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  • Voting and Eligibility Age in Sweden, 1866-1921

    Democracy with Guarantees

    by Bengt Sandin ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This open access book explores the background to the electoral reforms of 1907-1921 in Sweden, when the voting age was raised from 21 years to 23 for the second chamber and the municipalities, and to 27 for the county councils and the first chamber. This increase in voting ages was unique in an international context. Previous research and contemporary conservative and liberal rhetoric argued that ... Read more

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  • My Mother's GTO

    by Rick Sandine ...
    DID YOU EVER wonder what it was like to drive or ride in a head-snapping, tire-scorching, pulse-pounding 60s MUSCLE CAR? To be exact, a 65 or 69 GTO - two of the most legendary, electrifying, beautiful, and fun automobiles ever to come out of Motor City, Detroit. Well, wonder no more because, within the pages of this gripping, mind-bending story, the author takes you there: to the extent where you ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Politics of Children’s Rights and Representation

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access edited volume investigates children and youth's deep entanglement in today's major global, national, and local transformations and processes: wherein they are not mere spectators and objects of transformations but instead actively shape them through various social, economic, and political representations. International contributions illuminate the problems that arise when children ... Read more

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  • Non-Neoplastic Hematopathology and Infections

    Most books on hematopathology are neoplastic in scope and offer little non-neoplastic content. In Non-Neoplastic Hematopathology and Infections, the authors fully describe the hematologic manifestations in tissue and blood of infectious agents, including many rare and exotic diseases found in both Western and Eastern hemispheres, in order to assist pathologists and medical laboratory professionals ... Read more

    $194.00 USD

  • Situating Child Consumption

    Rethinking Values and Notions of Children, Childhood and Consumption

    Providing extensive examples of the conditions of children's everyday consumption as well as how children themselves understand issues of work, money, scarcity, and consumer products, this book challenges the prevailing theories of consumption and opens up new ways of thinking about children. Arguing that consumption simultaneously reflects on the changing social role of children, family relations ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Deadly Baggage

    What Cortes Brought to Mexico and How It Destroyed the Aztec Civilization

    by Al Sandine ...
    In 1519, a few hundred Europeans led by Hernan Cortes sailed from Cuba to the Mexican mainland, where they encountered representatives of the Aztec Empire. Their Iberian history, culture and religion, and their experience in the Greater Antilles made conquest and riches the aim of these adventurers. They regarded themselves as heroes in a romantic crusade of good against evil. Each member of the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Long Way Westward

    by Joan Sandin ...
    Illustrated by Joan Sandin ...
    Series Book 3 - I Can Read
    America, at last! This classic early reader tells an exciting story and is also a good launching pad for classroom and home discussions.The Long Way Westward relates the experiences of two young brothers and their family, immigrants from Sweden, from their arrival in New York through the journey to their new home in Minnesota.This lively sequel to The Long Way to a New Land follows the fortunes of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Neither Fish nor Fowl

    Educational Broadcasting in Sweden 1930-2000

    This look into the transformation of the Swedish welfare state in the 20th century through changes in the structure and content of Swedish educational broadcasting provides new insights into how media education fostered political and social change and reflected the changes of government policies as well as the fundamental cultural transformation of the Swedish society. The political authorities ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Schooling and State Formation in Early Modern Sweden

    by Bengt Sandin ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood
    In this book the emergence of schools in urban Sweden between the seventeenth and the nineteenth century provides the framework for a history of children and of childhood. It is a study through the lens of the changes in early modern education, spatial aspect of the life of children and systems of governance in the early modern Swedish state. Educational systems defined the spatial aspects of ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • The ethics of consumption

    The citizen, the market, and the law

    We are all consumers. What we consume, how, and how much, has consequences of great moral importance for humans, animals, and the environment. Great challenges lie ahead as we are facing population growth and climate change and reduced availability of fossil fuels. It is often argued that key to meeting those challenges is changing consumption patterns among individual as well as institutions, for ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Life Cycle Assessment of Forest Products

    Challenges and Solutions

    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    This brief contains information on the reduction of environmental impact and explains how it is a key driver for the R&D of new forest products. The authors, experts in the field, describe how Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is used to assess the environmental impact of such products, e.g. in order to guide R&D or attract investments. The authors describe the main challenges of carrying out LCAs on ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • And Yet . . .

    A Faith Journey

    This intimate kaleidoscopic journal takes the reader through the cycles of faith and doubt that typify the author's spiritual journey from his childhood and youth in Puerto Rico to his retirement years in the United States. Lyrical prose, poetry, and story combine to express the vagaries of a spirituality that, at one and the same time, is unable to gloss over the difficult, often heartbreaking ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus