Thomas Berger - Böcker

Den här boken ger en lättillgänglig presentation av det svenska utbildnings¿systemets historia. Utbildningsreformer för förskolan, grundskolan, folk¿bildning och universitet beskrivs och introduktioner till skolämnenas historia presenteras, däribl...

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Vad är en karta? Hur har människor föreställt sig världen genom historien och vad säger kartorna om oss själva? Thomas Reinertsen Berg tar oss på en resa från stenåldersmänniskornas mystiska symboler fram till GPS och Google Earth i en underhållan...

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A general and systematic account of the role of knowledge in society aimed to stimulate both critical discussion and empirical investigations. This book is concerned with the sociology of everything that passes for knowledge in society. It focuses...

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Esbjörn Larsson, professor i utbildningshistoria vid Uppsala universitet, och Johannes Westberg, professor i pedagogikvid Örebro universitet, är redaktörer för denna bok. Båda är aktiva forskare och har undervisat om utbilningshistoria inom läraru...

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Det som brukar kallas upptäckandets tid tar sin början i slutet av 1400-talet och blir startskottet för dagens sammanlänkade värld, men också en av de mer kritiserade epokerna i historien. Den europeiska geografin med sin långa kustremsa är kanske...

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A general and systematic account of the role of knowledge in society aimed to stimulate both critical discussion and empirical investigations.This book is concerned with the sociology of everything that passes for knowledge in society . It focuses...

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Det som brukar kallas upptäckandets tid tar sin början i slutet av 1400-talet och blir startskottet för dagens sammanlänkade värld, men också en av de mer kritiserade epokerna i historien. Den europeiska geografin med sin långa kustremsa är kanske...

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Leading international economists assess the effects of the 2004 expansion of the European Union.In May 2004 the European Union will undergo the largest expansion in its history when ten countries -- Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, La...

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Leading international economists assess the effects of the 2004 expansion of the European Union. In May 2004 the European Union will undergo the largest expansion in its history when ten countries-Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latv...

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When Christopher Columbus first encountered the original inhabitants of the New World, he remarked they were So tractable, so peaceable . . . that I swear . . . there is not in the world a better nation. Yet wave after wave of European arrivals so...

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“The truth is always made up of little particulars which sound ridiculous when repeated.” So says Jack Crabb, the 111-year-old narrator of Thomas Berger’s 1964 masterpiece of American fiction, Little Big Man. Berger claimed the W...

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Originally published: Boston: Little Brown, c1999.

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Crazy in Berlin is the first volume in the saga of Carlo Reinhart. As an army medic stationed in Allied-occupied Germany, Reinhart is a young man of large bulk (two hundred pounds, plus)-good-hearted, intelligent, and something of a fool. He pursu...

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The story of Jack Crabbe, raised by both a white man and a Cheyenne chief. As a Cheyenne, Jack ate dog, had four wives and saw his people butchered by General Custer's soldiers. As a white man, he participated in the slaughter of the buffalo and t...

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This volume is based on papers delivered at the second CESifo-Delphi Conferences (Munich, November 2003, and Delphi, June 2004), which are jointly organized by CESifo and the Department of International and European Economic Studies of the Athens ...

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This is an invaluable reference to all the characters who appear in English drama from 1500 to 1660. The book indexes well over a thousand printed plays. In addition to characters' names it indexes character types (Dwarf, Gypsy), nationalities (Fr...

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This is an invaluable reference to all the characters who appear in English drama from 1500 to 1660. The book indexes well over a thousand printed plays. In addition to characters' names it indexes character types (Dwarf, Gypsy), nationalities (Fr...

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The paratexts in early modern English playbooks - the materials to be found primarily in their preliminary pages and end matter - provide a rich source of information for scholars interested in Shakespeare, Renaissance drama and the history of the...

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Buddy Sandifer is the natty owner of a used-car lot in the 1930s American Midwest. He is the father of Ralph, a sex-obsessed 15-year old, and the husband of Naomi, a seemingly boring housewife. Laverne is his mistress, a former prostitute who insi...

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NEIGHBORS is a black comedy about Earl Keese, a regular suburbanite whose world is overturned when Harry and Ramona move into the house next door. Harry and Ramona instantly unsettle the staid Earl with their abrupt mannerisms, their disturbing wo...

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Suburban regular guy Earl Keese confronts the yawning pit of chaos in the persons of Harry and Ramona, a younger couple who have just moved into the only other house on their dead-end street. Literally overnight, Earl's painstakingly controlled wo...

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The time is the 1930s. Buddy Sandifer, dressed in his natty white flannels, baby-blue shirt, striped tie, tan-and-white shoes, and coconut-straw hat with polka-dot band, is falling into one of his moods. Owner of a used-car lot and father of a fif...

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After suffering crushing military defeats in 1945, both Japan and Germany have again achieved positions of economic dominance and political influence. Yet neither seeks to regain its former military power; on the contrary, antimilitarism has becom...

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One of the functions of Louis XIV's Versailles was to provide a setting for the receptions of ambassadors, heads of state, and other visiting dignitaries who conducted diplomatic and political business with France. These activities became par...

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Originally published by Winthrop Publishers in 1974, this collection of essays by seven sociologists comprises a theoretical research program, consisting of a set of theories, bodies of empirical research, and a set of applied research activities....

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Covering the field of quality engineering, this text focuses on material needed by practicing quality engineers and students in technical and professional programmes. Information provided ranges from elementary to moderate, with straightforward ex...

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Making homemade toys and decorations is an excellent way for children to become involved in the celebration of festivals throughout the year. This comprehensive book includes crafts for children to make, either at home or school. Detailed instruct...

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This oral history offers a rare glimpse into the early days of environmental science and policy in the United States. The transcript includes interviews with leading figures in the field, including Luna Leopold, a pioneering hydrologist who helped...

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