宁静安稳的乡下小镇，纯真内向的男孩多莱（托拜厄斯·本特森 Tobias Bengtsson饰），在父母的介绍下，初识远方堂兄一个俊美帅气的男孩凯文（汤姆·劳弗特汝德 Tom Lofterud饰）。两人在日后的相处中，渐渐擦出了爱情的火花。而这段甜蜜青涩的初恋，到底能否拥有一个温暖完美的结局呢？
由瑞典导演Håkon Liu执导的浪漫爱情同志短片《幸运蓝》，荣获2007年哥德堡电影节Novel film price。导演Håkon Liu毕业于瑞典Filmhögskolan电影学院，第一部执导的片子是拍摄于2005年，长达30分钟的短片《Kär i natten》，而本部作品是他的第五部短片。片名“Lucky Blue”，在剧中则化身成为一只象征幸福的青鸟，失而复得后，终会回归。

身为同性爱人，格兰（古斯塔·斯卡斯加德 Gustaf Skarsgård 饰）和斯万（托克尔·彼特森 Torkel Petersson 饰）应该庆幸他们生在瑞典，因为这是世界上第七个承认同性恋婚姻的国家。随着感情的升温，他们觉得领养一个“爱情结晶”的时机到了。在申请屡次被拒绝之后，他们终于迎来了他们一岁半的小宝宝帕特里克（托马斯·柳恩格曼 Thomas Ljungman 饰），没想到，来到他们面前的，并非嗷嗷待哺的婴孩，却是一个浑身都充满了中二气息的少年。
就这样，格兰与斯万和他们的“孩子”帕特里克开始了“幸福”的家庭生活。他们发现帕特里克不仅仅在个性上桀骜不驯，对于同性恋的态度也反感到令人发指。会有怎样尴尬而又温暖的故事在这三个男人之间上演呢？

《维兰德》改编自瑞典小说家亨宁·曼凯尔的系列小说。小说主角维兰德探长是个陷入中年危机的男人，与妻子分居，与父亲关系紧张，唯一的女儿也对他时有不满。同事们对他又敬又怕，敬他总能突发异想，洞察谜案玄机，怕他时不时就发通脾气。他总是饮酒、吃垃圾食品，结果患上了糖尿病。与其他公事公办的警察不同的是，维兰德对案子总是很投入感情。
BBC版的《维兰德》是这部瑞典小说首次改编成英语电视剧。但是故事仍然是设定在瑞典的于斯塔德。而且剧组也是奔赴瑞典拍摄完成的。主角是肯尼思·布拉纳（《我与梦露的一周》中饰演奥利弗爵士，《哈利·波特与密室》中饰演黑魔法防御课老师吉德罗·洛哈特教授，还是《雷神》的导演）。他把维兰德人到中年的困窘、对受害者感同身受的同情、和内心的挣扎表演得细致入微、丝丝入扣。配角们的表演也都十分精彩。其中，汤姆·希德勒斯顿（《雷神》中饰演洛基）在剧中饰演了维兰德手下的心腹警探。第一季第一集中，尼古拉斯·霍尔特（《皮囊》《X战警 第一课》）还扮演了一个饱受父亲家暴折磨的男孩。
与快节奏、注重推理的《新福尔摩斯》不同，《维兰德》更加深沉，有种洗尽铅华的沧桑感，注重的是人文的关怀。办案的过程也更加贴近现实。每起案子，最引人深思、令人唏嘘的不是案子本身，而是案子背后的隐藏的种种玄机。就像《龙纹身的女孩》用少女失踪案折射了瑞典社会女性受侵害的问题，《维兰德》也是醉翁之意不在酒，而在反应瑞典社会各个层面上的问题，以及对人性、对人生的思考。
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How the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political polarization in the age of automation
From the Industrial Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence, The Technology Trap takes a sweeping look at the history of technological progress and how it has radically shifted the distribution of economic and political power among society’s members. As Carl Benedikt Frey shows, the Industrial Revolution created unprecedented wealth and prosperity over the long run, but the immediate consequences of mechanization were devastating for large swaths of the population. Middle-income jobs withered, wages stagnated, the labor share of income fell, profits surged, and economic inequality skyrocketed. These trends, Frey documents, broadly mirror those in our current age of automation, which began with the Computer Revolution.
Just as the Industrial Revolution eventually brought about extraordinary benefits for society, artificial intelligence systems have the potential to do the same. But Frey argues that this depends on how the short term is managed. In the nineteenth century, workers violently expressed their concerns over machines taking their jobs. The Luddite uprisings joined a long wave of machinery riots that swept across Europe and China. Today’s despairing middle class has not resorted to physical force, but their frustration has led to rising populism and the increasing fragmentation of society. As middle-class jobs continue to come under pressure, there’s no assurance that positive attitudes to technology will persist.
The Industrial Revolution was a defining moment in history, but few grasped its enormous consequences at the time. The Technology Trap demonstrates that in the midst of another technological revolution, the lessons of the past can help us to more effectively face the present.

How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology—and there’s nobody better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor who’s helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial.
How can we grow our prosperity through automation without leaving people lacking income or purpose? What career advice should we give today’s kids? How can we make future AI systems more robust, so that they do what we want without crashing, malfunctioning or getting hacked? Should we fear an arms race in lethal autonomous weapons? Will machines eventually outsmart us at all tasks, replacing humans on the job market and perhaps altogether? Will AI help life flourish like never before or give us more power than we can handle?
What sort of future do you want? This book empowers you to join what may be the most important conversation of our time. It doesn’t shy away from the full range of viewpoints or from the most controversial issues—from superintelligence to meaning, consciousness and the ultimate physical limits on life in the cosmos.

◎一本讓歐洲人上癮的完美小說‧三年內全歐狂銷800萬本！◎全球已售出34國版權◎榮獲2006年北歐犯罪小說協會最佳犯罪小說「玻璃鑰匙」獎◎作者獲選《每日電訊報》選出的「一生必讀的五十位犯罪小說作家」◎小說改編的電影與電視影集皆已開拍◎在瑞典，平均每3人就擁有1本；在丹麥，銷售程度僅次於聖經；在法國，每4部車裡就可以找到1人擁有；在英美，每個讀了本書的人都為之瘋狂庇護中心是為受害者成立的，而她從不認為自己是受害者。因此她的選擇一如既往──自己的問題靠自己解決！八十二歲的瑞典產業鉅子范耶爾在生日當天，照例收到了一幅匿名寄來的裱框壓花，卻令他情緒潰堤地哭了起來……四十三歲的《千禧年》雜誌發行人布隆維斯特，一向以揭發企業醜聞為職志，這次卻栽在一個穿Armani西裝的卑鄙股市投機客手上，面臨牢獄之災與信用破產危機……二十四歲的保全公司調查員莎蘭德，身材瘦削、刺青處處、性情乖僻，卻擁有高超詭譎的電腦技能與調查能力。但若有人想欺負看似完美受害者的她，未來恐怕會十分堪慮……一樁疑似小島密室的謀殺案，一個權貴家族的黑暗歷史，一場小記者對抗資本家的正義之戰，一段受害女子的復仇之路，交織成這部精彩絕倫的小說。全書處處驚奇，令人拍案叫絕。來自瑞典，史無前例攻佔全球暢銷書榜、屢創嶄新紀錄的完美小說，正待您品嘗！

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Large contemporary organizations seem to be in an almost continual state of change. Whether in public or private organizations, managers are trying to implement new organizational forms, introduce new procedures or systems, or change the attitudes of employees. Such reforms often yield disappointing results, and so new reforms are deemed necessary. In this book, Nils Brunsson considers why reform takes place. He looks at why reforms occur when they do, why they propagate certain ideas to the exclusion of others, and what their consequences are. He emphasizes the role of social institutions, fashions, and hope. He argues that reform represents not only change but also stability, and that a failure to implement reforms is sometimes a solution rather than a problem for organizations. Nils Brunsson has long been one of the most probing analysts of organizational life, often taking unorthodox approaches. He draws on both European and American traditions to develop a distinctive voice and stance of his own. Based on extensive empirical studies in private and public organizations, Brunsson's new book will be of interest to academics and advanced students of organizational change, organizational theory, and public management.

Kurzbeschreibung
Allan Karlsson hat Geburtstag. Er wird 100 Jahre alt. Eigentlich ein Grund zu feiern. Doch während sich der Bürgermeister und die lokale Presse auf das große Spektakel vorbereiten, hat der Hundertjährige ganz andere Pläne: er verschwindet einfach – und schon bald steht ganz Schweden wegen seiner Flucht auf dem Kopf. Doch mit solchen Dingen hat Allan seine Erfahrung, er hat schließlich in jungen Jahren die ganze Welt durcheinander gebracht.
Jonas Jonasson erzählt in seinem Bestseller von einer urkomischen Flucht und zugleich die irrwitzige Lebensgeschichte eines eigensinnigen Mannes, der sich zwar nicht für Politik interessiert, aber trotzdem irgendwie immer in die großen historischen Ereignisse des 20. Jahrhunderts verwickelt war.
Pressestimmen
"Ein Schelmenroman erster Güte!" (Der Spiegel )
"Ein amüsanter Crashkurs über Sinn und Irrsinn von Geschichte und Gegenwart. Ein Gute-Laune-Schmöker!" (Denis Scheck, ARD druckfrisch )
"Ganz große Unterhaltung und einfach ein Riesenspaß!“ (Hessischer Rundfunk, hr 1 )

We perceive objects in the world as having structures at both coarse and fine scales. A tree, for instance, may appear as having a roughly round or cylindrical shape when seen from a distance, even though it is built up from a large number of branches. At a closer look, individual leaves become visible, and we can observe that they in turn have texture at an even finer scale. The fact that objects in the world appear in different ways, depending upon the scale of observation, has important implications when analyzing measured data, such as images, with automatic methods. Scale-Space Theory in Computer Vision describes a formal framework, called scale-space representation, for handling the notion of scale in image data. It gives an introduction to the general foundations of the theory and shows how it applies to essential problems in computer vision such as computation of image features and cues to surface shape. The subjects range from mathematical underpinning to practical computational techniques. The power of the methodology is illustrated by a rich set of examples.

The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw many ambitious European rulers develop permanent armies and navies. War and the State in Early Modern Europe examines this military change as a central part of the political, social and economic transformation of early modern Europe. This important study exposes the economic structures necessary for supporting permanent military organisations across Europe. Large armed forces could not develop successfully without various interest groups who needed protection and were willing to pay for it. Arguing that early fiscal-military states were in fact protection-selling enterprises, the author focuses on: Spain, the Dutch Republic and Sweden the role of local elites the political and organisational aspects of this new military development War and the State in Early Modern Europe offers an impressive insight into the conditions surrounding the growth of military organisations in Europe, and will appeal to European and Military historians alike.