Bøger af Ole Bruun

Store profiler, fede stadioner, masser af mål – til en uhyre rimelig pris. I Tyskland kommer du som fan langt for 250 kroner og kan nyde en atmosfære på stadion, der ikke er spoleret af masseturisme. Stemningen er båret af ægte, uforfalsket, lokal fodboldglæde.Dette er bogen, der klæder dig på til at blive en del af den oplevelse, det er at gå til fodbold i Tyskland. Forfatterne har besøgt 31 nøje udvalgte klubber, fortæller historien om dem og giver læseren tips til den gode oplevelse før, under og efter kampen.Man kan bruge bogen som ren underholdning og nyde anekdoter om giganter som Gerd Müller, Otto Rehhagel og Ulrik Le Fevre, men læseren kan i allerhøjeste grad også bruge den som en rejseguide. Bogen er fyldt med tips til, hvordan man køber billetter, hvordan man kommer til stadion, hvad man skal se, når man er i de enkelte byer, og andre praktiske ting.Hver klub har sit eget kapitel, der udover den primære fortælling er udstyret med faktabokse om de største spillere, de største trænere, de største resultater, praktisk information, links til youtube-klip, en guide til andre klubber i området og meget andet.Fantastiske fodboldoplevelser i Tyskland er den perfekte håndbog til dig, der vil med på rejsen til en af verdens bedste ligaer. Og det hele foregår lige syd for grænsen. Svend Pedersen har været ansat i DBU som konsulent og klubrådgiver siden 1994 og har gennem 25 år arrangeret studieture i DBU-regi til de fodboldførende lande i Europa. Michael Longerich er født i Freiburg i det sydvestlige hjørne af Tyskland, hvor fodboldhjertet stadigvæk banker for den lokale SC Freiburg, lektor i tysk, historie og samfundsfag på Tønder Gymnasium siden 1990. Ole Bruun har været ansat som sportsjournalist på Jydske Vestkysten siden 1993, har fodbold som sit primære stofområde, har dækket ti store slutrunder i fodbold og skriver ugentlige klummer om tysk fodbold til dagbladene i Jysk Fynske Medier.

Provides easily accessible information for developers, planners, consultants, scholars, students and others with an interest in contemporary Mongolia. Prefaced by a general overview of the land and society. Chapters, all written by international experts, cover a wide range of topics.

For well over a century, Chinese fengshui, or "geomancy," has interested Western laymen and scholars. Today, hundreds of popular manuals claim to use its principles in their advice on how people can increase their wealth, happiness, longevity, and so on. This study is quite different, approaching fengshui from an academic angle. The focus is on its significance in China, but the recent history of its reinterpretation in the West is also depicted. The author argues that fengshui serves as an alternative tradition of cosmological knowledge, which is used to explain a range of everyday occurrences in rural areas, such as disease, mental disorders, accidents, and common mischief. The study includes a historical account of fengshui over the last 150 years augmented by the results of anthropological fieldwork on contemporary practices in two Chinese rural areas.

Mongols from Country to City examines the process of cultural change in Mongol societies since the early twentieth century by considering: the interaction of the basic structural features of pastoral nomadism in Mongolia with larger economies, both communist and capitalist; the effect of deliberate cultural reconstruction (ranging from changes to the education system to purges and outright cultural destruction) on the conduct of the pastoral economy; and the efforts of Mongols themselves to develop aspects of their own cultural identity under conditions of territorial partition, episodes of intense political repression, and (in the Russian and Chinese regions) very substantial immigration by non-Mongol groups.

Taking a stand for universal rights, both theoretically and empirically, this text analyzes social and political processes in a number of East and Southeast Asian countries.

Ole Bruun focuses on a community of nomadic livestock herders in present-day Mongolia. He depicts their transition from a contained, Soviet-era collective to modern times and addresses the most essential conditions for their continued survival and prosperity in the age of the market: the adaptability of their own culture and working strategies, government policy, and international attention. By studying the nomadic practice of animal husbandry in the context of family farms, Bruun points out the similarity to the peasant economy defined by the Russian agricultural economist Alexander Chayanov nearly a century ago. In both economies, the labor-consumer balance and life-cycle variations commonly set the term for economic strategies, yet the pastoral economy involves a highly specialized form of agriculture in which the scale of exchange determines wealth and lifestyle. In a vast territory such as Mongolia, infrastructure, social benefits, and other means of state support are crucial to prevent herders from sliding into a subsistence orientation, eventually leading to poverty.

Feng Shui has been known in the West for the last 150 years but has mostly been regarded as a primitive superstition. During the modern period successive regimes in China have suppressed its practice. However, in the last few decades Feng Shui has become a global spiritual movement with professional associations, thousands of titles published on the subject, countless websites devoted to it and millions of users. In this book Ole Bruun explains Feng Shui's Chinese origins and meanings as well as its more recent Western interpretations and global appeal. Unlike the abundance of popular manuals, his Introduction treats Chinese Feng Shui as an academic subject, bridging religion, history and sociology. Individual chapters explain the Chinese religious-philosophical background, Chinese uses in rural and urban areas, the history of Feng Shui's reinterpretation in the West, and environmental perspectives and other issues.