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Aubergine and Tahini
Cook Books2020 · 256 pp

Aubergine and Tahini

Vidar Bergum

Delicious home cooking from Turkey, the Middle East and other exciting places – that’s what Vidar Bergum is offering you in his new cookbook. You’ll find the familiar, the new and the surprising, along with plenty of luscious flavours and dinner-table experiences. Aubergine and Tahini – Home-Made Food from Turkey, the Middle East and Beyond is an inspiring, unpretentious book about everyday food, and the way it is made and enjoyed in these regions. Food that is quick to make, and food that takes a bit longer but that you can still find time to make in your busy everyday life, with a bit of sensible planning. And, as in Hummus and Pomegranates, Vidar tells you a bit about the food culture, the people and the origin of many of the recipes that have been prepared in countless kitchens around the world for centuries. In this book, you’ll find a plethora of vegetarian recipes bursting with lovely, exciting flavours. Because, as Vidar says: ‘Meat is more like a side dish where I live; it’s the seasonal vegetables, the lentils and chickpeas that are the basis of everyday food.’ But home cooking is also social food, food you invite friends and family to eat and maybe also help prepare. That way, the table will be filled with tasty, aromatic dishes with and without meat. And, to round it all off, Turkish coffee and a sweet titbit. In this book, you’ll find recipes for all this and more. Not only is Turkish cuisine an inspiring, varied and relatively simple way to approach the rich array of dishes from the Middle East; Vidar is also a communicator who manages to present authentic food in a way that makes you want to try it out at home.Andreas Viestad, Dagbladet Magasinet

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Pruning Your Garden
Crafts and Hobbies2020 · 104 pp

Pruning Your Garden

Kenneth Ingebretsen / Tommy Tønsberg

Pruning rejuvenates plants and keeps them healthy. Fruit trees bear more fruit, roses become lusher and hedges become denser. This book offers the best tips on how to prune your garden. You’ll learn which are the most suitable tools, how to make the cuts and when it’s the best time to prune trees, bushes, hedges, roses and climbing plants. Good explanations and precise illustrations give you the knowledge and inspiration you need to prune correctly, enabling you to enjoy a lush and well-kept garden.

Borgia’s Forbidden Book
Narrative Non-fiction2020 · 224 pp

Borgia’s Forbidden Book

Jørn H. Hurum / Torstein Helleve

Precious gems, corrupt popes, incest, impotence, massacre, plagiarism, the forbidden books of the Vatican, the French Revolution, Leonardo da Vinci and Machiavelli. There’s room for all these elements in a little book that is, above all, about the love of ancient books and stones. Jørn H. Hurum and Torstein Helleve have written about an extremely rare book and its incredible journey through 500 years of European and scientific history.

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.

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?

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

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.