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As Germany and then Japan surrendered in 1945, there was a tremendous hope that a new and much better world could be created from the moral and physical ruins of the conflict. Instead, the combination of the huge power of the USA and USSR and the near-total collapse of most of their rivals created a unique, grim new environment: the Cold War. For over 40 years the demands of the Cold War shaped the life of almost all of us. There was no part of the world where East and West did not ultimately demand a blind and absolute allegiance.

The world is facing a global leadership crisis. Seventy-seven percent of leaders think they do a good job of engaging their people, yet 88 percent of employees say their leaders don't engage enough. Based on extensive research, including assessments of more than 35,000 leaders and interviews with 250 C-level executives, The Mind of the Leader concludes that organizations and leaders aren't meeting employees' basic human needs of finding meaning, purpose, connection, and genuine happiness in their work.

Eva Nymans 1. Fall: Verbrechen im Namen des Klimas. Erst trifft es einen Konzernboss in der Stahlindustrie, dann einen Marketingmanager im Dienst der Autolobby: In Schweden töten selbst gebaute Bomben zwei Menschen, bevor der Attentäter Kontakt mit der Polizei aufnimmt – und mit mehr droht. Ein Klimaaktivist auf Abwegen, scheint es, der in seinen Briefen von Sünde, heiligem Zorn und Rache faselt. Nur Eva Nyman, Kriminalkommissarin und Chefin eines eingeschweißten kleinen Teams, ahnt, dass mehr hinter den skrupellosen Taten steckt.

At each abandoned crime scene there's a hidden clue: a tiny metal cog, almost invisible to the naked eye. Someone is sending Detective Sam Berger a message, someone who knows that only he will understand the cryptic trail. When another teenage girl disappears without trace, Sam must convince his superiors that they’re dealing with a serial killer. As the police continue the hunt to find the latest victim, Sam is forced to unearth long-buried personal demons. He has no choice if he is to understand the killer's darkly personal message before time runs out.

It starts when Desiré Rosenkvist of Stockholm Police receives a letter. Two things are immediately clear: the letter she holds in her hands was written in a state of utter desperation and paranoia. And it contains details of one of her old murder cases which only the murderer could know. Desiré contacts private investigator Sam Berger, who sets off to the remote north of Sweden with his colleague Molly Blom to find the author of the letter and to stop them in their tracks. But someone wants to keep them from getting to the bottom of the mystery at any cost and is watching their every move.

A Greek gangster arrives in Stockholm only to be murdered in a macabre fashion at Skansen zoo, his body consumed by animals. As the Intercrime Unit - a team dedicated to solving international violent crime - investigate what brought him to Sweden, eight Eastern European women vanish from a refugee centre outside the city while an elderly professor, the tattooed numbers on his arm hinting at his terrible past, is executed at the Jewish cemetery.

Detective Paul Hjelm and his team receive an urgent call from the FBI. A murderer whose methods bear a frightening resemblance to a serial killer they believed long dead is on his way to Sweden. For years the FBI hunted the so-called ‘Kentucky Killer’, their agents haunted by the terrible injuries he inflicted on his victims through his signature device: a weapon that squeezed the vocal cords shut.

Has he somehow returned from beyond the grave to torture a new generation, or do they have a copy-cat on their hands? And what do they want in Sweden?

The first intercrim thriller to be broadcast on BBC Four, Spring 2013. Sweden's elite are under attack.Two rich and powerful men have been murdered, and in the face of mounting panic - and media hysteria - a task force has been created to catch the killer.To his surprise, Detective Paul Hjelm, currently under investigation for misconduct after shooting a man who took the staff of an immigration office hostage, is summoned to join the new team.

After the disastrous end to their last case, the Intercrime team – a specialist unit created to investigate violent, international crime – has been disbanded, their leader forced into early retirement.The six officers have been scattered throughout the country.

Detective Inspector Sam Berger's life has been turned upside down. He is suspected of a murder and his partner, Secret Service agent Molly Blom, is in a coma. Meanwhile, a terrorist attempt is threatening Stockholm and a wanted murderer is on the loose. Berger escapes to the Stockholm Archipelago while he waits for orders from the Swedish Security Service's chief executive. But is he the solution, or is he part of the problem?

Is there a point to recycling? Is recycling even good for the environment? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Finn Arne Jørgensen answers: it depends. From a technical point of view, recycling is a series of processes - collecting, sorting, processing, manufacturing. Recycling also has a cultural component; at its core, recycling is about transformation and value, turning material waste into something useful - plastic bags into patio furniture, plastic bottles into T-shirts.

Secrets of the Symbol builds upon the expertise and wisdom of Nobel prize-winning scientists, historians, technologists, and conspiracy theorists to help readers fully understand the mysteries behind The Lost Symbol.

In Pop Masculinities, author Kai Arne Hansen investigates the performance and policing of masculinity in pop music as a starting point for grasping the broad complexity of gender and its politics in the early 21st century. Drawing together perspectives from critical musicology, gender studies, and adjacent scholarly fields, the book presents extended case studies of five well-known artists: Zayn, Lil Nas X, Justin Bieber, The Weeknd, and Take That.

Den omdiskuterade boken om en värld i framtiden som är styrd av kvinnor. Arne Jernelöv leder oss på vägen mot den kvinnodominerade världen Amazonia, som tar sin början i ett antal trender som leder till ett minskat kvinnoförtryck och påverkar områden som politik, arbetsmarknaden, högre utbildning, jämställdhet och jämlikhet. Arne Jernelöv, född 1941, är en svensk professor och miljöforskare vid Institutet för framtidsstudier, med internationella uppdrag för organisationer som FN och WHO.

Auf der Fähre Travemünde. Helsinki ist Peter Lundt nicht nur dem Klaubautermann und einer geheimnisvollen Organisation namens "Sauna-Mafia" auf der Spur, sondern auch dem besten Rezept gegen Seekrankheit...

Kaum ist Paul Hjelm, Inspektor der Stockholmer Polizei, zur Sondereinheit für besonders schwierige Fälle berufen worden, da hat er es schon mit einem kaltblütigen Serienmörder zu tun: drei unbescholtene Geschäftsleute - hingerichtet mit Kopfschüssen aus nächster Nähe, nach einem präzisen Ritual. Eine erste Spur, die zu einer Geheimloge führt, erweist sich als Sackgasse. Ist womöglich die russische Mafia in die Morde verwickelt? Doch dann die heiße Spur: ein Jazzstück mit dem bezeichnenden Titel "Misterioso".

Drawing on nearly three decades in education - from his mother’s after-school program on Chicago’s South Side to his tenure as Secretary of Education in DC - How Schools Work follows Arne as he takes on challenges at every turn: gangbangers in Chicago housing projects, parents who call him racist, teachers who insist they can’t help poor kids, unions that refuse to modernize, Tea Partiers who call him an autocrat, affluent white progressive moms who hate yearly tests, and even the NRA, which once labeled Arne the “most extreme anti-gun member of President Obama's Cabinet.”

Der neue Krimi von Bestsellerautor Arne Dahl - psychologisch raffiniert, rasant und fintenreich wie nie! Sam Berger ist am Boden zerstört. Neun Monate hat er sich als Privatdetektiv durchgeschlagen, neun Monate, in denen seine Kollegin Molly Blom wie vom Erdboden verschluckt ist. Dabei war Molly doch schwanger. Sind sie und ihre Tochter am Leben? Und ist Berger wirklich der Vater? Dann wird eine junge Russin entführt, Nadja, und als Sam Berger von ihrer Psychologin den Auftrag erhält, sie zu suchen, ist ihm sofort klar: Dies ist kein gewöhnliches Verbrechen.

"Sie haben meine Karpfen entführt!" Japanische Zierkarpfen nämlich, kostbare Koi. Eine Katastrophe für den Koi-Importeur Malzahn und für seine Versicherung. Für den blinden Detektiv Peter Lundt ist es der erste Fall nach dem tragischen Unglück, das den Ex-Bullen sein Augenlicht, seine Karriere und die Scheidung von seiner Familie gekostet hat. Er will sich und der Welt unbedingt beweisen, dass er auch als blinder Ermittler noch eine gute Figur macht.

Sieben Mädchen sind verschwunden, eins davon scheint sicher tot - ein Fall für Berger und Blom. Als er das blutverschmierte Kellerloch sieht, ist sich Kriminalinspektor Sam Berger sicher: Das Verschwinden der jungen Frau ist kein Einzelfall. Da draußen quält ein perfider Täter seine Opfer. Schafft es Berger, sie lebend zu retten? Aber dafür ist er auf fremde Hilfe angewiesen: Die von Molly Blom, einer geheimnisvollen Frau, die nicht ist, wer sie vorgibt zu sein.