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  • We, the Drowned

    by Carsten Jensen ...
    Explore the wondrous sea and the oddities of human nature in this international bestselling, thrilling epic novel of a Danish port town.Hailed in Europe as an instant classic, We, the Drowned is the story of the port town of Marstal, Denmark, whose inhabitants sailed the world from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the Second World War. The novel tells of ships wrecked and blown up in wars, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Welfare

    Brief Books about Big Ideas

    by Carsten Jensen ...
    Series series Reflections
    A short but engaging look at how nations have succeeded and failed at welfare.In Welfare, political scientist Carsten Jensen examines how the Danish welfare model leads to some of the highest levels of happiness, education, and health in the world. He argues that this welfare model is a success story because it has created a remarkable level of equality and forged strong links between people and ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • Controversy and Consensus: Nuclear Beta Decay 1911–1934

    by Carsten Jensen ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    To all four of us, Carsten was the best possible friend and colleague. To Finn, he was a fellow student in the history of science for several years at the Niels Bohr Institute; to Relge, he was a welcome resource for personal and intellectual interac tion in an otherwise less than fertile environment for the history of science; Roger was Carsten's friend and advisor, not least in the development ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Audiobook

    We, the Drowned

    by Carsten Jensen ...
    Narrated by Simon Vance ...

    Unabridged

    25 hours 22 min

    INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. We, The Drowned is an epic novel about generations of men who go to sea and the women and children they leave behind. Filled with adventure, cannibals, shrunken heads, prophetic dreams, forbidden passions, cowards, heroes, tragedies, love, and survival, this book takes its place among the greatest seafaring literature.We, the Drowned is the story of the port town of ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    First Stone, The

    by Carsten Jensen ...
    Narrated by Ray Chase ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 58 min

    From the award-winning author of We, the Drowned comes a brutal, unflinching, and bestselling epic novel of a platoon of soldiers descending into the insanity of the war in Afghanistan.Dispatched to fight the Taliban as part of the NATO forces, the soldiers of the Third Platoon arrive in a desert hell intent on testing their courage and endurance.Among them are the charismatic platoon leader ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Reforming the Welfare State

    by Carsten Jensen, Georg Wenzelburger ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Political Economy of the Welfare State
    This book introduces a unique, new dataset on welfare state reforms in the UK, Denmark, Finland, France and Germany from 1974 to 2014.Using a variety of welfare state types in Europe, the authors have systematically investigated core questions that have preoccupied the welfare state literature at least since the 1990s. These include the extent of path dependency in mature welfare states, the usage ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Crusading and Chronicle Writing on the Medieval Baltic Frontier

    A Companion to the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia

    Edited by Marek Tamm, Linda Kaljundi, Carsten Selch Jensen ...
    The Chronicle of Henry of Livonia, written by a missionary priest in the early thirteenth century to record the history of the crusades to Livonia and Estonia around 1186-1227, offers one of the most vivid examples of the early thirteenth century crusading ideology in practice. Step by step, it has become one of the most widely read and acknowledged frontier crusading and missionary chronicles. ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Risking Antimicrobial Resistance

    A collection of one-health studies of antibiotics and its social and health consequences

    Edited by Carsten Strøby Jensen, Søren Beck Nielsen, Lars Fynbo ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is predicted to be one of the greatest threats to public health in the twenty-first century. In this context, understanding the reasons why perceptions of antibiotic risk differ between different groups is crucial when it comes to tackling antibiotic misuse. This innovative volume gathers together chapters written by sociologists, psychologists and linguists with the ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury

    Evidence, Tricks, and Pitfalls

    Edited by Per-Olof Grände, Niels Juul, Carsten Kock-Jensen, Bertil Romner, Knut Wester, Terje Sundstrøm ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    In order to reduce the number of deaths from severe head injuries, systematic management is essential. This book is a practical, comprehensive guide to the treatment of patients (both adults and children) with such injuries, from the time of initial contact through to the rehabilitation center. Sections are devoted to prehospital treatment, admission and diagnostics, acute management, and ... Read more

    $98.09 USD