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"Foolproof International Communication" riktar sig till människor, företag och organisationer som interagerar i en global miljö. I en värld där virtuella möten över kulturgränserna blivit vardagsmat, är det viktigt att kommunikationen sker effektivt och utan missförstånd.<br/>Boken presenterar en metod som baseras på teori och praktik från bl.a. flygets värld, där felfri kommunikation är en nödvändighet.<br/>Praktiska verktyg och övningar att applicera på konkreta dagliga situationer gör boken lämplig som utbildningsmaterial för individer och team på en global arena.<br/><br/>Pia Moberg arbetar som coach, konsult och utbildare på Japco. Hon har doktorerat i ämnet Japanska studier vid Göteborgs universitet.<br/><br/>Peter Chadwick arbetar som coach, konsult och utbildare. Peter är i botten ingenjör och pilot.<br/><br/> Can you afford not to get your message across?<br/>The potential for international cooperation is growing exponentially, supported by rapidly developing communications technology. This expansion brings many opportunities, but only if we can develop our intercultural communication skills.<br/>For decades, in aviation, pilots have used a foolproof communication standard to ensure flight safety. In this domain, communication failure is not an option!<br/>Foolproof International Communication applies the same mind-set to business communication, drawing on tried and tested techniques from aviation, linguistics, non-verbal communication and culture.<br/>This book will show you how to rapidly improve your communication effectiveness in international virtual meetings, face-to-face meetings and other global interactions.<br/>You will find helpful tools, hands-on examples and practical exercises.<br/><br/>Pia Moberg holds a PhD in Japanese Studies. She works out of Sweden as an intercultural coach, trainer and consultant.<br/><br/>Peter Chadwick has a background in engineering, international business and aviation. He works out of France as an intercultural coach, trainer and consultant.

Educational media has been a contested arena in the creation and communication of the Swedish welfare system it was an important instrument of modernization. In Neither Fish nor Fowl historians Bengt Sandin and Maija Runcis have a close look on how the educational broadcasting was negotiated between government agencies, public inquiries, political and professional interests. The state authori

<b>A passionate, highly accessible clarion call to a world dangerously threatened by irrational superstitions of all kinds.</b> 'Truly a book for our time' <b>Steven Pinker</b> 'In Sweden's public square, Christer Sturmark has done as much as anyone to uphold reason and humane critical thinking' <b>Richard Dawkins</b> 'As lucid and illuminating as it is warm and inspiring' <b>Rebecca Goldstein</b> In country after country, conspiracy theories and religious dogmas that once seemed to have been overtaken by enlightened thought are helping to lift authoritarian leaders into power. The effects are being felt by women, ethnic minorities, teachers, scientists and students - and by the environment, the ultimate victim of climate change denial. We need clear thinking now more than ever. Christer Sturmark is a crusading secular humanist as well as a Swedish publisher and entrepreneur, and <i>The Flame of Reason</i> is his manifesto for a better world. It provides a set of simple tools for clear thinking in the face of populist dogmas, anti-science attitudes and pseudo-philosophy, and suggestions for how we can move towards a new enlightenment. From truth to Quantum Physics, moral philosophy to the Myers-Briggs test, Sturmark offers a passionate defence of rational thought, science, tolerance and pluralism; a warm and engaging guide for anyone who wants to better navigate the modern world. <b>Translated by and co-written with Douglas Hofstadter, celebrated cognitive scientist, physicist and author of <i>Godel, Escher, Bach</i>.</b>

<p>In <b><i>THE RED</i></b><b><i> HOTEL: THE UNTOLD STORY OF STALIN'S DISINFORMATION WAR</i></b>, former <i>Daily Telegraph </i>Foreign Editor and Russian expert <b>Alan Philps</b> sets out the way Stalin created his own reality by constraining and muzzling the British and American reporters covering the Eastern front during the war and forcing them to reproduce Kremlin propaganda. War correspondents were both bullied and pampered in a gilded cage of the <b>Metropol Hotel</b>. They enjoyed lavish supplies of caviar and had their choice of young women to employ as translators and to share their beds.<br/><br/>While some of these translators turned journalists into robotic conveyors of Kremlin propaganda, others were brave secret dissenters who whispered to reporters the reality of Soviet life and were punished with sentences in the Gulag. Through the use of British archives and Russian sources, the story of the role of the women of the Metropol Hotel and the foreign reporters they worked with is told for the first time. With a riveting narrative very much in the same wheelhouse as Ben McIntyre's <b><i>Agent Sonya</i></b> this revelatory story will finally lift the lid on Stalin's operation to muzzle and control what the western allies' writers and foreign correspondents knew of his regime's policies to prosecute the war against Hitler's rampaging armies from June 1941 onwards.</p>

<p><i>The Chaos Machine</i> is an essential book for our times - <i>Ezra Klein</i><br/><i><br/>The Chaos Machine</i> is the story of how the world was driven mad by social media. The election of populists like Trump and Bolsonaro; strife and genocide in countries like Myanmar; the rampant spread of COVID-19 conspiracy theories as deadly as the pandemic itself; all of these are products of a breakdown in our social and political lives, a breakdown driven by the apps, companies and algorithms that compete constantly for our attention.<br/><br/>Max Fisher is a leading New York Times technology reporter whose work has covered the way that social media sites - driven increasingly by artificial intelligence rather than human ingenuity - push users towards more and more extreme positions, deepening the divisions in society in pursuit of greater engagement and profit. With extraordinary access to the most powerful players in Silicon Valley, and with testimonies from around the world of the havoc being wreaked by our online selves, <i>The Chaos Machine</i> shows us how we got to this uniquely perilous moment - and how we might get out of it.</p>

'A riveting trip down the corridors of Soviet deception' <b><i>Sunday Telegraph </i>(Five-Star Review)</b><p></p><p></p>'Philps' book vindicates the value of truth' <i><b>Washington Post</b></i><p></p><p></p>'Philps has an eye for detail and a heart for those left behind' <i><b>The Times</b></i><p></p><p></p>'A tale of intrigue and suppression' <b><i>The New York Times</i></b><p></p><p></p>'A compelling and often horrifying tale of moral degradation and occasional heroism superbly told' <b><i>The Economist</i></b><p></p><p></p><b>'An engaging and insightful account of foreign correspondents living in the Moscow landmark during the Second World War' <i><b>History Today</b></i></b><p></p><p></p><b><b>Reporters. Translators. Lovers. Spies. </b></b><p></p><b>In <b><i>THE RED</i></b><b><i> HOTEL: THE UNTOLD STORY OF STALIN'S DISINFORMATION WAR</i></b>, former <i>Daily Telegraph </i>Foreign Editor and Russia expert Alan Philps sets out the way Stalin created his own reality by constraining and muzzling the British and American reporters covering the Eastern front during the war and forcing them to reproduce Kremlin propaganda. War correspondents were both bullied and pampered in the gilded cage of the Metropol Hotel. They enjoyed lavish supplies of caviar and had their choice of young women to employ as translators and to share their beds.</b><p></p> <p></p><b>While some of these translators turned journalists into robotic conveyors of Kremlin propaganda, others were brave secret dissenters who whispered to reporters the reality of Soviet life and were punished with sentences in the Gulag. Through the use of British archives and Russian sources, the story of the role of the women of the Metropol Hotel and the foreign reporters they worked with is told for the first time. This revelatory story will finally lift the lid on Stalin's operation to muzzle and control what the Western allies' writers and foreign correspondents knew of his regime's policies to prosecute the war against Hitler's rampaging armies from June 1941 onwards.</b>

<p>Mediehistoria är idag ett snabbt växande fält som vidgats till att omfatta långt mycket mer än studier av medieteknologier eller institutioner som press, radio, film och TV. I denna antologi breddar författarna ramen och analyserar allt från vardagsnära trycksaker till transnationella politiska fenomen, med andra ord sådana motiv som länge uteslutits ur mediernas historiografi.</p><p>I åtta kapitel visar författarna på styrkorna med att använda ett brett mediebegrepp. Bokens första del behandlar mediesystem och mediehändelser, exemplifierade i fallstudier av spiritistiska seanser, Gallupundersökningar, kejsare Wilhelm II:s medierade persona och begravningen av den före detta statsministern Karl Staaff. Den andra delen fokuserar på mediematerialiteter och infrastrukturer såsom konstkopior, kontorspärmar, guideböcker och gestaltningen av medieteknologier i IKEA-kataloger.</p><p><i>Expanding media histories</i> riktar sig i lika hög grad till studenter som forskare genom att presentera ny empirisk forskning som tar avstamp i centrala mediehistoriska nyckelbegrepp.</p><p>Medverkande: Sune Bechmann Pedersen, Marie Cronqvist, Christine Davidsson Sandal, Henning Hansen, Ulrika Holgersson, Charlie Järpvall, Charlotta Krispinsson, Betto van Waarden, Eskil Vesterlund.</p>