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Chapters: Lgbt-Related Media in Sweden, Lgbt Events in Sweden, Destroyer Magazine, Qx, Stockholm Pride, International Swedish Gay Camp, Hbt-Gbg, Straight. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 19. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Destroyer is a Swedish-based gay magazine published by Karl Andersson, containing features, photos, essays, interviews, reviews, columns, culture articles and fiction. Unlike most gay magazines, it focuses exclusively on boys and younger men, who, says the editor, were once a part of gay culture, but have vanished in recent years. Destroyer is the brain child of Karl Andersson, a Swedish magazine professional. In 1999 he headed Straight, Sweden's first glossy gay magazine, and he has since then worked for Aftonbladet, Sweden's biggest daily, Slitz, the biggest men's magazine in Scandinavia, and for IDG Sweden. He has a bachelor of arts degree in language consultancy and lives in Berlin. The magazine is printed and officially published in the Czech Republic, but distributed globally through its website, destroyerjournal.com. It contains no nude boys under 18, and is legal in all countries where homosexuality is legal. It has received a lot of criticism from the media and child-protection professionals for allegedly "sexualising" children, but Andersson has been quick to defend his publication and gives interviews to argue against his critics. Destroyer is sometimes called "Destroyer Magazine", "Gay Magazine Destroyer", "twink magazine Destroyer" and even "pederast magazine Destroyer". The correct title is Destroyer Journal of Apollonian Beauty and Dionysian Homosexuality. Destroyer's final issue (#10), published in January 2010, was limited to 1,000 copies. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=8560772 ... Read more

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Ideas about "exercise" and "health" have varied over time and across cultures. With the recent EuroAmerican fitness trend, a growing number of Swedes now take part in some kind of physical activity at Gyms or Fitness Centers.

By applying a phenomenological and constructivist approach, the aim of this ethnographic study is to examine the non-profit but also commercial culture of and around this form of exercise. The focus is on how meaning is created, transformed, embodied, and perceived by gym goers as truth, science, knowledge, or even myth. There are two central overlapping concerns in this thesis, both dealing with the interrelation between categories, and status positions.

The first part of the thesis deals with the social aspects of movement, such as the definition and categorization of self and others as different types of gym-goers. Related to this are also what is termed critical norms of interpretation of aims and reasons for exercise, such as gaining strength or aesthetic improvement. The other central concern is more specifically focused on the body itself and deals with ideas about exercise, diet, substances, and physiology, that is, how to exercise and how the body works.

"The body is made to move," was a common saying at Gyms and Centers, meaning that the human body is physically built to be active. But the techniques and practices of how this movement is performed vary and are sometimes even contradictory. Here sources in the distribution of ideas about the body and body movement are brought out: the Internet, informal and formal instructors in the Gym, as well as gym machines. The method has been participant observation and in-depth interviews with gym goers and instructors at Gyms and Fitness in Centers in two middle size towns in Sweden mainly during a year in 2004-2005. Rather than taking sides in the debate on how to exercise, this thesis raises wider questions about the authoriry to define reality. ... Read more

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Reprinted from "Growth to Limites, the western European Welfare States since World War II, Volume I Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark." Edited by Peter Flora. ... Read more

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The book deals with the wholly or partly agricultural Neolithic cultures in Sweden c. 4000-2400 BC. Because of the difficulty of surveying such a vast country as Sweden, much less is known internationally about the Neolithic of Sweden than, for instance, of Denmark. Four chapters examine the first farming culture in the Early Neolithic (the TRB during the EN), the middle Neolithic period (the TRB during the MNA), the Neolithic fisher-hunter-farmer culture (GRK) and the second farming culture (STR). The TRB and STR are perceived as parts of general Europe cultural currents and the GRK as regression. The role played by migration was small. The fifth chapter is devoted to, among other things, the concepts of objectivity, actualism and archaeological culture. ... Read more

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Continuous improvement (CI) is a well-known approachwithin total quality management. Based on it,Continuous Improvement Behavior Model (CIBM) is amodel that put behavioral patterns in work practicein focus, and is associated with learning process androutines across the whole organization. The purposesof this thesis are twofold: firstly, to analyse thedifferences in CI behavior between firms in Swedenand Hong Kong (HK); secondly, to analyse the reasonsfor these differences by using Hofstede¿s culturetheory. This study was based on data from the 2ndinternational CINet survey and IBM questionnairesurvey, limited to the culture in Hong Kong (HK) andSweden. ... Read more

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This volume provides a review and survey of results from Swedish rescue and research archaeology relating to the medieval and post-medieval periods. Six chapters look at towns (4 general, 2 on Visby and Vadstena); three chapters describe methodological problems in urban archaeology; three describe economic topics; three describe rural settlement. It is a useful review elegantly translated into English by Helen Ckarke. ... Read more

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Archeological research and studies conducted in San Giovenale and its environs by memeber of the Swedish Institute in ROme ... Read more

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Published in 1993 Roslagslatar is a documentation of the folkmusic tradition of the family Wallin. Contains photos, Henry's drawings, tales, musical score. ... Read more