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  • Understanding Literacy in Its Historical Contexts

    Socio-Cultural History and the Legacy of Egil Johansson

    Edited by Harvey J. Graff, Alison Mackinnon, Bengt Sandin, Ian Winchester ...
    In this detailed study of the history of universal literacy in Sweden, 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, expounding upon the work of the Swedish Lutheran pastor and pioneering social historian Egil Johansson. Working initially with parish registers, especially ... Read more

    $36.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Situating Child Consumption

    Rethinking Values and Notions of Children, Childhood and Consumption

    Edited by Anna Sparrman, Bengt Sandin, Johanna Sjöberg ...
    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

    $33.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Politics of Children’s Rights and Representation

    Edited by Bengt Sandin, Jonathan Josefsson, Karl Hanson, Sarada Balagopalan ...
    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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  • The ethics of consumption

    The citizen, the market, and the law

    Edited by Helena Röcklinsberg, Per Sandin ...
    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

    $101.19 CAD

  • Situating child consumption : rethinking values and notions of children, childhood and consumption

    Edited by Bengt Sandin, Johanna Sjöberg, Anna Sparrman ...
    How do children understand issues of work, marketing, money and scarcity? In Situating Child Consumption the contributors offer a provocative stance rethinking values and notions of children, childhood and consumption.The authors investigate and exemplify how consumption is situated in practices of everyday life,politics, history and the markets. They address the complexities and contradictions in ... Read more

    $21.94 CAD

  • Neither Fish nor Fowl: Educational Broadcasting in Sweden 1930-2000

    Edited by Maija Runcis, Bengt Sandin ...
    Educational media has been a contested arena in the creation and communication of the Swedish welfare system – it was an important instrument of modernization. In Neither Fish nor Fowl historians Bengt Sandin and Maija Runcis have a close look on how the educational broadcasting was negotiated between government agencies, public inquiries, political and professional interests.The state authorities ... Read more

    $18.80 CAD

  • Life Cycle Assessment of Forest Products

    Challenges and Solutions

    by Gustav Sandin, Magdalena Svanström, Greg M. Peters ...
    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

    $64.09 CAD

  • Essentials of Risk Theory

    Edited by Sabine Roeser, Per Sandin, Martin Peterson, Rafaela Hillerbrand ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Risk has become one of the main topics in fields as diverse as engineering, medicine and economics, and it is also studied by social scientists, psychologists and legal scholars. This Springer Essentials version offers an overview of the in-depth handbook and highlights some of the main points covered in the Handbook of Risk Theory. The topic of risk also leads to more fundamental questions such ... Read more

    $70.49 CAD

  • 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

    $5.99 CAD

  • 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

    $11.19 CAD

  • And Yet . . .

    A Faith Journey

    by Pedro A. Sandín-Fremaint ...
    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

    $10.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Non-Neoplastic Hematopathology and Infections

    by Hernani Cualing, Parul Bhargava, Ramon L. Sandin ...
    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

    $250.99 CAD