So Melville wrote of his masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. In part,
is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopaedia of whaling lore and legend, the book can be seen as part of its author's lifelong meditation on America. Written with wonderfully redemptive humour,
is also a profound inquiry into character, faith, and the nature of perception.
This edition of
, which reproduces the definitive text of the novel, includes invaluable explanatory notes, along with maps, illustrations, and a glossary of nautical terms.

I Hundemordet i Vimmelskaftet bevæger vi os blandt falskspillere, svindlere, tiggere, soldater og prostituerede i 1700-tallets København. Gennem en række episoder får vi indblik i, hvordan ære, vold, fællesskaber og hierarkier skabte rammerne for københavnernes liv i den indelukkede by.

Mens kongefamilien boede i majestætisk pragt midt i byen, mens adelsfolk, rige handelsmænd og deres familier kunne trække sig tilbage til deres palæer og borgerhuse, var virkeligheden en anden rundt omkring i de københavnske gader, hvor stanken, larmen og trængslen kunne gøre livet til en prøvelse for alle de almindelige mennesker, der levede i byen.

Hundemordet i Vimmelskaftet er en anderledes og medrivende historiefortælling om København, københavnerne og det leben, vi normalt ikke hører om.

Loosely based on the lives of 19th-century explorer Alexander von Humboldt and a contemporary, mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, Kehlmann's novel, a German bestseller widely heralded as an exemplar of "new" German fiction, injects musty history with shots of whimsy and irony. Humboldt voyages to South America to map the Orinoco River, climb the Chimborazo peak in Ecuador and measure "every river, every mountain and every lake in his path." Gauss is the hedgehog to Humboldt's fox, leaping out of bed on his wedding night to jot down a formula and rarely leaving his hometown of Göttingen. The two meet at a scientific congress in 1828, when Germany is in turmoil after the fall of Napoleon. Other luminaries appear throughout the novel, including a senile Immanuel Kant, Louis Daguerre and Thomas Jefferson. The narrative is notable for its brisk pacing, lively prose and wry humor (curmudgeonly Gauss laments, for instance, how "every idiot would be able to... invent the most complete nonsense" about him 200 years hence), which keenly complements Kehlmann's intelligent, if not especially deep, treatment of science, mathematics and reason at the end of the Enlightenment.

A rousing adventure story peopled with heartbreaking, unforgettable characters and a powerful allegory about the good and evil lying beneath the surfaces of human beauty, ugliness, and superior intellect.

To menn møtes tilfeldig en tidlig morgen på brua over til Ulvøya i Oslo. Tommy og Jim. De har ikke sett hverandre på femogtredve år, men en gang stod de skulder ved skulder i et vennskap like naturlig som å puste. Men hva skjer hvis den ene plutselig får det for seg at et vennskap må fortjenes?

Og i dag: Jim står og fisker på brua, og Tommy kommer kjørende i sin nye Mercedes. Er det ikke rart, sier han, at ting kan bli sånn, omvendt. Fortid møter nåtid i det døgnet vi følger dem, tidlig i september 2006.

Danish author S.J. Gazan established herself as an international talent to watch with her debut thriller novel, The Dinosaur Feather. In addition to being named "Crime Novel of the Decade" by the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, NPR's Maureen Corrigan called it her favorite mystery of 2013, and The Wall Street Journal's Tom Nolan placed it in his year-end top ten list.

Now, Gazan's much-anticipated follow-up is here, bringing back maverick policeman Soren Marhauge. The Arc of the Swallow evokes such literary mystery masterpieces as John Le Carre's The Constant Gardner and Peter Hoeg's Smilla's Sense of Snow, pitting a principled scientist against a profit-motivated conspiracy that leads to the upper reaches of corporations and government.

Biology Ph.D. candidate Marie Skov is devastated when, on the same day as her mother's death, her mentor Kristian Storm apparently kills himself. Storm had been facing academic dishonesty charges, as well as heated criticism of his research on a vaccine for African children--that suggested the vaccine was causing more harm than it was preventing.

Skov is skeptical that the death was a suicide. She knows Storm's research on the vaccine was sound, and learns that his on-site work in Guinea-Bissau was marred by intimidation, sabotaged data, and the suspicious death of another scientist. She also learns that in his final days, Storm felt he was being followed by a blue Ford with tinted windows.

Soon afterwards, a blue Ford with tinted windows parks across from Skov's home. The police have no interest in re-examining the official narrative. But Marhauge shares Skov's desire for answers, and defies his superiors to help her investigate. They receive unlikely help from a Nobel Prize-winning rival of Storm's, and find themselves on a perilous trail that leads to Big Pharma and the World Health Organization.

Interwoven in this thrilling storyline are deeply-moving portraits of Skov's troubled family and Marhauge's tenuous relationship with his girlfriend, another biologist. The result is a complex page-turner that establishes S.J. Gazan (herself a biologist) as a world-class author at the beginning of a formidable career.

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Original Danish

"The Corrections" is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century - a comic, tragic masterpiece about a family breaking down in an age of easy fixes.
After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of their own lives. The oldest, Gary, a once-stable portfolio manager and family man, is trying to convince his wife and himself, despite clear signs to the contrary, that he is not clinically depressed. The middle child, Chip, has lost his seemingly secure academic job and is failing spectacularly at his new line of work. And Denise, the youngest, has escaped a disastrous marriage only to pour her youth and beauty down the drain of an affair with a married man - or so her mother fears. Desperate for some pleasure to look forward to, Enid has set her heart on an elusive goal: bringing her family together for one last Christmas at home.
Stretching from the Midwest at midcentury to the Wall Street and Eastern Europe of today, "The Corrections" brings an old-fashioned world of civic virtue and sexual inhibitions into violent collision with the era of home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental healthcare, and globalised greed. Richly realistic, darkly hilarious, deeply humane, it confirms Jonathan Franzen as one of our most brilliant interpreters of American society and the American soul.

The enduring fascination of the Medici springs from their ability--as individuals and as a family--to control the government of Florence, first as a quasi-democracy and finally through inheritance. Based on the latest research, this perceptive study, by one of the finest Renaissance scholars of the day, reveals the causes and the nature of the Medicis' power of patronage from the early 15th-century through the early 18th. "...probing, sharp-eyed, utterly unsentimental...some of the most revealing insights come...in a chapter about the growth of the Medici legend.."--Roy Foster.

Winter of the World picks up right where the first book left off, as its five interrelated families—American, German, Russian, English, Welsh—enter a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the Spanish Civil War and the great dramas of World War II, up to the explosions of the American and Soviet atomic bombs.

I en lille koloni på Vestgrønland i 1793 bliver en kvinde sparket ud over en klippe og falder i døden. Koloniens norsk-danske præst, Morten Falck er kommet til kolonien for at missionere, men det store fjendskab mellem grønlændere og kolonister, gør hans arbejde besværligt. Falck længes hjem og hans grønlandske hjælpepræst fortæres af vrede og sorg.

Langt inde i landet er et oprør blandt kristne grønlændere undervejs, ledt af profeterne Habakuk og hans kone Maria Magdalene. Inspireret af Den Franske Revolution, drømmer grønlænderne om frihed, lighed og broderskab.

I "Profeterne i Evighedsfjorden" må Morten Falck beslutte om han skal håndhæve den danske overmagt eller støtte de grønlandske frihedsdrømme.

"Profeterne i Evighedsfjorden" er en spændende fortælling om et dramatisk kultursammenstød, inspireret af virkelige hændelser i Danmark og Grønland i slutningen af 1700-tallet.

Follett takes you to a time long past with brio and razor-sharp storytelling. An epic tale in which you will lose yourself."
-The Denver Post on World Without End
Ken Follett's World Without End was a global phenomenon, a work of grand historical sweep, beloved by millions of readers and acclaimed by critics as "well-researched, beautifully detailed [with] a terrifically compelling plot" ( The Washington Post ) and "wonderful history wrapped around a gripping story" ( St. Louis Post- Dispatch )
Fall of Giants is his magnificent new historical epic. The first novel in The Century Trilogy, it follows the fates of five interrelated families-American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh-as they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.
Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man's world in the Welsh mining pits...Gus Dewar, an American law student rejected in love, finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House...two orphaned Russian brothers, Grigori and Lev Peshkov, embark on radically different paths half a world apart when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution...Billy's sister, Ethel, a housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts, takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German embassy in London...
These characters and many others find their lives inextricably entangled as, in a saga of unfolding drama and intriguing complexity, Fall of Giants moves seamlessly from Washington to St. Petersburg, from the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty. As always with Ken Follett, the historical background is brilliantly researched and rendered, the action fast-moving, the characters rich in nuance and emotion. It is destined to be a new classic.
In future volumes of The Century Trilogy, subsequent generations of the same families will travel through the great events of the rest of the twentieth century, changing themselves-and the century itself. With passion and the hand of a master, Follett brings us into a world we thought we knew, but now will never seem the same again.

Nogle regner folketingsvalget i 2001 for et systemskifte og en stor sejr for folket over eliten. Andre benægter, at der skulle være noget folk og nogen elite, og at et systemskifte skulle have fundet sted. Men alle må erkende, at noget er radikalt forandret.

Det er bare svært at bestemme dette ´noget´, fordi dette noget ikke er faktuelt.Denne bog er et forsøg på at læse folketingsvalget i 2001 som symptom på en række fundamentale forandringer og udviklingstendenser, som allerede havde fundet sted eller var undervejs, men først blev tydelige som samlet billede efter 2001. Det er forandringer, som vedrører: den politiske udvikling i velfærdsstaten kulturens stilling i samfundet forholdet mellem de sociale klasser kapitalismens udvikling den enkeltes forhold til sig selv.Rune Lykkebergs ærinde er ikke at gøre valget i 2001 til indledningen til en ny epoke, men omvendt at se valget som afslutningen på en stor historie.

Det handler om at bestemme og belyse den historie og redegøre for, hvorfor de frigørende humanister pludselig måtte se sig selv afsløret som undertrykkere og smagsdommere.

Rune Lykkeberg, redaktør på Information, vover med Kampen om sandhederne en samfundsanalyse, hvor kulturens status, den nye kapitalismes betydning for vores selvopfattelse og magtforskydningerne i velfærdssamfundet efter valget i 2001 er omdrejningspunkter.

Sten saks papir er en nådesløs livsskildring om mænd og den vestlige kulturs myter om mænd, fædre og sønner. Om social opstigning, kærlighed, jalousi og hævn. Om vold. Om familier. Og om poesien som helende kraft. En stor roman om at forsøge at være et ordentligt menneske og om at fejle.

Vi lever i et demokrati og diskuterer ustandseligt demokratiets status. Men demokrati er slet ikke en entydig størrelse. Der findes liberalt, konstitutionelt, republikanistisk, deliberativt, direkte og repræsentativt demokrati – for blot at nævne nogle varianter af demokratiet.

I Mogens Herman Hansens nye og store introduktion til det moderne demokrati beskrives og analyseres demokratiets mange former. Læseren tilbydes dermed en oplyst og rigt facetteret beskrivelse af demokratiet som styreform.

Men demokrati er jo ikke kun en styreform. Det er i høj grad også en ideologi. Som ideologi identificeres demokrati med frihed, lighed og menneskerettigheder. Bogen behandler derfor også disse begreber udførligt i relation til demokratiet og rejser i den forbindelse nogle fundamentale spørgsmå Er det overhovedet muligt at forene frihed og lighed? Hvad, hvis de to facetter af demokratibegrebet kommer i konflikt med hinanden? Hvad er demokrati, hvis folkets flertal vil have dødsstraf, men dødsstraf er i strid med menneskerettighederne?

Endelig leverer Mogens Herman Hansen en helt opdateret gennemgang af demokratiets status i EU, hvor bl.a. indførelsen af Lissabontraktaten i december 2009 inddrages, samt et kapitel om demokrati og globalisering med et væld af eksempler fra Danmark, USA, Storbritannien, Tyskland og Frankrig.

Bogen baserer sig på forfatterens mangeårige forskning i såvel det antikke som det moderne demokrati.

Mogens Herman Hansen (f. 1940) er dr.phil. og lektor i oldgræsk ved SAXO-Instituttet, Københavns Universitet. Han er verdenskendt som specialist i demokratiets historie, og i februar 2010 holdt han The Annual British Academy Lecture over det emne, der i denne bog behandles i kapitlet »Demokrati, magtfordeling og den blandede forfatning«.

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THE SEMINAL WORK ON FOREIGN POLICY AND THE ART OF DIPLOMACY Moving from a sweeping overview of history to blow-by-blow accounts of his negotiations with world leaders, Henry Kissinger describes how the art of diplomacy has created the world in which we live, and how America's approach to foreign affairs has always differed vastly from that of other nations. Brilliant, controversial, and profoundly incisive, Diplomacy stands as the culmination of a lifetime of diplomatic service and scholarship. It is vital reading for anyone concerned with the forces that have shaped our world today and will impact upon it tomorrow.

Det 20. århundredes hovedstad set gennem fotograf Lars Gundersens poetiske kamera og forfatter Jens Blendstrups visuelle fantasi. Berlin har gennem det sidste århundrede været centrum for to verdenskrige, en kold krig og en genforening. Historien om konflikt, fanatisme, totalitarisme og krig er til stede overalt i byen og rammer enhver, der besøger den. Således også Jens Blendstrup og Lars Gundersen. Forfatterens blik panorerer hen over dekadente officersselskaber, overfyldte beskyttelseskældre, hjemvendte soldater, opløste familier. Scenen er genkendelig, men som altid graver Jens Blendstrup nye overrumplende og ikke sjældent absurde perspektiver frem.

Om hvad der i vores kulturkreds forstås ved historie, hvordan der arbejdes med historie, og hvad historien bruges til. Der ses bl.a. på det billedsprog, som benyttes når der skal laves en fremstilling af historie og videnskabsfaget "historie" analyseres.