Mats
2) The end
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"When will the world end? With Foxworth, a massive comet, hurtling toward Earth, humanity now knows the exact date. Seventeen-year-old Simon wants to spend his last weeks with the people he cares about most, especially his goal-oriented swimmer ex-girlfriend, Tilda, who dumped him shortly after the news broke. Since Lucinda was diagnosed with cancer she has retreated into herself preparing for the inevitable. Suddenly facing down a death that makes...
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"Written by Mats Holm and Ulf Roosvald, Björn Borg and the Super-Swedes explains how a small country with eight million inhabitants like Sweden could become the leading nation in tennis and an example to imitate worldwide. It starts with the legend of Björn Borg, the taciturn and mysterious Swede who became an icon of the '70s and turned tennis into a global sport, and ends with the Kings of Tennis, the nostalgic senior event part of the Champions...
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The very first tell-all snus encyclopedia of its kind!
You don't have to light up to enjoy tobacco! Swedish snus has a unique position in the world and is continually being developed through a thorough choice of tobacco, well-tested flavorings, and high quality production methods. Both large and small producers employ master blenders in order to create new and exciting snus products-all based on over 200 years of global expertise.
A unique...
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Kurt Hammer's life is falling apart. His family has been found murdered, and his personal life is a shambles.While Kurt tries to leave his past behind and turn a new page, a serial killer is loose in the city of Trondheim, Norway.The police are clueless, and soon Kurt is called in. But can he rise to the occasion and save the day?
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According to the pre-modern Christian tradition, knowledge of God is mainly testimonial: we know certain important truths about God and divine things because God himself has told them to us. In academic theology of late this view is often summarily dismissed. But to do so is a mistake, claims Mats Wahlberg, who argues that the testimonial understanding of revelation is indispensable to Christian theology.
Criticizing the currently common idea that...
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Over the last 20 years, a vast number of new and important Swedish Mesolithic sites have been excavated and published in different ways as articles, books and site reports. As yet there has been no study that tries to bring the loose ends together and so the main task of this important new work by one of Sweden's leading prehistorians is to provide an extensive overview of some of the main sites and results. The time span is long: c. 10 000-4000 BC...
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Swedish-born traditional dancer and researcher Mats Melin has worked and performed extensively in the Scottish Highlands, the Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland, in their schools and communities promoting Scottish traditional dance. He has also taught and performed in Sweden, Canada, USA, Russia and New Zealand. Mats has a vast knowledge of all aspects of the Scottish traditional dance scene, but specializes in Cape Breton step dancing. One With the Music...
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In the autumn of 1944, around 70,000 people fled Estonia in the face of the Red Army's advance, most of them believed the Soviet occupation would be short-lived and they would soon be able to return home. A comprehensive study of a common yet neglected phenomenon, this book tells the stories of the hoards of valuable belongings hidden by these Estonian escapees. The sheer variety of objects, including those that remain buried, those that vanished,...
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The Covid-19 pandemic is not the last surprise that awaits present generations. In 2020 people across the globe have realized that governments have failed to prepare for important challenges, even highly probable ones predicted by experts for decades. Greta Thunberg has scolded world leaders for not doing more to stop global warming. Greta and other experts seem to believe that there are plans for the transformation to sustainability waiting in the...
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In Ballast: Laden with History, the archaeologist Mats Burström charts how ship ballast helped to shape the world we live in. Until only very recently, ships were ballasted with sand, gravel, stone, or rubble to give them stability, and when they no longer needed the extra weight, it was dumped. The result was that huge quantities of ballast were shipped to new places and new continents. Ballast was often reused, sometimes in surprising ways. This...
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One Swedish winter morning, a normally placid engineer gives his boss a well deserved slap in the face. The question, "What's wrong with this idiot?" pitches Nilson and his friends into an adventure in forensic archaeology. But this is no ordinary crime investigation, as the elusive perpetrator is hiding in the most secret of all secret places, where no cop can go. Chipping away at the layers of society over beer and pizza, they start to uncover something...
13) The clay flute
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When a witch turns him into a little gray monkey, Abeli discoversthat only the kiss of a woman who shines like the stars will restore him to histrue shape.
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Private detective Embla and her husband, police chief Ask, are back in action in the town of Fableburg and its surroundings, taking on problems, crimes, and mysteries.
When Embla's old schoolmate, Victor the vicar, visits her and Ask at the police station, he reveals that his daughter has been catnapped. The villain demands a valuable golden crucifix as ransom. As Embla and Ask investigate the case, they soon discover that an infamous villain is behind...
16) Die Konferenz
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Spannend, blutig, unvergesslich: Der neue Horror-Thriller von Spiegel-Bestseller-Autor Mats Strandberg.
Es sind große Zeiten für die kleine Gemeinde: In Kolarängen soll ein prestigeträchtiges Einkaufszentrum gebaut werden. Am Tag vor der Grundsteinlegung treffen sich die Planer in einem idyllischen Hotel am See, um die letzten Dinge zu besprechen. Eine kleine Konferenz unter Kollegen, in entspannter Atmosphäre, nichts weiter.
Doch nach und nach...
17) Die Überfahrt
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Die Passagiere an Bord der schwedischen Ostseefähre Baltic Charisma wollen vor allem eins: sich amüsieren, und zwar um jeden Preis. Ob sie nach der Liebe ihres Lebens suchen oder vor den Dämonen ihres Alltags fliehen - die Nacht ist lang, und der Alkohol fließt reichlich. In dem ganzen Trubel bleiben die beiden dunklen Gestalten unbemerkt, die sich übers Autodeck an Bord schleichen: eine Mutter und ihr Kind. Mit ihnen betritt ein uraltes Grauen...
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»BILD – ein immer wieder rückfälliger Triebtäter. Unverbesserlich? Gemeingefährlich! Eine überzeugende und erschütternde Beweisführung.« Günter Wallraff. BILD ist das mächtigste Medium des Landes – auch in Zeiten des Internets. Sie bestimmt, worüber Deutschland spricht. Welchen Anteil hat die Redaktion am Aufstieg der Populisten? Wie geht sie mit Minderheiten um? Und auf welche Weise manipuliert sie die Öffentlichkeit? 44 Jahre nach...