What is the role of sociology in society? How can - and should - sociology contribute with insights relevant and useful to the outside world? What are the social implications and cultural effects of the knowledge sociology provides and creates? These questions, and many others, are addressed in Public Sociology. To read more about the book and the contributors click the image.

In this book, Bauman Beyond Postmodernity, Bauman talks in detail about the style and stakes of his work. Like the fist book, it contains original conversations with Bauman and a detailed guide to his academic publications. The book begins in 1988/1989 and continues to the end of 2005, when Bauman celebrated his eigthtieth birthday. Read more about the book by clicking the image.

In Bauman before Postmodernity, Bauman for the fist time talks about his emergence as a sociologist and reflects on the times in which he was destined to live. The book also contains the most thorough catalogue of Bauman's work up to the end of the 1980s, and in-depth discussion of his academic essays from this period. Read more by clicking the image.

This volume propose an examination of how globalization and transnational capitalism have reshaped the terrain and parameters of social, economic and political relations both at the national and the global levels. It discusses the essential question on whether the resilient hegemony of transnational capitalism can be possibly realized leading to alternative systems of organization. Learn more about Globalization & Transnational Capitalism by clicking the image.

The overall aim of Reconceptualising NGOs and their roles in Development is to move forward the critical research agenda on NGOs by challenging its normative biases, using approaches drawn from a range of disciplinary perspectives including historical ethnography, organizational studies, political science, critical theory and anthropology. A key priority has been to present work that is deeply rooted in strong theoretical frameworks, while still maintaining a relevance to policy and practice. Read more by clicking the image.

Across the Nordic countries movements are taking place towards new political and administrative government structures at the regional level. The overall aim of Toward New Nordic Regions - Politics, Administration and Regional Development is to outline the broader implications of the Nordic experience for the understanding of the international trend towards the development of new regions. Read the intoduction by clicking the image.

Despite the fact that tremendous effort and many resources have been invested in improving the performance of the CFP, the crisis in the EU fisheries management systems worsens year by year. This crisis has prevailed almost since the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) was first implemented in 1983. These notions form the framework for A Fisheries Management System in Crisis.

This anthology about the basic income debate in Denmark offers a discourse-analytical perspective on Denmark's development from a universal welfare state to a workfare state. With its analysis of metaphors, narratives and key concepts in the debate, it unveils how the basic income discourse ended up being both heretical and excluded. To learn more about The Heretical Political Discourse click the image. Read further by clicking the image.

The aim of Perspectives on e-Government is to unfold some of the complexity of e-government by feeding tools for thinking into reflection-in-action and reflection-on-action. This is done through the presentation of the three perspectives on e-government and their interrelation: Technology and Infrastructure, Politics and Organisation, and Communication and Interaction.

Tools for Sustainable Development introduces a comprehensive spectrum of tools, which are highly relevant for student, researchers and professionals engaged in environmental issues in companies, governmental organizations and Management. Click the image to read more about the book and to download the introduction and table of contents.

Music composed with the purpose of selling consumer goods and services makes up a fair proportion of the songs, jingles and melodies we encounter on a daily basis. Nonetheless, music for commercial settings is largely neglected in research on popular music and in media studies. Music in Advertising is thus the first volume dealing exclusively with these various aspects of music in advertising.

This book discusses the challenges of the archive and the (art)museum in the age of digital media. It is bases upon documentation from a research project, that drew upon the talents and collaboration of many institutions, artist. programmers, art historians, designers and others. Learn more about RE_ACTION: The Digital Archive Experience by clicking the image.

Taking its point of departure in the pressing nature of culture and media theory and analysis in the contemporary global environment, Culture, Media, Theory, Practice: Perspectives offers a range of theoretical and analytical perspectives from researchers associated with the Culture and Media Studies program at Aalborg University. Read more about the book by clicking the image.

The concept of aesthetics is traditionally connected with art and high culture (eg. literature, theatre, pictorial art), whereas mass media such as television are usually associated with a lack of aesthetics. Undoubtedly, most television programmes would fail if judged by the aesthetic standards and the valuation criteria of traditional art forms. However, television as a medium also has aesthetic aspects. Learn more about The Aesthetics of Television by clicking the image.

In this anthology the notion of Interactive Television covers the entire spectrum of new multimedia content and services - from traditional TV sets to multimedia personal computers; from network computers to game consoles, and from terrestrial broadcasting over cable systems to satellite TV. As a media TV is not a static media - neither as a technology nor as a service. Read more about this book by clicking the image.

Cultural Analysis describes intercultural understanding and co-action, partly by means of a general insight into the culture concept and the dimensions which bring about cultural differences, and partly as a methodology to analyse a concrete  culture, whether one's own or others. One of the bigger issues being how to tackle what is incomprehensible or strange and how we are to make it comprehensible. Read more about the book by clicking the image.

CST - An Introduction is a volume authored by present and past members of the English programme's teaching staff in the fields of culture, literature, and media studies. The purpose of the series is to be a forum for the publication of results of research in the broadly defined area of cultural text. To learn more about this volume click the image.

CST - Translantic offers interdisciplinary scholarship, bringing together explorations of transatlantic perspectives in arts, literature, history, philosophy and law. The volume is itself an expression of a transatlantic exchange. The contributors are all affiliated with either Aalborg University or Brenau University, two small research and educational institutions which have long experimented with transatlantic exchanges of students, faculty and scholarship.

Harbourscape provides a comprehensive presentation of the different methodological approaches and the resulting design concept concerning the development and regeneration of the waterfront in Aalborg. The aim has been to investigate a full-scale dialogue on concepts and architectural quality in the waterfront development among stakeholders in this process, and to illustrate how different design-based methods can serve as tolls in the said process. Click the image for further information.

This anthology focuses on the physical and social spaces of urban welfare. In a collage of chapters and reflections, the anthology attempts to explore the complexity of modern urban welfare. The basis for this work is the attempt of the welfare society to adapt to a role in which it not only will guarantee the socail policy agenda of the industrial society but also attempt to solve the growing consumption and environmental problems of the consumer society. For further information about Urban Lifescape click the image.

The idea of intelligent design has given rise to some interesting epistemological, methodological and ontological questions, which are relevant for the formulation and understanding of science. In Intelligent Design. An Intellectual Challenge? a group of scientist and philosophers discuss these questions. Some of the authors defend the basic idea of intelligent design while others oppose the idea. To read further click the image.

This book provides an overview of novel and significant research on emotional competences from psychological , clinical and pedagogical points of view. After reading Toward Emotional Competences, the reader will have achieved an extensive understanding of emotional competences, their natures, developments, causes, consequences and possibilities for improvement. To read the introduction and see the list of contents click the image.

In The Aalborg PBL Model - Progress, Diversity and challenges, thirty teachers and researchers share their reflections on the practice of the problem-based and project-organized teaching model (PBL), which has been applied in the faculties of Engineering and Science, Humanities and Social Science at Aalborg University since the founding in 1974. Click the image for more information.

Engineering Science, Skills, and Bildung investigates the real challenges that are confronting engineering yoday, and discusses how to respond to these. Thereby, the book offers a complex and nuanced basis for debates on the actual status and the future directions of engineering science, engineering education, and the everyday practice of engineers. For more information please click the image.

In 2004 the first Nordic (symposium) conference on faculty development, initiated by the Pedagogical Network for Danish Engineering Education (IPN) and Aalborg University were held. This book is a result of the conference and aims at teachers, leaders and staff development consultant who are involved in development of engineering education. To learn about Faculty Development in Nordic Engineering Education click the image.

With this book, The Learning Perspective, which can be read by anyone interested in learning and changes in organisations, the authors want to describe some prerequisities for the initiation of procedures of learning and changes of organisations, and some possible relations between theory and practice. For further information click the image or download the promotion material.

The aim of this book is to analyze the relationship between innovation, employment and competence development within the framework of new learning organization forms. The book is addressed to researchers, policy makers and students of innovation, organization and employment, but it is the authors hope that it will also find its way to real life actors: business leaders, employee representatives etc. To learn more about The Human Side of Innovation Systems please click the image.