others, they have learned by experience that it is often better to be outdoors than in. All age-groups find that crossing the threshold is the longest mile, but once the bags are packed and the troops assembled and the whole family is trotting into the woods, along the shore or up into the mountains, a type of calm settles. Everybody suddenly feels content to be there, and it seems that the children have long forgotten that just a short time ago they were insisting on staying indoors. The aim of this book is to inspire families with small children to go out more – or at least give it a try.

Help

Øyvind Kvalnes

Helping others is one of the best things we can do on this Earth. That's when we are at our very best as human beings. It's also good for the heart, and reduces stress and depression. More help is needed, both locally and globally. How can we help in the best way possible? A tiny extra input can be all that is needed to transform a situation for somebody else. Help can be anything from feeding the cat for friends while they are on holiday, to running into a burning house to rescue somebody. It can be taking a neighbour's washing in from the clothes-line when rain approaches. It can also be going into war zones to provide medical and humanitarian help at the risk of one's own life. Tweeter and philosopher Øyvind Kvalnes is engaged with aid not only professionally but also more personally as a father, grandfather and local citizen. Helpfulness is one of the most important things we can teach our children, provided we find the golden middle way and don't push them too hard. In this book he takes examples from his own life, from philosophy and from psychology.