This 5 session simple Norwegian audio course designed for beginners focuses on developing speaking and understanding skills for core words and phrases that can be used in daily interactions. This approach is practical for learners who aim to quickly acquire a foundational level of communication in Norwegian, emphasizing pronunciation, basic vocabulary, and key phrases. The course focuses on topics such as greetings, common questions, numbers and phrases needed for everyday situations....

A new story by Birgitt Van Wormer, author of the popular Hana Trilogy!After cutting all ties, leaving her home in Turtle Key and moving to Boston 17 years ago because of her sister and boyfriend’s betrayal, Sienna gets a phone call that they both had a fatal accident. Sienna has to travel back to the Keys to take care of her two nieces and nephew as well as the Sea Turtle Sanctuary that her parents ran when she was a child. Not only does Sienna have no clue how to deal with the thr...

This book explores the capacity of the Danish innovation system to respond to key societal challenges including the green imperative of achieving growth with environmental sustainability and the need to adapt to new and possibly disruptive changes in technology, often referred to as the Fourth Industrial Revolution.The book is divided into four main parts. The first describes the evolving characteristics of the Danish system of research and innovation with special attention to the ...

Can a patient's silence kill the doctor?To die young is a fate few desire. Perhaps more terrifying still is the prospect of being convicted when innocent—a prospect that turns into bitter reality for a doctor racing against time to save a young girl’s life.A respected physician in Cordoba, Spain, receives a mysterious phone call—a request to attend to the ailing daughter of a wealthy but secretive family in Madrid. What seems to be a routine house ...

How do we accommodate a growing urban population in a way that is sustainable, equitable, and inviting? This question is becoming increasingly urgent to answer as we face diminishing fossil-fuel resources and the effects of a changing climate while global cities continue to compete to be the most vibrant centers of culture, knowledge, and finance.Jan Gehl has been examining this question since the 1960s, when few urban designers or planners were thinking about designing cities for ...

Everything we do and the way we think is based on a linear conception of time. Our very ideas of life, success, and happiness are tied to a non-cyclical, non-organic paradigm that often works against our own nature and potential. The Maya live in a different world—close to nature, close to their children and their elders, and close to time: the sacred and the secular. It may seem we could not be further removed from the Mayan way of life, but there is a road built centuries ago we can stil...

Mayan Calendar Astrology: Mapping Your Inner Cosmos is the quintessential handbook you need to understand the art of Mayan astrology and how to harness it for a profound illumination of your personal lifepath. If you liked Jaguar Wisdom, this book will take you even deeper into the powerful insights that Mayan astrology can offer, whether you’re a seasoned expert or just a beginner.Included are:Complete information about the day signs and num...

Ninety years ago, Knud Rasmussen’s popular account of his scientific expeditions through Greenland and North America introduced readers to the culture and history of arctic Natives. In the intervening century, a robust field of ethnographic research has grown around the Inuit and Yupiit of North America—but, until now, English-language readers have had little access to the broad corpus of work on Greenlandic natives.Worldviews of the Greenlanders draws upon extensive Danish...

If you liked The Golden Compass and The Chronicles of Narnia, be prepared to fall in love with mythic fantasy all over again. The Jaguar and the Cacao Tree pulls you into a mesmerizing world that blurs the lines between science, mythology, and the hidden magic of nature.Synopsis:Max Hammond has a life other science-obsessed boys his age only dream of: he travels the world with his bee researcher dad and science wr...

Can there be comprehensive help for today's global problems? After reading this book, you will surely say, 'Yes, there is help that is simple and can be practiced by everyone.' In the Vedas, one of the oldest scriptures of mankind, it is written that fire techniques can bring extensive help. Agnihotra is the basic fire technique. Through Agnihotra, it is possible to purify earth, air and water; it can improve the health of humans, animals and plants; it can regenerate the psyche, harmonize...

I Am Nanna is a devastating exposé of a system meant to protect—but which destroys instead. Nanna should have been safe. Placed in foster care as a child, she endured years of abuse and sexual assault whilst overburdened social workers turned a blind eye to her suffering. When Nanna finally found the courage to speak out, those meant to safeguard her dismissed her allegations. She had an overactive imagination, they said. She was attention-seeking. She needed to learn to live with it—even ...

Military-civilian encounters are multiple and diverse in our times. Contributors to this volume demonstrate how military and civilian domains are constituted through entanglements undermining the classic civil-military binary and manifest themselves in unexpected places and manners. Moreover, the essays trace out the ripples, reverberations and resonations of civil-military entanglements in areas not usually associated with such ties, but which are nevertheless real and significant for an ...