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Nordic Academic Press

Nordic Academic Press was founded in 1997 and became an independent publishing house in January 2018. The press publishes around twenty new titles a year, and do their utmost to ensure their books live up to top standard — the best scholarship, clearly expressed, in an elegant layout and transparent expression. The NAP backlist has a strong focus on the humanities – history, anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, classical studies, literature and linguistics – with additional works in related disciplines such as political studies, sociology, and art and gender studies. They publish works in Swedish and English by Swedish and sometimes Nordic scholars for a Nordic and inter­national circle of readers.

Spas Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9789185509355
Pub Date: 07 Jun 2010
Imprint: Nordic Academic Press
Illustrations: colour & b/w illus
Description:
Recent years have seen a rapidly growing hotel business built around health and well-being. Leisurely experiences are packaged, staged and consumed as commercial commodities - the tourist complexes have become part of the so called "cultural economy". In the book, ethnologist Tom O'Dell uses spas to highlight the manner in which the culturalisation of the economy has developed.
Neither Fish, Nor Fowl Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9789185509157
Pub Date: 28 May 2010
Imprint: Nordic Academic Press
Illustrations: b/w photos
Description:
Educational media has an immediate connection to education policies, new trends in schooling, child welfare, and pedagogical novelties. The transformation of the Swedish welfare state in the twentieth century was clearly visible in the structure and content of Swedish educational broadcasting. Media education mediated political and social change and reflected the changes of government policies as well as the fundamental cultural transformation of the Swedish society.
Negotiating Pasts in the Nordic Countries Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 315
ISBN: 9789185509331
Pub Date: 16 Feb 2010
Imprint: Nordic Academic Press
Illustrations: b/w photos
Description:
The authors present a number of case studies, from the Middle Age to present time, about how the past has been made meaningful and relevant to people living in later periods. It is the process of selecting, interpreting and passing on meaning that we call negotiating the past. This process is loaded with tension in part stemming from the past itself, but which is often due to the various agents involved in the process as they represent different interests, understandings and points of view.
Admiral Sir John & the British Naval Expeditions to the Baltic Sea 1715-1727 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 381
ISBN: 9789185509317
Pub Date: 16 Dec 2009
Imprint: Nordic Academic Press
Illustrations: b/w illus & maps
Description:
Admiral Sir John Norris is one of the less well-known British Admirals; nevertheless, he is a fascinating and important man. Norris commanded British expeditions in the Baltic Sea in 1715-1727, nearly a hundred years before Horatio Nelson sailed these waters. Norris led the expeditions during the critical final years of the Great Northern War.
Understanding Literacy in its Historical Contexts Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9789185509072
Pub Date: 16 Dec 2009
Imprint: Nordic Academic Press
Illustrations: b/w illus, diagrams & photos
Description:
For nearly 30 years the work of the Swedish Lutheran pastor and pioneering social historian Egil Johansson astonished the international scholarly world. Working initially with parish registers, especially examination registers, from northern Sweden, Johansson discovered the extraordinary usefulness of these documents to detail the history of universal literacy in Sweden. In this book a group of renowned scholars review and explore the possibilities for the wider circulation and broader application of central dimensions of the early literacy studies.
Congestion Taxes in City Traffic Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 314
ISBN: 9789185509232
Pub Date: 10 Sep 2009
Imprint: Nordic Academic Press
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
Traffic congestion in big cities is a growing problem, and in the Swedish capital of Stockholm a seven-month long trial period with congestion taxes was carried out in 2006. It has since been made a permanent system. In this book, the authors scrutinise and analyse the political and administrative processes of the first Swedish congestion experiment and its aftermath.
Being There Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 195
ISBN: 9789185509300
Pub Date: 27 Aug 2009
Imprint: Nordic Academic Press
Description:
A group of ethnologists and anthropologists demonstrate creative ways of relating phenomenology to the study of culture. In a detailed introduction the reader is given an overview of how perspectives like 'being' and 'life-world' can be applied to studies of everyday life. The historical background as well as the value of fieldwork and the importance of simply 'being there' are also presented.
War & Peace in Transition Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 206
ISBN: 9789185509225
Pub Date: 18 Jun 2009
Imprint: Nordic Academic Press
Illustrations: tables
Description:
The post-Cold War era is characterised by shifting patterns of war and peace. The new demands and challenges facing external actors, such as international peacekeeping forces and mediators, are therefore manifold. In this book the editors address some of the critical and transformative issues in war and peacemaking, such as the roles of private military and security companies and the use of force in peace support operations.
Contested Technologies Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 210
ISBN: 9789185509058
Pub Date: 10 Dec 2008
Imprint: Nordic Academic Press
Description:
The development of new biomedical technologies has some enthusiastic proponents - scientists, the medical community, patient organisations, and politicians all hope for new cures and new industrial applications. At the same time, there is resistance to the new technologies from other groups for a variety of religious, political, and ethical reasons. In this book, Anders Persson and Stellan Welin address the important perspectives on xenotransplantation and human embryonic stem cell research.
In Tension Between Organization & Profession Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 371
ISBN: 9789185509027
Pub Date: 01 Feb 2008
Imprint: Nordic Academic Press
Illustrations: tables & charts
Description:
What is it like to be a professional in today's Nordic public sector organisations? This book describes everyday problems experienced by individuals in official positions. The authors' analyses are set against a background of rising rates of sick leave, more cases of mental burnout, decreasing resources and constant demand for professional improvement.
Old Norse Religion in Long-term Perspectives Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 416
ISBN: 9789189116818
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2006
Imprint: Nordic Academic Press
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
The study of Old Norse Religion is a truly multidisciplinary and international field of research. The rituals, myths and narratives of pre-Christian Scandinavia are investigated and interpreted by archaeologists, historians, art historians, historians of religion as well as scholars of literature, onomastics and Scandinavian studies. For obvious reasons, these studies belong to the main curricula in Scandinavia but are also carried out at many other universities in Europe, the United States and Australia, a fact that is evident to any reader of this book.
Political Change & the Rise of Labour in Comparative Perspective Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 352
ISBN: 9789189116719
Pub Date: 20 Jul 2006
Imprint: Nordic Academic Press
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
The book presents a comparative analysis of social change, democratisation and the development of modern party politics in two European countries, Britain and Sweden during the period c1880-1930, with particular reference to the emergence of social democracy as a political current. The emphasis is on the similarities of political changes in these two countries at this time, and also in the wider European context.
Different Paths to Modernity Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 368
ISBN: 9789189116542
Pub Date: 01 May 2005
Imprint: Nordic Academic Press
Illustrations: tables
Description:
Over the last 100 years, most European countries have experienced great, and in many cases similar changes. A general term for the phenomenon is 'modernisation', and in this anthology the authors present several different aspects of modernisation and the modernisation revolution. Among other issues, the articles are based on the importance of industrialisation, education and economic development for the success of modernisation.
Modernisation & Tradition in Manorial Societies Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 416
ISBN: 9789189116405
Pub Date: 01 Feb 2005
Imprint: Nordic Academic Press
Description:
This anthology is based on a symposium which had as its key issue a critical discussion of different theories of modernisation from the perspective of people's activities in local manorial societies. Modernisation can be studied in terms of changing values, norms and social relationships. From a theoretical point of view the book makes use of the possibility to change main macro-conceptions of the modernisation process, using dichotomies such as feudal/capitalist and individual/collective, and it also tries to integrate tradition and continuity perspective.
Value of Courage Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 214
ISBN: 9789189116627
Pub Date: 01 Aug 2003
Imprint: Nordic Academic Press
Description:
What is courage? What is the good of being courageous and is it always morally desirable? Bauhn defines courage as the ability to confront certain basic fears and argues that courage is indeed valuable as it contributes to personal achievement as well as to the common good of a civic community.
For Particular Reasons Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 345
ISBN: 9789189116511
Pub Date: 01 Jun 2003
Imprint: Nordic Academic Press
Description:
Dedicated to a man who has devoted his life to the study of the Greek language and its literature. Professor Jerker Blomqvist began his academic career as a PhD at Lund University 1969, and since then has been brightening up the lives of his students, colleagues and friends. He has been a popular and committed teacher who, aside from his lecturing, has also written books in subjects covering everything from Greek grammar to commentaries on classical texts.
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