sweden

Provides an analysis of the technical and institutional context of the Ringhals 3 application in which the Swedish nuclear industry requested permission to load and operate a new reactor and presented its plan, developed by the Nuclear Fuel Safety project, for the safe, long-term management of radioactive wastes.

When a greedy ogre tries to claim a farmer's field and steal his crops, the farmer's wife helps him devise a plan to outwit the bully.

Tells the story of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who was personally responsible for saving the lives of thousands of Hungarian Jews in the waning days of World War II, and who was arrested by the Soviet Government on unknown charges and imprisoned, never to be heard from again.

The disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden, gnaws at her octogenarian uncle, Henrik Vanger. He is determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder. He hires crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist, recently at the wrong end of a libel case, to get to the bottom of Harriet's disappearance. Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year-old, pierced, tattooed genius hacker, possessed of the hard-earned wisdom of someone twice her age--and a terrifying capacity for ruthlessness--assists Blomkvist with the investigation. This unlikely team discovers a vein of nearly unfathomable iniquity running through the Vanger family, an astonishing corruption at the highest echelon of Swedish industrialism--and a surprising connection between themselves.--From publisher description.

A brief biography of the Swedish diplomat who became Secretary-General of the United Nations in 1953 and held that post until his death in 1961.

A little Swedish girl has many adventures living with her grandfather while her mother is hospitalized.

Text and 22 paintings by a noted Swedish artist recreate farm life in rural Sweden in the late 1800's.

Follows a day in the lives of two children and their families in Sweden, providing insights into the lifestyles, family interactions, foods, celebrations, schools, and other aspects of Swedish culture.

In hope of getting her husband pardoned, an exiled outlaw's wife agrees to reveal to an old monk the miracle in Go?nge Forest, where every Christmas Eve a beautiful garden blooms in remembrance of the birth of the Christ Child.