Bøger udgivet af Aarhus University Press

Lenin once said "Trust is good, but control is better," but because the presence of social trust lowers transaction costs in everyday life, perhaps we should instead say "Control is good, but trust is cheaper".

This book introduces Nordic children's literature and some of the children portrayed in these stories: from the little matchbox girl and the small boy revealing the nakedness of the emperor in Hans Christian Andersen's fairytales to independent boys and girls in more recent children's books.

The book introduces a largely unknown chapter in the history of Danish and Muscovite foreign policy and diplomacy by addressing the unprecedented treaties of alliance and cooperation concluded by the two powers in the final decades of the Middle Ages.

The history of modern design and architecture has seen many attempts to embrace and merge different art forms, and to bring art into the framing of everyday life and the organisation of modern society, in a process understood as total design or total architecture. These attempts were historically based on the romanticist idea of merging all art forms into a uniting and transgressing work of art, mostly associated with – but certainly not limited to – Richard Wagner’s theoretical writings and musical dramas.This utopian dream of the Gesamtkunstwerk, or Total Work of Art, was intended both to bring unity to the people and to bring art into the everyday life of their homes, as well as into factories, cities and even modern media. As a result, the experiments ranged from music, poetry and drama to architecture, design, visual communication and city-planning. These ideas of merging art forms into more immersive and transgressive installations or design interventions to change everyday life are widespread today, but their complex and often problematic roots are mostly ignored. Design and architecture have delivered some of the broadest and most influential experiments with the Gesamtkunstwerk, from garden cities for workers and corporate identity design to the German AEG corporation.

Exciting interdisciplinary scholarship on the theme of pilgrimage.

Discusses how other countries can emulate Scandinavia's successes.

Explores how the Nordic countries have managed to achieve such favourable economic performance.

A comprehensive presentation of the architecture of the theatre at Kalydon in Aitolia.

There is the fleeting kind - like when our team wins, for once. The kind we find with that special someone or feel when reality surpasses our expectations - until we raise the bar, again. There is even the kind of happiness money can buy, provided we spend it on or with other people.

Most food found on supermarket shelves exists because consumer research has proven that the product will be in demand once it is made available by the food industry.This book strives to shed light on the aspects of our everyday sustenance that we normally don’t think about; above all the problematic consumer unawareness of foods’ nu­tritional value – and the technology behind industrially grown, raised and manu­factured fruits, vegetables, meat, milk, eggs, processed and fast food.Our ancestors created and secured modern food production through hard work; this occurred over a couple of million years in three leaps:- Meat Cooking (1,8 million years ago)- Agriculture Society (10.000 years ago)- Industrial Specialization (300 years ago)Now, we are at the frontier of a new era of future-food, driven by the need to feed nine billion people. But there are risks, as well as rewards, we must be conscious of as we move toward these new kinds of food.Among the key question we must consider: Is your body ready for these new sources of nutrition, or might you thrive even better with the foods you are already accus­tomed to?Reading this book will reward you with a new chance to make the right choices during shopping trips to your store or on the internet – in the food jungle.The book unfolds and presents for you a map of the conditions underlying our modern food supply, to help guide you safely in navigating the food jungle and increase your feeling of responsibility for your food intake. It will make you a better shopper and consumer; and empower you to leverage your newfound knowledge in helping drive the food industry toward manufacturing the healthiest foods possible for your body.

In the Danish West Indies, hundreds of enslaved men and women and a handful of Danish judges engaged in a broken, often distorted dialogue in court. Their dialogue was shaped by a shared concern with the ways slavery clashed with sexual norms and family life. Some enslaved men and women crafted respectable Christian self-portraits, which in time allowed victims of sexual abuse and rape to publicly narrate their experiences. Other slaves stressed African-Atlantic traditions when explaining their domestic conflicts. Yet these gripping stories did not influence the legal system. While the judges cunningly embraced slave testimony, they also reached guilty verdicts in most trials and punished with extreme brutality. Slaves spoke, but mostly to no avail. In Slave Stories, Gunvor Simonsen reconstructs the narratives crafted by slaves and traces the distortions instituted by Danish West Indian legal practice. In doing so, she draws us closer to the men and women who lived in bondage in the Danish West Indies (present-day US Virgin Islands) in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Explores the many wonderous small cracks and unnoticed phenomena inherent to everyday life.

Explores human experiences of transcendence.

Philosophy originates in wonder that generates aesthetic thinking. The book presents the formative nature of aesthetic thinking and attests its relevance in many disciplines and a broad spectrum of society, e.g., border studies, education policy, and social work.

An exploration of a rich equestrian burial from the 10th century excavated near Skanderborg, Denmark.

Conation is defined in this study as a striving that may manifest itself in consciousness as volition or desire, or in behaviour as action. The author argues that conation is even more fundamental than cognition, in as much as true cognition has developed on the basis of conative activities.

I Radical-Local Teaching and Learning præsenteres den pædagogiske teori "radikal-lokal undervisning og læring", som vægter, at børns hverdagsliv og kulturtraditioner bliver integreret i undervisningen: Børn med en multikulturel baggrund lærer lettere generelle begreber, når undervisningen tager udgangspunkt i deres nærmiljø. Bogen introducerer ideen bag teorien ved at trække på den kultur-historiske forskningstradition og beskriver dernæst et konkret undervisningsprojekt for børn med puertoricansk baggrund i East Harlem, New York. Radical-Local Teaching and Learning viser undervisere, hvordan man laver undervisnings­forløb, der er gearet til multikulturelle skoleklasser.

The life and work of one of the most significant Danish visual artists alive today.

The Danish scholar and critic Georg Brandes (1842-1927) is still recognized for his work today and seen by many as the theorist behind the so-called Modern Breakthrough in Scandinavia.

Lutz Klassen (ed.), The Pitted Ware Culture On Djursland. This identity can be understood as a combination of Pitted Ware traits in material culture and ritual conduct obtained through close contact with Neolithic groups on the west coast of Sweden with elements derived from contemporaneous Funnel Beaker groups in other parts of Denmark.