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<b>'A story of resilience, pain and joy' - </b><i><b>inews</b> </i><br/><br/>As stunt double to Daniel Radcliffe in the Harry Potter film franchise, stuntman David Holmes helped to move J.K. Rowling's era-defining story from the page to the big screen. His work as a real-life Fall Guy enabled him to create some of the most memorable action sequences in the Wizarding World, as he became the first person ever to play Quidditch. In living his own hero's journey, David was also one of only a handful of people to have worn the iconic wizard's cape, glasses and scar in front of the cameras.<br/><br/>That is, until an accident changed his life forever.<br/><br/>During the making of <i>Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, </i>David broke his neck in a stunt rehearsal and was instantly paralysed. From talented junior gymnast and stunt prodigy to fully qualified Hollywood stuntman, his story is a brutally honest portrait of a man who lost everything but found different ways to reimagine new possibilities with love, friendship and optimism - and he later co-created a BAFTA-nominated documentary about his life. David's behind-the-scenes look at one of the biggest film series of all time is both jaw-dropping and hilarious.<br/><br/>Powerful and emotional, his is a story of hope and vulnerability and paints a picture of what it truly takes to rebuild a life and become <i>The Boy Who Lived</i>.

<b>Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with a brand new volume that reframes the lessons of <i>The Tipping Point </i>in a startling and revealing light</b><br/><br/>What does the heartbreaking fate of the cheetah tell us about the way we raise our children? Why do elite universities care so much about sports? What is the Magic Third, and what does it mean for racial harmony? In this provocative new work, Malcolm Gladwell returns to the subject of social epidemics and tipping points, this time with the aim of explaining the dark side of contagious phenomena.<br/><br/>Through a series of riveting stories, Gladwell traces the rise of a new and troubling form of social engineering. He takes us to the streets of Los Angeles to meet the world's most successful bank robbers, rediscovers a forgotten television show from the 1970s that changed the world, visits the site of a historic experiment on a tiny cul-de-sac in northern California, and offers an alternate history of two of the biggest epidemics of our day: COVID and the opioid crisis.<br/><br/><i>Revenge of the Tipping Point</i> is Gladwell's most personal book yet. With his characteristic mix of storytelling and social science, he offers a guide to making sense of the contagions of the modern world. It's time we took tipping points seriously.

America is undergoing a massive experiment: It is moving, in fits and starts, toward a multiracial democracy, something few societies have ever done. But the prospect of change has sparked an authoritarian backlash that threatens the very foundations of our political system. Why is democracy under assault here, and not in other wealthy, diversifying nations? And what can we do to save it? With the clarity and brilliance that made their first book, How Democracies Die, a global bestseller, Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt offer a coherent framework for understanding these volatile times. They draw on a wealth of examples-from 1930s France to present-day Thailand-to explain why and how political parties turn against democracy. They then show how our Constitution makes us uniquely vulnerable to attacks from within: It is a pernicious enabler of minority rule, allowing partisan minorities to consistently thwart and even rule over popular majorities. Most modern democracies-from Germany and Sweden to Argentina and New Zealand-have eliminated outdated institutions like elite upper chambers, indirect elections, and lifetime tenure for judges. The United States lags dangerously behind. In this revelatory book, Levitsky and Ziblatt issue an urgent call to perfect our national experiment. It&apos;s a daunting task, but we have remade our country before-most notably, after the Civil War and during the Progressive Era. And now we are at a crossroads: America will either become a multiracial democracy or cease to be a democracy at all.

I denna jämförande studie av de fyra nordiska länderna visas hur litet den traditionella välfärdspolitiken påverkades av välfärdskrisen mot slutet av 70-talet. Inhemska faktorer som graden av universalism, folkligt stöd, arbetsmarknadspolitiska åtgärder tycks betyda mer än internationell ekonomi för att förklara stabiliteten i välfärdspolitiken.

Detta är en bok om flexibilitet på arbetsmarknaden. Författarna jämför Kanada och Sverige, två länder som uppvisar stora likheter i fråga om sysselsättning, näringslivsstruktur m m, men som klart skiljer sig i fråga om institutionella arrangemang på arbetsmarknaden. Kanada har närmast en "fri marknad" medan Sverige länge fört en mer interventionistisk politik inriktad på full sysselsättning och anställningstrygghet. Författarna diskuterar dels flexibilitet på makronivå, dels hur förändring på företagsnivå hanteras i de två länderna. De visar hur företags, fackföreningars och individers inställning till förändring skiljer sig mellan Sverige och Kanada. Kanadensiska fackföreningar är både svagare och mer på sin vakt mot förändringar än de svenska. När starka fackliga organisationer passerar en viss "tröskel" ökar trycket på dem att ta ett samhällsansvar - vilket vanligen inbegriper en förståelse för behovet av flexibilitet på arbetsmarknaden. Förutsttningen för att acceptera förändring är förstås att man får något i utbyte, t ex viss social trygghet för medlemmarna. Kanada och Sverige är exempel på att olika institutionella förhållanden på arbetsmarknaden kan producera tämligen likartade ekonomiska utfall.

During the last 30 years, the market forces have made forays into the Swedish social welfare system. Over a relatively short period of time, a number of private companies have been established within the school, health and social care systems activities which were earlier practically exclusively run by the public sector. How has this influenced the quality of the activities, the conditions of employment and the democratic transparency of society? These are some of the questions that Kommunal, Swedens largest trade union in the public sector, tries to answer in this book. Another aim of this text is to show how the Swedish welfare system is constructed and how it differs from welfare systems in many other countries. One important difference is that the Swedish welfare system is still publicly funded by taxes paid by all working people, even though parts of it are run by private actors.

On 28 May 2009, at a closed meeting in Brussels, ministers and state secretaries of education and science from several EU countries decided to build the European Spallation Source (ESS) in Lund, Sweden. Or did they? It is common for big European science projects to be surrounded by secrecy and political deceit, but the ESS is extraordinary in its elusiveness. There is a remarkable lack of concrete economic, political, technical and scientific underpinnings to the project but a boasting certainty in the promises of future paybacks. The ESS is an accelerator-based neutron spallation facility that will cost billions of Euros to build and run. It is expected to bring new knowledge in several fields including materials science, energy research, and the life sciences. But its financing is not yet certain, and future returns hard to predict. How then could the decision to build ESS occur? Why was there so little organized resistance? This book places the ESS project in its political and scientific context. It links the decisions taken to the history of Big Science in Europe and in Sweden. It looks at the dynamic political processes of establishing this megaproject in a small town in the south of Sweden. The eight chapters start from a paradoxical state of affairs: The ESS is not funded, and not formally decided in any binding agreements yet it is treated as a future reality, locally and nationally, loaded with promises of scientific, economic and social returns. The book makes a much-needed first contribution to the analysis of the ESS project and its political, environmental, and social ramifications. It should be read by scholars of science and technology studies, politicians and the interested general public. Contents: Introduction. In pursuit of a promise Olof Hallonsten 1. Timeline of major events Karl-Fredrik Berggren & Olof Hallonsten 2. Science at the ESS: a brief outline Karl-Fredrik Berggren & Aleksandar Matic 3. Tensions and change in the framing of science policy: the value of academic values in an era of globalization Aant Elzinga 4. Contextualizing the European Spallation Source: what we can learn from the history, politics, and sociology of Big Science Olof Hallonsten 5. The ESS project as a generator of conflict and collaboration: an assessment of the official picture of costs and benefits and the research-community response Anders Granberg 6. Big Science in a small country: constraints and possibilities of research policy Mats Benner 7. Organized local resistance: investigating a local environmental movements activities against the ESS Emelie Stenborg & Mikael Klintman 8. Selling Big Science: perceptions of prospects and risk in the public case for the ESS in Lund Wilhelm Agrell Afterword. Clues to the continuing story of an open-ended case Thomas Kaiserfeld