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Einsteins univers
Aarhus University Press 2008; US$ 20.46"Jeg vil vide, hvordan Gud skabte verden. Jeg ønsker at kende hans tanker - resten er detaljer." Sådan sagde Albert Einstein (1879-1955), og han stod ved sit ord. Mere end nogen anden var Einstein arkitekten bag det 20. århundredes nye verdensbillede, hvor begreber som tid og rum fik en radikalt anden betydning end tidligere.I Einsteins univers... more...
Body, Sport and Society in Norden
Aarhus University Press 2005; US$ 26.40It has been said that democratic populism is Scandinavia's gift to the modern world. But the critical role that sport has played in the development of this particular form of society has gone largely unremarked. In these ten essays, Niels Kayser Nielsen analyses how the growth of physical culture in the regions has both reflected and contributed to... more...
Evolutionary Ecology of Plant-Plant Interactions
Aarhus University Press 2005; US$ 26.40Concepts and simple empirical models that are useful in the study of the quantitative aspects of evolutionary ecology of plant - plant interactions are discussed and developed in this monograph by Christian Damgaard, and the use of simple empirical models in the statistical analysis of plant ecological data is exemplified. more...
Radical-Local Teaching and Learning
Aarhus University Press 2005; US$ 33.00This book presents a theoretical perspective for analyzing and planning educational programmes for schoolchildren. The radical-local approach provides an integrated perspective for confronting the tension that arises between a universal goal to prepare all children for a satisfying and productive societal life and the historical fact that most contemporary... more...
Roman Imperial Statue Bases
Aarhus University Press 2005; US$ 47.75This volume includes a catalogue of 2,300 known statue bases from nearly 800 sites throughout the Roman Empire. Moreover, since it covers a period of 250 years, it allows for the first time consistent geographic, chronological and commemorative patterns to emerge. more...
Smakkerup Huse
Aarhus University Press 2005; US$ 46.40Traditionally, the Mesolithic was regarded as a time of cultural regression in northern Europe but new evidence in the last 30 years has led archaeologists to think of the early postglacial foragers that lived in the Mesolithic as complex, sedentary coastal dwellers who lived in an era of innovation, interaction, and successful adaptation to a rapidly... more...
Youth and Youth Culture in the Contemporary Middle East
Aarhus University Press 2005; US$ 26.40A new youth culture is underway in the Modern Middle East. This culture is based on a concept of youth from the late 1800s, a concept which played a role in the anti-colonial struggle and which influences the way in which youth views itself in relation to traditional values as well as the West. more...
Plotinus on Selfhood, Freedom and Politics
Aarhus University Press 2005; US$ 53.00As the most important philosophical work to emerge in the 700-year period between Aristotle and Augustine, The Enneads has been subject to intense scrutiny for more than 2000 years. But the mystical and abstract nature of these treatises by Plotinus continues to resist easy elucidation. In this volume, the latest in the Aarhus Studies on Mediterranean... more...
Democratisation in the Middle East
Aarhus University Press 2005; US$ 26.40The main aim of the book is to provide a forum for opinions held by Arabs who are neither Western puppets nor fanatical nationalists or Islamists, but rather academics with a vast knowledge of the Middle East as well as of the West. more...
Baha'i and Globalisation
Aarhus University Press 2006; US$ 39.75In this volume of the RENNER series on new religion, the issue of religion and globalisation is treated with a single religion as the recurring example. The Baha'i religion has been carefully chosen for this context. Few other religions express so clearly in their doctrines the view that the world should be unified, politically and religiously. more...









