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Number of Titles Found: 95
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| Title: Source Country Differences in Test Score Gaps |
| Sub-title: Evidence from Denmark |
| By (author): Beatrice Schindler Rangvid |
| ISBN10-13: 8790199170 : 9788790199173 |
| The study presented in this paper makes use of the very rich PISA dataset from Denmark to investigate the significance for the PISA scores of the countries of origin of the participating school pupils. In addition, the paper presents a series of results related to the PISA participants' expectations with regard to their future employment and family lives. |
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| Introduction; Literature Review & Determinants of Immigrants' Educational Achievement Gap; A Brief Overview of Immigration in Denmark; Empirical Approach & Data Description; Estimation Results; Why Do Immigrants with Similar Socio-Economic Background Under-perform Compared to Danes?; Conclusion; Appendix; References. |
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Pages: 62
Size: 155x230mm
Illustrations: tables & charts
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| Published: University Press of Southern Denmark (DK) - November 2008 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Education |
| List Price: 6.50 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 8 |
| Title: 86 of: 95 |
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| Title: Story of the Drinking Horn |
| Sub-title: Drinking Culture in Scandinavia During the Middle Ages |
| By (author): Vivian Etting |
| ISBN10-13: 8776021890 : 9788776021894 |
| This study is devoted to the fascinating story of the drinking horn and how it was used in western culture from Antiquity to modern times. In special focus are the still preserved drinking horns from medieval Scandinavia, of which a large collection is exhibited in the National Museum of Denmark. My original plan was to present this unique collection to an international audience, but I soon realised that the subject had deep roots. in the history of western culture, so it ended up in a much broader study about the use of drinking horns in Europe back to Classical Antiquity, but with special emphasis on the Middle Ages. The study includes written sources and literature, as well as depictions of drinking horns in art. A catalogue of the drinking horns in the National Museum's medieval collection is printed at the end of the book. The use of drinking horns was concentrated in Scandinavia, Germany and England, whereas the tradition never was resumed in southern Europe after the collapse of the Roman Empire. As a consequence of this, northern Europe is the main field of research in this study. Throughout millennia the spectacular appearance of these great horns has attracted much attention, and dramatic tales and stories are attached to several of them. Mountings in gilt silver and fanciful supports testify to their high esteem, and they have always been used for memorial events or as an official token of welcome. |
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Pages: 157
Size: 300x 215mm
Illustrations: colour illus
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| Published: University Press of Southern Denmark (DK) - December 2013 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: European history : Archaeology : Northern Europe, Scandinavia |
| List Price: 27.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Reprint under Consideration
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| Title: 87 of: 95 |
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| Title: Supply Chain Management |
| Sub-title: Brazil as an Emergent Economy |
| Edited by: Jan Stentoft Arlbjørn, Henning de Haas |
| ISBN10-13: 8776745678 : 9788776745677 |
| This book focuses on the theory and practice of doing business in Brazil within a supply chain management context. The book is divided into six chapters. Chapter one reflects on why one should do business in Brazil. Brazil is a hotspot for doing business due to, among others, high growth rates, access to raw material and natural resources, and an increasing middle class with buying power. The second chapter is about experience economy and how this can be used in an industrial marketing context when penetrating the Brazilian market. The third chapter is about to which degree Brazilian supply chains are influenced by environmental sustainability. The fourth chapter deals with corporate social responsibility (CSR). The chapter sets out to provide an overview of which CSR-related issues a company should consider when doing business in Brazil. The fifth chapter is concerned with outsourcing businesses to Brazil from a risk management perspective. The chapter outlines different types of risks and possible mitigation strategies. The final chapter focuses on learning processes based on this field study trip to Brazil. |
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Pages: 145
Size: 170x250mm
Illustrations: tables & charts
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| Published: University Press of Southern Denmark (DK) - July 2011 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Business & management : Brazil |
| List Price: 18.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon |
| Title: 88 of: 95 |
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| Title: The Reality of the Fantastic |
| Sub-title: The Magical, Political and Social Universe of Late Medieval Saga Manuscripts |
| Edited by: Hans Jacob Orning |
| ISBN10-13: 8776749355 : 9788776749354 |
| The reality of the fantastic combines a 'new philological' close study of a fifteenth-century Icelandic manuscript compilation of fifteen fornaldarsögur and riddarasögur, AM 343a 4to, with an historically-based analysis of the manuscript's various contents, demonstrating how fictions that are in many respects non-realistic can be made to yield up insights into the real-world concerns and interests of a group of fifteenth-century Icelanders. Both the methodology of this study and its conclusions should interest readers from diverse fields, including literature, history and manuscript studies. |
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Pages: 387
Size: 220x145mm
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| Published: University Press of Southern Denmark (DK) - October 2017 |
| Format: Hardback |
| Subjects: Sagas |
| List Price: 36.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 5 |
| Title: 89 of: 95 |
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| Title: Understanding Biographies |
| Sub-title: On Biographies in History & Stories in Biography |
| By (author): Birgitte Possing |
| ISBN10-13: 8776749924 : 9788776749927 |
| In modern and post-modern times, biography is one of the most popular genres of the day. All around the Western world, we are engaged in the lives of ordinary and well-known people, and biographies fly off the shelves. In this book, Danish historian and biographer Birgitte Possing uncovers the essence of biography as a genre, spanning a number of radically different types of life-storytelling. She defines biography as a genre, a narrative form and an analytic field, providing guidelines to an understanding of gender, archetypes, narrative traditions, critique and ethics of the field. This is not a cookery book with just one recipe for how to write a biography. It does not provide simple answers to questions on how, why or upon which sources biographies should be written or read. On the contrary, the book shows the numerous styles and wide-ranging conventions around the Western world in which biographies are accomplished. Birgitte Possing interprets the biographical renaissance during the last thirty years as completely in keeping with the individualising zeitgeist around the millennium shift. From a local to an international perspective, she identifies and reflects on the traditions in international writing and reading of biographies with examples from a wide range of Western and Nordic countries. |
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Pages: 232
Size: 230x155mm
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| Published: University Press of Southern Denmark (DK) - December 2016 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Biography: historical, political & military |
| List Price: 25.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Reprint under Consideration
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| Title: 90 of: 95 |
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| Title: Unemployed in the Danish Newspaper Debate from the 1840s to the 1990s |
| Sub-title: Study Paper No. 21 |
| By (author): Bent Jensen |
| ISBN10-13: 8790199154 : 9788790199159 |
| The aim of this analysis is to cover the most important elements of the political press, and thus to paint a coherent picture of the way in which Danish newspapers has discussed the subject of the unemployed over a period of 150 years. |
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| Introduction: Objectives, definitions, & an overview of press history; Concepts & definitions; An overview of Danish press history, & the selection of newspapers for the study; Translation of the newspaper titles; The Debate from 1848 to 1907; The prelude; The debate in 1848, the European year of revolutions; The 1850s & 1860s: An interlude ; A Socialist agenda; The debate in the 1880s & 1890s; A breakthrough; The debate from the first law on state-recognised unemployment funds in 1907 until the 1940s; The climate of opinion at the time of the adoption of the law; The debate during the First World War; The debate in the 1920s; The debate during the Great Depression; Occupation & Liberation; The period from 1950 to the mid-1990s; The early 1950s; The remainder of the 1950s: The "islands of unemployment"; The long period of prosperity, 1959-73; The oil crisis, autumn 1973; In the grip of the crisis, 1976-82; The debate on unemployment under a centre-right government, 1982-84; After 1993: the debate under a Social Democrat-led government; Conclusion. |
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Pages: 94
Size: 155x230mm
Illustrations: b/w illus
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| Published: University Press of Southern Denmark (DK) - August 2008 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Poverty & unemployment : Denmark |
| List Price: 9.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 201 |
| Title: 91 of: 95 |
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| Title: Unemployment & Crime |
| Sub-title: Experimental Evidence of the Causal Effects of Intensified ALMPs on Crime Rates Among Unemployed Individuals |
| By (author): Signe Hald Andersen |
| ISBN10-13: 8790199642 : 9788790199647 |
| A number of studies investigate the extent to which levels of welfare benefits reduce crime among the unemployed. This paper expands this literature by testing whether the intensity of other welfare programs aimed at the unemployed affects their criminal activity, using evidence from a Danish social experiment that randomly assigned active labor market programs (ALMPs) of different levels of intensity to newly unemployed individuals. |
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Pages: 26
Size: 170x240mm
Illustrations: b/w illus
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| Published: University Press of Southern Denmark (DK) - February 2012 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Crime & criminology |
| List Price: 5.50 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 4 |
| Title: 92 of: 95 |
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| Title: Useful Beautiful Minds |
| Sub-title: An Analysis of the Relationship Between Schizophrenia & Employment |
| By (author): Jane Greve, Louise Herrup Nielsen |
| ISBN10-13: 8790199766 : 9788790199760 |
| This paper examines the relationship between schizophrenia and employment. While most other studies have used cross-sectional data to estimate this relationship, we use longitudinal register data and show the development in the employment rate of people with schizophrenia 15 years before the first admission to a psychiatric hospital until 10 years after this admission. We find a considerable drop in the employment rate for people with schizophrenia six years before the first hospitalization, and the employment rate stabilizes at 18 % after the first admission. As family and neighbourhood environment can be important factors in the development of mental illnesses and labour market outcomes, we use sibling fixed effects to estimate the relationship between schizophrenia and employment. The difference in the employment rate in 2007 for the siblings with and without schizophrenia is estimated at 67 %. This difference is reduced to 56 % when we include control variables such as marital status, educational achievement and work experience but remain unchanged when we apply a sibling fixed effect approach which controls for unobserved family specific characteristics that the siblings share. |
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Pages: 35
Size: 240x170mm
Illustrations: tables & illus
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| Published: University Press of Southern Denmark (DK) - December 2012 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Employment & unemployment : Psychiatry |
| List Price: 5.25 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 13 |
| Title: 93 of: 95 |
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| Title: Ut Pictura Poesis Tradition & English Neo-Classical Landscape Poetry |
| By (author): Flemming Olsen |
| ISBN10-13: 8776746631 : 9788776746636 |
| The parallel between poetry and painting harks back to Antiquity. It seemed obvious because both arts appeal to the intellect as well as the eye. In his Ars poetica (approx. 20 b.C.), Horace gave a terse formulation to the parallel: ut pictura poesis. Later critics dislodged what was in Horace just an obiter dictum, from its context, which in Horace referred to the appropriate distance of a beholder/reader from a picture/text. In English literature, the Neo-Classical cult of the Ancients straddling the year 1700 produced a spate of translations of Horace's Ars poetica, and the translators' accompanying comments suggest a wide range of idiosyncratic applications of the Latin poet's maxim. One form of poetical expression of the parallel particularly favoured by English Neo-Classical poets was landscape description. However, landscapes' had to fight opposition on two fronts, viz. the rigid Neo-Classical canon, and the prevalent mould of the description of outdoor scenery as seen in eg pastorals. This book traces the development of the maxim ut pictura poesis from a topos to a genre, viz. the Neo-Classical landscape poem. The typical poem belonging to that genre, which is given a detailed analysis in the pages of this book, contains a number of stock ingredients that meet the eyes of a beholder, who is also the narrator. Underneath the scene is a low-key social analogy, an intimation of a virtually unspoilt utopian society. At the same time, an undertone of anxiety for the preservation of this summum bonum is perceptible, and in James Thomson's landscapes, dating from the 1720s, the reader feels the approach of the attitude to the items of natura naturata that we find in Wordsworth and Keats. |
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Pages: 274
Size: 230x115mm
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| Published: University Press of Southern Denmark (DK) - March 2013 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Poetry |
| List Price: 25.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 5 |
| Title: 94 of: 95 |
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| Title: Wage Effect of a Social Experiment on Intensified Active Labor Market Policies |
| By (author): Signe Hald Andersen |
| ISBN10-13: 8790199804 : 9788790199807 |
| This paper investigates the effect of intensified ALMPs, by increasing the threat of program participation, on post-unemployment wages. For this purpose, it exploits a social experiment conducted in two Danish counties, where approximately 5,000 unemployed people were randomly selected to receive either a standard treatment or an intensified treatment. It uses a Heckman selection model and finds that an intensified threat of program participation increases the probability of finding a job in the short run, but decreases wages in the same period. |
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Pages: 23
Size: 240x170mm
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| Published: University Press of Southern Denmark (DK) - May 2013 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Sociology: work & labour : Labour economics |
| List Price: 5.50 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 4 |
| Title: 95 of: 95 |
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