Acta Jutlandica

The universe is expanding, the world has gone global, and the US has launched a crusade to export the universal right to democracy to every part of the world. Under the circumstances, it is hardly surprising that the concept of …

From the screen of our laptops, and from the ubiquitous portable devices, smart phones, and media players, to the embedded computation in clothes, architecture and big urban screens, interfaces are everywhere. They are simultaneously demanding our attention and computing quietly …

Exploring Textual Action questions how we analyse works of art after the performative turn and shows how the interplay of performativity (textual action), space and topography, and the converging of genres and art forms is essential in modern drama, theatre, …

In spite of the steadily expanding concept of art in the Western world, art made in twentieth-century totalitarian regimes - notably Nazi Germany, fascist Italy and the communist East Bloc countries - is still to a surprising degree excluded from …

Robots, human hybrids and fictional monsters assembled from graveyard body parts by mad scientists have haunted literature for centuries. The frightening but alluring motif highlights a long and complex love affair between literature and science; an affair filled with fascination, …

Dansk i dag will give you a basic vocabulary that will enable you to get by in normal everyday activities in Denmark. The book contains small stories and dialogues, as well as history and facts about Denmark. Grammatical rules, with …

This is a book of stories about sports persons: sports stars, less-known athletes and relatively unknown physical education teachers and sports scientists. More exactly, these 13 essays all deal with problems associated with writing sport biographies - how does an …

Although the Northern European Iron Age lasted two millennia, the "golden age" in the study of its smelting sites is about to end after less than 40 years. Professional excavations did not really begin until the 1960's, and, with most …

Using Vygotsky's ideas, this book contributes to the cultural-historical study of school children's learning. The focus is not only on activities within the classroom but on the importance of various extraneous conditions, for example educational ideology that can influence both …

This volume offers a selection of theoretical views and empirical investigations by researchers in Europe, South America, and North America. The theoretical chapters seek to clarify and extend central concepts of the cultural-historical tradition, such as activity, internalisation, and personality. …

The nominal case forms disappeared from the Scandinavian languages long ago. Instead, the function of the case forms is represented by word order. Only the pronouns still have all case distinctions. Traditionally the case forms of the personal pronouns have …

The Odin Teatret was founded in 1964 in Norway and for 34 years has been based in Holstebro, Denmark, away from the capital and the centre for theatre. It also tours in other countries. What makes this theatre special in …

This collection of papers is highly unusual in presenting views on both objective science and religious belief systems, and provides a thorough grounding in both disciplines and how they relate to one another.

This volume presents research and discussion papers which consider the analysis of population processes and modeling of the population dynamics related to beneficial predators and parasitoids in agroecosystems. Various papers are concerned with the influence of behaviour on population dynamics …

The Japanese educational system is admired and envied for its success in providing a well-educated population and contributing to the spectacular post-War industrialisation and modernisation of the nation. It is also criticised for inhibiting creativity and spontaneity, seen as crucial …

In Rationality and the Study of Religion, the first book to grapple with the question of rationality within the academic study of religion, the authors respond to epistemological excesses in this field. The articles of this book advocate an approach …