I ett dystopiskt Stockholm i en inte alltför avlägsen framtid får vi under 36 intensiva timmar följa Johanna Lindström, general och chef för Försvarsmaktens operativa verksamhet.Det är midsommarhelg och hela staden är avspärrad. En från början fredlig demonstration mot polisens sätt att tillämpa en ny terroristlagstiftning – den så kallade Nationalsäkerhetslagen – har urartat.Johanna hinner precis rädda sin 15-åriga dotter undan det kaos som utbryter när poliserna drar sina...

Den största utmaningen i katastrofer, kriser och krig är att få det civila samhället att fortsätta fungera. Det genomsnittliga kriget varar i drygt tre år och det är inga andra än vi som kommer att hålla i gång samhället under den tiden. Vi behöver därför kunna fortsätta göra vad vi gör varje dag.Ett krig kommer inte nödvändigtvis att ändra den roll du har. Men det kommer att innebära större påfrestningar och ökade krav på dig, både yrkesmässigt och privat. Frågan vem du är när kri...

Written for students and practitioners in the fields of architecture and interior design, our new Architecture Brief Sustainable Design provides a concise overview of all the techniques available for reducing the energy footprint of structures and spaces. With clear, simple language and a practical "can-do" approach, author David Bergman covers everything from the profession's ethical responsibility, to design structures and spaces that sustain our natural resources, to specific considerat...

In The Poetry of Disturbance, David Bergman argues that post-war poetry underwent a significant if subtle shift in emphasis, moving from the modernist concern with the poem as a visual text to one that was chiefly oral in nature. The resulting change was disturbing, especially for those brought up on the principles of high modernism. This new stress on orality implied a shift in the economy of the poem, away from the austerity of language advocated by Pound and Eliot to a style that convey...

The members of the literary circle known as the Violet Quill—Andrew Holleran, Felice Picano, Edmund White, Christopher Cox, Michael Grumley, Robert Ferro, and George Whitmore—collectively represent the aspirations and the achievement of gay writing during and after the gay liberation movement. David Bergman's social history shows how the works of these authors reflected, advanced, and criticized the values, principles, and prejudices of the culture of gay liberation. In spinning many of th...

Del 3: I rikets tjänst.Arktis, ett vindpinat islandskap med ett klimat på gränsen till vad människan klarar av. Här huserar en nordisk forskningsstation och en mindre kontingent från det svenska flygvapnet.Under en rutinflygning med helikopter över området får major Victoria Maxander syn på något mycket oväntat, något som absolut inte ska finnas där. I samma stund som hon landar för att undersöka fyndet trycker hennes styrman en pistol mot tinningen på henne...

De nordiska regeringscheferna har samlats i Rosenbad för att underteckna fördraget i den blivande nordiska unionen. Den festliga inledningen avbryts abrupt då terrorister slår till mot regeringskvarteren. Kraftiga explosioner skakar centrala Stockholm med ett okänt antal sårade och döda till följd.Sveriges överbefälhavare, Johanna Lindström, lyckas nätt och jämnt överleva. Samtidigt utsätts landet för en våg av avancerade IT-attacker som hotar att slå ut hela samhället.Sverige dras ...

Bright, ambitious, and handsome, Ross Ohrenstedt is a high flier in the fashionable field of queer studies. He has just taken a prestigious university position in Los Angeles and has been appointed to oversee the collection of papers and works of a leading light of the gay literary salon known as the Purple Circle. Ross stumbles across a lost work by an unknown author and his quest to identify the mystery writer and achieve the glory of scholastic tenure unveils increasingly bizarre and un...

Due giornalisti premi Pulitzer. Un lavoro d’indagine durato anni. Centinaia d’interviste a militari, politici, giudici e agenti dei servizi israeliani. Decine di documenti portati alla luce. L’inchiesta definitiva sulla radicalizzazione della destra ebraica, che racconta come il movimento dei coloni – grazie alla protezione della polizia, del sistema giudiziario e della politica – è riuscito a conquistare le istituzioni d’Israele.

'Ingrid Bergman was far more than just a sweet, virtuous, "natural" Swedish girl - she was a dark sensualist over whom many men might go mad. Her very gaze delivered a climate of adult romantic expectation.'Adored by millions for her luminous beauty and elegance, at the height of her career Ingrid Bergman commanded a love that has hardly ever been matched, until her marriage fell apart and created an international scandal. Here renowned film writer David Thomson gives his own uniqu...

"Ingrid Bergman was far more than just a sweet, virtuous, 'natural' Swedish girl—she was a dark sensualist over whom many men might go mad. Her very gaze delivered a climate of adult romantic expectation."Adored by millions for her luminous beauty and elegance, at the height of her career Bergman commanded a love that has hardly ever been matched, until her marriage fell apart and created an international scandal. Here the renowned film writer David Thomson gives his own unique take...

Today’s business environment is constantly evolving, filled with volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity and driven by digital transformation, globalization, and the need to creating value through innovation. These shifts demand that organizations view contracting through a different lens. Since it is impossible to predict every what-if scenario in a transactional contract, organizations in strategic and complex partnerships must shift to a mindset of shared goals and objectives ...