In the twentieth century, Americans thought of the United States as a land of opportunity and equality. To what extent and for whom this was true was, of course, a matter of debate, however especially during the Cold War, many Americans clung to the patriotic conviction that America was the land of the free. At the same time, another national ideal emerged that was far less contentious, that arguably came to subsume the ideals of freedom, opportunity, and equality, and that eventually embo...

Em Jardim urbano, o paisagista Matt James dá dicas de como ter a natureza sempre por perto, incluindo informações sobre:Como projetar um espaço urbano, seja qual for seu tamanho ou localização – desde sacadas e coberturas até pátios, subsolos e corredores.Dez maneiras simples de tornar um jardim "verde" usando técnicas de jardinagem sustentáveisComo criar um espaço de lazer, com áreas para recreação, entretenimento e produção de frutas e hortaliça...

Written by Mats Holm and Ulf Roosvald, Björn Borg and the Super-Swedes explains how a small country with 8 million inhabitants like Sweden could become the leading nation in tennis and an example to imitate worldwide. It starts with the legend of Björn Borg, the taciturn and mysterious Swede who became an icon of the ’70s and turned tennis into a global sport, and ends with the Kings of Tennis, the nostalgic senior event part of the Champions Tour held each year in Stockholm.

How do you escape a prison that is skin deep? In 1950’s Hollywood, Kate Ulrich is a desperate starlet who doesn’t have “the look.” Plastic surgery is the answer...until she wakes to discover the doctor has turned her into his dead wife! Kate endures unspeakable horrors as a prisoner in his mansion. She fights to get free, yet learns that escape will bring certain death. Not only is her captor a wanted Nazi surgeon, but the wife he’s recreated in Kate is none other than Sofie Strauss, “The ...

Modern library services can be incredibly complex. Much more so than their forebears, modern librarians must grapple daily with questions of how best to implement innovative new services, while also maintaining and updating the old. The efforts undertaken are immense, but how best to evaluate their success?In this groundbreaking new book from Routledge, library practitioners, anthropologists, and design experts combine to advocate a new focus on User Experience (or ‘UX’) research m...

När Björn Borg och Lars Skarke träffas i mitten av åttiotalet blir de snart goda vänner. De träffas ofta, har mycket kul ihop och lär känna varandras familjer. Vänskapen djupnar. När Björn efter avslutad tenniskarriär vill ägna sig åt affärer presenterar Lars en affärsidé. Båda har de pengar att satsa och Björn Borg Design Group bildas. Tillsammans ska de lansera kläder över hela världen ... Det blir tuffa, intensiva, roliga och oroliga år med många och långa resor, middag med president Re...

Sverigedemokraterna bildades inför valet 1988 ur rasistiska Bevara Sverige svenskt. Vägen har varit lång från vikingarock, vitmaktmusik och nynazistisk terror till ett riksdagsparti med öppet tillträde till tv-sofforna.För att bli en stabil organisation med ett städat yttre har partiet genomgått otaliga konflikter och tvingats införa "nolltolerans mot rasism". Men Sverigedemokraterna har svårt att balansera den putsade fasaden med den aggressiva rasismen som bubblar under ytan. Ska...