Adult Learning & the Challenges of the 21st Century was the title of Theme One at the fifth UNESCO conference on Adult Education in Hamburg Jul...

This volume is an additional contribution to the description of the mortality of the oldest-old in the post-war era, begun with volume 1 by the sam...

This publication examines the Amsterdam Treaty negotiated by the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) 1996-97. It looks at the preferences of the mai...

Local government takes upon itself important tasks and are prime movers in the implementation of new developments in most welfare societies. How it...

The crisis of the welfare state in present days in Scandinavian countries is a major inspiration behind this collection of papers by nine scholars ...

Who hasn't heard of elderly people "in their second childhood" -- or of children who "grow old before their time"? Expressions such as these bear w...

Research into the impact of the Cold War in the Nordic countries has boomed since the end of the Cold War itself. The end of the conflict has made ...

Over the last few decades, various international and cross-cultural partnerships have been established, often with impressive speed, to facilitate ...

Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Symposium organised by the Centre for the Study of Vernacular Literature in the Middle Ages held at th...

Since 1945 Denmark's policy towards Europe has become one of the most important issues, if not the most important issue, in Danish politics. Why is...

Flateyjarbók is the name given to GKS 1005 fol., a manuscript now housed at the Àrni Magnússon Institute (Stofnun Àrna Magnússonar á Íslandi) in Re...

This volume by Väino Kannisto, former United Nations advisor on demographic and social statistics, is the first in the Odense Monographs on Populat...

In the moral and spiritual vacuum left in Russia by the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989-91 some of the thinkers who first opposed the Leninist rev...

In the Tour de France of 1998, for the first time ever, political forces intervened to lay bare the comprehensive doping practices of popular athle...

On 14 December 1999 Professor Mogens N Pedersen completed his sixtieth year. The day was celebrated by his friends and colleagues by the publicatio...

Five papers explore the cultural traditions of Germany, including its Danish connections, and Britain, with its Gaelic and Anglo-Norman connections.

This is an anthology about technology's role in the modernisation process. It is written by a European group of historians of technology. Technolog...

Book & CD-ROM. International comparisons of mortality aimed at revealing age-specific and time-specific differences in survival between Denmark...

The storied realms of exceptional longevity are scrutinised in this volume. The vast majority of reputed centenarians in the past, and most countri...

This book is designed for newcomers to the English spoken and written in Ireland. Features: Over 500 headwords, including words of Irish (Gaelic) o...

During the last twenty years five folk high schools have been established in Bangladesh. They represent the first schools of this kind founded in a...

Foreign observers of American culture have always been puzzled by the invocation in all kinds of unlikely contexts of judicial authority, by the co...

This is a book about politics, writing and thinking in the American South from the 1930's to the 1990's. The period is considered in three frames o...

The essays in this anthology approach literature as communicative structures dependent on media and on rhetorical and narrative modes. Ranging from...