Jon Kyllingstad RACE

A History of Science

For more than ten years historian Jon Røyne Kyllingstad has studied how the concept of race has been used in the history of science, from the 1600s until today. The idea that some races have been elevated above others has been rooted in all parts of academia, and affected research within anthropology, history, and medicine.

Some of our foremost researchers have allowed themselves to use a scientific “reasoning” for systematic discrimination, and in this interesting as well as frightening work parts of our academic history which so far has been forgotten or ignored is put to the light in a systemic manner.

Hilde Østby MAP OF LONELINESS

About humanities unstoppable desire for community, and what drives us apart

In March 2020 the world closed down and stayed completely or partly closed for two and a half years. Most arenas where humans go for companionship, such as offices and concerts, weddings and funerals, disappeared or were decimated overnight. It’s as if the whole world has taken part in a huge experiment in loneliness, according to author Hilde Østby. The result of this experiment is worth dwelling on, as it’s not an easy diagnosis to just brush off. Research shows that loneliness, if it is chronic, is more dangerous for our health than smoking 15 cigarettes a day.

In Map of Loneliness Hilde Østby approaches the subject on a personal, philosophical and journalistic level in order to get to grips with loneliness

– one of our most enigmatic and under- communicated public health challenges. She shows us what loneliness does to us and asks where it comes from. That is a question which can be answered both medically and existentially. Maybe the mechanisms which drive us apart could later bring us back together? In that case loneliness is something we must solve as a community, through community, and for the community.

Hilde Østby (b. 1975) is a historian of ideas, author, journalist and former publishing editor. She made her debut as an author in 2013 with the critically acclaimed novel Encyclopedia of Longing.

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Synne Sun Løes NO ONE CAN SPIT AT A SMILING FACE

As long as difference exists, it will always speak with a contradictory tone. Speak over itself. Interrupt, protest and bang its fist on the table. Try to convince the world that it deserves to be heard. At the same time it’s also scared to death and trying to hide under that same table. Tries to muzzle itself. All because it’s scared to be exposed.

In these personal and investigative essays Synne Sun Løes writes about adoption and identity. She bases her writing on her own experiences as adopted, as well as non-fiction, academia and the public debates. The themes being illuminated are widely spread, from xenophobia, racisms, being different, “the trend of diversity”, hysteria around infringement and Korean revenge art, to more psychological topics such as transgenerational traumas, psychoanalysis, and connectional damage.

How can one take ownership of one’s own experiences as adopted and as a “different child” without being accused of taking on the role of a victim? How can one adopt one’s own personal identity, as oneself, when one is “different” in present day Norway? How is identity affected by meeting one’s own biological parents? How can one survive in a world which time and time again tries to spit in one’s face?

The author approaches these questions both with wonder, humour and seriousness, and she also casts a critical view at the tendency of society to simplify, edit and polarize the stories from marginalized groups.

Synne Sun Løes (b. 1975) is based in Oslo. She debuted in 1999 with the book Yoko is alone. For her YA-novel, Eating Flowers for Breakfast (2002), she won the prestigious Brage Prize. She has been awarded Riksmålsprisen and been chosen as a White Raven author.

Hans D. Høeg NO ONE IS INNOCENT: ANTI-SEMITISM ON THE LEFT

My time as Chief of Staff for an American congressman

Does the Norwegian left have a problem with anti-Semitism? Yes, argues Torkel Brekke in this book.

The author shows how parts of the left have cultivated conspiracy theories about Jews and how Soviet Holocaust revisionism was spread in the Norwegian public. He examines how violence against civilian Israelis is justified and how parts of the Norwegian trade union movement and organizational life moved from postwar sympathy for Israel and the Jews to a rhetoric with an anti-Semitic character.

No One Is Innocent takes an uncomfortable but necessary reckoning with a political tradition that has been ignored for far too long.

For the left, it has been easy to stick the Jew-hatred on the others, i.e. Nazis and the far-right.

The left has failed to look in the mirror and ask how they themselves have referred to and treated Jews.

Torkel Brekke (b. 1970) is a professor at OsloMet. He has his doctorate in Oriental studies from the University of Oxford, and works primarily with religion, politics, prejudice and conflict studies. He is associated with the Center for Extremism Research (C-REX) at UiO and the think tank Civita. He has been a visiting professor at several universities outside Norway.

Hans D. Høeg A NORWEGIAN IN THE HOUSE

My time as Chief of Staff for an American congressman

Our Man in Washington is the story of the Norwegian who became Chief of Staff for an American Congressman in 2012 and ended up leading a plot to topple the USA’s third most powerful man.

When Hans Høeg met a hillbilly by the name of Thomas Massie at the prestigious MiT in Cambridge in 1991, he realised it would be the start of a long and rewarding friendship. What’s more, he decided then and there that he would get on board if his energetic, weather-beaten friend ever decided to embark on an exciting project sometime in the future.

But when Thomas’s offer came, more than 20 years later, it was not the entrepreneurial dream Hans had imagined. His outspoken, freedomloving fellow student from Vanceburg, Kentucky, had thrown himself into politics and had, against all the odds, been elected to represent his district in Congress on behalf of the Republicans. Massie wanted to create one hell of a commotion in Washington and needed a wingman he could count on. His choice fell on a somewhat reluctant Hans from Drammen.

Now Høeg tells the incredible story of his years at the heart of the innermost circles of power in the USA. It’s the tale of two engineer nerds’ efforts to understand the political game, their spectacular attempt to overthrow the Republican speaker, John Boehner, and a rude encounter with a self-sustaining system of corruption and bureaucratic chicanery – an ugly culture that was a logical precursor to the tumult of the 2016 presidential election.

Hans D. Høeg (b. 1971) is a Norwegian entreprenuer and investor living in the US. Between 2012-2017 he worked as the Chief of Staff for republican congressmann Thomas Massie.

Excerpt from A Norwegian in the House

He glanced at me sideways. “Like say if you had a band of rebels, a few defectors who met in secret last night and made pledges … ” My developing political brain was still in its infancy, but it managed to figure out that he was talking about the vote for the Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives, the person third in line for the presidency, a uniquely powerful position currently occupied by Ohio Republican John Boehner.

Was my friend serious? After he’d been in the House for only a few months, and my first official day as his Chief of Staff, he was part of a rebel alliance with the outrageous idea of overthrowing the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, and all the entrenched interests connected to him?

It was January 3, 2013, and the vote for Speaker was only hours away. Other than swearing in new congressmen and women, the vote for speaker is the main order of business on the first day of a new Congressional session. Over the next several shocking years, we were to learn that the speaker has massive powers to control and affect the legislation in Congress, much more than people are aware of. The Speaker is also third in line for the U.S. presidency – if the President and Vice President both are unable to serve, the Speaker becomes the head of state.

But weren’t votes for Speaker predictable, traditional rituals of straight party-line voting? Was my friend saying today somehow was going to be different?

Sara Nøland and Borghild Fallberg (ill.) THE EYE

The Body’s Amazing Camera

The eyes are the body’s unique camera, livestreaming every waking hour to the brain. How in the world do these moist organs, decorated with irises of varying colours, manage this incredible task – that is, seeing? Sight is a bit like love: you don’t know you love it until it’s gone. In reading this book, you will come to realise that the function of the eye plays a key role in our lives.

In this book, medical student and researcher Sara T. Nøland describes how vision works in a simple, entertaining and fascinating way, injecting fun facts, the latest and most cutting-edge research, and specific tips and tricks.

Øyet 130 x 205 mm / 200 pages

Sara T. Nøland (b. 1996) is a medical student at the University of Oslo. She also worked in research for the start of a PhD, during which time she researched dry eyes. Sara has worked as a companion at the Norwegian Association of the Blind and Partially Sighted’s summer camp for children and young people for several years.

Silje Baarli Salvesen IN TEARS

To move, engage and provoke through crying

Crying is the first thing we do in this world. The crying kickstarts our lungs and our lives outside the uterus. As children we cry a lot, and there is no difference between boys and girls, but somewhere along the road to growing up the crying becomes more feminized and by some made into a problem.

This book considers emotional crying. Emotional crying is unique to humans. The author Baarli Salvesen considers the social, historical, cultural, and psychological aspects of crying. And why do some people cry only once every ten years, while others cry ten times a week?

Silje Baarli Salvesen is a public health nurse with extra education in psychology and psychosocial work with families. She has experience working in hospitals, children’s welfare and schools, and crying is a natural part of her life at work.

Pulskuren 148 x 210 mm / 208 pages

The Pulse Cure

Balance your stress, sleep better, enjoy life longer

Do you want to know how you can get more willpower, surplus and energy? How much you specifically can manage or need to work out, sleep and read, and how you can prevent serious disease? With The Pulse Cure and a heartrate monitor as a guide you can achieve all of this!

The Pulse Cure is ideal both for those who are a little ill and tired and want their energy back, and for those who feel good but would like some more vitality and to improve their willpower, their endurance and excess energy. You will sleep better, feel more energised and happier and be more present in the now. And you will have a much larger chance to live a healthy and active life when you get older.

In this book the author guides you through a vital journey through your nervous system, where you will be guaranteed to be surprised along the way!

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Bestseller

Torkil Færø (b. 1969) is a general medical practitioner, author, photographer, globetrotter and life artist. He has a burning interest in sharing help for self-help purposes and has previously published the book Camera Therapy.

Malin Eberhard-Gran og Siri Vangen HOW WE BECOME

The incredible development of babies

– week by week

How Artificial Intelligence Can Save Lives

What was your life like before you were born?

How We Become is a timely, impactful, and accessible answer to the ultimate question: “How did I become me and where do I come from?” Two of Norway’s leading pregnancy and maternity experts take you on the gripping and surprising journey of how we start life. Week by remarkable week.

What does everyday life look like, living in a womb? Can we remember anything from our time there? When do we start to hear sounds? Do we form a relationship to others before we’re born? How do we experience our own birth?

Take a sneak peak into the womb and follow how we develop from one tiny cell into a unique, screaming baby made up of thousands of billions of cells. Lively illustrations and digestible chapters create a delightful pace to this mind-expanding journey. How We Become combines research and illuminating history, with a refreshing voice that captivates you.

'At a time when pregnant women are inundated with information of varying quality, it is invaluable to have this book. Easy to understand and insightful about the most important thing in life - pregnancy.'

KARI LØVENDAHL MOGSTAD. MEDICAL DOCTOR, SPECIALIST IN GENERAL MEDICINE AND AUTHOR.

'As a reader, one is left humbled and in awe of the fine-tuned mechanisms behind the development of each of us.'

GUTTORM HAUGEN. PROFESSOR AND HEAD OF THE FETAL MEDICINE SECTION, OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL.

Malin Eberhard-Gran is a professor of clinical medicine and a specialist in community medicine. She has connections to the National Centre for Women’s Health in Oslo. For the last 15 years she has worked with research and been in charge of large surveys and examinations about pregnancy-related health.

Siri Vangen is an obstetrician and professor of clinical medicine, with a specialisation in gynecology and maternity care. She is also the head of National Centre for Women’s Health in Oslo.

Catrin Sagen and Kjersti Kvam UNDERSTANDING COMMUNICATION

The most important things to know

Understanding Communication: The most important things to know is the book that can make us better at communicating with one another and with ourselves. Every day we communicate non-stop. We give messages, ask questions, react, signal how we’re feeling, scream out in anger, cry tears, present our opinions, show our love, chat, send texts, call, and write. We applaud when we’re excited, we bang our fist on the table when we’re angry, and we stare at the ground when we want to avoid something.

But do you really know how you communicate and how others perceive and receive it? And do you understand what others try to convey to you?

Misunderstandings are the root of many mental loads, but the more you know and understand about communication, the better you will get at expressing yourself and receiving information from others in a clear and precise manner.

Understanding Communication is the first book in the Mini Psychology series, which considers the important everyday psychology we live with. In Understanding Communication the author asks the questions we all have, and the psychologist Catrin Sagen, one of the most well-known voices of therapy in Norwegian media, pours out her wise and human knowledge about the topics.

Catrin Sagen is a psychologist, and one of Norway’s clearest voices on the topic of couple’s counseling.

Kjersti Kvam is a journalist and author, renowned for being a wizard in social settings and engaging conversations. For the time being she also works as a host for the psychological conversation podcast called Summa Summarum.

NEW SERIES ABOUT THE IMPORTANT EVERYDAY PSYCHOLOGY WE LIVE WITH

UNDERSTANDING ATTACHMENT

UNDERSTANDING THE LOW POINTS

Siri Dalsmo Berge INSTRUCTION MANUAL FOR COUPLES

The road to a healthier relationship

Did you know that a good relationship can strengthen your immune system, lower your blood pressure, and make wounds heal faster? On the other hand, relationship troubles can triple the risk of heart attacks, increase the risk of infection and can cause more buildup of plaque in the arteries.

In this fascinating and entertaining book GP and researcher Siri Dalsmo Berge shows how your relationships and health are connected. Through stories from both her life as a doctor and her personal life, she offers specific and researchbased tools for better relationships and increased quality of life.

Instruction Manual for Couples – The road to a healthier relationship highlights the benefits for your health related to relationship issues in a whole new way. It’s all put together with warmth, a bit of cheek and a large dose of hope – which offers you belief that improving your lives together is possible.