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Work is central to people's lives and the course of their life. The opportunities and chances an individual can have in their life are significantly connected to work. Individuals' work is also crucial for organisations, companies and for the whole of society. There is a constant need to make changes and readjustments of working life since these can deeply affect the individual and their employability. To make working lives more healthy, sustainable and attractive, being aware of the measures and changes that can be achieved in practice is of crucial importance. This book bridges the gap between the theories and explanatory models offered in research and actual work environments and workplaces. This book constitutes a theoretical framework that visualises the complexity of working life and increases the knowledge and awareness of individuals, companies, organisations and society regarding different factors and patterns. It aims to support individual reflections and joint discussions into daily operations on the individual, organisational and societal level. This book contains practical tools to use in daily working life that analyse possible risks in the work environment when planning measures and actions for health promotion. These practical tools are derived from the four spheres for action and employability in the SwAge model. Developed by the author, the SwAge model (Sustainable Working Life for All Ages) is a theoretical, explanatory model that explains the complexity of creating a healthy and sustainable working life for all ages. By using the SwAge model as a comprehensible framework, the reader will be able to visualise the complexity of factors that affect and influence whether people are able to and want to participate in working life and in the work environment, thereby contributing to increased employability. Designing Sustainable Working Lives and Environments is an essential read for students, researchers, work environment engineers, ergonomics and human factor specialists, occupational health and safety practitioners, business managers, HR staff, leadership decision-makers and labour union professionals.

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Interviewing Jihadists -- Chapter 3: Jihad as a Complex Social Phenomenon -- Chapter 4: Jihadism in Sweden -- Chapter 5: Jihadism in Norway -- Chapter 6: Jihadism in Denmark -- Chapter 7: The Changing Nature of Jihad -- Chapter 8: Cognitive Dissonance and Changing Motivations -- Chapter 9: Recruitment and Perceptions of Death -- Chapter 10: How Does Fighting Change Jihadists? -- Chapter 11: Conclusion.

"After Hitler's death, several posthumous books were published which purported to be the verbatim words of the Nazi leader - two of the most important of these documents were Hitler's Table Talk and The Testament of Adolf Hitler. This ground-breaking book provides the first in-depth analysis and critical study of Hitler's so-called table talks and their history, provenance, translation, reception, and usage. Based on research in public and private archives in four countries, the book shows when, why, where, how, by and for whom the table talks were written, how reliable the texts are, and how historians should approach and use them. It reveals the crucial role of the mysterious Swiss Nazi Francois Genoud as well as some very poor judgement from several famous historians in giving these dubious sources more credibility than they deserved. The book sets the record straight regarding the nature of these volumes as historical sources - proving inter alia The Testament to be a clever forgery - and aims to establish a new consensus on their meaning and impact on historical research into Hitler and the Third Reich. This path-breaking historical investigation will be of considerable interest to all researchers and historians of the Nazi era"--

"After Hitler's death, several posthumous books were published which purported to be the verbatim words of the Nazi leader - two of the most important of these documents were Hitler's Table Talk and The Testament of Adolf Hitler. This ground-breaking book provides the first in-depth analysis and critical study of Hitler's so-called table talks and their history, provenance, translation, reception, and usage. Based on research in public and private archives in four countries, the book shows when, why, where, how, by and for whom the table talks were written, how reliable the texts are, and how historians should approach and use them. It reveals the crucial role of the mysterious Swiss Nazi Francois Genoud as well as some very poor judgement from several famous historians in giving these dubious sources more credibility than they deserved. The book sets the record straight regarding the nature of these volumes as historical sources - proving inter alia The Testament to be a clever forgery - and aims to establish a new consensus on their meaning and impact on historical research into Hitler and the Third Reich. This path-breaking historical investigation will be of considerable interest to all researchers and historians of the Nazi era"--

Intro -- Colophon -- Contents -- Foreword -- Abstract -- Summary -- Introduction -- 1. Alkaline fens in Northern Europe -- 2. Future challenges for conservation of alkaline fens -- 3. Management and restoration -- 3.1 Hydrology, blocking and filling ditches -- 3.2 Removal of scrubs and woodland, mowing and grazing -- 3.3 Removal of the topsoil layer -- 3.4 Burning -- 4. Conservation and restoration on a landscape level -- 5. How do we work with stakeholders/landowner? -- 6. Monitoring alkaline fens -- 6.1 Monitoring hydrological conditions -- 7. Network for conservation officers -- 8. Alkaline fens: Sites visited in the project -- 8.1 Styra -- 8.2 General description -- 8.2.1 Northern part (created in 1967) -- 8.2.2 Central part (recreated in 2013) -- 8.2.3 Other comments at Styra -- 9. Lagmansro -- 9.1 General description -- 9.2 Area created in 2000 -- 10. Hagebyhöga -- 10.1 General description -- 10.2 North-eastern area, restored 2006 -- 10.3 Central-southern area, long continuity -- 10.4 Western area, poorly drained field, grazed for the past 10-15 years -- 11. Mörkahålkärret, nature reserve and Natura 2000 area -- 11.1 General description -- 11.2 Land snails -- 12. Vallgatan-Hälle källor, unprotected -- 12.1 General description -- 12.2 Kusiaiskorpi Natura 2000 area, Tornio, south-western Lapland -- 12.3 Isokummunjänkä -- 12.4 Alkumaa -- 12.5 Tuohimaanjänkä -- 13. Ajos rich fen -- 13.1 Murhiniemi -- Project organisation -- References and further reading -- Sammanfattning -- Summary.

"Mikael Nilsson offers a detailed and groundbreaking analysis of how the United States Information Agency (USIA) conducted its wide-ranging propaganda campaign in Sweden during the Cold War, 1952-1969. The USIA placed propaganda in the Swedish press, radio, and television as well as schools and universities and established connections to labour leaders, government officials, and journalists. The book also details how the U.S. military financed research at Swedish universities. Nilsson shows how Swedish journalists, scientists, and government officials assisted the USIA in its propaganda efforts--i.e., co-produced U.S. hegemony in Sweden. The book highlights both the width and the limits of USIA's propaganda and also relates this theme to Swedish security policy and the secret military cooperation between Sweden and the United States"--Provided by publisher