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A Treatise on Civil Architecture
Sir William Chambers (1723 1796) var en svensk-brittisk arkitekt med en ovanlig meritlista. Han ritade såväl fantasifulla slottsbyggnader och luxuösa inredningar som enkel och …
Swedish traditions and holidays : an encyclopedic calender
Året är fyllt av traditioner, fester och högtider som vi firar vid bestämda tidpunkter. En del är nya, andra har firats länge. Men vad vet vi egentligen om uppkomsten och historien …
Hilma af Klint Catalogue Raisonné
An authoritative, stupendously produced seven-volume publication from Bokf rlaget Stolpe
Leadership and Statecraft
Machiavellis observation om ledarskapets svåra balansgång är lika relevant i vår tid med förnyade militära, ekonomiska och kulturella konflikter, som den en gång var i 1500-talets …
Decadence and decay : from ancient Rome to the present
The fear of living in the end times has a long history. In Decadence and Decay, a group of distinguished international scholars describe how societies over time have handled and …
Japan's Past and Present
In Japan, the study of nihonjinron became popular after the Second World War in an attempt to explain the uniqueness of the country s culture and character. Some of the essays in …
Rural Urbanism
When summer arrives, tourists replace the city s usual residents, who instead flock to the countryside. But more and more people are moving to or closer to big cities, and they no …
Liberty : The Evolution of an Idea
How has the idea of liberty developed and evolved over the centuries? What does freedom mean for us today and what do we need to do in order to preserve the freedoms for which …
Hilma af Klint : Visionary
Hilma af Klint's works have taken the international art world by storm, more than one hundred years after they were created. Around the turn of the 20th century, the new spiritual …
Knowledge and information : The Potential and Peril of Human Intelligence
We have come a long way from the religions, myths and foundation stories that created the bedrock of man s early understanding of the world and everything in it, and our stock of …
The return of geopolitics : a global quest for the right side of history
It wasn't so long ago that a notion gained currency suggesting we had reached the end of history, that humanity's sociocultural evolution had advanced to a point beyond which it …