Journal - Böcker

I Du mich auch (tyska, "Du mej också") återknyter Anders Petersen banden med ungdomen genom 72 fotografier (återgivna i duplextryck) från Hamburg och Stockholm i slutet av 1960-talet. Endast ett fåtal av dem har publicerats tidigare. Pet...

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Sommaren 1896 lämnade män, kvinnor och barn Nås i Dalarna och for till Palestina för att invänta Jesus återkomst. De anslöt sig till American Colony, en frireligiös sekt styrd av amerikanskan Anna Spafford. Kring Nåsbornas öde spann Selma Lagerlöf...

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Stolta kan vi presentera den förmodligen mest omfattande fotografiska dokumentationen i bokform om Palmyra - ruinstaden i öknen 215 km nordöst om huvudstaden Damaskus i Syrien. Ett riktigt praktverk (35 x 28 cm) med 72 storformatsfotografier och e...

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Kurt Bergengren var en av landets främsta kännare av fotografi. Mellan 1950 och 1984 publicerades hans artiklar och recensioner främst i Aftonbladet, också i facktidskrifter och årsböcker. Ett urval presenteras i denna bok, som fokuserar på svensk...

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Gamlestan är en gammal och viktig industri- och arbetarstadsdel i Göteborg med en lång historia. I Gamlestadens Fabriker fanns ett stort spinneri och på "kulan" som SKF (Svenska Kullagerfabriken) kallades, arbetade många, och företaget b...

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Kameralösa bilder från Göteborgsförorten Hammarkullen, fotografens hem. Detta är Hendrik Zeitlers tredje bok med bilder från området. Linda Bergman skriver: "Ett fotogram är ett fotografi som skapats utan kamera, där motivet placerats på elle...

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Petersen, Anders Nära avstånd Nära avstånd innehåller 42 nya fotografi er (återgivna i duplextryck) av Anders Petersen, född 1944 och sedan f lera decennier en av Sveriges mest tongivande och internationellt erkä nda fotografier. Birna Marianne Kl...

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Miskatonic University has a long-whispered reputation of being strongly connected to all things occult and supernatural. So, when Carter Weston's professor asks him to find a book that is believed to control the inhuman forces that rule the Earth,...

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The Incendium Maleficarum has been lost and Carter Weston presumed dead, but the story of That Which Should Not Be is only just beginning. Now Carter's only daughter, Rachel Jones, and his oldest friend, Henry Armitage, must embark on an epic jour...

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Victor Hasselblads liv blev dramatiskt och framgångsrikt. Som ung flydde han till naturen och fotografin. Med tiden blev han en världsresenär och förmögen industriman. Kort innan bortgången sålde han sitt kameraföretag och bildade en stiftelse med...

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In his debut collection, David Busboom presents fifteen tales of dark fantasy and horror, populated by bizarre reptiles, occult serial killers, carnivorous protoplasms, and parasitic worms. A child faces down the giant ape destroying his parents' ...

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From July 1944 to April 1945, Lisa Garnier"s grandmother, Gisèle Chartraire was deported to the German concentration camp Ravensbrück. During the imprisonment she made a small notebook for writing down recipes told by her fellow prisoners - r...

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Prosecutors are powerful figures in any criminal justice system. They decide what crimes to prosecute, whom to pursue, what charges to file, whether to plea bargain, how aggressively to seek a conviction, and what sentence to demand. In the United...

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There is no question that the US is facing significant fiscal challenges. Tax Policy and the Economy research papers make valuable contributions to our understanding of the economic effects of alternative approaches. The papers collected in Volume...

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For fifty years, The Supreme Court Review has been lauded for providing authoritative discussion of the court's most significant decisions. The Review is an in-depth annual critique of the Supreme Court and its work, keeping up on the forefront of...

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For thirty-five years, the Crime and Justice series has provided a platform for the work of sociologists, psychologists, criminal lawyers, justice scholars, and political scientists as it explores the full range of issues concerning crime, its cau...

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Taxation policy was a central part of the policy debates over the "e;fiscal cliff."e; Given the importance of fiscal issues, it is vital for rigorous empirical research to inform the policy dialogue.  In keeping with the NBER's tradit...

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Appreciation of the importance of innovation to the economy has increased over the past decade. There is an active debate regarding the implications of technological change for economic policy and the appropriate policies and programs regarding re...

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For fifty years, The Supreme Court Review has been lauded for providing authoritative discussion of the Court's most significant decisions. The Review is an in-depth annual critique of the Supreme Court and its work, keeping up on the forefront of...

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The twenty-eighth edition of the NBER Macroeconomics Annual continues its tradition of featuring theoretical and empirical research on central issues in contemporary macroeconomics. As in previous years, this volume not only addresses recent devel...

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Supreme Court Economic Review is an interdisciplinary journal that seeks to provide a forum for scholarship in law and economics, public choice, and constitutional political economy. Its approach is broad ranging and contributions employ explicit ...

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The understanding of sound underwent profound changes with the advent of laboratory science in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. New techniques of sound visualization and detection, the use of electricity to generate sound, and the emer...

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The last twenty-five years have witnessed some provocative transmutations in our understanding of early modern chemistry.  The alchemist, once marginalized as a quack, now joins the apothecary, miner, humanist, and natural historian as a prac...

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This volume of Osiris integrates gender analysis with the global history of science and medicine from the late Middle Ages to the present by focusing on masculinity. The premise is that social constructions of masculinity function simultaneously a...

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What new insights become available for historians when emotions are included as an analytical category? This volume of Osiris explores the historical interrelationships between science and its cultures and cultures of emotions. It argues that a di...

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The papers in Volume 28 of Tax Policy and the Economy illustrate the depth and breadth of the research by NBER research associates who study taxation and government spending programs.  The first paper explores whether closely held firms are u...

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Violent and property crime rates in all Western countries have been falling since the early and mid-1990s, after rising in the 1970s and 1980s. Few people have noticed the common patterns and fewer have attempted to understand or explain them. Yet...

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