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Burnt Out
Self Help2021 · 224 pp

Burnt Out

Selina Barker

All over the world we’re hearing about burn out and about people who are in danger of suffering that fate. Everyone from senior executives to nurses, doctors to teachers, journalists to artists – yes, even yoga teachers – is being diagnosed with burn out. Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, cut down on work and give us more leisure time. Instead, many people find that they are more exhausted and under greater pressure than ever before. Selina Barker gives you a well-stocked toolkit and an instruction manual for the tools you’ll need to feel empowered, calm and focused, every single working day – no matter how hectic things get. A practical six-step guide for people who have hit the wall – or are afraid they might. Whether you’re doing too much, giving too much or thinking too much, this book will help you set boundaries, recharge your batteries and create the life you want.

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Winter Swimming
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2021 · 168 pp

Winter Swimming

Cecilie Thunem-Saanum

Why are more and more people choosing to submerge themselves in ice-cold water in midwinter? To don mittens and bobble hats and feel chunks of ice sloshing against their naked flesh? The author, who’s in her eight year of year-round bathing, tells you what you need to know before, during and after winter bathing, and uses science and her own experience to answer questions like: Is it safe? Can anyone go for a dip when it is freezing cold? What happens inside your body? In Winter Bathing, Cecilie Thunem-Saanum invites you to join her in the open channels between the ice when the temperatures are well below freezing and long after the frost has taken hold. In the water, an experience of profound peace, a clarified mind and great wellbeing await you. On land, an energy boost, a rush of joy and a sense of achievement is the award – along with a towel and dry clothes.

Viruses on the Loose
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2021 · 352 pp

Viruses on the Loose

Eystein Hellstrøm Hoddevik

What is a virus? Even experienced microbiologists need to stop and think before answering this simple question. Viruses are tiny. The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has a width of no more than one hundred nanometers. Ten thousand such viruses lined up after each other will barely have the width of a pinhead. But an invisible enemy like this can bring a whole world to its knees, just as it did in spring 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic. Through carefully selected stories, the author shows you what a virus is, what it consists of, how it is transmitted and how it produces disease. Viruses and humans have coexisted forever, so this journey covers biological evolution, our own bodies, historical events, diagnostics, global politics, genetic material, ethics and biological warfare. The book is also about vaccines, one of our most important weapons in the war against viruses. The making of vaccines is in itself a science which is based upon our knowledge of how viruses are constructed and cause disease. Viruses are bred to spread and don’t hesitate to set off on intercontinental journeys, like the travel-loving stowaways they are. In this book, you’ll get to know different kinds of viruses: some of the most common, some that are extremely cunning and some that are so dangerous their fatality rate is close to 100%. Viruses cause contagion by travelling, just as we do, but their journey doesn’t stop there. The way in which they produce disease inside us can also be viewed as a microscopic travelogue. We shall therefore follow some viruses as they travel through our bodies to reach the cells they both hijack and harm. If you are prepared to face what fear of viruses you might have, you’ll discover that knowledge of viruses is extremely helpful. In certain situations, it may help you survive and avoid diseases like warts, cold sores, shingles, blindness and even cancer.

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Living in Tune with Mother Earth
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2021 · 240 pp

Living in Tune with Mother Earth

Grethe Nordhelle / Ujagar Singh Sakhi

Humans are part of nature. We are utterly reliant on it. If we distance ourselves too much from its terms and premises, we create an imbalance – in nature, in society and, not least, in ourselves as individuals. Living in Tune with Mother Earth aims to serve as a supplement – and counterweight – to knowledge creation in our specialised society. The more fragmented society becomes, the greater the need for more people to be concerned about integral thinking and knowledge. Integral knowledge creation is a scarce commodity in modern society, the author claims. This is where integral therapy can make a vital contribution, by looking at the process of human development in its entirety – physical, psychological, environmental and spiritual. The book aims to raise people’s awareness of the genuine need to understand themselves as individuals, in relation to themselves, nature, the family, society and the entire universe. It’s about creating and maintaining a natural balance between the internal and the environment. How can we function in an integral way – physically, psychologically and spiritually – in relation to our immediate environment and wider society? And what hinders us at all these levels? The knowledge offered in this book can be used to both repair and protect. Living in Tune with Mother Earth is anchored in a value system that views humans as having a particular place in the natural order, just as plants and animals do. Because humans have the potential for far-reaching development – not just in positive but also negative directions – we are at risk of becoming remote from our positive, harmonious rhythm, growth and development. If we breach the principles of nature in the way we live, we risk creating physical and psychological discord. The one thing that can bring us peace, within us, between us, in relation to elements in nature with which we come into contact and in wider society, is an integral understanding of what it means to be human – and an integral practice in our interaction with our environment.

Brev til en sønn
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2020 · 320 pp

Brev til en sønn

Kristin M. Hauge / Kristine Gølin Haddal / Simen Knudsen / Hakim Lindland-Rahimi / Einar Norbakken / Trygve Skaug

Boys are the extreme sex. The fastest and the ones that come last. The most robust and the most vulnerable. In this book, you’ll find timely and touching messages for the boys of today from the poet, the refugee, the military chaplain, the environmental warrior and the mother of a world champion. Five compelling stories about the power of relationships; about winning, losing and finding your place and values in modern, multicultural, egalitarian Norway.

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

Essential oils
Self Help2020 · 184 pp

Essential oils

Gry Hammer

Essential oils from aromatic plants have been used in folk medicine since time immemorial. In Essential Oils for Body, Soul and Mind, Gry Hammer shares her experience and knowledge of essential, or aromatic, oils – how they work and how they are used. The author offers practical advice about how she uses the oils in everyday life, whether in creams, in the family medicine chest or for household cleaning. You’ll find oil blend recipes for colds, eczema, disturbed sleep, shiny hair, healthy skin, headaches, toothache, antiseptic cleaning and much more. For Gry Hammer and many others, the use of essential oils in everyday life is also an important and sensual part of a natural green lifestyle, and a lot of people take pleasure in being surrounded by delicious calming aromas in their day-to-day lives.

Farewell Fear
Self Help2020 · 192 pp

Farewell Fear

Aslak Hartberg

Everyone feels fear occasionally. It may stem from a particular situation, or may take the form of a more generalised anxiety. Farewell to Fear is a book about hope. The hope that a better life is possible for everybody who may be experiencing worry, fear or anxiety. We meet Aslak Hartberg, best known as the rapper in Norwegian band, Klovner I kamp. When he was little, he wanted to be a stuntman and an explorer. Later, he was drawn to hip hop, graffiti, boxing, snowboarding and skating, and eventually he travelled all over the world as a musician. Nonetheless he has a problem: he is scared of everything. His curiosity and joie de vivre are constantly battered by phobias and anxieties. The endless battle is starting to eat away at his strength. One day, exhausted and disillusioned, he meets the psychologist Aksel Inge Sinding, who works with exposure therapy. Together they set out on a journey in which Hartberg must face his worst nightmares. There are ups and downs and he often comes close to giving up. When he comes out on the other side, however, he feels like a new person. Gone are the phobias, gone are the worries and, best of all, gone is the fear of fear.

Everything will be better for you
Self Help2020 · 192 pp

Everything will be better for you

Johanne Rogndal

To bring up a child is to relive your own childhood. Through the child’s eyes, you see and understand your own life anew. This is a book about how our past is with us when we become parents, interweaving itself into our relationship with our children in ways we are rarely aware of. The era, society and culture we live in instil us with ideas about how a child is meant to be, and the family we come from will always be the backdrop to the way we, ourselves, parent our children. As a psychologist, Rogndal hears women and men alike speak of how important it was for them not to repeat their own childhood with their own children. Even so, some things often do repeat themselves without our reflecting upon it, or else we struggle so hard with our past that it expresses itself in ways we do not like and is passed on to our children. She writes as a mother and based on her background as a psychologist. She is relatively new to both roles, but as a psychologist, there is one thing at least she knows for sure: what makes therapists good is not erasing the impressions of the past but constantly reflecting on and adopting a stance on the way our experiences influence us in our encounters with other people.

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.

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 happened to you?
Self Help / Children's Books2020 · 216 pp · Age 9 - 12

What happened to you?

Jenny Jordahl

Janne isn’t like the rest of her family. That’s what Grandma says. The others are slim, while Janne is big. What happened to her, really? Grandma isn’t the only one who comments on Janne’s appearance. People at school do too. Janne is comfort eating and cutting herself off from others, but suddenly her parents suggest a solution to the problem: She’ll get 100 kroner for every kilo she loses. Janne goes along with the agreement and slowly but surely, she gets smaller. But does she get any happier? And does it solve her real problems? What Happened to You? is a powerful, brave and thought-provoking graphic novel about friendship, being an outsider and living with eating disorders. Jenny Jordahl (best know as the illustrator of the international bestseller Women in Battle) delivers an important and absorbing story for children and young people aged 9 and older.WINNER OF THE 2020 BRAGE PRIZE FOR BEST BOOK FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG READERS!The Brage Prize Jury said: The winner of the category Children’s and Young Adult Literature addresses serious issues which leave an impression on the reader. Yet the book is easy to read and shows great concern for – and confidence in – its young readers. This year’s winning entry is an important work that engages the reader through different techniques: The succinct dialogue between the characters is illustrated with vivid drawings, and it is intense in both form and content. Clear use of colour, non-verbal features and the visual representation of the central character’s inner life all contribute to enhancing her range of emotions. The winner of this year’s prize is an established writer and illustrator with a book that lets us get close to a child with an eating disorder. Congratulations to Jenny Jordahl for winning the Brage Prize for her graphic novel: What Happened to You? Reviews: Strong as well as entertaining book on a difficult subject.AFTENPOSTENThis book can be used as a starting point for important talks both at school and at home. NRK

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