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  • The Blind Guardians of Ignorance

    Covid-19, Sustainability, and Our Vulnerable Future: A Handbook for Change Leaders, Young and Old

    by Mats Larsson ...
    The Covid-19 pandemic is not the last surprise that awaits present generations. In 2020 people across the globe have realized that governments have failed to prepare for important challenges, even highly probable ones predicted by experts for decades. Greta Thunberg has scolded world leaders for not doing more to stop global warming. Greta and other experts seem to believe that there are plans for ... Read more

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  • Life and Death in the Mesolithic of Sweden

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    Over the last 20 years a vast number of new and important Swedish Mesolithic sites have been excavated and published in different ways as articles, books and site reports. As yet there has been no study that tries to bring the loose ends together and so the main task of this important new work by one of Sweden’s leading prehistorians is to provide an extensive overview of some of the main sites ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Paths Towards a New World

    Covering the approximately 6,500 years from the beginning of the Late Mesolithic to the transition to the Bronze Age, Mats Larsson takes the reader on a journey through the development of Swedish prehistoric society and culture set against the backdrop of climatic and landscape change. Using examples selected from a wealth of archaeological sites, artefacts and palaeo-environmental studies he ... Read more

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  • Circular Business Models

    Developing a Sustainable Future

    by Mats Larsson ...
    This book explores the need to develop business strategies, organise and fund transformation projects and manage the transformation programme in order to further a circular economy. Circular Business Models outlines sustainable business models that can be used by companies to move transformation forward on a large scale. In addition to business models the book will cover and discuss a number of ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Risk Management in Early Banking

    An International Perspective of Swedish Savings Banks, 1820–1910

    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book deals with risk management and the organisation of banking in Swedish savings banks alongside the development in other European countries. The period of analysis begins with the establishment of the first savings banks in 1820 and ends in 1910. During this period, banking developed as a well-functioning system for deposits and credits. The book focuses on this development from a ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Ake Wiberg

    Swedish Entrepreneur & Politician

    Politics took him to the Swedish Parliament in the 1940’s, but illness forced him to retire from politics after ten years of service. He energetically devoted his last dozen years to a number of cultural projects, including work for the National Arts Council and the East Asian Museum. Åke Wiberg was a man whose determination and personality have apparently moved many of those who knew him.The Åke ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Finance and the Welfare State

    Banking Development and Regulatory Principles in Sweden, 1900–2015

    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book explores the Swedish experience of banking development, regulation and financial crisis from 1900 to 2015. It puts the experiences of the past in the context of today’s debate on the future of banking, and argues that the experiences of the Global Financial Crisis that started in 2007 warrants new understandings of the role of bank regulation. The book also analyses how shifts in bank ... Read more

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    Werner Herzog's 2011 film Cave of Forgotten Dreams, about the painted caves at Chauvet, France brought a glimpse of Europe's extraordinary prehistory to a popular audience. But paleolithic cave paintings, stunning as they are, form just a part of a story that begins with the arrival of the first humans to Europe 1.3 million years ago, and culminates in the achievements of Greece and Rome. In ... Read more

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  • Neolithic

    This excellent introductory textbook describes and explains the origins of modern culture– the dawn of agriculture in the Neolithic area.Written in an easy-to-read style, this lively and engaging book familiarises the reader with essential archaeological and genetic terms and concepts, explores the latest evidence from scientific analyses as varied as deep sea coring, pollen identification, ... Read more

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  • Lapps and Labyrinths

    Saami Prehistory, Colonization, and Cultural Resilience

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